Poll: Expectations for Stargate: Universe

[Kaboose the Moose]

It had a very "Stargate Galactica" feel to it and is definitely darker in premise than the other two, I admit. I'm still on the fence with the whole thing but hopefully the characters will grow on me as the show proceeds.

This as well, my only real compliant was the confusing nature behind the ninth chevron, why didn't they dial earth and who was attacking the base.

I am only guessing here but my take on it was

Spoiler

The ninth chevron took them to Destiny which was on the other side of the universe/galaxy (I can't remember which) and they didn't know exactly where they were in relation to the Earth. Therefore, since the Stargate's dialing address/chevrons are dependent on constellation positions between star gates they wouldn't know Earth's address since they don't know where Earth is in relation to their position. Hence, they can't dial earth. It's either that or the sheer distance between both points means that some kind of massive power source is needed to dial the Earth gate.

As to why they didn't dial Earth when they were attacked, well the scientist wanted to explore the 9th chevron so he kinda made them. Plus I think there was a risk about dialing Earth when under attack, something about explosions traveling through the wormhole and killing everyone on the other side. Again, I think..I doubt I grasped it completely either.

As for the base attack. I took it to be the Replicators. If it was them then the show is going to have to explain what the heck they are doing off the Pegasus system.

*geek wave

 

[Twilight_guy]

It looks like battlestar galactica crossed with lost in space. The stargate I knew wasn't a drama. Also, the fact that Sci-fi lost galactica when it was still profitable would probably lead them to want to remake it and what better way then with the already popular stargate series. I don't like battlestar galactica so I'm going with I probably won't like the new stargate... which is sad.

 

[jonnosferatu]

I have high expectations, precisely because the initial ideas they voiced sounded eerily like "We're going to take the Atlantis concept and do it right this time."

 

[Cowabungaa]

When I first heard of the premies for Star Gate Univers I emedeatly thought Star Gate Voyager, but after seeing some of the promos it looks like they're going for more of a Battle Star Galactica feel, so I have high hopes.

Are they? Now that's good news, because Battlestar is my fav sci-fi series of all time.

Anyway, I loved SG1, didn't really like Atlantis (never really could relate to the characters), but I'm very curious about Universe now. Hope it'll be good, but I don't have any expectations, I try to avoid those.

PS: Just watched the trailer. First thing I thought of: did they ninja the story from Star Trek Voyager or what? That and it does indeed feel like Battlestar Galactica, a lot more space opera-ish. Not sure if it'll fit with the Stargate universe, but we'll see.

PPS: O heavens the first episode is on torrents already. Good, because it won't be broadcasted in Holland for like a year or so, if they ever broadcast it.

 

[wolf_isthebest]

I was watching SG-1 reruns on tv the other day and i couldn't belive it still grabed me to see the episode through. SG-U on the other hand ... lets just say that after 10 mins I literary fell asleep. Next day I woke up and said "lets try this again from the start". I get what they tried to do with this show but failed imo. The pilot had bad screenplay and bad acting. I love Robert Carlyle and even his acting sucked in this show. The director must be retarded or something. I don't see this show getting past season 1 at this point. I'll prob stop watching after episode 3 if the villains suck too.

 

[MrTub]

It had a very "Stargate Galactica" feel to it and is definitely darker in premise than the other two, I admit. I'm still on the fence with the whole thing but hopefully the characters will grow on me as the show proceeds.

This as well, my only real compliant was the confusing nature behind the ninth chevron, why didn't they dial earth and who was attacking the base.

they dident dail earth cause they wanted to try dialing the 9th symbol one more time. and it was the goa'uld that attacked them

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

I think star gate is a series that went on waaaay to long. It isn't because it is a bad series but many a time you find a good show scraping the bottom of the barrel after one or two seasons. Then it just becomes more and more unbelievable, as now they have to get bigger and bigger bad guys that we, lowly and living on one world, humans manage to overthrow.

