#Stargate Universe crit

[whereserpentswalk]

Stargate is one of the most explicit examples of a Christian colonizer fantasy in modern media. The ideology of it's protagonists maps very closely to the ideology of empires like Britain and especially Spain.

Can you imagine if the writers of Stargate weren't Christians and Cowards????

Listen. Listen. If your plot centers on all gods and big names from folklore from all religions and mythologies being Actually Evil Aliens then you can't be a goddamn fucking coward and pretend that YOUR religion,your christianity is the only sacred, untouchable religion that will literally never even be brought up or considered in the show.

Literally SGU has all these outright Christian characters and themes and shit and it's so goddamn fucking hilarious and christian-centric considering that everything Stargate stands for is bastardizing all non-christian religions and mythologies.

Can you imagine if the fucking christian characters had to have their faith confronted and destroyed the way every other Goa'uld worshipper had to? A god you should fear as a matter of course? "We're all god-fearing people" is apparently a GOOD thing to be???? A god that wiped out all life on earth except for his hand-picked favorites and any animals they could carry? The "son of god" that went around healing people and came back to life??? You're telling me that these, in any other fucking religion and mythology wouldn't be used as examples to the people worshiping the Goa'uld calling themselves their god????

Fuck the writers of Stargate.

You do NOT get to bash and demonize every other religion on fucking earth and get scandalized and outraged when someone even dares to introduce the concept of christianity being under the same rules in the Stargate universe??????

"but MY RELIGION IS SACRED!!!" Too fucking bad then maybe you shouldn't have had any religions from earth be the ones the Goa'uld introduced then shut the fuck up.

DNI if you're going to put your christianity-centric clownery on this post.

[rjalker]

I think think it's funny that Stargate: Universe is the best Stargate of the tree just because they didn't commit genocide against someone (portrayed as though it's the only option and thus The Right Decision™)...but only because there literally wasn't anyone for them to commit it against >.>

No convenient aliens who are Inherelty Evil All the Time Including Their Newborn Babies are attacking them. They're just dying from dehydration and lack of food.

and like yeah, you can complain about the whole Christian thing but it's just making it plain what the other shows were already doing by having All Other Religions be actually about aliens who enslave people. SGU putting catholic characters in the show is just them not pretending that that's what they're doing anymore.

[walks-the-ages]

Rush is literally the only person concerned about the consent of the BODY these people are walking around in!!!!!!!!!

You can't swap bodies with someone and then go around drinking and having sex with people and NOT bring up what kind of contracts and consent forms these people signed when they volunteered for swapping bodies!

Like, that could literally be one of the actual plot points for why they DON'T have the best minds in the world swapping with the crew of the Destiny, because they're unwilling to completely sign their body away to a stranger for the duration, ESPECIALLY after hearing or seeing the shit that Colonel Young did while he was swapped out with various people!

Like, where is Rodney McKay? Where is Sam Carter? Hell, where's Daniel Jackson, leading expert on the Ancients? Why aren't they swapping in to examine the Destiny?

Why isn't Daniel swapping in for a few hours so he can tutor the rest of the crew on how to read and write Ancient?

Why aren't Rodney McKay and Sam Carter swapping in to examine the available technology and working together with Rush and Eli to not only get the Destiny up and running to safe and functional standards, but ALSO to again, TUTOR THE REST OF THE CREW on how the ship works???

Why don't they have leading medical teachers coming in an teaching the eNTIRE CREW basic first aid and working their way up to emergency surgery?

Why aren't they swapping in actual trained therapists to help these people deal with their trauma, instead of piling it on TJ's basic Medic shoulders????

Also, are you telling me that NO ONE in the SGC has access to TJ's medical files enough to know that training everyone to have basic medical knowledge is ESSENTIAL to the continued lives of the people on this ship, because TJ who is JUST A MEDIC does not know everything she needs to to keep these people alive, but she should NOT have to deal with this kind of stress on top of everything else she's dealing with??

TJ literally RESIGNED from her position because of her illness right before SHTF, and you're telling me no one at the SGC /Or/ the IOA know the reason??

