Stargate Fanfiction

It figures that the first post I'd decide to make on a blog with a Sci-Fi name would be about a Sci-Fi movie. Don't get used to it.

For those of you who haven't seen it, Stargate is a pretty average Sci-Fi film about a, well, Star Gate. The American military sends a small team plus one Egyptologist with some wacky theories into this gate to another world - where it ends up Egypt's gods were aliens and the people are still around, just somewhere else. Seeing that it was made back in 1994, which is when I first saw it, it's pretty interesting to see just how much more cartoony films are today with their overuse of CGI for everything from crowds to buildings to characters (I'm looking at you, Star Wars Prequels).

Stargate has always stood out to me as a good sub-genre of science fiction - where technology is not only alien but historical in nature. I mean if you look at something like The Fifth Element where it's another ancient but alien threat, I get similar vibes, even if the film is completely different in a number of ways. There's just something about visiting some locale on Earth and discovering 'Hey, we just solved an unknown mystery and it's going to unlock the secrets of these aliens'. (I'm also reminded of when Optimus Primal in Beast Wars came across Stonehenge, but that show has a lot more connections going for it.)

One of the reasons that I really find Stargate an interesting two hours of film to watch is probably because of the hundreds of hours I've spent watching Stargate SG-1, a TV series based on the film that's been going since 1997 and should be coming to a close soon, even though it's already created another spin-off. Now a lot of you wouldn't have read any of the fanfiction I've put together, but you can at least understand from various RPs I've participated on: I love writing additional materials based on the premise of other universes. SG-1 is basically that, fanfiction for Stargate that they just happened to get approved and filmed and whatnot. I love the show, so calling it fanfiction almost feels like an insult, but they're really how I've gotta look at it. I also don't know how much the original writers of Stargate did on the series, but with 10 years of episodes I doubt they were there penning every last one.

It's funny that Stargate has always been one of those movies I've been meaning to rewatch, but never get around to. If you've watched even a dozen episodes of SG-1, I'd really suggest going and rewatching the original movie to see where they started and how the plot was ballooned by professional fanfiction writers.