SG-U – Lost (1x15) - (Discuss – Grade | SPOILERS)
- Thread starter Quantum
- Start date
I kinda like his hair that way.
And Greer is an interesting character--has been from the start.
The show's had a kinda slow start, but I'm actually liking it more as time goes on.
Thanks for making the thread I was out last night and had to DVR SGU. I will make the thread and poll next week.
I really liked this episode a lot.
DonnyBaker
Lieutenant
Very good Episode. Lots of Gate travel. Lots of cool planets. Only 1 Vancouver, and that was during winter...
I like how some of the characters hair is growing out. I hope Greer gets that Fro going. Also very awesome they didnt just go with the save everyone after 1 episode of being lost. They rescued the 1 guy we thought was lost and left the guys we thought would make it back lost...
I like how some of the characters hair is growing out. I hope Greer gets that Fro going. Also very awesome they didnt just go with the save everyone after 1 episode of being lost. They rescued the 1 guy we thought was lost and left the guys we thought would make it back lost...
I noticed that Chloe stopped being totally useless.
Last episode she was apparently the only one who had read all the Stargate Command's mission reports, and this week she found a way out of the tunnel system as well as the Stargate map on that alien ship.
Last episode she was apparently the only one who had read all the Stargate Command's mission reports, and this week she found a way out of the tunnel system as well as the Stargate map on that alien ship.
Checkmate
Commodore
They have to intentionally dumb everyone else down in order to make her look smart. Anyone with half a brain cell who saw those symbols (and how they looked just like a map considering they used it just like a map) would have put two-and-two together. Especially the one guy in the group who actually has experience decrypting and understanding alien languages and patterns.
But hey, at least they injected her with alien memories now, too, so she can understand the Blue Man Group's writing. So there's something. They just have to make sure they keep her separate from Rush so she doesn't resume her mantle of Utterly Useless Characters again.
But hey, at least they injected her with alien memories now, too, so she can understand the Blue Man Group's writing. So there's something. They just have to make sure they keep her separate from Rush so she doesn't resume her mantle of Utterly Useless Characters again.
Excellent episode. Other than some stupid character behavior (such as leaving the planet), I don't see much to complain about here. Trying to use the gate network to get back to Destiny (and to search for the lost team) was a great idea, and well-executed. I also expected them to make it back to the ship at the last minute. I knew Rush would make it back in the nick of time, but I thought maybe Scott's team would manage to dial far enough to keep Destiny from jumping into FTL. Though I'm sure they'll be back aboard the ship soon, it was unexpected for them to simply fail at the end like that.
I loved all the different planets we got to see, too. The crystal planet sure was weird. The Rancor planet was awesome!
I loved all the different planets we got to see, too. The crystal planet sure was weird. The Rancor planet was awesome!
It's gonna take a few episodes like this and a couple that are better before I consider taking a gushing tone
It was a good episode, considering Lost (the show) was off this week, it was nice to get something that wasn't totally crap in the Friday time slot.
Well done episode -- 9/10 (I'll round up to 5).
I could go without the pregnancy subplot, and the characters behaved with absolute stupidity when they decided to leave the planet rather than wait to be rescued, but other than those two complaints it was a solid hour. SGU has improved immensely in the past three weeks. I'm willing to move past the first twelve episodes being a profound waste of silly interpersonal conflicts if it continues to improve at this pace. Sgt. Greer has grown from being an angry black man to a complex character, and I thought his flashbacks were well-incorporated into this episode. The variety of alien environments (and the abundant use of the Stargate) was a welcome change, too.
I could go without the pregnancy subplot, and the characters behaved with absolute stupidity when they decided to leave the planet rather than wait to be rescued, but other than those two complaints it was a solid hour. SGU has improved immensely in the past three weeks. I'm willing to move past the first twelve episodes being a profound waste of silly interpersonal conflicts if it continues to improve at this pace. Sgt. Greer has grown from being an angry black man to a complex character, and I thought his flashbacks were well-incorporated into this episode. The variety of alien environments (and the abundant use of the Stargate) was a welcome change, too.
What I'd like about the "pregnancy subplot": At what point did the writers know about Alaina Huffman's real-life pregnancy?
Was the affair between T.J. and the colonel specifically written into the show with the purpose of eventually explaining her pregnancy? Or did they make the two characters (ex-)lovers before finding out about Huffman's pregnancy and deciding that their affair could be in fact a pretty convenient tool for explaining the pregnancy?
Was the affair between T.J. and the colonel specifically written into the show with the purpose of eventually explaining her pregnancy? Or did they make the two characters (ex-)lovers before finding out about Huffman's pregnancy and deciding that their affair could be in fact a pretty convenient tool for explaining the pregnancy?
