I personally am a big fan of Sanctuary which follows it on Friday nights and so far I have enjoyed SG: Universe in general. It definitely is not in the same vain as all of the other Stargate franchises, but so far it is interesting enough to merit watching it at least to see where they take us for one season.

Also I have SG: Atlantis on DVD and I think that show was great for about two and a half seasons before it seemed to lose its way.

Lastly, I don’t think I have seen a thread before with the word “sucks” in it as much as this one.

Thanks,

Lizard

Great work guys, cancel Altlantis (one of the best shows of all times) and give us another Battlestar Gallacticesque piece of crap.

IMO this is a another Defying Gravity. They are trying to create a soap opera with a “sciency” backdrop.

Except in this case, the have created the most unlikable cast I have ever seen on a TV show. It isn’t an accident, this is meant to be the source of the “drama”. A bunch of incompetent annoying people who spend the majority of their time fighting amongst themselves. I found myself rolling my eyes and wanting to change the channel several times.

To be clear I thought Defying Gravity was lame execution of a lame idea, but where DGs insipid drama was all about the love lives of the shipmates, it was merely boring and lame. SGU OTOH is actively repulsive.

I will be interesting to see how masochistic the Pilot audience is, to keep coming back for the weekly installment of punishment.

I think the Eli character does a good job of carrying over the cheesy stargate humor that part of me just loves. Robert Carlyle’s character is my favorite though, he’s a madman, but everyone else needs him if they want to survive.

I wasn’t really a fan of Stargate until last year when a friend convinced me to actually watch more than one episode. Aside from poking fun at the holes in their historical and linguistic content, I really enjoyed both SG1 and SGA. I found the characters very likeable and the story just filled that need for scifi in me I didn’t know i had.

I recognize that this first chunk is a little messy, but it still has potential to develop into the crack I’ll have to tune into every week.

Kelly Starks

Who the hell wrote this piece of trash anyway? They should be shot. There is no structure, no substance, no leadership, and worst of all no plot. If there is a plot, then I am totaly lost.

It reminds me of that other stupid show with the female Starbuck, Battleship Galactica. Don’t even get me started on that one.

Anyway, I am a Drop Dead “SCI-FI” Viewer. That’s the only channel my T.V. used to get. So now I will have to watch something else.

And……what the heck is up with the new SCI-FI Logo. SCI-FI has always been SCI-FI. Why do people have to fix things that aren’t broke?

That’s my two cents from somewhere in Texas.
Gil.

Wow, that says a lot. So, we’re all supposed to be brain-dead sheep, regardless? Maybe this is why Sci-Fi is having a problem. Too many braindead people (temporarily I hope) making shows for an audience they hope is brain-dead too maybe?

I liked SG-1, and I loved Atlantis. But, don’t aske people to love a show essentially because it just says “Stargate” in the title. I tend to think that viewers are intelligent people that can make their minds up for themselves regardless of what they have heard from people that post.

I am personally fine with as many people loving SGU the way that it is. That is their choice. I just don’t. And, I resent being expected to be a sheep that just “follows” anything the SG and MGM people put on the air because it’s Sci-Fi. These people are capable of raising the bar and doing more, because they have done this in the past with previous shows.

If you liked SGU, then like it because you enjoyed it, not because you’re a brain-dead sheep.

If you would just be the kind of brain dead sheep that allowed yoursevles to enjoy things we’d have a lot more scifi shows to watch. Instead you choose to be the braindead sheep who hate everything… baaaaahhhh

If the StarGate and MGM people really believed that, SGU could have and would have premiered in the Summer.

But, if you and they are happy with the numbers, more power to you. I don’t hope the show fails, I’m just not tuning in unless I hear that it will/has changed drastically. I’m not holding my breath.

To say the least, 2.35 million on Friday on a non-summer night for a cable network like Syfy is huge and I bet if SGU had premiered in the summer like Warehouse 13 it would have premiered to 4 million plus viewers.

How long have you been working for the Syfy PR department?

I finally was able to say awake long enough to see the entire two boring hours of the premier. Everything that made me interested in Stargate for nearly 15 years was stripped out of this series. Other than Eli I would not desire to have these kinds of folks and their character traits as part of my life. The suits at Syfy have created a show that will neither draw a new audience to the network or keep those of us that in the past watched many hours everyweek tuned to this network. Maybe I am just too old and folks like me no longer count at Syfy. If It is my age then how can I enjoy shows like the new Vampire Diaries on CW becouse I find I like the energy of the yoursters on this program. Syfy would have done just as well to just invent a new concept show and have let the Stargate world simply die in our memories, but no the have to murder our world with this copy cat ugry attempt at being cool and edgy. They were neither they were just plain old boring–nuf said!

One friend told me that he didn’t understand who was attacking the planet. If course, SG-1 fans will know who the Lucian Alliance were, and understood the reference.

I loved SG-1, hated Atlantis and think Universe could be very good indeed. There are some good actors in there, and SyFy does seem to believe in the Stargate franchise. If they cancel this, that really would be the end for it all.

