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Stargate Universe is their attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Battlestar Galactica and Degrassi.

I've heard the second half is better, but I could never get past the first season. Entirely too much melodrama, and not the fun kind they had in SG-1, with good characters and interesting plot lines. Just straight up melodrama.

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Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I forced myself to watch it just to see if it gets better in the second season and it sorta does. There's less melodrama, but it doesn't start feeling like Stargate until six episodes from the finale. And the finale isn't very satisfying.

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- FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I felt that the finale was thematically satisfying. The Ancients set Destiny in motion to discover the greatest secret of the universe, but never saw it through to the answer. The Tau'ri, the Ancients' chosen successors, picked up the torch and helped keep it moving. They repaired and resupplied Destiny. But they, too, never saw it through to the answer. Destiny continues on.
  
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  - Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yep. I think, in terms of being thematically accurate, the ending of SGU was better than BSG. It's not a satisfying ending because you don't get to find out what the mission is. (BTW, a message in the CMBR is a really interesting idea.) But it feels right for the show, more right than throwing all your ships into the sun, anyway.
    
    Also, the idea of putting themselves to sleep might have been a way to pick the show back up if it got renewed. I just wish they'd have made season 1 an actual sci fi show and not Degrassi in space.
    
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- MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah. Sadly season 2 of SG: Universe is just good enough to make it sad that they cancelled it after it started to find it’s legs.
  
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  - Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If season 2 was season 1 we'd have seen a fan campaign that would have revived it.
    
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    MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Agreed!
    
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Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
See now, for me the first season is so good, better than most other sci fi, and this even though it starts with the base of mazlowes hierarchy of needs, air, water, food… Meanwhile the second season is some rubbish with aliens and other stuff ruining the plot, and ends suddenly when it runs out of money.

I find SG1 too corny for repeat watching, SG Atlantis is better but not great. But SG Universe I have watched uncountable times. Enjoy it a lot.

Which just goes to show everyone is different.

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