Easily the best episode of the series thus far.
Everyone mostly covered things I would talk about, but there were two things I didn't particularly see mentioned.
First, it bugs me that Eli would tell Young about the corrupted data, but not tell Scott. It would seem like since Scott told him to go through the data again, Eli would bring it to him. Ah well, Eli won't be making that mistake again, and I'm sure he backed up the data somewhere else.
Second, the scene with the scientists and the chair was very cool. I don't think Rush was directly responsible for the guy sitting in the chair. However, I do think he chose him and set it up so he'd be tempted, to see what would happen.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the final scene between Eli and Colonel Young in this episode ended up being the moment where Eli stopped trusting him. Certainly, the difference between Colonel Young's attitude of risking his own life to do everything possible to save Lt. Scott on the ice world and the way he claimed to leave Dr. Rush in a rockslide in order to save himself is going to be noticed by a lot of the people on the ship.
If the
very next episode doesn't have Wray maintain or re-assume command, I'll have to call shenanigans. There is
no way that people would think it was all an accident. Absolutely no way, even without Eli's evidence being known.
Also, Young has basically become Rush. "The ends justify the means," indeed.
Haven't seen it yet, but I assume Lou Diamond Philips did it. In Young's body.
That's an interesting theory, but I don't think it holds water. Furthermore, I think it kind of cheapens Rush's inevitable return.
I'm going to guess he figures out how to get into the ship and start her up and somehow follow the ancient ship all the way to the season finale where they have a reveal and duke it out or something.
That would be my assumption as well. It looked like the pod that lifted off from the ship in the first episode.
Alternatively, if the seeder ship is ahead of Destiny, perhaps Rush could "wormhole jump" to get ahead of Destiny and ambush them when they get off again. Then again, I don't think we really know how it works, do we?
He didn't get the crap beaten out of him because of his dislike of the colonel, but because he flat out came out and said he would never stop with his crap.
Ahhhh. The sound at that part came in muddy for me, so I couldn't tell what he was saying. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
One thing has been bugging me about the episode, because I can't quite remember. Back when they were trying to get off the desert planet they talked about Eli holding his arm in the event horizon to prevent it from closing due to safety protocols. I can't recall whether they actually had to do it though, and it does make me wonder that they didn't do so in this case when it looked like they might not make it back in time.
I don't believe that the gate is a two-way worm hole, is it? If not, to go back to help Rush (believing he was in a landslide) would have required they close the gate, then open it the other way, then close it, then open back toward the ship. The ship would not have waited once the gate was closed the first time. It's probably why Young waited until the last ten seconds to come back through.
The ship took off pretty quickly once the gate was shut down the first time. I don't think they would have had time to re-initialize the gate once, let alone twice.
