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Having recently completed a re-watch of SG1 and Atlantis, I found it has great re-watch value, once I got into the story it felt really fresh again. I continued

Having recently completed a re-watch of SG1 and Atlantis, I found it has great re-watch value, once I got into the story it felt really fresh again. I continued onto SGU and only made it a few episodes in before abandoning it, it just didn’t flow as well and felt very depressing. Here’s hoping if Amazon/MGM do revive it they go for more of the original flavour, if not necessarily any of the original cast.

throwawaybbq1 5y ago
I thought SGU had an excellent premise and did take the show in a different direction. Are you sure it wasn't depressing because you knew how they left off?
- Izkata 5y ago
  The premise was good, the execution... I re-watched SGU a few years ago and it was worse than I'd remembered - I'd apparently forgotten/blocked out a lot of the bad parts. In addition to that, for having an immediate storyline available, they took way waaaay too long to get into it. From what I've heard most fans dropped out before they even learned what Destiny's true mission was.
- blensor 5y ago
  I am still hoping that someone picks that up and tells how the story continues
  - dxld 5y ago
    The SG:U story you mean? FYI there is a comic that continues right where the show left of: Stargate Universe: Back to Destiny.
    - bigger_inside 5y ago
      I read that after the rewatch. It's a half-episode at best that quickly shoehorns a large conclusion onto it. Ever since that cominc, I've been looking for fanfictions instead....
      - blensor 5y ago
        I basically just want the cliffhanger to be resolved, so the comic may be an option. But if someone has the source of alternate storyline that is more than just a quick wrap up then I am more than happy to read that instead
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- PebblesHD 5y ago
  I think sibling summed it up really well, I liked the setting and the concept, but I found the focus on drama and inter-personal relationships a bit draining, which is to say not particularly entertaining or interesting to me at least. I’d have loved some more focus on the ship and the journey, but I understand avoiding ‘lore’ was actually a goal of the series so not aimed at me I guess…
- newsbinator 5y ago
  SGU was really interested in who had a crush on whom, who was a bad husband/wife, who had degenerative diseases, and who was cheating with whom. I wanted to see Stargate-related and exploration-related things.
flir 5y ago
Farscape deserves a rewatch if you're looking for another one. Watching it at binge pace rather than weekly pace you really catch Crichton's descent into madness. (Something that doesn't work at binge pace for me: Frasier. Everyone's so much meaner than I remember).
- hericium 5y ago
  SG-1 had a little Farscape (among other sci-fis) joke scene in "200"[1] [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sg-1+200++farscape&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sg-1+200++farscape&t=ffab&iar=imag...
  - Izkata 5y ago
    Whole scene is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNDdlCo4rA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNDdlCo4rA
- DonHopkins 5y ago
  Muppets In Space! Muppet Wiki: Farscape https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape In Praise of Space Muppets https://jeffstidbits.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/in-praise-of-space-muppets/ https://jeffstidbits.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/in-praise-of-s... I also loved LEX, which was soft core porn comedy SciFi, almost like Flesh Gordon! https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Lexx https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Lexx >The show takes Sigmund Freud's axiom that the sex drive and the death drive are the two main forces controlling human nature: Stanley Tweedle, security guard (Level 4, the lowest), Zev Bellringer of 3BK, a woman who was forcibly converted into a love slave for failing to perform her wifely duties (she's got the looks and the libido, but none of the mental imprinting), Kai, an undead assassin, and 790, a robot head (that got the mental conditioning intended for Zev) zoom around the galaxy looking to get laid. They never learn lessons and blow up every planet they visit. Rinse and repeat. Take the fatalism of Wagnerian opera, the budget of a Sega CD game, and the logic (and sometimes acting) of softcore porn, and that's Lexx. >[...] The show was often described as the anti-Star Trek, and, fittingly, you could say the show's five-year mission was to explore strange new worlds and blow them up, seek out the sleaziest and seediest new life and civilization, and to boldly come where no man has come before.
hericium 5y ago
> I continued onto SGU and only made it a few episodes in before abandoning it, it just didn’t flow as well and felt very depressing It is true that SGU took too long but I think that it was cancelled right when it was getting it all together. Second season was way better than the first. Overall, I prefer SGU over SGA. > Here’s hoping if Amazon/MGM do revive it they go for more of the original flavour, if not necessarily any of the original cast. MGM attempted this with SGO[1] but it failed rather misearably. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Origins
- Semaphor 5y ago
  > It is true that SGU took too long but I think that it was cancelled right when it was getting it all together. Those were my thoughts back then as well. For the first season, I thought it was very mediocre, and I pretty only much watched it because I’m a big Stargate fan. During the second season, I became more and more invested and thought it could become amazing. Then it got canceled :/
- thatjoeoverthr 5y ago
  Strongly agree. I was shaking my head at the first season but by the end of the second I was upset it was over.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  You can actually feel the shift when they go and write out some of the stupider dangling plot threads from the first season. The people left behind on the monolith planet that whats-her-name visits in her dreams to see her dead baby? Actually a computer program designed to manipulate dreams for monitoring and maintaining mental health and all those people on that planet actually died horribly.
DonHopkins 5y ago
What I loved the most about SGU was Robert Carlyle playing Nicholas Rush -- The "ship's brilliant Machiavellian scientist". Also, he was pure dead brilliant as Francis "Franco" Begbie in Trainspotting, he let it all hang out as Gary "Gaz" Schofield in The Full Monty, and he was enchanting as Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold / Weaver in Once Upon a Time. Dr. Nicholas Rush (Stargate Universe SGU) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353EoEYp9s4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353EoEYp9s4 Trainspotting - Begbie's Barfight Number 2 - WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKVkMJHFns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKVkMJHFns Robert Carlyle 1997 interview The full monty - Vintage Letterman show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhClcmUVFlw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhClcmUVFlw Once upon a time - "BEST OF Rumpelstiltskin" Robert Carlyle GODLY Acting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjwCt26yjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjwCt26yjQ
cameronbrown 5y ago
Try watching until Season 2 if you can. The show got much better and it's honestly a shame it was cancelled when it just got good.

