I’m not all the way through the show yet, but could someone 'splain me, how and when the Prometheus got Asgard hyperdrive? I thought I’d seen all the shows.
Maybe I wasn’t paying very close attention? Gen. Hammond mentioned he’d led the Prometheus against Anubis’ fleet. Huh? When?
I don’t recall exactly how or why it was done, but I think the Asgard hyperdrive is pretty recent; there was mention of it being installed in several of the preceding episodes, I believe.
As for your second question, do you by chance recall the big-ass battle with Anubis above Antarctica in “Lost City” at the end of last season? (It was kinda hard to miss.;)) That’s when.
Yesterday I finally caught up with all 7+ years of this show, having entertained myself half the summer with the DVDs of seasons 1-6, and more recently seeing the season 7 DVDs and the current season’s episodes on tape. At last, I am able to answer these types of questions. Yay!
Yeah, I guess I do sorta remember that episode now that you mention it. But I mostly remember the part about them using an Ancient torpedo thing to take out the enemy fleet. I honestly don’t remember them getting an Asgard Hyperdrive.
Anyway, after seeing the whole episode last night, I’m pretty appalled. It seemed like a 12-year-old fanboy wrote and directed the thing.
I find it really insulting they have the ability to fly to another galaxy, but now they have to return to repair their hull, and it’s “hard to say” how long it’ll take.
Actually, the list of things I hated about this episode is too long to even get into. I used to like this series so much, and now it’s verging on just awful. Stargate: Atlantis looks like it’s going downhill too.
Is the title supposed to be the same as Percy Shelley’s novel?
Well, I don’t know if it’s a scripting error or not, but the first time I recall the Asgard Hyperdrive being mentioned was in the episode where the Atlantis crew were hallucinating being back on Earth.
This was a lame episode. Unless they’re setting up Claudia Black to be a recurring character. Which would be cool.
Can’t Earth design a spaceship that can’t be hijacked in 60 seconds or less? At least put the Club on the main hyperdrive console.
My primary thought during this episode was “Crichton is going to kick Daniel Jackson’s ass.”
Well… if it was really some kind of fanboy-wank, Daniel Jackson would have screwed her and saved the day.
I did find it interesting that there may be some kind of interstellar commerce going on out there independent of the Goauld- that might prove interesting in the future, even if this episode was kind of wretched.
I’m not so surprised that they don’t know how long it’ll take to fix the Prometheus- they really don’t have the ability to fly to another galaxy; the Asgard do, and gave them the drives enabling them to. It’s almost like you went back and installed a marine diesel and some modern rangefinding equipment in the USS Monitor in 1865. Even with people trained to fix the stuff, it would take longer than it would take modern-day people to fix it.
Very nice analogy. I have no idea why they thought they could fly to another galaxy in a few days, but I enjoyed Claudia Black, I enjoyed Daniel’s reactions to her, I completely enjoyed Hammond and Walter. Even though none of these are my favorite characters.
I had a great time.
PigBoy, welcome to the cult!
I think Claudia Black is going to be a recurring character (check gateworld.net–I have a new baby and haven’t been keeping up with things so much, but they’ll have the scoop). I hear Ben Browder is coming on next season, too.
Although I don’t think they stated it explicitly in the series, my understanding is that the Asgard gave us the hyperdrive engines in return for the help with the replicators and saveing their homeworld last season. Before that, the x-303 had a bastardized g’ould hyperdrive the humans had figured out how to build from backward engineering other g’ould ships. It wasn’t very reliable, hence the upgrade.
To quote Jacob; “You can’t just stick an airforce sticker on it and call it yours!”
They really need to work the bugs out of the hyperdrive before cruising around the glaxay. You’d think they woulda learned that by now!
One of the things I’ve loved about SG-1 is that if you picked an episode at random to watch, you’d have a good probability of watching a show better than most of the rest of TV.
This episode was nearly unwatchable (the only thing that salvaged it for me and dangermom was Daniel’s squishing of the gal’s head on the monitor).
In the Daniel/Amazon plot, Daniel appears to have learned absolutely no military reflexes at all in 8 years. For instance: when trying to type on a keyboard, don’t leave an enemy an arm’s length away and not tied down. We both sighed in relief when he finally zatted her at the end (he’s got a nonlethal weapon, he should have used it more liberally). Had I been in his shoes, she wouldn’t have eaten until the ship had turned around, and that would have been in her cell. And what is it with the brig which has electronics in the cell? Why was she able to escape? We’re pretty good with iron-bar tech and you’d think they could manage a holding cell better than that (especially with the baddies they run into).
And the ridiculous sexual tension (it didn’t exist except in the dialogue) was painful. I suspect there are a number of fanfics out there of higher quality.
As for General Hammond’s part–weak weak weak. Let’s see, we need someone to go into a ship with little life support–do we send one of the young guys who are in shape? Nah, let send a portly 60-year-old. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Agonizing. Definitely the worst ep of the whole series.
I hope not. Not unless the writing for the characters is much better. If it’s simply a weak attempt to lure Farscape fans in, I may lose interest in what’s left of the series entirely.