So, Chloe, Scott and Eli are back. It seemed kind of a quick resolution to their problem, don't you think.

I didn't get it quite clearly, when did the alien take over James?

I knew it was too good to last, they had to go back to those stones. Well, at least this time the Earth scenes were kept to a minimum.

Nice of Rush not to lead Amanda on. He made it clear that he couldn't go through with romancing her. Good idea, considering the connection could cut out at any time.

So, what did happen to Franklin? At least he saved the ship.

Will those aliens keep after them or not?

Well, this episode didn’t work out nearly as badly as the rumours had said. I do wonder, however, whether they re-shot any of the scenes after the online furore.

(For those who don’t know, there was outrage when the casting sheet for Perry undiplomatically suggested that the character had never been able to have a proper emotional relationship because of her disability. There was further fury when early scripts suggested that she would get drunk, flirt with all the men on the ship, proposition Eli and then sleep with Rush: people thought that this whole “having sex while in someone else’s body” would be even more a case of rape if Rush took advantage of the body of Camille, someone who may never have had sex with a man before.)

So finally super-smart Rush works out what I was telling him last week – that Destiny was power-conserving for a reason!

Camille has a point when she asks why Destiny is trying to make it across the void if she thinks she can’t. Regardless of the fact that she’s on a pre-determined course, her programming surely includes a directive to keep the ship available to the Ancients at all times. If she was on a slow powerless drift with no way of topping up her reserves, the Ancients could gate in and promptly suffocate or – at best – would gate off again (if she had enough energy left to allow that) and then would have to wait hundreds of years for her to drift across to the next galaxy where she could find a sun. If she thinks she can’t make it across a void she should either veer off, stay in the galaxy and try to gain more energy before trying again, or stop altogether.

Volker says that tinkering with the F.T.L. engines could just make things worse. What could possibly be worse than not making it across the galactic void, Dale? At worst you’ll blow the ship up, and at best you’ll drain even more of the ship’s power and die of cold or suffocation or CO2 poisoning a few days or weeks earlier than you would have otherwise, but you’re gonna die anyway!

Considering she hasn’t walked since she was nine (if not younger), Amanda takes no time at all being able to walk easily. I realise that Camille’s body knows how to do it but you’d think that Amanda would still struggle to coordinate the muscles. However, I liked the way that she held her hands, as if she wasn’t quite sure what to do with them.

So Franklin wasn’t in a coma – more in a catatonic state ... and was apparently stuffed full of food during his illness so that he hasn’t lost any weight at all. Perhaps they had a rota system of people to visit him and everyone thought they were the only one bringing him food and feeding him ;-)

However, it does seem strange that – whatever his condition – he wasn’t kept in the Infirmary so that there was always somebody to keep an eye on him.

I think this is the first time we’ve seen anyone using internal ship’s comms except when talking to someone in the shuttle.

I agree with Tim above: the arrival of the lost crew was almost an anti-climax! On the other hand, it’s quite good – and typical of this series – that it doesn’t follow standard traditional expectations and have the three of them only make it back by the skin of their teeth with Destiny on the last six seconds of a countdown. I’m sure most viewers (including me) expected that either Rush would find a way to turn Destiny around, or the three of them would hitch an (unwanted) lift with the aliens and get back that way.

Also, because this was so unexpected, I couldn’t understand why Rush was so laid back in the Gateroom and it was a complete surprise when they walked through the Gate.

As the Gate dials in and the alarm sounds in the Control Room, Rush picks up his radio. However, his voice in the Infirmary sounds more like he’s speaking over comms.

I was pleased to see that Greer seemed genuinely delighted to see Scott in particular and didn’t seem to have any resentment about them leaving him behind.

There was more smiling in this episode than we’ve seen in the rest of the series so far! I didn’t notice until I was typing the transcript but there were a lot of affectionate or temporarily cheerful moments!

Again, as in some previous episodes, there’s a lovely natural moment after Amanda has told Young about how they can use the robot to do repairs to the F.T.L. drive. As Young radios Scott to go to the shuttle, Eli gestures to Amanda in a “shall we go?” kind of way that looks completely un-acted. As most of these moments come from Eli, I’m thinking that it’s David who is a superb natural actor rather than them coming from clever writing or directing.

How sweet is that robot?! I want one! It was especially adorable when it kicked the detached piece away from the drive!