throwawaybbq1 5y ago

I thought SGU had an excellent premise and did take the show in a different direction. Are you sure it wasn't depressing because you knew how they left off?

Izkata 5y ago
The premise was good, the execution... I re-watched SGU a few years ago and it was worse than I'd remembered - I'd apparently forgotten/blocked out a lot of the bad parts. In addition to that, for having an immediate storyline available, they took way waaaay too long to get into it. From what I've heard most fans dropped out before they even learned what Destiny's true mission was.
blensor 5y ago
I am still hoping that someone picks that up and tells how the story continues
- dxld 5y ago
  The SG:U story you mean? FYI there is a comic that continues right where the show left of: Stargate Universe: Back to Destiny.
  - bigger_inside 5y ago
    I read that after the rewatch. It's a half-episode at best that quickly shoehorns a large conclusion onto it. Ever since that cominc, I've been looking for fanfictions instead....
    - blensor 5y ago
      I basically just want the cliffhanger to be resolved, so the comic may be an option. But if someone has the source of alternate storyline that is more than just a quick wrap up then I am more than happy to read that instead
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PebblesHD 5y ago
I think sibling summed it up really well, I liked the setting and the concept, but I found the focus on drama and inter-personal relationships a bit draining, which is to say not particularly entertaining or interesting to me at least. I’d have loved some more focus on the ship and the journey, but I understand avoiding ‘lore’ was actually a goal of the series so not aimed at me I guess…
newsbinator 5y ago
SGU was really interested in who had a crush on whom, who was a bad husband/wife, who had degenerative diseases, and who was cheating with whom. I wanted to see Stargate-related and exploration-related things.

