Stargate Origins

Since I heard about the project some time ago I have been waiting patiently for it's release. I am a massive fan of all things Stargate, having watched the original movie, SG 1, Atlantis, Universe and loved the lot of them. It's fair to day I was pretty disappointed when Universe was cancelled.

So the premise for this was already pretty well known, let's make a prequel and show what happened when they first found the Stargate.

The whole thing seems like a college project. The acting is amateur, the story is dull and corny. The effects aren't even that good.

To me this looks like one thing and that's a way for them to cash in on a popular franchise.

If your a fan you will watch this anyway and no doubt be disappointed but if your not and just planned watching it anyway then save your time. A real let down, the 2 stars is me being generous and I give it mainly for the music.

The acting is so bad...it makes you cringe! You can never fully appreciate good acting until you see very bad acting.

From what I understand, this series was made to show that people are still interested in a SG universe and to have a studio take notice and release a new show.

What they have done is pretty much put a nail in the coffin of said universe. They have blatantly done things to anger the fans who were actually waiting eagerly for a continuation of the universe, therefore greatly reducing the chances that a studio will take a chance on spending money to get a real show developed.

I could live with many things until the show and "actors" would find its feet, bad acting, bad dialogue, etc., but going against cannon makes me question if the people who put this together were ever really fans in the first place.

I will stick to rewatching the old series' and hope that some studio will achieve the potential of the SG universe, because this amateurly put together show certainly has not.

I was really excited to see a new stargate series, however, unless you just HAVE to see everything stargate, I would skip this one.

Bad acting, poor special effects, several scenes are just unbelievable, the men are all evil or incompetent cowards (I enjoy strong women, but there is no reason to make all of the men so unlikable to have that), several small pointless inconsistencies with the original series. Feels like a very amateur attempt. They could have done SO much better.

I was so excited to hear about Origins, and had no idea this was going to be such a low budget amateurish affair. It looks like something a film student would do on a shoestring budget as his first production.