Stargate: Universe
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Anybody catch this?
I was a big fan of the original movie, and didn't really get into the two TV shows until recently (they always seemed a little too silly/lite for me).
This new show seems much more serious. I can see where the accusations of "Battlestar Galactica clone" come from though.
A crew of military people come under sneak attack and are stuck with civilians on board a busted old space ship, lost and alone, while distrusting a long-haired British scientist who is at fault for their predicament.
That said, I thought it was really good. A big improvement over the previous 2 series so far, IMO.
The acting, sets and production design seem to have all gotten upgrades, lets hope the same is true for the writing.
I was a big fan of the original movie, and didn't really get into the two TV shows until recently (they always seemed a little too silly/lite for me).
This new show seems much more serious. I can see where the accusations of "Battlestar Galactica clone" come from though.
A crew of military people come under sneak attack and are stuck with civilians on board a busted old space ship, lost and alone, while distrusting a long-haired British scientist who is at fault for their predicament.
That said, I thought it was really good. A big improvement over the previous 2 series so far, IMO.
The acting, sets and production design seem to have all gotten upgrades, lets hope the same is true for the writing.
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Does the series start fresh? Or does it pick up from something else? Would I get into it if I hadn't seen the other series?
Check it out on Hulu or the sci-fi website.
With this and Bryan Singer's BSG movie (not based on the last series) in the works it'll be interesting to see how this all unfolds. I'll watch for now to see how it progresses.
So far I'm interested. I hope it doesn't suck.
cops or some shit was on "syfy" the other day, almost killed myself.
I love that episode of the Simpsons where Patty and Selma kidnap him, and he keeps trying to escape in ever-more daring ways.
It's 10x better than Atlantis, thank god.
I do enjoy some lighthearted humor , like the original Series , but i think that will be hard to pull of without Richard Dean Anderson.
Also Robert Carlyle has some great acting skills.
All in all looking forward for some more SGU.
This did not impress. The BSG cloning was too uncanny (even the lighting & things were like BSG) And honestly, after 2 hours, I didn't care about any of the characters. Maybe it'll get better. . . just didn't leave me wanting more.
pete - he was probably trying to see if you + pine cone and a rubber band would explode..
MACGUYVER VISION! pew pew!
Finally, a character who primarily combines random shit from his inventory to solve puzzles actually makes sense in the context of the story. Because he's fucking MacGuyver. Every story involves getting imprisoned somehow and breaking out with ducktape, a bicycle pump and some cheetah vomit.
Didn't catch SGU yet.. I'm sort of on the fence about it. I liked it better in sg1 when they were hanging on by sheer wit, rather than star trek styled technobabble that comes later.
I wasn`t too impressed but only seen the first couple of eps on Skytv so will give it a few more before I pass judgement.
Why doesn't the military have some sort of rules and regulations on the use of the RAPE STONES!!!. WTF.
The show is interesting, but it's starting to get old - they need to pick up the f'n pace. It's always the same thing - mad scientist is mad, fat nerd is fat and lonely, food is running short, medicine is running short, water, power, rinse/repeat. They need to get onto a f'n planet and start a colony already, jesus! Grrr
My only complaint is it's a little too soup opera-ish at moments. I don't care about the character on earth relationships. I want them to focus more on scouting planets to find the tools they need to get back. I just want to see more alien stuff though.
- BoBo
I can't help but wish Scott would die some how and give me more time with Eli and Chloe though.............?
And FFS Rush, SIT IN THE DAMN CHAIR.
Part of the mandate or idea for the show apparently is that there are few/no bad-guy aliens. The threats will largely come from within the group of survivors. I read they are trying to avoid ever having an actor w/ a rubber face speaking English on the other side of the universe as an "alien".
So far the only alien life we've encountered is the sentient(?) dust devil, some microbes and the jungle/termite/chest-burster things.
Its like a cross between the worst of BSG and Stargate all wrapped up in lame.
Flame away :P
Oh and I hated BSG too :P
Different strokes for different folks I guess. I won't bother watching this anymore unless I see evidence of something remotely resembling actual exploration and aliens....
I didn't like BSG because there was too much drama. Seems like SGU is heading in that direction. (Don't get me wrong I like drama in Law and Order, but not in my sci fi shows.)
We need a new show, the BSG nerds need something new Caprica is totally different then BSG so lets make BSG clone again, put it in the Stargate Universe and thow it in the Star Trek Voyager can't get home cart, combining the 3 sci fi shows to create one gigantic scifi nerdgasm show and it'll be a ratings hit!!
Oh and lets create rape stones so they can communicate back and forth since they are hundreds of light years away from Earth.
BSG had drama, but this ain't got nothing.
I'm still at "If it doesn't have Kurt Russel, it's not Stargate!". It's gonna be hard to convince me to watch anything again that is connected to the lame series.
I didnt get a chance to catch SGU because if i remember correctly it conflicted with Spooks or Lie to me or something :P
Im definitely gonna catch it when its on again though
I hated the stargate series'. Mainly because the crap show kicked Farscape off the air. But still, I didn't like it. Characters and storylines were entirely uninteresting to me.