Star Gate Universe - ep 8

[agoodwinsmith]

Lather rinse repeat. There's way too much high octane emotional scenery chewing for way too little payoff.

I realized last week that at the end of the episode, after I've spent 8 hours (ish, never forget the commercials) with these people, that when someone was injured to the point we don't know whether they are going to live or die - I didn't know who they were. They could have been male or female, but I just didn't know based on the name alone.

C'mon people who are writing/filming/etc-ing the show - if you want me to invest in the show, you need to spend enough time on a character that may be sacrificed that I will care whether they live or die - or at least notice they are missing. I'm sure something very erudite is going on with examining narrative assumptions and questioning storytelling tropes, but - c'mon.

And why, for frickin' sake can't they just dial the ship from Earth? They got there by dialing the ship from a stationary base on a planet. They now know the address for dialing. Earth has ooooooodles of power for this. Deal with this or accept that your airship disbelief has not achieved hover.

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[shriker-tam.livejournal.com]

Not neccesarily - that just means that Earth doesn't know of a way yet. I suspect they won't find a way for quite a while though, since the point of the show is that its about a bunch of people lost in space...

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Bunch of *cranky* people lost in space. :)

How are you enjoying the show? I'm quite cranky (bet you couldn't tell), because I want to like it more than I do.

[shriker-tam.livejournal.com]

Um...I dunno. I'm not hating as much as other people seem to. I think it's a bit over the top melodramatic, the characters are mostly still too flat to really be engaging and creating drama by having people not talk to each other has always been a pet hate of mine. But I'm enjoying it enough to keep going for at least a while more to see if it grows into itself.