I believe there are many, like me, who are giving SGU a chance, for now, even though we have hated what we have seen so far. It is only out of loyalty to the Stargate franchise, I have stuck with it, but there will be a point when enough is enough. I think if/when diehard Stargate fans finally give up on watching SGU, ratings will drop dramatically. SGU producers and writers should not underestimate this particular demographic.

This series seriously needs reworking to make it viewable, as it’s just incredibly dull at the moment. It’s not that I don’t get what the SGU writers are trying to do, but the writing, acting and even camera work (e.g. Kino view) has failed to excite or interest. At the moment, SGU is neither compelling scifi nor engaging drama, it is, however, completely bad I’m afraid.

What I see here is the marketing department version of Stargate. With BSG canceled, and SGA canceled, these writers thought they could reel in Stargate fans and BSG fans, throw in some reality TV and lame drama from some generic soap opera and we would just gobble it all up. NOT. The BSG fans can see that the writing is nowhere near on par, and the dark depressing tone of this show is not anything a Stargate fan would find entertaining. There is so little science in this show it cant really be considered science fiction. Then I started looking around the internet and everybody was saying the same thing…this show SUCKS.

Well, I watched the episodes anyway, hoping the show would get better, but it just got worse. Then when I saw the episode where Chloe was in a bar having a catfight with her best friend over an old boyfriend, and Eli was sitting there with a drink and they were crying in a car. OMG, was this Stargate? This show is detroying the franchise. The few new people who are liking it seem to be soap opera people. But according to SyFy, this show has the lowest female viewership of all shows on SyFy, which means its girly boys who are watching it. Emo skinny jeans eyeliner type boys who think its perfectly okay to have top secret technology (those stupid phonestones) used by unqualified people to go to earth and bake cookies with mommy, or have sex and spy on their wife or make out with a lesbian lover. This show is not Stargate, its not science fiction, and it needs to be canceled QUICK before the entire Stargate franchise is soiled beyond redemption.

The objective of SGU is to make a Reduced Action Drama with Illumination Obscured. This R.A.D.I.O. will be the next big thing and SGU is well positioned to arrive there first. Soon we will all be sitting around watching our RADIOs, you’ll see.