Reviews

I'm really enjoying this show a lot. It is fun, with lots of action and humor too. My favorite part is the fact it has diverse characters. The lead is a female, who can kick butt. The second lead, Augie, is my favorite. He is blind (the character is, I don't think the actor is), but he is not limited by being blind. He can do cool things any way, including beat up guys twice his size :-)

There is also an Indian character who is an important secondary character. You hardly ever see Indian people playing major roles on TV, so I like that aspect of the show too. I do not think the show is very realistic in its depictions of the CIA, but I can't name one spy show that is! If you want to relax with a fun adventure show, Covert Affairs delivers.

I'm not so sure about the "Ben Mercer" love interest, though. I don't really like him much...and I hope the writers don't take the relationship he has with the lead into sappy territory. I guess we'll see.

At first I thought this show would just be Roswell with Vampires, but I was pleasantly surprised. There is plentiful eye candy for both male and female viewers (which is important for any vampire show!), and the characters are interesting and not 2D cookie cutter characters, and there are some interesting mysteries going on.

My only real complaint about the show is a moral ambiguity, well, not even a moral ambiguity, a blatant amorality by Damon. While I can understand that vampires kill people, Damon in several instances has just killed a human in cold blood, and there is no repercussion in the story. He doesn't feel guilty, no one really calls him out on it, and the viewer is then left with the impression it is a-okay and we should still feel sorry for and like Damon. While I get feeling a little sorry for Damon due to his back story, I really have a problem with the way his character is portrayed, and the message it sends to viewers.

Also, in my opinion some good characters get killed off too soon, without having enough time to really develop. On the bright side though, most of the "drama" is not drawn out unrealistically - the plot moves forward enough with each episode to stay interesting. So I'd rather have character arcs move too fast than too slowly, but I think they could take their time a bit more with certain characters.

This show is one of the worst shows I have ever seen. Hard core sci-fi it is not. It is a soap opera in space, and a bad soap opera at that.

I am a big fan of SG-1 and SGA, and I was excited to see SGU when it came out. I thought a "darker" and more "serious" Stargate might be interesting. I like quality character drama, so I didn't write SGU off just because it wasn't going to be light-hearted, escapist action- adventure.

Unfortunately, the premiere was underwhelming, but I still watched a good chunk of the season (the first 8 and a half episodes and the last three). I kept hoping that at some point the show would get better. It didn't. With each episode, the plots dragged along at a snail's pace and the writers focused on the selfish, animalistic sides of humanity. I couldn't believe that the powers that be had transformed Stargate from something enjoyable with a wholesome message into base drivel seemingly inspired by Lord of the Flies.

All the characters in Stargate Universe are so despicable that I don't care about them at all. In fact, I am hoping they will die. They are the most amoral, selfish, backstabbing, whining wastes of space ever created. And they like to have sex while inhabiting other people's bodies (yes, you read that right). A lot of SGU fans like to claim that the SGU characters are more realistic than the characters in SG-1 and SGA. But I find the SGU characters much less realistic. I have never met anyone in real life so despicable. Surely the "best of the best" chosen for the top secret Stargate program would not be a bunch of losers that in real life would not have even passed their first multiple choice psych evals!

The reason I tuned in for the last three episodes of the season (after giving up hope the show would improve around episode 8) was honestly just that I wanted to see if the arrival of the Lucian Alliance would mean the demise of some of my least favorite characters. Sadly, based on the trailers for season 2, it looks like almost everyone survived.

Stargate Universe is a sorry excuse for sci-fi, and a sorry excuse for any TV show, no matter what the genre. It is not worth your time.