Diana Ishtar
That said. Scifi channel USED TO BE GOOD! I mean while the ending may have been on the down hill, Farscape was a good show! Stargate used to be a good show but they started wrecking it after a few seasons. I don't like Battle . . . Correction I don't like the new Battlestar Galactica. I only needed to see one episode of the original to know that the first season of the new one doesn't measure up and the comercials tell me it's only gotten worse.
lolwut, the new
Battlestar Galactica doesn't measure up? It provides a considerable amount more depth than the old show, which was rooted in outdated ideas and featured a stupid male-focused gallantry whereas the new series has engaged with a range of new ideas, providing more than a merely visceral thrill and elevating it to the level of great sci fi. Sure, it can be criticised for the fact that many actions seem to have no long-lasting reprecussions, but other than that it is a tightly controlled and well written drama. As for watching commercials to 'tell' you about a show, I can't even comment on the inanity of that.
@Headhunt2:
Stargate does not engage with the real world moralistically, no. '[T]ests of teamwork and friendship and doing the right thing' are all a component part of any organisation based science fiction show, but
Stargate adds nothing to the equation. There is no exploration of the government's role or the military's interaction with other cultures, any meetings that happen tend to be based around one pontate with no further references to the culture. Nor is there any engagement with personal issues, which
Battlestar explores in depth, like motherhood, women's rights to control their bodies, sentience and artificial intelligence.
Stargate sees a universe full of alien creatures who are essentially representative of a human emotion each, whereas even the antagonists in
Battlestar grow and develop.
As for the format, I personally prefer story arcs to the episodic resets of
Stargate, because it feels like a more developed and mature system.