I liked the early original ones cause it was believable... humans where a 'stealth' factor, no one knew we existed and under-evaluated our potential threat. We managed to get into positions where we could win through shear surprise and luck. The enemy was a fractured group, more interested in beating each other to death, which is where a lower technological race could potentially cause havoc and not get their arses kicked for it.

I had high hopes for Atlantis, that it would recreate that burning torch of survivalist, stealth and luck. Sadly it went down hill, the contact with earth was re-established quickly and as a dues-ex-machina to make it worse! After that it got more and more ridiculous, we humans made the ancients look like morons and that was down right depressing. Always happens when you have a show involving an low technological race messing with high technology technology. They seem to instantly know what would take generations of backwards engineering to figure out and then utilise it in a way to defeat an ancient enemy that has had thousands of years of technological evolution past even the salvaged tech would grant.

Yeah, I like more realism in my sci-fi shows....

Soooo. This new one? I won't hold my breath. Brother will fill me in on it sure enough anyway.

 

[Dragonearl]

After this I'm missing Atlantis already. I never thought I'd say that.

 

[Pandalisk]

It annoys me somewhat how they split the first episode into 3 parts and only showed the first two so far, I enjoyed it somewhat, and i hope they keep up this phycological Cabin Fever thing going.

 

[Pandalisk]

It had a very "Stargate Galactica" feel to it and is definitely darker in premise than the other two, I admit. I'm still on the fence with the whole thing but hopefully the characters will grow on me as the show proceeds.

This as well, my only real compliant was the confusing nature behind the ninth chevron, why didn't they dial earth and who was attacking the base.

I am only guessing here but my take on it was

Spoiler

The ninth chevron took them to Destiny which was on the other side of the universe/galaxy (I can't remember which) and they didn't know exactly where they were in relation to the Earth. Therefore, since the Stargate's dialing address/chevrons are dependent on constellation positions between star gates they wouldn't know Earth's address since they don't know where Earth is in relation to their position. Hence, they can't dial earth. It's either that or the sheer distance between both points means that some kind of massive power source is needed to dial the Earth gate.

As to why they didn't dial Earth when they were attacked, well the scientist wanted to explore the 9th chevron so he kinda made them. Plus I think there was a risk about dialing Earth when under attack, something about explosions traveling through the wormhole and killing everyone on the other side. Again, I think..I doubt I grasped it completely either.

As for the base attack. I took it to be the Replicators. If it was them then the show is going to have to explain what the heck they are doing off the Pegasus system.

*geek wave

It had a very "Stargate Galactica" feel to it and is definitely darker in premise than the other two, I admit. I'm still on the fence with the whole thing but hopefully the characters will grow on me as the show proceeds.

This as well, my only real compliant was the confusing nature behind the ninth chevron, why didn't they dial earth and who was attacking the base.

they dident dail earth cause they wanted to try dialing the 9th symbol one more time. and it was the goa'uld that attacked them

It had a very "Stargate Galactica" feel to it and is definitely darker in premise than the other two, I admit. I'm still on the fence with the whole thing but hopefully the characters will grow on me as the show proceeds.

This as well, my only real compliant was the confusing nature behind the ninth chevron, why didn't they dial earth and who was attacking the base.

It wasn't gou'ould they are somewhat fucked, and i dont think replicators would use gou'uld ships, Carter said it could be the lucian alliance, and i think that makes alot more sence, and they would have access to ships like that ever since the fall of the gou'uld, What the fuck are the tok'Ra doing nowadays anyway?

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

*snip*

Who knows?. Either way I do recall someone from the cast or crew saying that SG:U won't have a "big bad" like the Gou'ould or the Wraith. Still, I am sure they will find an explanation (read: lame plot mechanic) to explain the attack and then forget about it.

Another thing that bothered me is the shuttle door that wouldn't close. I don't want to give blurt spoilers but..er..why couldn't they just use one of those floating camera balls to close the door?.

