Sci-fi greenlights STARGATE: UNIVERSE

[nx1701g]

Well now we know one of the reasons they killed Atlantis, they needed room for Universe.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

the alleged fact that they can't control the ship.

Indeed, let's hope that that doesn't turn into Universe's version of Atlantis' "can't get back to Earth" tag.....

Not being able to get back to Earth was not a problem premise for "Voyager." In fact, there were no problems with the premise of the show. Once a series gets going, most people only pick apart the premise when the show stops entertaining them.

 

[Angel4576]

^^ No, it was more a dig against Atlantis than Voyager. Voyager's premise was sound, it was just the execution that was the problem.

The problem with Atlantis was that it was a big song and dance about them being cut off from Earth with no means of contact/travel with/to the homeworld, only for both of those obstacles to be overcome pretty early in the show's run. Just hoping that Universe doesn't go the same way and that they're controlling the ship by the first season's end.....

 

[witchie]

Are there new writers? If not, this will be the same old song and dance from the previous series.

 

[bigdaddy]

Stargate Voyager will have the same effect has Star Trek Voyager did, it will be the beginning of the end of Stargate.

TAKE A BREAK PEOPLE!!!

And the fact this one dumb ship uses the 9th chevon is just really lame.

 

[Angel4576]

Just wait until they reveal the as yet 'invisible' tenth chevron!

 

[Turbo]

Ugh. I really wanted to see the franchise take a rest for a bit, but so much for that plan.

I'm surprised that no-one has pointed out that this premise sounds very similar to Space: 1999 - Our Heroes are stuck onboard a ship/Moon that periodically passes by inhabited planets, but cannot make any long-term vists, and are (theoretically) searching for a way to get back to Earth.

It could be interesting, but considering how poor the last two seasons of Atlantis were, and how quickly Atlantis's original premise was jettisoned, I just don't have much faith in the execution.

 

[Jax]

Am glad there will be SG on in 2009 but I do believe new writers should be brought in. I refuse to compare it to VOYAGER until I see it though I would love it to have the best of BSG and early VOY with the tone of a SG show....

but thats asking too much.

So I guess 5 seasons for SGU

 

[tenmei]

Well, I'll wait to comment until we see who the cast is.

 

[Brent]

Well now we know one of the reasons they killed Atlantis, they needed room for Universe.

there was plenty of room on the scifi channel without having to cancel sga

 

[Kpnuts]

Am glad there will be SG on in 2009 but I do believe new writers should be brought in. I refuse to compare it to VOYAGER until I see it though I would love it to have the best of BSG and early VOY with the tone of a SG show....

but thats asking too much.

So I guess 5 seasons for SGU

I doubt very much that SGU will last 5 years, I give it 2.

Then Wright, Cooper and Mallozi can get lost.

 

[witchie]

I thought MGM canceled Atlantis so they could use their operating budget for Universe. I thought I read where SciFi wanted to renew it, but MGM didn't offer it. Or was that fan speculation?

 

[Harvey]

^^
Just fan speculation as far as I know, but it seems reasonable.

I really, really don't know about this show. Atlantis was more dramatic, tense, and interesting when it was cut off from Earth, but the writers clearly didn't know what to do with that premise, so they killed it after only a season. The show hasn't been nearly as good since. How long will it take them to jettison the idea on Universe?

And who will be part of the cast? Will they port over a guest star from Atlantis or SG-1 (a la McKay and Weir), or try and go in a totally new direction?

And will every planet in this distant (and getting even more distant every episode) include the Renaissance Fair and pine trees? Will the people speak English? Will they be human? And how will they be able to string together continuing story-lines when every first meeting is essentially the last?

It all sounds like Stargate: Voyager to me, and Stargate has already been under a serious brain drain for 4 years. I'm very cautious about this new series.

 

[Samurai8472]

My picks are either Zalenka or Keller(they are going for a younger vibe)

Oh god, this is going to be terrible.

Stargate: Voyager will literally last two years,

nah five years at most or four if your Enterprise

jeez they couldn't wait a month to announce this but a mere two days after canceling atlantis

The "younger vibe had me thinking of this scene from "200"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyIMzfzz8o

Sad enough they even ape that and then go ahead and do it.

 

[Romulan_spy]

Who wants to bet that the team will meet a strong warrior type alien like Tealc or Ronon who will join the team because he is ostracized from his community?

 

[Samurai8472]

Or the warrior has nothing left back on his planet(probably the first stop in premiere)

There will be a brilliant scientist probably geeky at first then later on can carry a p90

Smartass leader

 

[MPH]

Not too keen on the premise or that its said to be aimed at a "younger audience". Is it going to be like that clip in the ep "200" with them young kids on there phones and such?

 

[Harvey]

Wait, where does it say its skewered towards a younger audience? Stargate already is geared towards teens and adolescents, more or less.

 

[Samurai8472]

^
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/tv_nm/stargate_dc_1

The show will involve more space-based action than "SG-1" or "Atlantis." With the "Star Trek" television franchise having folded in 2005 and Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica" airing its final episodes next year, the network hopes "Universe" will become sci-fi fans' new favorite space-travel series.

'YOUNGER VIBE'

"We've had great success with 'Enterprise' repeats on Monday night, and there's an appetite for space opera as 'Battlestar' goes away," Sci Fi president Dave Howe said. "There's an opportunity to keep the space opera as part of our programming strategy."

Howe said the new series will reinvigorate the franchise by targeting a younger audience.

"This is an opportunity to reinvent this franchise and make it relevant to a new generation," Howe said. "We really don't want to be more of the same. It's going to build clearly off the existing franchise but with a cast that gives it a younger vibe."

Said co-creators Wright and Cooper: "In 'Universe,' we plan to keep those elements that have made the franchise a success, such as adventure and humor, while breaking new ground in the relationships between mostly young and desperate explorers, thrust together and far from home. Above all, we believe the Stargate itself remains an enduring icon with infinite potential as a jumping-off point for telling stories."

as I pointed out above it makes me think of the stargate 200 spoof with teen sg-1

 

[RoJoHen]

Next year?! Wow, bad idea.