Prometheus & Unnatural Selection
That didn't need to be a two part episode. I think of all the two part episodes I've seen, this might have been the weakest, but I'm not sure if that is a bad thing. I liked Unnatural Selection more than Prometheus though. Prometheus felt like a shoddily edited episode with a number of convienient events leading to the plot of the second episode. So Earth has this space ship that we really haven't gotten any hints of in the last several episodes and you would think something as highly advanced as this would have security around it like Fort Knox or something. The scene where Jack was pissed off basically spotlighted my issues with this episode. You guard this ship like your life depends on it, and anyone you let it you basically screen about 5 times or so. It just felt like the plan was too easy. Then it leads to a closure of the Simmons/Goa'uld story and I can't help but wonder why they felt the need to bring this storyline back. It was basically to get the ship in the air and that was it. It was as if the writers were like we have these threads and we need to get this ship into space. Lets combine the two and see what happens. Honestly I think this episode would have been better if they had taken maybe the first half hour of the 44 minutes to reveal this ship to the audience, explain why it's here and then end it the same way, or let Thor come down to earth as just ask for help.
Unnatural Selection was much more interesting, and yes I did go back and read @bigdaddy's spoiler after I watched it. I think the next logical step for the replicators is to evolve to take human form, or else you get into the situation where Voyager was in with the Borg. I mean when the episode started I was like, "Are they just going to repeat the same story from Small Victories?" As the episode went, they really didn't and they combined the story of Reese to bring a logical continuation of this story. Even though they are now frozen in time, I think this brings some interesting and new possibilities to the whole Replicator thing and I'm excited to see where it goes. I also loved the Enterprise scene with Jack and Sam. In fact, in both these episodes, Jack was the highlight, but then again, I've said many times how much I love RDA and everything he says and does that that is no surprise.
Overall, Prometheus was not the worst episode of the season, but I was wondering why they went into that direction. Unnatural Selection opens the door for some interesting things in the future of the series and was a little better but this as a two parter was probably the weakest two parter I've seen so far that wasn't a season finale/premiere (Even though I did like Into the Fire so all the finale/premiere two parters have been decent to great).
That didn't need to be a two part episode. I think of all the two part episodes I've seen, this might have been the weakest, but I'm not sure if that is a bad thing. I liked Unnatural Selection more than Prometheus though. Prometheus felt like a shoddily edited episode with a number of convienient events leading to the plot of the second episode. So Earth has this space ship that we really haven't gotten any hints of in the last several episodes and you would think something as highly advanced as this would have security around it like Fort Knox or something. The scene where Jack was pissed off basically spotlighted my issues with this episode. You guard this ship like your life depends on it, and anyone you let it you basically screen about 5 times or so. It just felt like the plan was too easy. Then it leads to a closure of the Simmons/Goa'uld story and I can't help but wonder why they felt the need to bring this storyline back. It was basically to get the ship in the air and that was it. It was as if the writers were like we have these threads and we need to get this ship into space. Lets combine the two and see what happens. Honestly I think this episode would have been better if they had taken maybe the first half hour of the 44 minutes to reveal this ship to the audience, explain why it's here and then end it the same way, or let Thor come down to earth as just ask for help.
Unnatural Selection was much more interesting, and yes I did go back and read @bigdaddy's spoiler after I watched it. I think the next logical step for the replicators is to evolve to take human form, or else you get into the situation where Voyager was in with the Borg. I mean when the episode started I was like, "Are they just going to repeat the same story from Small Victories?" As the episode went, they really didn't and they combined the story of Reese to bring a logical continuation of this story. Even though they are now frozen in time, I think this brings some interesting and new possibilities to the whole Replicator thing and I'm excited to see where it goes. I also loved the Enterprise scene with Jack and Sam. In fact, in both these episodes, Jack was the highlight, but then again, I've said many times how much I love RDA and everything he says and does that that is no surprise.
Overall, Prometheus was not the worst episode of the season, but I was wondering why they went into that direction. Unnatural Selection opens the door for some interesting things in the future of the series and was a little better but this as a two parter was probably the weakest two parter I've seen so far that wasn't a season finale/premiere (Even though I did like Into the Fire so all the finale/premiere two parters have been decent to great).
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