SG-U - Awakening - (2x03) - (Discuss – Grade | SPOILERS)
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I'm glad they alien didn't speak english, and I'm glad there isn't a magic translator, this is more real-world, and they are just answering the complaints of fans throughout SG1 who have complained about all the aliens speaking english. This is one of the more realistic aspects of the show I DO like.
Well, Eli knows Young tried to kill Rush twice and that he's not the best decision maker in the universe. He's never really dealt with Telford and had no idea he was brainwashed prior to the incursion, then Telford got tossed in with the Alliance dudes as a mole.
Ooh, language barriers might actually be interesting, assuming that means the aliens can speak Enlgish, but since they aren't familar with it they screw it up. It works, you have aliens the characters can interact with, it hooks into "harsh reality," and it's something that isn't done very often in sci-fi.
Logical reason? Not really, but I would guess one thing which motivates Eli to keep his mouth shut on the matter is that he still wants to score with Chloe.
If they go the universal translator route, I'd like to see it shown as alien language and English being spoken simultaneously, while the alien's lips (or beak or whatnot) moves with the alien language. The English should be spoken in a synthesized voice and pauses should be included at odd intervals to indicate that the alien language has its sentence components in a non-English order.
buzz-squeak-clikclik-snarp-zorrrd'ik-blurp-ikikikikiki-joe-wheeee^dunk
Human----crew-animals-----------thine ship--surrender-----to us---
buzz-squeak-clikclik-snarp-zorrrd'ik-blurp-ikikikikiki-joe-wheeee^dunk
Human----crew-animals-----------thine ship--surrender-----to us---
If that's the best the series can do when it comes to motivation, no wonder it's such a mess. Eli wants to bang a girl who has repeatedly shown no interest and has been together with another guy for some time, and that's his reasoning behind not revealing that one of the crew has suddenly developed rapid healing and done her best to conceal it from the rest of the crew?
This was an interesting if a little slow episode, I think they need to up the pace of some of these episodes and next week its the stones again
I do love the aliens in this series though as there so different and not just displaced Humans who can speak English.
Im hating head wife as that is a rip off of BSG and also hating those bloody montages at the end of each episode.
I do love the aliens in this series though as there so different and not just displaced Humans who can speak English.
Im hating head wife as that is a rip off of BSG and also hating those bloody montages at the end of each episode.
I'm willing to give that a little bit more time because we don't really know anything about it yet. In BSG, Six could have been from a chip implanted in Baltar's head; she could have been an hallucination; or she could've been exactly what she often said she was - an "angel" from "God." In SGU's case, we have two possibilities: hallucination or a virtual representation from Destiny. I'd actually prefer it to be an hallucination, because I think it could lead to interesting story-telling and characterization possibilities for Rush down the road.
He's not exactly a medical expert...sure, it's weird but not something I think would be high on his list of priorities. TJ, on the other hand, should have freaked out or at least said "What? Let me see!" As opposed to saying "I lost my baby, but I'm okay." What a pointless piece of dialogue. Sheesh, I like this show, but it honestly sucks some of the time. That's okay, every show has it's ups and downs. Sometimes ups outnumber the downs. But not in Nottingh...I mean, not on Destiny.
I'd be the last one to support wheel spinning. But, it doesn't feel like that for SGU, at least not so far. I'd agree that if we don't find more answer by the midpoint of this season, maybe it's too slow. But, so far, it's been an enjoyable ride. Not perfect but enough so that I stay tuned. It feels like with this season they're accelerating things a bit.
Obviously we'll be seeing the feeder ships again, and from reports, not too long from now. Rush has access to the bridge and will start to discover things. Etc. This should all come to a head by the midpoint of the season. That's my hope. From there, there should be ramifications for the 2nd half of the season.
Mr Awe
Not only are they used at the end of every episode and the songs suck, but all the montages are essentially the same. They all show the characters going off to do their own thing around the ship, and they're all acting so mopy and depressed.
If you had to work with writers like that you'd also have a depressed look on your face.
I really enjoyed the episode. I am even starting to like Wray - she's doing a G'Kar switcheroo as Young becomes unhinged and she becomes a genuine voice of reason. I hope they're brave enough to give him a full on nervous breakdown - that would be a first for a sci fi show.
