Was it just me, or was it strongly hinted that Rush is after…
the secret of Ascension? Seems like a good motivation for him. He may be cold and calculating at times, but he’s not out to harm anyone. He absolutely can’t stand letting go of the Ancient tech, though, when he hopes to gain immortality out of it.
For being a bad guy/foil, it just seems like things are playing out in a very “human” way for him. Agree with someone last week who said that Rush is playing out a lot more like what Baltar in the new BSG should have been.
The first time solar flare time travel is explored is when SG1 go back to the 60’s (I think the episode is called 1969). It is established that it depends on the exact time when you travel through the solar flare (probably the time when the wormhole is established). When SG1 manage to get back they enter a Stargate Command that is many years into the future, and Cassandra, now an elderly woman takes them back to their original time. She explains that they travelled through too late, which sent them far forwards instead of roughly where they needed to be.
So yeah, actually throwing them through at the right time made the episode completely unbelievable to me, based on established Stargate logic. It was bad.
I really want to like SGU, it just seems badly written and has none of the charm of the original show. But I’m watching now, and I’m a huge Stargate fan, so I find myself just sort of…doing it religiously.
Episode 5 was the worst so far though for me. I couldn’t help but imagine myself as a character in the show pointing out to everyone that the ship will just power up from the sun. Why else would it send itself into it if it didn’t have solar power or something? Pretty damned obvious, even Colonel O’Niel would have worked that one out.
(Just watched the episode now, airs a bit later in Britain.)
Edit: Oh, and I found it strange that Rush didn’t mention that Daniel Jackson ascended before. Pretty sure it’s common knowledge how many times Daniel has died.
That’s because you’re looking at it from a viewer’s perspective. They have to survive at the end of the episode, so obviously they’ll survive going into the sun.
Never mind that I don’t think the humans have ever encountered a technology that could withstand entering a star or would have reason to think the ship they’re on could.
Even if someone did raise the suggestion, which I agree might have been better writing, events would still have played out the same way, because they couldn’t take the chance. They would still have sent a contingent off in the shuttle so that not everyone would die if the guess was wrong.
I strongly disagree that it doesn’t have charm. I can’t attest to the writing as I don’t trust myself to analyze it that well, but I’ve been greatly enjoying it despite the general lack of Richard Dean Anderson. Young, Rush, Greer, and even Eli are all interesting characters.
Oh yes they have. Don’t you remember when SG1 blew up a sun? I’m fairly certain most shields in the Stargate universe can withstand a sun (Asgard and Goa’uld, and definitely Ancient who are more advanced than either race).
I suppose they did make a thing about Dr Rush knowing all along, which in my opinion he most certainly must have, but I find it hard to believe the other scientists who were working in the Stargate program weren’t aware of things like that.
I said it doesn’t have the charm of the original, not that it doesn’t have its own. These characters mean nothing to me right now. Stargate for me was mostly about history than sci fi though back when I really enjoyed it.
How do you get that they “threw them at the right time”? They just need to throw them into the past, a day a week a year a century, who cares. It just sits there until the next loop starts and they find it. No precision time travel needed. This is supported by them only finding a skeleton in the one loop, rather than a corpse. Clearly that kino had been there while.
