The ship itself is my favorite character in the show -- strange, but true -- and I'm enjoying its character arc this season. ;)
I really enjoyed the Ancient mythology from SG-1 and SGA and I'm glad to see it continued in SGU. The Destiny is the embodiment of them, the creators -- their goals, their search for purpose. It's a mirror to humanity. I've always liked that about the Stargate way of storytelling.
Young is amazing -- not because he's a great man, because he most certainly is not, but because he *will* be a great man after he gets through the dark places. And, damn, I'm really, really looking forward to his character journey. Likewise, I am really looking forward to Chloe's journey, I'm looking forward to discovering *how* intelligent the ship is.
I also *loved* Eli in this episode. I can't wait to see where he's going, because I have a tendency that it's going to be AWESOME.
I'm so glad that Young's drinking was finally addressed, with Camile and Rush trying to get Scott to take command.
I loved Scott giving Young a dressing down and telling him to man up, because while Scott is a very capable officer, he doesn't yet have enough age and life experience behind him to replace Young.
Kirk had Spock and Bones to lean on; Young needs to lean on Scott and even Rush more. Rush is a similar age and would make a great sounding board for Young if the two ever manage to get along (on which subject next week's episode should be interesting).
I wonder if Rush, lording it over his lonely little empire, is seeing the parallels between Destiny communicating with Young via dreams, and his own interactive constructs.
In fact there are a lot of parallels between the two, one being Young getting drunk on booze, and Rush being drunk on power.
I just wish Rush had a moustache he could twirl while laughing evilly, sitting on his "throne" LOL.
I have so far watched this episode 2x, but it is difficult to say anything about it overall. I have a lot of impressions but they are random and I am afraid very long when we add them up
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Anyhow, what suprises me is that no one is even surprised that Gynn knows every detail about what Eli has been up to. I doubt that Telford could take all that info with him in season 1, so is there a mole on the ship? Or could the LA tap into Destiny's system without the crew noticing it?
I wondered about that too. Eli must have been reporting his work back to the SGC via the stones, and Telford was obviously a busy boy copying everything to feed to the LA.
Also, Ginn said she'd been studying Eli's work for a year, but Eli's mother said he'd only been gone for months. A slip-up that the script editor missed?
I wonder if the comment about Eli's research into dialling the stargate from inside the star (presumably for the energy required to dial Earth) will feed into something further down the line...
I was mostly shocked that Greer left Gynn alone with Eli.
Yes, she seems harmless (now). But she was the one shot the psycho LA commander in episode two of this season, so she's obviously willing to make difficult choices. The crew really have no way of knowing if she was forcefully recruited to the LA, as she claims, or if she joined up willingly. Leaving her alone with a computer console seemed like a dreadful security risk - because if she really was ideologically committed to the LA and was just pretending to cooperate, she could have messed around with their systems no end.
Although it is awesome to see Eli mooning over somebody over than Chloe!
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I really enjoyed the Ancient mythology from SG-1 and SGA and I'm glad to see it continued in SGU. The Destiny is the embodiment of them, the creators -- their goals, their search for purpose. It's a mirror to humanity. I've always liked that about the Stargate way of storytelling.
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I also *loved* Eli in this episode. I can't wait to see where he's going, because I have a tendency that it's going to be AWESOME.
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I loved Scott giving Young a dressing down and telling him to man up, because while Scott is a very capable officer, he doesn't yet have enough age and life experience behind him to replace Young.
Kirk had Spock and Bones to lean on; Young needs to lean on Scott and even Rush more. Rush is a similar age and would make a great sounding board for Young if the two ever manage to get along (on which subject next week's episode should be interesting).
I wonder if Rush, lording it over his lonely little empire, is seeing the parallels between Destiny communicating with Young via dreams, and his own interactive constructs.
In fact there are a lot of parallels between the two, one being Young getting drunk on booze, and Rush being drunk on power.
I just wish Rush had a moustache he could twirl while laughing evilly, sitting on his "throne" LOL.
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I wondered about that too. Eli must have been reporting his work back to the SGC via the stones, and Telford was obviously a busy boy copying everything to feed to the LA.
Also, Ginn said she'd been studying Eli's work for a year, but Eli's mother said he'd only been gone for months. A slip-up that the script editor missed?
I wonder if the comment about Eli's research into dialling the stargate from inside the star (presumably for the energy required to dial Earth) will feed into something further down the line...
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Yes, she seems harmless (now). But she was the one shot the psycho LA commander in episode two of this season, so she's obviously willing to make difficult choices. The crew really have no way of knowing if she was forcefully recruited to the LA, as she claims, or if she joined up willingly. Leaving her alone with a computer console seemed like a dreadful security risk - because if she really was ideologically committed to the LA and was just pretending to cooperate, she could have messed around with their systems no end.
Although it is awesome to see Eli mooning over somebody over than Chloe!
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Hell yes. I loved the ep, but that part? Gah! Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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