As a fan of great science fiction I have no good excuse for watching Stargate Universe, other than to say sometimes it gets lonely working the nightshift and you need something to do while you eat your midnight lunch. It’s not a great show, but it’s a show I watch, and I suspect it’s also watched by a lot of you.
For all of the show’s flaws, probably it’s most glaring failure is in its insistence on using floating, silly sci-fi devices called “Kinos” to film reality show confession scenes which, are just kind of ridiculous. But one of the good things about Stargate Universe is that it seems to have no idea how much it sucks and so it just keeps right on doing lame things like the Kino’s anyway. Hell, it even uses them as promotional tools. read this entry »
With Battlestar Galactica gone and their BSG spin-off Caprica still a long, long way off, the newly christened SyFy network is looking for a new tentpole. They’re hoping it’ll be the third iteration of Stargate, which they’re calling Stargate Universe.
MGM Home Entertainment has announced the impending release of Stargate Atlantis season 4 on DVD. I’ve never quite understood the show’s popularity myself, but there’s no doubt that it’s beloved, presumably by people who have never seen Farscape.