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[Neruz]

It might be a good idea to watch the show first so you like that more.  There's more of it after all.  If you watch the movie first you might get weirded out by the changes.

Also, ST-U nub!  Bwahaha!

You need to start with the first movie though, since the show picks up where the movie left off and you miss out on important storyline bits if you don't watch the movie (like xplaining why the Goa'uld are all going to pieces all of a sudden.)

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

I was eagerly anticipating the new show.  I am a FAN of the Stargate Franchise.  I am just appaled at the poor quality of the new show.  Its 2 hour premeier should have been stunning.  It was stunning for all the wrong reasons.

Sorry, You got the bulkhead thing wrong.  IT was purposely jammed open for safety to allow the pilot to escape......into a ship that couldnt hold air cuz it was jammed open........

Get over the whole "you just want it your way, old good new bad arguments."  SG-U so far, fails on its own merits.

I will accept that this is just my opinion, but really, the writing is atrocious.

[Antioch]

I found it rather meh, though I really enjoyed SG-1 (exept for the last 2 seasons) and the first season of Atlantigs.

I found the entire emergency door thing to extremely stupid, almost insulting the audience. They have the smartest professors in the universe on the ship and no one comes with the idea to use a rope and a stick to push the button, noooooo someone has to die to close the door. They even had that remote controlled drone that was capable of doing it, but apparently they liked the drone better then the senator......

[alway]

Ya, I was thinking the same thing with the drones. Remote controlled drone + duct tape + stick = suicidal door closer robot.

Although I dunno about you, but I personally liked the drones better than the senator, he was annoying... If he wasn't a red shirt I probably would have been wishing he was by the 5th episode anyway.

[Neruz]

If i recall correctly Ancient technology requires human interaction anyway (it's all dna based or something; 'ats why Ancient stuff turns on when people poke it.) Although that could just be specific bits of Ancient tech.


As for the door, i could have sworn they said that it hadn't closed automatically so the pilot could get out, but they couldn't close it manually because it was broken.

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

Just watched the whole door seen again.  I am once again struck buy the writers lack of effort in studying any vessel that seperates one enviroment from another, more hostile enviroment.

In other words, the writer had never heard of AIRLOCKS...................  Or maybe the ancients were really just a bunch of idiots......ehhh 50/50.

I am still gonna keep watching tho.

[Neruz]

To be fair, the Stargate writers have never heard of airlocks. This is by no means unique to Universe.

Seriously, go watch SG1 again if you think this storyline is stupid by Stargate standards (it's not.)

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

Very true Neruz, very true.  Its just this show so is trying to sell itself very differently than SG-1.  SG-1 never took itself even one-tenth as serious as this show did in the first 2 hours.

[Neruz]

I dunno about that; Stargate took itself pretty seriously too until Richard Dean Anderson got his point across by constantly breaking the ice.

I mean the entire first major plotline was all about Daniel trying to rescue his wife and son from being Goa'uld mind slaves for the rest of their unnaturally lengthened lives

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And the wife goes ahead and dies in the end.

The only reason it wasn't really serious was RDA constantly cracking jokes and the Goa'uld being rediculously overacted.


Seriously if the Goa'uld hadn't been so overacted SG1 would have been much more serious; they were just so rediculous as an enemy that you overlooked the seriousness.




Give them a bit of time to establish the storyline; first episodes are always dense and dramatic; the little scene with RDA at the start shows that the writers know that comedy is part of the Stargate franchise, they're just trying to explain a hell of alot of stuff here.