Destiny - Stargate UniverseI finally finished Season Two, hoping in vain for a decent story arc to emerge. It didn't.

Stargate Universe was the 'Star Trek Enterprise' of this particular fanchise; a good idea that tried to do something different from its predecessors but ended up looking like a me-too mash-up of other shows while milking an old idea. Universe carried too much baggage from the previous shows and never really found its feet.

In a post Battlestar Galactica sci-fi genre, Universe decided to go dark. Dark plots, dark characters, and dark sets. Starship Destiny (no cliche there, then) travels faster than light, which must be why none of the lightbulbs worked on board - just the mood lighting in the fixtures and fittings. Read more of this post