I love Stargate, it's been part of my life since I was young and have grown up with it, I even cried when Don S. Davis died. I loved SG-1 and Atlantis, yet as much as I want to like Universe it doesn't seem to be happening.
The only characters that really stand out to me are Rush and Eli, which are both the only characters who's names I can remember off the top of my head. Every other character seems to be just boring in comparison, which is my main complaint about the series; it's just boring. Almost every episode moves very slowly, some with little interesting events occuring, I understand they're trying to take the series in a darker direction, but they can do that with more than just boring character interactions, what irritates me more is that they try to make it darker by killing off characters, yet they always bring the character back to the point at which any potential character death hits me with the emotional impact of a pillow because I expect they'll be back in a few episodes.
Examples, the asian guy (can't recall his name) staying behind on that alien ship and then coming back in the mid-season finale and when Eli, Matt and possibly Chloe (I remembered!) are trapped on that planet with the Destiny out of range, so they jump through a bunch of planets to catch up with it, but at the end of the episode they're too late, next episode they just wander back through the gate on to the Destiny which completely trivialises the previous episode, it seems like this 'darker' side means the narrative just going around in circles.
I still watch it though, in the hope it will improve and the Stargate fanboy inside of me, shame I won't get to find out now. :'(
