SGU Stargate Universe Complete Series

This series of stories was really well done. The only flaw was the fact it was canceled when it was, rather than play the story out to a proper point to end it. I actually watched this series completely before having seen any of the original SG-1 series. I came into it with only having watched the original movie that set off all of these stories. I liked the original story and came to like SGU, as well. Recently I've had the opportunity to watch the SG-1 series from the first show and going through it with the stories in chronological order. I am often surprised when something is presented in the first series that makes me think of something I saw in SGU and that now comes back to me and it seems like it was answering questions first posed in the original series. SGU's story lines were well laid out in plot development. Character development was also full and realistic, bringing the characters to life as real people with real problems and lives. It's a real shame that the story was ended when and where it was. I will say that at least it left me feeling that if the story and the people were in a real situation, there was at least hope that things would work out to an exciting and fulfilling ending. As it is, it's unlikely the series will be picked up and given a chance to be fully appreciated, but someone could make a great movie that would pick things up from that last scene and go on to give a complete story with a real finish. While it's been a few years since the last story was done, picking things up a few years later would seem to fit in perfectly where it was left off.

I liked this shy tv series. Would've been great if the series lasted. I have them original 10 seasons, the Atlantis 5 seasons along with this set. Love!

Love

I liked the series, I used it for my own entertainment. The only thing I didn't like is I was unable to play the disks on Xbox One X. I had to use the Xbox 360 to watch the series.

Interesting premise. The personnel of Stargate Command on a remote planet succeed in powering a gate enough that it reached another galaxy. Due to an attack on the base, survivors are forced to use the gate to escape and wind up on a starship in the next Galaxy. Not enough power to go home, the crew quickly find the ship is a self piloting, million year old ship of a dead race known as the Ancients. The short lived (two seasons) series take the survivors on a trip across and between galaxies, with life being a struggle to learn how the ship works, make repairs, fine food, water and other things needed for survival. Not bad...interesting ending.

Awesome deal

Love this show .Sorry it was cancelled . I don't understand why good things get cancelled & sorry things continue on.. I love Lou Diamond Phillips in this show , he's such a good actor! The only I ever said that was better than Star Trek. & that is a feat!

Giving this only 3 stars was a struggle, because I’m a huge fan of the entire Stargate franchise. But the show was flawed from the beginning because of two major factors. The first is that (unfortunately) Stargate was saddled with the mess that MGM created by letting beancounters and Wall Street Ty-Goons run a movie studio. And the second is that MGM made the mistake of trusting the Sci-Fi channel with the franchise to begin with, which is run by beancounters with less creativity and imagination than a bag of turnips. And while I fault Apple for not being smart enough to buy MGM, at least Amazon seems to be (finally) assuming an intelligent position regarding the future of the franchise. But this review is about Stargate Universe, and I’ve had the DVD set since 2019, which has given me the opportunity to watch the entire series 3-4 times by now. So I believe that I’ve got plenty of perspective to share by now. And in watching the special features again I was struck by what the show creators, Brad Wright and Robert C Cooper said. That fans had gotten used to characters in the other two shows, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, heroically surviving and saving the day each episode. So with SGU they wanted to emphasize that it was the wrong people trapped on the wrong ship 8 billion light years from home and they have no control… Oh, and they’re constantly undermining and back stabbing one another… Well no wonder the show had a hard time finding and keeping an audience. The fact of the matter is that people watch television for two primary reasons: to educate themselves and/or to entertain themselves. It’s meant as an escape (though don’t get me started on the stupidity behind reality television shows). And SGU failed in that because it was just too hard to really care about these people. Granted, it was because of an unexpected attack on the base that everyone had to use the Stargate to escape (to Destiny), so it’s not like you could cherry-pick who ended up there, but you gotta seriously question how stringent the recruitment process is for both military and civilian personnel in the Stargate program… And I especially couldn’t stand the 3 primary leaders, despite the great performances by the actors. I mean, who put them in charge, the Marx Brothers? First off you have Colonel Young, who was initially the commander of the planetary base the mission launched from, but was thrust into leading the mission. But he was so wishy-washy and spineless that I wouldn’t trust him to run a Girl Scout cookie sale. Then there’s the civilian leader, Camille Ray, played by the excellent Ming-Na Wen, the local IOA voice-of-abstinence, who’s actually from HR, but she is thrust into her role of shepherding the civvies, yet acts as though her playbook is straight out of Berkeley and Woodstock. Did that make sense? But she constantly butts heads with the military contingent, giving off the impression that she thinks they’re all having a Sunday church picnic, and not billions of light years from home in a ship that’s millions of years old and showing its age while the crew is under constant threat from all manner of baddies. And finally there’s the head of the science department on board, Doctor Nicholas Rush, played by the excellent Robert Carlisle. And he needs an entire galaxy just to contain his ego… Makes me wonder what a cage match between him and Doctor Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis would look like. Anyway, these three outsized personalities are constantly butting heads, almost ignorant of the peril the ship and crew is constantly in because of their poor choices. And then to have the Milky Way Galaxy’s own Beverly Hillbillies of crime, the Lucian Alliance thrown into the mix… Now, call me Albert Nerd-Stein, but the Lucian Alliance have taken over the ships left behind when the Goa’uld System Lords were defeated. Now the funny thing is that those same snakeheads relied upon Jaffa to operate their ships, and the Jaffa were basically humans who had a Goa’uld symbiote in their gut. So how is it that none of the Lucian Alliance members have a baby snakehead in their belly? And while we’re discussing logic, would someone please explain the logic of why these knucklehead hoodlums would want to risk their lives (losing three motherships and thousands of crew), and then travel 8 billion light years away, just to take over a rickety ship that is literally millions of years old. And here’s the real kicker: it has a top speed of faster than light (FTL), that is phenomenally slower than the Hyperspace speeds that their spacecraft are already capable of… And then in season two they allow the narrative to get bogged down with these relentless robotic drone ships… And around this time I’m guessing MGM’s financial troubles and the small-minded beancounters at Sci-Fi Channel decided to cancel the series. This was evident when the crew is left in limbo, literally, wherein everybody has to go into stasis chambers for the two year journey between a pair of galaxies. Which is where the show abruptly ended in 2011. Yes, the show did have promise, but it was just so depressing to watch… Stuck on a rust bucket ship they couldn’t control that was hopping galaxies AWAY from the Milky Way… Personal agendas diametrically opposed to one another… Immature people who let emotions rule their limited ability to resolve conflicts and conundrums… Makes me wonder why I’ve binged the whole series 4-5 times over the past 6 years. And again, the uncertainty surrounding the ending is both because of the downer nature of the show, but even moreso because of those unimaginative beancounters at MGM and Sci-Fi channel. That’s why I gave it 3 stars instead of 5 like SG-1 and Atlantis would garner. Now, from what I’ve read, Amazon finally put someone in charge who knows what they’re doing, and so a new Stargate series is in the works. And we’ve been promised that it’s not a total reboot, but a continuation. Granted, it’ll have been about 15 years since Stargate last aired, but hopefully the producers will at least take a moment to tie up loose ends. Including the fate of the crew and the ship.

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Though this is the last of this type of show, and though, the first season was kind of slow, I really enjoyed the 2nd season. So much so, I decided to buy this CD set. I am glad I got it, as I will still watch it from time to time. I really enjoy having it. It is for fans of the Genre.

Excellent

Amazing show. Shame they cancelled it too early

Boring to much talking not as good as Stargate sg1