Arrgh, a bloody cliff hanger. Geez, now we have to wait three months to see how this comes out!?

Still, I am puzzled to this whole Lucian thing. As I said last week, aren't they just as marooned as the humans are? Their whole plan just doesn't make sense to me.

I think Telford's a goner, unless Lou Diamond Philips is joining the cast full time.

What are Young and Co. going to do with the Lucians when they retake the ship? Space them? Leave them on the next planet Destiny comes to?

Is TJ okay, how about her baby?

How about Chloe? Will she live? Will she die? Does anyone care?

It was a good finale, but I hate cliff hangers.

Why is Rush in the Infirmary watching the others packing up military supplies during the opening scene? With Destiny conking out every now and again, shouldn’t he be in the Control Interface Room trying to work out what’s wrong?

Again the editing is poor in this episode. Greer takes off the backpack of medical supplies and the next moment T.J. is wearing it; and in his first scene Eli starts to scramble up from his sitting position on the floor and then is instantly lifting Chloe off the floor. Jerky footage like that breaks the continuity for me.

The actress playing Lisa Park does a very good low-key performance when she learns that Rivers – one of her “reading” buddies – has been killed. You can see the shock on her face but it’s not overdone.

I’m sure that Rush/Young slash shippers out there are crowing over the fact that in two episodes running, Rush and Young have mirrored each other’s hand movements when arguing with each other. No doubt that’s a sure sign of love!

Kiva grumbles to Telford that, next time, they’re taking supplies with them in the first wave. Just what part of “you need to find an Icarus planet to even stand a chance of getting home and even then you probably haven’t got the equipment on board to harness that energy to activate the Stargate for a nine chevron dial-out” has she not understood?

As promised last week, I am really annoyed about the phenomenon being natural and not some spooky alliance between Destiny and Franklin. I don’t mind being led astray by the writers on occasion, but the alternative was so much more exciting than what’s really happening and so the real event can’t help but be a disappointment.

Either T.J. is a miracle worker – especially for someone who’s only a medic and not a full doctor – or Varro is a miracle patient (or a Jaffa on tretonin), but he really should not be conscious and up and about so soon after his treatment.

No doubt it’s not nice to accidentally shoot yourself anywhere with a pistol stuck in your belt, but I winced every time I saw Telford with his pistol stuffed down the front of his jeans!

The team in the Control Interface Room get Eli’s message but Rush and Brody then have to leave and Lisa starts transferring control to the Alliance. The next scene is back with Eli, who gets a quicker response than he anticipated ... but from whom?

I snorted at the no-budget depiction of Greer rising into the air as the gravity was reduced in the compartment – it basically consisted of a clever camera move downwards, and then Scott’s eyes lifting upwards as if watching him!

Ooh, bad news for the Young/Rush slash shippers: if you look very carefully when Rush and Brody first walk into the auxiliary control room, it looks for all the world as if they’re holding hands!! (Actually, I think Brody was handing something to Rush, but that’s not what it initially looks like!)

From Destiny’s surface, Scott radios to Young to ask how they’re doing for time. Young replies, “Fourteen minutes.” I’m sure Scott knows whether that means that 14 minutes have passed or they have 14 minutes left, but can we know too, please?!

Once again I have to ask: just who has been giving lessons in the Ancient language to the extent that people like Eli are pretty much fluent in it?

David Blue was once again awesome in the way he talked with Chloe just before leaving her.

Typing the transcript during the climactic fight scene in the Medical Bay, I had to pause it every split second to see exactly what was going on. Varro shooting the airman at close range, with blood flying everywhere, was pretty graphic.

I feared for Riley when he appeared to go down under fire rather than diving for the floor of his own volition, but I think that was him moving in the shadows near Telford when Varro turned T.J. over.

Seeing the clock ticking away as pretty much everybody found themselves in mortal danger, I bravely held my tears back until I saw Eli’s anguished face as he raced along the corridors. After that, I was sobbing for practically the entire last minute, especially on the second run-through.

Knowing how rubbish the writers can be with things like injuries, I’ll be quite honked off if, once this adventure is all finished in Season 2, Chloe makes a full recovery. There’s been no footage or mention of Eli releasing the tourniquet at regular intervals and, even though we haven’t seen it, he has said that she is still losing blood. She ought to lose her leg at the end of this, and there will definitely be major complaints if she doesn’t even limp for the entire rest of the series.

Awesome cliffhanger ending, but why were there so few military people in the Mess at the end? I didn’t even see James there.

However, there must have been something wrong with this episode. Normally if I start typing a transcript at 9.30 in the morning, you won’t find me emailing it to Gateworld much before midnight. On a really good day, I might be sending it at 10.30 p.m. So when did I send this one to Gateworld? At 8.30. And I can’t work out why. I didn’t skimp on the effort, I know that, but the dialogue must have been quite clipped throughout, and the action scenes can’t have required a lot of detailed description. And for a season finale, that’s just wrong.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not complaining at not having to make a lot of effort, but it does seem a bit weird to have cruised through the whole episode so quickly.