A Premature Ending
As the third installment in the long-running Stargate franchise, "Stargate Universe" chose to abandon the plot-driven, action-adventure format of "Stargate SG-1" and "Stargate Atlantis". It instead presented itself as a darker, character-driven serial drama and despite a controversial debut, managed to get renewed. Unfortunately, it was unable to maintain its audience and Season 2 became both SGU's final season and -- as of this writing -- the end of Stargate's 14-year television legacy.
Season 2 opens where the Season 1 cliffhanger left off. The Lucian Alliance has seized control of Destiny and Colonel Young and the crew are about to be executed. Their only hope lies in a handful of surviving civilians and soldiers, led by Eli and Dr. Rush. In the aftermath of the incursion, the Icarus survivors are beset by new challenges from alien mutation to the ongoing schemes of Rush. But all of this proves secondary to an even greater revelation: The truth behind why the Ancients...
Syfy screws up again...great series lost...
SGU is another amazing series, starting a bit rocky, but evolving wonderfully into another amazing SG show. Too bad the sad studios and Syfy can't get it together to provide viewers what they are asking for and continue the series...
SGU: 5 stars but SyFy (or whatever they call it): 1 star. Won't Buy, Won't Support!
Once again, lacking patience and with only an eye on the bottom line, Syfy (or SciFi, or NBC Universal, or whatever) has cancelled a series that required development and did not provide immediate gratification/fulfillment. The ads want you to believe they support quality TV, but SyFy's actions say otherwise.
SGU was not everyone's cup of tea. Regardless, it was good TV. Imaginative, thought-provoking, different. And in current SyFy tradition, now cancelled.
So as a PSA, here's a short summation of how I see SysFy and its relationship to the channels' shows' fan bases -
"Battlestar Galactica" - under pressure throughout and barely makes it to the end; fans screwed because we could never be sure we would get a complete story. "Caprica" - brilliant - cancelled before it can get out of the starting blocks; again, fans screwed. "Stargate Atlantis" - cancelled before the envisioned end; fans screwed. "Stargate Universe" - really on the way up and...
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