I prefer Lt. McBoobs. It just rolls off the tongue more easily.
OMG I`m loving SGU
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I prefer Lt. McBoobs. It just rolls off the tongue more easily.
Lt. Rack.
^^That would work better if her rank was major. Major Rack.
I like to call her Bodacious Melons.
Haha they are melons....
I like Lt. Tatas for a nickname.
I also like the series very much. I hated the sappy love stories, which dragged it down to a bad soap opera. But the second half of the first season was much stronger, and I hope it maintains this momentum into the second season.
Sean
I also like the series very much. I hated the sappy love stories, which dragged it down to a bad soap opera. But the second half of the first season was much stronger, and I hope it maintains this momentum into the second season.
Sean
It's much better when they tone the melodrama down. They don't really do it all that well a lot of the times.
Hi there, ppl.
To answer the OP question I kinda like the show. It is certainly better then SGA which at some point decendend into complete ludicracy.
SG1 on other had hand a very interesting ballance between being serious enough to care about the charecters (see for example the episode about team clones dying- that's drama!) and allowing some comedy. It did deteriorated in last seasons, thou.
Now SGU in my opinion tries a little bit too hard to go into the "dark and gritty" area. A hero must not be a complete pshycopat to be a complex character and you can have a bold and gutsy story without turning it all into "homo homini lupus est". I think Farscape is a great example of a show which had deeply "flawed" heroes , who still were the "good guys" whom you can care about.
It is as unrealistic to have everyone like each other as in ST as is to have people constanly hate each other. Reality is in between.
I hope at some point SGU TPTB will tone down an unimosity a bit and will not try to do a BSG copy (as good BSG was). I would definately prefer Farscape copy, with leathers included!!!
Come on bring Claudia Balck on the show! She will kick some ass and at least someone there will have a presense on the screen in this show (besides Rush).
And finaly, they should have a villain- someone like Bhaal or Scorpy... Without smart baddy it is not fun.
To answer the OP question I kinda like the show. It is certainly better then SGA which at some point decendend into complete ludicracy.
SG1 on other had hand a very interesting ballance between being serious enough to care about the charecters (see for example the episode about team clones dying- that's drama!) and allowing some comedy. It did deteriorated in last seasons, thou.
Now SGU in my opinion tries a little bit too hard to go into the "dark and gritty" area. A hero must not be a complete pshycopat to be a complex character and you can have a bold and gutsy story without turning it all into "homo homini lupus est". I think Farscape is a great example of a show which had deeply "flawed" heroes , who still were the "good guys" whom you can care about.
It is as unrealistic to have everyone like each other as in ST as is to have people constanly hate each other. Reality is in between.
I hope at some point SGU TPTB will tone down an unimosity a bit and will not try to do a BSG copy (as good BSG was). I would definately prefer Farscape copy, with leathers included!!!
Come on bring Claudia Balck on the show! She will kick some ass and at least someone there will have a presense on the screen in this show (besides Rush).
And finaly, they should have a villain- someone like Bhaal or Scorpy... Without smart baddy it is not fun.
^SGU could do without ridiculous camp villains Baal.
I agree that the animosity between the crew could be toned down. Most situations on this show seem to go along the lines of:
Military Guy: Do this
Civilian: No, that's a bad idea
Military Guy: <threat of violence>
Civilian: Okay, okay.
I agree that the animosity between the crew could be toned down. Most situations on this show seem to go along the lines of:
Military Guy: Do this
Civilian: No, that's a bad idea
Military Guy: <threat of violence>
Civilian: Okay, okay.
Lol - yeah they do need to mix it up a bit. SG has often adopted the tradition of the cop show with the military in the role of the cop who just wants to his job even if it means destroying a few cars and the civilians in the role of the grumpy lieutenant who has one more week to retirement.
I don't necessarily disagree with some of the civilians' objections in SGU - there are more shades of grey but the emphasis still seems to be on the military as the voice of righteousness.
Actually it is quite common attitude in Sci- Fi or action films. Civilians are usually portrayed as stupid and naive (alternatively egotistical and corrupt), who cannot grasp the "truth" which is well know to the "guys in the front lines"... who are of course absolutely altruistic, noble and honorable.
It is easy to sympathize with such "grunt" view, but it is deeply flawed.
Some years ago when I was defending insurance companies (yes , I am evil) I also held such attitudes. When I was getting major flack from judges because of my clients refusal to settle, I sometimes thought with anger : "You backsitting morons... you sit in your comfy offices and just cannot understand what is going on in the court room and how much the judge is pissed off with you, and what he will do to screw you...".Eventually I understood that it was very prudent not to let a "man in the field" to decide. My purpose, among other things, was to be a meat shield, to filter all the flack and pass only information- - so that the client's decision could be purely rational, and not influenced by emotional pressure used by a judge.
It is easy to sympathize with such "grunt" view, but it is deeply flawed.
Some years ago when I was defending insurance companies (yes , I am evil) I also held such attitudes. When I was getting major flack from judges because of my clients refusal to settle, I sometimes thought with anger : "You backsitting morons... you sit in your comfy offices and just cannot understand what is going on in the court room and how much the judge is pissed off with you, and what he will do to screw you...".Eventually I understood that it was very prudent not to let a "man in the field" to decide. My purpose, among other things, was to be a meat shield, to filter all the flack and pass only information- - so that the client's decision could be purely rational, and not influenced by emotional pressure used by a judge.
Too late. The Lucian Alliance characters introduced in the finale arc are cartoony supervillains, not much better that the Goa'uld before them.
I hold similar beliefs... my problem is that with this show (and with a lot of TV shows in general) the situations the writers concoct usually put the military characters in the right. For example, at the end of Season 1, when Young is draining the air out of the room to break the brainwashing on Telford, Wray is being a total bitch, but we as the audience pretty much know what Young is trying to do.
This would be solved by Young taking a measly five seconds to turn to her and say, "Listen, I'm not going to kill him", but this scene is amped up for drama, so he doesn't do that.
So what we end up with on these shows is civilians who come off as whiny and obnoxious because the situation has been engineered in a certain fashion. I guess my point is that, for the most part, when has civilian authority ever come across on these 'Stargate' shows as anything but a hindrance to the military characters? Rarely, if ever.
At least, that's how it comes across to me.
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Just finished SGU on DVD, and I'm loving it. It had a much better debut season than SG1 and SGA. Very different than either of those shows, but the flawed characters, especially Rush and Young, are far more interesting than previous main characters.
I also liked how several of the early episodes dealt with basic survival on Destiny, rather than simply throwing the characters into some forgettable action episode on a planet. The closing arc was a good bookend to the season. Looking forward to season 2.
I also liked how several of the early episodes dealt with basic survival on Destiny, rather than simply throwing the characters into some forgettable action episode on a planet. The closing arc was a good bookend to the season. Looking forward to season 2.
Loving it! As I'm sure has been said before, it feels like the show Voyager tried (and failed horribly) to be.
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