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[Orb]

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Waaaaay too much focus on suspense and cliffhangers. It was almost comical. But good show nevertheless, and some space battles, which I rarely see, though albeit were short.

Also, did they just end the series? Because that was an extremely lame way to do it. 

[Willfor]

It's called a mid-season break, and you can blame the SyFy executives for that one IIRC.

I just hope it lasts until the McKay cameo because... Because!

It's been slowly getting better, but it may be too late for them to turn the ratings around. Which is a shame because I really want to see where it goes.

[Orb]

It's called a mid-season break, and you can blame the SyFy executives for that one IIRC.

I just hope it lasts until the McKay cameo because... Because!

It's been slowly getting better, but it may be too late for them to turn the ratings around. Which is a shame because I really want to see where it goes.

There wasn't any "next time..." in the credits, so I just assumed.

They would actually put McKay in the show, even for just one episode? The dude was afraid of a fruit. Which means it would be awesome.

[ChairmanPoo]

I caught a glance on TV of a tv series in which a group of people were in a doomed spaceship and had to cast lots to see who embarked on a shuttle to land in an unexplored planet. The cute girl, and many of the usual characters whom in a regular series you'd expect to survive, didn't win the contest, and got stuck in the doomed ship. I thought "How clever. What drama!"

Then the ship was saved by a deus ex machina. Turns out it wasnt the clever beggining of the series, but an one-episode disaster from Lamegate-Failverse.

[inteuniso]

I caught a glance on TV of a tv series in which a group of people were in a doomed spaceship and had to cast lots to see who embarked on a shuttle to land in an unexplored planet. The cute girl, and many of the usual characters whom in a regular series you'd expect to survive, didn't win the contest, and got stuck in the doomed ship. I thought "How clever. What drama!"

Then the ship was saved by a deus ex machina. Turns out it wasnt the clever beggining of the series, but an one-episode disaster from Lamegate-Failverse.

Yeah, Deus Ex Machinas are generally lame, until

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another character dies right after.

[Kashyyk]

I'm currently grinding my way through SG-1. Just reached Season 8, and enjoying every minute. I'll be back once I've powered my way through the rest of SG-1, Atlantis and Universe. I'm looking forward to it!

[Tilla]

Sadly, it's already cancelled but hopefully we have a few episodes left. It was really getting interesting, especially when they get to know a bit more about the ship and

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it's mission and purpose, to seek out and study data in the background radiation of the universe that seems to be a possible intelligent message

[thobal]

The only reason it got canceled was due to feminists pushing giant boob-lady out of the picture. They demanded she be stronger and not a sex symbol. I believed she could be both. But the executives wanted the female demographic whereas we all know that mostly single men watch SF. I, for one, couldn't be bothered to catch the show on the tele but instead just watched it on Hulu because I knew that giant boob-lady wouldn't be wearing her tight shorts and t-shirt that shrunk in the wash anymore. No one wants to see an attractive woman buried under body armor.

That's why SG:U failed. 

[alway]

Er, no. It failed because the writing sucked and the actors weren't much better. Compare the 2 hour series premiere of Firefly with the entire first season of Stargate Universe. The first half season they do pretty much nothing at all. They spend most of it just getting safe drinking water and air over the course of something like 6 extremely boring episodes in which the only exciting bits in which people die are rendered moot due to time travel deux ex machina. They get nothing done and aren't even entertaining in the way they get said nothing done. It was as if the series was indefinitely waiting for something awesome to happen which never did. The first 8 episodes can be described as "We replaced the filters, refilled our water bottles, and didn't crash into a star we were never going to crash into in the first place." And don't even get me started on the horrible plot filler devices which were the communication stones. 

Then there was the absolutely scattered character development. It was like the writers couldn't decide whether most of the characters were supposed to be passive-aggressive villains or characters the viewers were supposed to empathize with. A quote from the show itself seems to be most applicable description of it: "We weren't supposed to be the ones here."

Although granted I haven't watched more than a couple episodes of season 2, but I would assume it hasn't gotten much better based on the cancelling of the show after season 2 due to low ratings.

I'm currently grinding my way through SG-1. Just reached Season 8, and enjoying every minute. I'll be back once I've powered my way through the rest of SG-1, Atlantis and Universe. I'm looking forward to it!

There are some pretty good Atlantis ones, but I would suggest letting your expectations of Universe down slowly before you get to it.

Then the ship was saved by a deus ex machina. Turns out it wasnt the clever beggining of the series, but an one-episode disaster from Lamegate-Failverse.

Actually, it wasn't a one-episode disaster. They managed to waste 2 full episodes on it. It was originally going to be 1 episode, but it ran over by 20 minutes apparently, so instead of doing what a good writer would do and cut the crap it had been stuffed full of, they decided to add in another 23 minutes of crap to make up the difference and turn it into 2 episodes.

[thobal]

Yeah, but that was the episode where that one chick lost her pants.