Stargate Universe

[FatuousTwat]

Does there have to be a minimum of two montages set to shitty muzak each episode?

[Sky]

The muzak is not the worst music in the episode, generally. It's the (I'm assuming) trendy loud song that really doesn't fit anything about the show. You can use music with a wide range of dynamics, but whoever is scoring this show apparently sucks. I shoulda stayed in the music biz, I guess. It's so easy!

[Surlyboi]

The stones aren't a bad thing when the writers are not including rape, forced homosexuality, and binge drinking.

You act like those are bad things.

[lac]

**** FINALE SPOILERS RIGHT HERE ****

Nah, just kidding, it was horrible.
It wasn't a season's finale, it was one of those forced cliffhangers soap opera's employ before their summer break.
So much potential, such a horrible, horrible production.

[Reg]

That was the season finale? Yuck.

[Soln]

wow that show has just died a slow death

[Reg]

It's a shame. Things seemed to be looking up for the first few episodes after it came back from hiatus too. But they've gone full retard with those useless communications stones again.

edit : And man, they need to stop bringing Richard Dean Anderson back for guest spots. It makes me sad every time I see how old and fat he's gotten. And the writers in this Stargate series make him behave in ways that are completely out of character.

[Sky]

A whole new galaxy to set up villains...and they go back to the lucian goddamned alliance? Lame. I bet they ran out of CG budget for the new aliens. And how is it that they're being bombarded with gamma bursts from a binary star when the whole cliffhanger from previous was that they were leaving the galaxy and going to be in inter-galactic transit for a while - which is why I thought they brought out the lame lucian thing in the first place. Hey, let's barely skim a galaxy for plot ideas, then put our cast into the interstellar void!

It's like these writers come into work and someone is paid to smash bricks over their heads all day.

And yes, the SG-1 cameos need to stop. Ninja Daniel, Fat McGruber and Captain James T Carter. Makes perfect sense.

[Draegan]

Just got around to watching the last episode.  I hope a lot of people die.

Also the Richard Dean Anderson was the best episode of the 2nd half.

[Lianka]

And yes, the SG-1 cameos need to stop. Ninja Daniel, Fat McGruber and Captain James T Carter. Makes perfect sense.

But, I wouldn't mind some SGA cameo action.  This show needs more Rodney!  Hell, I'd take Sheppard, too!

[Tebonas]

Rodney bitching about all those supposedly intelligent retards would indeed make my day.

[Reg]

This is the thing that annoyed me most about the damned communications stones. You know that it would take Rodney or Sam Carter an afternoon at the most to get the damned ship working properly again.

Edit: And they'd probably manage to do it without having sex in bodies not their own.

[Sky]

Rodney bitching about all those supposedly intelligent retards would indeed make my day.

This made me think of something that's been bothering me about SGU. Nobody is likable. Rodney was a smug, whiny and bitchy intellectual, but there was still a depth of character that made you like him. Everyone one SGU is just kind of bothersome at best.

[Reg]

I think Eli is reasonably likeable. It'd be better if he got over the stupid crush on the unlikeable Senator's daughter though. The rest of the major characters are fairly blah.

[Furiously]

I just watched all the first season cause it popped on Netflix on demand. And people had said decent things.

Eli is definitely the audience. Which says what? We're fat and lazy?

I could do with a few less sex montages. But I guess, what else is there to do? Not like there's TV....or mmogs.

[lac]

The first episode of season 2 aired yesterday, I think.

[Sky]

What? Shit.

Goddamned new Time-Warner UI wiping out ALL MY SCHEDULED RECORDINGS. Thanks, dickbags.

Anyway, thanks for the heads-up. Hopefully I can catch a replay so I don't have to abandon this the way I had to with SG:Atlantis and BSG when they re-numbered the channels without updating the DVR programming.

