No Threads? Not a good sign!

[knowles2]

same here! everything was tied up so well there really wasn't all that much to discuss! although, i like to constantly bring up the fact that Park in a space suit turned me on. think i have a problem? haha

Nope.
An I think we need to see more of Park in a spacesuit. Luckily we got all that damage that needs repairing.

[blueray]

Uhm, if memory serves all of these episodes were either in the can or mostly shot and edited by the time the announcement was made to cancel SGU.

regards,
G.

yeah, i believe all ten episodes were already shot and edited. which is why that last one supposely ends in a cliffhanger (they didn't really have time to go back and fix it).

as for the episode, i thought it was okay. i don't really like the storyline with chloe so i hope that its over with, at the same time it was kind of like "okay quick fix" just like sgu had always been doing.

[jelgate]

That might be a reasoning why there is little activity.

It was. I know many people who left because SGU was cancelled

[Perelandra]

Could it be also that not everyone has had a chance to see the ep yet, it hasn't aired yet in the UK or in some parts of Europe, right?

[Tanith0709]

I almost missed it since I watch wrestling on mondays

No offence but I stopped reading at this point.

It was. I know many people who left because SGU was cancelled

Indeed. Was a little surprised that the ratings didn't take a bigger hit because of the cancellation.

Could it be also that not everyone has had a chance to see the ep yet, it hasn't aired yet in the UK or in some parts of Europe, right?

Don't think its aired anywhere in Europe yet, don't quote me on that though.

[Paladine]

No offence but I stopped reading at this point.


Indeed. Was a little surprised that the ratings didn't take a bigger hit because of the cancellation.



Don't think its aired anywhere in Europe yet, don't quote me on that though.

You are the second troll to attack me that way. Is wrestling that bad? It's just another show. It's actually pretty popular on monday night.

The episode was boring as hell. The cast did an excellent job trying to make the show watchable, but the writing was terrible. Drone ships just don't equal exciting. And like someone earlier posted the way they solved the problem in 10 minutes with Young shouting at them no less, was too easy.

If you liked the episode great. I'm not knocking all you for liking it. You seem to be trolling me like crazy because I didn't like it. Attacking me because I watch wrestling? Get some new troll material. I also like stargate. Oh man what next trolls?

[jelgate]

You are the second troll to attack me that way. Is wrestling that bad? It's just another show. It's actually pretty popular on monday night.

The episode was boring as hell. The cast did an excellent job trying to make the show watchable, but the writing was terrible. Drone ships just don't equal exciting. And like someone earlier posted the way they solved the problem in 10 minutes with Young shouting at them no less, was too easy.

If you liked the episode great. I'm not knocking all you for liking it. You seem to be trolling me like crazy because I didn't like it. Attacking me because I watch wrestling? Get some new troll material. I also like stargate. Oh man what next trolls?

Given an episode length is only 43 minutes the resolution has to be 10 minutes if not less to incorporate rising action, climax, and falling action. It took a lot longer to solve then a lot of Stargate episodes

[carmencatalina]

Given an episode length is only 43 minutes the resolution has to be 10 minutes if not less to incorporate rising action, climax, and falling action. It took a lot longer to solve then a lot of Stargate episodes

Good point - 10 minutes is about 1/4 of the total screen time.
(Apparently, I can do simple math today, which is a wonder, my brain is in dire need of more caffeine.)

[Egle01]

If it had taken longer than 10 minutes, then I bet someone would've come here and complained that it dragged and so much time was wasted on it.

Not that it's anything wrong with having a different opinion. It's just that I'm 110% certain no matter how writers approach situations, there will be people who dislike it.

[SupremeLegate]

I think there are three things that contribute to the lack of threads:

1) It has been three months since SGU was last on. I don't know about anyone else, but I almost completely forgot about it. If it had not been for a ad during another SciFi show OnDemand I might have not even realized it had started up agian.

2) It went from Tuesday to Monday, and I did not even know that until the above mentioned ad. So it is entirely possible that people forgot about it or did not know when it was coming on.

3) Its been canceled. I will admit, the fact that it has been canceled has sucked some of my desire to even watch it. Of course the fact that SyFy is treating it like it is some big event has me annoyed.

[Save Chloe]

They keep changing the frakin'(sorry) nights up on me! I knew that it was starting back up this week, but last night(Tuesday night) I turned to SyFy a little before 8:00 CST getting ready to watch the mid season premiere of Stargate Universe, and I was all excited about it, and they were showing some frakin'(sorry) movie! I came to this forum last night to discover that it was shown the night before! I was so pissed-I feel kind of bad because I was so pissed that I think that I put some of it out on my wife, but I never told her why I was upset. I just feel like SyFy is purposely screwing up this show!

[Greenfire32]

Spoiler'd for size:

Spoiler:

It was a pretty bad episode. I almost missed it since I watch wrestling on mondays, and after watching the show I wasn't too thrilled.

Well at least you like SGU enough to quell your wrestling appetites.

Another episode with no stargate use. Another episode with lame blue aliens. I know why they brought them back was to clean up all the subplots before the series ends. They left those aliens in another galaxy. Whats next? Another episode to clean up the faith planet aliens subplot? Is it neccessary?

After the setup from the previous episode, did you really expect to see the gate in this one? This episode was obviously not going to have much to do with the gate.

As for the Blues, Chloe is changing so they were obviously, again, going to make a comeback. I don't really think the Blues themselves are lame, just the way they've been presented. We finally get a chance to have a villain that doesn't spout his/her mouth off, nor have a god complex, and isn't a machine and we've only seen about 10 minutes of screen-time with them.

