The producers of the new SGU series have opened up a little more and revealed some of their thinking on the new show. I should preface this by saying how skeptical I am about the potential success of this show. I was an avid SG-1 watcher, but I was skeptical when Stargate Atlantis came out. To my surprise SGA was actually good. The “lost in space” premise of SGU, however, leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Hopefully, I will be pleasantly surprised.
“The style is very different from what we’ve done in the past,” Cooper said. “It’s far more mobile than we’ve done in the past on SG-1. The concept is that we wanted to shoot this a little bit like a documentary crew would shoot a ride-along to a space ship out in the universe — that maybe we could get audiences to embrace the science fiction elements and the characters in a realistic way if we shot the show using the ‘language’ of documentary and reality.
What the flip? OK, my skepticism just escalated. Please tell this does not mean a wobbly camera running through the forest chasing aliens. Please, tell me that. Please?