SG-U – Water (1x06) - (Discuss – Grade | SPOILERS)

[DontFeedPhil]

I really liked this episode. I liked how the sand aliens got onboard. Im also glad that they didnt get enough water. Thats how shit goes. Just ask our army in Iraq. Thats what Im liking about this show. One thing that we all learned watching BSG was that sometimes its better if we dont get a nice episode summary at the end. Sometimes the alien gets away without us knowing everything about it...
And Chloe is looking more and more like the ship tramp...And it looks like we found the one and only way to keep Lt. Scotts hips from jackhammering any poontang within site. Pin him inbetween two immovable sheets of ice...

 

[Brent]

I liked the look of the Ancients spacesuits - sort of steam-punky, sort of armored, a little reminiscent of ENT's suits in terms of color, but bronze/copper tones seem to be the way to go these days.

Those looked like the same suits the rogue Asgard wore in SG:A, just with clear faceplates.

Exactly, they are connected

 

[O'Dib]

This ep had a slow start, and I was dreading a repeat of the sand planet one (which was good, but not let's do that again good). But the stories diverged, the tension swelled, and it got a lot better. Maybe my fav so far. I also like how the young lt. guy dicking around is being addressed.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I liked the look of the Ancients spacesuits - sort of steam-punky, sort of armored, a little reminiscent of ENT's suits in terms of color, but bronze/copper tones seem to be the way to go these days.

Those looked like the same suits the rogue Asgard wore in SG:A, just with clear faceplates.

Thats what i thought

 

[DWF]

I liked the look of the Ancients spacesuits - sort of steam-punky, sort of armored, a little reminiscent of ENT's suits in terms of color, but bronze/copper tones seem to be the way to go these days.

Those looked like the same suits the rogue Asgard wore in SG:A, just with clear faceplates.

Exactly, they are connected

They're the same props but I don't see how the Asgard could've known about them from the Ancients.

 

[Harvey]

I'll give this one a generous 6/10.

The writers are trying to push Chloe/Scott into a full-fledged relationship. It didn't work last week and it doesn't work this week. Worse, it shows how little the writers know what to do with Chloe, whose entire through-line this week is to pine for Lt. Scott.

I'm getting more and more annoyed by the complete lack of professionalism displayed by the soldiers and scientists of the Stargate program. The misfits and washouts of the Battlestar Galactica whose entire civilization had just been wiped out had a better working relationship. Unless we find out that Doctor Rush cannibalized Colonel Young’s firstborn, I find no reason for the two to be at each other’s throats. And how Sgt. Mutiny ever got into the program in the first place doesn't say a lot of nice things about the people doing recruiting.

Why the unfortunate soldier who first encountered the sand alien decided the best way to deal with it was to open fire with his sidearm is beyond me. It's composed of very small particles! You're wasting valuable ammo (as Young points out in this very episode)! You're firing bullets inside a pressurized spacecraft! WTF!

Greer's Alien-esque flamethrower was a smarter move, although it doesn't add much to his character except to make him a little smarter as a psychopath.

 

[Snaploud]

I'm still unclear, did those few chunks of ice solve their water problems? Because all that ice they brought back might melt into 200-300 hundred liters tops.

"Good work everyone. Lt. Scott and I have brought back enough water for everyone for one day. I guess we'll be mining for water again soon."

Rush said that it would fill up a fraction of capacity. He also seemed annoyed that Young wanted to waste time trying to save Lt. Slut when he could be collecting more ice.

You're right, though, that the ice couldn't possibly last all that long. They really need to come back to this issue soon.

 

[Harvey]

I'm under the impression that the ship has a water recycling system. Or is that just a bit of fanwank that isn't on-screen? If that's not the case, a couple of loads of ice on that Kino sled isn't going to help anybody for long.

 

[FPAlpha]

They mentioned a recycling system.. still there's going to be loss due to perspiration and other reasons though nowhere near to the loss due to the alien bug particles.

As to the episode itself.. i like how they are dealing with natural problems that arise when you enter an ancient ship (pun not intended) that slowly falling apart that hasn't carried life since before mankind had any civilization to speak of.

However, as i said in a different thread, i can only take it this far.. once they solve the intial problems like food, water, energy and air they have to look for other stories and then it becomes a sink or swim situation.

