2x12 Twin Destinies

[AJ86]

2x12 - Twin Destinies

Sneak peek is out, no sight of a promo again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBpdfu12oAM

 

[AJ86]

Promo out now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLNIRdfEqRE

 

[bryce]

When does this air on SyFy? Did they move SG:U from Friday?

 

[Sindatur]

When does this air on SyFy? Did they move SG:U from Friday?

Yes, First half of S2 aired on Tuesdays, which led to it's cancellation, and now the second half of S2 is airing on Monday nights

 

[AJ86]

MGM promo. I don't know why they keep releasing them the day before the episode. Seems a bit pointless.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKOk5nsOlvQ[/yt]

 

[Tom]

It's a rip off of Time Squared. lol

 

[Tom]

What a whacked episode, they robed there own ship and Telford back on Earth. lol

Unlike Time Squared, things did not disappear.

 

[SG-17]

Honestly......


This is the best episode yet. It was amazing.

 

[Tom]

They obvously used the Star Trek XI version of time travel where things are still kept intact. Still trying to figure it out.

 

[ngc7293]

Previously they said 'we're running out of supplies and Destiny is running out of parts, we can't go on much longer'. Next thing you know, they do an episode where they run into an exact replica of their ship so they can resupply their ship. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how they got the other Destiny into the same time line as the first one. I have a feeling the Last few episodes will have them doing a lot of this.

 

[SG-17]

They obvously used the Star Trek XI version of time travel where things are still kept intact. Still trying to figure it out.

Stargate has shown that the method of time travel matters. A Solar Flare induce temporal event will send you, and anything else involved back (or forward) in your same timeline, while Ancient time travel technology uses the "new reality is created the moment you go back in time" thing.

Previously they said 'we're running out of supplies and Destiny is running out of parts, we can't go on much longer'. Next thing you know, they do an episode where they run into an exact replica of their ship so they can resupply their ship. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how they got the other Destiny into the same time line as the first one. I have a feeling the Last few episodes will have them doing a lot of this.

It isn't the first time. There were two Jack O'Neills in 1969 (albeit we didn't see the younger one). Two Jacks would have also existed at the same time if he would have made it through the gate in 2010.
Continuum made a point out of this with the altered Daniel being in Egypt and the timeline shifting instead of splitting with Ba'al's Solar Flare computer.

 

[Saquist]

Previously they said 'we're running out of supplies and Destiny is running out of parts, we can't go on much longer'. Next thing you know, they do an episode where they run into an exact replica of their ship so they can resupply their ship. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how they got the other Destiny into the same time line as the first one. I have a feeling the Last few episodes will have them doing a lot of this.

It was a good episode.

But yes it doesn't make sense how an entire ship was sent back in time when flare events only send the occupants of the wormhole back in time...

It was intense but predictable.

 

[Brent]

I loved this episode! I'm a sucker for time travel/alternate reality stories to begin with, but I absolutely loved this one. They really made us feel like there were two Rush's there, I never once felt like it was just one, it felt like two, and it felt like two different ones to boot.

Of course, you'd expect the other ship and rush to dissapear immediately once they deviated from that timeline, but its Stargate, things do work differently. You'd also think the parts would dissapear, but oh well, I guess they don't.

Anyway, that kinda stuff aside, it was very cool, and I like the twin destiny aspect. I guess they did not end up getting that other device that would double the power of their weapons, oh well.

All in all, A+ episode, too bad the show is canceled really, seems like its on the uphill now. Just when it was getting good too.

 

[broberfett]

I just hope the episode leads to something else. Those parts should activate something new. Everything they took is just stuff you won't even notice as different. They have their guns. They have food and medical supplies we won't really notice. They didn't get the thing to double their weapons. Both duplicates of Rush and Telford died conveniently. It just seems like an episode to explain keeping the status quo.

 

[Kitty Worrier]

Both duplicates of Rush and Telford died conveniently.

Wasn't it technically the 'original' Telford that died, and the duplicate (the one from the timeline we only witness in flashbacks) lived?

Either, way, it's convienent way to make sure there is only one of each. I had a bad feeling something would happen to him on the ship.

btw, loved how they found another way to keep Lou Diamond on the show, but not in every episode... again.

Pretty intense. I just wonder what happened to the people when they went through the stargate... died, ended up elsewhere?

 

[Hyperspace05]

Excellent episode for me. Much better than last week.

 

[BlobVanDam]

Both duplicates of Rush and Telford died conveniently.

Wasn't it technically the 'original' Telford that died, and the duplicate (the one from the timeline we only witness in flashbacks) lived?

Either, way, it's convienent way to make sure there is only one of each. I had a bad feeling something would happen to him on the ship.

btw, loved how they found another way to keep Lou Diamond on the show, but not in every episode... again.

Pretty intense. I just wonder what happened to the people when they went through the stargate... died, ended up elsewhere?

Yes, you always know they have to balance it out in the end

Anyway, I thought this was the best episode of S2 so far, and one of the best SGU episodes overall. I love time travel, no matter how many times they've done it before. The writers of Stargate do this kind of episode a lot better than the talky stuff that SGU often does.
When I saw the name of the episode, I hoped it was going to be something like this (I avoided any spoilers before watching it). It kept up a good pace, and didn't lose momentum, and it was nice to see an SG-1 cameo, and a few name drops.

 

[AJ86]

Both duplicates of Rush and Telford died conveniently.

Wasn't it technically the 'original' Telford that died, and the duplicate (the one from the timeline we only witness in flashbacks) lived?

Either, way, it's convienent way to make sure there is only one of each. I had a bad feeling something would happen to him on the ship.

btw, loved how they found another way to keep Lou Diamond on the show, but not in every episode... again.

Pretty intense. I just wonder what happened to the people when they went through the stargate... died, ended up elsewhere?

Spoiler: future episode

There are spoilers for '2x17 - Common Descent' that lead me to believe that this might be the case.

 

[Tom]

Ya some loose threads like:

- Where did the other crew go, backwards or forward in time?

- Did the other rush assend while in the chair?

So now they have not one, but two new shuttles, reminds me of Voyager. LOL

Not only did this episode remind me a little of Time Squared but also of Voyager's Deadlock where things (Kim and the baby) were transfered between realities, although there it was not time travel but quantum duplication.

 

[propita]

Chloe likely doesn’t trust that she’s not still “infected” and doesn’t want to take that back to Earth, while Scott won’t go without her.