Stargate SG-1/Atlantis/Universe

[Superfreak]

Are you watching it for entertainment, or are you writing a dissertation on it?

honestly, it should flow from either perspective. It is made to entertain, but given the amount of $$$ that goes into television, the product should be of a high calibre. So far, SGU has been good, but it does not yet stand out as anything special. The only thing it has going for me, is that it is new. Not novel, just new.

I hope that they try and stick with the stranded business though... meaning: Beards for all the men within a couple of episodes, hairy legs, no replacement for clothing, Chloe and the TJ should be running out of makeup soon, etc etc.

One thing I am interested in is the stones. They are going to be really cool I think. Whatever experts the evacuees are in need of, can be sent. Surgeons, scientists, etc. It should be cool.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The ship was built for Ancients and Ancients are basically humans. Makeup is one thing, but the necessary tools for basic grooming should be readily available on the ship.

Both SG1 and Atlantis went without opening sequences for a while.

Until the fans complained enough that they had to put them back in.

Yeah, and it sucked both times. The Stargate people do really good opening sequences. I miss it on SGU already.

 

[Superfreak]

The ship was built for Ancients and Ancients are basically humans. Makeup is one thing, but the necessary tools for basic grooming should be readily available on the ship.

Yeah, and it sucked both times. The Stargate people do really good opening sequences. I miss it on SGU already.

I really liked how BSG did its opening sequence, ie. the standard bit, and then the inclusion of the montage of the episode you are about to watch.

I'd love if a show would do it backwards... where you get your standard intro, but instead of the BSG preview way, one gets the recap from the last few episodes, integrated into the intro.

 

[wiegeabo]

Yeah, and it sucked both times. The Stargate people do really good opening sequences. I miss it on SGU already.

 

[Happenstance]

Just finished watching the new episode, found it a bit boring to be honest. Few interesting bits like the bit at the end obviously but that was about it.

Also, am I the only one who thought Eli and Chloe and more chemistry than Chloe and whatshisface? (This is terrible, I usually know names really well when it comes to tv shows!)

 

[Happenstance]

Just finished watching the new episode, found it a bit boring to be honest. Few interesting bits like the bit at the end obviously but that was about it.

Also, am I the only one who thought Eli and Chloe and more chemistry than Chloe and whatshisface? (This is terrible, I usually know names really well when it comes to tv shows!)

 

[Baggers]

Just finished watching the new episode, found it a bit boring to be honest. Few interesting bits like the bit at the end obviously but that was about it.

Also, am I the only one who thought Eli and Chloe and more chemistry than Chloe and whatshisface? (This is terrible, I usually know names really well when it comes to tv shows!)

Matt Scott, he seems cool, just his flashback wasn't that interesting to me. Interesting spin with the Priest, and Scott's going into Priesthood tho...but I do agree I like the idea of Eli and Chloe relationship over Scott and Chloe.

I'm interested in what happened with Curtis and the blonde scientist and also interested with the small ship or drone that came of from the Destiny, the plot thickens hmmmm

 

[Baggers]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/10/sgu-heats-up-steppin-out-magazine/

Shwing!! Shwing!!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The actress who plays Chloe looks much hotter there than in the show. It's amazing what cleaning off some dirt and grime and applying a whole lot of makeup can do.

Just finished watching the new episode, found it a bit boring to be honest. Few interesting bits like the bit at the end obviously but that was about it.

Also, am I the only one who thought Eli and Chloe and more chemistry than Chloe and whatshisface? (This is terrible, I usually know names really well when it comes to tv shows!)

I don't really care; neither potential relationship interests me much. Eli and Scott seem to have a nice rapport building up, though. The Shepard/McKay of SGU, perhaps? We'll see.

 

[Baggers]

The actress who plays Chloe looks much hotter there than in the show. It's amazing what cleaning off some dirt and grime and applying a whole lot of makeup can do.

I don't really care; neither potential relationship interests me much. Eli and Scott seem to have a nice rapport building up, though. The Shepard/McKay of SGU, perhaps? We'll see.

Yeah me and my brother was chatting about that. Eli and Scott feel like they'll become the Mckay/Sheppard of SGU. Each series seems to love the idea of a "geek" scientist building a strong friendship with a solider:

SG-1: Daniel/Jack
SGA: Mckay/Sheppard
SGU: Eli/Scott

As much as I love the above pic that I posted I like the lack of loads of makeup, cute, innocent look Chloe Armstrong is rocking out in SGU. She's well cuteeee!! ...and yes I got a crush

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I like that Scott and Eli aren't as far removed from each other as the other two sets of buddies. Scott's the best of a limited bunch of soldiers under Young, so he keeps getting top assignments, but he's fundamentally not that different from Eli--both joined the SGC recently, both tend to feel overwhelmed (although Scott obviously deals with it better), and both are relatively normal, young guys.

 

[Baggers]

I like that Scott and Eli aren't as far removed from each other as the other two sets of buddies. Scott's the best of a limited bunch of soldiers under Young, so he keeps getting top assignments, but he's fundamentally not that different from Eli--both joined the SGC recently, both tend to feel overwhelmed (although Scott obviously deals with it better), and both are relatively normal, young guys.

Yup so be great to see this friendship to continue to build. It's nice to see "normal" people in the Stargate Franchise.

 

[Gilpesh]

I like that Scott and Eli aren't as far removed from each other as the other two sets of buddies. Scott's the best of a limited bunch of soldiers under Young, so he keeps getting top assignments, but he's fundamentally not that different from Eli--both joined the SGC recently, both tend to feel overwhelmed (although Scott obviously deals with it better), and both are relatively normal, young guys.