A surprisingly decent episode. I was caught off guard by the fact that Scott, Chloe, and Eli didn't make it back to Destiny, but all that means is that they want to make a prolonged arc out of this, which is still a convention of television.
I see they're developing Sgt. Riley into an Eli 2.0, harassing everyone on the ship with a kino. It seems they're intent on maing him a Walter-style gate technician as opposed to a Chuck-style one.
TJ's pregnancy storyline continues to be cliche, but I accept it out of necessity. Meanwhile, what the hell is up with Lt. James and her confidence issues? This character really seems to be going downhill. In 1.0 she was actually a capable military officer and person. Now she's a crybaby worrying what her superior thinks of her. Go back to the 1.0 version, the one that nearly kicked Eli's ass when he made a "wrong turn" with the kino, not this one who's ruled by her own insecurities.
This whole thing with Destiny leaving the galaxy, how long was it in the galaxy to begin with? The aliens have been trying to get to it for several years, has it been travelling through the galaxy for several years and now it's moving onto the next one? Makes sense I guess, galaxies are vast and even several years is pretty fast to traverse one. This would add evidence to the belief that the FTL is slower than hyperdrive.
Greer's story was actually enjoyable. This series hasn't really been doing that good a job with its "character drama," Rush's dream sequence last week being a glaring example of how poor this show is at that. But Greer's flashbacks was actually reasonably good. Nothing exceptional, and I've seen better character drama done on other shows, but it is a step up and improvement for SGU.
I see they're developing Sgt. Riley into an Eli 2.0, harassing everyone on the ship with a kino. It seems they're intent on maing him a Walter-style gate technician as opposed to a Chuck-style one.
TJ's pregnancy storyline continues to be cliche, but I accept it out of necessity. Meanwhile, what the hell is up with Lt. James and her confidence issues? This character really seems to be going downhill. In 1.0 she was actually a capable military officer and person. Now she's a crybaby worrying what her superior thinks of her. Go back to the 1.0 version, the one that nearly kicked Eli's ass when he made a "wrong turn" with the kino, not this one who's ruled by her own insecurities.
This whole thing with Destiny leaving the galaxy, how long was it in the galaxy to begin with? The aliens have been trying to get to it for several years, has it been travelling through the galaxy for several years and now it's moving onto the next one? Makes sense I guess, galaxies are vast and even several years is pretty fast to traverse one. This would add evidence to the belief that the FTL is slower than hyperdrive.
Greer's story was actually enjoyable. This series hasn't really been doing that good a job with its "character drama," Rush's dream sequence last week being a glaring example of how poor this show is at that. But Greer's flashbacks was actually reasonably good. Nothing exceptional, and I've seen better character drama done on other shows, but it is a step up and improvement for SGU.
I wonder if the ship is really going to leave the galaxy. That would limit them to shipboard stories for quite a while, and I can't imagine they'd encounter a lot of other ships in the intergalactic void. Exactly what stories would they be telling?
My money is that they're wrong about where the ship is going, or they will take control of its course before they get too far out.
My money is that they're wrong about where the ship is going, or they will take control of its course before they get too far out.
Checkmate
Commodore
Assuming it takes them that extremely long time to jump galaxies. We don't know what the Destiny's max speed is. For all we know at this point, the powering down is so she can build up her reserves for a limited hyperspace jump.
She was built to house a crew, so it's not like they're going to be completely crippled for the journey.
She was built to house a crew, so it's not like they're going to be completely crippled for the journey.
Yeah, maybe it has a quicker way to bridge the gap between galaxies. And although the ship is meant to house a crew, it's very old and has a lot of problems. Even assuming it has enough provisions to support the crew for an extended journey through empty space, there's the psychological aspect to consider. People are gonna go more stir-crazy than usual.
Makes you wonder with if the ship is powered by stars what does it do between galaxies? The distance between galaxies is ofterm more thet the space of galaxies themselves an with no stars. So the ship either has some special way to jump between galaxies, or the ship is somehow turned around and will retrace it's steps backwards, which would be more interesting.
That wasn't lost on my friends. The angry black guy got rescued while the cute white kids got lost and stranded.
It has done it before, as they saw, it goes into a shutdown mode to reserve power, and they did say the reserves are currently at maximum, so with no one on board and no power going anywhere but to the engines, just maybe it can do it. However, we have interrupted the process by acting the Stargate, turning the lights on, and living aboard it now, so there will be less power than before, so I do wonder how they are going to cross the void now with people on the thing sapping power away.
Similar threads
