@TwistedChimp: I don't see the fan elitism in saying "this is bad TV." I never watched SG-1 when I started watching SGU. I had never watched SG-1 when I stopped watching SGU. SGU is terrible all on its own.
@twophrasebark: Amen.
Dear Clueless - audiences aren't interested in investing in ugly, low, vulnerable people. You have to give us a reason to care about these characters. Low, ugly, vulnerable we can get in real life (or on American Idol). That's not what Stargate was - that wasn't even what BSG was. I'm done with SGU (unless Carter shows up).
If you actually deconstruct LEGION, it's LEFT BEHIND with more guns. Or Noah & the Flood 2.0. Pretty standard big E evangelical Christian millenarian message that modernity is weak and diseased and the pure & the faithful must resist, violently, in order to be worthy of God's salvation. Bad theology IMO but neither heretical nor blasphemous.
Next time find a blogger with a working knowledge of Christian eschatology or at least access to the dictionary definition of "blasphemy" before posting this sort of drivel.
I dunno, Annalee - probably about the same time white bloggers stop writing posts like this one.
It seems to me that is SGU did things in a more typically "Stargate" way, it might not suck so much. The best part about "Stagate" was that it gave you people to cheer for. But the characters on Destiny can stay on the other side of the universe as far as I'm concerned.
Sony will almost certainly make an offer but they'll wait until they see the numbers on the TS DVD. Unlike Warner Brothers, which got hosed on TS's North American release, Sony made a very healthy profit on TS's intl box office (TS grossed more than $220 million internationally). The Sarah Connor Chronicles are also a profitable DVD property for WB internationally (particularly in Asia). But no one in this economy is going to get into a bidding war for the Terminator rights or come out of the gate and offer $60 million. The interested studios will seek to get the rights for the lowest possible amount. But anyone who says Terminator is "played out" clearly hasn't been paying attention to the industry - there will always be a market for established properties.
Does it really need to be restated that Doctor Who is a British series made first for the British audience? Whether or not the references work in the US is irrelevant. The satirical point in including them, however, is fairly obviously to express Davies' disdain for the reality TV trend. If you can't appreciate a point as blatant as that, well, it doesn't really say much for your critical insight into Davies' writing, eh?
What I liked most about this ep is that it works with the assumption the audience is not going to buy the Big Guy's death of Magnus's responsibility for a moment. We're all looking for the twist from the cold open and yet, I have to admit, I was genuinely surprised and delighted when the answer to "who could possibly gaslight Helen Magnus" turned out to be Magnus herself (d'oh!).
Sanctuary's my fav SF show currently airing. I hated Stargate so much - flames, flames from the side of my face - so I'm constantly surprised by how much I'm enjoying the work Tapping, Kindler and Wood are doing here.
I thought this episode had a nice change of pace, editing and cues from the eps focused on Magnus. An very fun hour of TV.
They cancelled TSCC and Dollhouse and yet I watch more SF on Friday (Smallville, Sanctuary and - God help me - SGU) than ever before.
Aw, is the Internet being mean to the show runner? That's it, take your toys and go home.
Stargate Universe is derivative crap. Worse, it's boring derivative crap.
No surprise then that Mallozzi's blog is a boring and derivative and crapular as the rest of the SG universe.
@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I've never heard of it until this moment. Ergo "well-known" as a category exists very much in the eye of the beholder.
I have a bridge in New York. Going cheap.
Jim Cameron's 1982 treatment for THE TERMINATOR contains all the major action sequences, story beats and characters that appear in the finished movie, filmed 2 years (and five script drafts) later. Michael Bay began TF2 without a script. 25 years later, people still watch and talk about THE TERMINATOR; it's studied in film schools, by screenwriters and futurists; the title character has become cultural shorthand for our concerns about technology; and the film itself was added to the National Film Registry of the US Library of Congress. Meanwhile, Transformers 2 was nominated for "Best Summer Action Movie" in the Teen Choice Awards. It lost. So, tell me again, Michael Bay, how you don't need a script to start making your 'awesome' (and I don't think you know what that word means) movie?
Gee, it looks like Summer Glau is planning a strange waif-like girl with a limited psychological affect. It's so nice to see her stretch her acting repetoire for a change.
"Is SGU getting a little sexist? Fans certainly think so." Getting sexist? The Stargate franchise has been the most retrograde thing on TV outside of MAD MEN since day one.
Didn't we have this discussion last year about Monday and TSCC?
