So all Stargate fans please feel free to fill me in on the detatils. Thanks.
I searched the board for other threads about it, but they were all like 3 years or more old. So I just thought I'd start another one about the new series.
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They canceled SG-1. Then they canceled Atlantis.
Now they're making some shipgate show.
I've seen the introductory episode and the first hour long episode. SGU is a very different show from SG1 and Atlantis. It looks and feels more like Battlestar (dark, weird time bounces - flashbacks, flashforwards and flashsideways!). The premise of the show is not unique: people stranded far from home...how do they get back? There's an interesting variety of characters and so far; no clear leader or teamwork, despite their dire circumstance. The episodes moves along at a slower clip than SG1 and Atlantis, and there's only one character that I've warmed up to. So far, there's none of the humor or camaraderie we we're used to seeing. Frankly, I was bored, but it's a brand new show and too early to give up on it.
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Does anyone know if the other episodes feature that kind of content regularly? I'd like to keep watching the series if I knew which episodes to avoid or at which points within those episodes to fast-forward...
I know. That is one of the most frustrating trends I'm noticing in Sci-Fi. It's like they don't have enough confidence in their writing to sell it as it is. They've got to add shock value to draw in the audiences. Pathetic. And I hope they get away from it as the show progresses (if it does).I know I'm reviving an old thread, but it was one of 3 that came up on a search for SGU.
I just got all of the episodes from my brother-in-law a little while ago and my wife and I watched the premier (Air, Part 1). We thought it was pretty cool until the unexpected and gratuitous sex scene between Matthew Scott and Vanessa Greer popped on screen. My wife was really disturbed and asked me to turn it off, I was bothered too but more disappointed that the content was costing us the whole show. I understand and respect her discomfort though.
Does anyone know if the other episodes feature that kind of content regularly? I'd like to keep watching the series if I knew which episodes to avoid or at which points within those episodes to fast-forward...
I know. That is one of the most frustrating trends I'm noticing in Sci-Fi. It's like they don't have enough confidence in their writing to sell it as it is. They've got to add shock value to draw in the audiences. Pathetic. And I hope they get away from it as the show progresses (if it does).
In episode 9 "Life", Camile's turn comes up to use the stones to visit earth and is reunited with her lesbian partner. There are some scenes worth skipping there for sure, though nothing as gratuitous as the scene in the pilot. And pretty much whenever you see Camile return to Earth, they seem to try and fit in another kiss or whatever. Never seems to get worse than that, though.
As mentioned above, the very beginning of episode 17 "Pain" is well worth skipping as well.
There is also another scene to avoid between Young and his wife, which I'm pretty sure is in episode 7 "Earth". I think those are the worst of them.
Other than that, most of the show gets away from that nonsense and focuses on the story. Most episodes are fine. It's just occasionally that they get into the shock value. And like I said, hopefully if the show becomes more established they'll leave that crap behind and let the story carry itself.
SG-1 had nudity in the pilot episode. But after that they just focused on the story, and that worked out just fine for them.
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