[Reg]

Nothing terribly important happened this episode. It just concluded the last episode pretty much the way anyone would expect.  So it's probably too early for me to predict doom for the season no matter how much I'd like to.  It's possible the writers may have decided to graft some actual human feelings onto the Ming Na character that don't involve gay sex in a borrowed body but we'll see if it lasts.

[Arthur_Parker]

I don't see why this ever got approved, they are in a galaxy empty of human's or even human shaped aliens, the original star trek would have had a tough time with that setup.  Not to mention that apart from a couple, the whole cast is boring. 

The only episodes I've enjoyed have had crew members dying, fake dying or being stranded forever.  At the minute it's like a poor version of big brother with the eviction exit being through an airlock into hard vacuum, no wait, I'd watch that.

[Triforcer]

I still can't understand why they don't meet any fucking aliens.  Even Voyager could manage that. 

[waffel]

I stopped watching once the show turned into a "use the stones to fuck past lovers" fest.

Did the show ever turn around like people were hoping?

[Reg]

Not so far.

[Quinton]

There were a couple episodes in the second half of season one that had me hopeful, but then it slid right back into crapitude.  I keep hoping they'll do something good with this show, but am about ready to just give up.

[FatuousTwat]

Ugh, I reeeealy do not care about the nurse or her child.

[Reg]

I'm glad that tedious plot point is done for now.

[Bunk]

I went in wondering how they would address Rhona Mitra, considering her new show and all.

Well, I guess that was a simple enough way to do it.

[Sky]

So far it's been schlock (get rid of the stones) and glimmers of promise (rush stranded plotline that could've been fleshed out, the whole struggle against the aliens) that they've squandered or just cut off.

I forgot the lucian alliance crap until I read my last few posts. Maybe it's good I didn't have this set up for this season. I'll watch some more Mike Holmes and pray to Woden that sYfY can come up with something better than sharktopus or whatever the fuck.

[lac]

I got a bit worried by the miraculous healing and reincarnating dead babies on distant planets thing. Introducing the stones as relics of long gone beings with god-like powers and use them to fill plot holes is one thing. Turning those beings into interventionist gods is quite another.

[FatuousTwat]

The stones were introduced a few years before SG-1 ended, they were only in one mini-arc where Michael Shanks and Claudia Black used them for some reason.

[Arthur_Parker]

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Citizen_Joe

If instead, the stones switched users with random people on earth we would at least get the enjoyment of "normal" people trying to get onto top secret military bases with a message from another universe.  I suspect the couple of decent episodes have been pure flukes, nobody from this show appears able to write. 

Ok people, we have another universe, aliens, ancient technology, a super starship and a high level government cover up concealing all this from everyone on earth, lets talk some more about the log cabin/baby scene.

[Der Helm]

I had  serious Voyager flashbacks at the end of the episode. Maqui vs Federation again ?

[Ironwood]

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Citizen_Joe

If instead, the stones switched users with random people on earth we would at least get the enjoyment of "normal" people trying to get onto top secret military bases with a message from another universe. 

Stargate did this though;  In that very episode and others.
 

Perhaps I missed your point.

[Arthur_Parker]

Quantum Leap did it too and lasted 5 seasons.  People don't seem to like the current use of the stones, last time it was beam in a medical team of doctors, whole thing took about 10 seconds.

[LC]

At the minute it's like a poor version of big brother with the eviction exit being through an airlock into hard vacuum, no wait, I'd watch that.

Matthew Scott
Chloe Armstrong
Tamara Johansen
Camile Wray

Send those four through the airlock. Bring in a better (less annoying) female crew member, one that contributes more than a gaping vagina.

[Vaiti]

I dunno. This show might take off soon. Slowly they are throwing any pretense of even attempting to be consistent or make "sense" out the window altogether. Once they fully embrace the crazy, I expect we'll see some good things. Also, fuck yeah, montages! Everything benefits from montages.

In time hopefully the show will just evolve naturally into one big montage.