Star Gate: Universe

[TopperHenly]

I've just finished watching the whole of Star Gate: Universe.

There is no doubt that it is fast paced with cliffhangers at the end of each episode which makes it compulsive binge viewing. However, I did feel a bit disappointed overall which I think is mostly due to the abrupt ending as it was cancelled.

From a Star Trek perspective, I did like like the aspects of the series which showed what Voyager could have been if it didn't go down the 'system reset' that occurred every episode where no matter how badly damaged Voyager got at the end of virtually all episodes, it was brand spanking new the following one.

I guess with both series, all we have is what could have been...

 

[Relayer1]

I liked Universe a lot.

Hopefully it'll get some resolution in the new show that's apparently in development.

 

[TopperHenly]

I liked Universe a lot.

Hopefully it'll get some resolution in the new show that's apparently in development.

I enjoyed the original movie but never really got into the franchise. However, I enjoyed SG:U despite it's shortcomings which wasn't entirely it's fault. Hopefully this new show will continue the quality of SG:U, especially with the calibre of actors involved.

 

[JD]

Sorry to get nit picky, but stuff like this one of my big pet peeves. It's Stargate, one word, not two.
I really should give SGU another go one of these days. I saw most of the first season, and I enjoyed it, but I ended up falling behind, and never got a chance to catch up.

 

[TopperHenly]

Sorry to get nit picky, but stuff like this one of my big pet peeves. It's Stargate, one word, not two.
I really should give SGU another go one of these days. I saw most of the first season, and I enjoyed it, but I ended up falling behind, and never got a chance to catch up.

LOL, I'll try and mind that. It isn't a franchise I was ever into but after watching SG:U, I might try the other ones.

I don't like watching series that get cancelled because I like a satisfying conclusion to all the particular threads of a series but If you don't mind then I would recommenced watching the rest of it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Way ahead of it's time. I reckon SGU would have thrived in a streaming environment.

 

[JD]

LOL, I'll try and mind that. It isn't a franchise I was ever into but after watching SG:U, I might try the other ones.

I don't like watching series that get cancelled because I like a satisfying conclusion to all the particular threads of a series but If you don't mind then I would recommenced watching the rest of it.

They are working on a new show that could potentially give some kind of closure to Universe.

 

[theenglish]

I am on record as having really enjoyed Stargate Universe. One of the things that doesn't get talked about enough is how the series really gave the franchise a chance to explore SF concepts rather than the Science Fantasy of the previous series. I really loved how every few weeks we would discover something new about the ship.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I thought SG:U improved greatly in its second season after some frankly, bloody awful writing in the first. For example, the stones were a overused plot device - much like the holodecks on TNG and DS9 - besides stretching credulity and being morally icky. I was intrigued enough by the gradually uncovered mysteries to stick with the show through the second season. Then it was cancelled so I guess I'll never know how it would improve. I believe there was some continuation in the graphic novels but I'm not invested enough in the series to read those.

 

[Noname Given]

I too thought the show was improving in the second season and was liking it a lot. I never cared for when 'The Replicators' re-appeared as the 'big bad' yet again. I think they are one of the worst things the writers came up with, and really wish they would have propped the whole thing once we found out they were an android's toy gone wrong, and the Asgard civilization was wiped out.

 

[Christopher]

I thought the Replicators were a good idea at first, a nicely non-humanoid threat. But as with the Daleks and the Borg before them, the writers eventually ran out of stories to tell about a faceless horde, and thus gave them a humanoid face and voice, turning them into something more conventional. (Well, I don't think adding Davros made the Daleks more conventional, but his creation was presumably an outgrowth of the same dynamic, the need to refresh the concept.)

 

[JD]

They went back to The Replictors again? I don't hate them as much as a lot of people do, but I would have rather seen Universe go for different bad guys.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

It's been awhile since I watched Stargate Universe but I didn't remember there being Replicators in it.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

From a Star Trek perspective, I did like like the aspects of the series which showed what Voyager could have been if it didn't go down the 'system reset' that occurred every episode where no matter how badly damaged Voyager got at the end of virtually all episodes, it was brand spanking new the following one.

SGU feels to me like a spiritual successor to Space 1999, at least season one of Space 1999. I think the Stargate connection may have hurt it with people expecting something closer to the O'Neill and Sheppard shows they were used to.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

SGU is my favourite Stargate show. It's definitely something that is best binged.

It really is what Voyager should've been.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I liked the show as a whole. Overall though I'd rate it somewhere in the middle. It had major story direction problems, leaned way too much on the body swapping stuff, and had a few characters who were kind of a drag. Nobody seemed to think it was a problem to have sex while you're borrowing someone else's body. And a lot of storylines had really good setups but they never made their way to any kind of satisfying conclusion for any plot thread in the two years they had to do it.

For the characters, I liked Eli, Rush good but kind of a Gaius Baltar photocopy, Young was decent but not exciting. I can't even remember the rest. They were just kind of lukewarm representations of common archetypes.

 

[fireproof78]

I never got in to this show despite loving SG-1 and SG-Atlantis. Never cared for the characters.

 

[arch101]

Loved the show when it was on. The style was a bit jarring at first, as the previous 2 Stargate shows were more like Star Trek in their filming and writing (as were a number of '90s sci-fi shows- they all followed the successful formula). SGU demonstrated the effect BSG had on TV sci-fi- it was filmed and written in the grittier filming style and the arced storyline. When you compare SGU to Atlantis or the original Stargate, you clearly see the evolution BSG forced on sci-fi TV shows.
I REALLY loved the mythology that was set up by the show: how the crew was split off and sent into the past (like Spa e:1999's Another Time, Another Place) and we later see our current crew come across an entire civilization created by their doppelgängers centuries before. With the schedule changes, I always thought Sci Fi Channel treated it very badly. It should have gotten a full run (maybe 5 years) and a resolution.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I loved it, I really hope the continuation gives some mention of their fate.

One of my favorite elements was they got to explore to a small degree their own legacy or the legacy of their time travel duplicates who eventually developed a civilization spanning multiple planets.

 

[Noname Given]

It's been awhile since I watched Stargate Universe but I didn't remember there being Replicators in it.

Then I guess she didn't watch the last two episodes.