Nice episode: space war; leadership working together (for once); Telford returns in a Pegasus-esque (BSG/nBSG) surprise cavalry appearance when Destiny comes under fire from a robotic foe; duplicity, deception & double-crossing; Chloe-of-Nine...
This episode felt really uneven and wobbly to me.
I liked Telford's return. The stasis-pod teaching machines are awfully convenient, but I'll give them a pass on that one. I was very surprised -- given everything else that's gone on with the chair, brainwashing, and all the other head-fiddling in the various SG shows -- that people weren't more suspicious of his return, but I guess they were distracted by the "Big Damn Heroes" entrance.
It was very, very nice to see the leadership coming together for once. Apparently, when they're staring death directly in the face, they can grudgingly work together.
The magically multiplying drones were annoying to me. When Eli (Destiny, really) completes the initial debris simulation, there were shown to be eight or nine drones in the wreckage. When the ship is shown under attack later, there are a LOT more than that. And then even MORE shown when they went through the edge of the sun -- which does answer the question of whether or not the humans can re-charge Destiny neatly enough, btw...
Also, they took a BUNCH of damage in the first fight. The second fight, which was longer and supposedly included MORE drones, sure didn't seem to cause much more damage than the initial one... It would have been nice to get a few more space shots if they were trying to imply different tactics on the part of the drone-ships... even a radar shot showing most of them hanging back to guard the mothership while fewer drones attacked the Destiny and Seed Ship.
Chloe really needs to get shot (multiple times, preferably) while resisting arrest. They've known she was dangerous for a while now and she just massacred some poor marine. (HOW many of those are left now, by the way? Not to mention casualties in the fighting.. Is a BSG-style count of remaining people too much to ask, or would that give away that they keep adding people before killing them off?)
I will say that my favorite moments of the episode revolved around Eli, though. Seeing some actual, emotional fallout from kidnapping/mother/Ginn was at least an acknowledgement of what kind of crap he's been subjected to lately.
