Bizarre SGU promo shot

[donutsweeper]

Am I the only one that finds this picture bizarre and possibly bordering on disturbing?




I mean, really? Do we have to portray the women as sex objects? And if they were lusting after/throwing themselves on someone, they chose him? The man who all the characters hate? *sighs*

Comments

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Eh, ew.

That just looks wrong.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Exactly!!! Just ewww, no!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

And I don't even know who these people are.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It's more disturbing if you've watched SGU (and for the love of all that's chocolate DON'T) but even just as a picture it's ODD.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

I wasn't planning on watching but now I shall make sure not to. But yeah. As a completely objective observer, I say "ew".

[frostfalcon.livejournal.com]

not the guy I would have picked... I'm hoping for Lou Diamond Phillips character to be decent.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I blinked and missed his appearance in the twoparter last week. Maybe he's only recurring now? The picture is just odd, not sure it would have worked no matter who they picked, but this was definitely an odd choice.

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

Um, why? Really, if they are looking for attractive guys in sci-fi/fantasy shows for people to coo over, I can think of a lot of better options. Then again, I'm not seeing the attraction to this guy at all in the first place and all I know about him is that he's the reason they are stuck where they are stuck.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

He's 100% the reason they didn't just gate to Earth and wound up on abandoned ship in middle of nowhere. And... sorry, not what I'd consider a lead romantic kind of guy either.

[stackcats.livejournal.com]

...what.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*laughs* best reaction ever! I agree wholeheartedly!

[stackcats.livejournal.com]

It just makes no sense!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Did you ever manage to watch the whole pilot? (Or the two parts already shown, I think tonight's is part 3)

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

Looks like some bizare romance novel cover. That's just...bad. Also, makes me think SGU should be on the CW network. syfy... same diff these days. *sigh*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Syfy has fallen massively lately, hasn't it?

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I can't think of when the last time was I tuned into it to watch something. Maybe even as far back as TW s2? I see they have their sticky paws in the new GDL movie. I'll wait for the DVD :-))

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

There's stuff I watch on it, my kids like Eureka and Warehouse 13, but it's nothing I'm overly excited about. I used to have it on all the time, now it's only once every so often. Syfy is no scifi, it's fallen massively

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

You're so not the only one.

I seem to recall there being a BSG promo shot VERY similar to this one, which is probably exactly why they did that.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I sort of remember that. Although I don't think it was *this* bad

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

No, because the guy in that picture wasn't trying to get all the other characters killed.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*piffle* minor detail!

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

That woman on the the left of the pic - with her hand on RObert Carlyle's (sp?) chest? - who the hell is that - I *know* I should know who she is *frowns*.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Ming Na (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001840/), she was in ER and a bunch of other things.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

ER!!!!!

Thank you - it was driving me insane (and hubby unusually was NO help but it being ER explains that as he never used to watch it with me.)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

OR maybe hubby just likes driving you insane....