Stargate Universe (TV Series) Cloverdale (2010) User Reviews

It is so bad... To be almost good. Almost...

[omero-omero · 5/10 · 14 August 2022]

The scenario resembles a classic B-movie within a B-Movie. What is happening to Chloe is pretty obvious by now and the plot twists proposed to build up tension and suspense only manage to break the suspension of disbelief. The actors still manage to play out their roles decently, however the final verdict is that the whole episode is mediocre, at best.

Only worth watching the very first time or when one has time to waste.

Filler episode; don't bother

[ok-notifications-517-439932 · 4/10 · 29 December 2021]

This one is a filler episode based around Matthew and Chloe. Half of this episode is a vision on earth, while the other half is set on a planet, where the team tries to save Matthew. The final try to save him might have severe effects on Matthews future on board of the Destiny, but it doesn't, because they ignore it in future episodes. Therefore, just skip this episode. It's nonsense and irrelevant.

S2E5

[syntory · 4/10 · 19 February 2024]

One of the worst episodes of the series. Way too much time wasted with the dream life back on Earth. Not only was it completely unnecessary but it was very boring, I don't understand why it would've been so difficult to stick with the alien planet and the plant creatures. I've binged watched SGU several times over the years and each time I always fast forward through the dream scenes or even skip this episode altogether. The crew is in another galaxy on an alien planet so why did the writers feel the need to continually add scenes from back on Earth? It's useless filler and is part of the reason SGU is not even close to the same level as SG-1 or Atlantis.

Cheap

[rgrimmig · 1/10 · 26 March 2022]

Most of this episode takes place in a boring small town on Earth because that is a lot cheaper to produce than, say, a decent science-fiction drama on gigantic sci-fi sets with lots of CGI space battles and such.

A lot of the rest of the episode shows people boringly run around in the woods, which is also a nice, super cheap location and you don't even need a permit to film there.

The most expensive thing in terms of production value could actually be the prosthetics/make-up of the alien fungus or plant or whatever that starts growing on somebody's arm while taking over their consciousness.

The only worse budget-saving measure conceivable would be a clip show. I would prefer a decent bottle episode over this.

My mind can't stop switching to the Red Letter Media guys collectively facepalming ovcer this.

Inconsistent With Past Col. Young Behavior

[jasonemartin-75927 · 1/10 · 11 May 2023]

It's a boring romance episode between Chloe and that Scott guy (ugh). And it's made worse by the fact that Col. Young behaves in ways inconsistent with recent previous behavior. Remember the episode where he refused to vent the atmosphere of the gate room during the attack by the Lucian Alliance even though General O'Neil said he should? All to save a guy who had a record of betraying Earth for the Lucian Alliance... Telford. He wasn't willing to sacrifice Telford to trap the Lucian Alliance invading troops in a vacuum so they could be easily killed or subdued without casualties from his crew, even though it ended up costing him the life of at least one of his soldiers who was executed by the Lucian Alliance. Perhaps more. An awful decision on his part that was, frankly, implausibly bad. No intelligent commanding officer would make such a decision to surrender the gate room to the Lucian Alliance so they can gain a foothold on the ship and cause all sorts of trouble, but Col. Young did. And it was an awful episode because the whole thing was based on him making that bad decision. However, lets think for a minute. Col. Young refused to allow Scott back on the ship after he was infected, because doing so would put the rest of the crew of the Destiny at risk. Fundamentally, that decision is no different from his decision to save Telford by not venting the gate room atmosphere, thereby putting the rest of the crew at risk of being killed by the Lucian Alliance. There is a logical inconsistency in Col. Young's behavior in each of these episodes, and given that both of them occurred so recently, it's difficult to forgive. To put it simply, these two episodes and Col. Young's incompatible behavior in each of them are examples of bad writing despite the fact Col. Young made the right decision in denying Scott permission to return to the Destiny because of the alien organism that had infected him.