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That was easily the best Episode of SGU sofar. Its probably the best episode of SG ever...
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This show is fast becoming soap opera rubbish...and I'm loving it.
Eli gets to be attractive for a day.
Princess cries a lot.
Telford continues to stalk his wife in another man's body.
Eddie James moves in on Telford's woman.
On the plot side, they actually try an obvious "out" that won't work (or will it? How much did Rush sabotage...I'm tellin' y'all it's sabotage!!)
Eli gets to be attractive for a day.
Princess cries a lot.
Telford continues to stalk his wife in another man's body.
Eddie James moves in on Telford's woman.
On the plot side, they actually try an obvious "out" that won't work (or will it? How much did Rush sabotage...I'm tellin' y'all it's sabotage!!)
I dont have a probleom with what Telford did. It wasn't his plan and he was following orders. It didn't make a lot of sence for him to stay and die needlessly. I don't see why he should have to die just to save face.
Plus I dont blame him for going back becasue it looked like Young's wife was talented in the bed room...
Plus I dont blame him for going back becasue it looked like Young's wife was talented in the bed room...
I don't think I've posted in this thread yet....
I'm really getting bored with this thing. With SG1 and Atlantis, even when bad things were going on, it felt "fun". This show is work to watch... and it seems like the plots are going nowhere. I'll keep watching, but it's just not Stargate without bad guys, P90's, and explosions. I REALLY don't care about all of this relationship stuff. Can't anything nowadays be about the story, and not just about the character's personal lives?
I don't think I'm alone in this, am I?
I'm really getting bored with this thing. With SG1 and Atlantis, even when bad things were going on, it felt "fun". This show is work to watch... and it seems like the plots are going nowhere. I'll keep watching, but it's just not Stargate without bad guys, P90's, and explosions. I REALLY don't care about all of this relationship stuff. Can't anything nowadays be about the story, and not just about the character's personal lives?
I don't think I'm alone in this, am I?
I really enjoyed this one, best of the season for me. Akward for Telford when he jumped back into his body at the wrong time (or the right time, depending on how you look at it), and completely creepy when he showed up at her house at the end.
Touching scenes between Eli and his mom, and nice Futurama reference, too. Rush was great, and I do like the ambiguity with his character, he's a lot of fun.
I really didn't like Chloe in this one, much too 90210-ish.
Touching scenes between Eli and his mom, and nice Futurama reference, too. Rush was great, and I do like the ambiguity with his character, he's a lot of fun.
I really didn't like Chloe in this one, much too 90210-ish.
Excellent episode. I'm giving this one a perfect 10. This one really captured the spirit of the whole 'contact with home' aspect of the show.
- Of course we knew that whatever plan they came up with wouldn't work, but I quickly forgot about that with everything else going on.
- It was nice to see some of the characters get in some R&R back home thanks to the stones. I especially liked the club scenes. They also threw in one of those conjugal visits I asked about a few weeks back, and what really shocked me was that an exchange took place mid intercourse. That was simply awsome.
Never thought I'd see that.
- Yep. Eli is the "friend" and Chloe knows who hers are.
- Speaking of Chloe, I thought they should have come up with some sort of cover story for her that didn't involve her being "away" somewhere because being gone for too long will raise suspicion. I thought it might have been better if she was "lost" somewhere when her dad's plane went down or something, but the more I think about it, what they did seems to be a good way to go about this.
- Looks like some group back home has or had some rather sinister plans for this 9th chevron project. That arc doesn't seem all that intriguing so far, but it's something to see unfold.
- When the stone glitch happened, I thought the drop out of FTL caused the stones to slip off the plate. Guess not. This little plot device could make things interesting as we've already seen. Imagine swapping back at the wrong time.
- What was up with Young kissing TJ? At first, I thought there was already a body exchange in progress.
- Looks like Telford is moving in on Young's ex. Can't blame him, especially after he got himself a little taste of the pudding. Okay, maybe "taste" is the wrong word. I know "pudding" is.
- Of course we knew that whatever plan they came up with wouldn't work, but I quickly forgot about that with everything else going on.
- It was nice to see some of the characters get in some R&R back home thanks to the stones. I especially liked the club scenes. They also threw in one of those conjugal visits I asked about a few weeks back, and what really shocked me was that an exchange took place mid intercourse. That was simply awsome.
