Universe not as bad as thought

[Witterquick]

I bailed on SGU right after I saw the two part premiere. I didn't see anything that I liked and thought it was rather pretentious. The characters were bland and the story was the same old.

Well I was bored last couple of weeks and caught up on the rest of the episodes anyway. I guess I just can't leave a scifi series on it's own. My thoughts now is that it really isn't that bad and is quite well written at times. Though after seeing 10 episodes, I find it quite formulaic. Every episode seems to play out the same way in terms of plot and human drama.

For the most part though, what prevents me from liking the show is it's lack of a good, charismatic lead. Maybe they were going for another kind of hero than O'Neill, Shep, and Mitchell cos' they wanted to be different this time, but I'm sorry to say this, Scott is one hell of a boring guy. He has no sense of humor and I could care less about his angst and his kid. Not to mention the actor's not so great either.

I really do like Greer (that his name?) though. I buy him as the badass and I do enjoy watching him. He's fun. I like Johanson too. Two surprises since I didn't think I would like them. The other characters are as I expected. They're setting Rush and Young as the antagonistic pair but I think it's not working very well since the two actors really do not have much chemistry. I don't think Young's actor has much of a presence on screen and Carlyle is surprisingly lukewarm as well. There's really no spark there.

I guess it's really disappointing that while they have likeable characters, they don't have a strong enough lead for me to like the show very much. I miss O'Neill and Shep. I think I would like this show a hell of a lot better if they were there. I don't know if given more time, things would change but I doubt it. O'Neill/Jackson and Shep/McKay's (to a lesser extent I think) chemistry were apparent from the beginning, but SGU's character/actor interactions are less than brilliant.

 

[The Wormhole]

So far SGU is entertaining, nothing more, nothing less. It simply is.

The characters, are hardly outstanding. Rush is a shady weasel, Sgt. Greer is a tough ass with attitude, Lt. Scott bangs any female he runs into. But aside from that none of the others have made an impression at all.

But aside from contacting Earth and doing silly things with the stones, nothing's happened. I'm not saying we need SG teams running through Vancouver's pine forest firing P-90s every week, but some action before the season ends would be nice.

 

[Kirby]

I like the stories just fine, but as Witterquick mentioned, there isn't much to get excited about the characters. I liked Eli at the beginning, but the love lorn geek/filmmaker schtick is getting old. Greer is the only character that I enjoy watching, but if you put him on SG-1 or SG:A, he wouldn't work.

 

[Kelthaz]

^ Greer would have worked just fine on SG-1, but they'd have to make him a Russian. And then kill him off.

 

[Jax]

I just like the change of scene for SG-U and while it holds some charm of SG-1/SG-A its characters are designed to be BSG-Lite, to try and find that balance that put many people off BSG due to its dark nature. The 1st season will get stronger and stronger in the back 10 and a little cast culling won't be a bad thing in season 2 to increase focus more on certian characters. I agree that Greer is a really good character up there with Eli and Rush as my favourites though we are still to see the breakout character AKA - Zelenka/Walter/Doc Fraiser

 

[Temis the Vorta]

For the most part though, what prevents me from liking the show is it's lack of a good, charismatic lead. Maybe they were going for another kind of hero than O'Neill, Shep, and Mitchell cos' they wanted to be different this time, but I'm sorry to say this, Scott is one hell of a boring guy. He has no sense of humor and I could care less about his angst and his kid. Not to mention the actor's not so great either.

That is probably the single factor that made me bail on this show. Baaaaad casting overall (Eli's good, Rush is ok), but vitally bad in the all-important lead role. Put a Shep in the lead role and that would be enough to get me to hang in there. I hung in with SG:A all those years, after all. I really don't require much!

 

[sidious618]

I find the characters much more interesting than any of the characters on Atlantis. Only Jack O"Neill, pre his lobotomy, was as interesting as, say, Rush.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I like Rush. Young is growing on me. Eli has potential.

 

[Corran Horn]

I find the characters much more interesting than any of the characters on Atlantis. Only Jack O"Neill, pre his lobotomy, was as interesting as, say, Rush.

Agreed. McKay could solve any problem and had gotten annoying. Shepard was a never-changing Han Solo-type. O'Neill had devolved to such a state he doesn't even 'fit' into Universe when he shows up since all the other characters act realistically. (such as it is)

I'm looking forward to seeing where Universe goes.

 

[Brikar99]

I find the characters much more interesting than any of the characters on Atlantis. Only Jack O"Neill, pre his lobotomy, was as interesting as, say, Rush.

Agreed. McKay could solve any problem and had gotten annoying. Shepard was a never-changing Han Solo-type. O'Neill had devolved to such a state he doesn't even 'fit' into Universe when he shows up since all the other characters act realistically. (such as it is)

I'm looking forward to seeing where Universe goes.

It didnt' bother me that McKay could solve any problem, but that his method for solving every problem in every episode was exactly the same: yell a lot about how impossible it is, snap his fingers, look down to the left while thinking out loud and then announcing his solution and running out of the room.

 

[Corran Horn]

I find the characters much more interesting than any of the characters on Atlantis. Only Jack O"Neill, pre his lobotomy, was as interesting as, say, Rush.

Agreed. McKay could solve any problem and had gotten annoying. Shepard was a never-changing Han Solo-type. O'Neill had devolved to such a state he doesn't even 'fit' into Universe when he shows up since all the other characters act realistically. (such as it is)

I'm looking forward to seeing where Universe goes.

It didnt' bother me that McKay could solve any problem, but that his method for solving every problem in every episode was exactly the same: yell a lot about how impossible it is, snap his fingers, look down to the left while thinking out loud and then announcing his solution and running out of the room.

Exactly what I found annoying.