SG-U - Awakening - (2x03) - (Discuss – Grade | SPOILERS)

[Xerxus]

I gave it a 8 , Just wish they would stop with the music at the end of each show.
I think the aliens might not be evil bad guys , because they only begun to stun people after Destiny started draining their power.
Also they let them leave the ship and lets not forget from their point of view there was a bunch of people with guns taking one of their own on to Destiny.
I can not wait for Rush to get found out, somehow I don't think Young will be the only one after his head.

Those pods that they came out of seemed to be hooked up to the seeder ship somehow. Even before Rush was stunned, he said something about how tapping into the ship's reserve was more problematical before.

I'm guessing the aliens need the power on the seeder ship somehow, and they were only protecting themselves.

 

[Peter the Younger]

That alien dude they had escaped and they missed shooting it when it was about 3 feet away. I think it was Greer. I think hitting a 3/4 man sized target at 3 feet should be pretty easy.

I suspect Greer hesitated because the alien hadn't been hostile to that point.

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Never stopped him before (with his own people).

True. See, he's following the venerable "angry tough guy gradually transforms into a big softie" arc.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Boy, I hope that the producers of the show are smart enough to kill off Young by the end of the season and promote Lou Diamond Phillips to regular status (and if he's too expensive as an actor, kill off another expendable character).

 

[Procutus]

I gave this episode an *8*... Very interesting stuff.

Only drawbacks:
- Music montage at the end again - make it stop
- Slow pace at the beginning, but it improved

Things I liked:
- The aliens (probably scientist just as our crew, saw an opportunity to get power from Destiny to 'their' ship), nice alien-ness for Stargate.
- Telford (and I'm not usually a fan of his character)
- Telford's confrontation with Young
- Rush's blase expression at finding the stargates

Telford lives! - It would be cool to see a Telford-centered episode of just him dealing with the aliens.

Good points, most of which mirror my own. I liked this ep, but I did feel that it was kinda slow at times... Most of the time, actually, but it showed promise of (hopefully) things to come.

I love your idea about a single ep centered around Telford and the Spitting Aliens.

 

[AJBryant]

Camille's really getting on my nerves. Someone needs to slap the silly bitch.

QFT. God I hate her.

Oh.

Another frakking emo ballad. DAMMIT!!

 

[broberfett]

I wish they had learned more on the new ship. Didn't they need any parts for Destiny? You would think they would have a list of stuff they want. Like if an auto mechanic found a car from the same company and it was his only source of parts for his car. He might want to strip out some parts and take them. They didn't even find a single useful object on the other ship, not even a hydro spanner.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

I've had it with the random episode titles. Nothing 'Awakened'...well, the alien did but that's it. 'Intervention' is a little random too.

Other than that, not a bad episode. Nothing surprising - what would a derelict be without aliens? I kinda liked that they didn't try to kill everybody, for a change they just seemed to 'be there'. And the alien muttering to himself was a nice touch.

The only way Rush has avoided being caught is probably by telling everyone the bridge is a bathroom and saying "You do NOT want to go in there." That's a bit silly, someone would have noticed something. Watch, one day Rush will come to the bridge and Brody and Volker will already be there.

I don't like how Rush has become the Designated Hero. Brody or Volker or Eli should save the ship too every once in a while.

Over all, I can't wait to find out what happens. Good episode, concept as well as execution wise. 8 Chevrons.

 

[Snick27]

SGU‘s ratings rebound with ‘Awakening’

“Awakening” drew 1.222 million viewers at 9 p.m. on October 12, according to reports at PIFeedback.com. That’s an improvement of 14 percent over the previous week’s series low (1.07 million) and the best of the season to date.
Caprica, however, didn’t fare so well in the 10 p.m. time slot. The second episode of the new fall season dropped to an estimated 840,000 viewers, down from last week’s 889,000 (down 5.5 percent). Hopefully that show will also tick upwards in its third episode, as SGU did.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2010/10/sgus-ratings-rebound-with-awakening/

 

[AJBryant]

I've had it with the random episode titles. Nothing 'Awakened'...well, the alien did but that's it. 'Intervention' is a little random too.

I can't wait to find out about the season's eighth episode, "Wombats."

 

[Snick27]

What would of been better, as soon as they seen the seeder ship Rush should of taken Young to the bridge and realize the ship was indeed a seeder ship and know they are bout to dock with it and that they can stay here as long as they want since Rush can control the ship. They then go to seeder ship and hook up power lines and turn on the gate and first people they send back are the LA guys followed with people that actually want to go back to earth and have it to where some people actually wanted to stay on the ship and all military should of been told they cant go home. As Wray is going threw the gate, have the power go out and her sliced in half.

While trying to figured out why power went out, then run into the aliens and instead of learning nothing about them nor the seeder ship, we actually have Shanks stoned in to talk to them or atleast try too.

