GateWorld Podcast: Sex on SGU

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• Every week I consider calling in, but I never have. I really should have this time. There is no one on the podcast who has the same opinion as I do on this subject.

• I agree, you need a woman's point of view on this topic.
  Thank you though, for this weeks podcast.

• I personaly think its too much of sex and drama all over this series. We can watch Desperate Housewifes for that!

• Sex scenes are fine. I think they are used too much on Universe. There are too many love triangles. The show has even surpassed battlestar galactica in that area! It's absurd.

  Using someone else's body for sex is rape. The fact that it hasn't been addressed so far and that the characters have no problem doing it is one of the biggest mistakes on Universe.

• Wow, I WAS dissapointed with the obvious bias. After listening into the podcast, for the first time I felt old, and my sensibilities outdated. I listen to podcasts while driving to and from work, and after a few minutes of the podcast, I was driving in a red haze. Not sure if it was David or the guest, playing the part of the Illuminati (the enlightened). I dare this guy to say the same load of hogwash he said on the podcast in front of his significant other. I want him to think about the other side of the story. Let's say your significant other developed a mental illness like schizophrenia. Basically another person mentally, in the same physical body YOU know of. I would call you a Cad and a knave to your face, if you would abandon your significant other because "it's a different person, not the person (soul-wise) of who you knew. The body and mind cannot be counted as separate, since nobody really fell in love with someone else's "beautiful mind". This is what's basically wrong with the current world, and everyone's favorite excuse to cheat in life, "it's not the same person I fell in love with". Someone did bring up a good point. Crap happens, infact, everyday. but they never show the viewers the toilet wing, it is assumed that the crew is NOT constipated, and life goes on. So why harp on these sexual misadventures, basically catering for the 20 somethings? As they said so many times on the podcast, sex sells, and looks like that's the only theme, because writers cannot seem to come up with any other interesting material.

  Also, what you are saying is, there were absolutely no callers in, that expressed the inclusion of gratuitous sex scenes did NOT enhance or add anything to the story lines?

  What is the point of trying to look and sound objective in a podcast, since there is a definite conflict of interest? Oh, oh, pick me, pick me, to participate in that super secret project we cant let the fans know yet? Gateworld obviously takes pride in bringing the fans together for heated discussions (though sometimes sensored). What is point of having a podcast which, 98% of the time, can only say good things about the show? and the bad 2% is also okay, if you look at it from this point of view?

• To the charge of "bias" and a lack of objectivity: I don't get it. The show is about our opinions. We're biased and unobjective in that we have them. I didn't know what David and Kevin's opinions were before the show started, and I was pleasantly surprised toward the end that we had such divergent views on personhood.

  The show is also about the opinions of those who choose to call in and have their voices heard. We played every call we got this week, and honestly I was surprised that we didn't hear anything from those who outright hate sex on SGU.

  The "project" David is on is not at the behest of TPTB, so the conspiracy theory about GW being in the producers' pocket can be set aside for another day. I'd wager that we say positive things about SGU 98 percent of the time because we like the show 98 percent of the time.

  Do you have a different opinion? Call in.

• Agree with Darren.

  A lot of those who do like SGU & saying positive things about it don't have some secret motive of working with MGM/SyFy trying to promote the show. Chances are they are just fans who truly believe what they are saying.

  "Gateworld obviously takes pride in bringing the fans together for heated discussions(though sometimes sensored)"

  Theres a fine line between a 'heated discussion' and an all out argument.

• Sex?
  There's waaaay too much of it.

• The stargate franchise started as series with a nude scene. Well that perfectly in line with scifi part of the show. So funtional scifi nude it started with SG1.
  In SGU yes there are a few short sex scene. More you get a idea they doing it. But it short. Just enough as a statement that they have a intemit relation. As charbuilding part. The drama and characterbuilding is to big part as awhole and take a lot of screen time away. That it drive lot of old viewers away. Sex scenes are just a tiny part of that. So why whining on something that take a few bits of screen time away from scifi. as a small part in that ship load of drama and charbuilding.
  While the charbuilding and pure drama take half ep time or even more. Ep 9 the latest was barely scifi. It's almost pure charbuilding. If it wasn't for some nude chair scenes.

• ok, I have to put my 2 cents in here. I'm getting just a little sick of hearing the justification for all this sex on SGU just because the very very very first episode of SG1 had a nude scene in it and might I remind everyone that SG1 first aired on Showtime not SciFi.

  So SG1 started off with a nude scene, so what?!? I have watched every episode of SGU and I think almost if not every episode has had a sex scene and quite frankly I'm sick of it.

  I completely agree with US06154 in that "As they said so many times on the podcast, sex sells, and looks like that’s the only theme, because writers cannot seem to come up with any other interesting material."

  I've said it about other shows and I'll say it about this one. Putting that much sex in a show is a pathetic attempt at ratings because the writers aren't confident enough in their material and it's a sad state we're in when only sex can get ratings. The sex doesn't offend my "precious sensibilities" it offends my intelligence.