You find alot of Rushs in academic departments. You also find alot of Baltars.Bounty wrote:I actually find Rush's character very recognisable - the perfectionist who envisions an environment that perfectly supports his genius, who gets cripplingly frustrated when anyone around him doesn't live up to that ideal. It's almost the perfect opposite of Baltar, who comes across as a chronic underachiever. Look what happens when both are given responsibility: Rush works himself into a coma trying to get his work done, Baltar orders booze and hookers.
I still don't think they are that similar overall. Alot of new additions, like flawed characters, some sort of visual style at all, a bit of grittiness; these were things that Stargate could use. Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis are kind of fluffy; the universe could use some edge to it.Starglider wrote:SGU and nBSG are both soap operas with deeply flawed characters and lots of sex and swearing. It has a similar visual style, dark dramatic lighting, grittiness, drunken camera, but less exagerated. I don't think the music is similar though; it's just really heavy handed. In that last episode the music hardly ever stopped and overpowered the dialogue (not that that was a bad thing, because the dialogue sucked).
I myself don't. However, when SG-U started, I heard alot of "Oh, Lord, they cloned Baltar". However, I disagree with you though. Baltar tends to act like an asshole too, just one that has been accustomed to a cozy semi-celebrity lifestyle. Stick Baltar ass on Icarus base for six months and then strand him on a ship which can't support the population, make him the only person who can credibly fix the problem in the long term, and then make everyone hate him. I wonder how charming he'd be then. Rush is an arrogant prig, but alot of his assholishness comes from his situation, in my opinion.That's bizarre. Baltar has always been charming, Rush acts like an asshole, I don't see how you could reconcile that blatant difference with 'same character'.
Anyway, I gave this a 2 since it was really boring and what wasn't boring (the last 5 minutes) was predictable. As my wife said, almost nothing of note happened in this episode. The middle 20 minutes were particularly annoying, with everyone sitting around and moping/fucking, where you can bet your ass that SG-1 or the SG:A team would be trying something, anything to change the situation. I like the idea of the situation being the life-or-death challenge rather than introducing humanoid enemies, and I can tolerate the protagonists being annoying. Any more of this pathetic passiveness and stupid Lost-style massive-blocks-of-irrelevant-backstory and we will not be watching or buying the DVDs.
Well, they could have had Carter or Daniel go "Eureka!" then solve the problem by opening a panel, rearranging some random pointy lucite bits inside, and hitting a button in the last five minutes, while shooting off one-liners to each other, in order to solve the problem.
Their solution to getting the shuttle back to the ship was hokey (gravity boosting doesn't work that way!), but at least they are trying something different than the standard Deus Ex Machinas that the other series pull frequently.
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