Stargate Universe

[FatuousTwat]

I'm already turning it off 10 minutes before the end due to them, so if they just added like 40 more minutes of them I could skip the show entirely! BRILLIANT!

[Reg]

Oh yay. A whole episode about the fucking communication stones. Again.  I'm about ready to give up on this show.

[Draegan]

Oh yay. A whole episode about the fucking communication stones. Again.  I'm about ready to give up on this show.

It was terrible.

I still don't understand why Rush is keeping the "bridge" a secret.  And I see they are trying to channel a little bit of BSG with Rush seeing his dead wife and another dude.

[Mrbloodworth]

Because he wants to be captain. Commander. God. That is his motivation for most things he wants to do. If they knew about the ship bridge, they would turn it around for sure. He doesn't want that.

[Reg]

The head writer who came up with most of everything fun about the other Stargates for the last 10+ years finally left last season. I think we can safely assume the show is done at this point.

[Vaiti]

With Caprica just getting shit canned, it made me wonder about this following fast in it's wake. With the idea of this actually getting shit canned, I have to say I wouldn't be pleased with the prospect right now. Because as horrible as this is, it's the only good Sci-Fi show on right now that I am at least somewhat intersted in where it is going. Even if that curiosity is at times is only wondering how badly the writers can possibly fuck up the premise.

[Reg]

Last night's episode was the worst yet. Rather than using the wretched communication stones as an excuse to cheaply film the entire show back on earth in someone's house they had cheesy 3rd rate puppet monsters followed by 75 percent of the episode taking place in a hallucination that coincidentally took place back on earth where it could be filmed cheaply.

This show sucks and I want it to be canceled.

[Sir T]

That reminds me of the Buffy episode where Buffy knocked this guy into a box where he came out as a plastic looking monster, thereby saving the expense of a CGI transforming sequence.

[Soln]

I'm positive TNG or some other ST franchise did this exact plot.  Hell, maybe even SG:1 or SG:A did this: hero wounded by alien growth, people externally frantically trying to save him/her, internal mind soap opera with some pseudo-moral decision required, self-sacrifice by friend of hero to save the day.  Seriously awful and seriously seen before.

[Der Helm]

I'm positive TNG or some other ST franchise did this exact plot.  Hell, maybe even SG:1 or SG:A did this: hero wounded by alien growth, people externally frantically trying to save him/her, internal mind soap opera with some pseudo-moral decision required, self-sacrifice by friend of hero to save the day.  Seriously awful and seriously seen before.

It was one of the worst TNG episodes ever, but I can't remember the name.

[Draegan]

God damn that was a terrible episode.  I just watched it.

I don't think I've ever watched a show where I hoped the characters would slowly die off.

[Sky]

This is one show that the transition to the new OS on the DVR nuked and doesn't bother me a bit.

[lac]

These writers seem to like dream sequences a whole lot...
At least the last ep had some pretty exploding spaceships and a bad ass Rush right at the end there.
I even managed to watch the entire thing this time.

[Soln]

Well, I'm convinced Robert Carlyle -- the only reason I still watch this show -- is barely acting anymore.  His always-on, frustrated, flustered personality for Rush is probably how he actually feels still being under contract.  Great stuff, hope he kills them all (except Eli).

[Mandrel]

Great stuff, hope he kills them all (except Eli).

He can keep the hot Lucian Alliance girl around for Eli to hook up with instead of pining over Chloe too.

[Sky]

If Eli just got fed up and shot that douchey military guy on a mission so he could get a consolation screw, the show might actually improve.

[Vaiti]

I was so happy when I thought for a second Scott might have actually died.

Rush, Eli and Ginn is all the show needs. Everyone else is expendable.

Julie McNiven 

[Lianka]

Rush, Eli and Ginn is all the show needs. Everyone else is expendable.

I think the show still needs Greer.  He's badass! 

[FatuousTwat]

When I first started watching this show, I thought, "Wow, the actor who plays Scott is either REALLY good, or REALLY bad! I mean, maybe the character is supposed to act like that?".


