[X3N0-Life-Form]

Maybe I should have continued watching after second season break then ...

[QuantumDelta]

It got good, after they cancelled it, so they pulled all the **** filler episodes out of it and just went with the raw, main story episodes for the entire final run.
Don't kid yourself, the series was beyond **** when they were going at their own pace.

[General Battuta]

It got good, after they cancelled it, so they pulled all the **** filler episodes out of it and just went with the raw, main story episodes for the entire final run.
Don't kid yourself, the series was beyond **** when they were going at their own pace.

Filming was concluded well before the cancellation decision was made and the episodes were written even before that, so no I don't think so.

[QuantumDelta]

I don't buy it, there was no growth in the series, it went from;
utter neckbending train-wreck terrible EVERY EPISODE, to OMGAWESOME EVERY EPISODE.

Explain!

[Mars]

Batutta <3s Kewl Aliens, would be my guess.

[General Battuta]

Batutta <3s Kewl Aliens, would be my guess.

No, I actually thought the times the series tried to do organic aliens were pretty clumsy (the blue aliens were never very interesting, the seedship aliens were dumb.) I thought the show was at its best when it was man vs. environment, counting the drones as environment.

[666maslo666]

SGU was great IMHO, finally darker and more mature SG, and with deeper character development.. Too bad they cancelled it. I certainly liked this new approach on the SG universe.

SGU was to SG what BP2 was to Freespace

[Luis Dias]

I still don't miss an episode.... though shamedly I see it on youtube - we still haven't SGU season 1 in syfy in portugal

[Black Wolf]

I loved ths show from day one, don't care what the haters say. Damned shame to see it cancelled, as a loss it's comparable to Firefly IMO .

[Nemesis6]

I loved ths show from day one, don't care what the haters say. Damned shame to see it cancelled, as a loss it's comparable to Firefly IMO .

Heresy. Firefly > All.

[Luis Dias]

The premise of the Destiny is very interesting, though.

Big Bang was created by an "outside" force, and the background radiation encodes a "message" or some piece of probably interesting information.

At first I was dismayed by the sheer lack of intelligence in the premise, as if Destiny was trying hard to "get to" the end of the universe to see this information by itself.

In the end episode, though, I understood better. When Rush says that if Destiny "skips" the galaxy altogether, then they will be missing "pieces of the puzzle". Now that's better science. What he means is something much more subtle and intelligent than what I thought the writers of SGU were thinking initially.

Consider. The background radiation is always 13.7 billion light years away from your vantage point. But each vantage point sees a different background radiation. It's hard to picture, but with Destiny moving through the universe, and taking pictures of these different BR, it's as if it is taking an MRI out of your brains, slice by slice, until you get a full 3D picture of it.

It will obviously never reach this BR (the mistake I presumed they were making), but it will scan it completely.

Nice.

[Nohiki]

I don't buy it, there was no growth in the series, it went from;
utter neckbending train-wreck terrible EVERY EPISODE, to OMGAWESOME EVERY EPISODE.

Explain!

Explanation: The authors planned for the first season to be like it was, because they planned a lot more than two series. The story was about to get more and more action now with every episode. Translation: Just as it was about to get good, they cancelled it.

[Luis Dias]

It got good, after they cancelled it, so they pulled all the **** filler episodes out of it and just went with the raw, main story episodes for the entire final run.
Don't kid yourself, the series was beyond **** when they were going at their own pace.

Filming was concluded well before the cancellation decision was made and the episodes were written even before that, so no I don't think so.

You have to wonder, by seeing the last episode, with the ship's lights going off how much of that is a goodbye sign to the fans.

[MP-Ryan]

I liked this show from its pilot right through to the end.  I was very sad to see it cancelled, and the last episode, while good, wasn't sufficient closure for the fans.  With the cancellation of the previously-planned movie, it looks like we won't be getting any satisfactory closure either.

A shame that so many fans of the original two shows couldn't try watching it for what it was, rather than what they thought it should be.  I liked SG1, Atlantis, and SGU, all for different reasons.  Too bad some people were so entrenched in the originals they wouldn't give something new a chance.

I agree that the loss of SG:U is comparable to the loss of Firefly, though at least Firefly got a film to wrap up some of the issues.

[Nuke]

yea im not a big fan of cliffhanger endings of tv series. i would have been more satisfied if the ship would have blown up, or a lame deus ex machina. the only way to redeem it is to do a movie or somesuch. but a few episodes before the end were kinda awesome.

[Mefustae]

I liked this show from its pilot right through to the end.  I was very sad to see it cancelled, and the last episode, while good, wasn't sufficient closure for the fans.  With the cancellation of the previously-planned movie, it looks like we won't be getting any satisfactory closure either.

Having just watched the final episode, I disagree. Don't get me wrong, there wasn't sufficient closure. There couldn't be. At this stage in the show, lesser plot threads had been pulled or cut, and more interesting threads were starting to become more apparent. But the way they chose to end, with a slow peeling back of the cast until only Eli remained; I thought it perfect. Giving a small send-off to every character, and creating plenty of incredible character moments with a dappling of action to grease the wheels of the episode. Ultimately, the lack of closure relates to the major story-arcs, Destiny's grand mission. But the emotional closure, 'Gauntlet' had it in spades. Sure, I would have loved to have seen where Rush's obsession would have taken him, and how TJ would handle knowing about her ADS, and the Park/Greer/Volker triangle would've been damned interesting. I would have loved to have seen a lot more of that show. But off it goes, and we're probably never going to see it again.

Goddamn, I'm feeling really melancholy right now.

I loved ths show from day one, don't care what the haters say. Damned shame to see it cancelled, as a loss it's comparable to Firefly IMO .

QFT.

The way I see it; this is actually worse than Firefly. 'Serenity' aside, the Firefly 'verse was all about potential. It hadn't been explored yet, and when we lost it, the loss we all felt was that potential. Based on this, SG:U is a monumentally greater loss, not just as a discrete series, but as an end to the ongoing Stargate universe as a whole. Over 13 years of continuity, ending.

End of a goddamned era.

[Luis Dias]

At least it ends with a bang. Can't really say the same for the Star Trek universe, for example...

[General Battuta]

I was so far from tired of staring at Robert Carlyle         

[headdie]

At least it ends with a bang. Can't really say the same for the Star Trek universe, for example...

tbh for me Star Trek died with Nemesis, and it would have been a fitting send off for the franchise, but no the romantics have pushed it beyond it's lifespan.  Just couldn't get into Enterprise and I'm not even bothered that I have not watched the TOS prequel film.

[Luis Dias]

I was so far from tired of staring at Robert Carlyle         

Yeah, perhaps clearly that was its lowest point: no sexbombgirls. No number six, or six of nine. You know, full blown dominatrixes that creep the hell out of you, while giving you a boner at the same time. Contradictory emotions always work. Instead, Carlile had this lame romance with a mesmerized and cuddly boring girl that lasted little more than two or three episodes, Eli had his girlfriend killed gratuitously, the boss never really tells her medic that he loves her and the only sustainable romance over there is between the two most boring and predictable characters written. Hey perhaps that is no coincidence.

But I'm being too picky over a show that only had two seasons. In time they would do it right. Specially when the equivalent of six of nine showed up.