If Stargate Universe was allowed to continue it would’ve been the Stargate Universes (pardon the pun) Battlestar Galactica. Hands down. The best Stargate of them all if they allowed it to continue to develop. Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis walked and ran so Stargate Universe could have a shot.... I will never forgive the studio for cancelling this just as it got good. Shame. Wish Amazon MGM truly realised the GOLDEN IP they had at their disposal. Stargate fills a hole in Scifi that other shows can’t replicate and in an age of large swathes of people wearing their views on their shoulders be it politics or general views. Stargate managed to be progressive, action packed, funny, emotional whilst catering to a wide net of people. Stargate quite literally worked because it catered to all and let us all eat happily whilst not becoming preachy at all. Why can’t people see this! #SaveStargateshow more

No. Stargate Universe was definitely not a continuation of SG1 and Atlantis. I’m not attacking the quality of the show, but it just was not thematically compatible with the established universe.

I’d push back on that. Andor slotted into the Star Wars universe well and was thematically different. SGU was just a continuation of the Ancients / Alteran story. Stargate (as least in my view) always delved more and more into the gate builders and their stories as the show went on. The Ori for one being part of that and Atlantis being literally about the Lanteans / Ancients. That’s always underpinned Stargate. It was maid fleshed out more and more as the years went on. Destiny was just another extension of that story told in a grittier way. It’s deffo a love or hate show but it certainly slots into the Stargate story for me.

Universe was bad sorry 😅 Atlantis was the one canclleed too soon. Coulda easily been on aslong as SG1

I’ll respectfully disagree 😂 season 1 wasn’t it for me. I’ll give you that. The rest actually started getting really good.

You mean a show full of characters so repulsive, stupid, and annoying, you wanted them all dead, but so poorly written you were pretty sure they wouldn't die? Yup... just like the BSG reboot.

You must’ve downloaded the wrong BSG then. 😂

Was Starbuck a cigar smoking dude, or a DEI girlboss? One of these sucks, and people are done pretending it doesn't.

@venturepictures Starbuck wasnt a DEI girlboss youre delusional

@venturepictures Do you prefer the term "Mary Sue"...?

It's okay to disagree It probably could have been a remarkable show but it was already too far from some of the things I loved about Stargate. Also, fed up with the trend of forced "grim" dysfunctional groups in which everyone is mentally ill. This push was not benign to society

I really do see SGU as a BSG like show. I honestly didn’t mind a new take on Stargate after the 350 hours of golden era prior. It’s sad that as SGU started getting good. It just. Ended lol I will agree however. The lighthearted hopefulness was certainly not existent like other shows

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No, they abandoned the stargate concept to try to be BSG and they did a horrible job at it. The show deserved to be cancelled.

I guess we all see things differently,for me it wasn't the premise or the writing that was the problem it was the casting. None of the characters were engaging whatsoever,literally didn't care what happened to any of them. SG-1,Atlantis & Dark Matter excellent casting,Universe👎

Really enjoyed SGU and hated how it ended abruptly. The tension between Rush and Young was great. It had a couple of major issues, primarily the way they simply ignored the morality of their use of the communication stones. For anybody who used them it was more SG:STD than SG:U.

@0ldmanGlen "progressive" Yep that's why Universe fucking sucked. I dropped off before the first season ended, despite having watched every single SG1 and Atlantis episode.

That show was good, it was very stylish, I loved the aesthetics of the ship and camera work was awesome. Too bad it was cancelled.

SG1 and Atlantis were peak. Universe sucked. It was more soap opera than a science fiction show. The way the personnel acted wouldn't make them fit to be anywhere near the Stargate program. They were a bunch of panicking degenerates. It marked the death of good Scifi.

I'm still bitter they canceled it.

SGU was absolute shit until the later half of season 2. It was trying to cater to a new and younger audience while copying BSG. The exact same reason that amazon cancelled the new stargate show for. I'm sad it got cancelled when it finally got good though

Yeah, lesbian quadriplegic romance was top notch. Kept me coming back and wishing for more. Top Tier Stargate. 100%

I liked the premise but they made the majority of the characters absolutely unlikeable. Frankly I was hoping that almost all of the pods would break down and they would perish.

SGU was a god awful entry to the series. It's jarring sub-plots were frankly disgusting.

Nah, didn’t feel like Stargate at all. Wasn’t very interesting and the characters just weren’t very likeable.

It was great, but I considered it a separate property. The show was too heavy to really fall in line with the others, but had it's own ideas that worked very well.

