New episode tonight. Rate it afterwards.
I liked tonight’s episode. It looks like they’re going to act alot more autonomously than they have been. And with the new time limits on the stones it’s going to be alot harder for Homeworld Command to try and keep Destiny crewmembers “captive” on Earth. Anyone else noticed how they’ve been very careful to ensure that people only swap bodies with their own sex? Just imagine the comedic possiblities they missing out on. 
Pretty interesting ep, and for me at least, nowhere near as predictable as some of the others so far. Even the soapier bits were surprisingly effective. Some nice character development; now we know why the female medic was resigning her commission, and what the real problem was between Young and his wife.
I never watched all that much of the original series, but am a bit surprised at the hints that in this one O’Neill may not be quite the stand-up guy he’s always been painted to be.
Enjoyed the playing around with the premise of the communication stones and just how awkward it may be if one gets transferred out at an inopportune moment.
O’niell was never a really straight up guy, he was always the rebel that got things done in a nick of time by bending a few rules. I’m getting sick of the drama. I want aliens.
Not the best episode in terms of overall plot, but a fantastic episode in terms of details and continuity and character development.
The body switching stuff was great, especially the mid-sex switchover. I’m wondering if Lt Douche is going to try and impersonate the commander. It bothered me a little how damn cavalier everyone was with their loaner bodies.
It was nice to see them follow up on the question we brought up about trying to use the sun directly to power the gate.
I’m wondering if there was some hidden agenda at SG Command. They seemed awfully pushy about their dangerous plan.
Also nice to find out finally why the medic was leaving, the issue in the commander’s marriage, and more on what Greer did to get in trouble.
Perhaps I shall start a poll on whether or not Russ is an asshole…
Eli disappoints me. I mean, obviously the Senator’s daughte ris a huge mega-slut, and yet he is still pining after her.
I mean, she’s not over her last boyfriend, yet is nailing some military guy, and even coming on to Eli (but not really), and she wonders why her life is such a mess. I was just agape when she started in on her “best friend” for hooking up with her ex boyfriend…I mean, how long is it supposed to have been since she was doing the mambo with Lt Not-Gay?
Other than that, this was a little ‘meh.’ Carter always erred on the side of caution, and O’Neal knows that. It was Rodney (early on) who was all brash and gung-ho, and O’Neal never liked him much. Of course, even Hammond could be brusque when he needed to, letting people know that they had a limited amount of time before say, Rodney’s plan was going to be put into place, because it was the best chance they had.
And really, with the stones, it just opens up a whole lot of questions…why not have someone standing by (you know like a real doctor or surgical team) just in case of an emergency? Why not have Carter come in and look over what Rush is doing, to make sure it makes sense? Why have Rush there in the firstplace if no one trusts him?
Richard Dean Anderson sure porked out.
Big on the political stuff. I heard they brought in a writer who specializes in it. Not sure I care. Couldn’t they bring in Ron Moore to write/direct an ep, and show them how he does it?
I don’t get what they’re doing with the stones. They need some sort of platform thing on each end to make them work? Has that always been the case? Col Young is now controlling the on/off button on his end?
We’ve gone from “the wrong people in the wrong place” to “people who seem to each be despicable in their own way.” Except Eli & Rush. Funny how they painted Rush as the jerk, but now it’s turning out he might be the most straight up of the bunch. Except Eli. I had this issue with BSG too. I watched for the story, but didn’t exactly love any of the characters or plan on crying myself to sleep over any particular person’s demise. “Flawed” I believe they call it these days. Everyone has to be flawed. Fine, but flawed doesn’t have to mean scumbag.
For crying out loud, you can’t tell me people agree to body-swap without at least leaving a note with some does & don’t. Don’t get my body drunk when my body clearly has no tolerance for booze.
Don’t fuck someone with my body! C’mon! Hello, that was pretty much rape. What was Telford doing back at Young’s wife’s door at the end? He wanted some more rape? He was already screwing her anyway, like most everyone else is screwing someone they shouldn’t?
