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]

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.