Anyway, Dollhouse has been weak this season, and if I was forced to chose, I’d take SG:U over it.

It would take a whole lot to earn back my patronage at this point.

And as for the “give the show a chance” crowd. Why would I give a show a chance just because it has the Stargate label?

Incidentally I’ve noticed everyone in the States thinks that Primeval is a BBC show, it’s actually produced by the BBC’s biggest rival network, ITV. Primeval was initially made to compete with Doctor Who which went out during the same time slot, BBC Wordwide merely distribute Primeval outside of the UK.

BBC financing the next two seasons is kind of similar to the likes of FOX agreeing to co-finance Heroes for NBC – obviously BBC Worldwide must be raking in the cash with Primeval…

Remember this is a three part premiere episode so we saw Part’s 1 + 2 Friday and Part 3 of the premiere is this coming Friday.

Lizard

So if I had to leave a showing of The Bourne Ultimatum to rehash lunch, you’d recommend I’d skip this?

I’ll start this off saying I’m a fan of Stargate. I watched Stargate SG-1 when it was on (as well as the two direct-to-DVD movies), watched the first couple seasons of Stargate Atlantis when it was on. And was very skeptical about a new Stargate series. I enjoyed it. I still miss my old Stargate cause I was so attached to the characters. But this isn’t half bad. I seem to be attracted to the shows that have chances of getting canceled though (a la Castle). =\ I love the change of filming compared to the other SG shows, it gives it a different feel. And the coloring they did to it, makes me happy. I love when they enhance things a little. And they definitely put more money into the graphics for this show than they ever did for the previous Stargates. I’m interested in seeing where this is going to go.

I just wish all networks would give TV shows a full season to work things out though, rather than canceling them in the middle of things (like Fox did with Firefly).

BTW. I would be in the demo. of the type of people they want to watch it. 20 year old female. My only problem is I live in a dorm. And the only TV I personally can watch is the one in our community kitchen and on the treadmills downstairs in our gym. So my viewership probably isn’t counted.

And that’s why I hate the ratings system. It’s so off.

I’m one of them.
Once upon a time SciFi was just about the only channel on at our house.
Now it is just about useless… I have no interest in Ghost hunts or WWE.

BBCA keeps getting better.
Dr Who (SyFy seems to have forgotten Dr Who’s premier ratings), Torchwood, Primeval(not great, but better than SGU) & Top Gear.
Turning on SG-U was the 1st time syfy was on in months, and it was truly a disappointment. I’ll give it 2 more weeks… but if it still has BSG jumpy camera shooting, and Melrose Place subplots, I’m gone.
Likely along with thousands of others…

That said, I was hoping against my better judgment that SGU would be the refreshing blast that SciFi (the genre) needs to stay alive in a world of reality TV mayhem. I wish I could say that I feel asleep half way though and missed it, but I sat watching for it to “get good” for the entire 2 hours.

This show came across as the kind of unpolished, barely edited bundle that they usually throw out to get the media hype started. The cuts scenes were the worst, the transition between past and present were almost non-existent. Flashbacks are supposed to reveal the story, not make you work to figure out what you’re watching.

I’m usually pretty forgiving on the writting in a premiere, because there are so many things that have to be introduced at one time to launch a show, but Lou Diamond Phillips (whom I was lead to belive was a leading role on this show) was present for 5 mins out of 2 hours. I thought he died or landed back on the ship before the planet exploded, but after the shows over I saw him in the previews. “What!?”, how can you forget to put that in the show?

Also, any SG franchise fans holding their breath on this not turning into typical SG material may want to give up now. I can’t even count the times that something that should have been explained, was paraded off as common knowledge. The Ancients used unmanned ships to spawn star gates all over the place? 15 years of previous shows didn’t mention this, perhaps it deserved more than a sentence? I really thought they were going “best foot forward” on this…they should stick with press releases, they do a bang-up job on those.

This new expedition into the SG universe with the goal being to avoid the forumlaic (and frankly, borderline proceedural) nature of the other two series should make for some interesting viewing. Personally I’ll see how it goes, but unless it falls back into tedium, I imagine I’ll keep watching.

It’ll be nice to still have something to watch on Fridays once DH gets canned.

I watched the Caprica movie event, but I’m afraid it’ll get too deep with the psychobabbling extremists they introduced. There’s enough of those in this reality, and this planet.

I’m easy to please though, but I thought it was pretty promising. I only gave it a chance because nothing is on Friday and I thought previews looked pretty cool during Warehouse 13.

Plus I wanted a space show to replace Battlestar.

I personally couldn’t watch the SGU premier without sighing every few minutes. I thought this show might be okay because I am a fan of character interaction, and don’t need tons of action to be interested in a show. That is how the show was promoted. But, this show didn’t do it for me.

I miss Atlantis. I really liked those characters. And I wasn’t even a huge fan of some of the season 4-5 changes with the cast, but I would definately take that over what I saw last night. If people like SGU, more power to them. But, it’s definately not the show for me.

If your prone to vertigo or seizures, your probably best not to tune into SGU…

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