It's bad. He talks and acts like that in real life. :P

[Surlyboi]

Rush, Eli and Ginn is all the show needs. Everyone else is expendable.

I think the show still needs Greer.  He's badass! 

This.

Greer is pretty much the only reason I watch the show anymore.

[Reg]

Greer needs to beat the shit out of and then space the Alliance guy who is picking on Eli's girlfriend.

[Raguel]

I find it funny that on this site the consensus seems to be this show suxors (or is at least mediocre) while at another site (which basically serves the same niche as this imo) thinks it's a great show.

Personally, I like most of the characters, I just think the show overall is lame.

[lac]

I don't think think it's the characters that annoy people per se, it's the bland scenarios.
They have an incredible potential to tell a good sf story with the setting they got yet they tend to resort to soap opera drama and cheap storyline tricks in a lot of their episodes.
It's like The Wire in reverse. There they told a fantastic story in a mundane setting, here they are telling a mundane story in a fantastic setting.

[Reg]

Actually, I do hate many of the characters. Matt and Cloe, for example, should also be spaced by Greer.

[Ironwood]

I would dispute that The Wires setting was mundane.

But this show sucks balls and from what I've seen you all just pop in here every now and again to remind yourself of that fact.

Give it up.

[Koyasha]

The problem to me is that, unlike the other two Stargate series, they seem to be focusing primarily on the personal relationships and the drama, instead of having the action, the "science" and the fantastic situation take front stage.  The parts of the show that I find interesting tend to be pretty much 90% of what involves Rush, because he's the only one whose focus is pretty much entirely on the cool stuff that's going on around.

In SG-1, for instance, the characters personal lives were present, but tended to be restricted to one or two scenes per episode, with a handful of episodes being much more focused on that sort of thing.  This kept the focus on the awesome, rather than the mundane.

[Arthur_Parker]

Just to echo what Koyasha said, in SG1 O'Neill was in charge but thought everything complicated was somehow done by magnets, Carter balanced him out being a super nerd because he just asked her what to do.

In this thing all Young wants to do is get people home, but I can't stop watching because it's so very bad.  If it was boring like Star Trek Voyager, then sure I'd stop watching, but the plot does advance unlike Voyager .  In Blakes 7 they found the bridge of their stolen advanced star ship in episode 1, in SGU it took 27 episodes to get them all on it.  It's also not like they don't know Rush is the far more interesting character as he had access to the bridge a full 5 episodes earlier.

[Ironwood]

Ahhh, Blakes 7.  Now you're talking...

[Surlyboi]

Well, Blakes 7 until the Liberator went tits up.

[Sir T]

      

[Reg]

All of the earlier Stargate series had some humour as well.  It was the rarest of episodes where you didn't see the main characters enjoying themselves and having fun between bouts of universe saving.  SGU is inhabited entirely by depressing humourless twats.

[Der Helm]

All of the earlier Stargate series had some humour as well.  It was the rarest of episodes where you didn't see the main characters enjoying themselves and having fun between bouts of universe saving.  SGU is inhabited entirely by depressing humourless twats.

It's DARK!

[DLRiley]

Apparently there is no one in that universe that can kick ass and chew bubble gum. Going to pop a watch out of morbid curiosity.

[Lianka]

All of the earlier Stargate series had some humour as well.  It was the rarest of episodes where you didn't see the main characters enjoying themselves and having fun between bouts of universe saving.  SGU is inhabited entirely by depressing humourless twats.

When SG1 was on, it was really fucking on!  Especially with those self deprecating episodes.. Wormhole Xtreme and stuff.. As a whole, the series was awesome until those dreadful last seasons with Merlin and all that stuff..

[Surlyboi]

All of the earlier Stargate series had some humour as well.  It was the rarest of episodes where you didn't see the main characters enjoying themselves and having fun between bouts of universe saving.  SGU is inhabited entirely by depressing humourless twats.

It's DARK!

It's Grimdark.