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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5350003" data-attributes="member: 8158">I like Breaking Bad because it shows how people can become corrupt by degrees. And how they can start out with a small lie and then just keep digging themselves in deeper. No paper heroes here.I don't think SGU really takes too much from the original series in terms of tone. I like SG-1, but it's pretty flimsy in its approach to sci-fi, like most sci-fi TV shows are. SGU is enjoyable to me because it feels like the closest thing to hard sci-fi we're likely to see on TV. They take the tools at hand, like the mind-transfer stones, and work within rules and limitations. They meet an alien race, and it's actually alien. There are communication problems, we don't know what they're about right away. I don't think of it as grim or dark, just serious. No winking at the audience, no self-parodying banter, and fairly limited hanging of lanterns.You say Stargate is "fun", and it is. But what's your definition of "fun"? Light-hearted and swashbuckling? Smart-alecky characters issuing one-liners right before the delivery of some well-timed explosion turns the tables on the villains? I don't think that ought to be a mandate for every adventure show.</blockquote>