Posted on 10/30/2009 10:02:22 PM PDT by DGHoodini
Is it just me, or is anyioone else getting the feeling like the next new characters we'll be seeing on the show, will be Yorgi and his sheep?
(extra points if you get the reference.)
The show sucks and should be canceled.
I wish I did but it's boring to me.
Whoever writes for the show....probably find themselves without a career within six months. They’d best go back to the gas station in Red Bay, Bama....and get a honest job.
It was better this week than last week. But there is still no spark.
The problem with being stranded anywhere is boredom. Only so much is possible in the way of plots for castaways on an island or on an uncontrollable alien spaceship without improbably frequent introductions of new characters and events. But once that happens, castaways seem less stranded than absurdly unlucky in their inability to contrive a rescue or at least safe harbor.
If the show is a comedy called Gilligan's island, then frequent but fruitless contact with outsiders can be made to work because it almost always ends in dishing out blame for the lack of rescue to the inept but lovable Gilligan.
If the show is Stargate Universe though, repetition threatens to become both boring and emotionally exhausting, with every episode offering yet another existential challenge caused by or resolved through outside characters and events. At the end, the castaways remain stuck on their gloomy alien spaceship waiting for next week's crisis, just like the crew and passengers of the Minnow stranded on their desert isle waiting for next week's comedic mishaps.
Farscape escaped predictable plot lines through a wild and changing cast of characters, over the top inventiveness, and sheer unpredictability. Battlestar Galactica similarly benefited from memorable characters and an abundance of dramatic possibilities and philosophical issues.
Will Stargate Universe find enough novelty and drama to justify sustained audience interest? It may be doomed by the limitations of its premise.
Astute analysis. But what gets me is there’s no light in the show. The characters are all unhappy, unliable to degrees, no one trusts anyone, they make no progress in their situation, othwer than to eke by, with the problems just being brought back to a less than critical situation. Not one area if the ship has good lighting outside of the misting shower...I keep hoping that there will be some sort of progress stabilization in their situation and they can find some kind of joy in their situation, but it just keeps coming up tugid sturm and drang. Like ‘Thunder over the Moon’. Noy joy.no happiness, it’s like being involved in somebody eleses familys Thanksgiving melodrama. All you can think about is how much you’d rather be at home with a turkey sandwich and some sides you bought at the deli the day before, watching a show that has characters you enjoy
Identifying with than listening to how cousin Fredrika stole sister annes boyfriend, and how she ended up getting pregnant by the neigborhood meathead, and how he would be showing up soon, and Auunt Millies aflicitions meant the family had to go see her each week, and Mom had to spend so m,uch time away from home....and the turkeys dry because Joe didn’t go to the store when he was supposed to...and blah blah blah... “Save the life of my Sci-Fi Love”..cried the desperate viewer!
Yup, SGU is joyless too, with the characters having a range of moods like the hues of their ship: black and various shdes of dark gray.
Yeah, I'm not liking the Dr. Rush guy either. The whole thing is like Battlestar. It was way too dark for me and I hated it. SG had great characters and it was lighthearted. I hope they fix it.
I will say, that the kid is probably the only saving grace at this moment in time...
My favorite Sci Fi show was Farscape. Often uneven, always unpredictable, and never boring.
Just in case it’s being confused with anything else, my reference to ‘Thunder over the Moon’ and Yorgi and his sheep, is about a fictional book, that was a plot mechanism in the BBC sitcom series ‘As Time Goes By’...that started with the line “I am alone with my sheep, but my sheep are not alone with me”...and goes downhill from there.
I’m up to season 3 of stargate sg1 and its overrated imho. Nowhere close to Babylon 5. In fact its worst than Battleship Galatica or Farscape. I don’t like how they attempt to mirror earth mythology in other worlds. Earth has changed so much in hundred of years yet they don’t in other worlds?
Star Trek is better than Stargate SG1 as well
Another thing I don’t like is how everytime they have an unauthorized incoming through the wormhole, the troops rally around it like sitting ducks. Shouldn’t they have learn by now, the gate should be better defended than it is now? How about some barricades and rocket launchers or other stationary machines guns position around it
To each their own. I have been wenjoying thne series, and have only two episodes left of season 8, to go, before the next season gets posted sometime in the next week and a half. I may actually watch the two movies before the final season 10 gets posted...But then, they’d be good to look forward to, during the January snows. But conversely, i’m one episode away, from deprogramming SGU from my recording lineup. The only reason I didn’t do so, after the last episode, as I was thinking about doing, was because the show ended up on a possible positive change in the plotline from being a pill for depression...not alleviating it, but causing it...We’ll see...
I agree. It is STUPID how the troops crowd around the Stargate. A grenade from our time and technology, tossed through the gate, would take most of them out.
The gateroom should be fortified, with absolutely NO troops exposed. I’m thinking Main Battle Tank guns, gatlings, and alien-derived weapons in remote-controlled turrets (and, of course, a bigger Gate room to accomodate them.) Or, considering all the aliens and diseases that have come through the gate, why not just place SGC on another planet? Have it act as a filter for Earth?
Oh well, I guess it all boils down to the serie’s budget.
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