Well, they've done it again. Sci-Fi has split the season in two? Why? Call me old fashioned, but I remember the days when TV seasons started in September and ended in May. Since Universe has been struggling in the ratings, taking it off the air for months is a BAD idea. Okay, if they kept it on, we'd have reruns, but I can live with that.
Anyway...
Telford is back. I was wondering if they would find a way to bring him back. I wonder if his new alien buddies are as trustworthy as they seem.
Nice to see Eli dealing with (or not dealing with) Ginn's death. I liked the little talk he and Rush had.
What exactly did Chloe do when Scott found her? Man, don't mess with her, she beat up a well armed guard.
Is it just me, or are they going to pair Varro up with TJ. They seem to be leading towards that.
Loved Rush in the beginning when he's getting impatient with the others on the bridge. "Mr. Brody, don't make me come over there."
Did the battle sequence, with constant mention of shields and this and that going offline remind anyone of Star Trek?
It was good episode, however, I still think this season split is a big mistake. Things aren't going so well for Sci-Fi lately, Caprica got cancelled, their series are struggling. I'd say to them, shape up, or shut down.
Line of the series so far:
Eli: “When your whole world collapses down to less than a hundred people in a confined space, it all becomes important to you, Camille. Riley was part of the ship, and losing him – it wasn’t just sad, it was wrong.”
I love the way Rush throws himself back in the command chair in a total “I’m surrounded by idiots!” movement when Volker accidentally shuts the Bridge down.
However, during that scene Destiny is in normal space. Are there no nearby planets to be investigated for food? If there were, at least one of the four usual suspects would be likely to be in the Gateroom instead of all on the Bridge. And if there aren’t any viable planets nearby, why did they stop there?
Why does Nick suggest a change of course if he doesn’t know how to calculate one? And why doesn’t he know how to calculate one? He can work alien ships within seconds, for cryin’ out loud – how can he not know how to do something relatively simple like this in his own ship? In particular, Chloe has turned Destiny around before, so surely he has been able to follow her working and figure out how it’s done.
Why is the old Control Interface Room a better place to look at what’s around the ship than the Bridge? Why does the Bridge apparently not have its own holoscreen?
In an attempt to prove to him that he’s already pulling away from her, Chloe asks Matt when the last time was that they spent the night together. I would flippin’ well hope that it hasn’t been since she was locked up in quarantine! Even if he’s allowed to visit her, the security arrangements aren’t very good if he has been allowed to boff her once her skin began to change and she became more and more alien.
So we have a time period: they’ve been on Destiny for ten months rather than the eighteen months that the show has been broadcasting.
See, I told you that that giant bulkhead door’s going to appear whenever possible in future!
As soon as Greer said, “Anything that could hurt us is long dead and gone, brother,” I channelled General Hammond and said, “From your mouth to God’s ears, son!”
Why did Destiny’s sensors not pick up the drone’s energy signature when it reactivated? She’s just picked up a tiny signal that was a whole day away but she misses one a few seconds away?
Greer and Brody made a great double act on the wreck, with Adam back-seat driving while Greer was trying to get the door prised open, and Greer’s “Too quiet” attempt to spook Adam!
Great line:
(As there’s a single ‘bing’ on the Bridge and Colonel Young demands to know what it is)
Eli: “It’s Destiny letting us know it finished assembling the simulation ... Either that, or pie is done.”
I love Eli’s excitement about having more monitors!
Once again I was totally frustrated by not being able to hear Joel’s fantastic music clearly enough through all the on-screen explosions.
There’s a particularly gorgeous shot when the shuttle destroys a drone just before landing. The drone breaks up and bits of its debris impact Destiny’s surface and explode.
The shuttle is either made of very strong stuff or has its own shields (which have never been mentioned, so it seems unlikely). Just as she lands she’s struck dead on by a drone’s blast into her side but is totally unaffected and the guys inside don’t even seem to notice. Clearly the CGI guys got a bit carried away and didn’t exactly follow the script!
With no F.T.L., why didn’t Rush think of hiding in the nearby star? I don’t know how long Destiny can stay in a star but it’d at least give them a few minutes of respite and give them enough gas to repair and strengthen the shields before they had to come out again.
Surely even automated attack drones would have sensors that would keep them from flying into the nearest star?!
The refuelling valves on Destiny’s underside look different to the ones seen in Light, but this might simply be because the CGI crew have better computer programmes now than they had at the beginning of Season 1.
I don’t know why I got so excited, but I literally bounced delightedly in my seat when the seed ship and Destiny came out of the sun at different angles to each other.
Once the two ships have docked, it looks worryingly as if they’re motionless in space. Considering that Dale just said that they only had the time it would take the drones to get around the star, shouldn’t they be caning it in the general direction of away?
Chloe came back to the ship after curing Matt with her alien blood and both of them were put into quarantine. When Caine and crew arrived, Young locked them up and insisted on medicals and all sorts of interviews. Telford arrives, albeit in a slightly less impossible away, and immediately gets a cuddle! And yet this is the man who has already been brainwashed once and must therefore still be susceptible to it, and who shortly afterwards admits to having been plugged into the aliens’ VR systems, yet Young never doubts him for a moment.
Chloe is becoming more and more alien by the day ... so Eli takes time off in the middle of a battle to go and tell her everything that’s happening. OK ...
Nick walks onto the Bridge and asks where Park and Brody are. Dale tells him, “Effecting repairs on some of the damaged systems.” Was I the only one who sniggered, “Is that what they’re calling it these days”? OK, just me then. So I was also the only one who sniggered even more when Dale was actively encouraged by Nick to go and join them!
When Nick told Eli, “despite all that genius, you couldn’t save the life of the woman you loved,” I scoffed and told him, “You can talk!” but then realised as he continued that he was describing his own feelings about Mandy, not Eli’s about Ginn.
I realise that in the last five minutes of the mid-season finale you need to show all the major stars, but I found myself grinding my teeth in frustration whenever they switched back to the Infirmary where nothing important was happening.
So where was Rush while the last five minutes was happening? Has he found the Battle Bridge?!
Varro is brought in to help T.J. in the Infirmary. What about the other Lucians? There are still six others, including Koz who has helped T.J. before in medical matters.
I’m with Tim on this ludicrous mid-season break. Syfy seem determined to kill this series off – the American viewers have only just made the adjustment to a Tuesday broadcast and now they’ve got to remember to keep an eye out for when it re-starts. It’d be better if they gave a date now so that people could make a mental note but, to the best of my knowledge, there isn’t even a vague hint at when Season 2.5 (as they will insist on calling it) will start.
I’m with Tim on this ludicrous mid-season break. Syfy seem determined to kill this series off – the American viewers have only just made the adjustment to a Tuesday broadcast and now they’ve got to remember to keep an eye out for when it re-starts. It’d be better if they gave a date now so that people could make a mental note but, to the best of my knowledge, there isn’t even a vague hint at when Season 2.5 (as they will insist on calling it) will start
So, the numbers are starting to gradually go up, and they take the show off the air. Mid season breaks do not work, CBS learned that painful lesson with Jericho a few years ago.
Sci-Fi seems to want this show to get cancelled.
Can't they use the stones to get someone who can fix the FTL?
Indeed. Amanda wasn't the only scientist smart enough to help. However, they're currently so busy fending off attacks that they either haven't thought of it, or have realised that they can't effect repairs while they're repeatedly having to jump to safety.