Whoa whoa whoa.

Scott doesn't deal with it better. He didn't even know what to say if they found a half buried Statue of Liberty.

 

[Baggers]

Whoa whoa whoa.

Scott doesn't deal with it better. He didn't even know what to say if they found a half buried Statue of Liberty.

"Damn you. God damn you!!"

 

[Kahoot]

Both SG1 and Atlantis went without opening sequences for a while.

Until the fans complained enough that they had to put them back in.

I don't think the fans will win this time though. They won before because SG1 and SGA had openings to fall back on but this time they just need to say they don't have the money to make one.

I think they producers of Stargate like the mini title card opening thing.

 

[Dr Lee]

IIRC the backlash on the SG-1/SG:A shortened titles was down to the fact it was done to add advertising space in the programming slot, rather than extra episode time.

 

[Superfreak]

The actress who plays Chloe looks much hotter there than in the show. It's amazing what cleaning off some dirt and grime and applying a whole lot of makeup can do.

what dirt and grime, these have been the two characters that have been made up like barbie dolls. But I agree, with a PROFESSIONAL doing their make up, they look much better.

 

[GyLocke]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/10/sgu-heats-up-steppin-out-magazine/

Shwing!! Shwing!!

Just two reasons to watch? I'm counting four...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't think the fans will win this time though. They won before because SG1 and SGA had openings to fall back on but this time they just need to say they don't have the money to make one.

I think they producers of Stargate like the mini title card opening thing.

IIRC the backlash on the SG-1/SG:A shortened titles was down to the fact it was done to add advertising space in the programming slot, rather than extra episode time.

Yeah, the producers like the openings but Sci Fi wanted more ad time, so they cut them down to the brief title card and nothing else. Fans complained and I guess Sci Fi backed off, leading to the producers' reinstating Atlantis' opening and creating a whole new one for SG-1.

But I agree that this time the opening is gone for good. SGU's a new show and it hasn't had an opening title sequence right from the start, so its new fans won't miss it. I don't think the old Stargate fans will mind it enough to complain en masse, either.

what dirt and grime, these have been the two characters that have been made up like barbie dolls. But I agree, with a PROFESSIONAL doing their make up, they look much better.

Why do you even watch the Stargate shows anymore? I've never seen you say anything good about them for years. I mean, you're talking s*** about their makeup department now!

 

[Dr Lee]

IO9 have some images from the next SG:U episode 'Darkness' in their Morning Spoilers section today

Linky

 

[Superfreak]

Yeah, the producers like the openings but Sci Fi wanted more ad time, so they cut them down to the brief title card and nothing else. Fans complained and I guess Sci Fi backed off, leading to the producers' reinstating Atlantis' opening and creating a whole new one for SG-1.

But I agree that this time the opening is gone for good. SGU's a new show and it hasn't had an opening title sequence right from the start, so its new fans won't miss it. I don't think the old Stargate fans will mind it enough to complain en masse, either.

Why do you even watch the Stargate shows anymore? I've never seen you say anything good about them for years. I mean, you're talking s*** about their makeup department now!

maybe I was a little short there, but sometimes things bother me. It's not so much the makeup, as the choice of makeup. TJ doesn't look like a soldier to me... Chloe certainly doesn't look like a senator's daughter, or a senator's aid to me. It's the creative choice, rather than the skill of those at work.

Like the senator of California's house. This doesn't look like the house of someone who just spent billions on anything. The peices just don't fit.

Or the second person using the stones in last episode. Doctor useless. It just seemed silly to me that they'd have a tourist waiting to visit/communicate with the ship. I'd have expected both Colonel Telford (a useful consultant) and the other mystery person who were waiting for the call to be useful. Just seemed like a waste to me. Like a trained doctor would be useful to check on the injured, or an engineer, someone like doctor lee to give a second opinion on the ship itself. Maybe it's nitpicky, but it just seems like a wasted opportunity to get some narrative going in a show where there seems like there is very little.

I dunno, I think when I have something more positive to say, I'll say it. I do like the new production value on the franchise, but I'm jworried that it'll dumb down like Atlantis did.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The house seemed nice enough. Senators don't generally live in mansions, as far as I know. They spend billions of taxpayer dollars in Congress, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're all millionaires themselves--especially not the honest ones. The president of the USA only has a salary of $200,000 per year (although I'm sure they find ways to make more than that), and he's the senators' boss.

Also, I don't necessarily think the Indian doctor chick was waiting in line or anything. She just happened to be there and the people on Destiny needed someone else to house Chloe's consciousness so she could break the bad news to her mother. The people on the ship don't have a system worked out where someone's always on standby to accept incoming "calls" on the stones like they do on Earth.

Maybe they'll work out a system like that eventually. It does seem like an experienced doctor would be a good thing to bring to the ship at least once, to make sure everyone's generally healthy and catch anything TJ might have missed. But it's only the second (or third, however you want to count it) episode. The show's still finding its feet to some extent.

 

[GhostPoet]

I shared the same impressions as you Corpulent. It didn't seem like they had a structure set in stone yet to decide who gets taken over and when. Which is why Lou Diamond Phillips character wouldn't budge from that seat...because he didn't want to miss the Destiny crew trying to make contact.

 

[Paroxysm]

I have a feeling that the "object' that detached from the ship might have been a probe or something. Whoever attacked the Destiny probably wanted the ship but they couldn't use it because their DNA didn't watch. Perhaps the probe was activated when the current crew started messing around with the ship?

 

[GhostPoet]

And of coarse the "probe" will alert a new alien bad guy!