Re: 1st Season Stargate Universe - Life - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !
erilar
shawn <nanof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't hear any country music. Unless you meant Irish country music
> since that's what it sounded like to me. Some sort of Irish
> ballad/drinking song.
The only "Irish" bit I heard was the word "colleen". Other than that,
it was unlike any of the Irish music in my collection.
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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
AC
"Gisele" <ilov...@nospamlycos.com> wrote in message
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> "Dano" <janea...@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:he961q$f5f$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> erilar wrote:
>>> In article <AJqdne4F_olm6ZrW...@supernews.com>,
>>> "George Avalos" <george...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Life"
>>>> 11-20-09 Life
>>>>
>>>> 5 stars (on Earth)
>>>>
>>>> 0-1 stars (on Mercury)
>>>>
>>>> -George
>>>
>>> Even the jerky-cam episode had some drama. The high point of this
>>> one was Telford getting slugged. Not bad: Eli showing Rush is lying.
>>>
>>> 1.5 max.
>>
>> All I'll say is that a lot of you seem to still be watching. Why do
>> you suppose that is? Just curious. When I dislike a show as much as
>> many are saying here...I stop watching...and certainly commenting on
>> it. Odd.
>
> Well, I watch because I like the people in this newsgroup and if I didn't
> watch, there would be nothing to talk about; I wouldn't be able to join in
> any conversations unless they were off-topic.
>
> Gisele
LOL.
Is that really the best you can do?
AC
Pete B
@nospamlycos.com says...
> Yep, I don't know why they are avoiding humor. Even in the most serious
> dramas, they have some humor. But it looks like they want a "very, very
> serious" show for whatever reason. Witness the guy that bumped into the
> other guy and took a hissy fit and Young kicking him around for it.
> Everyone is *very* tense. Being on the ship for "so" long is starting to
> take a toll. The medic is asked by Young to check up on people and see if
> any are going crazy.....<g> It's all so very serious.......;o)
Thank god they remembered to bring sports clothes for so many people!
Ian J. Ball
Gisele <ilov...@nospamlycos.com> wrote:
> erilar <dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in
> news:drache-1E8F61....@news.eternal-september.org:
>
> > In article <Xns9CCA726EF2F8Dil...@94.75.244.46>,
> > Gisele <ilov...@nospamlycos.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know why they are avoiding humor. Even in the most serious
> >> dramas, they have some humor.
> >
> > The writers are apparently all seriously depressed.
>
> Lol...good one!
>
> >> But it looks like they want a "very, very
> >> serious" show for whatever reason. Witness the guy that bumped into
> >> the other guy and took a hissy fit and Young kicking him around for
> >> it. Everyone is *very* tense. Being on the ship for "so" long is
> >> starting to take a toll. The medic is asked by Young to check up on
> >> people and see if any are going crazy.....<g> It's all so very
> >> serious.......;o)
>
> > They haven't even BEEN on the stupid ship all that long! And I don't
> > think "serious" is the right word. I suggest "dreary"--the same
> > reason I quit watching BG.
>
> Yes, dreary is much more accurate sadly. At least Battlestar had good
> actors and interesting characters.
Well, the *original* BG did, anyway! ;p
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- Patrick Jane, "The Mentalist", 02/11/09
David V. Loewe, Jr
>On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:47:49 +0000 (UTC), Gisele
><ilov...@nospamlycos.com> wrote:
>>"George Avalos" <george...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Life"
>>> 11-20-09 Life
>>>
>>> 5 stars (on Earth)
>>>
>>> 0-1 stars (on Mercury)
>>1.0 I know they're trying to make a different show but country music?
>>There was another song which I don't think was country and it was equally
>>bad. More bad soap opera melodrama, more contrived (Scott gets Telford's
>>memories?.....right) tension between Telford and Young, more boring Chloe,
>>etc. The only highlight was the lesbian stuff and even that was boring.
>>You know when you have lesbians on the show and it's still boring that
>>it's almost, just almost a dead show. I'll keep watching and hoping
>>there's some improvement but so far this show is sinking fast. Oh, the 1
>>for the lesbians.......<g>
>
>I didn't hear any country music. Unless you meant Irish country music
>since that's what it sounded like to me. Some sort of Irish
>ballad/drinking song.
Flogging Molly is described on Wikipedia as "Celtic punk."
I loved the song.
