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]

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."