Stargate Universe Done

 I was finally done with Stargate Universe. I watch the series finale a couple of nights back. Yes, I do mean the series finale. The series was cancelled after a couple of seasons which was a mini tragedy for a sci-fi such as yours truly. I must say that at the beginning of the second season, the momentum was clearly lacking after a promising start.

Stargate Universe revolve around a group of military personnel and scientists marooned on a spaceship traveling in uncharted universe. Allegedly, it was persuing another ancient ship which was in front seeding Stargates along its path across the universe. The Scientise was led by a character played by Robert Carlyle, in Scottish accent and the military were led by a Colonel Young.

How do they get onto the ship? The Stargate Command was trying to dial an address on the ninth chevron on the Stargate, but it will quire a vast amount of energy, that is only available on a few planets. They found one but was not able to crack the code to dial the last chevron. Hence they came up with a brilliant idea of producing a puzzle computer game and a young gamer, an MIT drop-out managed to crack it. Cue Robert Carlyle and Colonel Young at the front door of the boy - called Eli Wallace - to tell him that he has cracked a code that no one else in the world had done so and he was shocked on a secret mission, traveling at light speed to the new planet to dial the co he has just cracked.

But nobody knows where the gate will open to in the other end. When the gate was opened, the planet was attacked by another foreign clan wanting the same thing. The planet was being destroyed and everyone at the facility had no choice but to jump into the unknown. The gate on the other end opened onboard the spaceship they were eventually marooned in. This was the beginning of the long journey back home. Unfortunately, the systems on the ship were written in an alien technology, needing further prodding, as well hit and misses.

Obviously, there were plenty of adventure along the way, as well as drama between the crew members. There were certainly a lot of promising subplots on offer, but unfortunately after a while the character arch became rather boring. By the time the series cancellation was announced, the story started to pick up again, which I was sure had plenty to do with using up the original idea they had in mind at the conception of the series.

As for the finale, it certainly created more question than it answered. The plot also allowed for the story to be further extended should the writer wished to do so. So far however, the series appeared to be already at an end ...... Sufficed to say, that everyone was still alive and they have not reached Earth yet.

Stargate it was

I have never been a big fan of Stargate, but something about Stargate Universe (SGU) series which drew me to it. I was pretty sure it was its parallel with Star Trek Voyager, which I follow during my years in medical school. Both were about a bunch of military type, thrusted into unknown space in a secluded ship to fend for themselves on a long journey back to Earth, something that Battlestar Galactica did very well - another one of my favourite series.

I managed to get the final installment of the series from my usual "dealer". All three DVDs of them, and so far I have finished a couple of them. I was saving the last disc for the weekend. It should be a finale and as expected, they would found Earth. Both in Galactica and Voyager, after going through all the adversities, the endings were rather anticlimactic. Let's hope that this one won't disappoint. The sad thing about SGU was, it just recently got cancelled after a couple of seasons. I must confess that the first few episodes of this second season were rather disappointing and predictable. The character arches were not fully developed, and it was such a drag propelling the whole story forward. It was clear that once the series got canceled, the writers were somewhat liberated. All the characters appeared more matured and complete. It was as if the constraints for character development were fully lifted. Everything went. I would blog after seeing the grand finale and see how everything fell into place ..... So watch this space!