What happenned to them ?

[dubeau]

In the second episode, there are two characters who takes the Stargate to another planet, while the others stayed on the desert world. What happenned to them ? It's not implied that they died and I don't remember them getting back...And nobody on the ship seems to care (Which is weird too...)

I wonder if that ship in the ends wasn't send for them. Makes you wonder if the ship doesn't have an AI of some sort.

Maybe I missed something.

 

[dubeau]

Oh, I should have said in SG-U episode Air Part 3.

 

[Tom]

Fodder for a future episode, also the pod/shuttle thing leaving the ship, fodder for a future episode. I like when the writers think ahead and have things happen that we can go back to later in the series.

 

[bigdaddy]

Fodder for a future episode, also the pod/shuttle thing leaving the ship, fodder for a future episode. I like when the writers think ahead and have things happen that we can go back to later in the series.

Yes, but the Stargate writers aren't known for that ability.

Plus no one cares in this episode? What the hell? No "I need to report to Earth to say two more died?" or Rush going "I told you we should go where the ship wants us to go".

 

[sidious618]

I was wondering the same. Didn't they mention that they'd go back for them at one point?

 

[SeerSGB]

They'll show up whenever big bad is going to be the main villian of the show shows up. "how dare you leave us to die!" sort of thing.

All though, that could have made for a interesting moment at the end of "Air prt 3"

Eli: Aren't we going to send someone after them?"

Young: Sure, sure, go get something to drink and some rest. I'm going to need you to figure this thing out."

Rush: You can't seriously be considering wasting more power on a two people taht are already....?!

Young (Once Eli leaves): They made their choice, now they'll live with it our they won't.

 

[Xerxus]

Eli dialed their gate address and tried to contact them via radio.

No response, which doesn't look good for them.

 

[Harvey]

They were implied to be dead. Seemed pretty cut and dry to me. They might return in a future storyline, but until that happens, they're dead and that's the end of it.

 

[Brikar99]

They were implied to be dead. Seemed pretty cut and dry to me. They might return in a future storyline, but until that happens, they're dead and that's the end of it.

That's how I took it. And, frankly, I think that's how I'd prefer it. Let the fan fic writers try to wedge some story in there, but the show should move on.

I also don't think that having no explicit mention of them in this episode means that no one cares. There's other stuff going on without having to pander to the percentage of the audience that demands every last detail be explained to them at length.

 

[bigdaddy]

I figured they are dead, but I also figured that someone might care that they are dead the next day.

This is why I make fun of the writing staff, they clearly are out of touch.

 

[SeerSGB]

Maybe people wouldn't care, after all far as they [the other survivors] know they're going to be dead soon themselves. I know if I thought I was going to die in a few hours or days, I sure as hell wouldn't give a shit about someone else getting offed for being stupid.

 

[Peter the Younger]

They were implied to be dead. Seemed pretty cut and dry to me. They might return in a future storyline, but until that happens, they're dead and that's the end of it.

That's how I took it. And, frankly, I think that's how I'd prefer it. Let the fan fic writers try to wedge some story in there, but the show should move on.

I also don't think that having no explicit mention of them in this episode means that no one cares. There's other stuff going on without having to pander to the percentage of the audience that demands every last detail be explained to them at length.

Agreed. I think sometimes we get spoiled by sf novels, where the author can spend all the time they want explaining loose ends. Some things just don't get shown on screen, and that's okay.

 

[dubeau]

The fact that no one really cared that much, or barely mention them didn't seem credible for me. The writers have missed something here...

Unless they gonna do something like Farscape, and retrace back certain events in the past. Which I always find very interesting in terms of story...you leave holes in the story and then later, you tell it from another perspective, and you discover much more then what you believe happen. But can SG-U be told that way ???

 

[Star Wolf]

Maybe people wouldn't care, after all far as they [the other survivors] know they're going to be dead soon themselves. I know if I thought I was going to die in a few hours or days, I sure as hell wouldn't give a shit about someone else getting offed for being stupid.

Besides they are giving the impression that this crew is more thrown together then the two crews on Voyager. You get the impression that besides senator/daughter and the two LTs doing it in the closet most primary relationships died on the planet in losing battle and these folks barely know each other

 

[P0sitr0nic]

Maybe people wouldn't care, after all far as they [the other survivors] know they're going to be dead soon themselves. I know if I thought I was going to die in a few hours or days, I sure as hell wouldn't give a shit about someone else getting offed for being stupid.

Especially since 2 more gone people means more rations and power for the rest.

"aww, theyre gone? Aww... I can live another day cos of it."

 

[SeerSGB]

Not to mention, some of the people seeing it as "They worked around a lock out and got themselves killed! What if they had been on the ship? They could have spaced us all by messing around with shit. Better them than me."

 

[Kirby]

I don't understand why Eli didn't send a Kino through to see what happened to them.

 

[SeerSGB]

Low on time, dealing with Rush and the shooting and getting back to the ship. And the work-around might have only worked on the PDA style DHD not the main one of the ship.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

It did seem weird that there wasn't a follow-up to it. Even if we buy into nobody caring about those two on a personal level I would think from a paranoia aspect there'd be concern. There is very little trust right now and two guys go missing after touchdown, you'd think they'd be freaking out about that a little.

 

[Peter the Younger]

They're in a survival situation hours away from death from asphyxiation, they've already watched dozens of people die back at the base, and two people walked into what was, essentially, a door marked "Danger - Do Not Enter", disobeying orders in the process. Eli tried to contact them, they didn't reply, and as we saw from the subsequent episodes, the red shirts seem to trust him, so if he said "I tried, they're gone" there is no reason not to believe him. Plus it's been made abundantly clear that they have no control over the ship, there is no going back.

Placed in a similar situation, I think I might say "Damn, what were those two thinking" - and then get back to surviving.