Your Season 6 Wish-List?

[Aragon101]

Hey Everybody!

I think it'd be fun to see what people would have wished for if SGA had gotten a 6th season.

So,

1. If you have to choose ONLY from writers that actually wrote for the show during it's 5 year run - who would your writing team be? (Maximum of 4 writers as the main writing team)

2. What would you like to have seen added more/back to the overall storyline?

3. What would you have done away with in the overall storyline?

4. Which characters would you have wanted to see used/developed more, and which would you have liked to see used less?



Okay, I'll go first.

1. Rob Cooper, Martin Gero, Damian Kindler, Ken Cuperus = Main team (But MG would be banned from writing McKeller ever again... ). And this would only be if they were motivated to write for the show.

CB & AM would get to write a couple of eps per season, but they wouldn't be the main writers, no offense to any of the other writers that weren't chosen. They wrote some good eps over the course of the seasons too like The Siege Pt2, Remnants, and Rising...

2. More Team episodes!!! When I think of my favorite episodes of SGA, they are inevitably mostly team eps. Write for all of the characters, not just a few. Remember past events and write the characters like they remember them as well. I'd also bring Carson back as a main character, preferably CMO with Keller as recurring.

3. I'm done with the Replicator arc, so I wouldn't bring that back, but it was (mostly) cool while it lasted. I would definitely get rid of McKeller heavy stories.

4. Pretty much everyone that is not McKeller needs more attention. No explanation necessary.

I don't really focus on teh writers in specific much in my research, but Martin Gero would definitely be on my top list as he wrote some of the best (and sadly teh worst) SGA Eps.

Damien Kindler for sure as well, He's got that lighthearted style that fits in very well as a contrast to the dark themes. Keeps it level headed and not melodramatic.

2.) Consequences. I wanted to see the characters develop due to what happens to them rather than just go on about episodic. I wanted to see Sheppard dealing with some serious psychological issues after Common Ground for instance.

3.) Hmm good question. I'll have to get back on this one.

4.) Everyone but McKeller It's so true.

I write my own Virtual Series to suit my and my fans tastes, but really i think you write something aiming at a specific crowd. Were i to actually write TV, i'd write lightly serialized character based action/adventure with dips into drama. A little more than SG-1 i'd say, and for fucks sake keep things consistent.

Humor. That is one thing i cannot do without. Various style depending on the character so some will be goofy, others snarky, some witty, and still others deadpan

 

[Overmind One]

My thoughts

1. If you have to choose ONLY from writers that actually wrote for the show during it's 5 year run - who would your writing team be? (Maximum of 4 writers as the main writing team)

Rob Cooper, Brad Wright, Martin Gero

2. What would you like to have seen added more/back to the overall storyline?

• Exploring the city. Finding out what is in all those towering skyscrapers and in the pods on the buildings.
• Find the engine room and show the hyperdrive engines, assign an Engineer who is always in there (like Scotty in ST). He takes over McKay's mechanical prowess and leaves the lofty science to McKay. (new character)
• Travel to other planets in Pegasus
• Meet some LIVING Ancients who have not ascended, and have them give Atlantis the knowledge of how to make ZPMs (make them available and not so damn rare)
• Space battles, but involving the city defenses, both from the surface of the ocean and in space while traveling between planets/galaxies.

3. What would you have done away with in the overall storyline?

The IOA, the Genii, the Lucian Alliance and certain powers of the Wraith. No mind control powers, make them more vulnerable to weapons (I think they already did this). Less earth contact. Even less earth trips through the gate.

4. Which characters would you have wanted to see used/developed more, and which would you have liked to see used less?

No Keller. No Woolsey, bring Weir back, have Sam, Daniel and Cam Mitchell make brief appearances...unfortunately, Jack is no longer a draw for me. Bring in Teal'c!



See my additions in blue!

 

[stclare]

1. If you have to choose ONLY from writers that actually wrote for the show during it's 5 year run - who would your writing team be? (Maximum of 4 writers as the main writing team)

Carl Binder, Martin Gero, Brad Wright

2. What would you like to have seen added more/back to the overall storyline?

a/ exploration of the city.
b/ the Aliens from the Daedalous variations - they were awseome and unknown.
c/ TEAM - interaction bewteen the team.
d/ Consequences for actions carried through but not over the top.

3. What would you have done away with in the overall storyline?


The IOA
The ability to contact Earth.
The crossovers.
LOVE TRIANGLES

4. Which characters would you have wanted to see used/developed more, and which would you have liked to see used less?

Teyla, Ronan, Zelenka and Lorne more of please.
Woolsey, Evil Asguards, Replicators and Women whose sole purpose is to create love triangles and be Kirketts to Sheppard. none off!

 

[Overmind One]

Im changing mine too...

Okay,

I'm changing the main team just a little. Since Carl wrote just about as much as Martin, and Damian is working on Sanctuary anyway -

Main Team: Rob Cooper, Martin Gero, Carl Binder, Ken Cuperus

Alan McCullough and Damian Kindler would be creative consultants that would write a couple few eps each per season. That's seems perfect.

