I quite liked the writing actually; the characters are infinitely more likable than the Atlantis cast. They're no Richard Dean Anderson, but hey, who is?
Universe looks promising, it's a bit thick at the moment, but most new shows usually are; they have to establish all the cast and whatnot.
Basicly, the producers got a full hardon of BSG envy and scrapped their 10+year long uber franchise
Actually SG1 was cancelled due to running out of ideas, the original cast leaving and the show sucking without Richard Dean Anderson (the guy who replaced him, i forget the actors name but he played Crichton in Farscape was pretty good. But he wasn't Richard Dean Anderson.)
complete with a ship lost in space searching for earth.
There's nothing lost about the ship, and they know exactly where earth is. They just don't have the power to gate back. The situation is alot more like Atlantis than BSG, which is good, cause the setting for Atlantis had plenty of potential, the cast just sucked.
Dont even get me started on the whole this ship has never had people on it, it is following yet more ships who never had people on it, to build stargates out real far, and this ship has a stargate on it, so the ancients could gate to this ship so they could gate to the other.....fail.
Really? It's all established canon. We've known for ages that the Ancients sent out drone ships to plant Stargates on interesting worlds, there was no other way for them to get Stargates all over the universe. The followup ship is new, but makes perfect sense when you think about it. It's just an exploratory ship, as it turns out the Ancients never used it due to ascending. As Stargate stories go it's pretty plausible actually.
Or how about, a SHIP NEVER DESIGNED TO BE INHABITED FOR 100,000 + years has had its life support system on THE ENTIRE TIME, THUS USING UP ALL LIFE SUPPORT MATERIALS......fail.
The ship
was designed to be inhabited. The Ancients just never got around to it.
Additionally it wouldn't matter if the life support was on or not; with no living creatures inside there's no carbon dioxide production so the system doesn't need to do anything anyway. The reason the scrubbers are dead is because they're just really old, and apparantly whatever active compound the Ancients used in their life support systems doesn't last millions of years, which isn't particulary surprising.
OR the whole, we have a hull breach and the ONLY EMERGENCY DOOR wont shut, because emergency protocal forces it open for safety....what!? Exposing the ship and crew to a vacuum is the SAFETY PROCEDURE?! Oh, and to fix the "safety procedure", someone has to go past the door and DIE to SHUT THE DOOR?! WTF? AND YOUR TELLING ME THE SMARTEST RACE IN THE UNIVERSE BUILT THIS SHIP? Are you telling me there wasnt a SINGLE OTHER FRIKKEN BULKHEAD BETWEEN THE OUTER HULL AND THE ENTIRE CORE OF THE G I A N T SHIP TO SEAL OFF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Apparantly you didn't actually understand this bit, allow me to explain:
A shuttle was docked with the Destiny. The shuttle had been damaged. It's shields were trying to hold the air in, but it was leaking. The door to the shuttle bay was jammed open (nothing to do with failsafes, it was just broke, remember the failsafes automatically lock the doors when a hull breach is involved), the
Shuttle door however, could close, but because it was the door for the Shuttle rather than the base door, it could only be closed from inside the Shuttle (again, makes sense. Know of many space shuttles where the cargo bay doors can be opened from the outside?)
As for the other bulkheads thing, possibly. It depends entirely on the design of the ship; it's possible that sealing off the multiple other bulkheads required to seal off that leak from the rest of the ship would have required sealing off important passageways; the ship is pretty mazey (typical ancient design) and only has doors at important locations, so it's entirely possible that it would not have been feasible to seal the ship off via alternate bulkheads.
All in all, as Stargate stories go this one so far is actually perfectly justifiable and reasonably logical, unlike the gigantic ass-pull that was the Ori for example.
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