When Team Scott came through the last Gate on their attempt to chase Destiny in the last episode, it looked like the Gate was surrounded by forest. However, the alien ships seem to be in a much more open area. I can’t think of any reason why Team Scott would have relocated after Destiny’s signal disappeared, and they certainly wouldn’t have gone back along the chain.

I thought they were rationing water? How come Brody gets allowed to use so much in his still?

Why is this the first time we have ever seen Young wearing glasses?

I love the awkward way that Nick says, “Yeah,” when Amanda asks if he’d like to come into her quarters.

It’s a good job that Nick and Amanda didn’t go all the way and sleep together or T.J. would have been in for a shock when she barged in! Is there no diplomacy on this ship?!

I’m really not sure that the theory about an alien taking over James simply because she was still linked to the stone is anywhere near plausible. How would they know when to try? And how did the alien find out how to sabotage the ship?

I had no idea why Young was writing goodbye notes to people at first, having completely forgotten that he had told Rush earlier that he would go into the Chair if necessary. I note, however, that he leaves notes for Matt and T.J., but has apparently now given up on his marriage as he doesn’t leave one for Emily on the off-chance that the rest of the crew ever get home.

I cried when Amanda was sitting at the communications stone box and looking at her hand for the last time. Knowing what you’re going back to must be the most horrific thing you could ever have to face.

Knowing how good Universe is at avoiding stereotypical sci-fi moments, I wouldn’t be surprised if we find that Franklin just fell out of the Chair and crawled around the back of it! But if he has vanished from the room, has he been taken by the aliens? Or has he ascended? The latter was certainly my first thought but his clothes haven’t been left behind. And when I looked more closely at the Chair in that final moment, the wrist and ankle clamps and the head piece are still in position, so he didn’t leave that Chair by anything other than teleportation ... or magic!

I’m really not sure that the theory about an alien taking over James simply because she was still linked to the stone is anywhere near plausible. How would they know when to try? And how did the alien find out how to sabotage the ship?

Yeah, and when exactly did that happen?

After she saw Amanda for the first time in the Mess. She hurried out, embarrassed to face her, and shortly afterwards we saw her walking along a corridor, then she stopped dead and her face went blank.

It was the sort of moment where you only realise that something's happening if you watch the episode a second time. On first viewing, I assumed that she had stopped to think about what had just happened in the Mess and perhaps was about to turn back around to go and talk to Amanda.

Oh, okay, Thanks for the info, Callie

Brody says, "The database says the ship barely made the last three or four intergalactic jumps."
So how many galaxies has this ship gone through? How many galaxies are there with stargate systems? (No wonder the aliens are mad, the Ancients are nothing but litterbugs! ;-)

So why weren't Scott, Chloe & Eli shocked to see Greer alive? Didn't they leave him believing him to be dead? Or did Rush leave a note with his glasses saying "PS. Greer is alive."?

Perhaps that's why the aliens are pursuing them - to give them an intergalactic littering ticket.

I agree, there could have been a bit more "Hey! Greer's here!" reaction from the rest of Team Scott, although admittedly Scott and Eli had previously discussed the fact that Young was likely to send out search teams once Destiny stopped, in the hope that they had escaped and were gating their way to join Destiny; and Scott was always hopeful that Greer might have survived the rockfall.

Or did Rush leave a note with his glasses saying "PS. Greer is alive."?
Not unless Rush was prescient, silly - he lost those glasses months ago during the mid-season hiatus!

Oh, yeah! Forgot that & I think they showed them picking up the glasses at the alien ship too in the previous episode. D'oh! Memory like a... a... what were we talking about again?

Why is Amanda still a quadriplegic? She knows about Stargate command and alien civilizations, and has full clearance. Why aren't they taking her to Area 51 to put her in a sarcophagus? Or, if there are none on Earth, they could take her offworld to one of the many sarcophagi they now have access to after the demise of the Goa'uld empire. Those machines would do short work of her injuries and restore her to full health in mere minutes.

Or they could ask if the Tok'Ra have a symbiont looking for a host, because it might be able to fix the damage. Of course, she'd have to keep the symbiont afterwards, but it might be worth it for better/more mobility.

But have they got access to a sarcophagus? Maybe the Lucian Alliance nabbed all the viable ones.

Well, the Lucian Alliance did not exist when the Goa'uld were defeated, and they would not be interested in sarcophagi, weapons and ships would be more their thing. So the Jaffa must have taken custody of most of Goa'uld technology, and I'm sure Earth would also have taken its share.It's therefore likely that getting Amanda to a sarcophagus would be possible.