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The Jaffa from the new series look great!
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Stargate Infinity showed that an animated Stargate series could totally work well. Ignore the fact that that particular series was overall stupid and didn't work; it could work well.
Stargate Infinity wasn't that bad.
It's main issues were:
I watched it after years of hearing how horrible it is. And it's not bad per se... It just isn't Stargate anymore. The story is actually thought out, makes some sense, the morals are alright.
But to me it always felt like the writers already had a story they wanted to tell, and some exec simply made them force it into a Stargate shape. In fact all the departures from canon make it feel precisely like that: the writers were petty they couldn't do their own show, so they did it anyway, and just put on a Stargate dressing.
I've seen so many great animation over the years, now I wonder why we still even question if anything could work in animation. The answer is simply yes, anything could work in animation. The medium isn't the factor, execution is and the team behind it.
I tried thinking of what could actually truly not work as an animated film/show, and all I could think of was reality TV. No one wants to watch the Bachelor or Survivor as an animated adaptation. The whole point of those types of shows is to see actual people doing things for real. Even documentaries include reenactments, as those are more focused on conveying information, so a fully animated documentary could be fine as long as the audio track was accurate. But reality TV is about depicting reality. Animating a reality show would involve altering that reality in such a way that it is effectively not reality TV anymore.
I don't think Reality TV works at all. Yet I have a counterpoint called Drawn Together (I know, it's not "real" Reality TV, but sometimes it's realer than Reality TV).
There was also that cartoon network show that got a few seasons and spin-offs. Total Drama Island or something, wasn't that basically just animated Survivor?