THANKS FOR WATCHING! "Dial the Gate" also recently chatted with David's SGU co-star, Julie McNiven -- who played his Lucian Alliance love interest, Ginn. Check out a clip here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tY8EQ7ULz4Q.html
I love SGU. I grew up with Stargate, and SGU came when I was in grad school. Eli felt relatable, and Rush reminded me of some of my professors: arrogant, prickly, earned right to make decisions ;), but also capable of being a great mentor.
Rush was a wonderfully written character. Oh, I hate him too, but he's brilliantly written and performed. SGU just required a different mindset compared to SG1 and SGA. I think that's why it got such a backlash when it first came out.
Agree with all the above posts, All of the character development on the show was outstanding, Rush in particular. By the end of the series, Rush’s motives and detachment was much more understood.
The look that Eli gave right at the end of the series, just before the credits, has always said to me that his character had a solution to the stasis pods issue. Simple, wake one competent crew member up after a month and put them on duty for a month while Eli goes into stasis. Then that crew does the same a month later.
Great idea! As long as putting people into stasis doesn't consume too much power. Also hope the person doesn't have an accident. But I think the story was that the life support on the ship wouldn't support anyone for more than a month so that's why they went into stasis/
Man hearing him talk about how much fun SGU was makes me want to rewatch it all again. Every interview I've ever heard from cast and crew is full of positive memories, and it makes it hurt all the more that it was cancelled.
I liked it too but there was a LOT wrong. I have nothing against any of the actors but the characters ... some were just awful. Chloe and LT Babyface were terrible. Sergeant Badass was great. How can no one have not punched Rush's lights out on a daily basis???
I was not a fan, because it felt so much like a departure from what I grew up with. The first time I watched the series I was not nearly as engaged as I probably should have been. It felt to me like they sold the soul of what Stargate was. So a few years later I went back and watched the series again, and I actually gave it a chance. I truly enjoyed it, even excepting it as canon of the show.
I deafly think David blue did an amazing job losing the weight. I was very overweight but watching the show, it did motivate me to lose the weight myself.
@@neophytealpha agreed, and also the pods on destiny also would account for the aging as well (all the characters being older and what not). we have seen on stargate Atlantis first season where Dr. Weir's older self came out of stasis after 10,000 years and aged considerably to an old age (i mean she did come out of it 3 times i believe to switch zpms but not long enough to really age.) and destiny predating Atlantis's stasis pods means people could age much faster while still being kept alive. "In my experience the 1.0 version is the most buggy." ~Eli Wallace
I have watched SG1, SGA , all the films more times than i can count an SGU is my favourite out of them all hands down. I allway hope the story can be completed. my life will not feel complete with when i die if there is no ended 😅
For me season 1 was like a terrible soap opera it felt more like Days Of Our Lives than SG i hated it, so i begrudgingly watched season 2, but by the middle of season 2 i felt it really found it's feet with it's slight tonal shift and better defined the characters beyond "emotionally unstable" and was really excited for things to come and then, cancelled a few months later :(
Eli being bigger kind of adds to the realness a little. We nerdy types come in all shapes and sizes, but quite a lot of the time we carry a roll or two around... it just comes with the territory of enjoying a technology-filled lifestyle, I suppose. I really liked Eli as a character, probably even more so because of his size.
I think Universe suffered from the same thing that happened to Firefly. Lots of people loved Buffy, and they were fine with the idea of Buffy in space, but Firefly was a whole different thing that took me about 8 years to come back to and love. Universe suffered from people being too familiar and attached to what they were familiar with and compared it to the previous series and found it to be too different. Rewatching Universe now, the sheer number of ideas in each episode was amazing, and SG1 and Atlantis seem almost procedural by comparison. I think it might have done better if it was not associated with the SG history, but was a separate "universe" entirely. I know it is unlikely, but I really wish they would finish the series, or at least do a movie to tie up the loose ends.
I wish they would continue the SGU story. It is never right to end a journey story before it comes to a final end. Plus the Cast was all fantastic especially David Blue and Brian Smith.
It didn't feel like it made sense for her.to interact with the embodiment of Daniel Jackson, but it'd make sense for Daniel to interact with Dr.Rush or another of those types.
