[Bobboau]

and I just generally have stopped paying attention to the syphilis channel.

[Blue Lion]

Apparently you can watch them on syfy.com

[BloodEagle]

and I just generally have stopped paying attention to the syphilis channel.

 

I call it Siffey, myself.

[Blue Lion]

I'm watching it right now. It's not bad. It IS like they took BSG and Stargate and crammed them together. Whether or not we get Reeses Pieces out it we'll just have to see.

[Liberator]

I am non-plused, it's trying VERY hard to be both stargate and BSG at the same time, something's gonna have to give.

Spoiler:

I found the overall level of sheer panic to be absurd.  Yes most of the people are civvies, but still, one would think anyone SGC lets offplanet wouldn't be prone to panicking in anything but the most life-threatening circumstances. 

 also find the concept that a few Ha'Tak and glider blasts would explode a planet, even one with an unstable core.  Any planet that unstable would have exploded long before Icarus command ever set foot on it.

On the upside the Ha'Taks seemed to be beefier, but why was the Hammond having so much trouble with them?  I mean that class of cruiser is able to blow Wraith hives into dust with a few well placed shots, so those Ha'Taks shouldn't have been an issue.

I know I'm grousing, but still the devil is in the details.

We shall see I guess.

[The E]

I don't think we'll be seeing many Ha'taks or terran cruisers in this show. And since the battle happened entirely off-screen, we don't know what happened there.

[General Battuta]

Watched, liked. Vanessa James was probably my favorite character - I figured she'd get killed off as The Slut right away, but she turned out to be rather level-headed.

[deathfun]

The thing that got me into the series was the movie. I loved that movie, it was a great movie and when I saw it, I found it to be quite original.

When the TV show started, I watched it whenever it was on. The two movies after were not bad either
Atlantis was also an interesting branch, but never got into it since I could never figure out when new episodes would play, so I kept on watching repeats.

This new thing though... I think it strays too far from what Stargate actually was... maybe not. I won't know until I see more of it.

[NGTM-1R]

This new thing though... I think it strays too far from what Stargate actually was... maybe not. I won't know until I see more of it.

SG-1 was an almost complete reversal from the movie.

[The E]

Actually, at this point, doing something different with the franchise is a good idea IMHO. We've had 10 Seasons of SG-1, 4 Seasons of Atlantis, and a few movies with that formula; Time for something a little different.

[carbine7]

Watched the first episode and I have to say, quite good. At least the stuck-up senator died right away instead of having to live with him for 14 episodes. btw, I don't know if its just me, or does the Destiny look a lot like a Centauri Vorchan?

[Liberator]

Aside from her size the Destiny is kind of derivative from several different ships.  I was thinking EVE Online's Condor class frigate myself.

What I don't get is why she's in such crappy shape, Atlantis is at least as old as she is and sat at the bottom of an ocean for 10,000 years, yet Destiny is in crappy shape.  Unless Destiny is from WAY before Atlantis time wise, there is no reason she should be in the condition she's in, oddly her power source seems more advanced/reliable if less powerful than a ZPM as it has been operating since the ship was launched.

Just one of many plot holes I hope get's resolved.

[QuantumDelta]

Meh, it's one of those iconic designs, an EvE ship looks like it, some Centauri cruiser copied the design too, the Vor'cha looks like it, as to a degree - does the bird of prey.
I'm sure you could find other designs that look like it if you tried harder, tracking down the original (which is probably just a bird or something) might be quite hard.

Hell even the batplane VIII looks like it on occasion.

As for the franchise and the series.

I liked Atlantis besides it's failings and ok that's possibly related to my thing for Jewel Staite <3, but, SG-1 was an absolutely amazing series up to the Ori arc, I vaguely questioned the lesser races (I mean us/goa'ulds) ascending but overall it stuck to it's guns, same as Atlantis, the Ori arc bugged the crap outta me but mostly because it was basically Farscape but even worse (POSSIBLE?!).

This one - juries out, but seriously put a recipe together for ultimate tripe "LOST in Space, rather than Lost in Space." (And I didn't think the LOST franchise could be represented in any worse way than it's original seasons did for it).
That said, good first two eps though.

[Fury]

What I don't get is why she's in such crappy shape, Atlantis is at least as old as she is and sat at the bottom of an ocean for 10,000 years, yet Destiny is in crappy shape.  Unless Destiny is from WAY before Atlantis time wise, there is no reason she should be in the condition she's in, oddly her power source seems more advanced/reliable if less powerful than a ZPM as it has been operating since the ship was launched.

The ship has probably seen plenty of hazards during it's voyage, including hostile attacks. At least the Atlantis was pretty safe in bottom of the ocean.

I didn't like Rush's character.

[QuantumDelta]

Rush, the guy who was in the brig, and "Math Boy" are the main reasons I already think it likely I'll dislike this series ;P

[Fury]

Yeah...

[newman]

Seriously, what's with all the BSG comparisons? Apart from it being "dark" there's really not that much similar that I can see. I should know, I'm a big BSG fan...
Personally, I found potential in SGU, with several flaws. I'm not that nuts about the art direction, the Destiny is a pretty generic and boring shape that got greebled up to insanity. The interior sets aren't something I'm nuts about either. If you're going to send a ship to travel that long, logic implies you have some pretty incredibly advanced technology to do it; I'm not sure it's warranted that the interior of the ship looks like a steel production plant. What we got are poorly lit generic sci-fi metal hallways. Yawn.
Characters could get more interesting, given the chance. The head scientist guy, Rush, I found interesting. The rest.. well, we'll see. At least they don't have Xena the warrior princess and Caveman.

[Scotty]

Generic sci-fi metal hallways make sense, if you think about it.  No extra furnishings, which when applied through out the entire ship (which could be several miles of halls) saves quite a bit of money.  Low lighting saves energy on a ship that (ostensibly) uses a craptonne of power.

[StarSlayer]

I think newman's point and one I share is that for beings that built stargates across the universe and have acended to the next plane of existence the ancients' ships look... um... like scrap heaps. 

[Dark Hunter]

Rush, the guy who was in the brig, and "Math Boy" are the main reasons I already think it likely I'll dislike this series ;P

I'm still waiting to see how their characters develop. I thought Atlantis would be horrible because it had McKay as a regular (I hated him in his SG-1 appearances), but he ended up, surprisingly, being entertaining.

I thought Math Boy would be a terrible character at first glance too, but for some reason, I'm not finding him very annoying. Maybe because he seems to be keeping his head and making himself useful, not panicking and making everything unnecessarily difficult.

I think newman's point and one I share is that for beings that built stargates across the universe and have acended to the next plane of existence the ancients' ships look... um... like scrap heaps. 

Well, the Destiny's been deteriorating for thousands of years at the very least. For it to still be functional at all is a testament to the Ancients' tech skills, really.