STARGATE UNIVERSE #10:Resurgence (1)/(FINAL)Season 2/2010

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Resurgence (1)

After picking up a strange radiation signature about a day's journey off of Destiny's prescribed path, Young and Rush decide to investigate. What they find is a long-dead battle scene: Two races fought each other and left a field of wrecked ships behind them. Brody, Greer and Scott board a shuttle and head to a nearby battleship, but find nothing of use. As they go deeper into the bowels of the ship, Young and the Destiny crew see some of the debris stirring, as if coming back from life. Recon from Destiny tells them that one side of the battle was fought exclusively using drones - dormant when Destiny appeared, but awakened by her presence. The away team hurry back to Destiny, but in the time it takes their shuttle to dock, Destiny has sustained significant damage, and the FTL drives are knocked offline.
 
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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...
 
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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.
 

It'd be nice to get ahold of those status pods, since they can potentially be used communicate with other species (though awkwardly) and can also seemingly sustain life even when supplies are low provided they can be powered.
 

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.

Chloe Ex Machina is annoying, but less annoying than Chloe being pointless. At least she has some purpose and storyline. I don't think she killed the marine though.

I totally agree on Eli's stuff as well.

It'd be nice to get ahold of those status pods, since they can potentially be used communicate with other species (though awkwardly) and can also seemingly sustain life even when supplies are low provided they can be powered.

I don't really give SGU enough credit to go all Enertron with them, but I'm still hungry.
 

Chloe Ex Machina is annoying, but less annoying than Chloe being pointless. At least she has some purpose and storyline. I don't think she killed the marine though.

I totally agree on Eli's stuff as well.

If she didn't kill the marine, Eli sure was quick to leave an injured man behind. No one even TRIED to send medical aid to the guy, so I just assumed he was dead. (Eli doesn't have any medical training, but any idiot can check a pulse.) I guess we'll see if they mention him next season.

Chloe being pointless actually made me give SGU a lot of credit. The whole point of SGU was that this WASN'T a chosen team. They aren't the best-of-the-best like Atlantis or SG-1. They're just a collection of scientists, civilians, and military personnel caught up in much larger events. Having at least one 'pointless' character around made it feel more real (at least to me) -- she's an outsider perspective and could have been put to a lot of different uses around the ship like helping in hydroponics, organization (she was a senator's aide, after all), or turned into TJ's assistant, or... you get the point.

Turning her into a 'magical girl' really annoys me because they're losing the whole point of their premise.. Seeing her rise up ON HER OWN and *learn* to be an important, contributing part of the crew -- even if she's nothing more than a glorified mascot -- would be a lot more in keeping with the original idea than turning her into a half-human, walking plot device. Not to mention the whole "It's stronger than me, I give up" attitude is just a wonderful thing for female empowerment everywhere...

I don't really give SGU enough credit to go all Enertron with them, but I'm still hungry.

If you didn't have XP disabled, I would give you as much as I could, forever, for this. My favorite game and a PERFECT reference! :)
 

If she didn't kill the marine, Eli sure was quick to leave an injured man behind. No one even TRIED to send medical aid to the guy, so I just assumed he was dead. (Eli doesn't have any medical training, but any idiot can check a pulse.) I guess we'll see if they mention him next season.

In fairness to Eli, Chloe running amok is (supposedly) a pretty big threat to the ship. Even if it was blatantly obvious she did something to aid Destiny.

If you didn't have XP disabled, I would give you as much as I could, forever, for this. My favorite game and a PERFECT reference! :)

Interesting (and a little annoying) thing about XP - the only part that can be disabled is the display. You can still give and receive XP with it disabled. The comment means more to me though.
 

From Hulu:

"Episodes are available 30 days after airing on television.

Episode 2.10, "Resurgence," is available day after air. Episodes 8 and 9 will be available 30 days after air."

Do they have a chimp or something at SyFy deciding on episode availability? I mean seriously, delay two episodes a full month, then have the next episode after that go online almost immediately after it airs. We've got a plot arc going here, so let's put the episodes out of order; those Sci-fi nerds are so smart, it won't throw them off.

I know, maybe they have someone who worked for Fox!
 

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