The aliens seemed a lot friendlier than the humans - technically the humans came onto the ship that they had already claimed and started stealing from them. The aliens used stun guns while the humans used live rounds. Telford is probably better off where he is due to the aliens' universal healthcare and 'humane' prisoner treatment directive.
I'm disappointed that so many people seem so impatient with the plot - the show obviously wants to drip feed story elements to us, which I'm fine with, although they do need to ensure that there is some kind of higher action pay-off every four episodes or so to avoid getting bogged down with lengthy intertwining plot threads.
Plus, this isn't BSG so, while the actress is brilliant and I love their dialogue, I'm not sure that I want to see an 'angel' stalking Rush for the entire series.
Knepper's character seems to be being set up to be some kind of traitorous trouble-maker (it's hard to tell why they would have picked him to remain behind on current viewing) so I'm hoping that he's a red herring and that one of the other apparently benificent characters is going to betray them and kill a few main characters instead.
I love Park - she is one of the few supporting characters who has a definable personality (her sarcastic whining is actually very endearing) but what does she do exactly? Most of the scientists seem to be 'scientists' with no identifiable discipline to distinguish them. At the moment she seems to be the character who 'repeats the computer' while the boys go off and do all the work. They need to change that up and make her a bit more competent at something... and I'm actually more interested in her love life than TJ's predictable potentially melodramatic romance.
I can also live without a musical montage every week too. Save it for when someone dies please.
The aliens seemed a lot friendlier than the humans - technically the humans came onto the ship that they had already claimed and started stealing from them. The aliens used stun guns while the humans used live rounds. Telford is probably better off where he is due to the aliens' universal healthcare and 'humane' prisoner treatment directive.
I'm disappointed that so many people seem so impatient with the plot - the show obviously wants to drip feed story elements to us, which I'm fine with, although they do need to ensure that there is some kind of higher action pay-off every four episodes or so to avoid getting bogged down with lengthy intertwining plot threads.
Plus, this isn't BSG so, while the actress is brilliant and I love their dialogue, I'm not sure that I want to see an 'angel' stalking Rush for the entire series.
Knepper's character seems to be being set up to be some kind of traitorous trouble-maker (it's hard to tell why they would have picked him to remain behind on current viewing) so I'm hoping that he's a red herring and that one of the other apparently benificent characters is going to betray them and kill a few main characters instead.
I love Park - she is one of the few supporting characters who has a definable personality (her sarcastic whining is actually very endearing) but what does she do exactly? Most of the scientists seem to be 'scientists' with no identifiable discipline to distinguish them. At the moment she seems to be the character who 'repeats the computer' while the boys go off and do all the work. They need to change that up and make her a bit more competent at something... and I'm actually more interested in her love life than TJ's predictable potentially melodramatic romance.
I can also live without a musical montage every week too. Save it for when someone dies please.
Writer 1: We need a title for this episode.
Writer 2: Well, what have you written so far?
Writer 1: Not much, but I have this great scene where an alien opens it's eyes all dramatically and stuff.
Writer 2: Let's call it "Awakening"!
Writer 1: That's just a small part, it's not really about that...
Writer 2: Who cares, the audience won't notice.
According to the title list for Season 2 I've seen they actually gonna start with the first more-than-a-single-word titles soon.
Oh, great, so we'll get gems like "Attack of the Wombats", "Return of the Wombats", and "Rush vs. the Wombat Queen."
Actually, I kind of like the sound of that last one...Oh, great, so we'll get gems like "Attack of the Wombats", "Return of the Wombats", and "Rush vs. the Wombat Queen."According to the title list for Season 2 I've seen they actually gonna start with the first more-than-a-single-word titles soon.
Writer 1: We need a title for this episode.
Writer 2: Well, what have you written so far?
Writer 1: Not much, but I have this great scene where an alien opens it's eyes all dramatically and stuff.
Writer 2: Let's call it "Awakening"!
Writer 1: That's just a small part, it's not really about that...
Writer 2: Who cares, the audience won't notice.
^He he...me too. 
