Episode 5's was great but the main plot was remarkably silly in that it wanted to let us believe that the writers would have the balls to kill off most of the main cast. That would have made for a very short series indeed. I mean, suspension of disbelief can only be stretched so far. This took away the tension of the moment and made the subsequent scenes of dealing with impending death feel quite hollow.
I like the show quite a bit so I will have to take the good with the bad... only a certified O'Neill one-liner could have saved this one. I guess the thought didn't even cross their mind.
Great soundtrack, visuals and character development though. :)
Your thinking too much like BSG. This is still Stargate were talking about here.
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
[QUOTE=Stingray;185068]Episode 5's was great but the main plot was remarkably silly in that it wanted to let us believe that the writers would have the balls to kill off most of the main cast. That would have made for a very short series indeed. I mean, suspension of disbelief can only be stretched so far. This took away the tension of the moment and made the subsequent scenes of dealing with impending death feel quite hollow.
I like the show quite a bit so I will have to take the good with the bad... only a certified O'Neill one-liner could have saved this one. I guess the thought didn't even cross their mind.
Great soundtrack, visuals and character development though. :)[/QUOTE]
Perhaps... just perhaps... you [i]weren't[/i] meant to think that they were going to kill off half the main cast? Perhaps, instead, you were meant to wonder how the characters would survive (knowing, as a viewer, that they inevitably would), and to see how they deal with impending death?
[url=http://www.syfy.com/rewind/]I'll say more.[/url]
Random ChaosActually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
Jack: Hulu.com :P
Ok, I'm getting a little bored with the show. They need to hurry up and get some goal other than just survival. It's all well and good to harp on survival for a couple episodes, but this is getting too long.
We had 3 episodes of air problems, 2 episodes of power problems, 1 episode of water problems.
I want something other than their problems.
Look at Atlantis's opening: They had power problems. So what did they do? They went exploring...and found an enemy that was with them for years. And then they keep going exploring in future episodes, learning more about the enemy while also fixing their problems at the same time.
What does Universe do? They have air problems, and bring back bugs. Then they have power problems. Then they have water problems. Meanwhile they have personnel problems and command problems and Rush problems and... Go find an enemy to fight or a ruin to explore of something to grab the interest of the viewers! There is no continuity of threat, and with the ship flying from galaxy to galaxy, no expectation of a threat powerful enough to catch them. Sure, there might be, but right now, anything that can catch them, the ship doesn't exactly have skills to defend against. There is too little understanding of the ship, and too many "problems" which while valid, are boring, and seem forced. You have a giant intergalatic ship - there has got to be something interesting on board to discover!
We still have 14 episodes worth of problems for them to deal with, lets see what we can come up with.
Food
Ammo
People (maybe in the season finale they run out of red shirts)
Toilet paper (possibly an even greater problem than the one above)
Clothes (they've been wearing the same outfits for what must be a week at least so far)
Make each one of those a two part story and thats half a season :)
Worf
Random ChaosActually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
Don't forget "Fans" as something for them to run out of and solve :D
ShadowDancerWhen I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie."London, UK
They've only been on the ship for a handful of days tho, its only to us viewers its taking forever for anything to happen. I think it will seem a lot more continuous when we can sit back and watch the season as a whole.
RC: Actually I am quite liking the fact that there is no 'uber villain' that they've bumped up against. Ok it maybe makes for slightly less excitement at the start, but for me it adds to the sense of drama. Besides, given that the whole 'crew' are made up of the wrong people, if they had come up against a Big Baddie then I dont think there is any way that they could have come out of it without either losing loads of people (curtailing directions they could later go) or they survive because of a shit load of luck, which then detracts from the believability of them being the wrong people.
I believe they also said they wanted to get away from formal-speaking rustic people and bumpy forehead aliens, which will limit their options on Universe in terms of the regular space-opera alien-types. Which isn't to say that we're never going to run into some displaced humans or bumpy foreheads. Remember, this is the crew that answered the question "Is Carson Beckett coming back for real, not as an illusion or alternate universe double or something?" with "Yes, exactly, he's coming back for real, and not any of the other things you said" because "clone," while implied in "or something," wasn't explicitly stated. And everyone felt lied to, when they were actually just bullshitted.
