This is a review of the series finale of Stargate Universe… and I take this moment to send out my appreciation and thanks to the creative forces behind the show, the series and the franchise. [Spoilers for the DVR viewers planning on watching this at a date other than the original air-date.]
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In this final episode of Stargate Universe, The Destiny’s path is blocked by the drone brigades and the crew has to come up a plan or suffer the consequences. The first plan is to attenuate ship shields so they can drop out of FTL to get supplies, but the drones adapt. Eli (David Blue) comes up with a plan to skip the galaxy they’re in and jump to the next one to get away from the drones, but it will take three years and the crew needs to be put on ice. (Suspended animation)
Welcome to the Destiny. Please gather your bags and wounded and find your seats!
Dr Rush (Robert Carlyle) doesn’t like it because it’s skipping a galaxy that the ship could collect information from. Yet if they stick around the drone brigade will take them down!
They choose to start putting crew members in the stasis pods but then discover some issues that need repair. Park (Jennifer Spence) comes up with an idea that helps them get the raw supplies they need to repair the stasis pod section. It works with the sacrifice of one of the shuttles.
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As we know, we’re in the final episode run of Stargate Universe (SGU) since SGU has been canceled. We have, from today, only four more episodes to go. (“Commons Descent,” “Epilogue,” “Blockade” & “Gauntlet.”) We also knew that the series was pulled abruptly and there will be no closure to the story since it was pulled after all filming was done for the series. Even the cast was surprised about the cancellation and sadly, heard about the cancellation via Twitter and other venues. (UPDATE: Check out my Stargate Universe series finale review and thoughts.)
In the back of the fans minds there has been a subtle hope that even though the series will be abruptly ended with no closure, that there might be an SGU movie in the pipe to help close out the story line.
I guess that will not be the case.
In a sad bit of news, Joseph Mallozzi was chatting in his blog about an email he received from Brad Wright that confirmed that there will be no Stargate Universe movie on the horizon. There will be no closure to the final episode we get and we’ll have to make do with what we have. Per a quote from Wright in a different venue talking about the non-event,
“It took too long. We just couldn’t get it together in time, and the window has closed.”
Mallozzi points out that after 354 episodes and two DVD movies, the franchise that helped build a network, ie: the Syfy channel, is finally being put to bed.
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Stargate Universe returns to the Syfy Channel from its mid-season break on Monday, March 7th, 2011. Stargate Universe cast includes Robert Carlyle, Louis Ferreira, Brian J. Smith, David Blue, Alaina Huffman and Jamil Walker Smith who plays my near, all-time favorite character of Master Sgt. Ronald Greer.
I’m happy to see Stargate Universe return to Syfy, but the return marks a sad premiere as this premiere marks the last ten episodes of the series, ever.
I’m watching the Stargate Universe marathon on Syfy as I write this and I’m really going to miss the show. The stories are intricately detailed and evolving as each episode forwards the story of the castaways stuck on the Destiny as they tackle their survival on the ship as they deal with it, each other and the challenges presented to them on the journey of the Destiny.
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At the time of this article, we’re headed into the third episode of Stargate Universe, but later on in the season by the fifteenth episode the episode titled “Seizure” will air. In “Seizure” we will have a crossover event that bridges Stargate Atlantis with Stargate Universe and it will be bringing back Dr. McKay (David Hewlett) and Mr. Woosley (Robert Picardo).
That will be nice but past guest appearances have felt hollow in the sense that the only interaction that the characters truly have are through the communication stones. I mean great, if Rodney shows up on the Destiny, in the back of my mind in the reality of the story, he’s not really there. Maybe I’m putting too much into it! But I’m getting all huffed about about much to do about nuthin! That’s because this cross-over episode mostly takes place in the Milky Way galaxy. (That’s all I’m saying.)
Info Nuggets from Season 2 of SGU
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Aside from the crossover episode, other news we have about SGU, per an interview with co-creator Brad Wright is that season 2 of Stargate Universe will be answering a lot of questions. One of the big questions, being, why the ship was initially launched. (Though to be honest, didn’t the showrunners already answer that in the series premiere pitches? That there were a pair of ships launched to populate the cosmos with Stargates and another one to check them?) Yet since the Destiny itself is not populating Stargates, there very well could be more to it than meets the sales pitch.
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The Stargate on the Destiny
Season 2 of Stargate Universe will be premiering on the Syfy Channel on September 28th, 2010. That’s the good news for the fans.
If you were a fan of the dark aspect of Stargate Universe, you’re in luck. You might be in a bit of the minority, but you will be pleased. According to the executive producers, the characters on the Destiny will be put through a ringer in season 2. As if being isolated from your home world wasn’t enough.
Everett (Louis Ferreira) will be going to a real dark place in the beginning of the season and his conflict with Rush (Robert Carlyle) will escalate yet again through season 2 of Stargate Universe.
The exec producers (Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper) explain that they’re looking for a more realistic tone and that we need to realize that our heroes won’t win every single time. We’ll also be seeing the younger characters being forced to emerge as stronger characters while Rush and Young go at it.
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There’s news out and about in regards to the rumored Stargate movies.
The news is that the new SG-1 movie has a working title of Stargate: Revolution and it is supposed to bring Jack O’Niell (Richard Dean Anderson) back into the picture in a big way. The movie is supposed to take place between the movie Stargate: Continuum and the new series, Stargate: Universe.
Brad Wright and Carl Binder penned the script.
I can’t wait, but obviously I need to since filming probably won’t start until they’re done with filming Universe. We’re probably going to not see it until late 2010 when it goes directly to DVD movie. But that’s just my guess.
reference: GateWorld.
If anyone out there wants to see a new twist on Stargate, there is some semblance of hope for you.
A third live-action series is being conceived by Stargate Atlantis co-creators Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper called Stargate Universe that will be an independent continuation of the already established Stargate realm.
This could be sweet.
