i disagree. it was getting worse by the episode. honestly i don't think they ever should have done it.
I didn't liked the series from the start, and in germany only the first season was aired (was there even a second ? )
I haven't watched it completly, television was just running as background noise because they got on my nerves from the first episode. I had the impression, that 90 % of the story plot was fighting wo is actually in charge, no matter where they were, or which people are involved. Always the same fight, I got sick of it. Actors were also pretty bad IMO.
Certainly no loss if you ask me.
Sex has as much a place in televised SF as violence - it's an aspect of the human condition that's going to be examined, especially in something like Battlestar which is an intentional examination of human behavior and the line between man and machine.
And no, SF authors do not suck these days
QuoteSex has as much a place in televised SF as violence - it's an aspect of the human condition that's going to be examined, especially in something like Battlestar which is an intentional examination of human behavior and the line between man and machine.
Yes, it's natural and human, I agree on that. I just don't like the way they brought it over. First scene, Blond sexy chicks get in, seduce bored guy and they get blown up.
I just don't liked the way they portrayed that, massive violence and Genozid, combined with Sex-Addiction. If they would have made it more subtile, like an experiment to figure out what love is, that would be great.
Instead, every cylon is ****ing it's way through the population. That was bad, completly destroyed my view of the cylons as complex menacing machines with different thinkings.
(Edit) BTW; one thing interests me with SGU :) What was the Destiny's original Mission ? I remember a line where they said, the Destiny was exploring, and other Lantian ships followed and deployed Stargates. Is that right ?
Boooo! Tell me they're at least going to air a few more episodes =(
SG:U wasn't Science Fiction. At least, it wasn't for the few episodes that I watched.
They cranked up the alien-ness of the aliens, and picked some more conservative terms for the Drake equation, and killed all the space-time woobies, and used real astronomy terms correctly, and then remembered, like most of the members of the SF canon, that half the trouble with exploring strange new worlds is the strains it puts on us little hairless apes in our tin cans, trapped with the Monsters of the Id far from the Green Fields of Earth. I know there was an audience cohort that was irritated (or judging from a handful of comments on Mallozi's blog, despondent) that there was so much time devoted to the banalities of divorces and miscarriages and all the rest, but that's what happens when you don't get to gate home victorious before dinner. An honest portrayal of any adventure, whether it's in the American West or the Pegasus Galaxy, needs to include the bittersweet truth that adventure can have costs- and what makes our heroes epic or tragic is whether those costs are worth it. SGU was trending towards that recognition....
it's called science FICTION, and you go off calling it NOT science fiction because the science was fictional?
wut? :wtf:
I call SGU not science fiction because it was essentially a soap opera set on a spaceship.
So this leaves Sanctuary, Warehouse 13 and Eureka as the only entertaining SciFi shows left in an increasingly mundane Television landscape composed of 30 minute "comedies" that are not particularly funny or poignant, just veiled sexual reference after reference, so-called "reality" shows that remain popular despite how utterly boring they are and actual reality shows where professionals kick amateur performers in the balls on national television. TV has nothing left to draw me in except for House reruns and SVU(which is getting tired).
For the few episodes of SG:U that I watched, there were no efforts made to explain how any of the nonsense (outside of basic chemistry) that they were doing made any freaking sense, whatsoever.
You forgot Fringe and the sometimes excellent Supernatural.
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eugh, atlantis :blah:I love that show. Atlantis was fantastic... and it's fresh in my memory as I was sick the last three days on a couch. Atlantis was on the menu. That one needed another season before they jumped into SGU...
stargate's not completely dead. there is supposed to be an atlantis movie.Not from what I heard. Went to a con a few months back, at which David Nykl and Connor Trinneer mentioned together that the movie was either in limbo or had been flat-out canceled. The situation may have changed since then, but I haven't personally seen anything.
This. Actually, the whole post. Stargate was awesome, Universe was probably my favourite show on TV ATM. :(Don't think burlywood is going to be much of a go with the new forum theme. :p
Oh for the love of.. this happens every frakkin' time I start getting attached to a show. I agree completely with Battuta's sentiments - it definitely wasn't perfect, but it did try to get close to literary sci fi and I found that lately it's been getting better at it.
Well, on the bright side, SyFy now has a free slot for more wrestling, because that's what quality science fiction is all about.
because the rest of the world didn't like it. they aren't going to keep a show with bad ratings.
because the rest of the world didn't like it. they aren't going to keep a show with bad ratings.
because the rest of the world didn't like it. they aren't going to keep a show with bad ratings.
What bad ratings? I checked IMDB, and all but a few episodes were rated above 7/10. I remember two that were in the 6.5 - 7.0 range. Is that bad?
When your only bread winner is the hot chick, for god's sake, don't kill her off!
bromance
Caprica: Canceled as soon as it starts to get good.
SG:U: Canceled as soon as it starts to get good.
What's up next for cancellation by these guys, Firefly?
When your only bread winner is the hot chick, for god's sake, don't kill her off!
See, I just stopped caring, because all I knew was there was no plot I could care about anymore, and all of the interesting supporting characters were dying like flies; but it didn't matter since all of them were about as dynamic as the Pyramids of Giza.Hey, the Pyramids of Giza practically launched the idea of Stargate. The original Stargate movie based itself on the premise that the Pyramids were landing platforms for alien spacecraft, specifically Goa'uld pyramid ships. As such, your attempt at a cutting remark has actually demonstrated your knowledge of Stargate, not to mention your sharp wit.
The original Stargate movie based itself on the premise that the Pyramids were landing platforms for alien spacecraft, specifically Goa'uld pyramid ships.
are you kidding? mccay was ****ing hilarious.
i was frankly terrified when mccay was to be a main character in atlantis, but they made him awsome there. i ****ing hated him in SG-1.