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SGU: A poor imitation of Voyager?

ReadyAndWilling

ReadyAndWilling

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hey all, i've only seen a few episodes of SGU and Jesus, it's just so hard to watch. it's clear the produces wanted to take a page out of Trek's book and try to use SGU to be able to create new stories with a brand new crew. i can honestly say i prefer studying than watching SGU.

i'm a huge fan of Trek and Stargate. i used to love the anticipation of watching the weekly episode of SG1 and SGA, but man, I just can't say i want to watch SGU anymore.

Voyager has received its fair share of criticism on here, but at least Voyager gave us some great episodes. Scorpion, Year of Hell, were some awesome episodes.
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SGU is more an imitation of BSG than it is Voyager. You got it all, depressed and moody setting. European scientists with a shady agenda haunted by hallucinations of their lovers. Alien guardians who may well be "Gods." A homosexual who teamed with an opportunistic self-serving bastard to stage a mutiny. Military vs civilians. Specifically, a gruff male military authority against a female civilian authority. I could go on, but I'm sure you get the idea.

Aside from the superficial similarities, a ship stranded from home with a crew split by rivalries, SGU and Voyager are very different shows. Voyager was primarily an action show with stand-alone episodes, while SGU is an arc driven soap opera.

Besides, Voyager, though not one of the better Treks, is a work of art compared to SGU. Even at its worst it delivered product worthy of the Star Trek name.
 
I think that SGU has been more true to its premise than VOY. Though I would agree that I get more of a BSG vibe than VOY vibe from it.
 
SGU is doing what Voyager should have done: SGU is about trying to survive without any supplies and get home. You actually feel like they are lost far away with almost no control. Voyager, on the other hand, didn't take very long to become alien-of-the-week, TNG-copy with a different crew with the occassional reference to needing to get home. I have the same criticism of Atlantis: In almost no time flat, you forgot that they were cut off far away from home.... and to make it no big deal, they took all of one season to reconnect them home!
 
MPH said:
TheInsideMan said:
ReadyAndWilling said:
Voyager has received its fair share of criticism on here, but at least Voyager gave us some great episodes. Scorpion, Year of Hell, were some awesome episodes.
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4 great episodes out of how many?
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Yeah and they both came out of S4 which was the highpoint of the series.
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Which again is a shame, since all other 168 episodes were mediocre at best. What a wasted opportunity.
SGU is more like BSG light... sometimes it's ridiculously funny how they want to copy BSG.
 
I don't watch SGU, but Voyager is one of the shows I actually invested in for a few years before it became so unbearably awful I had to quit. Smallville would be another show.

But I'm not sure how a show can be a poor imitation of something that is piss poor to begin with.

Also, the best part of "Year of Hell" by far was the lasting consequences felt throughout the rest of the series for both the storyline and the characters because of everything they had to endure and what the survivors had to live with.
 
I have zero respect for VOY, but I did manage to slog through all seven seasons. I have tried watching SGU on two separate occasions and literally cannot do it. That just goes to show that there's crap and then there's crap.
 
^Funny. I watch SGU every week, yet bail on VOY reruns after about 3-4 minutes. I don't even get to the commercial break.

While I'm fully capable of entertaining the idea that I have poor, pedestrian taste, at best SGU and VOY are equally bad (though in different ways, which is why one is bearable to you and not the other).
 
JarodRussell said:
archeryguy1701 said:
You actually feel like they are lost far away with almost no control.
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The only feeling I get from watching that show is that everyone is totally unprofessional and absolutely nuts. Painful and awkward to watch.
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Truly! And I hate the response of "well, they weren't really picked for a mission on an alien ship blah blah blah". They were still off-world! You wouldn't think the Air Force would just send a bunch of run of the mill airmen off world. To Japan? Maybe but not to P1565423whatever!
 
I guess I'm weird, cause I liked Voyager. There were some crap eps for sure, but as a whole I really enjoyed the series /shrug.

However, I'm not liking SGU as much as I thought I would. There was potential, but it is just so dog slow its ridiculous. Some stuff needs to happen, like now. I like the idea behind it, but don't feel it is being executed well. It could work, but they are artificially dragging it out beyond belief.

I look at SGU as trying to emulate the success of nuBSG. Unfortunately, you won't win by emulation, you must create and be unique.

The only aspect of the show that reminds me of VOY is the integration of the Lucian Alliance as compared to the Maquis.
 
archeryguy1701 said:
SGU is doing what Voyager should have done: SGU is about trying to survive without any supplies and get home. You actually feel like they are lost far away with almost no control. Voyager, on the other hand, didn't take very long to become alien-of-the-week, TNG-copy with a different crew with the occassional reference to needing to get home. I have the same criticism of Atlantis: In almost no time flat, you forgot that they were cut off far away from home.... and to make it no big deal, they took all of one season to reconnect them home!
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Fully agreed. The mutiny would've never happened on Voyager, also. (without some kind of BS mind control)

In Atlantis they were out exploring planets (and far more often than not it was not a good thing that they'd done that) when there were most likely far more interesting things to be found in the ginormous city they already lived in...and this was after they could already get supplies from Earth. (which happened too quickly, IMHO)

The SGU crew explores planets so they can find supplies or a way home, at least.
 
At least Voyager lasted 7 seasons. It will be a miracle if SGU gets a 3rd.


Farscape did what Voyager should have done already. So SGU is a little late to claim that distinction.

I liked voyager. Its the only Star Trek show I enjoyed watching. When it was in syndication me and my cousin would watch it all the time.


If SGU wants to be unlike voyager they need to get rid of the Beds on the Ship. It would really be a hardship if they had to sleep on the floor. :)



The crew of voyager ran out of supplies all the time. they had to explore planets to find the stuff they needed just like the crew of SGU.
 
The worst Voyager episode has been more enjoyable than the best episode of SGU. And I'm not even a fan of Voyager.
 
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