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SGU contains many fresh elements which I have never seen before.
Which you feel are? It is a good and fairly unique show, but I can't honestly say I've noticed a single truly fresh and totally unique element that I haven't come across before.
Body swapping issues and moral implications, is it technically rape?
Episode 10 (faultless but dont want to go into it as its recent)
Ending of Time episode
Eli has two mentors - young and rush, both are flawed and he is unsure of who to trust. He is also a puppet to them. His development will be very interesting.
Watch closely, sometimes the camera switches to an roof airvent view, the camera moves in an awkward fassion as if something were watching them from the ceiling. A spaceship of unknown origin also departed from destiny at the end of episode 3.
So far none of the viewers can say for sure what Rush is all about however all of his actions conform to normal human behaviour. Baltar's entire character was based on him being a tad crazy, he had no agenda and you know that from the beginning.
The aliens will not be speaking english (but this hasnt come around yet). For scifi shows this is rare.
Real lesbian relationship which according to sources was refreshing in its execution.
Minor characters have real impact, purpose and good lines. They arnt your average red shirts.
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The ship(set) has been built, like firefly.
And where is the freshness? I see a show that make use of many elements drawn from literature and modern media, but I don't see anything that is truly new or novel.
Body swapping and moral issues? You do know that element is centuries old. I know it existed in the early Medieval period, and given the nature of the folklore stories it would not surprise me at all to see it turn up in ancient Greek or Roman sources (not literature I'm overly interested in, so I haven't explored it much.)
Flawed mentors, and opposing mentors. Two fairly common elements in literature that gives an easy build up to a moral problem for a character.
Unexplained third parties aren't new either. The "view from the unknown monster" is also a very common shot in horror movies. I'm fairly sure Star Trek did it several times, as did earlier Stargate episodes. Showing some mysterious element, and giving zero explanation about it, that the focus cast isn't aware of is a very common element in modern story telling. It builds suspense and forces viewers/readers to stop and think "ok, what the hell was that?" and then hooks them in to watch and find out.
Having characters that aren't well explained, are mysterious, etc, etc, isn't a new idea either. Ever seen Lost? Wasn't new then either.
Didn't most aliens in Star Wars not speak English? Not exactly a new idea, just one rarely used. Language barriers are also a common element in literature, but are often a very bad story telling element.
Didn't that Doctor Who spin off Torchwood from a few years ago have a strong same sex relationship and character relations? I never really watched more than one or two episodes, but I remember hearing it had high praise because of how far it pushed the same sex relationships.
Some of the best lines in Shakespeare are from the minor characters!
