Blast Magazine Review: Water

[catsmeow]

It's no surprise that John Guilfoil didn't care for Water since he hasn't been too enthused in his reviews of previous eps. This time, he takes the gloves off a bit more.

"It was 43 minutes of “oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, what are we gonna do?” and no substance. We know little more about the characters, and, frankly, I am starting to care less and less about each one to the point where I’d like to see someone killed off just to make things interesting."



"Sadly, “Universe” fails both as a sci-fi show and a teenage melodrama, because the elements that attract sci-fi fans religiously aren’t there and the writing just sucks."


Full article is at Blast Magazine.

Comments

[sid]

The lack of suspense with Timmy at the bottom of the well Scott in the crevasse was... yeah. Not quite breathtaking. Like we didn't know that both he and Young were going to make it back to the ship.

The only person who interested me this week was Lt. James, because there actually was some suspense as to how she was going to react/behave after catching Scott with Chloe. And because she behaved like an adult... nothing happened. :-D

[ivorygates]

I keep hoping Greer will shoot everybody and take over the Density...

[sid]

Every once in a while Greer seems to be sane and trustworthy.

But he gets over it.

Damn writers. Oh, you know what? Dammit. There actually was a throwaway line in one of the eps that explained what Greer had been locked up for in the first episode. I barely caught it and meant to dig into it. Now I can't even recall which ep it was.

[happydog57]

Is this it, or is this referring to something else? This is from "Light" with Young and Greer after the shuttle has left.

Young and Greer are walking down the hall after the shuttle has left.

Young says he doesn't condone that kind of behavior but "the look on Telford's face when you put him down was priceless: complete and total shock."

Greer agrees that Telford was surprised.

They both laugh about it. Young says that Greer even got away with it. Greer apologizes for disapointing Young. Young says Greer is a good man and "Besides, the, uh, bastard had it coming." Greer agrees and they laugh again.

Greer salutes Young, they shake hands and part ways.

[sid]

YES! That was it.

Why did that have to be such a big mystery in the pilot, but then they just throw away the explanation, because you don't even realize what they're talking about at first.

This also serves to explain a lot about why Telford tries, every chance he gets, to seize control of the ship and boot Young out of the command spot. I knew there had to be some bad blood there. *g*

[happydog57]

I didn't realize at first what they were talking about either. They've made such a big deal about all the bad blood, yet when they explain it, it's done so quick and out of any context it's almost guaranteed to not be noticed.

[ivorygates]

Huh. Okay, bearing in mind that I have only the vaguest notion of who all these dumbfucks are...

1. Colonel Young doesn't like Colonel Telford [they're both Air Force; Colonel Telford is a pilot, Colonel Young was the officer in charge of Waiting Room of the Damned].

2. Marine Sergeant Ronald Greer [enlisted, and i'm still puzzled at why there were marines on icarus base] "puts Telford down", presumably physically.

3. Despite the fact he sekritly approves of Greer's actions, Young has him brigged [striking a superior officer is a courtmartialable offense]. He gets him out when the How Could They Be Lucians Anywa attack, so Ronald gets an all-expense-paid cruise on Density.

4. Meanwhile, the IOC Bimbo has gone out of her way to remind Greer she knows what he did last summerknows about his crime and doesn't approve of him getting a free pass for it. [Based on that, i'd assumed Greer was under heavy manners for rape or sexual assault, but apparently no.]

Boy the scripting and plotting on this show sucks.

[ivorygates]

you know why SGU bites so very, very much?

they're seven eps in.

SG-1's seventh ep was "The Nox". By that point, we KNEW Jack and Daniel and Sam and Teal'c. And hell: General Hammond and Janet Frasier. We CARED ABOUT THEM.

SGA? Ep #7 was "Poisoning The Well", and I'm betting that by then my SGA friends were invested in John and Rodney and Carson and Teyla and Elizabeth.

What do we have with SGUgh? Air, Darkness, Light, Water... BOREDOM! The showrunners are so obsessed with giving us "real" antiheroes that they're leaving out characterization and plot. And I don't know about you, but as for me, I'm pretty sure that serving members of the military who are awesome enough to get tapped for the SGC are going to be pretty fucking heroic. Even if they "aren't supposed to be there" and "aren't the right people."

[sid]

If the SGC only taps 'the best of the best', that still leaves room for these losers to be the worst of the best of the best. Which is clearly the case.

And says very sad things about the current state of the military.

Or maybe just everything fell apart after George died.

[lacey]

Or maybe just everything fell apart after George died.

I could buy that if Jack weren't still there and visible, you know? I mean, heading up large divisions of classified programs and whatnot may not be his forte, but I don't think Jack would have ever let it get that bad.

[sid]

True. Jack may not be able to comfortably fill George's shiny shoes, but his own shoes are damn shiny. *nods*

[kaballa]

It all just reminds me of the B Ark from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Icarus Base was where they sent every Felger and general miserable failure; all the idiots who couldn't be trusted anywhere important, penned up together with the capability to blow themselves to smithereens via an unstable planetary core, a very long way from anyone or anything that mattered. Now they can blow up The Density too but: a) It's a very long way from anywhere or anything that matters b) No one cares, because we don't like them, we don't like the ship and (see a).

[sid]

The hairdressers and the telephone sanitizers! :-D I love this idea!

[tejas]

Daniel would never let him go this far off the rails. Oh. Maybe that's the problem. Daniel's moved to DC and Jack's never out of bed long enough to do his job. *nods* That's gotta be it. :-)

[sid]

*nods* Not enough blood flow to the brain these days.

[tejas]

Yep.

[lacey]

I wish you wrote for the show, oh I wish.

I like your storylines :D

[tejas]

LOL!

"Stargate: Orgasms".

Has a ring to it, y'know? :-)_

[lacey]

Note to self: watch TV more often!!

[tejas]

LOL!!!

[lacey]

*Pencils into DayPlanner*

[catsmeow]

"Stargate: Orgasms".

Has a ring to it, y'know? :-)_


yeah, Nuva ring, cock ring...