Comments on: Stargate Universe, week 3, Darkness

By: SyFy shows reviews: SGU and Sanctuary | Caddickisms

SyFy shows reviews: SGU and Sanctuary | Caddickisms — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:57:29 +0000

[...] I mentioned last week, on SGU they’re heading for a close encounter with a star. It’s obvious to everyone but [...]

By: Lee Sargent

Lee Sargent — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:22:17 +0000

Actually there should be double point awarded if the avatar for the ship is indeed female in appearance.

I too hope they don’t go down this path. I really don’t want that intelligent a ship
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By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:09:06 +0000

Nice prediction. That never occurred to me. I kind of hope they don’t go that way, but I gotta agree that it’s a good possibility.

Agreed about Rush and Young. I also think that “recipes…” line was one of the best in the episode.

By: Lee Sargent

Lee Sargent — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:55:02 +0000

My main dislike of the communication stones is that it takes away slightly from the situation that they find themselves in, I would have loved to see a scenario where they are literally on their own. I really want to see the highly trained military types go into proper survival mode and take over the situation. I mean they are trained for survival situations yet the only one apart from the commander, who seems to be adapting to the predicament is the chef (which I think is awesome btw).

I’m sure that Rush is being brilliantly performed and all of the justifications for his behaviour are completely valid but if your main character is a nasty jerk all of the time it’s not going to work, even House has his moments where you feel for the character, mind you I stopped watching that show a while back purely because I only have a little time for various shows and the House character grates on me too much.

I like Young, I think he is going to be a really cool character as long as that young officer doesn’t over shadow him.

I’ll give you my exclusive prediction: When the ship powers back up from its sun bake the Destiny will have an AI system like Andromeda or the Doctor on Voyager. Something to relate to.
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By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:53:49 +0000

I don’t get that he’s not listening to rationality (except, perhaps, right before he collapsed). The problem really seems to be that no one is listening to him (though he doesn’t make it easy for them). He’s right that the power consumption was a huge problem and people were turning things on anyway – not just to do it, in many cases, but under orders. He’s working himself beyond his own limits to try to solve this problem and is frantic about it. He’s got the problems identified, but no one really believes him. You’re not going to work very hard at a solution if you don’t believe there’s a problem, and it would take too long for him to convince them. Young does seem to be getting it now. And Young’s approach is correct. Rush needs to confide in him (and vice-versa, at least for a time).

He was a bit of a baby on the desert planet, though.

Yeah, this next episode will take care of the immediate survival issues, I think. Then they’ll move on to “how do I control this ship?” at which point they’ll begin to create some problems accidentally. Then they’ll start meeting other races.

By: Arjan

Arjan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:44:38 +0000

came here through QYDJ.

They do have to change Rush to keep him being a believable character. That he’s irritating isn’t too bad, but the fact he’s not listening to even the smallest notion of rationality at any point in time became a bit too much for me.

I think you’re spot on with the sun-recharging bit. That should finish up the ‘oh noes our ship is going to break down’ storyline for a while, because they can’t seriously expect to make that last a season.
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