I REALLY enjoyed the depth of these characters. SG-1 was what started it all and it has a special place in my heart. Atlantis was different but also built a humorous appeal to the story arcs. SGU was darker, more mature, and took risks. I liked the depths, I loved the character portrayals and development and they were robbed of the story they were just starting to tell. I haven't started watching a Syfy channel show since then. They and MGM are not loyal to the fans. I very much wish we could get a Atlantis movie, and 2 SG-U movies to tell the rest of the story. :-(
A rSG-U return could so easily accommodate a more action based Eli, it just be so great to see Eli, Rush and the ship getting the others back even if ten or twelve years later than they'd hoped. And did the writers ever realise why the ship would be more central to any future SG universe.
I could not really get into SG:U to start with but over time and as I've 'matured' (I use that term loosely), I've found that it has grown on me. It is a mature show, for mature audiences where SG-1 is more aimed at a younger audience. I love that David is so into the fandom and it makes a nice change, I'm a star wars fan and white and am used to being called toxic, racist or sexist because I didn't like The Last Jedi. So thank you, David, as a very *long* term Stargate fan, who keeps bugging the shit out of Joseph Mallozzi through Reddit (RapturesJoy) that means a lot. It's nice to hear that fans are loved, instead of being insulted all the time, #Disney could learn a thing or two from Stargate. David, you are such a nerd, its wonderful to hear you talking about D&D!
If they rescue the crew from the SGU mission, he's the one character that I think would be best for the new show. We've lost so many established actors over the years since SG1/SGA that executives don't value established characters as much as we do.
SGU was the best of the SG franchise in my opinion because the characters were REAL (like Eli), backed up by great scriptwriting and production etc..:) A main attraction was the fact that Rush and Young hated each others guts; they had fistfights and Rush tried to frame Young for murder, and Young left Rush to rot on a hostile planet. "Where's Rush?" asked the crew as Young gated back to the ship. "He didn't make it" replied Young. Ah, they don't make leading characters like that any more..;)
Not seen travelers but I have seen sanctuary and many people from Stargate went to work on sanctuary with Amanda Tapping. Thankfully here in uk showmasters actively asked their fans and we said we wanted to have SGU guest stars and they invited them. David blue even came to the uk chevron convention when it was still running here in uk.
SGU is weird for me, I hated it. I tried to watch it, but eventually the writing, general tone, and some of the characters (not actors), drove me away. After I heard it was canceled I decided to watch the rest of the episodes to tie it up. I was still glad to see it go but I really loved the way they ended it. This guys character was a key part of that. I don’t want to see SGU come back, I wouldn’t be opposed to them picking up the story and/or some of the characters, but I’d want something more Stargate in tone than whatever SGU was trying to be.
david (eli) blue is on twitch, his twitch account is 4davidblue sorry gateworld for advertising in a term for David blue... just told him id use youtube to help his channel out and imma keep that promise
So if David wanted to come back and play Eli again, the writers can explain it away that he lost weight inorder to try and make his food supplies last as long as possible.
I think the whole idea of making a nerdy guy the main character made no real sense because those characters can be hard to relate to or pull off well. It could work with a character like mckay that kind of got established and was successful but it could easily fail or take time to establish so it was a kind of dumb idea. If they wanted to do something ballsy they should have made cavanaugh the main character and have threeway constant conflict between rush, young and cavanaugh which would have been utterly hilarious and could have been adjusted in any direction as needed.
I liked SGU and wish it continued. I think SGU contained some parallel dynamics with SGA. The two genius character Eli Wallace and Rodney McKay were kind of stressful to watch with their wining and mean personalities. Eli wasn't that believable as a genius even though the writers made sure the other characters kept telling (this was a sign) the audience he was a genius. The writing, character acting and his scene-activities didn't match up with genius. McKay was kind of stressful to watch - in the SG1 too.
did not like sgu overall but loved eli, loved doctor rush (Robert Carlysle), couple other actors but overall the writing was... ugh. hoping you land a role in another stargate or a show that can showcase your capability.
I wish I would have given SGU more of a chance. I stopped watching midway through season 1, but started watching again in season 2. But one of my favorite characters was always Eli. The huge thing is....had there been a season 3 would Eli have fixed his pod and survived?!
Only a few of us don't like doing it. Dog it's okay anyone that has seen Richard Dean Anderson answer questions at a con knows he'd rather not be answering the same questions he has a hundred times. You can see his az cringe when people stroke his ego.
Traveler Season 1 was great. But when you see the main characters name as the "executive producer" credit, it's usually downhill from there. Season 2 was boring, where you felt they ran out of content. And season 3 was the "Eddi McCormack"-Show. They whole world rotates around him ...
