Stargate Universe Cancelled

Torino writes "SGU has finally been cancelled, with the remaining 10 episodes to air in Spring. Apparently, the cast wasn't told ahead of time, and some of them learned of the cancellation via Twitter. SGU has had its share of problems, even spawning a community of people who dislike the show. Can it be saved via fan support, given the steadily declining viewership numbers? Do you think the show had the potential to improve?"

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Good Riddance

[BJ_Covert_Action]

This is going to be a rant, a biased rant, and a personal opinion rant. Nonetheless, I think it is a rant worth posting.

SGU needed to be canceled. That stupid show needed to be canceled far more than 90% of the other shows canceled in T.V. history. I watched the entire first season of SGU with high expectations. I even watched most of the second season hoping that, somehow, against all odds, the writers would hoist that heap of dramatic crap out of the soap-opera-hole of stupidity it dug for itself. It wasn't going to happen though.

SGU was crap, total, utter, worthless crap. Every stupid freakin' episode followed the same storybook recipe for building superficial drama. The characters spent 45 minutes of the damn show running around, talking about what a difficult situation they were in, arguing with each other, and doing nothing to fix whatever problem they had at hand. Then, in the last few minutes, they implement a "daring" and "risky" plan of action, that they spent the rest of the episode crying about. The episode ends with a major cliffhanger that wouldn't be present were it not for the unfathomable stupidity and dramatic nature of the characters involved. Then, in the next episode, rather than develop the problem and solution dynamic more, they magically mop the cliffhanger up (all Deus Ex Machina style) within the first five minutes of the new episode, thus allowing a whole new insipid, dramatic issue to be developed for this episode.

Sure, there were one or two interesting episodes that did something curious, like the time loop episode, or the seed-ship episode. But 95% of this stupid freakin' show was contrived drama and useless blubbering. I've heard some folks say that the characters were the major plus of the series. I call bullshit. The characters were stupid. With the exception of Rush demonstrating the borderline between genius and sociopath, none of the other characters were even remotely interesting, much less realistic. Col. Young continually flip flopped between a dramatic, lost soul, to a take charge, settle this shit military commander with no apparent continuity to his decisions or personality. He was weak and useless when the plot needed him to be. He was a take charge ass kicker when the plot needed him to be. Lt. Scott was basically the science fiction version of that stupid vampire from Twilight: a soft, sensitive boy stuck in the troublesome present where being a man just isn't as simple as it used to be. Eli could have been an interesting character if he didn't spend every episode crying about how nobody loves him. Chloe was an emotionally useless tramp, just like the female role from that dumb Twilight series. TJ did well enough, but she needed a bigger part and should have had access to more guns. Greer, well, Greer was at least consistent in his character, in that he was a lock, stock, and barrel military type that would shoot first and ask questions later. Oh, and the HR representative that has a take-charge attitude from the get go? She was a complete tool. Her character's only purpose was to sit there and moralize about what everyone else was doing wrong, while doing little more than causing problems for everyone else on board by proselytizing to the wrong people at the wrong time. She served no other purpose than to generate drama and conflict in what is supposed to be a damn science fiction series.

And that's the crux of the whole matter. the Original SG-1 had numerous plots, problems, and solutions driven by scientific phenomena and Sam Carter (or Daniel Jackson's) intelligent and creative thinking. SGU was nothing more than a dimly lit teenage soap opera on a dark spaceship. Maybe 2 or 3 episodes out of an entire season could be deemed to have any scientific underpinnings. The rest was nothing more than a bunch of pissy, useless teenagers crying on each others shoulders about how hard it was to be them: Fucking useless as science fiction.

I'll be honest, since the first season, I have been waiting for this stupid series to get canceled. It is an insult to the original Stargate movie, to the original Stargate series, and to the genre of Sci-Fi in general. Good fucking riddance.