Premiere Night - SciFi

[geoschmo]

I was rather uninpressed with SG1's premiere. I'm really tired of the Ori. Actually I didn't much care for them to begin with. The Wraith are a little more interesting because they aren't really invincible, there's just so damn many of them. That makes them a pretty good villian since you never have any shortage of cannon fodder for the good guys to waste.

The Ori suck as an antogonist though. They are so powerful that logically they should wipe up the SGC teams and everybody in the galaxy without so much as second thought. So in order for the good guys to win the Ori have to be really stupid (which makes you wonder how they got so powerful) or the writers have to change the rules and give the SGC some magic weapon or the ancients are going to have to break their own rules and step back in. Ultimatly I'm sure it's going to be a little bit of both.

Sg1 was awesome with the G'auld. They were too strong to take on directly, but they didn't go out their way to come after SGC. It gave us a nice malevolent presence over the horizon to keep the tension ramped up, but they weren't in every dang episode. There is only so many times we can lose "every ship in the fleet" to the Ori and then turn around and have another fleet in the next episode before it starts getting a little predictable.

When they announced the new Sg1 last season it was going to go in this new direction where they investigated the camelot myths instead of the egyptian ones. That sounded cool and the couple episodes they've had along those lines were cool. But they need to wrap up this Ori crap soon or I might stop watching it.