Every once in a while I tend to go out on a tangent and write a post that’s not MMO related. Today is another one of those days.
Yesterday I finally got a chance to watch the new Stargate series called Stargate Universe. Now before I get into it allow me to give you some background on my SG experiences. I’ve only seen the movie once, thought it was ok, and never watched more than 5 mins of any of the previous series cause they looked cheesy as hell, Power Rangers cheesy. So you can call me a Stargate noob since I don’t really know any of it’s history. But I do love me some good sci-fi and since it looked pretty good in the commercials I thought I’d give it a try. On another note, I’d say Battlestar Galactica was my favorite series of all time so I was hoping that SGU would be its replacement show. Apparently not.
The show starts off interesting enough, then flashes back to show us how everyone got there. This is where we’re introduced to Eli, a pudgy gamer who happens to be a genius and solves a mathematical proof while playing some sort of video game. This was the first tipoff that the shows was going to be horrible. Who the hell wrote this? Some Stargate fanboy high school dropout gamer? I’m sorry, but solving a mathematical proof in a video game is not possible. Forget about the logistics of how you would even go about integrating a extremely complex math problem into a graphical video game, but how the f*ck would the game know that the answer is right if it was never solved in the first place. Seconds after he solves it the doorbell rings and we see a guy in a military uniform and are introduced to Rush, the genius mathematician that wasn’t smart enough to solve the equation himself, but smart enough to integrate it into a video game. Hmm, maybe if he didn’t spend all his time doing that he could have actually solved it himself.
The conversation that follows was so ridiculous I started to think maybe the show was going to be a comedy spoof of Stargate. Sadly it is not.
After being beemed to a spaceship that’s orbiting Earth, he meets some other people and is then beemed to another planet where the military is working on a Stargate they found. First of all, what year is this? Is SGU supposed to be present day? The video game he was playing sure looked it it. Do people know about the space ship or the other planet? Nothing was explained which would have been very helpful.
If everything was a secret, then the show can just end now cause it’s a huge pile of crap. Why the hell were there civilians everywhere if it was a secret? Why would you invite a Senator and his daughter? Oh, she’s your assistant, ok, here’s access to top secret information about our space ships and colonization of an alien planet. But it’s ok, she’s your assistant and daughter.
Seriously WTF is wrong with the writers.
Next there is an attack on the planet where the Stargate is by some unknown alien race. Again I don’t know anything about how Stargates work, but the reactor that generates power for the Stargate was damaged in the attack and when it blew up the entire planet exploded. Can someone explain this to me? Can someone please explain to me how a reactor that is so powerful that it can blow up an entire planet is so ill protected that a few attackers with laser missiles can blow it up. Maybe there was an external exhaust pipe that lead all the way to the core and one of the alien attackers used the force to get a direct hit. Come on, that was ok 40 yrs ago, but not today.
The stupidity continued after all the survivors from the military base jump into the Stargate to end up on some alien ship that has been traveling for millions of years without any crew. Aside from Eli bugging the sh#t out of me with his “humor”, I didn’t understand why everyone was mad at Rush. Did I miss something? It seems like everyone jumped through the Stargate, then everyone was mad at him because he spoke first.
More stupid sci-fi cliches continued as you had Rush and Eli reading and being able to use alien computers without the slightest knowledge of what they were actually doing. I’m sorry, but it takes me a few mins to figure out a Mac yet alone a computer thats 100 million years old, but it’s ok Eli’s good at vidoe games.
As the series opener I don’t think it could have gone worse. They need to kill off Eli and fire the writers if they want to save this show, the’re both terrible. Considering just how horrible the writing was, I actually think everyone aside from Eli did a pretty decent job, but still the series opener for Stargate Universe sucked.
hahaha sgu was great specially second series. I mean come on its supposed to be a standalone series so it needs to plod so that the retards who didnt watch sg1 and sga no wot the hell is happening. Effin great series should not have been cancelled anyone who says otherwise should have gone to specsavers. RANT OVER!!
You are all ignorant. Well all of you who talk bad about sg. Just like I was, I never use to like it on tv because I only saw random episodes and didn’t understand it, but I watched all from start to finish on dvd and it was amazing I watch it all the time now. Looks can be decieving, it is the best scifi show in existance.
Sg1 was only “cheesy” because its ten years old that was the best graffics at the time, and its damn good. Also gets a lot better grafic and storywise. It is an amazingly expansive and openended show. Its the ultimate storyline for a scifi show.
Sga was the best possable continuance for sg1 with a lot of good new characters, but they where smart enough to intagrate everyones faveorite charactors on some level. With once again a good storyline. And new likeable good enamies, and a lot of nice technology, and astounding graphics.
Sgu I admit starts off bad. But just like sga the problem is it starts with unknown charactors, you have to grow to like them like with sg1. I personally liked sgu after watching both seasons. It takes time to get into and has a good underlying story to it. There is a lot to take in from sgu, and former sg knowledge is preferable to understand the plot. I agree sg1 or sga should have continued but sgu is good, just give it time and pay close attention. Just like with the others it gets good.
