Stargate - Universe

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TRAVELER

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 4:37 AM

Just got done watching the premier of "Stargate-Universe" on Hulu. A lot happening. But then they have a big cast and they want some background on each so we know who were dealing with. These premiers are not easy. I feel they did a great job. Kept the pace up and brought the characters to life. Now for the test of time. I hope they keep up the good work. There is not much science fiction out there and I don't have cable so the SyFy channel is not available to me. I thank the different networks for allowing their shows to be aired on Hulu. So I hope they will continue because I want to see more.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, October 16, 2009 8:56 AM

STARGATE UNIVERSE "Darkness" Episode 4

http://www.daemonstv.com/2009/10/15/stargate-universe-darkness-episode
-4/

DOMSDAFIRDA

Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:45 AM

I'm not enjoying the show so far. It seems injected with too much self-importance in order for them to tell a character driven story. To be honest, it bore the hell out of me.

((( Dooms Day )))

MANGOLO

Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:07 AM

I have to agree. The story is unraveling at a painfully slow rate and the way they are telling it makes it even less interesting.

Plus what little science they have in the show is so painfully wrong it makes this show, that is taking itself way to seriously, look childish.

The money shot from this episode "oh, it's beautiful" wasn't beautiful at all. It was muddied up like the rest of their highly stylized shooting/lighting.

It seems to me that they are working off some strict formula that tells them how the show is supposed to look, how the scripts are supposed to be laid out, how the backstories unfold, and nobody is actually trying to see if the show has a decent 'feel' or 'groove' to it.

KATESFRIEND

Saturday, October 17, 2009 7:13 PM

I agree. I would much rather watch a story that is more about people pulling together in adversity rather than pulling each other apart and taking out their frustrations on each other. It's like adult Day Care. I didn't like BSG for the same reason, I've lost interest in the characters of Lost for the same reason, and will only watch it out of curiosity for the secret behind the technology. I don't mind knowing that the character is flawed - no one is perfect - but I hate watching the show and leaving for boredom or the strong desire to scream at the character to just grow up. If this is what the future holds for humanity, then we're all screwed, and so are our kids. And I don't want to believe that. We can all do better than this if we just try.

MANGOLO

Saturday, October 17, 2009 9:54 PM

I totally agree with your concurrence.

ZZETTA13

Monday, October 19, 2009 11:12 AM

Mornin browncoats……

Caught the last two eps of SGU last Friday night and although I haven’t given up on the show it seems to be crawling into a rut IMO.

First of all this Rush fella is becoming more and more unlikable. He may be smarter than your average joe, but this “superior attitude” is really giving me a bad taste for the character. Maybe that’s the way the role is meant to be played…..but I ain’t liking it. Heck I prefer Niska!!

Also (imo) the last installment, episode 3, seemed to conjure images of Firefly’s OOG episode. The ship is dying and needs to be fixed or we will all die……type of thing.

I donno, the characters are very superficial at this point to me and I suppose that I wouldn’t have cared if they had ran out of air.

I’ll still watch but somebody needs to step up.

Z

ASARIAN

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:52 PM

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Originally posted by zzetta13:

First of all this Rush fella is becoming more and more unlikable. He may be smarter than your average joe, but this “superior attitude” is really giving me a bad taste for the character. Maybe that’s the way the role is meant to be played… but I ain’t liking it. Heck I prefer Niska!!

Or Gaius Baltar, for that matter, who is, after all, the person Rush was modelled after. Which is precisely the gripe I have with the show: it's an all too blatant mix between Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis. Dr. Evil incarnate, Gaius Baltar, now is called Rush: brilliant, but deceitful and up to no good, and part of a lucky few who made it off a doomed rock. Sound familiar?

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Also (imo) the last installment, episode 3, seemed to conjure images of Firefly’s OOG episode. The ship is dying and needs to be fixed or we will all die type of thing.

It rather conjures up images of Stargate Atlantis for me. They find an alien cit.., err, ship, power it half-way up, only to find out shields, warp-drive, etc., are all but gone. Sound familiar? I swear, if in the next installment they're gonna find a ZPM, I'm gonna scream! :)

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

ASARIAN

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:24 PM

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Originally posted by Mangolo:

Plus what little science they have in the show is so painfully wrong it makes this show, that is taking itself way to seriously, look childish.

Well, at least the tech is a LOT better than the ridiculous tech-crap talk on Dollhouse. Maybe atmo-scrubbers don't really work that way, but it was not enough for me to get irritated over or anything.

Chloe Armstrong, described by Wikipedia as a "stunning and sexy" daughter of a US Senator, is indeed fair hot, I'll give her that. But she's a lot more childish than all tech put together. I'm thinking shower-scene, where the entire ship goes dark, and all our little princess can think of is Eli having turned of the light (to tease her?). Is it utter ego-centrism? Or extreme vanity? Or both? Well, whatever it was, it was a turn-off alright.

Other than the fact that's a mite too reminiscent of BSG and STG:ATL, I still find it enjoyable to watch, kinda.

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

ZZETTA13

Sunday, October 25, 2009 1:46 PM

Hello SGU watchers!

Well I watched the last installment of SGU last Friday night. I was impressed. Not so much with the aesthetics ( don’t get me wrong the f/x are beautiful and those folk should be commended for their work) but with the emotions involved in certain things happening to many of the people that I’m connecting to.

I’ll try not to give anything away in my post here but I’m not sure if browncaots are interested in this Sy/Fy original. I can tell ya that it’s one of the few tv series on that channel that I have kept up with so far.

Anyway, I still dislike this Rush guy. Somehow it didn’t bother me so much when he got his “Burn Notice”. Just the same I think a lot of shows have characters that make people hiss and moan about. Anyway, neat ending of the episode. Kept me interested.

Z, out

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