Never thought I'd see that.- Yep. Eli is the "friend" and Chloe knows who hers are.
- Speaking of Chloe, I thought they should have come up with some sort of cover story for her that didn't involve her being "away" somewhere because being gone for too long will raise suspicion. I thought it might have been better if she was "lost" somewhere when her dad's plane went down or something, but the more I think about it, what they did seems to be a good way to go about this.
- Looks like some group back home has or had some rather sinister plans for this 9th chevron project. That arc doesn't seem all that intriguing so far, but it's something to see unfold.
- When the stone glitch happened, I thought the drop out of FTL caused the stones to slip off the plate. Guess not. This little plot device could make things interesting as we've already seen. Imagine swapping back at the wrong time.
- What was up with Young kissing TJ? At first, I thought there was already a body exchange in progress.
- Looks like Telford is moving in on Young's ex. Can't blame him, especially after he got himself a little taste of the pudding. Okay, maybe "taste" is the wrong word. I know "pudding" is.
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Apparently, Young and TJ had an affair at some point. His ex knew about it (just before he was cut off for the last time, she started talking about how pissed she was that he was on that ship with "her"), and I'd bet that was TJ's unspecified reason for wanting the transfer. And now, the poor bastard is having dreams about her and getting some more of that ol' forbidden fruit.
i'm with you MadMan....the characters are the focus, but the story is not exciting or compelling or on Stargates usual [early SG-1] root for the underdog type story....its just soap opera type......Chloe is mad at her girlfriend for dating her boyfriend...Young going back and sleepy with his wife in Telford's body.....this is not what i spend my week waiting to see......ugh im feed up with it....
the weapons firing the ep is the only action of anykind you will see this season most likely....and im not against character development but not this type of development..i see enough of this on CW and All My Children....i just dont care who's sleeping with who or emo love triangles or marital problems
Excellent episode. My favorite so far. I love when Rush gives the nod at the end.
Nice to see O'Neill again.
Nice to see O'Neill again.
Telford can kiss my ass, not only does he assume command and fuck up but then tries to run away from danger and finally looks like he wants Young's wife as well....
7 out of 10 for the episode, it offered some nice character moments and I will never get tired of the sun thing. Fans complained about the franchise being too action orintainted over story or lack of time on characters or they wanted something new and different. The writers have given us this and still some people complain which is fair enough if you don't like then do something about it though I would say let the season play out first before you decide to jump ship.
I don't mind the soap stuff nor the stones either because they open up new stories instead of being set on the ship all the time, which will take the heat off needing to explore different planets every week so they are not all forests.
SG-U is solid so far better than SG-1 1st season though probably behind SG-A 1st season.
7 out of 10 for the episode, it offered some nice character moments and I will never get tired of the sun thing. Fans complained about the franchise being too action orintainted over story or lack of time on characters or they wanted something new and different. The writers have given us this and still some people complain which is fair enough if you don't like then do something about it though I would say let the season play out first before you decide to jump ship.
I don't mind the soap stuff nor the stones either because they open up new stories instead of being set on the ship all the time, which will take the heat off needing to explore different planets every week so they are not all forests.
SG-U is solid so far better than SG-1 1st season though probably behind SG-A 1st season.
I'll give it a 6/10.
There were some great moments (The body swap mishap) and some awful moments (Chloe getting upset about her boyfriend--she says she'll vomit, which was funny, because that's what I wanted to do, too). Didn't carry that sense of wonder found in a couple of previous episodes. And a lot of story elements are too vague as of yet for me to have a firm feeling about them (Rush's duplicity, Greer's insubordination, the IOA's plans).
Oh, and turning Young's final speech into a cheap, melodramatic moment with Eli lusting over Chloe was just wrong. Took everything out of an okay scene.
There were some great moments (The body swap mishap) and some awful moments (Chloe getting upset about her boyfriend--she says she'll vomit, which was funny, because that's what I wanted to do, too). Didn't carry that sense of wonder found in a couple of previous episodes. And a lot of story elements are too vague as of yet for me to have a firm feeling about them (Rush's duplicity, Greer's insubordination, the IOA's plans).
Oh, and turning Young's final speech into a cheap, melodramatic moment with Eli lusting over Chloe was just wrong. Took everything out of an okay scene.
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