Actually, he didn’t. Pete was played by David DeLuise, his brother.
Peter DeLuise will often cast himself in little cameo parts as sort of a wink to the audience, but he rarely has more than one or two lines. Their other brother, Michael, was in the Wormhole X-Treme! episode, and their dad was cast in the role of Urgo on one episode.
It’s good to be the king.
I mentioned that I’ve seen the movie but not much of the series.
I watched the recorded episodes of SGU tonight, and as I said in another thread, I am guardedly optimistic. It looks good.
The bay is gone, or your impression is gone?
If they were in a bay, why the airlock?
Oh, pish. They’re as interchangable as any two Baldwins, really. 
I really liked this episode and the way the writers are building the characters and relationships instead of just jumping into tons of action. I like that it has taken this long for the ship’s power/life support issues to be resolved, though I wonder if their now fully-charged stargate is able to dial back to Earth. Surely not, or the show would be over, but if you can’t get enough power from a frickin’ sun to dial nine chevrons, then something’s wrong.
Poor Eli, he doesn’t stand a chance with that girl as long as soldier boy is there for her to swoon over. I hope he gets over it soon. Were I him, I’d set my sights on Lt. Boobs. She’ll be feeling jilted and looking for someone else to frak.
Not sure what to make of the ending. Rush certainly seemed surprised when the ship’s true intentions became clear–he didn’t appear to have figured it out beforehand. So why no denial when asked if he knew what was going to happeen to the ship all along?
What I got from that was that he doesn’t WANT people to like him—remember how uncomfortable he looked when the Colonel patted him on the head?—and was trying to screw with their heads. He’s a misanthrope to the core.
I don’t think Rush knew absolutely for sure. Would he have gambled losing the shuttle with all their supplies? He has to maintain his dick reputation though. Like the audience, he had to wonder how the ship kept going for a million years then suddenly went kaput because of a few gate dialings and some lights turned on.
It almost seemed his suspicions were further confirmed when he got a look at Destiny’s exterior via Eli’s kino. Prior to that he’d only seen simple icons representing the ship on the few computer screens they have working.
Are we going with a season thread or weekly episode threads? I noticed another thread for Light. Historically here, Stargate episode threads are generally cold, dark, quiet places where even the crickets won’t chirp.
We’ve seen Air, Darkness, and Light. Next week is Water. Any guesses what that will be about? Gotta fill up those algae food processor tanks, I guess.
The former. I didn’t mean a bay like a shuttle bay in Star Trek but rather something akin to a protective hull. The airlock would be in case something compromises the protective hull.
Shuttles being kept on the outside of the hull with only an airlock connection isn’t exactly unheard of.
Lt. Scott sure dumped Sgt. Knockers and jumped in the sack pretty quickly with the senator’s daughter. He also dropped out of seminary I guess for getting a 16-year-old pregnant. Quite the slut with poor impulse control issues, with women at least.
I liked the happy but sad expression on Eli’s face when he saved Scott, but realized he was resigning himself to “you’re like a brother to me!” third wheel status. Maybe Torpedo Chest will give him a pity lay.
It appears they’ve already encountered at least one non-human-like alien species: the desert wind swirl which sucks up and produces liquid.
The shuttle that left Destiny may also contain an alien. I don’t think that was the same shuttle as the dead senator, since the airlock door was still broken last we saw.
I’m really glad they didn’t do a “reverse the polarity” on the battery chargers, that would’ve really get the fans howling.
But IMHO, they could’ve done the powerup solar flyby better by having Dr. Rush explain the bad things that will happen to the ship, then fixing them in turn. So, first the ship gets close enough to regain power. Dr. Rush has to turn on the shields so they don’t burn up. Then, they get rocked by gravitational forces. The doctor rushes to figure out the inertial dampers. Finally, they must avoid crashing into the solid core, so again a rush to figure out how to engage the drive. This would further fuel Col. Young’s paranoia because now you’ve got Dr. Rush conveniently activating ship systems.
