cylentwolf
10-18-2004, 10:57 AM
It is interesting that you hit on the problem with the spin off:
There's just no way to realistically have other individuals move the uberplot in any major way (which is why, I suspect, the spin-off show, Stargate: Atlantis was forced to send their team off into a whole other galaxy ... where they could actually be important too).
In the making of Stargate: Atlantis, the producers and writers agreed that they had to take the show to another galaxy and then strand them so that the team could grow with out the over shadowing of the current SG-1 team.
Another issue with getting a premade world is that as a designer you don't get to stretch your imagination as much as you could. Sure you probably are just a fanboy and want to run with the ideas and concepts, but if you start from scratch you learn a lot more.
There's just no way to realistically have other individuals move the uberplot in any major way (which is why, I suspect, the spin-off show, Stargate: Atlantis was forced to send their team off into a whole other galaxy ... where they could actually be important too).
In the making of Stargate: Atlantis, the producers and writers agreed that they had to take the show to another galaxy and then strand them so that the team could grow with out the over shadowing of the current SG-1 team.
Another issue with getting a premade world is that as a designer you don't get to stretch your imagination as much as you could. Sure you probably are just a fanboy and want to run with the ideas and concepts, but if you start from scratch you learn a lot more.