You'll have to wait for the Fall. That was the season finale on Friday, I believe. But it was quite a good 2-part episode to finish it.
all the meandering they did to get here was boring but these last two episodes were very good. Rocket River
Final 2 episodes were decent. I expect the show to improve when it returns in September or it won't survive. From the moment she became pregnant, I was wondering how Johansen would lose her baby. That was answered. They should shake up the cast a bit.
I think some of the cast will die... it will be interesting to see which ones. The only three characters I am invested in are Eli, Chloe and TJ... everyone else can kick the bucket as far as I'm concerned. Rush at times is interesting, but he needs to have more scenes with Eli for me to enjoy him. I really enjoyed the finale though. They likely won't kill Greer and Scott, but I wouldn't mind if they killed off Young. Those two characters in the infirmary with TJ from the Alliance* had some potential. I can't remember their names, but I love the idea of TJ becoming involved with the guy she patched up if Young survives. * Nod to Firefly?
Eli reminds me of a bumbling hobbit whose antics advance a plot. That cliffhanger was pretty good, but I don't think it was a good bookmark to a first season. Mostly because they wanted to cover so much that they didn't have any direction. This show continues to remind me of Voyager.
I think the fact that I'm not a huge Sci-fi fan (meaning volume - I do like some sci-fi) helps me to watch shows like this. I enjoyed Enterprise as well - but really Star Trek fans think I'm nuts for saying that. There were several episodes that I thought were a waste this season on SGU, but overall I liked most of them. It's more a character piece but they didn't start out treating it that way.. which I think is the main problem.
Chloe can die .. but i guess she is they eye candy Greer, Eli, Rush -- This all seems like a big contribed way to get Telford [Lou Diamond] on the ship. Rona Mitra helps. It will end in some kind of uneasy truce thing. [Rona = Tela from SGA = Tel'c from SG1 . . . the foreign element] I figured they would have just picked up a random alien [See Neelix in Voyager] Rocket River
I think some characters will definitely die. Chloe and Camile Wray should be the first two. Rush is essential to the show. RR, I was also thinking Rona Mitra's character would be a great addition in place of either of the two mentioned above. I think it is predictable she stays on as the first resident alien. I feel like this show has tremendous potential but is performing way below what it should. I'm willing to accept season 1 as introductory with limited character development. But the writers need to raise their game several notches and get it moving. If the first few episodes of season 2 don't pick up the pace a bit, I'll give up. Hoping this would happen sometime during season 1 is what kept me watching.
I want to like this show but its hard to. Apparently we have some of the worlds smartest people yet they constantly make poor decisions... which really is hard to believe. I mean Young tried to kill Rush... yet he won't sacrifice one person who he doesn't even like to save the ship by venting the gate room? Add to that I can't even watch the Chloe/Eli segments and have begun skipping them... they're both terrible and to me add nothing to the show. At times it is great but just so so many flaws as well.
I don't think they even hired writers for this show. To me, its plagiarism. Its like being handed a topic to write an essay back in high school. Instead of doing your own work, you go find several previous (bad) essays on the topic, finding the best paragraphs, copy them to your own paper, and then slapping your own name on it.
This one of my biggest pet peeves of the show and the whole dark trend of sci-fi. I don't think we need to go back to original Stargate or Star Trek where character development took a back seat to action and gee whiz techno solutions being pulled out of the bag to impossible situations but SGU seems to have gone too far the other way. If these people are really that dysfunctional why were they even chosen to be part of an elite taskforce (both civillian and military) dealing with impossibly advanced technology and the greatest secret known of humanity?
character development is important but it should be used to ADVANCE THE PLOT. Sadly, most of the character development in this show seems like it is just in there for its own sake....which is boring.
Who has developed? Not Eli. not Cloe. - I guess having sex is development Not Scott. - I guess. . .it is so wack the way they threw a kid on him. Not Greer [which is kind of fun] Closest is The General who is wack. The UN Liason . .went from having the hots for Daniel to being a lesbian - I guess that is development. Telfort - still an *ss. Rush has developed the most. They seem to have some interesting secondary character they kind of just throw away. BTW - Can someone tell me. . .WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BRAIN DEAD GUY IN THE FROZEN CHAIR. Did i miss something? Rocket River
I thought he just disappeared and then in the next episode there was a comment about him not having been found yet.
I guess he merged with the ship because he was gone when they opened the door back up. Regarding character development, I thought the first season was very slow in that regard. SGU is being held back by very poor script writing.
Agree on the poor script writing (my gripes are pacing, execution, and resolution). Being that there are few space shows out there, it's not like I'm gonna stop watching anytime soon though...
If you're referring to the Lucian alliance guy that got burned up, they already said that was because those guys were standing in a part of the ship where the shield gave out during the gamma ray pulse from the neutron star.
Young wasn't going to be on the Destiny expedition. Telford was going to be its leader. Young is a former SG leader, who couldn't make the hard decisions so he quit that/got sacked. He was just leading the Icarus garrison. Rush chose at least some of the members (He told Greer that he wasn'tin the team). I doubt that Scott was on it either or Wray or Johansen. Mathboy and Chloe got there by accident, too. The rest of the civilians we don't know but they haven't really been the cause of the dysfunction. Rush has his problems but they couldn't leave him off the original expedition because he knows about it the most.
