Stargate Universe Cast
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Yeah we know. Backtrack in the thread aways. We got Ming Na, Lou Diamond Phillips, and a couple no-name bimbos to help them make the Canadian quotient and justify their gubmint subsidy (which any of us could have predicted with ease, although we were all far too lazy to actually bothering typing it out).
This should be fun...
Next stop, Ye Olde Renaissance Faire Planet!
Meanwhile, BSG is helping out by sucking hard enough to make us actually miss Stargate. Skiffy's evil master plan!
This should be fun...
Next stop, Ye Olde Renaissance Faire Planet!
Meanwhile, BSG is helping out by sucking hard enough to make us actually miss Stargate. Skiffy's evil master plan!
Anybody want to bet Lou Diamond Phillips, Carlyle and Ming-Na all die/disappear by episode 4 so that only the affordable unknown young whippersnappers are left, and not the people-we've-actually-heard-of-who've-lured-us-to-the-show?
Symbiote form replicators. They don't even have to burrow through your neck, they'd just kinda dissolve around your atoms.
Asgard - midseason cliffhanger.
Replicators - final episode of season 1.
medieval village - within first 3 episodes.
AAWSiSPaWR (TM) - same as medieval village or 2 episodes later tops.
It isn't Stargate show without medieval villages and pine forest planets.
^ That can only be a good thing. What about Renaissance Fair villages?
Allegedly, yes.
I have no doubt that set (or something similar) will be back to haunt us all!
They'll rebuild it. Brick by brick.
Don't you mean tent by tent.
Allegedly, yes.
To be fair, Star Trek: The Next Generation made the same mistake with its "Planet Hell" set. It seems like a good idea on paper to have a large, standing alien planet set, but on screen you end up being forced to use it every time you go to an alien planet (after all, thousands if not millions were invested in it). In the end, every alien planet and culture looks about the same, and the complaints start to roll in.
Of course, in Vancouver, you're other choice is the one SG-1 took early on: every planet is filled with pine trees or looks like downtown Vancouver. It works on Battlestar Galactica because they've only simulated, what, five environments total (and one was filmed a great distance away from Vancouver)? It's less effective on a show which is visiting a "new" planet (and, by extension, a new culture and environment) every week.
Yes, but that was 25 or so years ago. You can't compare the early seasons of TNG with current Stargate.
Why not every TV show only has a limited amount of stage space for the sets that aren't standing sets. The Stargate series in fact has alot less space the way of sets than the Star Trek shows did.
BSG's done a nice job of creating varied environments - arctic tundra, mountainous desert, uninhabitable wasteland, lush forests - with careful selection of filming sites and creative use of coloration (through lens filters?) They have the same constraints and probably budget as Stargate yet do a much better job. It also helps that BSG uses planets very sparingly.
Maybe SG:U can keep the action more enclosed on their spaceship. Assuming the characters are interesting and the writing is good, they don't really need to go traipsing around planets all the time to hold our interest.
I just heard about some of the casting on an IGN podcast... it's like they're getting somewhat upper mid-tier actors... are they just throwing money around or something?
Maybe the credit crunch means some people are working for a bit less
The "name" actors are older, and age never does good things for an actor's marketability. The young'uns are good-looking unknowns. Seems like an established pattern for Stargate (and probably not so costly). Hopefully this time the good-looking unknowns will have a shred of talent between them.
I just saw the cast photo for the first time. I'm impressed that they got not only Robert Carlyle, but Ming-Na, and Lou Diamond Philips as well. And Justin Louis is in it too? Good stuff.