ShadowDancerWhen I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie."London, UK
[QUOTE=WORF;185094]"Looks like we've entered the Hoth system."[/QUOTE]
Heh yes that did make my really laugh! :D
Random ChaosActually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
[QUOTE=David of Mac;185128]Remember, this is the crew that answered the question "Is Carson Beckett coming back for real, not as an illusion or alternate universe double or something?" with "Yes, exactly, he's coming back for real, and not any of the other things you said" because "clone," while implied in "or something," wasn't explicitly stated. And everyone felt lied to, when they were actually just bullshitted.[/QUOTE]
It's worth mentioning that only one of the writers is responsible for that, and he's been relegated to only a few episodes in the entire season while the best and brightest are tackling the rest of the show. And quite well, I feel I should add.
I dont think they were intending to be funny, but the first time they had "issues" with the communications stones tonight, I laughed my but off. Didn't see Talfort being that vindictive at the end though.
Random ChaosActually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
I liked the episode Earth. Have to say: I am getting a little confused over who is who when different people can inhabit each body.
It's easier to keep straight with the regulars. It's hard when a nameless extra gets swapped aboard the Destiny and you have to remember that he's in Eli's body and isn't just another guy who's really on the ship (especially once he changed out of Eli's distinctive outfit).
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I wonder how they make sure the right gender gets into the correct body. Could make for some very awkward changes.
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Talk about purging or Explosive Decompression.
PHtttttttttT!
Worf[/QUOTE]
You are overlooking the obvious. They toppled one of those star gates off camera. :D
Worf
I like the show quite a bit so I will have to take the good with the bad... only a certified O'Neill one-liner could have saved this one. I guess the thought didn't even cross their mind.
Great soundtrack, visuals and character development though. :)
I like the show quite a bit so I will have to take the good with the bad... only a certified O'Neill one-liner could have saved this one. I guess the thought didn't even cross their mind.
Great soundtrack, visuals and character development though. :)[/QUOTE]
Perhaps... just perhaps... you [i]weren't[/i] meant to think that they were going to kill off half the main cast? Perhaps, instead, you were meant to wonder how the characters would survive (knowing, as a viewer, that they inevitably would), and to see how they deal with impending death?
Worf
Ok, I'm getting a little bored with the show. They need to hurry up and get some goal other than just survival. It's all well and good to harp on survival for a couple episodes, but this is getting too long.
We had 3 episodes of air problems, 2 episodes of power problems, 1 episode of water problems.
I want something other than their problems.
Look at Atlantis's opening: They had power problems. So what did they do? They went exploring...and found an enemy that was with them for years. And then they keep going exploring in future episodes, learning more about the enemy while also fixing their problems at the same time.
What does Universe do? They have air problems, and bring back bugs. Then they have power problems. Then they have water problems. Meanwhile they have personnel problems and command problems and Rush problems and... Go find an enemy to fight or a ruin to explore of something to grab the interest of the viewers! There is no continuity of threat, and with the ship flying from galaxy to galaxy, no expectation of a threat powerful enough to catch them. Sure, there might be, but right now, anything that can catch them, the ship doesn't exactly have skills to defend against. There is too little understanding of the ship, and too many "problems" which while valid, are boring, and seem forced. You have a giant intergalatic ship - there has got to be something interesting on board to discover!
Food
Ammo
People (maybe in the season finale they run out of red shirts)
Toilet paper (possibly an even greater problem than the one above)
Clothes (they've been wearing the same outfits for what must be a week at least so far)
Make each one of those a two part story and thats half a season :)
Worf
RC: Actually I am quite liking the fact that there is no 'uber villain' that they've bumped up against. Ok it maybe makes for slightly less excitement at the start, but for me it adds to the sense of drama. Besides, given that the whole 'crew' are made up of the wrong people, if they had come up against a Big Baddie then I dont think there is any way that they could have come out of it without either losing loads of people (curtailing directions they could later go) or they survive because of a shit load of luck, which then detracts from the believability of them being the wrong people.
...if that makes sense
Heh yes that did make my really laugh! :D
It's worth mentioning that only one of the writers is responsible for that, and he's been relegated to only a few episodes in the entire season while the best and brightest are tackling the rest of the show. And quite well, I feel I should add.