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Article: 'Stargate' Soon Inhabits Planet Trope
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- The Washington Post
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- October 2, 2009
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"Stargate Universe" is about a group of adults who, to escape a
menacing alien onslaught, crack the elusive solution to the "9th
chevron" and step through a magic, glowing, flat screen. They are
hurtled across not just the galaxy but also the whole universe,
never to see Earth again.
Which, to me, is sort of like explaining the popularity of such
shows. People unlock some desire for escape in themselves, step
toward it and disappear into a magic, glowing, flat-screen TV --
and that vast interstellar grid of cable channels, where you live on
your planet (Syfy), and I live on mine (Bravo), and she lives on
hers (QVC), and he lives on his (ESPNU), and together we form a
loose Federation of ...