Cast of "Stargate Universe."
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When “Stargate SG-1” was canceled in order to support “Stargate Atlantis,” many fans weren’t happy about the situation. When “Stargate Atlantis” was canceled to begin work on “Stargate Universe,” fans were very concerned.
SGU promised to be a very different take on the “Stargate” world. The directors and writers wanted to focus on the cast rather than aliens and the conflict between the human race and aliens. This was showcased in the first half of the first season. For most fans of the series, it was a full-blown melodramatic outbreak between people that cannot stand living together.
It was as if you were placed and locked inside a room with your worst enemies and coworkers to live together for a few years – very aggravating.
The production team for SGU was in desperate needs to change things up a bit, and luckily they listened to veteran fans of the series. They took sometime off the air to renew what SGU will be delivering. The end result looks promising and much more appealing to “Stargate” fans or sci-fi fans overall, but it is not there yet.
In this second half of the season, a new alien race was added to the mix. Before, it use to be about the crew of the ship and their personal goals, vendettas and their raging internal/domestic problems – now they must come together if they want to survive against this new alien race.
If this second half of the season showed anything, it was that SGU has potential to be something good and different to what SG-1 and Atlantis were. For now, the characters are still a handful of emotional train wreck, and the constant hate for one another inside the ship, is annoying and does not help the situation they are in. If you look at past “Stargate” shows, the external problems made the people aware that they had a common enemy and so they worked together – unfortunately this isn’t the case with SGU yet, but hopefully as this season goes on we will see more unity.
Lastly, while the writers try to dive you into the personal lives of the characters, the messages is lost with all the problems going on at once. The writers should focus on one problem and work towards that. They should try to make the cast to be loved rather than hated. At the moment there isn’t anyone that can become like the SG-1 cast use to be, but with work, they could turn the tables.
There is a lot of potential for SGU if they writers and producers try to go with what the fans like. As of right now if SGU continues to deliver the heavyset drama in a sci-fi environment, SGU will fall and will inevitably be cancelled. Lets hope that with these new changes and a few more SGU becomes something the fans can grow to love and appreciate.
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By Rodrigo Paredes
"They took sometime off the air to renew what SGU will be delivering."
ReplyDeleteActually, the finished filming the first season by the end of october. What we're seeing is what they always intended.
The show doesn't appeal to everybody, but it does appeal to some.
The writers made superficial changes to Universe but at the core it's the same writing team. They don't have the talent to pull off anything complex.
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