Stargate Universe promised Sci-Fi fans a mature and thoughtful series in the Stargate Franchise. Stargate Universe delivered a soap opera populated with characters that I would sooner see dead than make it home.
The characters in Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis were interesting because they did heroic and interesting things. The characters on SGU were not interesting because they engaged in passive aggressive actions when they were not moping like spoiled emotional teenagers.
Because the characters in SG-1 and Atlantis were wholesome, intelligent, and heroic persons, I wanted them to succeed in whatever challenges that had to face in each episode. Because the characters in SGU were ignoble, unintelligent, and cowardly persons, I wanted them to die in the black of space.
SG-1 and Atlantis were Sci-Fi shows that took a loose approach to the principles of real world science. This was acceptable given the needs of dramatic television. However, Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper promised that SGU would be much more realistic. Therefore, it was only fair that the standards for scientific verisimilitude be higher for SGU.
This increased verisimilitude was not present. The pilot episode had a main character solving an unsolved mathematical problem via playing and beating a computer game that was distributed by the USAF. Unfortunately, in order to incorporate a mathematical puzzle into a computer game or program, one must solve the puzzle before writing the computer program. This basic principle of computer science, known to all programmers, was apparently not known by the writers and producers of SGU.
The pilot episode also went on to show the characters scrubbing carbon dioxide from the space ship with calcium carbonate that had not been baked off to remove carbon dioxide. This indicated that the writers and producers were ignorant of high school chemistry.
Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper needed to spend some more time developing this television program before casting the actors and writing the scripts.
The characters in Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis were interesting because they did heroic and interesting things. The characters on SGU were not interesting because they engaged in passive aggressive actions when they were not moping like spoiled emotional teenagers.
Because the characters in SG-1 and Atlantis were wholesome, intelligent, and heroic persons, I wanted them to succeed in whatever challenges that had to face in each episode. Because the characters in SGU were ignoble, unintelligent, and cowardly persons, I wanted them to die in the black of space.
SG-1 and Atlantis were Sci-Fi shows that took a loose approach to the principles of real world science. This was acceptable given the needs of dramatic television. However, Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper promised that SGU would be much more realistic. Therefore, it was only fair that the standards for scientific verisimilitude be higher for SGU.
This increased verisimilitude was not present. The pilot episode had a main character solving an unsolved mathematical problem via playing and beating a computer game that was distributed by the USAF. Unfortunately, in order to incorporate a mathematical puzzle into a computer game or program, one must solve the puzzle before writing the computer program. This basic principle of computer science, known to all programmers, was apparently not known by the writers and producers of SGU.
The pilot episode also went on to show the characters scrubbing carbon dioxide from the space ship with calcium carbonate that had not been baked off to remove carbon dioxide. This indicated that the writers and producers were ignorant of high school chemistry.
Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper needed to spend some more time developing this television program before casting the actors and writing the scripts.