SyFy's Stargate Universe

One of the best television shows out now in my opinion is Stargate Universe.  The premise of this series is that a group of individuals who were on a distant planet studying a new Stargate were attacked.  While they were being attacked the only means of escape for several military personal and civilians was the Stargate they were studying.  They had no idea where they were going when they went through the gate, but it was either that or death.  When they arrived to the other side of the gate they found themselves on a spaceship created by the ancients.  They also found themselves in a part of the space no one had ever visited yet.  They also had no way to get back to Earth.  So starts the story of Stargate Universe.  A group of unlikely people who are strangers to each other, trapped on a ship millions of light years from home.

Actor David Blue, who portrays Eli

My favorite unlikely character is Eli.  Eli is the video game nerd who cracked the hidden code in a game that the government had planted.  This code was the code that unlocked the new kind of gate I was speaking of.  So here is this guy who was a college drop out who loved to game and he is now on a distant planet unlocking a stargate.  They get attacked he, along with everyone else, goes through the gate and arrives  on Destiny.

SPOILER ALERT!  Stargate Universe is in its second season and it has just dropped a huge bomb on viewers as to what the ship Destiny was created to do.  It was created to travel to the ends of the universe because the ancients had found a signal that they believe to be THE signal.  The FIRST signal that was created at the moment of creation.  They are on their way to find where everything began.  Instead of now being stuck on this ship and trying to get home, those who are living aboard Destiny will be accepting their own fate and not seeing it as a demise, but their own destiny.  I am eager to see where this goes.  The writers and creators of this series have truly stepped it up.  I think I understand now why Stargate Atlantis ended so suddenly and with such a crappy ending at that.  The writers had Stargate Universe in their back pocket and wanted to get it out for our viewing pleasure as soon as possible.