Just get to main plot already. We only have 9 episodes left. Focus on the big picture and leave the old subplots alone. Lets see this background source stuff and get some resolution to this story.

These last 10 episodes were cut and finished before SGU got the axe. Hate to break it to you, but the series ends on a cliffhanger. This is common knowledge, even for people like me avoiding spoilers, at this point.

Also the villians we're drone ships controlled by a command ship. How exciting. Lets get a real villian. Who made the command ship? Lets have those aliens show up! Have them be led by some crazy megalomanic leader who gets some good lines.

I wouldn't say the drones were villians, per say, but merely just obstacles. Think of Seth from SG-1. Bad guy? Yes. Important enough to warrant more than a small story arc? No.

While I agree that meeting the race who built the drones would be very exciting, let's not get ahead of ourselves. It's too early to encounter them just yet. Keep in mind, TPTB didn't know this would be one of the last episodes.

As for the stereotypical megalomaniac evil genius with witty one-liners? I'll disagree with you here. He's not needed.

In SGU we had Aphopis and then Baal... and then in Atlantis we had Michael and Todd. Just great characters that created some exciting tension with our heroes.

Again, this isn't SG-1 or SGA. This is SGU. It doesn't follow the formula of it's predecessors, and it doesn't need to, so not having a main bad guy is sort of a good thing.

This show they give us blue aliens who can't talk and drones. The Lucian alliance villians attack was probably the first exciting villian characters yet and that was resolved too fast.

I find the silent enemy more intimidating than the talkative one. For example, unlike Ba'al we have no idea what the Blues want or how they intend to get it. With Ba'al, he practically hands us is weekly itinerary.

As for the Lucian Alliance, the immediate threat to Destiny has been resolved, yes, but, there is still the attack on Earth. You can bet, or at least safely assume, that'll lead to the public disclosure of the Stargate (depending on what kind of attack it is of course).

I still like the show, but wish they would go with what works. Shows like these need a good villian type. Rush doesn't have much left in the tank to be a villian, so an outside threat needs to show up.

Again, I think that you're in the mindset that each episode is made on a shoot-and-show basis, and it's not. These episodes were finished a long time ago. These things do work...for a five season story arc. Unfortunately, we'll never see the whole thing.



And please, just because I disagree with you on almost all of your opinions, don't accuse me of trolling. Because I'm not.

[Phenom]

Not a good sign of what? We already knew the series was cancelled. Which is probably why their is so little forum activity

Not a good sign for Gateworld
Not a good sign for any company considering investing any money in Stargate projects
Not a good sign for any fan wanting future Stargate projects

[jelgate]

Not a good sign for Gateworld
Not a good sign for any company considering investing any money in Stargate projects
Not a good sign for any fan wanting future Stargate projects

All of which their is no proof of. A forum of one site is not accurate for future prospects. Too many times has it been proven fandom does not corrleate with the real world status of TV shows

[AVFan]

It was a pretty bad episode. I almost missed it since I watch wrestling on mondays, and after watching the show I wasn't too thrilled.

Well I've got to disagree with you about liking wrestling (not sure how people watch that stuff), but as far as your opinion of SGU, I'll agree with being "not too thrilled".

Another episode with no stargate use. Another episode with lame blue aliens. I know why they brought them back was to clean up all the subplots before the series ends. They left those aliens in another galaxy. Whats next? Another episode to clean up the faith planet aliens subplot? Is it neccessary?

I wish they would use the stargate more. Maybe to at least drop people (who were unnecessary to the ship's survival) off on an unpopulated planet as a temporary Alpha site in case the final battle didn't go well? IDK. And the Blue aliens... they just aren't intriguing to me. I thought we left them behind- and here they show up, act threatening, then just leave us alone (at least for the time being)? I think they need a face, or some kind of background, or SOMETHING to make them a little more interesting.

Just get to main plot already. We only have 9 episodes left. Focus on the big picture and leave the old subplots alone. Lets see this background source stuff and get some resolution to this story.

Yeah, it would be nice, wouldn't it? But as others above me have said, these next 9 episodes were shot several months back.

Also the villians we're drone ships controlled by a command ship. How exciting. Lets get a real villian. Who made the command ship? Lets have those aliens show up! Have them be led by some crazy megalomanic leader who gets some good lines.

In SGU we had Aphopis and then Baal... and then in Atlantis we had Michael and Todd. Just great characters that created some exciting tension with our heroes.

Don't know if I agree with this one- the replicators were pretty good, scary (in the sense that they were an unrelenting wave that just kept coming and coming) enemies without any human-forms leading them.

This show they give us blue aliens who can't talk and drones. The Lucian alliance villians attack was probably the first exciting villian characters yet and that was resolved too fast.

I also wish they had let the Lucian alliance threat stay there- maybe in power for a few episodes.

I still like the show, but wish they would go with what works. Shows like these need a good villian type. Rush doesn't have much left in the tank to be a villian, so an outside threat needs to show up.

I don't think they need an actual villian at the moment- maybe more of just a natural situation that they have to constantly fight against- i.e. the ship falling apart.

[Ben 'Teal'c would WIN!!' Noble]

In SGU we had Aphopis and then Baal...

Freudian slip?

This means subconsciously you love SGU as much as SG-1 .

[Phenom]

All of which their is no proof of. A forum of one site is not accurate for future prospects. Too many times has it been proven fandom does not corrleate with the real world status of TV shows

Keep that head in the sand mate.

[jelgate]

Keep that head in the sand mate.

Show me some proof besides wild speculation and I will take it with less skepeticism

[Nth Chevron]

The fact many Stargate fans arent even on GW and the small number that are, are starting to loose interest?

N.C

[garhkal]

And i also like WWE raw..