STARGATE UNIVERSE # 12: Divided (2)Season 1/2010

I don't have anything to say about the episode in general that hasn't already been said but I do have one gripe/annoyance- I don't have anything against the Chloe character, but what the frak!? Her whole "alien abduction" experience lasted... what... 20 minutes?! Maybe an hour, at most, and she's so messed up by it she's having nightmares and can't sleep! Get over it already. Besides, what do you expect to happen when you walk all moon-eyed into the light from the new hole in the ship's hull during an ALIEN ATTACK! Did she think puppies and cake were gonna rain down out of there. I don't know. She seemed like her character was finally growing some backbone or getting interesting and then she does something that stupid and gets all traumatized by her "horrible abduction experience". Meh- I guess her character role is victim-of-the-week.[/end rant]

Just to point out, she was abducted, stripped, had some suit put on her (that may had prodes in it), thrown into a vat, and maybe had some alien scanning her brain. I think I would be traumatized a bit but I also think I would like to probe the aliens with a blaster next time I saw them.
 

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Her whole "alien abduction" experience lasted... what... 20 minutes?! Maybe an hour, at most, and she's so messed up by it she's having nightmares and can't sleep!

Car accidents can only take a few seconds and people can be scarred for life from them.

The length of time an incident lasts is not directly proportional to how much it can affect a person.

Heck, I've seen some scary movies that have kept me from sleeping at night. That's from things that didn't even happen to me!
 

Some thoughts...

Young
-- Get the ship to 100% and then look for a way home. He is being careful with his resourses but does not know how to work with the civillians. His problems lie with the frame and lack of trust being generated by Rush & Wray.

Wray
-- Get control of the ship and then go home, her priority is being in charge not the well being of the ship or crew, she cares but has yet to see a big picture. She is a high-level project manager that has not even stuctured a team under her yet! Her problem, she has yet to say, lets work together. Remember it was TJ that got them to start the hydroponics!

Rush
-- Learn as much about alien tech as he can, does not care about going home. He see the crew as tools. He MAY be a bit mad, large ego.

TJ
-- She is really in her element, she is respected and has worked with both groups in setting things up.
 

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Bwahahh! Interesting comparison wouldn't you say?
 

I don't recall if they have gone into how long any of the characters on the show besides Eli were aware of the Stargate or aliens prior to the first episode. I get the feeling that many were recruited for a mission and agreed to certain NDAs but that most were only fully informed after a point where doing any damage to the program by dropping out would have been least likely and had little impact. Chloe seems to have been brought along with Senator Daddy in part as a protege and in part because of his health problems and I doubt she has known of the truth of the (SG) universe for very long. She seems to have been in shock most of the time since rushing through the gate to avoid destruction, learning they were far from home with little chance of returning, and her father dying a heroic death. Since then she has been gravitating to and clinging to the mental and physical alpha males and continuing to float through the experience in a daze with almost no pro-active involvement. I'm surprised they don't have more episodes where most of the people are in a panic that costs lives through doing relatively stupid things but that might make Chloe seem less special.
 

A little "fridge logic":

1) How do the communication stones work again? Why did the stones from Rush (the stone Rush smuggled and the aliens stole/captured) and Young connect in the previous episode? I thought the stones were fixed to a particular other stone?

2) So the Aliens can burn holes into the Destiny and capture people, they can dock their shuttles. But they cannot get aboard? What's stopping them again?
Or can they actually get aboard, they just can't get control over any of the ship functions?
 

A little "fridge logic":

1) How do the communication stones work again? Why did the stones from Rush (the stone Rush smuggled and the aliens stole/captured) and Young connect in the previous episode? I thought the stones were fixed to a particular other stone?

Pretty sure this is something of a ret-con. When the stones were first found, it was implied that they were linked completely to one other stone. I think Carter even mentioned that they might work on a quantum entanglement principle. Which would DEFINITELY make them linked only to one other stone.

If they work on some other principle, maybe the aliens were fiddling with the stones and managed to interfere with them? Yeah, this one is really shaky.

2) So the Aliens can burn holes into the Destiny and capture people, they can dock their shuttles. But they cannot get aboard? What's stopping them again?
Or can they actually get aboard, they just can't get control over any of the ship functions?

Cowardice? Or maybe it's as simple as not having a "Rosetta Stone" for Ancient language. Hieroglyphics were impenetrable until that stone was found, after all -- and all of those involved were *human* languages. For complete aliens, deciphering an alien language and script would probably be ridiculously difficult. Granted, I would assume they know it now, based on their capture of Rush.

Also, for all their technology, we've never seen one with a personal weapon. And it was pretty easy for Rush -- weakened from his time in a tube and operating purely on rage -- to overwhelm and strangle one of the aliens with his bare hands. And he's not even a trained combatant!

Besides, if I were those aliens, I'd be a bit worried about how many holes I punched in Destiny. Even if they can't read the script or understand the ship's systems, the hull scoring and visible age makes it clear that ship has been around a long, long time.

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Let's look at it from a slightly different angle -- what's the downside to them at the moment? These aliens are aboard (that breathe the same atmosphere, even!) and fixing the thing up. If I was one of those aliens, I would have just hung back until the ship is working a little better and *then* invaded. If the aliens aboard aren't being threatened, they're not going to look for tracking devices and survival would be more of a priority than fixing up the weapons and shields...

Also, do they look like taller, blue Asgard to anyone else? They have that same spindly look to them and the shape of the head reminds me of Thor's race.
 




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