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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.

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Posted by

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."

Posted by

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.

Posted by

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.

Posted by

sid

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

Posted by

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).

Posted by

sid

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

Posted by

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. :-)