The joy comes from the fact that I moderately hate SGU, as I may have mentioned before.

To summarize quickly: SGU has NONE of the characteristics of SG1 or Atlantis which I love immensely. None of the Star gate humor, none of the great friendships and cooperation between characters, and science fiction driven stories with lots of adventure, with the exception of Eli, I pretty much disliked everyone of the SGU characters, and if I wanted to watch constant fighting I would watch one of the countless other “reality” shows.

I don’t mind change, but what was the point of calling the show Stargate when it was just a drama series in space which tried (and failed) at copying elements from Battlestar Galatica, Reality television and Lost. If it had been called “Alien ship drama”, I would not have minded it at all, I just would not have watched it, along with lots of other people, which leads me to the proposition that the only reason to append the Star Gate name to SGU was to trick people into watching a totally unrelated show.

I’m also still bitter for the fact that Stargate Atlantis was canceled, and THIS was what we got instead.. This seems to be a common phenomena of SG1/SGA fans, even to the point where Brad Wright actually blames SG-1/SGA fans for hurting SGU. I somehow doubt the blogs and forums where people have been critical of SGU was the cause of the huge and constant drop in viewers. Personally I count at least 20 science fiction shows that I LOVE.. And I only hate a single one (guess which). There are just no redeeming elements of SGU (except the mere fact that it takes place on a space ship).

The sadness comes out of sympathy, while I personally don’t like seeing the Stargate name dragged through the mud, there are (believe it or not) a lot of people that actually love SGU, however I don’t think any of the sci-fi geeks I know were particularly sad to see it go.

I do feel for all you guys who really liked it, cause like most/all sci-fi fans I know all to well how much it sucks when a show you like gets canceled. And there are after all far worse crap on TV than SGU, Sy-fy keeps airing Ghost Hunters, and Oprah even got her own channel.

In conclusion, I feel a little bad about my Schadenfreude, after all why should I care about what other people watch? I don’t really,. I”m just disappointed in that SGU for me and many others did not live up to the previous shows (or any sci-fi show for that matter), and that it reduces the average quality of the Stargate franchise.

Robert Carlyle (Redemption)

24: Carl Benton
Star Gate Universe: Dr. Nicholas Rush

Tony Todd

24: General Benjamin Juma
Star Gate SG-1: Lord Haikon
Andromeda: Captain Fehdman Metis
Star Trek Voyager: Unnamed Hirogen hunter
Star Trek DS9: Jake Sisko as adult in The Visitor
Star Trek TNG/DS9: Kurn

John Billingsley

24: Michael Latham
Star Trek Enterprise: Dr. Phlox

Kurtwood Smith

24: Senator Blaine Mayer
Star Trek Voyager: Annorax in Year of Hell

Jeffrey Nordling

24: Larry Moss
Star Trek DS9: Thana Los in Past Prologue

Mark Kiely

24: Edward Vossler
Star Trek Voyager: Lasca in Non Sequitur

Nick Toth

24: Edwin Ross
Babylon 5: Exeter in The Deconstruction of Fallen Stars

Annie Wersching

24: Renee Walker (seriously hot FBI agent)
Star Trek Enterprise: Liana in Oasis

Colm Feore

24: Henry Tailor
Battlestar Galactica: President Adar (First episode only)

Bob Gunton

24: Ethan Kanin
Star Trek TNG: Capt. Benjamin Maxwell (in The Wounded)

Ryan Cutrona

24: Admiral John Smith
Babylon 5: Sgt. Major Plug in GROPOS

John Rosenfeld

24: Kevin Aldridge
Star Trek Enterprise: Mark Latrelle in Silent Enemy

It’s also worth noting that co-executive producers and writers of 24 Redemption and season 7 is none other than Brannon Braga and Manny Coto, noted writers/producers from Star Trek TNG / Voyager / Enterprise.

At first I was skeptical, but hang in there because many shows start slow. But now I’ve just seen episode 10, and I must say, this show DOES SUCK.. It’s like they tried to copy Battlestar Galactica + Lost + Grey’s Anatomy. SGU is not a science fiction show, it’s basically Grey’s Anatomy or Desperate Housewives in a dark studio with the occasional boring trip trough a stargate to a lifeless world where they do nothing at all.

I was hoping the show would get better, but it’s just getting worse by every episode (except for episode 8 which reminded me a little bit about science fiction).

I will be very surprised if this huge pile of crap gets renewed for a second season.

I have no problems with people making drama shows, what I do have a problem with is that they change a sci-fi show into a bad drama show in a desperate hope to get stargate fans to watch it. Anyway I think I’ve watched my last episode of this crap, I gave it a fair chance but I’d rather watch SG-1 or Atlantis again.

Pretty much nothing.. Unlike SG-1 and Atlantis who started out with great episodes, the beginning of SG-U has been pretty slow and uninteresting.

Now I have no problems with shows starting off slow (TNG, DS9), but the biggest problem the series have is that there are no great characters, SG-1 and Atlantis had extremely lovable and funny characters. Universe have none.. I’ve also not seen any of the great Stargate humor..

I’m still going to watch the rest of the episodes, maybe it will get better. So far this show does not seem like Stargate at all

Update December 6th 2009
http://www.erlendaakre.com/2009/794/stargate-universe-does-suck.html

I’m closing up on 75% completion on the story mode of Rayman Raving Rabids, our only Wii game at the moment. And let me tell you, the game is GREAT. Lots of fun mini games, cute rabid bunnies and the best sounds in a video game ever. After I’m done with story mode I’m going to get ALL the bonus material, even if it kills me, I’ve come across a few bugs, but most are easily fixed (like some mini games where not possible to do unless the system was running in 60 hz video).
Rating: 9.5 / 10

Oh, seeing that we don’t have much Stargate Left (halfway trough season 10 and season 3 on SG-1/Atlantis) I decided to try and watch Farscape in sequence

• We’re moving in 16 days
• I bought a Wardrums booster pack and only got 1 new figure
• The movie ‘Children of Men‘ is utter total rubbish!
• I got the last dvd box of Babylon 5
• Almost done with season 9 or Stargate SG1, and second season of Atlantis
• UFO Afterlight is very good, quite a bit different from other UFO games, but still a great game..
• 1 week until Silent Hunter 4 is released!
• Nemi is changing into her summer coat
• Iran is not as enthusiastic about 300, as I am
• Iran sucks.. but not as much as Children of Men
• Giving money to ferrets first gives good karma
• Chocolate

I’m starting work this Wednesday at Intrapoint, a company that makes Crisis manager, and quite a few other products..
I’m going to work on a multiplayer online game (java) that is a EU project, the game will allow players to invest in a virtual market.

Perhaps all those hours of playing Capitalism 1 and 2 will no longer seem like such a waste