Stargate Universe

[Sir T]

The problem is that "Dark" means 'good looking obnoxious unlikable assholes sleep with everything in sight and moan about how awful everything and threatening is, incessantly' rather than something really bad like, say, losing a limb or having to go 3 weeks without food.

Both of which happened in season 1 of Farscape. Which had both good humour and was far darker than this.

[Furiously]

But pilot regrew the arm in like three episodes. 

But yea, when  part of me was thinking, I'm shocked they have not lost like two people every boarding.

[Sir T]

Well yeah, but you didn't know that when they were chopping his arm off.

[Furiously]

DAMMIT!

[Vaiti]

 

[Reg]

I bet poor Eli would feel better if Matt and Cloe went out the airlock don't you think?

[Furiously]

All I can think of is the Friends episode where Joey ad libed a line and the writers got mad and made his character fall down an elevator.

[Lianka]

While checking on wikipedia to see if that damn cliffhanger was a season, or mid season finale, I happened upon this:

Seizure will guest star former Stargate Atlantis cast members Robert Picardo and David Hewlett.

Let's hope Rodney's time on the show was better than Daniel Jackson's! 

[Furiously]

I'm not fond of these "mid-season" breaks.

[Lt.Dan]

I'm not fond of these "mid-season" breaks.

I hate them too - it's a tool to sell the series DVDs in two parts instead of one set per series.  I'm kind of torn - it's admirable as clever marketing (I work in marketing) but it's shitty as a consumer.

[Mrbloodworth]

The last few episodes have really been picking up.

[lac]

Got to agree on that one.

Although I wouldn't mind if they'd actually find something on one of those derelict ships they happen to come across. While the show is picking up pace enough to suite my taste lately they are chafing my lootwhore numbits with all those empty alien wrecks they come across. Some non story breaking (read stones) and sufficiently camp gadgetry might add some extra life to the story.

[Reg]

I still either actively dislike or am bored to tears by almost all of the characters.

[lac]

Yes, but did you check the tits on the tit-bearing one, kemosabe?

[FatuousTwat]

Lt. Tits is a hit!

[Riggswolfe]

I'm still pissed they killed off Eli's love interest. 

I mean, damn, he's the best character on the show and he can't catch a break?

[Mrbloodworth]

I'm still pissed they killed off Eli's love interest. 

I mean, damn, he's the best character on the show and he can't catch a break?

Ever.

She was a hotty too. I knew she was done for!

[Furiously]

The oh shit we don't have a shuttle on the ship anymore episode was terribad.

Other than that I've enjoyed the last few.

[Surlyboi]

Not as bad as the "Oh shit, we suddenly have a shuttle again" episode.

[Sky]

The defining bad decision over all the bad decisions of this show is to use this amazing setting for a soap opera. You can put in a wealth of sci-fi contrivances without any concern for continuity (hey, that was BACK THERE).

And the show needed a lot more of Lt. Tits. I'm normally not so sidetracked by the bazooms, but holy hell. She's got talents.

[TripleDES]

She was a hotty too. I knew she was done for!

Red shirt, red hair. Same shit.

[Furiously]

Not as bad as the "Oh shit, we suddenly have a shuttle again" episode.

I meant from the writer's perspective. So yea - same thing. Terrible.

[Tebonas]

It was bad, but in a funny way.

I mean, there are totally advanced and benevolent aliens that give us everything we need to survive. We have bunch of Scientists (well, what passes as scientists after all the brightest heads of the world were sent to antarctica) settling there. And they die in way that every redneck soldier with an IQ of 60 and the tendency to call his cousin brother would have prevented. Not strange diseases, no dangerous animals, but the good old "we forgot to build shelter and make a fire before the winter comes". The aliens must be laughing their heads off about us.

That said, while the last episodes have improved, they still crawl their way up from a deep deep abyss. The plot comes to a screeching halt every time they insert their daytime soap plotlines into the series, and hey don't have continuity for shit. Elis (I'm assuming here but he is the audience stand-in, isn't he? :)) first and only girlfriend dies and the episode after he is quipping again?

All other characters might be written inconsistently as well. I don't know, apart from Greer I don't care if these awful awful people die. (I would have excepted Scott, but telling Young to his face he is a good leader and believing it, speechless. Up to that point I thought he was competent, but too loyal to say anything). And the fact that the writers know that these people are basically raping the soldiers giving them their bodies (as shown by Elis outrage when Rush almost does it) makes the Lesbian abduction plotline on earth worse every time it happens.

Yes, I had the flu and don't wanting to watch things I had to think about in a fever haze I watched the Second Season of SG:U. Busted. And failed. The stupidity penetrated the fever haze.

[Reg]

It's an absolutely horrible show but I can't stop myself from watching.  I guess I just want to see how awful they manage to make it.  Not since Star Trek : Enterprise have I seen such damage being done to a valuable franchise.

[JWIV]

And now shitcanned

http://www.fusedfilm.com/2010/12/stargate-universe-cancelled-season-2-will-end-franchise-run-on-network/

Syfy will end its original action-adventure series Stargate Universe when the show returns with the final 10 episodes of its second season in the Spring of 2011. The Stargate franchise — consisting of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe — has aired on Syfy since 2002.Syfy has a slate of new sci-fi/fantasy scripted projects lined up for 2011 including the series premiere of Being Human on January 17, the recently green lit one-hour drama series Alphas and the much anticipated Battlestar Galactica prequel pilot movie, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome. Warehouse 13, Eureka and Haven will also return with new seasons next year.”

[waffel]

Good, now I can justify to myself why I stopped watching this and feel absolutely zero urge to ever start again.

[Ratman_tf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

[Koyasha]

Kind of glad to hear they're ending it overall.  I love the concept of the show, but the fact that they're writing it as a soap opera, basically, has totally ruined it.  If the personal shit was kept to a secondary thing like it was in the previous Stargate series, it would have made a great show, I think, cause there's a lot of really cool potential in the whole setup.

[Surlyboi]

Good. Then syfy can pick up Fringe when Fox inevitably shitcans it because "we don't know why therez no ratings, since we moved it to friday, lolz".

[Oban]

Oh thank god, i was about to ask how the fuck this show can still be on the air.

[Riggswolfe]

Kind of glad to hear they're ending it overall.  I love the concept of the show, but the fact that they're writing it as a soap opera, basically, has totally ruined it.  If the personal shit was kept to a secondary thing like it was in the previous Stargate series, it would have made a great show, I think, cause there's a lot of really cool potential in the whole setup.

They did the same thing with Caprica. My guess is they were trying to go with the BSG character drama over action type of show in both cases but executed it poorly.

[Draegan]

I just watched the last 4 episodes that were sitting on my DVR.  It was actually getting a bit better there towards the end.

Ah well.  The rest of the Syfy shows are terrible though.  Warehouse and Eureka are ok, but aren't really great. The new BSG show might be cool, but how long can that really last?

I don't know what Being Human and Alphas is though.  

Edit: Alphas is a super heroes show?  Yawn?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Human_%28U.S._TV_series%29

Being human is a story about three friends in their twenties who happen to be a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf?  How can that ever fail? 

[Reg]

The UK version of Being Human was pretty good. That's no guarantee they won't go ahead and fuck up the American version like they did Life on Mars though.

[Arthur_Parker]

Yeah, Being Human was very good, think I missed the last few though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLN0HSVjbfk

[Sir T]

Being human is a story about three friends in their twenties who happen to be a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf?  How can that ever fail? 

You haven't seen the underworld movies, have you.