Once upon a Spacetime Dreary, while I pondered week and weary... This pretty much sums up the bleak and depressing Stargate Universe. This may seem strange coming from me; a lover of Vampire, Horror and Dark Surrealism and Dark Sci-fi flicks. However, Stargate Universe never gave us any chance of hope, nor was it exceptionally Dark enough to be Artful. The Dark and Dreary wasn’t just the situations faced by the crew - it WAS the crew. Many of the lead characters were so flawed that you really wanted to jettison them out into space. Arguments and more arguments - while Space is left largely unexplored. Hello. This isn’t the movie Alien, where the Dark Atmosphere was so excellently crafted. This was a series that failed to deliver, and instead, focused on relentless conflicts.
Good Sci-fi is fantastic escapism, allowing one the chance of getting away from some of life’s stressful moments. I felt drained after most episodes of Stargate Universe. So many Arguments, and so much endless damage to a ship that if allowed, could have propelled us to fantastic adventures. Where was the Sleek, Sexy, Kick-Ass Adventure that many of us wanted... Not on Stargate Universe.
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