>As for the soap opera, they really should stay away from that as much
>as they can. They don't have a compelling story/characters to build
>around it, and the people that love soaps probably aren't watching a
>science fiction show. They really should have given this a new name
>like "This show isn't very good." since it really doesn't have much
>connection with the style of story telling used in SGA and SG1.
>There's nothing wrong with the change but it's not what people
>(myself) tend to expect from a Stargate show. They really need more
>humor in the show. Having a single quip from Eli isn't working for me.
--
"...you know, it seems to me you suffer from the problem of
wanting a tailored fit in an off the rack world."
Dennis Juds
erilar
Back when that was on, I was watching it. There wasn't much for it to
suffer in comparison with at the time. By the time BG2 came along, we'd
had B5, Farscape, and Firefly.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
jewahe
> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:15:59 -0500, jewahe <reg...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> George Avalos wrote:
>>> "Life"
>>> 11-20-09 Life
>>>
>>> 5 stars (on Earth)
>>>
>>> 0-1 stars (on Mercury)
>
>>
>> Immediately point off because there was no mention of what happened last
>> episode. At least an acknowledgment would have been nice.
>
> Are you watching the supplementary Kino shorts on the web?
The less SGU, the better.
>
>> I also like that they treated Camille's relationship no different than
>> the other relationships. In fact, those were the best of the show (and
>> not for the obvious reasons).
>>
>> This episode gave even more evidence that Rush needs to be sent out the
>> nearest airlock - or at least into the first stasis pod they find. He
>> obviously has no desire to get back to Earth.
>
> Except that Rush is their only hope of ever getting back to Earth...
Except that Rush isn't making any attempt to get anyone back to Earth,
and keeps interrupting any attempts to do so.
The Earth team at least had come up with a plan, however misguided and
untenable. Rush hasn't even tried.
--
JWH
Harold Groot
<dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
>In article <99vfg519brhd3v8qf...@4ax.com>,
> shawn <nanof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I didn't hear any country music. Unless you meant Irish country music
>> since that's what it sounded like to me. Some sort of Irish
>> ballad/drinking song.
>The only "Irish" bit I heard was the word "colleen". Other than that,
>it was unlike any of the Irish music in my collection.
>Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
Then I'd suggest your Irish Collection could stand to be broadened a
bit. And the instrumentation likewise said Irish or Celtic more than
Country (IMHO).
Harold Groot
>In article <298hg5dk7uvpurolq...@4ax.com>,
> "David V. Loewe, Jr" <dave...@charter.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:20:13 -0800 (PST), rwgibson13
>> <rwgib...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >On Nov 21, 10:14�am, Gisele <ilove...@nospamlycos.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> Yep, I don't know why they are avoiding humor. �Even in the most serious
>> >> dramas, they have some humor. �But it looks like they want a "very, very
>> >> serious" show for whatever reason. �Witness the guy that bumped into the
>> >> other guy and took a hissy fit and Young kicking him around for it. �
>> >> Everyone is *very* tense. �
>> >
>> >In the case of that character, he'd just taken the last of whatever
>> >pills he was taking without any hopes of getting any more. I expect
>> >that's why he was especially grumpy. But I think he'd been shown as
>> >being a terminal asshole on the show before. I'm not sure. I have a
>> >hard time keeping up with the supporting cast on this show - but I
>> >think he was the same guy who got rifle-whipped for "objecting" to the
>> >death lottery a couple episodes back...
>>
>> Yes, that is Sergeant Spencer. Given his prior actions and the
>> desperate look he had when he took the last of his pills, I'd say they
>> were prescribed to help control his moods.
>
>Which is ridiculous. Someone with an emotional or mood disorder so
>severe that it can't be controlled without medication would never be
>assigned to a Top Secret unit like the Stargate Program in the first
>place, where personnel are rigorously and continuously screened for
>exactly that sort of thing.
An alternative is that they were illegal drugs. In either case he no
longer has access to them. So whether he's going through withdrawal
or losing access to important meds, it's not a good thing.
Dimensional Traveler
> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:50:26 -0600, erilar
> <dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
>
>> "David Loewe, Jr." <dlo...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Except that Rush is their only hope of ever getting back to Earth...
>> Ah, but Eli was the one who caught his lie. . .
>
> So? He is *still* their only hope of getting back to Earth - whether or
> not there is an Icarus Planet out there or not.
I don't agree. Rush _wants_ everyone to think he's their only hope but
the fact that Eli was able to figure out the ship's systems well enough
to detect Rush's fabrication is pretty good evidence otherwise.
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