Tag: Stargate Universe
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Review: Gauntlet
Closing the Stargate It’s a big ask for any single episode: how do you at the same time close down a season, a series and a franchise that has lasted for almost fifteen years? “Gauntlet” doesn’t do a bad job of answering the question. As a finish to this era…
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Review: Blockade
Showing the classy product Universe has become The penultimate episode of Stargate Universe (and potentially the penultimate episode of the entire Stargate franchise) delivers some good action as it gears up for the season finale. It’s not a classic but the storyline is tight, the women kick-ass, the soldiers do…
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Review: Epilogue
My least favourite time-travel episodes to date he best thing about time travel or alternate reality stories is the peek into ‘what if’ they provide for our usual characters. “Epilogue” delivers the answer to the question ‘what if the Destiny crew was stranded on a planet and had to start…
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Review: Common Descent
Misses the opportunity for spectacular As this is the last Stargate episode written by Robert C Cooper, I was expecting great things. What I got is a decent enough opening to a two-part storyline with space battles, time travel shenanigans and dodgy CGI. But as interesting as the concept is,…
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Review: The Hunt
Made of Win. So, I loved this. I guess that’s not too surprising since “The Hunt” has my two favourite characters front and center: Greer and TJ. Add to that fantastic special effects, kick-ass women all through the episode and nicely played, light-hearted sub-plots with the science team, and this…
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Review: Seizure
A nice enough escape from reality Admittedly, I was looking forward to “Seizure”, having already been spoiled on the appearance of Atlantis alumni in the episode. After all, crossover episodes can be pretty damn spectacular and are one of the advantages of having an ongoing franchise. That said, I think…
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Review: Hope
Finding its groove despite its flaws “Hope” has lots of things going for it to get it in my “like” category: lots of TJ, lots of Greer, and a nice twist using the stones. Where it all comes undone is in the pacing and the lack of a believable time-line…
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Review: Alliances
The best of the Earth-bound episodes “Alliances” is probably the first Earth-based episode that really (and literally) rocks, as it involves an attack on Homeworld Command by the Lucien Alliance just at the moment when Camile and Greer have used the communication stones to swap with Senator Michaels and Doctor…
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Review: Twin Destinies
I’m a little, a lot, in love with this episode So, upfront I should say that I might be a little in love with this episode and therefore somewhat biased…OK, make that a LOT in love. Some of it is down to my deep abiding love for time travel stories;…
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Review: Deliverance
Space battles, last minute heroics and a team coming together to save the day Weirdly, “Deliverance” is a good old-fashioned story of space battles with aliens, last minute heroics and the team coming together to save the day. In pure descriptive terms, a casual observer might assume that I was…
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