I personally prefer it to what became of Stargate in the last few years but it's not quite living up to what it could be. Partly due to the writing still feeling slightly stale like they're not sure of the format themselves, so aren't actually going head first in to it, while at the same time being heavy handed with the "look it's different".
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SG:U is Too dark; Too depressing; Too gritty; Too sexual; Too serious; Too repetitive; Too tense; Too contrived; Too predictable; Badly cast; and Badly written (seriously, you're on a ship that doesn't work but you have 5 Ancient stones...how's about you use them to connect with 5 brilliant scientists that can fix the G-Damn ship instead of a sulking Lou Diamond Phillips in his most depressing role ever?)
I for one liked SG:1 and SG:A because they offered a campy escape from my dark, depressing, repetitive life that I could watch with my children without explaining what young adults might do when faced with mortality.
This show makes me wanna start cutting like the young kids do these days.
I couldn't stomach so much as the commercials for NuBSG, and if this show continues it's present path my DVR will find something else to record.
The only bright spot in the entire show was killing off Christopher McDonald. I think he should guest star on a different TV series every week and be killed off at the end of the episode. It could be a network "meme".
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SG:U is Too dark; Too depressing; Too gritty; Too sexual; Too serious; Too repetitive; Too tense; Too contrived; Too predictable; Badly cast; and Badly written (seriously, you're on a ship that doesn't work but you have 5 Ancient stones...how's about you use them to connect with 5 brilliant scientists that can fix the G-Damn ship instead of a sulking Lou Diamond Phillips in his most depressing role ever?)
I for one liked SG:1 and SG:A because they offered a campy escape from my dark, depressing, repetitive life that I could watch with my children without explaining what young adults might do when faced with mortality.
This show makes me wanna start cutting like the young kids do these days.
I couldn't stomach so much as the commercials for NuBSG, and if this show continues it's present path my DVR will find something else to record.
The only bright spot in the entire show was killing off Christopher McDonald. I think he should guest star on a different TV series every week and be killed off at the end of the episode. It could be a network "meme".
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Watched 3 seasons with dedication, the first season was ok but as a whole it was the greatest waste of time I ever did...even worse than wasting your life on video games
In short many, many people thought it "Jumped the Shark"
The movie that started the franchise wasn't campy. A lot of people seem to be forgetting that.
I think the problem with later SG1 was that they became afraid of finishing off story arcs in case they actually got a movie where they could tell those stories. So they became stagnant.
The first season of SGU is averaging a 2.1 average household rating and 2.85 million total viewers, the network said in an October 27 press release. This includes full “Live + 7 Days” viewing data, though Syfywould probably have only had access to that data for about the first two weeks of the show (three of the six hours broadcast so far).
Nielsen Media Research
In the key demographics, Syfy said that Universe is averaging 1.5 million adults ages 18 to 49, and 1.7 million ages 25 to 54.
The time-shifted viewing data for Stargate Universe is clearly significant, with 2.99 million viewers and a 2.1 rating for “Air, Part 3″ — up from the 1.8 rating (2.4 million) on Friday night. That’s the most-watched episode of a Stargate show since March 2005 (“The Siege, Part 1″), Syfy said.
Compared to the last season of Stargate Atlantis, SGU is up 59 percent among adults 18 to 34, 41 percent among adults 18 to 49, 33 percent among adults 25 54, and up 36 percent in total viewers, the network said.
Along with the 2.1 average rating for Ghost Hunters, the 1.7 average for Destination Truth, and the 1.8 rating earned by the season premiere of Sanctuary, Syfy is looking at its most watched October ever.
While we don’t have official ratings numbers for the last three episodes, on Twitter actor Brian J. Smith mentioned a 1.6 rating for “Darkness” — which aired against an MLB playoff game on October 16. TV by the Numbers reports viewership of 2.099 million viewers (”Live + Same Day”) for that one, and 2.015 million for October 23 (“Light”).
Universe is the network’s second-highest rated show behind Ghost Hunters (about 3 million viewers before DVR).