The thing about Damian and Ken is that even though they didn't write much, what they did write had a healthy impact on future storylines... You need people like that working on SGA.



I not only agree with more exploration of the city, but with more exploration period. They didn't get to do very much exploring in the last season to me.

NO CROSSOVERS!!! Yes, Stclare, I am with you on that to the max. I think that if Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, Cam need screen time then it should be in the SG-1 movie. I like SG-1, and the characters are great, but I don't want them hogging SGA. There were never so many SGA appearances on SG-1 during the years that they ran together, and not one SGA cameo in the SG-1 movies, and I liked that. I don't wouldn't want to see a mix of SG-1 in SGA for the movie... But, the way EATG ended, that's probably inevitable if the movie happens.
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I like the Wraith keeping their powers. I think that it was a mistake to loose focus on some of their mental powers and to make them so easy to kill with no explanation after season 1. I want the coolness of the Wraith to continue. I don't want them essentially turned into pale green humans...

Okay, Rob Cooper gets the boot from my list because he is going through midlife crisis and he is all emo and drama now...replace him with Carl Binder. So, my writing team is Brad Wright, Carl Binder and Martin Gero as the primary writers.

 

[Rac80]

1. If you have to choose ONLY from writers that actually wrote for the show during it's 5 year run - who would your writing team be? (Maximum of 4 writers as the main writing team)

Carl Binder, Damien Kindler, Martin Gero (only if strictly supervised....must have ECT so he gets over his mckay love) and Robert Cooper (pre-menopausal. )


2. What would you like to have seen added more/back to the overall storyline?

a. EXPLORE the city more, what was in all those funky towers, etc? I am sure there was more than two rooms with holograms left behind. What did the Ancients do for fun???????
b.EXPLORE the pegasus galaxy more, I am sure there were more civilizations than we saw. What happened to the other runners they had the frequencies for? (from Runner) they tended to start an idea and then drop it. In before I sleep - Old elizabeth gave them a list of five planets with ZPMS...they only visited one (the Brotherhood).... they kept dropping the damn ball.
c. More team and vary interactions with others on atlantis...I like the idea of seeing Zelenka and Teyla work together, Ronon and Lorne,

3. What would you have done away with in the overall storyline?

Cut the mckeller gag fest, given the wraith back their awesome powers...telepathic, etc.., easy contact with Earth, the IOA bullshit, and made mckay more of a scientist and less of a team member.

4. Which characters would you have wanted to see used/developed more, and which would you have liked to see used less?

I love the idea of atlantis having an engine room and engineer. (Sorry mckay being an expert in everything was simply too much -- the same for sam ) I would have liked to see more of the other people who were on atlantis...the large group seemed to get smaller each season. I also would have kept the athosians on atlantis from the beginning.
I also would ahve loved to find a civilization or two who hated the Ancients for abandoning them to the wraith.
I also liked the evil asgard...done right they could have been interesting ....capturing shep and experimenting on him because he had a strong ancient gene- fascinating!
used less- MCKAY (natch! ), the drone wraith (too easy to kill), and Carson...sorry people he's not the "real" carson he's a clone...you can't clone personality! Too much IOA in general. Also the Larrin types... and too many filler eps.

 

[Aragon101]

Realistically, it depends on what kind of market you're trying to reach.

SGA was a lighthearted action/adventure, but it suffered horribly from inconsistency and plot holes. What was needed was at the very least, season long arcs like in Season 4 where little by little the story comes together through seemingly unrelated moments. It shouldn't be serialized to the point where if you miss an episode you won't be able to keep up to future episodes, but the characters need to be consistent and change with teh events that happen to them.

SGA was about as mainstream as sci-fi can get, and realistically it needed a few things to become even more intensely popular. It needed the Wraith to stop acting human. That killed the threat and fear of the Wraith big time. Think of the Daleks, they're not at all human and they've been around for god knows how long.

No more replicators! Carl Binder brought them back in Progeny and just... no... reusing stories from SG-1 is not a good thing.

Consistent storyline. Michael was in one episode dark and looming and evil, and emo and pussified in another. One could say it's the hybridization, but seriously, when teh Actor himself has to choose how to act it instead of being directed properly, that's very sad.

Plan the story out, and give it an ending. you can pad with filler if needed, but don't make the essential plot points of the story be "getting new and better' technology because then you have the Ori situation where the only way you can increase the threat level is disabling the APBW of doom or giving a huge threat like the Ori out of nowhere.

Ugh... i could go on, but basically much of what's been said here would have improved the show leaps and bounds.

In the end, make the expedition the underdog again instead of the people with the big plasma cannons of doom. Not to the level of BSG, but give your enemies some credit and they'll become much more fearsome and believable. Common Ground was a perfect example of how a great episode can be put together.

 

[Robbie_Rocket_Pants]

I understand that this thread has an established format but I'm going to be a renegade & just say my wishlist for SGA S6 which was & still is very particular.

