Stargate: Universe - good lord, I need a cat macro for this:
dramatic television with an air of suspense - u r doin it rong!
After trying to get through the 2-part opener twice, I skipped it and moved on to the next episode. I found myself really not caring why they were on
Vorash 'random sand planet' and what they needed to find... or why they needed to find it. At the end when they dumped sand into a cylinder and made the air system work, I said 'oh, okay, environmental systems are a go, yay-not'. Because, really - not an interesting episode even watching everyone get sunburnt. And wow - they found out really REALLY early that they can stop the ship from auto-jumping to FTL by shoving something into the 'gate puddle. See, finding that out in ep3 - kinda takes the potential for suspense out of the REST OF THE SEASON. (Forget the part where I could give a rat's ass about any of the characters.)
Episode 4 - aka: 'Oops! Rush is a nut and the lights went out' with a subtitle of 'Caution: star turbulence can break your back'. No, seriously, that sums up the WHOLE 42 minutes.
This show fails on so many levels. The cardboard standee movie advert for
Sherlock Holmes has more personality than all of the characters on this show combined. There's barely enough Stargate history/mythology/canon shoved into the bland storylines to shoehorn this into the 'Stargate' series - and that's if you squint past the 'gate itself and the too-frequent appearances of O'Neill (who's probably only there to tie the shows together).
I get that 'whoops! stuck on an Ancient ship with a program-of-its-own' and all that and the 'okay, we gotta fix lots of stuff', except Hello, Stargate: Atlantis! AKA: been there, done that, got the shiny T-shirt, please hang up and try your call again. And, sure, they need to fix things and land on planets to find stuff, but they haven't run into a single alien race in 4 episodes. And the ship - really dark and really boring.
Seriously - in 4 episodes, the only scene that remotely sparked my interest was the meeting in the commissary about everyone reeking of B.O. and being in serious need of a shower. But even that died in an air of banality when Rush stumbled in like an old drunk. What was up with that?
The Stars game is on in about an hour, I might swing through one more ep of SGU, but OMG, I don't know how much more of this inanity-in-darkness I'll be able to subject myself to, no matter
how many times the lovely and wonderful Richard Dean Anderson makes guest appearances.
Has anyone made it through the rest of the SGU half-season? Do the episodes get any better or just more of the same crap?
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