Monday, February 14, 2011

SGU Cancelled?

Stargate Universe is canceled, I am attempting to be surprised at this revelation but can't.  For years I have been die-hard SG fan.  SG1 and SG Atlantis.  Then SGU rolled out of the Sci-Fi's fun box of wonderful and it fell on its butt.  I remember when Atlantis started I wasn't certain if I liked it, but it grew on me.  SGU kinda of sucked at the beginning but I kept watching, hoping it would make a turn for the better.  Not so much.  By the time the first season did its final exit, I was already off watching some crazy ass reality show.  Seriously, Bret Michaels and his scrotum huggers had a better plot line then SGU.

How SGU died:
  1. La Bamba...seriously?  Lou Diamond Phillips, bad actor.  Everything I have seen him in...bad...bad...bad.  When I first heard he was staring in SGU, my stomach flipped and I got that queasy feeling that one gets while pregnant.
  2. SGU's plot line was so bad.  Crew ends up on vacant ancient star-ship...crew does not explore ancient star-ship...
  3. Angry little Irish Scientist....I have seen Robert in a lot of films and he has been pretty good but having an angry scientist on board, I would have dumped him deep space quite awhile ago.  With Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay everything was possible.  With angry Irish Scientist, little or nothing is possible...
  4. Fat boy beats computer game...ends up with SGU?  What the hell?  This is how the SG is recruiting...hasn't there been several fairly bad sci-fi movies done with this plot line?  Way to rehash..
  5. Make sure your writers have no concept or knowledge of previous Stargate Tech.  Make sure the current SGU ancient technology has little or no basis to previous technologies cuz that makes no sense at all.  What is with the ancient rocks body hopping...just weird and wrong. 
  6.  When you say, "Gosh lets get some ancient tech experts in..."  Get real tech experts:  Dr. Carter, Daniel Jackson, and the best of the best...Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay "A brilliant astrophysicist and one of the world's leading experts on the Stargate."  Hmmmmm....who is the random assortment of people showing up on the ship, via the ancient rocks, whose focus is more about relationships...then getting the job done?
  7. Whine about how you can't get home and magically a whole bunch of new people show up with more issues.  Now it is a ship full of annoying issues.  Does the phrase..."in space no one can hear you scream?"  Mean anything? 
  8. Find aliens hanging on or about ancient ship, make sure you shoot them first.  Oh, that is a good idea!  In SG1 we tried to communicate with the Gould before we decided to kill them.  Same with the Wraith.  There was not shoot first, ask questions later theme going on.  If one is floating around space by themselves...a long way from home...one needs all the allies they can muster.   SGU tried to cover this error up by sniffling about their military boys on the ship.  Nice try, we can't help your writers are idiots.
  9. Make sure to mess with the ships systems before you figure out its purpose...good idea idiots.
  10. The SGU plot could have been written by drunk monkeys and it would have been better!
I haven't watched SGU since the first season.  The show itself made my brain hurt.  My brother continued to watch it and would call me with updates.  When one can condense a show's plot-line into 3 sentences, bad show.  Doug would always start off with:  "they all haven't died yet, depressing."

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