quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: When I first heard the title there was the rumor that the ninth chevron would gate between universes. I thought, Don't they already have the Quantum Mirror for that? Now that would be a nice show idea too...every episode they mirror to a different universe to try to stop the Ori and Goa'uld and Replicators in different universes. It'd be fun to see all the old baddies again and have a new dynamic between them and the now badass SG-1 or whoever, but then again, I can see it getting stale pretty quickly.
So, like Sliders with Goa'uld? Or to put it another way, like Sliders, season 3 & 4?
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In some of the episodes, the SGC would be be subtly evil and suspicious, in others, it would be lovey dovey and all dressed like hippies, and in some, Captain/Major/Colonel Carter would be dressed in a bikini the whole time.
Robert Carlyle, everyone's favorite trainspotter, forgettable Bond villain and zombie dad, has signed up to head the otherwise youthful cast of Stargate Universe.
The article further sets up the premise of the show. Instead of deliberately heading to the Ancient ship Destiny from Earth, it seems that the team are a group from an offworld base that are forced to head there instead of back to Earth or another safe world, starting our series.
The team leader was supposed to be a US military Colonel, but now seems to have defaulted to a civilian scientist. Hopefully, Carlyle won't end up as useless as Weir...
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Yah. I'm hoping the leader isn't the only thing they change about that cast. Didn't they already try the green, young Lt. with Ford? It apparently didn't work.
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Casting sheets usually pigeonhole characters like that. Think back to the massive nerdgasm that came when the Enterprise casting sheet was released. Anyone remember "Captain Jackson Archer" or "Charlie 'Spike' Tucker"? So, I have a little hope.
But not too much, 'cause I also remember how Atlantis turned out.
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Actually, that's what I like about it. "Stargate Infinity" had a remarkably good premise for the "Early" SG-1 universe, having a team stuck "away" from Earth as a consipracy at home has their GDOs locked out. What it didn't take into account was how busy the milky way ought to have been, filled with allies and Alpha Sites to gate to. This, coupled with mediocre family storytelling, no real link to the SG-1 continuity, and some truly godawful production design, really killed Infinity IMO - I never made it past the first few episodes.
We have a similar setup here, but IMO it should work better as they should be exploring new territory, with the added bonus that the ship on which they're stuck is always on the move - they can always change the bad guys as they move on, since bascially no one should have intergalactic capabilities. It DOES suck however that any GOOD bad guys can't follow the ship as it moves on.
However, I liked the idea of returning to the SG team dynamic, so I was hoping for a more military team again. Will the new lead have this capacity? Will Carlyle be stuck on the Destiny for most of the series? Find out on Stargate Universe!
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For how long will they be in each galaxy though? I mean, SG-1 spent the entire series exploring the Milky Way and still hadn't even scratched the surface. Will they spend one season in each galaxy? And how will they get to the next? I have to assume the Destiny has hyperdrive.
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Presumably the ship is pre-programmed to follow the unmanned "seed" ship that placed all the stargates on planets that had, or would eventually have human or humanoid life on it. It's not known if the "seed" ship also placed the building blocks of human/ancient life on it as well, as the Lanteans did in Pegasus. Anyway, the time the Destiny ends up spending in each galaxy can be pre-programmed as well - it may be programmed to spend a year or two in each, giving the original crew enough time to survey the worlds through the Stargates and then move on. Or, it may be programmed with a "next" button that the crew could press when they were done with the given galaxy. That would seem more reasonable than being forced to leave at the end of an amount of time that may not be enough to survey a galaxy. Perhaps the "seed" ship made a guess for how long the Destiny should stay in place, or it could be like "Sliders" where it JUST HAPPENED to be long enough.
One thing however this series can't continue with, as SG-1 did, is the notion of aliens posing as gods and transporting ancient human societies to other worlds. Granted, while fun this quickly got old on SG-1 and both the Milky Way and and Pegasus' human populations quickly acquired this generic medieval retro look to them. I hope that in Universe they will abandon this and either give us some genuinely alien locations, or at least futuristic ones for a change.
And dammit, give us some good villains. SG-1 had a few good ones that weren't replicators, snakes or vampires. I hope to have some cool aliens here.
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Oh and GOD I hope these hundreds of new galaxies seeded with gates millions of years ago don't just happen to be filled with humans. Transplanting them throughout the Milky Way and Pegasus I'll believe, but the universe? How, frozen sperm on the seed ship? (Heh. Geddit?)
Prepare to have your hopes dashed.
Personally, I'd like to see them encounter a whole slew of races so advanced that the explorers cant interact/challenge them. They'd be beneath them....possibly they'd encounter a race(s) semi-ascended through natural means. Which means they'd be CGI effects and would not have to be humanoid.
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The first trailer for Universe has been released. It has generally been loast in the BSG finale fangasm, which this trailer followed. Youtuuube!
Not much to show - this is obviously taken from the first few days of shooting, with almost all of the shots taken from the crew's forced arrival on the Destiny from the "Icarus Base" shown on the soldiers' patches. There is one quick optical shot, which reveals the only interesting tech: the Destiny's Stargate, which is not like the Pegasus or Milky Way gates we've seen before, nor the Ori or Tollan tech. It does not seem to have chevrons, or if it does, there are a LOT of 'em:
Looks like the Destiny will have about fifty humans aboard at the outset. Recent interviews suggest that the show, at least at the beginning, will be focussed more about surviving on the ship first. Exploration of far-flung worlds will come a distant second, and will happen after the depression and suicides are taken care of. Interesting...
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I'm thinking you may mean symbols cause I count 9 chevrons on the gate...
And it would make sense not to have symbols in the traditional sense if the ship is traveling from galaxy to galaxy. It would have to make a galaxy-wide scan to figure out appropriate symbols to use on the network or something like that, and adjust the ship's own gate accordingly.
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