SGU Countdown

[Dac]

I dunno, I rather liked SGU on the whole. Some eps were fantastic, while others were crap. If you take the good with the bad, you've got an alright show there with a lot of room for improvement. Its the built in potential this show has that's been keeping me coming back. In my opinion, only the assholes are assholes. Half the cast seem to be reasonable people driven to the extreme, which, when the premise of your show is throwing folks across the known Universe with no hope of returning home is a pretty extreme situation.

If they kick out the crappy pop montages and random pointless ANGST! between the crew and actually get to some of the point of the destiny (which seems to be the case) i'll be happy.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I'm actually digging the music. But yes, the ANGST has to go, or at least be toned down. IMO the last thing we need is for the crew to become too much of one big family despite their situation, which was one of Voyager's primary mistakes in doing just that by the end of their premiere. Keep the conflict, but scale it down to, oh, DS9 levels. That would work for me.

And I'm stoked for season two. I did like the first season, and preferred it to the maudlin fun that was SGA (a slot in my SF diet which has since been replaced by Eureka). Bring the rest on, I say. Liking it just fine, and who knows, I may even get to love it.

Mark

 

[PsychoPere]

If you take the good with the bad, you've got an alright show there with a lot of room for improvement. Its the built in potential this show has that's been keeping me coming back.

This is why I'm willing to come back, as well. In fact, I'll be fair to the show and list of the things I did like about season one:

• Resource hunting
• Most of the visits home (though I didn't care much for Eli and Chloe's trip to the bar - I'm thinking more like Camille with Sharon, Chloe with her mom, Eli with his mom, etc.)
• "Time" (you'd think I'd be tired of "reset" button-esque episodes after all the times I've seen it used on various shows, and to an extent I am - but I thought this was well-done)
• The new aliens & their interest in Destiny
• The Lucian Alliance incursion (I'm hoping this brings the team out of their civilian vs military mindset)

I'm not thrilled with most of the characters, as I've said several times already. For example, I mostly cannot stand Eli. I'm definitely not interested in James's jealousy over Matt and Chloe. Young could really stand to include Wray in some more discussions to avoid issues like the mutiny (I'm watching Subversion and Incursions I and II right now again, in preparation for tonight's season premiere, and I think Young should have explained why he was venting the atmosphere in Telford's cell to Wray and Matt, for example). As things currently stand, I don't feel much connection to most of the crew, though I do like T.J., Rush, and Greer.

Most of the inter-crew drama that we saw in season one didn't feel natural to me; it felt contrived, conflict just for the sake of pitting people against one another. I didn't necessarily want the crew to easily fall into a team dynamic, but I don't think the conflict was handled well so I do now hope that it's mostly dropped in the wake of the Lucian Alliance incursion.

As I said in another thread, I mostly enjoyed (or at least saw potential in) the way the second half of season one unfolded, so I'm remaining cautiously optimistic that more things will start "clicking" together in season two.

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm actually digging the music. But yes, the ANGST has to go, or at least be toned down. IMO the last thing we need is for the crew to become too much of one big family despite their situation, which was one of Voyager's primary mistakes in doing just that by the end of their premiere. Keep the conflict, but scale it down to, oh, DS9 levels. That would work for me.

There is something in the back of my mind that hopes that these characters never make it back home. They made such a big deal in the first half of Season 1 about how these "were the wrong people." What if it turned out these were exactly the right people? What if it was there Destiny to live on Destiny forever? To populate the universe?

 

[bullethead]

I'm actually digging the music. But yes, the ANGST has to go, or at least be toned down. IMO the last thing we need is for the crew to become too much of one big family despite their situation, which was one of Voyager's primary mistakes in doing just that by the end of their premiere. Keep the conflict, but scale it down to, oh, DS9 levels. That would work for me.

There is something in the back of my mind that hopes that these characters never make it back home. They made such a big deal in the first half of Season 1 about how these "were the wrong people." What if it turned out these were exactly the right people? What if it was there Destiny to live on Destiny forever? To populate the universe?

Honestly, that is just stupid. They can't manage to become a cohesive group after 8 months of living together. How the hell are they gonna shape up enough to do what you're suggesting?

Honestly, the best way to end the show is to make the SGC do something they should've done several seasons ago and use the solar flare overwriting the timeline time travel trick to give themselves a massive advantage post SG-1 season 8 by sending a Puddle Jumper with the ZPMs from Atlantis, the Arthur's Mantle phase cloak, and a computer with all the mission reports of what happened. Then Rush can go to the Destiny without having to deal with the incompetent Col. Young and the merry band of idiots that is the Destiny crew.

 

[RoJoHen]

Wow, glad you're not in charge.

 

[bullethead]

Wow, glad you're not in charge.

Why?