Chad talks with Jamil Walker Smith about his time on SGU, his character and what could have been and explores his film project “Make A Movie Like Spike.”
I really enjoyed the character of Greer on SGU, dark and troubled but as we came to see there was something to cheer for beneath all the troubles, his season 2 development was excellent and would I believe have gone on to become one of the focal points of the show.
Stargate Universe – Complete Season 1-2 [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk:
Not an overly attractive price at £56.99 but MGM are doing a Paramount/CBS number on SGU fans in terms of pricing and of course what is totally unforgivable is the lack of a Blu-ray boxset or even a season 2 Blu boxset. In this day and age and with this production the lack of a HD offering barring broadcast and itunes is simply not on and well surely giving the customer what they want is preferable to making pirated options more attractive?
Yes folks it’s the day when the SG franchise ceases to exist as an ongoing production in the TV medium with the truncated series finale on Syfy tonight.
It’s my hope that those fans that for whatever reason never gave the series a chance or were not grabbed early on will give it another go as it will no doubt be repeated and there are the DVD/Blu releases and they’ll see that what is being shown now is a different beast altogether than the early season 1 episodes.
Best wishes to all the cast and crew and success in what ever direction their careers take them.
Gauntlet airs tonight on Syfy at 9/8c.
Syfy Cancels ‘Stargate Universe’
Some sad but not unexpected news for fans of the more adult and harder edged science fiction drama. In the end the move to Tuesday and corresponding drop in “live” viewing figures regardless of good DVR and streamed viewing makes you wonder if Syfy were looking to dump perhaps their most expensive scripted show. Given the demise of Caprica they have certainly freed up a huge amount of cash and no offence to the creators of Haven or Eureka but they are far cheaper shows to produce.
The UK blu-ray boxset now has a July 5th release date.
This is good news but the bad news is that even Amazon have it priced at an eye watering £50.99 which is taking the proverbial. I waited a while and picked up most of my Blu-ray full season boxsets for under £20, even buying sooner £35-£40 is within the realm but over £50 is ridiculous.
So I’ve just finished watching the first new episode of SGU for some time and I came away pretty satisfied. We see the crew dealing with the loss of Rush with the obvious differing opinions from within the camps and that’s made worse by a “malfunction” in the communication stones prior to an IOA report being sent. Things start to ramp up as the mysterious ship which left the Destiny earlier in the season is seen again bringing it’s own issues to the general mix of back stabbing and double dealing.
Key points
The final episode of the first half of the SGU season aired a few days ago in the UK and last week in the US and it was pretty darned good, some major plot points below without giving away any spoilers.
Justice was well paced and well written with the whole cast playing a part and thankfully no Comm Stone element which for many is a blessing, I do actually think they have been used a little too much early on but then again some of the stuff like Telford and Young has worked very well.
We’ve a long wait for the next episode to see exactly how the major and minor cliffhangers are going to be resolved and it’ll be interesting especially off the back of the lowest ratings of the season how the audience is maintained over the next few months.