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Stargate Universe

I'm not sure it was chair guy vaporised that dude.

The force field was flickering before the guy got vaped, so it could be the radiation from outside the ship, which might also be the reason they haven't jumped back into hyperspace.
 
I don't think radiation should fry someone to dust that fast. WHAT DO I KNOW? Maybe it's special radiation.
 
Well this is stargate, where radiation can be so powerful it can knock you out in seconds, yet not give you cancer or any other permanent damage.
 
That's true. It will probably turn out that chair guy caused the shield to fail just enough to fry the guy trying to open the door.
 
Well, it was radiation, but not the chair guy. BOO!

It pisses me off that every show has to end on a big cliffhanger :rwmad:
 
The chair likely ascended or something and will only be back if he is needed to reveal something major and cool about the ship or is used to resolve a plot point.
 
THIS WEEK'S EPISODE - INCURSION PART DEUX

Um... it was pretty good over all. It certainly wasn't boring or crap as the usual internet people claim (because there were no fourth wall breaking jokes or ships exploding), but somehow I didn't feel much tension even though you were clearly expected to. Maybe because the only person they named who got killed had, as far as I'm aware, never been heard of before. There wasn't any real jeopardy for the rest of the characters except for TJ and her baybaaaaay.

Hmm. So it was a pulsar. Well, I think our ideas were better there. OK, it would've been really predictable, but Dual's suggestion that they use this as a chance to introduce Chair Guy would've been better than random spacial anomaly of the week.

Greer = least convincing civilian ever.
 
The thought processes leading up to them surrendering control of the ship and becoming hostages really didn't make convincing sense. So you're going to risk everybody getting killed and give up all your power on a harebrained scheme that may or may not work, and in a best case scenario still leaves you with a major disadvantage you didn't have before (being physically captured)? Ok, that's great. Should've just vented the stupid fucking chamber. After the early hostage exchange they had like seven guys left on the wrong side, so knocking them out would seem to be a hell of a lot less risky towards the greater safety than fucking surrendering everybody. Young consistently makes like the worst imaginable decisions, and that would be less annoying if other characters would call him out on it, but so far that just hasn't been happening. It's pretty easy to see how this cliffhanger will get resolved. Eli lets the soldiers back in just in time, the Lucian medic guy saves TJ, Chloe sleeps for a little bit. The only actual cliffhanger is in the military group's impending execution, and they shouldn't have tried to play off the rest of the characters as being in dire damage, because it merely came across as silly (I facepalmed at the end).

All in all, a decent first season with some major, gaping weak points, but I don't regret the investment of time yet. There's definitely the potential for improvement, but also the potential to turn to unadulterated shit in short order.
 
Well at this point if they did decide to vent the atmosphere the bad guys would have instantly shot every hostage before everyone passed out. Of course surrendering everyone to them is hardly a better solution.

TJ wasn't looking good, either she just suffered a flesh wound or her baby took the bullet for her...I predict the former.

I'm so sick of cliffhangers....even if they are well done (which this one wasn't really) I am tired of seeing them as season finales.
 
Oh, I have spoilers about TJ.

At that con she attended a couple of weeks ago she said that the baby storyline would be "dealt with", suggesting that the baby was killed. She was pregnant in real life during the filming of this episode, but she'd have given birth by the time they filmed the next season and the producers presumably didn't want to deal with a baby on board without an impossible to hide bump as an incentive.
 
Someone at worked reckoned Rush was only contracted for one year, if all the other actors had the same contracts then season two could see some major cast changes.

I doubt they would kill all the soldiers, stargate has always had a lot of military support, in terms of hardware leant to them, bases allowed to be filmed at, hell they even let them film on a nuclear submarine at the north pole, that would all evaporate if it was just civilians and terrorists left on board.
 
Ugh, every time a Stargate show tries messing with its main cast it leads to disaster, unless the changes involve Vala.
 
Vala was hot, but she was annoying! I always wished they'd let her be a more srs bsns character.
 
TOO GOOFY, FURTHER. A little goofy is better than a lot goofy SOMETIMES. I think I just hated the Ori story line, didn't really have much to do with how silly most of Claudia Black's scenes were. Her comedy went better with the Goa(comma goes somewhere)uld. The Ori were depressing and not fun.
 
Yes the Ori sucked but really, so did the G'o'u'l'd' and even more so the Wraith. Stargate has never really been about interesting villains. Could any gould or wraith character ever even come close to comparing to Dukat or Weyoun?

I do hope the LC is wiped from the face of whatever galaxy Destiny happens to be in in the season 2 premier, so the crew can get back to the in-fighting that so far I have found more entertaining than seeing yet another gould/wraith jail cell breakout.
 
I liked the Goa'uld because they were so campy. SG1 was never serious sci fi, and I was really fine with that. Also, I agree that the wraith sucked. EXCEPT Trip! I liked the episodes he was in.
 
I have hated all previous SG tv shows, although I'll admit I gave Atlantis like a 10-minute chance once while drunk and NOTHING ELSE

This show is great, but didn't appreciate being left cliffhanging. Totally agree with the above comment about how the plotting was pretty retarded on a lot of levels, like the dude who used to be brainwashed or whatever, talk about the least effective military officer of all time, doing stupid shit of no value whatsoever. And also the hostage stuff. But then again, I really think you just can't look too close with this show. It's dark and cool and the planets really look like planets and the spaceship really looks like a spaceship. I think that puts it head-and-shoulders above most sci-fi in the last five years, only Firefly/Serenity really seemed as realistic to me for some reason.
 
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