Stargate Universe: Water – Just like The Abyss except less water and not really very good

So last week I commented that you all might be thinking that I don’t really like Stargate: Universe and may not be giving it much of a fair go and I wanted you all to know that this wasn’t the case.

Well this week I’m not 100% sure.

This week I was really bored.

This week I can’t wait for next week’s premiere of the remake of V.

This week I could barely care if SGU is even on next week.

This week the characters were all unlikeable, boring and I really could care less.

What did we learn this week?

When you are spying on people it makes you feel like a spy… so stupid
The dust storm alien was just a dust storm alien and was just drawn to water… think of a completely unlikeable group of tribbles
That the close ups on the kissing and the sound effects are icky… oh and poor-man’s-River/Chloe is icky too
Rush doesn’t like women in command… he probably doesn’t like men in command either… I wonder how he feels on dust cloud aliens in command?
That the bald trouble making jerk from last week has a name
We can fit two pop geek culture references into one episode
That the red shirts are very poorly trained in dealing with the unknown despite working for SGC. Why would he shoot at a swirling cloud – I’m glad it killed Gorman - screw him and his hatred of dust clouds
Rush actually said some home truths and Eli should man up.
Greer’s hobbies include origami, collecting Bon Jovi stuff and making flame throwers…
It would be cool if those ancient suits had rockets in them… they don’t.
New jerk of the week is science type guy who is worried about his civil liberties
Even without flashbacks an episode can suck
Chloe was worried that if Scott died she would have to go to the trouble of taking her standard 15 minutes to shack up with some other guy
We can probably confirm that Young said ‘lotta work’ last week in his mumble’athon because this week he said clearly “Damn, he’s a lotta work” about Rush.
Why would the commander go to Hoth????? Dumbest command decision for this week.
Three people stuck in a hole worked for Stargate Atlantis – this week on SGU it was one guy stuck in a cold hole… yawn.

So what did you learn this week from Stargate Universe? Star Trek Voyager isn’t looking quite so crap now is it!?

James Lynn

Didn't quite make this episode. I fell asleep during the first 5 minutes.

Rob Brown

I actually have to disagree with many - most? - of you on this episode. I know, shocking! :) I actually thought it was mildly entertaining.

The stupid redshirt blasting away at the cloud aside, I was glad to see that they got to fire off a few rounds. Also, despite being shaped into a real pussy by the writers, Eli's floating ball-sled was a *small* inkling of how they might finally get around to inventing stuff, like Rodney did. Also, Young and Rush are still my favorite characters and Greer actually showed some improvement over the "angry black guy"-stereotype. Still hate Chloe with a vengeance, though.

All in all, it felt like a bad SG-1 filler episode - floating bug swarm, like we haven't seen that before! - but even a bad filler episode of SG-1 is better than the usual teen drama of Universe.

No flashbacks, minimal Zoe, weapons firing, a cool ice planet and exploration of the Destiny on a bug hunt. I'd call this a win. A small, minor win, but a win, nonetheless... I might not be hooked, but it's still somewhat better than any reality-TV show.

Still waiting for it to get to the point where cancelling SG:A for this show was actually worth it, though.

Marita

Thought you'd like these comments from the SGU official fanpage on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/officialstargate?ref=nf

They posted - There were some amazing FX in Stargate Universe episode "Water"! Take a look at these images:

and someone commented - scrap the toothpaste shortage episode in favour of some action ;)

LOL

Lee

That is so classic I love it - hopefully they'll listen though I am interested in that toothpaste episode... what happens when Greer leaves the top off!?!?

Marita

I can see the tensions rising when Eli squeezes the toothpaste from the middle and Rush freaks out because you have to squeeze it from the bottom up to make sure you get all the toothpaste.

Arjan

I'm surprised you could sum up so much about an episode where nothing really happened.
- Dustcloud aliens steal water
- Boss and lt gather ice
- lt falls into a crevace but gets rescued on the last sec
- dustcloud aliens get discarded

Now..where are those lush planets we used to hate so much? Aren't there some enemies we can actually shoot at and which will shoot back? Where are the real groundbreaking ancient things...why haven't we learned anything about the exact purpose of the ship..oh yes it's going out of it's way to get to the other end of the galaxy. I want to be on the writers team if only just to give some small nudges towards creating a STORY

Lee

How funny is it that we're beginning to miss the filler episodes of SGA, at least they looked pretty :)

You would think they would have left enough money in the budget for story!

That's a nice neat review BTW maybe I should put you on staff! At least we've got V coming!!!

Marita

At least the filler episodes of SGA had David Hewlett in them. Rodney stuck in space, Rodney stuck underwater (with semi nude Amanda Tapping ::drool::), Rodney stuck in a hole.

Damn I think I'd probably even enjoy SGU if it had Rodney stuck on that damn ship. :D

ESSGEETHREE

Should be watching it tomorrow night. Can I now be bothered?

ESSGEETHREE

Well... I started off bothering... but... YAWN!

I just want something to happen, and to CARE about who it is happening to!

Lee

That's my biggest concern about the show, I don't care about any of the characters, if someone was to die I don't think I'd even register it at this stage.

Look I'm still hopeful, but I won't be betting any money on it!

Mistress B

I'm hoping that the show finds it's feet soon. It feels like it's just taking babysteps rather than hitting the ground running as we expect from a spin off of a favourite series.

Onto other news my complete series 1 - 10 collection plus movies of SG1 showed up last week Woot!

Marita

Bored bored bored. I have no idea where they are going with this show and I honestly don't care. Apart from Eli none of the characters are likable and Eli is just barely scrapping into likable.

Lee

I'm still saying that the cook is the most likable character on SGU at this stage :D

riGby

Oh, yeah, I forgot to say this before but please don't compare this to Voyager.

Voyager was quality.

ESSGEETHREE

I have to guiltily admit to liking huge swathes of Voyager. (Why guiltily? It's like liking Abba I think!)

Lee

I never expected to ever hear that said about Star Trek Voyager :P

riGby

Boo!

riGby

ok, so i've finally caught up with these now and i have to agree that it hasn't been anything spectacular.

the whirlwind sand aliens are kinda stupid. they all get lured into a barrel yet they bust out as easy as anything. conveniently, was after they went through the stargate. there was nothing stopping them going straight back through with Young.

Lee

I'm not even sure what they were going with when the sand bug swarm thing formed that face as it looked at Scott when they arrived on Hoth.

I'm just not even really sure what they wanted it to all mean.

These all feel like filler episodes waiting on something good to happen.

BioTeq

Seems that they are following the classical elements of the greek school of thought, so we've had air, light (fire) and water, next episodes main character is likely to be... earth... exciting...

PS. TJ is pretty hot, but whoever thought of the big green eyes convincing the micro-entities to go inside the barrel must have been pretty freakin high that evening.

Lee

LOL so next week's SGU episode should be called "dirt"?

The whole way they dealt with the aliens was pretty stupid and would they really ALL go into that container? They were semi intelligent... I don't know I really think their first contact should have been with something more interesting than a bug cloud but then that's the weird universe I suppose.

BioTeq

Heh, what did I say hmm?
Earth... my God I'm sooooo looking forward to it.
Maybe mother Earth will open up and swallow them all... but knowing my luck they'll start a hydro-freakin-ponics garden...