Robert Knepper cast on SGU

[The Habs Fan]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2010/03/robert-knepper-cast-on-stargate-universe/

He will appear in season 2

I really like this casting. He was the only good part of Heroes last season.

 

[Harvey]

I have no idea who this guy is, but I'm still not thrilled about the...

Spoiler: season one finale, season two

...Lucian Alliance coming back in such a large role. What happened to exploring the depths of the Stargate universe? You know, like the title says.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

AAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!

Now I have to watch this stupid show!

Good gort. Are things that tough for actors that a highly talented guy like Knepper has to stoop to dumbass sci fi shows? First Heroes, now SGU. Couldn't he at least get himself on Caprica? It may be boring enough to make you chew your arm off, but at least it's not embarassing junk.

Simeon is a dangerous Lucian Alliance soldier. He was a seasoned criminal before being recruited by the Alliance. He’s strong and intimidating but more crafty and wiry than big and muscular. Scary in that you’re never sure what he will do.

Wow. He's gonna steal the show right from under everyone else. They might as well just make this Stargate: Simeon right now.

 

[Kpnuts]

Spoiler: season one finale, season two

...Lucian Alliance coming back in such a large role. What happened to exploring the depths of the Stargate universe? You know, like the title says.

They're back? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz count me out for season 2. Dull, totally uninteresting rehashed bad guys.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Spoiler: season one finale, season two

...Lucian Alliance coming back in such a large role. What happened to exploring the depths of the Stargate universe? You know, like the title says.

They're back? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz count me out for season 2. Dull, totally uninteresting rehashed bad guys.

Spoiler: SGU's pilot episode, actually

IIRC, the Lucian Alliance was also responsible for the attack on the Icarus Base in the pilot "Air." I wonder if there's a connection.

 

[bigdaddy]

Spoiler: season one finale, season two

...Lucian Alliance coming back in such a large role. What happened to exploring the depths of the Stargate universe? You know, like the title says.

They're back? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz count me out for season 2. Dull, totally uninteresting rehashed bad guys.

Spoiler

IIRC, the Lucian Alliance was also responsible for the attack on the Icarus Base in the pilot "Air." I wonder if there's a connection.

Still boring as hell. I rather have had a new mystery race.

 

[Yoda]

They should just make a Prison Break: T-Bag spinoff. God knows that show was Shakespeare compared to the shit he's stuck in now

 

[O'Dib]

I'm holding out hope that SGU can make these guys interesting. I thought the pilot was the best looking space battle involving pyramids encased in shuriken to date.

 

[MPH]

They're back? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz count me out for season 2. Dull, totally uninteresting rehashed bad guys.

Spoiler

IIRC, the Lucian Alliance was also responsible for the attack on the Icarus Base in the pilot "Air." I wonder if there's a connection.

Still boring as hell. I rather have had a new mystery race.

There is a all new alien race they do battle with in the first episode back in a few weeks.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I hope they turn out to be interesting.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

They're back? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz count me out for season 2. Dull, totally uninteresting rehashed bad guys.

Spoiler

IIRC, the Lucian Alliance was also responsible for the attack on the Icarus Base in the pilot "Air." I wonder if there's a connection.

Still boring as hell. I rather have had a new mystery race.

T-Bag will make them interesting, despite themselves. No sense inventing another mystery race since the same writers are writing them, so why should they be more interesting than the last boring race they wrote? Better to cast strong actors in the roles and let them do all the work.

 

[The Wormhole]

Spoiler: season one finale, season two

...Lucian Alliance coming back in such a large role. What happened to exploring the depths of the Stargate universe? You know, like the title says.

They're back? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz count me out for season 2. Dull, totally uninteresting rehashed bad guys.

Spoiler: SGU's pilot episode, actually

IIRC, the Lucian Alliance was also responsible for the attack on the Icarus Base in the pilot "Air." I wonder if there's a connection.

Yes. In fact, the DVD version of Air implies the Lucian Alliance had an interest in the secrets of the ninth chevron for their own purposes.

 

[Harvey]

All true, but the Destiny is in one Galaxy, the Lucian Alliance is in another. How, then, will the Lucian Alliance characters interact with the crew of the Destiny? Will it mean the writers are comfortable re-connecting the crew with Earth so soon? Atlantis made that mistake, and it doomed the show.

And when exactly were the Lucian Alliance even compelling villains? They could be made to work, but the writers haven't managed to make it happen yet.

 

[Tyson]

Prison Break: Outer Space would have been awesome but unfortunately this show isn't that ridiculous.

 

[Dionysis]

All true, but the Destiny is in one Galaxy, the Lucian Alliance is in another. How, then, will the Lucian Alliance characters interact with the crew of the Destiny? Will it mean the writers are comfortable re-connecting the crew with Earth so soon? Atlantis made that mistake, and it doomed the show.

And when exactly were the Lucian Alliance even compelling villains? They could be made to work, but the writers haven't managed to make it happen yet.

It's possible that Icarus base was already infiltrated by the Lucian Alliance at the time of the attack, that could explain the presence of 1 or 2 spies from the Lucian Alliance.

 

[Harvey]

If that's the case, the Stargate program has worse security precautions than CTU!

 

[bigdaddy]

And when exactly were the Lucian Alliance even compelling villains?

Never, that's why they should have had a new race that could be in both universes.

 

[Danny99]

And when exactly were the Lucian Alliance even compelling villains? They could be made to work, but the writers haven't managed to make it happen yet.

I really think they were intended to make Mitchell not seem incompetent. During seasons nine and ten of SG-1, they were constantly getting their ass handed to them by the Ori. You can't have you heroes lose constantly, even O'Neill was given a steady line of lesser Goa'uld's to defeat and make jokes at. The Lucian Alliance were a way for Mitchell not to be a constant loser.

However, I don't see them have the gravitas to be a heavy for Universe. I would've preferred a mystery race, possibly the one that's firing on Destiny in the new previews, that the crew has to peel the layers back and learn about. Using the Alliance just makes Wright and Cooper seem lazy, like they're out of ideas.

 

[Checkmate]

Aren't they basically a Voyager rehash in Universe? One ship gets whisked out to where the Destiny is in the explosion and that's that. If true, they'll probably just end up turning into the Maquis and filling out the rest of the crew on the Destiny. Afterall, the Destiny only has a handful of people right now. If they're ever going to gain full control over a ship that size, they're going to need more personnel.

Maybe that was something a fan wrote. I dunno anymore, I don't really keep up with this show to any significant degree.

 

[The Wormhole]

All true, but the Destiny is in one Galaxy, the Lucian Alliance is in another. How, then, will the Lucian Alliance characters interact with the crew of the Destiny? Will it mean the writers are comfortable re-connecting the crew with Earth so soon? Atlantis made that mistake, and it doomed the show.

And when exactly were the Lucian Alliance even compelling villains? They could be made to work, but the writers haven't managed to make it happen yet.

It's possible that Icarus base was already infiltrated by the Lucian Alliance at the time of the attack, that could explain the presence of 1 or 2 spies from the Lucian Alliance.

This was also implied on the DVD version of Air. Well, more than implied, actually. Dr. Rush actually speculates out loud that that's what led the Lucian Alliance to attack Icarus base.

And when exactly were the Lucian Alliance even compelling villains? They could be made to work, but the writers haven't managed to make it happen yet.

The Lucian Alliance was an idea that had potential, it was just never really utilized properly on SG-1. In the ninth season they seemed cool, but in the tenth they just became cliche bad guys irrationally blaming the heroes everytime something went wrong.