four more weeks of waiting to go

And more airing news for everyone in Sweden:
“Stargate Universe has (finally) arrived at Pegasus galaxy”
People here really miss SGA and SG1. But you’ll feel better soon. SGU is arriving to TV6. On Friday March 5 at 9 pm – make a note in your calendar.
http://www.tv6.se/ – http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tv6.se%2F&sl=sv&tl=en

I’m watching the premier now as we speak
YES!

I’ve seen every episode of SG1/SGA/SGU at least twice. I hadn’t checked the site til now because SGU seemed fine. It pulled together in the last few episodes and got almost great.

They stretched with SGU, and the first half was tough, but they found their way at the end. The structure is encouraging, but we’re not used to novelistic story telling, and we weren’t told to be patient.

I place the blame in two places.

First: francises are stepping stones. If SGA had ended stronger– no’Todd’ as comic relief, ‘natives’ wasted in stereotypes, predictable bureaucratic/military antagonists, stunt casting shortcuts to characterization, embiggened battles, and San Francisco? Really?–then it would’ve bought them time.

Second: it should’ve been marketed as an epic. The seasons should’ve been called volumes and the episodes chapters. It would’ve cued us to be patient. But it requires a risky business decision: “Seven and out”.

And what else is there to whine about?
There are too many pasty Canadians, and I’m waiting for the First People (Americans call them Native Americans) to show up as The Evil Aliens and The Wise Aliens. They will later Combat China, Get Stuck in Afganistan, Fail in Iraq, Deal With Global Warming, Battle Economic Downturns, Ration Health Care, Time Travel During Sweeps, kill a Beloved Red Shirt and replace him with Neelix.

The stories are old. Therefore the characters have to be new to renew the stories. I think in some ways this is the future of quality fiction, so I’ll stick with it.

(And Louis Ferreira is fantastic. He has a noir quality that works.)

@gatehunter

I agree… How is waiting for four months having yearlong programming. You’re waiting the same amount of time but forgetting everything in the middle when they take months off. Makes more sense to just air all 20 every week and then airing the next season in the fall. It seems to me that ratings about be more consistent doing it this way as well, but then again I don’t run a network.

if they put on 5 new episodes of sg1 or sga i would watch and then wait till the next 5. but i wont watch this waste of sci fi show sgu.

If you don’t bring the marshmallows, we can’t have any smores.

@lordball The way in which you worded your comment it more or less says that Atlantis was bad and you would rather suffer 5 more seasons of it than watch another episode of SGU.