You know, if I were going to forcibly trade bodies with someone, I’d be damn sure they weren’t back on Earth punching themselves in my nuts the whole time, or getting full-body tattoos or trying their best to catch herpes or who knows what.
I think Eli’s mom already has, or is going to figure out that’s Eli visiting her.
I agree Carter would be all over this project. They need an explanation for what’s keeping her otherwise occupied.
Are we going to find out who Camille’s Sharon is/was? Or was that the extent of the lesbian character thing? Next week Camille body swaps with a straight woman, hits the local gay bar, picks up a hot chick and is doing her when the stones blip. Hilarity!
The reaction of triumph on Rush’s face when the three abruptly left, had me saying to myself, “F…, he planned this.” :pTo show that they probably did not have their best interests in mind. :dubious:Telford wants the ship. :mad:The younger scientist just wants to prove that his theory is correct. :oWhat Smith did made me turn around and start liking his character. :DIt ends with Telford visiting the wife.:eek:
Telford is a goddamn chickenshit.
I pointed out to a friend last night that this is a standard stranded crew with a twist. Most shows like this (Voyager’s the only one that currently comes to mind) just cut the crew off from their civilization and authority entirely, leaving the people who are used to a chain of command to necessarily improvise and soften the hierarchy lines. We see that happening aboard Destiny too; they’re getting along as best as they can.
The difference here is that Destiny has a line of communication back to civilization and their commanders. Therefore the commanders still believe they have charge of the situation, but they don’t have a full understanding of it. To them, it looks like they’re taking reasonable steps to save the crew, but they’re acting more blindly than they’d like to admit.
Plus Telford is a giant dillhole.
I did find it funny that after Light, there was some grumbling here about how they should obviously power the gate while the ship is in a sun. Well. There you go. 
By the way, did I mention Telford is a steaming pile of jerk?
That was my initial reaction, but surely he isn’t that much of an asshole. Perhaps he has gone to confess that he cut and ran, or has some personal message to deliver.
Of course, he may be that much of an asshole.
The transfer-stone-interruptus is what cemented this series for me. That was so brilliant, so unexpected, and such a great exploration of the plot devices that Stargate had created… great. And, with Telford going to the wife’s door, it’s really brought the Stargate multiverse to an adult level. (Not that I disliked that adolescent level of the SG-1 and Atlantis–I loved those series. But this series was not shaping up to be like them, and it was not shaping up to be on the same level as BSG or Caprica. Now, it might make that leap, while hanging on to some of the Stargate humor.)
I’m getting the impression that Rush is playing everyone re the actual condition and mission of the ship not just the earthside brass.
Could very well be. He appeared to know a lot about the ship in this episode. Did he know the plan wouldn’t work, or did he just know enough to trick them into getting his way?
Are the same producers and writers involved in SGU? Do they typically plan out a story arc for the series, or make stuff up as they go along a’la Ron Moore?
Sure seems suspicious. He’s sort of the Baltar that the most recent Baltar should have been. Funny how he keeps saying he’s locked out of the ship’s systems but then can make the entire ship start shaking, never mind the alarms and energy arcs around the stargate.
Good thing Eli wasn’t driving a car when the stones blipped.
Well, I wasn’t grumbling; I just wanted to know why not and I also provided what I still think would be a good explanation: you can’t initiate a wormhole inside a star’s gravity well. You get time travel or alternate universe travel.
As is, the answer is: incompatible energy, mumble, mumble, mumble. If the energy is incompatible then how would she power the gate if she were all fixed up? I guess she has to to hold a 100% charge and then the energy becomes compatible. Mumble, mumble, mumble. I’m okay with it, especially since we, and Col Young, can’t really accept everything Rush says as the whole truth. Although Eli keeps backing up Rush’s calculations.
From what I understand, all he did was put a limiter on the amount of energy the gate could draw. Had the gate drawn everything without restriction, it would have torn the ship apart. As it was, it only drew enough to cause shaking. I don’t think Rush simulated that.
Well, it could be something as simple as the ship’s power systems needing to convert the DC energy from the sun into AC, but the patch job they did directed the DC energy straight to the gate. I didn’t really catch the explanation either though, it did get glossed over pretty quick.