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zeitgeist wrote:

Are you talking about the McKay episode?  I liked it. 

If you think they're trying to pack too much in, imagine if they'd tangled with the wraith on top of everything else that went on in that episode.  That would have been a seriously rushed episode.

It's being canceled? 

Yes - the last episode was a good story line, but either the planet should not have been a wraith stronghold - or it should have been two episodes so they could do it w/o it being over rushed.

There will be more Stargate

http://io9.com/5040764/stargate-univers … reen-light

A new spin-off show, Stargate Universe, has gotten the greenlight from the Sci Fi Channel. So we can expect a big 2-hour premiere in 2009, followed by a regular series.

Yes, the ship is called Destiny, what did you expect? It's Stargate — cheese is its bread and butter. The Hollywood Reporter claims that this Stargate will have a lot more space action aboard this ancient ship. Also, Destiny is programmed to take them across the galaxy, and they can't return home. Also, this series will be taking a deeper look into the origins of the Stargates.

resedit wrote:

Second was OK - Ronin was a mistake.

Ronin is one of the best characters.

Tayla I can't stand though. I'm glad they got rid of the woman leader (the one that became a replicator), and even John could be fairly annoying.

Great story line - but come on, they should have made it a two episode story line.
They go to a wraith stronghold and there's not one single encounter with the wraith?

I guess the writers are probably getting somewhat bored with the whole thing.
I think it is largely Sci Fi Channel's fault.

Oh well.

Their problem I think is the same problem with species 8472 in Voyager. You can't have a super-powerful enemy, and just make episodes perpetually fighting that enemy, because that gets boring, but you can't defeat the enemy because they are super-powerful. I always thought the Wraith were a terrible enemy. IF you look at SG-1, it took them a while to really go head-to-head with the system lords, then they had to make up the replicators. They should have just kept to small, weak enemies while exploring new planets... they had a whole freaking galaxy worth of things to try, but they ruined it by making the wraith too powerful.

I liked Ronon. Much more Lt. Ford.

Thats show's been on for 5 years?  How long has Stargate been on? 20?  Gah, and it was all downhill after the mediocre Kurt Russel movie.

They threw in the towel when they put the hologram in charge.

Picardo is making a great effort at developing his character, but there's not much chance he's ever going to be very sympathetic after all those years of playing the bureaucratic idiot.

This sucks.  That show had so much promise, but fell flat on its face.  They are already having the same issues SG1 did in the later seasons (ie poor storylines, halfhearted acting, etc).  Seems like the wrong people got in control. 

Orion wrote:

This sucks.  That show had so much promise, but fell flat on its face.  They are already having the same issues SG1 did in the later seasons (ie poor storylines, halfhearted acting, etc).  Seems like the wrong people got in control. 

They sure know how to put on a wrestling gig though.

Teal'c and Ronon in a cage match team against Kronos and Michael

That would have fit in with the direction that the "sci fi" channel is going.

That theme worked so WELL for Voyager.