The enemy is within, I guess for this series. I hope they don’t take it too seriously that way. I’d really like some bloodthirsty species to come along, but I don’t want that to become one long story arc that eliminates the episodic nature of the early Stargate series.
I like that it has taken a darker tone. I was actually a bit surprised that the shuttle crew made it back. I was kind of hoping that they would go off to that rocky planet and come back angry and vengeful. Maybe that will be the people that went through the gate to the “off limits” planet in the desert episode.
This show really needs some aliens. I suspect that they are trying to hold off on showing the aliens to keep people watching. They had better show them soon, I get bored with drama easily.
Drama’s okay; the interpersonal conflicts are what really drove BSG (okay, the occasional 'splodey bit helped some, too), but I get tired of the emo kids.
Spoiled Princess needs to get shoved out of an airlock.
I missed last weeks ep. until I Hulu’d it tonight, so I missed the rampant speculation in the other threads about how Destiny was to be saved, but it made sense early in the ep. that…
…a ship on (a very advanced) autopilot for hundreds of thousands of years through multiple galaxies wouldn’t have much trouble navigating around a few planets, so the atmobraking at the gas giant was deliberate, in order to send Destiny into the sun. Ergo, there’s a good reason for that: solar panels! Or something like…
Questions:
What became of the geologist(?) and soldier that went to the “other” planet from desert world? Did they get back to Destiny? How/when?
What was the small…thing…craft?..ejected from Destiny at the end of ep. 3?
Now that the batteries are recharged, can they dial Earth, and get home?
Apparently they did. I’m pretty sure the female geologist did a Kino confessional in the episode that followed (talked about experiencing an earthquake as a kid and having to walk on broken glass in her bare feet), but if there was any explanation of what they saw or how they got back, I missed it.
Oh, they made it back? That sucks. I wasn’t a big fan of the drama in BSG, I won’t be a big fan of this show if I don’t get some boom boom soon. The whole “the enemy is within” thing will get old.
OK, scratch that. I just looked at the beginning of episode 3, and it appears the geologist was a different character. I think they are still on whatever locked-out planet they had gone to. Sorry.
I’m wondering if the ship is an advanced A.I. It seemed to take over and steer into that sun.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually use an Avatar to communicate with the earthlings.
I stated in last weeks SGU thread that I hope they get some freak’n lights on.
So you can imagine how pleased I was at the end of this weeks show.
I’m not sure I get what that thing was about with the unpopular genius scientist guy (Sorry I forget his name) when supposedly he knew the ship was going to be OK. That’s why he volunteered to stay? :dubious:
Well, it seems unlikely, especially since we (the audience) saw his “aha!” epiphany moment while he was reading in his quarters. Further, even several of the other characters seem to think that this isn’t so - Greer (no friend of the Doc’s) and a few others advised the Colonel to drop it. But Colonel Young didn’t see the Doc’s epiphany moment, and that guy really is a piece of work - so it isn’t crazy for Young to be a bit suspicious of the man.
I think Rush suspected the ship would come out all right, but didn’t necessarily know. And as arrogant as he is, he seems to allow that he can be wrong, so sending some people off the ship would be sensible just in case. Besides, I think deep in his little heart he’d love for everyone to get off the ship so he could have it all to himself with nobody to bother him.
Even if he suspected, I don’t think the reason he gave to remain with the ship was insincere. He absolutely loves it and would rather die with it than endure a life of survival on some random planet.
I just started watching the show today and I’m utterly entranced by it so far, even if this latest episode had a predictable ending.
You’re not a dumbass, the thing they ejected this episode was a kino, but the mysterious object at the end of episode 3 was something different and as of yet unexplained.
I don’t think he did - the audience saw his surprise, the crew didn’t. The thing is, in the pilot, he dialed Destiny instead of some other planet for them to escape to, and the other refugees suspect he had ulterior motives for that or at least partly selfish ones. And then he used the body switching stones and claimed that he was put in charge. So all his seemingly self serving behavior, combined that he’s the only one who can tell them anything about how the ship works, makes people suspicious.
I’m kind of dissapointed that they never addressed the issue of his claim he was put in charge, since subsequently other people have gotten in contact with SG command.
I liked this episode a lot though. It was great even on a purely visual and musical level. I especially liked that they were “saved” by the ship’s normal functioning, and not by their own actions. This is also the first episode in which I’ve liked Greer.
Free return trajectory, which they had to achieve with a burn of the LEM’s descent engine shortly after the initial explosion. They also did a burn after coming out from around the moon (in the book, not shown in the movie), as well as at least one course correction burn, IIRC.
WarmnPrickly: gravity is gravity. Given “shields” to dissipate heat and “structural integrity fields” to hold a ship together (IOW, sci-fi gadgetry), then atmo braking and course correction is not beyond the realm of possibility, especially using a gas giant.
We’re not going to be doing any such thing anytime soon, but a given a few hundred years of technological progress, who knows.