Your post is a masive fail sorry but if the story was silly I don’t think they would make a film
also I wont say what others users have already said but you are maybe too silly to understand the story.
Not to be rude or anything. but if you base a rating on a sequel series without even whatching the series that came before that you actually have no room to judge. Alot of the stuff you found confusing are actually either explain in the seres before or within the episode which you failed to pay attention to. For instance, Dr Rush clearly states that the math problem implemented into the game is actually only a section of what needed to be solved and that he had already solved that part of it. As for the space ship, they are hiding it from the people of earth due to not wanting mass panic. My recomendation is to watch Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis before judging SWU. Also before judging you should watch more than one episode.
> I’m sorry, but solving a mathematical proof in a video game is not possible. Forget about the >logistics of how you would even go about integrating a extremely complex math problem into >a graphical video game, but how the f*ck would the game know that the answer is right if it >was never solved in the first place. Seconds after he solves it the doorbell rings and we see a >guy in a military uniform and are introduced to Rush, the genius mathematician that wasn’t >smart enough to solve the equation himself, but smart enough to integrate it into a video >game. Hmm, maybe if he didn’t spend all his time doing that he could have actually solved it >himself.
Bevor du so nen quatsch schreibst solltest du erstmal darüber nachdenken was du schreibst. Das SPIEL weiß GARNICHTS. Das Spiel wurde von den Leuten die am Stargateprojekt arbeiten, ENTWORFEN und ins NETZ gesetzt. In der Hoffnung das irgendwelche GENIES diese Tafeln mit den Problemen annehmen udn sie lösen. Die anderen User waren wichtig damit das “Spiel” durch Mundpropaganda bekannt wird.
Und währent dann die INTELLIGENTEREN User die Probleme lösen, werden sie in eine Endlosschlaufe gebracht die immer behauptet das das Problem nicht gelöst sei. Das Programm währentdessen schickt die Lösungen der User ans Pentagon wo die Ergebnisse und Lösungsvorschläge mit der IP-Adresse desjenigen gespeichert werden, um dann deren Ideen für sich zu gebrauchen.
Das Rätzel selbst hat am Spiel garkeine wirkung. Denn es ist nur da um das Pentagon lösungsvorschläge anzubieten, auf der sie Leute im Pentagon nicht gekommen sind.
So hat Rush das Problem auf mathematische Weise angegeben mit der man den Energieverbrauch eines Stargates errechnet werden konnte, um das 9. Chefron zu aktivieren. Das war aber nicht das Problem. Das Problem war, das auf dem Planeten ein anderes Symbohl als Ursprungsort akzeptiert wurde, sagen wir symbol x. Aber die Destenie war darauf Programiert nur Stargates aus der Milchstraße zu akzeptieren, die das Erdsymbol als letztes Chefron angibt. Dadurch gibt es in der Galaxie nur ein Stargate das die Destenie anwählen kann. Das mit dem Erdsymbohl. Sie kamen aber nicht auf die Idee das Erdsymbohl anzugeben, da in dem Sonnensystem wo sie das Stargate hingeschickt haben das Erdsymbohl nicht als Ausgangspunkt akzeptiert wurde, da sie nicht auf der Erde waren. Sie habengegugt welches dafür akzept. Wurde, symbol z zum beispiel, und haben dann mit symbohl z versucht die Destenie anzuwählen. Die destenie sagt ahber: Chefron 1-8 sind richtig, man will mich anwählen. Ist das letzte Chefron das von der Erde? nein? Tut mir Leid. Ich akzeptiere keine. Wurmlochverbindung.
Das sollte verhindern das irgendwelche Aliens durch zufall auf die Adresse stoßen und so die Destenie plündern udn die Mission des Schiffs, welches Millionen von Jahren laufen soll, vereiteln.
Gib in google 1+1 ein und dort steht 2. also kann man schonmal difinitif mit den Kompinenten im Internet Probleme lösen wie unschwer zu sehen ist.
To all,
SG series were all great except SGu! I’ve seen everything every episode so I can call it. I also have good taste in scify. The main issues with SGu is the acting flat out sucks bad and most characters are boring to unlikable. I hated Eli and be in the final episode seems to finally get killed off then they cancelled it. The show might of had a chance if they killed him off- fat sack of crap! It had potential for growth and success but they blew. It over and over. 2 seasons and they finally got it right towards the end and like I said the last scene killing off Eli would have had opportunity for improvement but it truly deserved cancelation and I shed no tears afterwards. To anyone who disagrees, f u , show blew and acting blew harder. To the actor Eli, find a new profession u suck! Annoying voice, fat sack ugly slob, u are awful and I hate u. To Writers , u are just as too blame as anyone too what why u guys wrote trash and wasted what I bet was a healthy budget. As someone said Atlanis had another 3-7 years more u could have done and would have spared me and many others from this drek of a show. Oh I can’t say enough how much I hate Eli sucks sucks sucks.
Again I hate Eli sucks sucks sucks