Would you say stargate universe is sci-fi.

[ukray]

Do you think it is, yes ocassionally, their is somthing sci-fi, but some times I feel like I'm watching somthing else, on the Earth parts, what are your opinions.

[Avenger]

Yes, it's science fiction. That it takes place on a giant space ship billions of light years from Earth makes it science fiction.

[KEK]

I think the Earth parts are arguable some of the most 'scifi' parts on the show, I mean they're inhabiting someone's body on the other side of the universe using aliens technology for crying out loud! For all the drama, it's still pretty much all linked to the situation they find themselves in due to scifi elements, or directly through the technology itself. For me, it's more of a true scifi than SG-1 or Atlantis ever were.

[Pharaoh Atem]

yes

[DigiFluid]

Of course it is. They're people in the know about the super secret STARGATE program, refugees from an Earth base on another world, gone to a millions of years old alien space ship. When they get the chance to be on Earth, it's occupying someone else's body via an alien communication device that lets them communicate in real-time across billions of light years.

How much more science fiction can you get?

[P-90_177]

Yep. It's sci-fi alright....

[escyos]

it involves things we think impossible - its fiction
it invoilves scientific things - its science

thus, science fiction

[jelgate]

Um space
aliens
advanced technology.

How could it not be science fiction?

[Captain Obvious]

Do you think it is, yes ocassionally, their is somthing sci-fi, but some times I feel like I'm watching somthing else, on the Earth parts, what are your opinions.

The people that are complaining the show is not scifi are looking for "Bubblegum Scifi", neat little plots that resolve themselves every week, cute little pratfalls, one standard " Big bad meanie" to fight all the time. Nothing realistic or dark. Lots of cute quirky technobabble and the day always gets saved with 3 seconds on the clock.

[missmobius]

at heart SGU is not SciFi (in the classic definition of SciFi) I think it's 80% soap opera, and 20% SciFi.

Although many have compared it to BSG, I watched BSG, and I'm sorry but SGU is no where as good as BSG.

[PG15]

And what is this "classic definition" of Sci-fi?

[jelgate]

at heart SGU is not SciFi (in the classic definition of SciFi) I think it's 80% soap opera, and 20% SciFi.

How so?

science fiction
Function: noun
Date: 1851
: fiction dealing principally with the impact of actual or imagined science on society or individuals or having a scientific factor as an essential orienting component

http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dicti...ence-fictional

[Naonak]

at heart SGU is not SciFi (in the classic definition of SciFi)

Which is what...?

[missmobius]

The people that are complaining the show is not scifi are looking for "Bubblegum Scifi", neat little plots that resolve themselves every week, cute little pratfalls, one standard " Big bad meanie" to fight all the time. Nothing realistic or dark. Lots of cute quirky technobabble and the day always gets saved with 3 seconds on the clock.

Well obviously there were a lot of fans who liked the above described type of SciFi.

15 YEARS worth of fans

We can't all have been wrong, not for that long.

[PG15]

Well obviously there were a lot of fans who liked the above described type of SciFi.

15 YEARS worth of fans

We can't all have been wrong, not for that long.

Wrong about what?