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If you like SG1 you'll like Atlantis, because it's basically the same show with different characters. Stargate Universe is... different.
Stargate Universe is their attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Battlestar Galactica and Degrassi.
I've heard the second half is better, but I could never get past the first season. Entirely too much melodrama, and not the fun kind they had in SG-1, with good characters and interesting plot lines. Just straight up melodrama.
I forced myself to watch it just to see if it gets better in the second season and it sorta does. There's less melodrama, but it doesn't start feeling like Stargate until six episodes from the finale. And the finale isn't very satisfying.
Yeah. Sadly season 2 of SG: Universe is just good enough to make it sad that they cancelled it after it started to find it's legs.
If season 2 was season 1 we'd have seen a fan campaign that would have revived it.
Agreed!
See now, for me the first season is so good, better than most other sci fi, and this even though it starts with the base of mazlowes hierarchy of needs, air, water, food.... Meanwhile the second season is some rubbish with aliens and other stuff ruining the plot, and ends suddenly when it runs out of money.
I find SG1 too corny for repeat watching, SG Atlantis is better but not great. But SG Universe I have watched uncountable times. Enjoy it a lot.
Which just goes to show everyone is different.
Universe is a lot like Star Trek Discovery (Season 1): it deviates strongly from the source material by leaning hard into the "everybody kind of hates and/or distrusts everyone else" trope. At the same time, it explains some mysteries and expands the lore, so it's canon despite not being anyone's favorite.
I'm still salty they cancelled it right as it was getting good.