Anyway, I am still..optimistic..

 

[Nu-Hir]

It wasn't gou'ould they are somewhat fucked, and i dont think replicators would use gou'uld ships, Carter said it could be the lucian alliance, and i think that makes alot more sence, and they would have access to ships like that ever since the fall of the gou'uld, What the fuck are the tok'Ra doing nowadays anyway?

Spoiler

Baal would have been the only Goa'uld who had a fleet to attack a planet on that scale, and as of Continuum (which should have taken place before this) he was no more. It couldn't have been the Replicators, as the weapon on Dakara had destroyed every single one in the Milky Way, along with McKay destroying every one in Pegasus. Unless they came from another galaxy, they're all gone. On top of that, Carter had said she suspected it was the Lucian Alliance, as they're the only enemy left. They have a vast amount of Goa'uld ships and the anger to attack in force like that.

My take on the whole ninth cheveron thing is that it is pointing the wormhole directly to the specific gate on the Destiny, rather than a specific point in space. So you have the six cheverons for location (which in this case I think would also be for this specific gate), the seventh for inter-galaxy travel, the eighth to lock onto the Destiny's gate, and the ninth being the point of origin, which the ship will only recognize as Earth. It blocks all incoming wormholes from any other point of origin.

They've already shown once before that the gate system can block out certain addresses from dialing others. In Atlantis when they had to pull the control crystal out of the Atlantis DHD to be able to dial earth from a remote gate. So it makes sense that they would create a gate that will only accept a call if it comes from a certain address.

The pilot episode proved that they needed to extend out Atlantis for another season, even if it was only 13 episodes. It could have done a LOT to explain what happened at the Icarus base, why that particular planet was important, and who exactly was attacking. They could have given a little background on some of the major players. Atlantis was on Earth, they could have easily did the background for Universe, and do the lead-in to an Atlantis movie.

There's so much they could have done to make Universe better, but it seems they chose not to in order to get it to air faster. They would have been much better off continuing Atlantis for one year, have them discover the nine chevron address, and then explain why exactly nine were needed. There's some potential to Universe, I hope someone on the writing staff realized it, and will show us.

 

[A Raging Emo]

I <3 Stargate.

And because of that, I will be watching Universe, but I'm worried that it won't be as good as SG1.

 

[ActionDan]

I think we all were probably a bit Skeptical about Atlantis, but that found to be very good. We'll have to see how it plays out.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

I <3 Stargate.

And because of that, I will be watching Universe, but I'm worried that it won't be as good as SG1.

I think that's the problem. Everyone wants to measure it up to something, it's predecessor, use it as a yardstick to gauge the success of the series. By that criteria then maybe SGU won't satisfy anyone, SG-1 had a pretty solid and novel lead in setting the foundation for the series and it's clear that they have taken a new direction with SGU, perhaps then we judge it by it's own merits. It seems to be gathering interest in my mind at least, at least by the fourth episode.

 

[Kif]

I gave it a chance, watched the first three episodes but just found it to be incredibly boring and not especially well written.

 

[Skeleon]

Okay, I watched a few more episodes. Dear Jebus!
Don't they ever have any problems besides technical stuff going wrong and emotional drama?
Man, this is boring.

"We're going to die in 24 hours!"
"Oh! We're saved. For now."
"But now something else is going wrong! We're going to die in 24 hours regardless!"
"Okay, let's make out because this is the last chance we have."

B-O-R-I-N-G.

 

[Cilliandrew]

I finally got around to watching the pilot episode the other night.

Actually quite liked it. Like how they worked in the communication stones from the Ori. Gives them an interesting way to keep in contact with Earth without BEING in contact with Earth.

I also find Dr. Rush to be an intriguing character. A genius who is constantly coming into question and who appears to be willing to roll the dice on people's lives for the sake of his own interests. We haven't had a character like that in Stargate before. Seems intriguing.