TV thoughts
Oct. 16th, 2009 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI'm catching up on the TV that I stored up while my sister was visiting and last night it was the second episode of Stargate Universe.
I continue to be rather impressed. The characters and situation have all been introduced so this was an episode that could just tell a story and it succeeded pretty well. I still feel a bit like someone watched Battlestar Galactica and thought "Hmm, wonder whether we could do that on Stargate", but in a good way. It is still definitely part of the Stargate franchise, what with the Stargate and the shots of life back at Cheyenne Mountain. At the same time, it feels a bit grittier, a bit messier and has fewer guarantees that everything will turn out OK.
So far, I like all the characters a lot. There's a nice greyness to some of them, an uncertainty about which way they'll jump that makes them interesting. Rush more than anyone does this, which I'm sure is at least partially because Robert Carlyle is a genius and partly because he's the kind of scientist who views human life as a little less important that scientific discovery.
It will be interesting to see how he develops.
There isn't a character yet that I want to drop-kick and the final shot (won't ruin it for anyone) has me intrigued enough to finally put the show onto my DVR series link thing. Yes, I'm committing to this one for a while.
In other thoughts, House continues to be excellent and Flashforward continues to intrigue me.
Also, there was Merlin and it was awesome indeed. Of course, I'm shallow and Morgana did spend part of the episode in her underwear...
I continue to be rather impressed. The characters and situation have all been introduced so this was an episode that could just tell a story and it succeeded pretty well. I still feel a bit like someone watched Battlestar Galactica and thought "Hmm, wonder whether we could do that on Stargate", but in a good way. It is still definitely part of the Stargate franchise, what with the Stargate and the shots of life back at Cheyenne Mountain. At the same time, it feels a bit grittier, a bit messier and has fewer guarantees that everything will turn out OK.
So far, I like all the characters a lot. There's a nice greyness to some of them, an uncertainty about which way they'll jump that makes them interesting. Rush more than anyone does this, which I'm sure is at least partially because Robert Carlyle is a genius and partly because he's the kind of scientist who views human life as a little less important that scientific discovery.
It will be interesting to see how he develops.
There isn't a character yet that I want to drop-kick and the final shot (won't ruin it for anyone) has me intrigued enough to finally put the show onto my DVR series link thing. Yes, I'm committing to this one for a while.
In other thoughts, House continues to be excellent and Flashforward continues to intrigue me.
Also, there was Merlin and it was awesome indeed. Of course, I'm shallow and Morgana did spend part of the episode in her underwear...
