SG-U – Pain (1x17) - (Discuss – Grade | SPOILERS)

[Star Wolf]

Filler ep as everyone has mentioned, they could have used the ticks to tell us something NEW about the characters, but instead all we learned was stuff we already knew.

I think they also should have had an ep or two more in the void, people going crazy, maybe finding an old ship floating out there, a mysterious ship that they board, and its all spooky, like maybe finding an Earth ship, from the far future that somehow got sent back in time millions of years ago and has been sitting there in the void for a million years, and is all decayed and the crew dead, and the ship dead, but it is all spooky inside, and we see technology integrated into it that we don't even recognize and is unusable because we don't understand it. Something like that would be interesting, we needed a real spooky episode in the void, to make it look like a scary place. Shoot even a big space void creature that flies around in the void. There was a lot of wasted potential there.

BTW, IIRC, it was said it would take a few weeks to cross the void, so it seems we jumped forward a few weeks in this ep.

Only problem is TPTB set it up that Destiny would barely make it only after Dr Perry and crew increased the efficiency of the drive to make the jump. My high school physics tell me the inertia loss of dropping out of and reentering FTL to explore a ship which in the vastness of space should be to small to see anyway would not have been possible.

Anyway the castaways do not control Destiny, they are always in a void. It is no different then being inside a galaxy where they wait until the ship decides to stop and start dialing a local stargate. I'm just saying its not like Voyager where Janeway can decide to detour for sightseeing.

 

[Brent]

^ in that case, I wouldn't have minded a "ghost in the ship" type episode then, perhaps the doctor that dissapeared is now inhabiting the ships systems in some way, weird things start to happen, and something spooky is going on with the ship.... or maybe some kind of creature that has the ability to travel at FTL speeds, maybe a Crystalline Entity, heh, to give them something to worry about in the void, and with no control of the ship while in FTL it makes them even that much more vulnerable to it.... or shoot maybe out of no where, a dead body appears on the ship, from another dimension or time, they don't know who it is, only that they are from the future, and wearing an SGC uniform, but dated 2199.... heh, I'm just saying, there are lots of ideas for things they could have done

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

That was a waste of 40-something minutes...and I was quite disappointed to see the moment where the aliens come through the gate was nothing but a hallucination. I hate how much time they skipped. Fastest 'few weeks' I've ever seen - on the other hand, they've already done a few 'bored in space with nothing to do' moments so I'm glad they didn't do that. Some ghost ships or something would have been cool. And I for one think we'll never see Franklin again, but it would be cool if we do. I think he ascended somehow.

Oh well, next week's will probably be better....Daniel Jackson (for real this time) and Jack...I can hardly wait!

 

[Kirby]

I gave it 2 chevrons - Wake me when it's over beause I fell asleep right after they discovered those little tick things and I instantly thought of the 1st season TNG episode where the bugs would infect someone and have a little gill sticking out of theback of their neck in the exact same place.

I keep telling myself I'll get around to finishing it, but the high volume of suckage is too great a hurdle for me right now.

 

[Yoda]

^Are you talking about 'Conspiracy'? That episode was pure win just because of the head explosion!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REoN1sEYVZo[/yt]

Fuck you and your peaceful coexistence, space monster!

 

[The Grim Ghost]

^ Only watchable episode from TNG season 1! For me anyway! And yes the head explosion was full of win.

 

[bryce]

This episode was a "pain" to watch.


And I say that as an SG:U fan...they should have spend some more time in the void between the galaxies - which are * immense* - even just one compressed time show where a *year* went by as the crossed the void...dealt with the psychological stresses involved in being lost in an immense void in an immense universe...maybe had them go crazy from *that*!?

(And yes, I want to see them eventually find a broken down seeder-ship...that would be cool...)

 

[Yoda]

This episode was a "pain" to watch.

*ding* *ding* *ding*

We have a winner!

I decided to pass on that joke, but I still hoped it was coming, I was starting to lose faith

 

[broberfett]

^ Only watchable episode from TNG season 1! For me anyway! And yes the head explosion was full of win.

Conspiracy was a great episode. It kept me watching the show after so much 1st season lameness. Not only is the exploding head great, but I also get a big laugh out of Riker kicking the old man in the head repeatedly.

 

[propita]

^Are you talking about 'Conspiracy'? That episode was pure win just because of the head explosion!



Fuck you and your peaceful coexistence, space monster!

I love that both times, Picard went for the chest but Riker (whom I'm not a huge fan of but don't dislike) went straight for a head shot both times. If you're out to kill something, aim for the head--and the second time, he was between the "eyes."

 

[Python Trek]

I'm curious as to what Lt. Mounds O'Fun's cup size is. Those have got to be "Ds", right? Jesus! Each one is as big as her head! I am quite possibly falling deeply in love with this woman.