[rjalker]

Stargate reallt fucking said all the gods in human history are evil aliens tricking people so they can enslave them. Oh but not Jesus! Not the Christian god! No no of course not! Jesus is real! The Christian god is real! But all the other gods in human history? Fake! False gods! Evil aliens (who are almost always people of color!) tricking people!!!!! The only real god is the Christian god!!!!!!!!

[rjalker]

And like, Stargate Universe still has the absolutely horrible horrible people that Stargate Atlantis does, but at least here the show doesn't really get as much leeway for trying to act like they're the good guys considering they're all stuck on the same ship together and we get to know all of them equally.

Stargate Atlantis tries to sell you the idea that the Genii are evil and deserve everything they get, and they mostly pull it off if you're not paying attention, because we already know the Stargate team people, we are never given an opportunity to get to know the Genii.

John and I guess it was Rodney we're literally sneaking around and spying and breaking into their houses and crap. And then they were actively lying to them and manipulating them. But we're supposed to be on their side. And when the Atlantis people want to take the Jen House nuclear bomb that they have been making for generations to defend themselves, we're supposed to be pissed off and offended that the Genii aren't just going to give it up for free out of the goodness of their hearts to their enemies and would like some goddamn C4 in return.

Stargate Atlantis literally created a character and made him a blatant misogynist just so that when he started trying to get people to not commit war crimes we would ignore him and discount everything he has to say immediately.

Stargate Universe has its Fucking Problems. Oh boy does it have its fucking problems. At least I can say that they haven't committed any war crimes yet.

[rjalker]

I never thought I would say this, but Stargate Universe is actually better than Stargate Atlantis so far, just because they haven't committed any war crimes, because there's no one for them to commit war crimes against

[rjalker]

Stargate Universe has a lot of nerve pandering to Christians in the series that has demonized literally every single other religion ever to exist on this planet

[rjalker]

He's a prisoner being tortured and he's supposed to be the bad guy.

[rjalker]

God they're trying so fucking hard to make this a Christian show it's so fucking racist holy shit

[rjalker]

Not JUST a sun, she blew up an entire solar system

Idk what Chloe Armstrong's Mother's name is but GOOD FOR HER!!!!

Where's my SGU s3 where she's become a whistleblower and now the entire world knows EXACTLY how corrupt and a piece of shit the united states is, and the SGC is desperately trying (and failing) to do damage control?

Can you imagine the trending hashtags?

#GIVEITBACKTOEGYPT

#GIVEITBACKTORUSSIA

#SHEBLEWUPASUN

#WARCRIMESINSPACE

[walks-the-ages]

Can you imagine if the writers of Stargate weren't Christians and Cowards????

Listen. Listen. If your plot centers on all gods and big names from folklore from all religions and mythologies being Actually Evil Aliens then you can't be a goddamn fucking coward and pretend that YOUR religion,your christianity is the only sacred, untouchable religion that will literally never even be brought up or considered in the show.

Literally SGU has all these outright Christian characters and themes and shit and it's so goddamn fucking hilarious and christian-centric considering that everything Stargate stands for is bastardizing all non-christian religions and mythologies.

Can you imagine if the fucking christian characters had to have their faith confronted and destroyed the way every other Goa'uld worshipper had to? A god you should fear as a matter of course? "We're all god-fearing people" is apparently a GOOD thing to be???? A god that wiped out all life on earth except for his hand-picked favorites and any animals they could carry? The "son of god" that went around healing people and came back to life??? You're telling me that these, in any other fucking religion and mythology wouldn't be used as examples to the people worshiping the Goa'uld calling themselves their god????

Fuck the writers of Stargate.

You do NOT get to bash and demonize every other religion on fucking earth and get scandalized and outraged when someone even dares to introduce the concept of christianity being under the same rules in the Stargate universe??????

"but MY RELIGION IS SACRED!!!" Too fucking bad then maybe you shouldn't have had any religions from earth be the ones the Goa'uld introduced then shut the fuck up.

DNI if you're going to put your christianity-centric clownery on this post.

[rjalker]

[ID: the it's free real estate meme, edited to say, "it's white supremacy" end ID.]

God they're trying so fucking hard to make this a Christian show it's so fucking racist holy shit