I liked Universe.
I think most people’s issue with it was is wasn’t the same type of show as sg1 and Atlantis.
It wasn’t as action packed, the stakes were never as high.
I see no issue with it beyond lack of clear plot direction, which both precious shows also had in the first seasons.
Just don’t ask my feelings about the timelines, or how “impossible” it is to go get them with asgard-improved hyper drives along with all their knowledge after Unending.
“Lost” with chevrons. “Universe” was “Lost” with Chevrons. Especially the way it spent 5 episodes layering mystery upon mystery, almost instantly abandoning the solution to about 60% of them. Then it spent 2 episodes answering the remaining 40% in a weird and completely unpredictable way so trying to solve them yourself becomes utterly pointless, killing all engagement.
And the original movie that spawned all the shows we’re talking about could be poorly described as a spacey twist on dances with wolves.
As I said, lack of direction that was present in the previous shows.
Of course the biggest difference is they had experience enough to try and do new things for the series, but didn’t apply their experience from the past shows in the “clear direction” aspect. I feel like once you’ve got two shows of the same header under your belt, you should be able to hit the ground running coughstartrekcough
I’m absolutely open to a variation of the set formula. A third, almost identical show would’ve been boring as hell. Yet, I did not enjoy “Lost” at all and “Universe” failed to grab me for the same reasons ;)
What I absolutely hated about Stargate Universe was the teen drama they injected into the stories. It was exactly the thing that Stargate:SG1 parodied in Wormhole Extreme right down to the pregnancy.
And ending each episode of the first season with a Dawson’s Creek music montage. Ugh.
Yeah, even I had problems with how often they threw in soap-opera level drama (thank God they never did an amnesia episode…) but overall I still liked it. It’s obviously last on the list of the 3 shows, but that’s just kind of by default.
I mean… It’s not as bad as star trek enterprise
We need more Stargate! Best episode when SG1 took out an Ori attack ship by destroying a wrath star cruiser, to power a super gate, galaxies apart.
Stargate best episode was 200.
Also the groundhog day episode. S04e06 time loop.
Best scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdauwcK_5WU
I’m taking this loop off
On the off chance that some people may assume the creater of this meme just got the show name wrong. It is about this show: Stargate Infinity Wiki
I don’t remember much about it but it went way way off cannon very quickly.
The fourth head should have the most bad-ass head but with a really short neck labeled “universe.”
I didn’t like Universe, stopped after the first season, never came back to it.
Then I got my wife into Stargate and after we were done I mentioned there is one more show, which is not that good. She wanted to try it, so we did. I came into it with 0 positive expectations and oh boy was I pleasantly surprised. S1 was not as bad as I remembered it and S2 was better, especially its seconds half.
Universe S1 was a shift to a different type of show, but more importantly it lacked the Stargate spirit. They must’ve realized it because S2 was much more Stargate, it had the spark. I was genuenly sad it was cancelled after S2, would love to have more of it.
