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promised much....delivered-nothing but boredom.

posted 9 years ago by mikerowerush-754-924525
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knowing what a huge SG-1/Atlantis fan i am and how much i hated SGU,my friend let me borrow the 2 season dvd box set...he said---"watch them all,you`ll really enjoy it"....oh how wrong can you be ?....2 seasons-it got renewed (?) of tedium,Eastenders style angst,those stupid communication stones,the military,the civilians....the list of terminal buffoonary is endless....too dark,too hard trying to be like BSG,no wit,humour,likeable characters etc etc..ad infinitum....a total waste of time and money.

[–] cadenbt 9 years ago

So basically, it had flawed (realistic) characters.

[–] Insomniatic102 9 years ago

I think too much of it focused on that though. It came of somewhat melodramatic in that respect.

I enjoyed what they were going for, with all of the time travel, and people becoming the ship's computer, different types of lifeforms, the ship studying the very nature of the universe. It seemed like they were beating around the bush about what it really means to be alive, when in fact that crew had died many times over already, and branched off into a whole other civilization, lived on as computers, among other things.

I don't know where they were going with the show, since they were leaving that galaxy, and presumably all the problems associated with it. Any overarching threat would've been from earth and those on the ship, and I think most of the audience didn't want such an internally focused show. They want a big baddie.

[–] Xaeden 9 years ago

I don't know where they were going with the show, since they were leaving that galaxy, and presumably all the problems associated with it. Any overarching threat would've been from earth and those on the ship, and I think most of the audience didn't want such an internally focused show. They want a big baddie.

My assumption was that the plan was to give them a succession of big bads with each new galaxy while filtering in continuing Earth based issues. I didn't get the impression that those Earth based issues were supposed to become the focus. They seemed more like the replicators in that they would come in every and now then to fill a lull in action. There's only so many ways that they can invent to allow Milky Way problems to crossover onto the ship so it really only works if it happens now and then.

Sure, the Lucian Alliance were the only long term reoccurring enemies and past Stargates always had big bads come from a reoccurring group. However, it seemed to me that this time around they were going for more of a Buffy thing where wildly different big bads came into/left the picture each season (for the most part) while some less significant villains made reoccurring appearances throughout the course of multiple arcs.