Missing cast member (spoiler maybe?)

[DWF]

I wasn't confused for one thing there's no way Telford could've made it to the stargate and for another it's been known for months that he would be a reacurring guest star.

 

[Broccoli]

If it was some no-name chin of the week, then that'd be fine but the fact that they happened to get LDP and were promoting him for months beforehand made it feel even weirder.

I don't remember they promoting LDP that heavily. If anything, they haven't really been promoting any of the cast and have kept it more ensemble promotion. The only cast member I remember seeing singled out was Robert Carlyle and that is just because I saw him on a talk show.

 

[sportzkid]

Guess you all missed the line where Carter said to radio Telford and tell him to get his men meaning his fighters aboard the U.S.S. Hammond before they jump to hyper space. So makes it clear that he ends up on the Hammond.

 

[Tulin]

But the point is, as somebody stated above, at this point in the show how the hell are we supposed to know the names of the characters?

There is fat Seth Rogen guy, whom constantly got called Eli, so we know his name. Then there's Dr. Smith.....errrr, I mean Baltar......uuuummmmm, I mean Rush.


And that's about it.

Whether LDP is called Telford, Telfast or Telecom is all shit to me.

All I know is, it looked to us like he died and that's it.

Actually, I think the big mistake here was doing a three part pilot. Obviously we all know now that LDP is going to be a bigger part next week. By cutting that out for the premiere it just confuses the audience.

 

[Broccoli]

But the point is, as somebody stated above, at this point in the show how the hell are we supposed to know the names of the characters?

It's called paying attention.

 

[Yoda]

But the point is, as somebody stated above, at this point in the show how the hell are we supposed to know the names of the characters?

It's called paying attention.

Perhaps. Of course, paying attention would be easier if the show were more engaging

I watched through the sequence again and caught some of the dialogue during the fighter battle scenes. The dialogue is a little difficult to pick up because of whiz-bangs and kabooms. But yeah, if you catch the scene where you can see the top half of Telford's head in a fighter a little bit before the Doc croaks it's decently clear.

I think it all could've been handled better though, especially the 'flashbacks just for the sake of flashbacks' format of the first part of the episode.

I don't know if seeing the 3rd episode immediately would have helped, I guess we'll see, but the first two segments felt like fairly distinct episodes (with a little flashback multiplexing).

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Well in this episode we find out he's not dead so there.

 

[Morpheus 02]

i thought this guy was going to be in the show? He seems to have died on the planet.

So was LDP up for the role of Col. Young?

Based on his experience with "Help I''m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here", he ould have made a good commanding officer...

 

[Michael Chris]

i thought this guy was going to be in the show? He seems to have died on the planet.

So was LDP up for the role of Col. Young?

Based on his experience with "Help I''m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here", he ould have made a good commanding officer...

I doubt that he was up for Young. But at least in tonight's episode he inhabited Young's body and would thus have a Young nametag.

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

Yeah there's a very brief shot during the SGU pilot where its hinted there is some kind of way of doing long range communication with Earth, that's were Lou Diamond Phillips was ment to step up.
It happens around the times the general workforce, the Soldiers and Carlyle's Nicholas Rush are having some heated debate.

Anyway its a throw back to an old Stargate episode where Dr Jackson and some other gal switched bodies with some guy on a far away planet. It was more of an out-of-body experience, where a clever device made them briefly switch minds/souls.
Alien brain goes to human body
Human brain goes to alien body
Of course there an obvious change to the human/aliens behaviour as it was now occupied by a new mind/soul . The bad news for them in the original stagate series was the planet was owned by a bunch of powerful alien zealots called Ori who torched the people for behaving like Heretics almost killing people from both worlds.