DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
It's great! Even if Carlyle is well synonymous with Baltar
Stargate Universe
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bhamgeezer
Dogs bark
You sir, win teh internetz
I thought the first episode was pretty solid, should be a decent series.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Hmmm very interesting !
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Ha - well pay £200 for a lifetime membership. . . . . . or, just close the page and open it again starting from where you left off to forgo an hours wait.
These guys must be amateurs.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I'm watching now. Started off good when it was ripping off battlestar galactica but now it looks like it's going to go all stargate voyager. Yawn. It had better pull something out of the bag soon.
ChrisC
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Downloading it now from torrent. Looks good.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
And . . . . there is the series set up. Ship stops at a planet every week for them to get what they need. B B B b b b b b b b o r i n g.
What a waste of an evening. I think it had ideas above it's station.
What a waste of an evening. I think it had ideas above it's station.
raknor
Well-Known Member
Thats the spirit of Stargate SG1, the exploration of planets, but this time removed from earth and from a ship base. It can't remove itself from the core theme of the shows.
Sorry you didn't enjoy it
Also enjoyed all the little nods of other parts of the stargate backstory
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
I thought the first part was a bit of a mess but it improved once they got on the ship and the clumsy flashbacks and snippets of backstory stopped. Carlyle's too subdued and the rest of the cast is a bit bland but it has potential even if right now it's just an Argos version of BSG. I'll give it another go next week...
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Budgens Baltar he may be, but this looks a sight better than that Atlantis shite
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
torrented it
not bad so far but it will be two or three episodes down the line where we see how good it really is
not bad so far but it will be two or three episodes down the line where we see how good it really is
Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
Are you kidding? No one stayed dead in SG1 or Atlantis, even if you really were dead, really, there were dreams, nanobots and things that just brought you back to life tucked into every corner of the plot.
Voyager didn't have that problem, mostly because it was too fluffy to let anyone important die. (But yes there was the usual unlimited supply of red shirts).
Scaggs
following seagulls
Thought Robert Carlyle was good, as always, considering the script. I’m not sure any of the other characters are likeable though. Hope it doesn’t turn out like BSG, thought the last series was shite. I thought the bits where they tried to introduce some BSG type drams were the worst bits. I can believe the stuff about jumping through a stargate and going through a wormhole and all that stuff. I can even believe an ancient civilisation left a space ship flying through space with a stargate on it, but I can’t believe an American politician would sacrifice his life to save others. The bloke playing the ‘sad’ music on a piano while all this happened was pretty pathetic too. Those sort of scenes belong on some naff soap opera, not a scifi series.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Heh, c'mon tele sci fi has always had a streak of melodrama running through it 
raknor
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raknor
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Some very good points there, I agree about the final series of BSG, took themselves far too seriously. I thought the Eli (David Blue) & Lt Scott (Brian Jacob Smith) were good as well.
I also felt that the BSG drama stuff was a bit naff, but for right or wrong BSG has had a major impact on any scifi drama coming through over the next few years (Overall i feel this is a good thing)
Overall I loved it, but no show is perfect (no matter how big a stargate fanboy I am). It was great seeing RDA, Amanda and the Shanks in the episode and the little touches like the video game being set in Atlantis and other stargate nerd pleasers scattered around. I also thought it was a very strong pilot episode, as some shows take a while to gel, but the cast seemed to hit the ground running.
Also pleasing to see the ratings were pretty good with 865k (4%) viewers which made it the most watched cable/satellite station in that time slot
Stigmata
sexual tyrannosaurus
I was expecting to hate the Seth Rogan lookeylikey, but to my surprise he was alright. Can't see the purpose of the senator's daughter character though, except as a romantic interest for the younger male leads. Yawn.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
I just watched the first two episodes - thought it was good and will be doing series link on Sky+ 
Maybe the senators daughter character will develop a bit more s the series goes on because her dad did that big speech about her at the start didn't he? About how clever she is.
Maybe the senators daughter character will develop a bit more s the series goes on because her dad did that big speech about her at the start didn't he? About how clever she is.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
Oh, is that it? Oh well, she's purdee.she's the reason eli's there because of the computer game thing
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