I think for me at least that was the positive. It was something a little heavier to dip into. I think if given the chance. It would’ve been up there with the ANDOR and BSG like shows. Just a shame as when it got good. It ended haha

Yeah, I enjoyed it quite a bit. I liked the scientist guy with the long hair, whatever his name was. I need to watch it, again. The whole build-up to refueling was pretty epic, and the abandoned ship just still doing it's job forever idea was very, very cool.

SGU had massive potential... great story line, best special effects, but NONE of the characters were likable, and acted like contentious children. By the end of S1 was their audience was rooting for Rush to blow everyone out the airlock!

I think the whole modern show model is so broken. 8 episode seasons that are crazy expensive and get cancelled most of the time, so it's risky to get invested even if I wanted do. I've just rewatched Stargate sg-1, and yes it has 20 episodes per season, but most of the episodes require a handful of sets that probably didn't change the whole decade and it's all driven by the actors and characters. So you have a steady fixed cost and a predictable budget once you've built the sets, which means once you have it it's much cheaper to keep the show going. Everyone wins. Can we get back to that, or are the studios too far gone?

I'm not gonna like i loved BAG remake until the last 30 minutes. There were choices made that straight pissed me off. One in particular, as a writer.... you never... ever write yourself into the story as literally yourself. That's a bad move imho.

See I didn’t mind the ending personally 😂 but totally get it was a little left of field. I think for me it was just refreshing having a show than just. Ended. Ha. It had its start middle and end and you know what. I rate it for not doing more than it needed ha

I am a bit particular, I do not like writers/showrunners specifically putting themselves AS themselves in the show. That's a bit too arrogant.

"Stargate fills a hole in Scifi that other shows can’t replicate" I think that was the issue with Universe, it was kinda a drama in a way the others weren't. Stargate was a light hearted comedic sci-fi with serious undertones. It failed to capture the spirit of the originals.

Universe was a Battlestar Galactica clone. Down to how the outer shots of the ship would zoom in and everything. It had none of the heart or humor that made SG-1 or Atlantis wonderful. It took itself far too seriously and suffered heavily for it.

It being Stargate Galactica is the reason I didn't like SGU.

How did you achive the sun effect?

The first shot. Just a wave modifier / shader with some lava and keyframes textures. Although I wouldn’t do it this way again. The Sun. Is literally just an image plane of a stock video 😂 Work smarter not harder 😉

Yeah I would have definitely over complicate it

I loved how dark it was, and I think it could have continued with just Rush on the ship travelling the universe. I'd have tuned in to that forever.

It was getting to the point of must watch... then GONE. Freaking best Stargate ever going into one of the best Sci-Fi TV shows ever. STUPID.

My issue with this series was it was to overkill on the interpersonal drama. There was not enough team structure and commaraderie to really flesh out a bigger store. The characters had no cohesion.

Your fault. You killed the formula and humor that fans wanted so they checked out. I did. Syfy then pulled the plug when your ratings tanked. RIP. Grok: "...a significant portion of the existing Stargate audience pulled away. SGU deliberately took a darker, more serialized, character-driven approach inspired by shows like Battlestar Galactica, with less of the lighter humor, team adventure, and “planet-of-the-week” exploration that defined SG-1 and Atlantis." "Many longtime fans disliked the shift and either stopped watching or actively complained, contributing to the drop-off. The show didn’t fully replace those lost viewers with a large enough new audience to make the numbers work for the network."

Agreed, they just made season 1 so boring everyone else tuned out before realising S2 was awesome.

SGU was the "worst Stargate ever". Thank You.

This is a fact. SGU had the potential to be so much more

It was meh which is ultimately why it got cancelled. It was basically Stargates version of Star Trek Voyager.

While I preferred Stargate Atlantis, I think Stargate Universe was an excellent show. And pretty sure Amazon thinks all MGM IPs are worthless: it's been 4 years since the purchase, and they haven't released anything based on MGM IPs (I think only Road House); they're essentially throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. Now they want to remake RoboCop, and make live-action Voltron; I doubt any of those will be successful

My self made conspiracy theory is they want to make a film and the TV series got in the way of that. They just want to sit on the IP and make a movie. 😂

Yeah, either way it means a reboot, the last thing fans of Stargate want. What I heard from interviews with the people close to Amazon is that the Stargate show was too expensive, and they now want to make cheap shows made with gen AI tech. I really doubt they have anything big in store for this IP

Robert Carlyle was absolutely awesome in Universe. I loved every scene he was in. Shame he was held back by crappy acting by almost everyone else in the show. If only they had just one more decent actor for him to bounce off. Frankly, if Dr Rush had been all alone aboard Destiny, it would have been even better, and gone down as a classic.