[Mr. Blonde]

Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde

The last week i've been watching a lot of Stargate: Universe. I never really watched the other stargate shows, but this one I like the premise of quite a bit. Basically they've finally figured out the "9th Chevron" of the Stargate (whatever the fuck that means) but they don't know where it goes. They're on a base on another planet 21ly away from Earth and they get attacked by aliens so they have to evacuate the base. Standard procedure is obviously to go to Earth, but they can't dial Earth for some reason having to do with it exploding and instead get the 9th Chevron dialing going. So they all jump in, but they're not the right special ops team for the job, they're just a bunch of scientists, civilians, and a handful of military dudes. I like that part.

Anyways, the stargate goes to a place they don't recognize, and it turns out to be a giant spaceship built by ancient ancient ancient beings. They find their location (a lot of the episodes is spent trying to figure out what the fuck the ship does and how to use it) and they're several billion light years away from earth. Nobody else is on the ship (that we know of...yet...much of the ship is still locked down) But it's unlikely because the ship has been going for so long. They guess that the Ancients sent the ship off on it's own and were going to use the Stargate to enter it once it's traveled far enough in the Universe, but they never did that.

Anyways, they're on the ship for limited supplies but the Ancients were vaguely human or human related (of course) so the ship itself is very smart and drops out of Faster-Than-Light travel every once in a while when it detects a planet that has supplies the people on the ship might need. How do they get to the planet, you ask? Other Stargates. It's theorized that OTHER ships were sent out before this one to land on planets, gather resources, and build stargates before heading off to other habitable planets to do the same.

It's pretty cool. Pretty dramatic, these fuckers don't really catch much breaks, but I like it.

Has anyone been keeping up with this? Second season has gotten loads better. It's really not that dorky at all and relatively realistic. I would highly suggest checking it out if anyone has been looking for some decent scifi to watch.