If hence they are friendly we learn about them and more about seeder ship and also about Destiny.

If they are not, we then pull out and maybe come back later.

What actually happened this episode is like i said, we learned nothing at all. We seen was more LA and Wray bullshit, and shots of crew going thru tour of seeder ship which shown us nothing new and Rush talking to his wife. And oh look a cool Alien that we wont learn a thing about.

Sorry but for those like me that loved SG-1 And really liked Atlantis you know how they would of done this episode. Maybe thats my problem. Maybe this shouldnt of been called Stargate since its ssssssssssooooooo slow and nothing happens.

Really want happend in the first season? Sum up the first season for me and compare to Atlantis or SG-1.

This show reminds me of V and the Event. They drag out everything to where you get bored and lose interest.

 

[SG-17]

SGU‘s ratings rebound with ‘Awakening’

“Awakening” drew 1.222 million viewers at 9 p.m. on October 12, according to reports at PIFeedback.com. That’s an improvement of 14 percent over the previous week’s series low (1.07 million) and the best of the season to date.
Caprica, however, didn’t fare so well in the 10 p.m. time slot. The second episode of the new fall season dropped to an estimated 840,000 viewers, down from last week’s 889,000 (down 5.5 percent). Hopefully that show will also tick upwards in its third episode, as SGU did.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2010/10/sgus-ratings-rebound-with-awakening/

Sweet. I knew that it would pick up.

 

[lennier1]

This show reminds me of V and the Event. They drag out everything to where you get bored and lose interest.

V? Do you mean the new version, which already had a ready-made resistance movement by the end of the second episode?

 

[Snick27]

This show reminds me of V and the Event. They drag out everything to where you get bored and lose interest.

V? Do you mean the new version, which already had a ready-made resistance movement by the end of the second episode?

But yet no one even asked hey whats the V's doing here.

 

[bullethead]

That alien dude they had escaped and they missed shooting it when it was about 3 feet away. I think it was Greer. I think hitting a 3/4 man sized target at 3 feet should be pretty easy.

I suspect Greer hesitated because the alien hadn't been hostile to that point.

Really interested to see what they do with Telford. I'm hoping for something other than the standard "and the aliens programmed him to kill!" crap.

Greer wasn't with TJ and the first group to get off the ship at the end. Some random redshirt Air Force dude took the shots at the alien and likely stopped due to the confines of the passage.

 

[Danny99]

- Again with the Rush/Young angst. Please writers, it’s tired.
- Why is Telford so cozy with Wray?
- “How is that possible?” Aren’t you the medic? Go check it out!
- I was very pleased with short scene between Young and Telford. It gave some context to Young being a whiny bitch.
- I am still really impressed by Mike Dopud as Varro.
- I can see little pieces of some great stuff happening here. The Scott/Greer “women” scene is a great example, making these characters people.
- Volker is a killing machine!
- I’m glad that the aliens we’ve seen on SGU to date have been more than “people with things glued to their foreheads.”
- The winner of the Robert Beltran award for most wooden actor on SGU is awarded to Alaina Huffman.
- Lou Diamond Phillips shows again why he should’ve been the star of this show from the beginning.
- I think the Telford scene with the aliens should have been the last scene.
- Brody is in the sweet spot. Young likes him. Rush likes him. He’s set.

 

[PsychoPere]

- Brody is in the sweet spot. Young likes him. Rush likes him. He’s set.

Obviously that means he's next for the chopping block. Can't have any character be liked by both Camp Young and Camp Rush.

 

[bullethead]

- Brody is in the sweet spot. Young likes him. Rush likes him. He’s set.

Obviously that means he's next for the chopping block. Can't have any character be liked by both Camp Young and Camp Rush.

They'd be stupid to kill off more of the secondary cast. They were one of the few good things about the first season and they really haven't done much of anything so far in season two. Killing them would just piss people off, since a lot of the main characters are higher on the list of who should die in SGU.

Intresting note. The ship's interior design indicates, that Seeder ships wasnt build for humans to operate. The passages were to narrow and to tall for human body's.

The Aliens on the other hand, had all the advantages.

You know, I thought that was pretty stupid. Considering that the Ancients bothered to put a control center on the ship, the least they could've done was make a corridor that directly connected the control room to the airlock. Having the tight passages would've been fine everywhere else, but not there.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Got around to watching this. Not terrible, not great. Kinda slow. I hope they're going somewhere interesting with this.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I've had it with the random episode titles. Nothing 'Awakened'...well, the alien did but that's it. 'Intervention' is a little random too.

I can't wait to find out about the season's eighth episode, "Wombats."

lol - maybe that's the episode with first contact with the Furlings.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

I've had it with the random episode titles. Nothing 'Awakened'...well, the alien did but that's it. 'Intervention' is a little random too.

I can't wait to find out about the season's eighth episode, "Wombats."

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.