If they can't find compelling stories after the initial batch i doubt the show will make it very far.. BSG had at least the Cylons to create tension apart from the inner political strife but what has SGU?

 

[Samurai8472]

I liked the look of the Ancients spacesuits - sort of steam-punky, sort of armored, a little reminiscent of ENT's suits in terms of color, but bronze/copper tones seem to be the way to go these days.

Those looked like the same suits the rogue Asgard wore in SG:A, just with clear faceplates.

Not a stretch to think the crew reused the suits too.

 

[Snaploud]

Those looked like the same suits the rogue Asgard wore in SG:A, just with clear faceplates.

Exactly, they are connected

They're the same props but I don't see how the Asgard could've known about them from the Ancients.

Why not...? Weren't they all part of some big alliance long ago? Also, those asgards were rogue, so they might have modified old ancient spacesuits to keep from being identified. Those spacesuits could have been part of some museum or abandoned outpost.

 

[Brent]

Indeed, the Ancients and Asgard had a big alliance, along with the Nox and Furlings. Technology and materials and so forth might have been exchanged. Or, these Asgard found an Ancient outpost and raided it, seeing as they were outcasts, they probably stole Ancients space suites and modified them for their use. At any rate, there is a definite connection.

http://gateworld.net/universe/s1/106.shtml

The EVA suits from the Destiny that appear in this episode don't just look similar to the battle suits worn by the Asgard in Atlantis's "First Contact" and "The Lost Tribe." They're a reuse of the same costumes, for a very deliberate reason that remains to be revealed.

 

[Danny99]

This was a slide down for them.

The only characters I continue to like are Greer and Rush. The rest seem one dimensional: Scott as the attractive young lieutenant, Chloe as the previously mentioned ship's tramp.

How did Young get command of anything? No matter how many dumbass comments Jack O'Neill or John Sheppard or Cameron Mitchell made, they still had their moments were they established that they were in command. I wouldn't trust Young to manage a Dairy Queen.

And Eli? He's slipping dangerously into Wesley Crusher territory. Suddenly, he's building stuff like the sled and getting snarky with trained military professionals and doctors, when he can't even get a job! I know he's supposed to be this valentine to the fans as one of us on the Destiny, but seriously!

I'll watch it because it's Stargate, but the Captain Planet theme (stolen from a previous post) has got to end soon.

 

[DWF]

Indeed, the Ancients and Asgard had a big alliance, along with the Nox and Furlings. Technology and materials and so forth might have been exchanged. Or, these Asgard found an Ancient outpost and raided it, seeing as they were outcasts, they probably stole Ancients space suites and modified them for their use. At any rate, there is a definite connection.

http://gateworld.net/universe/s1/106.shtml

The EVA suits from the Destiny that appear in this episode don't just look similar to the battle suits worn by the Asgard in Atlantis's "First Contact" and "The Lost Tribe." They're a reuse of the same costumes, for a very deliberate reason that remains to be revealed.

Interesting, I'm looking forward to the explaination then.

 

[Soar_Dude]

I liked the look of the Ancients spacesuits - sort of steam-punky, sort of armored, a little reminiscent of ENT's suits in terms of color, but bronze/copper tones seem to be the way to go these days.
That's got to stop.

Thats Interesting I got a MJOLNIR kind of vibe from it. Just the look mind you not the function.

This one is 4 chevron same plot line as two weeks ago just different resource.

 

[Yoda]

I gave it a 4/10. Thought it was pretty boring... I didn't care at all about the swarm aliens, and I hate Lt. Scott, but I knew better than to hope for his death because obviously he was going to make it. There just wasn't anything interesting going on here.

 

[Lindley]

And Eli? He's slipping dangerously into Wesley Crusher territory. Suddenly, he's building stuff like the sled

If you can accept the floaty camera things, it's really not a big stretch to accept someone putting a plank across the top of a bunch of them.

 

[firehawk12]

I really hope the fact that Greer is a weasel himself gets picked up eventually. Unless the writers forgot that he stole food himself way back in the pilot.

 

[Blueicus]

Actually the sled thing reminds me of something a person who has played way too much D&D would do.

 

[Soar_Dude]

Actually the sled thing reminds me of something a person who has played way too much D&D would do.

I got an image Eli surfing on it down the corridors like a skateboard!