I did watch Stargate: Universe (which we're discussing in the Stargate Forum at SF-Fandom) Friday evening and I liked it. The show is following in the footsteps of grittier science fiction series like Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and Babylon-5 so I think the hard-core space drama fans will take an interest in it.
As I mentioned in this Stargate Universe discussion, I hope they are done using pseudo-medieval village sets. I know it's cost-effective to reuse the same medieval-looking sets over and over again, but it's just so hard to think of advanced space-faring civilizations as living in small villages.
Toward the end, Stargate SG-1 was developing the courage to speak of "millions of Jaffa" (usually as they were wiped out) living on specific worlds. In my mind, no television show has to do much to convey the idea that there are 100,000,000 people living on a planet. Star Trek in its various incarnations usually made it clear that the crew were visiting just one part of a large capitol city or something.
So I'm looking forward to meeting the orange-and-blue-skinned winged aliens who don't understand a word of English and whom the Destiny crew have to learn to get along with through sign language, simple barter, and many episodes. I don't want to see any silly Ferengi-style aliens. I want to see strange species that have a hard time relating to humanity and who don't know what to make of the intrusion of 80 humans into their part of the universe.
And no more threats to Earth, please. That trick has been done to death.
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