Wil Wheaton seems to be playing Rook the same way he plays "himself" on The BIg Bang Theory.
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And as Fawkes in The Guild and Chaos on Leverage and Isaac Parrish on Warehouse 13. It's his established shtick.
The lovers were talking after the sex about keeping it quiet from the crew when 4 happens to say that's a good idea because he doesn't know if it will happen again, but...which pisses Nyx off because it sounds like he wasn't impressed with her. She cuts him off and talks real fast before leaving. Typical man-women miscommunication. And typical sf romance.
I thought at first that all that black swirly stuff was made by nannites since that seems to be what their research revolves around but that sucker mouth looked more organic. But if it IS nannites, then it is possibly still alive out in space.
I thought at first that all that black swirly stuff was made by nannites since that seems to be what their research revolves around but that sucker mouth looked more organic. But if it IS nannites, then it is possibly still alive out in space.
Someone on another forum suggested that the main point of the "epilogue" may be that it demonstrates why the crew thinks so highly of Two; in saving Three, she is naturally assuming the lead again while her orders are followed without hesitation. A nice thought. And of course, we will see the Black Goo again (though I hope it was really expelled from the ship).
Another thing I take from the epilogue: Rook now knows about the Blink Drive and he intended for Three to return to the Raza, so that he could take it from the Raza's engine (control)room. This puts what happened into another light; it's not even certain he really wanted Two dead if an escape by the others was always planned. Even Eric's execution can be put in doubt; it was offscreen and thus could have been faked.
It was an oddly moving moment when we saw Rebecca embracing Eric. His two colleagues were golden, exactly the type of character that Stargate-writers have always done well.
There may not be many other employers out there in the DM world. For all we know, Dwarf Star may be one of the nicer places to work, especially if you don't get personal attention from mr Rook. Corelactic (from Derrick Moss) apparently regularly fired its "bottom 10% workers", after all...
All in all, DM is having a great run of episodes this season. The crew really feels like a team now. So now to prepare us for the inevitable betrayal.
It looked pretty chilly inside that cabin... 
This was done all right but the whole hallucination thing felt overly familiar without bringing anything novel enough to counter that.
This was done all right but the whole hallucination thing felt overly familiar without bringing anything novel enough to counter that.
It was pretty easy to tell that the "Default Android" hologram was the real source of the virus, given how gung-ho it was about killing the Android. Although before that, I thought for a while that the android guy who gave our Android the "act more human" chip had put the virus on it to make her think the crew had turned against her so that she'd leave them and go to him. I thought her dreams were part of that -- he was trying to convince her that the crew would never trust her, and if she woke up and found that the crew was trying to kill her, then that would drive her off the Raza and into his arms. It's just as well that wasn't the case, though, because that would've made her sex dreams about him rather rapey if they'd been the result of his manipulation of her. Still, having the virus be unconnected to her dreams, and presumably just left behind by Alt-Truffaut, is a bit weak.
Too bad they couldn't get Wil Wheaton for another guest appearance. Both Three and Four hallucinated actual people that matter to them and to the audience, but Two just got random guys in masks, when Rook himself would more plausibly be the star of her nightmares. It just screamed "We couldn't afford to get Wheaton again, so here are some generic substitutes."
The show has completely forgotten about Devon's murder. He's barely even been mentioned since he was shot. The crew has just assumed that he chose to leave without saying goodbye and hasn't bothered looking for him. You'd think they would've made a bit more of an effort to check on him.
Too bad they couldn't get Wil Wheaton for another guest appearance. Both Three and Four hallucinated actual people that matter to them and to the audience, but Two just got random guys in masks, when Rook himself would more plausibly be the star of her nightmares. It just screamed "We couldn't afford to get Wheaton again, so here are some generic substitutes."
The show has completely forgotten about Devon's murder. He's barely even been mentioned since he was shot. The crew has just assumed that he chose to leave without saying goodbye and hasn't bothered looking for him. You'd think they would've made a bit more of an effort to check on him.
