Stargate Universe doesn't suck!

[cylkoth]

I thought the people who would be going to investigate where the ninth chevron led, died when the base was attacked, or rescued by Carter. So there was a team assembled, it's just that the rejects wound up going due to Rush's duplicity.

 

[theenglish]

I thought the people who would be going to investigate where the ninth chevron led, died when the base was attacked, or rescued by Carter. So there was a team assembled, it's just that the rejects wound up going due to Rush's duplicity.

I thought that too.

 

[bigdaddy]

I thought there was some shield around the base and that no one could get rescued by ship. O'Neil and Sam had that conversation in the pilot. Sam asked how many made it through the gate and O'Neil said no one. 80+ were missing.

And even if people were rescued only the rejects stayed in the base... because?

 

[The Wormhole]

During the failed attempt to dial the ninth chevron in the pilot episode we do see Telford with an SG team, all geared up and waiting for a connection to be made. Presumably this is the team which was meant to go to Destiny. No clue what the hell happened to them, though. I guess they were all qualified fighter pilots and joined Telford in flying the F-302s. Although since these are the right people for the job you'd think they'd all be on constant stone duty to help out on Destiny.

Then again, why weren't more specialists or people who could make a useful contribution put on stone duty more often than when it was necessary for the plot? Most of the time low ranking military personnel participate in the stone swaps.

Just what do they do when they're on Destiny anyway? We see one swapped with Chloe being interviewed by Eli in a webisode, but we have no idea what the others did.

It's true-enough that they did end up dialing the 9th chevron with Eli's help but who knows how long it had been a non-starter?

Icarus Base had been researching the ninth chevron for two years prior to Eli being recruited.

 

[thore95]

I have been rewatching all 17 seasons of Stargate. I'm now onto the second season of Universe and about to watch Malice.

I have to say it's a lot better than I remember from the first few episodes. I'm now, already, kind of pissed at SyFy for not giving it a final third season.

SG1 went downhill, Atlantis did the same, but both were enjoyable a lot of the time. But now I know what the point of Destiny is and that's so cool they are looking for a message from the beginning of time.

I like most of the changes in the show, no set bad guys, alien worlds that seem alien, having a countdown was a nice, very Sliders. The issues of going to alien worlds that don't look like Canada and meeting weird things was really nice change, a MUCH needed change.

However there were some horrible cliche drama, the stones were overused in the first season, The Gould Alliance was just more useless drama, the deaths still felt weird (Stargate was never good with death.), the camera shaking was not needed and above all... it's too damn dark! Literally, turn a light bulb on.

But I really like the overall mystery of the ship and the big meaning of things. Atlantis never fully lived up to the promise of what the show was about, Universe already has that feel 28 episodes in.

Everyone that watched SG1 and SGA wanted to have SGA continued or a movie to give it a proper ending, not this sci-fi drama crap! I understand you have to build characters but come on taking half a damn season to introduce characters then they practically skip everything that made SG1 and SGA great, and replace it with relationship drama. That is not why people watch Star Gate. I mean give me a constant enemy, an ally, and a far fetched technology that could save the universe. In stead we get an enemy that attacks when it is convenient, virtually no allies, and a rickety old ship that is powered by the sun, not to mention turning the proud Star Gate franchise into a soap opera. SGU was just the latest in a string of shit sci-fi shows that appeared when sci-fi changed to syfy. They tried to fix what was not broken and as a result they irreparably damaged the Star Gate name by following this sci-fi drama trend that no one wanted in first place. Two last things SGU was not planned for a 5 season run, it was planned from the beginning as a 2 season run and then put it up for renewal or not. Last it was not the move from one day to the other that killed the series, it was the low ratings since the middle of the first season syfy was just locked into a 2 year contract.

 

[The Wormhole]

Two last things SGU was not planned for a 5 season run, it was planned from the beginning as a 2 season run and then put it up for renewal or not.

Joe Mallozi himself said Stargate Universe was planned as a five year story. Details here.

 

[bigdaddy]

Joe Mallozi himself said Stargate Universe was planned as a five year story. Details here.

They changed their story MANY times. The first idea for the show was a TV movie or miniseries.

And just because they claim to have a plan doesn't mean they do. Just look at SGA which clearly was never planned out more than 10 episodes in advance.

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, I suspect what was really the case was their "five year story which can be resolved in one" was really a "one year story we're going to try to stretch out to five."

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Well, I suspect what was really the case was their "five year story which can be resolved in one" was really a "one year story we're going to try to stretch out to five."

Which probably bored the audience enough to tune out.