Artur Zaq The whole story behind such great differences in reviews and ratings is that Stargate:Universe greatly differs from you had in Stargate:SG1 and Stargate:Atlantis. SG1 and Atlantis were purely sf - of course, you can't like the characters without any depth, so from time to time you had jumps into their emotional stuff and all that slice-of-life idea. But that was just some minor, the core was about real s-f like: alien invasions,new planets exploration, searches for some scraps of alien tech. that is the only hope remaining... and all the sweet stuff that I could go on and on (huh...a black hole connected to Earth's gate).And what about Stargate:Universe? You get a science-fiction scenery (some ancients ship, depth of space, all the fancy equip) but that's just the scenery, story focuses on subjects like: when some chick will tell her ex-or-something that he is the father of her child...and what is he gonna do about it? ; or - what is Eli(or whatever his name was) going to do when he finds out that his mother has a HIV ...If You like slice-of-life and you could enjoy s-f scenery instead of apartment/office/restaurant than it's a good chance You will like the Stargate:Universe. For the pure-SF fans it's pointless, You just gonna rage later.Why do I think it's not really a s-f series? It's like you would give a scene to Saw when that Jigsaw-killer is dancing - is that a musical now or it's still gore-horror?

tedg I remember seeing the original movie and being impressed. In its day it was a risky mix of genres plus the expected overwhelmed by the unexpected. Later I studied the industry and took this film apart in terms of how the concepts were managed. It worked and I know why. Later, the safe parts were made into a lame TeeVee show following the then already lame Star Trek formula. I did not know what to expect coming to this. The first two minutes are an extraordinary tracking shot that sets context, introduces the heroes and establishes the energy of thing. After that, I might as well have been watching William Shatner. In fact, I believe that they hired someone else to direct those first two minutes while a committee of writers was re- engineering the script.There was an opportunity here to do something clever with time travel paradoxes. What we got was Back to the Future" with spaceships and Arctic ice.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

Claudio Carvalho During a ceremony of extraction of the criminal Ba'al (Cliff Simon), the participants vanish and Colonel Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder), Colonel Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) runs to the Stargate, traveling back to 1939 to the cargo ship Achilles. When the captain of the ship throws a ball in the sea, there is an explosion and the trio travels to a parallel world. They discover that Ba'al traveled to the past to sink the Achilles and avoid the start of the program. They try to convince the military leaders that they should reactivate the portal and restore their time-line. However, they are isolated in different states until the day Ba'al invades the parallel world with his spaceships."Stargate: Continuum" is a good entertainment, but I had some troubles in the beginning since I do not watch the series; therefore I do not know the characters. In spite of this limitation, I liked the story and the chemistry among the lead characters. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Stargate – Linha do Tempo" ("Stargate – Timeline")

ricon-1 Be warned, there are Spoilers contained below regarding plot device of Continuum and commenting on plot device of some episodes of the series, including the series finale.OK it's great to have another installment of Stargate SG1, Ark of Truth nicely tied off the Ori plot line and we do get to see lots of oldie but goody characters make a return in Continuum but this is easily the 3rd and probably 4th/5th time that the good old 'Time' plot gets rolled out. You know what I mean, the old 'go back in Time to fight/fix whatever is going wrong' nugget.I mean I understand that writers run out of ideas over 10 seasons of Stargate but come on, again with the 'Time' plot?Overall though, it was another Stargate movie to watch and I dutifully watched it and by and large enjoyed it, mostly for seeing a parade of old characters pass by.If there is a 3rd movie let's hope they've shut the door on the Time plot device and thrown away the key and give us something fresh?