Bon en gros il dit que la seconde partie de la saison se concentrera plus sur le vaisseau et les planètes ainsi que les aliens et qu'il y aura moins de scènes sur Terre. Cependant ils n'abandonneront pas les pierres et continueront à les utiliser mais beaucoup moins souvent pour cette deuxième partie.CITATION Syfy renews 'Stargate: Universe' and 'Sanctuary'
Syfy is expanding its commitments to "Stargate: Universe" and "Sanctuary," granting both shows another season.
"Universe" just aired its freshman midseason finale. The show's hiatus will extend until April, and then season two will debut in the fall, along with a third season of "Sanctuary."
Both Friday night shows have commenced production on their next seasons in Vancouver and have received 20-episode orders.
Full Q&A with "Universe" executive producer Robert Cooper below:
Debuting after the conclusion of Syfy's critically acclaimed "Battlestar Galactica" and the cancellation of "Stargate: Atlantis," "Universe" has charted a tricky course through the network's fandom.
With a fall finale cliffhanger than left the ethically compromised Dr. Rush (Robert Carlyle) stranded on a planet, executive producer Robert Cooper says the second half of the season will become more serialized and build on the fractures within the show's group of spaceship-trapped castaways.
"The implications of leaving Rush on the planet, the real division that will cause amongst the crew, the judgment of those characters and their actions are going to have a big impact on the show," Cooper says. "We have a lot of things planned for the second half of the season, which will be much more serialized."
The show also plans to have more scenes set on the ship (as opposed to cutting to drama back on Earth) and will introduce a full-bodied alien into the show.
"There is a big story point coming up that does introduce an alien race," Cooper says. "It's more along the line of a "District 9"-type alien. Our interaction is handled in a very "Universe" way -- they're not the typical "Stargate" alien bad guys."
"Sanctuary" has averaged 2.2 million viewers this fall when 7-day DVR data is included, "Universe" has averaged 2.6 million.
Q&A:
THR: What have you learned over the course of the episodes you've done so far?
Cooper: We think the cast is phenomenal and are just doing a great job bringing the characters to life and embracing the concept of playing multi-dimensional people with flaws. It takes some courage to show a character's negative side. We have a lot of things planned for the second half of the season, which will be a much more serialized show.
THR: Can you give us an idea what to expect?
Cooper: Col. Young has left Rush on the planet. The implications of that, the real division that will cause amongst the crew, the judgment of those characters and the actions are going to have a big impact on the show.
THR: Will you have as many scenes back on Earth?
Cooper: It's certainly been a hot topic of debate. It's very valuable in terms of tying the crew to Earth, and some have suggested the crew should be more isolated. There's also a debate about the moral issue of how the [body swapping] stones are used and whether it's right for a person to do certain things in the body of the another person and that's interesting too. I think there's some value in terms of seeing who they're missing and the political ramifications of the Destiny's mission back on Earth. We're not going to abandon the stones, but the emphasis of the second half of the first season is more heavily weighted to what's going on with the ship.
THR: Seem to me some of the complaints are from either people who want it to be just like previous "Stargate" shows, or more like BSG, and can't seem to appreciate that "Universe" is trying to be it's own thing.
Cooper: It's tough because we're dealing with, in once case, 15 seasons of with a certain fanbase and there are certainly a vocal group of those fans who are unhappy. And anytime you're in a post-"Battlestar" sci-fi world you're going to get measured against it because they've declared that's where the bar is set, and we're just striving to make a good show. Hopefully as it goes on, people will began to appreciate it for being its own thing -- that's all we can hope for. It sometimes takes awhile to overcome those expectations. I can't really be upset that people came to love something I had a part in creating. But as a creative person you have to move on and have to grow. I don't think we could have been successful in the exact same vein as what we did before, we had to evolve.
THR: I've appreciated that the show has been very alien-lite. Will that continue?
Cooper: The show was always intended to be a drama and about people who are struggling to survive. There is a sci-fi element, but it was never going to turn into the "alien of the week." However, there is a big story point coming up that does introduce an alien race that's a very cool CG alien. It's more along the line of a "District 9"-type of alien. Our interaction is handled in a very "Universe" way -- they're not the typical "Stargate" alien bad guys.
THR: There's been criticism about the female characters. Some of it seems to suggest that having characters who are at all sexual automatically makes a show sexist, that anything less than a neutered "Star Trek" ideal is somehow bad.
Stargate-universe-elyse_lCooper: I think our female actors are playing strong female characters and they are proud of the characters they're playing. We didn't do a good enough job establishing them early on, it took too long for those traits to come to the forefront, and I think people are recognizing that in the later episodes. But that's the other big hot button -- whether sex belongs in sci-fi. It's a huge deal with our fan base and I think its bizarre to ignore sex as a part of translating the human condition to fiction. If we're going to try and tell a more realistic character story we need to include those things.
THR: Also, one comment, as a fan: a little bit of Kino-vision goes a long way.
Cooper: It's part of the language of TV now, that reality TV point-of-view that you're just sitting with those people and it helps bring reality to sci fi. I don't think we over-use it; I directed the Kino episode.
THR: I did like how [the episode, "Time"] ended, that you trusted the audience to put together what happened next without feeling the need to explain it.
Cooper: You have to find new ways to surprise and challenge people, audiences are so much more sophisticated now. Once the idea of killing everybody a second time really took hold, we ended up with five minutes left in the show [to wrap things up]. The original ending showed even less -- just Scott picking up the Kino. To me it was obvious what he was going to say, but we added a little more.
Concernant la principale race Alien de cette seconde partie de saison Cooper dit qu'ils ressembleront plus à ceux de District 9 dans leur mentalité qu'aux ennemis dont on a l'habitude dans la franchise Stargate. Pour ceux qui n'auraient pas vu le film ce sont des milliers d'aliens qui se retrouvent coincés sur Terre et qui sont parqués dans des bidonvilles et complètement mis à l'écart de la société humaine, ceux ci peuvent être coopératif, intelligent et sympathique pour certains mais également très agressif si on les énerve ou si on leur fait quelque chose, pas vraiment des méchants mais pas vraiment des gentils quoi, et avec des différences dans le comportement de chaque individu, pas un groupe de mouton qui pensent tous pareil.
Il dit également que le fait que Young ai abandonner Rush sur une planète aura de grosses conséquences sur le show et sur la vision des choses qu'a l'équipage du vaisseau, ca causera une division entre ceux qui trouvent que Young n'a pas fait le bon choix et ceux qui l'approuvent.
Bizarre, surtout venant de lui. Mais bon, c'est cool, on va enfin peut-être être satisfaits. 
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