After the last episode, Justice, I was excited to see the series continue. It took them four months to get around to airing the rest of the season. Was it worth the wait? Let’s see.
(If you don’t want spoilers, stop reading…)
Back in November I mentioned this:
Did anyone else notice a ship detaching from Destiny at the end of the first or second episode and flying away? What was that? Did they ever give any other indication of what that might be?
As it turns out, the answer is not “Dan, you’re crazy and you were seeing things.” The answer is, “Gee, Dan, you’re very observant.”
What that means is that the show’s creators aren’t making it up as they go along. They do appear to have a longer-term plan, at least for the season as a whole. A couple of the episodes last year had me worried about that.
Once you understand the premise of this episode, though, it does turn a little predictable. When they answered Eli’s message in English, rather than in Ancient or in gibberish, it was obvious that they had captured Dr. Rush from the desert planet and therefore knew enough to tell the humans to surrender in their own language.
What they didn’t explain yet is why the communications stones stopped working. My guess is that the alien ship prevented it somehow while it was in the near vicinity; that does still leave the question, why did the stones work for just that one alien? Obviously we’ll have to watch and find out 🙂
Stargate Universe is very much a departure from the standard Stargate format, but I think if they keep going the way they are we’ll get a decent show out of it.
This series is really starting to suck imo. I don’t care about any of the characters like you should in any good show or movie. If Rush died it’s meaningless. Sure he’s an important character in the show but do we really care? The show tries to marry traditional SG and BSG with drama but we don’t know crap about the characters except they want to go home. Wheee.. how exciting.
It seems obvious there is going to be a mutiny (BSG again..) but let me ask you this, do you really care who has control of the ship at the end of it, the civilians or the military?
Very disappointing…
What it matters is not the destination, it’s the journey 🙂
I happen to like this series. Sure, it’s different, but so what? If I find myself caring about the characters and about their plights, that’s all I ask. The scripts themselves may even be stupid (that is, put the characters in silly situations), but as long as I find agreeing with characters choices and reactions, that’s fine by me.
That’s why I found Star Trek: Enterprise silly and boring – in my opinion, the characters on this series behaved like total idiots :/
Idiot behavior, eh? I should write up a rant about Star Trek: Voyager – my favorite of the Star Trek series, but arguably the one in which the characters ignored common sense the most.
My reason for disliking Star Trek: Enterprise was different: I hate time travel plots (they’re rarely well-done) but if I remember right a bunch of episodes were based on some intergalactic, inter…time…period… war.
Gasp! You like Voyager too?! I… I thought I was alone… 😀
Well, okay, yeah, I like Voyager, but I freely admit that it has its flaws 🙂
Anyway, Enterprise – yes, that Temporal Cold War thingy was just stupid, especially considering that producers were making it up as they went (“We don’t know who Future Guy is”, anyone?) – hence, Alien Space Nazis from frickin’ nowhere! :/
(although, my personal favourite is “A Night in Sickbay“, in which Archer spends almost entire episode acting like a spoiled child, and everyone else spends it telling him to stop acting like a spoiled child 🙂 )