It looked pretty chilly inside that cabin...
We need a Grouch-eyebrows smiley.
Also, that's the least private bedroom I've ever seen!
We need a Grouch-eyebrows smiley.
Also, that's the least private bedroom I've ever seen!
It looked pretty chilly inside that cabin...
lol love it, all credit to http://jakarnilson.deviantart.com/art/Groucho-Marx-Emoticon-47469901
The show didn't forget the Red Android, nor the Androids "emotion chip" or Sarah. The crew thinks that Devon left (Nyx did wait long enough for him), for now that will do. I suspect the show will "remember" Devon when it "remembers" the Seers and/or Inspector Kierken, likely to happen at or before the season finale.
Regarding Two: having Rook there would have been nice, probably too costly to get Wheaton again though (and I'd rather have the money spent on the CGI improvement and the new sets they got this season). As it was, the whirring saw blade from late S1 is believable enough as the stuff of nightmares for Two. They nearly cut her skull open with that. The message that she is still afraid of Rook/Dwarf Star still got delivered.
I liked the episode, nice character moments (the little confrontation between Two and Five was golden; even Two is not 100% perfect) and IMO the suspense was effective. What happened to One and (possibly) Devon raises the stakes, and there was a chance the Android would walk out on the crew as the dream was constantly questioning "are they your friends, really" while the crew was pointing guns at her on the actual Raza. Because that Android underground movement had given her the chip and the dream was arguing against the human crew, I was uncertain until near the end who was the threat: the regular Android carrying malign code from the underground, or the Red Android from an unknown source.
After this episode, we can conclude that the bond between the Android and the crew has never been stronger (they now accept her with flaws and all) and that Four is very likely to take back his memories (question: did he also save the imprints from Two and Three, or not? I think not, but it's left in the air) and go to Zairon, with or without the others. Hopefully, the post-amnesia memories will make him a better person than Ryo was, before the wipe.
Actors the magnitude of Wil Wheaton aren't cheap! Just ask Marc Bendavid.
But none of those felt like things that should have had more immediate followup than they did. This does.
And that's what I find unbelievable. If you waited hours and hours for a friend to meet you and they never showed up, would you just shrug and assume they left town? Wouldn't you at least consider the possibility that something bad might have happened to them and try to check up on them? Sure, the Raza crew isn't really in a position to go to the station authorities and say "Hi, we're escaped prisoners, could you help us look for our fellow escaped prisoner?" But they could've had Five hack the station database to look for security reports, hospital admissions, the manifests of departing ships, etc. It's just unbelievable that they'd be so casual and dismissive about the fact that a member of their crew disappeared without a trace.
I mean, it's especially unbelievable in Nyx's case. She'd just had a long talk with Devon about his drug addiction. She knew he was in a rough place. They were bonding and she was developing concern for him. They arranged to meet a bit later on... and then he disappeared. How is it remotely plausible that she wouldn't be worried for his safety, or concerned that he'd had a relapse? I just can't believe she and the others would've given so little thought to the question of what happened to him.
Maybe, but the guys in weird masks were kind of dumb-looking. And I don't think we saw anything like those masks and outfits in the previous two Rook episodes, so it feels very much like a placeholder, and a contrived excuse to avoid paying another on-camera actor to appear.
Her fear was more about what was going to happen to her than a fear of Rook, plus nightmares can be screwy. The masks were symbolic of the faceless minions who hurt her with no emotions or empathy. I was glad not to have to look at Wheaton's smug face again.
Nyx has dealt with addicts before, so she wasn't surprised when he didn't show up. He was rather reluctant to have anything to do with her, so although she was disappointed she wasn't surprised when he didn't show up. She figured he was avoiding her to stay where he can score drugs. I do think that 5 was attracted to Devon somewhat so she and Nyx might want them to go back and give him a second chance.
It seemed that the red android had some emotions or was something more than a machine in the way it was trying to get the crew to destroy the android, so why didn't anyone (except maybe 5) pick up on that? Maybe because they have gotten so used to their android and her quirks. I thought it was interesting that the android knew the dream wasn't real, but she was enjoying it.
