{"id":3919,"date":"2010-08-03T06:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T10:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2010-08-02T01:09:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T05:09:24","slug":"review-stargate-universe-season-1-5-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/03\/review-stargate-universe-season-1-5-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Stargate Universe Season 1.5 DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stargate Universe<\/em>. When the show first premiered, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. I compared it to previous Stargate <\/em>series, Battlestar Galactica<\/em> and Star Trek: Voyager<\/em>.\u00a0 Within a couple weeks all that was forgotten and it was rapidly becoming one of my favorite shows on TV.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never seen the show, the story follows a group of soldiers, scientists and civilians that were unexpectedly transported to the other side of the universe. Stranded billions of miles from Earth on an Ancient ship known as the Destiny, the passengers encounter adventures beyond their wildest dreams as they struggle to survive.\u00a0 The drama is high and the stories are intense.\u00a0 One of the best things about this show is the characters ring true.\u00a0 These are not classic heroes that never make a mistake.\u00a0 These folks are struggling every day to keep going.\u00a0 They are flawed … and most importantly, they are interesting.<\/p>\n

The excellent cast includes: Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty<\/em>), Ming-Na (ER<\/em>), Brian J. Smith (Hate Crime<\/em>), David Blue (Ugly Betty<\/em>), Jamil Walker Smith (Hey Arnold!<\/em>), and Canadian actors Louis Ferreira (formerly known as Justin Louis), Alaina Huffman, Patrick Gilmore and Elyse Levesque. Some of the original Stargate SG1<\/em> cast make brief appearances, including Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, and Amanda Tapping.<\/p>\n

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Stargate Universe<\/em> 1.5 (3-disc DVD set) went on sale last Tuesday and includes the final 10 episodes of the season.\u00a0 If you even moderately enjoyed the first half of the season, then you’re really going to love the second half.\u00a0 Things really ramp up right away!\u00a0 The creators obviously learned what worked and what didn’t during the first half of the season.\u00a0 Stories include: an attack by a wicked new alien race, an attempted mutiny on the Destiny, sympathy-creating insights into why Dr. Rush is such a jerk, crazy hallucinations, an attack by the Lucian Alliance, and a season finale that will leave you breathless.\u00a0 Seriously, these 10 episodes make for great television!<\/p>\n

A quick personal story… somewhere towards the end of these 10 episodes, I realized that the actor playing Dr. Rush (Robert Carlyle) was the same actor that played Begbie in the film Trainspotting<\/em>.\u00a0 I gotta tell you, the character of Begbie scared the crap out of me in that film, and to this day still scares me.\u00a0 This realization made the Dr. Rush character that much more intense for me.<\/p>\n

This 3-disc DVD set includes over 80 minutes of cool Extras, including:<\/p>\n