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[QUOTE]Originally posted by StationMaster: [QB] Everyone ducks for cover... Okay - been a huge fan on the whole Stargate collection. Atlantis was the lost series which sucked because of the poor writing, not the premise. And it died too early, and the Wraith won (think about it - Nobody to stop their plans), and so many cool ideas wasted. I watched Universe last night with anticipation. Half way through the second episode, I actually nearly turned off. General theme - BSG vs Voyager. Battlestar Galactica was a great series, but probably drove a lot of people to killing themselves as it was also so dark and depressing. Voyager... well, that was dark and depressing also, but for different reasons. What we have here is a shades of grey series, where they are trying to get back home. And we know that for the next 5 or less seasons of the show, that is the goal. Great - spoils the idea of "what they going to do this week". Doctor Rush... What a dull, meak, boring little man he is. Hardly says anything during the first two episodes and what he does say makes little sense. "this could be the most important discovery since the stargate itself"? Errr. No that would be Atlantis. The Destiny is an inferior model - its Ancient compared to other more recent Ancient stuff like Atlantis. The collected Knowledge of the Ancients can easily be accessed through the Atlantis Database or the Head Devices (assuming they found more). And thats the recent stuff. Not stuff from an era where the Ancients were steampunk. So why is the ship so important aside from the very cool FTL drive it has... which begs questions as to why later model ancient stuff did not use the same technology... So what is so impantant about it? Aside from perhaps it has a list of stargates in other galaxies. big whoop. The cast. I think I can sum this up simply as dull. I did not connect with one of them. They could have all got sucked out in to space and I would not have minded. The only one that did stir emotion was the guy with obvious mental problems who really should never have got through SGC screening because he has pyschotic tendencies. I was actually rooting for him to get sucked out in to space. The Kino thing was bad too with the door. I was sitting there grumbling under my breath about the whole use it to shut the door. And I know they are not super geniuses, but and this is a big but. They are morons for not thinking of it. And do I really want to watch a series about morons? Not really. Stargate has always been about wonder, and discovery. Challenge the fans with extreme and fantastic plots. To have the fans shouting at the TV because the characters in it are thick is not a great way to start a series. I sincerely hope the writers realise this as a few more thick mistakes like this, and the fans will rapidly abandon the series and it may just last one or two seasons. The attack was also pointless. The Hammond was supposed to be a fully functional ship - no beam weapons? And its taking a beating from three mother ships. That is a bad mark on Sam's record. Dont rewrite what we are capable of. And finally, the thing that spoilt it all for me at least. Knock knock. hello. Door opens to the guy who I did not recognise. Conversation goes on and I am sitting there, looking at this general, thinking to myself... That guy is familiar... who is he? The shades are obscuring his face... Only later at the pentagon, I actually realise that that General was RDA... Jack is "The" hero. And here was General Desk job fatty Jack. He saved the world time and time again, got promoted, and put on quite a few pounds. I remember Jack saving the world. Now all I see is Jack with Jowles. This is no disrespect to RDA - but I would much rather have remember Save the world Jack as he was.. bad move again. Some things should just have been left as they were. Even his lines were dead, rahter than dead pan. A depressing, unimpressing, overhyped and flawed start to what could be a very misrable and depressing series. All writers know first impressions count... and this is not a good start. I seem to remember another series like this... what was it called... Secondprise?? Cant remember... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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