Posted on 10/25/2009 1:46:46 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Sounds more like real life than a stream of perfect officers.
“I’m not even sure what branch of the military is being represented, but to have the senior officer (Colonel) always blubbering about his ex?-wife who whines because he’s gone all the time, and his second-in-command (Scott) either crying or having sex with anything in a skirt is totally uninteresting “
I find it more interesting than finding an increasingly superior race of enemies that the perfect officers happen to defeat just in nick of time to save Earth. Again. And again. And again.
“And I just wish Dr. Rush would fly out of an airlock. Maybe he’s a villain or maybe he’s a hero, but I really don’t care anymore. Honestly. “
That you can’t figure out the plot line from now till the end of the show nine years later is part of what makes it interesting.
“And the fact that it’s apparently filmed in the dark doesn’t help either.”
Oh, yes I prefer I-store I-Apple I-macsyfy look much better.
“Half the time I don’t know what the heck’s going on. “
The show is not for everyone. It does require a minimum IQ.
I would prefer that they didn’t have the alien communication device. There is enough opportunity for drama with the ensemble cast that they have without wasting time on drama on Earth, too, and it undermines the isolation of the characters. I agree that the new show is closer to the original, which is great, though they still have a Mary Sue character or two (specifically Eli), which is another trend that still alive but I’d like to see less of. My main concern right now is that The Think That’s Going to Kill Us of the week may get old pretty quickly.
I’ve been watching Star Gate Atlantis on DVD. (Walmart had them for $15.) Never got into the original SG-1 that much and haven’t seen SGU. I just like the Atlantis series for some reason. Can’t explain why.
That’s what I hear, no dollhouse until Dec. That means no Summer Glau until Dec. That stinks! Somebody please post a gratuitous Summer pic.
Unfortunately, that's the way a lot of young people are believe the rest of the world is. Unlike the generations of writers who produced the original Star Trek and other television from the 1950s through the 1980s, many of whom served in the military during WW2, Korea, or Vietnam, many younger college graduates and writers have no military experience nor do they know anyone who has, so they write about what they imagine the military is like. The other part of the problem is that it's common writing advice that drama comes from conflict and character flaws and many writers have taken that advice too far by creating entire ensemble casts of whiners, losers, and self-important narcissists.
LOL! Your rebuttal was interesting until this point. Challenging someone's intelligence always demonstrates you're losing the argument.
And, no matter how sophisticated or nuanced you think SGU is, or how "above" the ordinary person's intellect, I find it whiney, slow, dull, and peopled with a bunch of characters I wouldn't bother to shove out of the way of an oncoming bus. It is nice to have at least one character to relate to in a show, and that's totally missing in this mess.
I set up a scheduled recording of “Flash Forward” and watched a few episodes. By the middle of the fourth episode I realized that I couldn’t care less about any of the characters.
big bump!!
Not a split personality.
Special communications stones. They can communicate with Earth even though they have no clue which direction it is in.
The ship going into the star on purpose was robbery of the audience.
Thanks! Cameron still rocks!
I will say I did do an SG double-take there when I saw the Senator's daughter...
We need to have a Summer Glau thread
woof.
Not even the cast reciting The Lord’s Prayer could have saved SGU for me. I couldn’t get past the pilot. Worst. Pilot. Ever.
I actually found that kinda interesting and considered it a likely explanation for the trajectory and thought the effects were pretty nifty. I'll give them a pass on that and it seems to follow the "trust the ship, it knows what it's doing" theme that's been developing. The bigger cop-out was that they wasted time on the lame "Uh oh, you can't catch the ship" bit that didn't really add anything when they could have used that time for some character development. At the very least, they could have had wonder boy Eli visibly consider that if the shuttle doesn't get back, he has a shot at cheesecake girl.
It’s gotten a bit better since the pilot and I suspect it will improve as they figure out what they want to do with the characters and prune ideas that don’t add anything.
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