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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 5005149" data-attributes="member: 115">My first though is that Wray is going to have a pretty easy time recruiting people to her side.  To be perfectly honest, I don't see any reason why she wouldn't be better than either Young or Rush.There is one cardinal rule in science: never fake data.  Rush may have had the support of the scientists before, but that's gone now (more below).  My guess is Wray's information leak on Rush is her opening salvo to take control.Young on the other hand is obviously obsessed with Rush, and is clearly losing control  himself.  This was somewhat set up in the scene between Rush and Greer.  I have a feeling the next episode we're going to see Young start to lose command as well.There were some subtle things between the beginning and the end.  I had to double-check that the one lady TJ interviewed was sleeping with two different guys (and the implication being a bunch of them).  Most of the scenes changed, but Young's didn't - another sign of his growing problems.Another thing I found interesting: Eli told Scott he didn't want to open up to TJ.  In the last episode, he did just that.  Of course, perhaps that was because of the hopeless situation.Overall I thought it was an okay episode; not great, but necessary.  It seemed to be a lot of set up; resolving some home plots and moving Wray into a position of taking over command.My feelings as well.  I think it was a necessary episode, and I think it worked better to combine all the Earth drama into one episode, rather than interleave it with the Destiny part.On the first point, it was another subtle bit where Scott didn't seem to terrorize like Angry Guy did.As to the second part; there's no real prioritization needed.  Rush faked data, anything he does now is suspect.  Is it fair Eli's only job is to double-check Rush's stuff?  Not really.  Is it necessary?  Hell yes.  I will say I thought with the red screen that Eli had found a possible scenario for dialing the gate in the Sun (it's what he's working on in the beginning).  I didn't realize Eli was going through all of Rush's data.  However, even were Rush reliable, a second set of eyes on a problem never hurts.</blockquote>

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