The Wraith would continue their inter-hive civil war & become reverted to a minor power in the Pegasus Galaxy at the same time as the Pegasus Asgard gaining resources, territory, colonising planets, rebuilding their civilisation, building Beliskner class warships & then, being that they are no longer on the back foot, attacking the Wraith (& Atlantis) to become the dominant power in Pegasus. I thought that the evil Asgard were cool & by far the best race that have been encountered in SGA to date & had so much more potential which unfortunately was never realised.

 

[Pebble]

1. IDK about the writers that much. I just don't want any insensitive screw ups like Mallozi, Cooper, and Wright. They have no respect.

2. Kill off that damn Woosley guy. No wants to look at him and no one likes the IOA people. They're annoying. Carter was an awesome leader. The first season of Atlantis made the wraith seem really strong and invincible but they gradually lost that reputation which made them less scary--so they should have brought that reputation back. Also, more Atlantis exploring. I thought the city was supposed to be huge.

3. McKeller. Break those two apart immediately. I hate Keller eversince that "Teyla & Kelller trapped alone on a planet together" episode. Keller kept whining and whimpering. So, kill Keller off--that'd be a death we'd all welcome and replace her with the cloned Becket. Yay! Nobody rejects Ronon Dex--a stud--for McKay. It's not realistic. Clearly the nerdy stargate writers never got much and were projecting themselves into the story too much.

4. THE EVIL ASGARD. They're awesome. I'd have to say that was the best damn twist ever, I was totally not expecting the Asgard to show up. I remember crying after the Asgards were all wiped out in SG1. They're so cute. And then, all of a sudden they show up in SGA as these evil Pegasus Asgards! That's crazy. Also I would have loved for the Asgard to interact with the wraith more, just to see them in same room would be very interesting.

Todd needed to be used more--it would have been interesting to know why he's so nice to Sheppard.....mhhhmmmm. Then of course Teyla and Ronon were also underused, especially Teyla. Her baby should have been John's goddamn it! :<

 

[Lilith]

get new writers

1. don't care who the writers are just get some fresh blood to write anything.
2. Explore the city, and find another civilization that is as advanced as the people on earth currently are or even more advance. Woolsey doesn't faze me he could stay. IOA gotta go.
3. lose the Mckeller thing. Not that interesting. Develop more of the other characters that are in the background. No more Larrin would do for me.
4. Evil asgard is good or a new alien.

 

[Rac80]

we should have had a season 6

1. don't care who the writers are just get some fresh blood to write anything.
2. Explore the city, and find another civilization that is as advanced as the people on earth currently are or even more advance. Woolsey doesn't faze me he could stay. IOA gotta go.
3. lose the Mckeller thing. Not that interesting. Develop more of the other characters that are in the background. No more Larrin would do for me.
4. Evil asgard is good or a new alien.

My suggestions...many are the same Lilith.
1. fire mallozzi & co.
2. MORE CITY!!!!!!!!
3. Kill mckay!

but since we all know that is merely my fantasy...break up Mckeller...she would have picked Ronon you know!

4. Keep the evil asgard...good bad guys!

 

[Mr. A]

My suggestions...many are the same Lilith.
1. fire mallozzi & co.
2. MORE CITY!!!!!!!!
3. Kill mckay!

but since we all know that is merely my fantasy...break up Mckeller...she would have picked Ronon you know!

4. Keep the evil asgard...good bad guys!

Bad, bad Rac80! :psycho:

 

[Mr. A]

This one's for you, Rac80!

 

[Rac80]

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*shudders* you are trying to give me nightmares right?

 

[Aragon101]

Rac, serious question.

Mckay was irritating and all yes, but what is it about him that grates on you the MOST?

I'm curious for realz

 

[Mr. A]

*shudders* you are trying to give me nightmares right?

Hahahaha, great pic!!!


Nah... just messing a little with you. :icon_e_wink:

 

[Aragon101]

I fixed it.



Someone PLEASE Twit this to David Hewlett, i get the feeling he'll LAUGH his ass off

 

[Gatefan1976]

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Someone PLEASE Twit this to David Hewlett, i get the feeling he'll LAUGH his ass off

Kinda reminds me of this picture:

 

[Rac80]

the whining

Rac, serious question.

Mckay was irritating and all yes, but what is it about him that grates on you the MOST?

I'm curious for realz

the WHINING!!!!!! OMG an adult male who whines like that needs to be shot! well and his unprofessionalism, sexual harassment, arrogance, etc... but mostly it was THE WHINING!

May I add one item to your list, Rac?

5. And NEVER, EVER allow the LA anywhere NEAR the Pegasus Galaxy.. (Except for What's-His-Name.. )

*nods enthuiasticly* Mike Dupod can be in any stargate he wants!

 

[Rac80]

Uh huh!

He would be perfect for any SG reboot that might be contemplated down the road..

Yep he was great as a Russian Colonel in sg1 and as Odai Ventrell the bounty hunter. I also loved him as Kiryk the runner in sga...now that's a man who can act unlike *coughBJScough*!

 

[Aragon101]

Yep he was great as a Russian Colonel in sg1 and as Odai Ventrell the bounty hunter. I also loved him as Kiryk the runner in sga...now that's a man who can act unlike *coughBJScough*!

I think Juliard should sue BJS for slander.