flir 5y ago

Farscape deserves a rewatch if you're looking for another one. Watching it at binge pace rather than weekly pace you really catch Crichton's descent into madness. (Something that doesn't work at binge pace for me: Frasier. Everyone's so much meaner than I remember).

hericium 5y ago
SG-1 had a little Farscape (among other sci-fis) joke scene in "200"[1] [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sg-1+200++farscape&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sg-1+200++farscape&t=ffab&iar=imag...
- Izkata 5y ago
  Whole scene is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNDdlCo4rA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNDdlCo4rA
DonHopkins 5y ago
Muppets In Space! Muppet Wiki: Farscape https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape In Praise of Space Muppets https://jeffstidbits.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/in-praise-of-space-muppets/ https://jeffstidbits.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/in-praise-of-s... I also loved LEX, which was soft core porn comedy SciFi, almost like Flesh Gordon! https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Lexx https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Lexx >The show takes Sigmund Freud's axiom that the sex drive and the death drive are the two main forces controlling human nature: Stanley Tweedle, security guard (Level 4, the lowest), Zev Bellringer of 3BK, a woman who was forcibly converted into a love slave for failing to perform her wifely duties (she's got the looks and the libido, but none of the mental imprinting), Kai, an undead assassin, and 790, a robot head (that got the mental conditioning intended for Zev) zoom around the galaxy looking to get laid. They never learn lessons and blow up every planet they visit. Rinse and repeat. Take the fatalism of Wagnerian opera, the budget of a Sega CD game, and the logic (and sometimes acting) of softcore porn, and that's Lexx. >[...] The show was often described as the anti-Star Trek, and, fittingly, you could say the show's five-year mission was to explore strange new worlds and blow them up, seek out the sleaziest and seediest new life and civilization, and to boldly come where no man has come before.

hericium 5y ago

> I continued onto SGU and only made it a few episodes in before abandoning it, it just didn’t flow as well and felt very depressing It is true that SGU took too long but I think that it was cancelled right when it was getting it all together. Second season was way better than the first. Overall, I prefer SGU over SGA. > Here’s hoping if Amazon/MGM do revive it they go for more of the original flavour, if not necessarily any of the original cast. MGM attempted this with SGO[1] but it failed rather misearably. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Origins

Semaphor 5y ago
> It is true that SGU took too long but I think that it was cancelled right when it was getting it all together. Those were my thoughts back then as well. For the first season, I thought it was very mediocre, and I pretty only much watched it because I’m a big Stargate fan. During the second season, I became more and more invested and thought it could become amazing. Then it got canceled :/
thatjoeoverthr 5y ago
Strongly agree. I was shaking my head at the first season but by the end of the second I was upset it was over.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
You can actually feel the shift when they go and write out some of the stupider dangling plot threads from the first season. The people left behind on the monolith planet that whats-her-name visits in her dreams to see her dead baby? Actually a computer program designed to manipulate dreams for monitoring and maintaining mental health and all those people on that planet actually died horribly.

DonHopkins 5y ago

What I loved the most about SGU was Robert Carlyle playing Nicholas Rush -- The "ship's brilliant Machiavellian scientist". Also, he was pure dead brilliant as Francis "Franco" Begbie in Trainspotting, he let it all hang out as Gary "Gaz" Schofield in The Full Monty, and he was enchanting as Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold / Weaver in Once Upon a Time. Dr. Nicholas Rush (Stargate Universe SGU) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353EoEYp9s4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353EoEYp9s4 Trainspotting - Begbie's Barfight Number 2 - WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKVkMJHFns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKVkMJHFns Robert Carlyle 1997 interview The full monty - Vintage Letterman show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhClcmUVFlw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhClcmUVFlw Once upon a time - "BEST OF Rumpelstiltskin" Robert Carlyle GODLY Acting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjwCt26yjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjwCt26yjQ

cameronbrown 5y ago

Try watching until Season 2 if you can. The show got much better and it's honestly a shame it was cancelled when it just got good.