Stargate Origins | Karavansara

365955 I hate to admit I was wrong, but as my watching Stargate Origins progresses, I am forced to take a step back. Upon catching the first episodes, I wrote the show looked good. The show does indeed look good, but alas it is starting to play like a not-so-good fan-project, or like a collection of transition scenes for a videogame.

We are now two-thirds into the story, and while preciously little is happening, the little that is happening is somewhat… lightweight.
Very lightweight.
There are a few good ideas in there, but the general impression is one of disappointment. I am particularly appalled at the dialogues and characterization – that seemed to promise so much in the early episodes and that are now down to some very irritating, petulant chattering.
True, any new Stargate is better than no new Stargate, but that’s a small consolation.
I’m not particularly eager to see the remaining three episodes, and that’s a pity.

Granted, I only saw about half an hour of it (is being released in ten 10-minutes webisodes), but the set-up is quite good: set in 1938, it features the first activation of the Stargate, Nazis, the Goa’uld as sinister as ever, and a good heroine.

Production values are quite good for such a small-scale project, and with the exception of a pair of long shots that look as fake as pantomime backgrounds, the whole thing looks like they made the most with what they had in terms of funds.
Hopefully they also put down a few bucks on the screenwriting side of the project.

All in all, this looks like a fun way to spend a few minutes once in a while –
and sure it would be great should it signal a return of the franchise. Now I’m really curious to see how things will develop (even if, given the set-up, at least some developments are predictable).