Nyx has dealt with addicts before, so she wasn't surprised when he didn't show up. He was rather reluctant to have anything to do with her, so although she was disappointed she wasn't surprised when he didn't show up. She figured he was avoiding her to stay where he can score drugs. I do think that 5 was attracted to Devon somewhat so she and Nyx might want them to go back and give him a second chance.
It seemed that the red android had some emotions or was something more than a machine in the way it was trying to get the crew to destroy the android, so why didn't anyone (except maybe 5) pick up on that? Maybe because they have gotten so used to their android and her quirks. I thought it was interesting that the android knew the dream wasn't real, but she was enjoying it.
But in comparison to the other two hallucinations where we got actual guest stars for the leads to play off of, this one felt incongruous and comparatively weak. And it's obvious that the reason it's the odd one out was because they couldn't arrange for a third guest actor along with the other two (presumably because Wheaton is a bigger name than Ellen Wong and Natalie Brown and isn't as easy to afford). Obviously anything can be rationalized after the fact if you're so inclined, but that doesn't mean everything is an equally good idea or an equally desirable choice. No doubt they would've written the scene with Wheaton if they could have, and that would've been more effective than what they had to settle for.
In theory, sure, but then why not just use surgical masks and scrubs? Those metal mask things were just bizarre and distracting.
You're just restating the same premise that I've already said I don't buy: That she'd just assume all that. That she wouldn't even contemplate the possibility that something bad might have happened, as any real human being would do if a friend was missing. I mean, they're criminals. They live in a dangerous world. There is no way Nyx would be incapable of considering the possibility that some sort of danger had befallen Devon. She wouldn't just blithely assume that he was fine. She'd at least make some effort to check.
If so, then they would've done it a couple of weeks ago, right after they got back from the parallel timeline.
I don't see that. Of course any actor's performance is going to have some emotion in it just to be effective for the audience, even when playing a coldly dispassionate character; but as scripted, Red's arguments were all quite rationally presented as the logical and necessary outcome.
Besides, there's a difference between having emotion and showing emotion (something ST:TNG never quite got). A computer-generated interface in the form of a human might be programmed to express the semblance of an emotion in order to convey something to a human listener -- for instance, in this case, conveying urgency by using an urgent tone of voice. Last season we saw a pleasure android that mimicked a warm, friendly personality. That doesn't mean she really had those feelings.
Isn't that basically the same thing as watching a TV show?
Only if you have some magical TV that simulates the sensations of touch, smell and taste.
Besides, if it was a TV show, she'd have spent hours afterwards arguing with people on the internet about it.
We all know that one day smewovison will replace tewovision.
It's also more evidence that the Alternate Universe Android was one of the members of the AU Marauder. She's about the only character on the show who'd be able to slip a virus that tailored to the Raza onboard, after all, all while keeping the other Android from detecting it too early. Not to mention having motive. It would also explain why their Marauder was clutching onto the Raza; it wasn't just for a ride to this universe, but also to give the AU Android close enough proximity to patch into the Raza.
Which in turn also suggests that the AU Marauder was, in fact, still crewed by the AU Android, Two, and Three and they just never went back to their Raza at the end of that episode.
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I just thought that since it's an android why didn't it urge them to turn it off, rather than blow it up. Destroying their android seemed like overkill, in a way when you can just turn it off.
Because she was still active even when shut down for charging -- that had been established when she revealed that she was dreaming. So they couldn't be sure she actually was shut down. And if she was actually dangerous, then she'd probably defend herself if they tried to dismantle her, and as Three said, "Been there, done that."
Both the explanation suggested by the show (AU-Truffault using her time on the Raza to upload an advanced virus; Mikkei does have vast resources) and the alternative that some viewers suggest (an attempt by the underground Android movement to get her to turn on her crew) are possibilities. The explanation given is likely to be the correct one, IMO.
