Those drones again!? They are becoming the Kazon of Stargate Universe, namely a plot device that has outstayed their welcome (the Kazon were aliens that plagued Voyager for its first two seasons, before they finally got rid of them).

I must admit it was risky manuver, going through that star. However, it was the only way for Destiny to recharge without the drones around. Luckly, it worked.

I thought Lisa Park was gonna buy the farm. She was blinded, however, Permanent or not, we don't know yet.

Boy those descendents got around. Another planet. Loved Greer's comment about not finding a gun shop. Young did find clothes for Camille though.

James sure knew how to take care of that troublemaker. Sock, right in the sniffer!

Varro is up and around again, I see. He even helped take down a drone.

Rush acknowledges Eli's genious, just not to his face.

Just one more episode to go.

It took me a while to decide whether I liked the new dramatic incidental music, which was a variation on previous music but rather different. By the third time through I was really liking it, but it did take some time to get used to it.

Yay for them acknowledging that they didn’t bring an inexhaustible supply of paper!

So it’s the penultimate episode of the series and now the writers finally accede to the fangirls’ wishes and start shipping Young and Rush?! That conversation on the Bridge as Destiny entered the gas giant’s gravity well was almost fanfic!!

I’d need to go back and check the earlier footage, but I’d bet quite a bit that the external footage of Destiny skimming around the planet was re-used from Season 1’s Darkness.

Young suggests that they should punch through the drones, adding, “They won’t follow us into a star.” Why not? They did last time. And if they do, that’ll be a good thing, cos we know they can’t survive.

Why is the Bridge exposed during the attack? When consoles dropped down from the ceiling a few seconds earlier, I assumed that the Bridge had lowered down to safety like it usually does, but when the drones attack, the windows are still raised above the ship. Did nobody on the production crew remember the Bridge’s safety feature?

As Destiny jumps into FTL, Young uses the ship-wide comms to say, “We are clear of the drones.” I would imagine most people’s response would be, “Oh, it was drones, was it? Thanks for finally telling us the reason the ship was being pounded!”

So why did Destiny “plot that time-consuming manoeuvre” around the gas giant? Did she know the command ship was there and gave the crew the best fighting chance they had? But if she did know, then why didn’t the ships show up on the screen, or why didn’t ‘Franklin’ or ‘Gloria’ warn them? Was it really just luck and Destiny simply fancied taking the pretty route that day?

I love Young offering Camille his chair on the Bridge, her getting all embarrassed and saying that it’s his chair and him replying, “What am I, Captain Kirk?”

They definitely appear to be running out of money towards the end of the season. When the crew finds the second star blockaded, Young orders a jump to FTL. Obviously a generic “jumping to FTL” shot is used, but Destiny was heading straight towards the star and there’s no star in view as she jumps, so apparently they couldn’t run to painting one in (or couldn’t be bothered to).

Presumably the crew is so short of food because they gave most of the provisions they picked up from Novus to the expedition people when they left them on their new home.

When Young tannoyed to the crew, “Pack light – we will not be gone long,” I cringed and told him, “Don’t jinx it, Ev!”

As soon as Lisa asked to stay behind, I was convinced that she would be dead by the end of the episode. Then I thought to myself that if she wasn’t dead by the end of the episode, I would be extremely disappointed in the producers. I like Lisa, but nobody major has died since Riley and this series needs to be braver about killing off more prominent characters. Of course, if they’d known this was their penultimate episode they’d probably have killed off half the crew ...

At the sight of the location of the answering Stargate – not only not in a forest but in a building, I said some very surprised rude words out loud!

Young told everyone to travel light, but it doesn’t look like they even brought blankets with them in case it turns really cold at night, or much in the way of provisions.

I sniggered at the way that Matt addressed the two extras in his search party as “you two.” Couldn’t the scriptwriter even be bothered to give them names?!

I’m assuming that the location of the town was a real street or set and not built just for this episode, and some of the shop signs were obviously made especially for the show, but really, the director and set dressers should have made more effort to make the place look alien. When Scott is talking with Young just after the colonel reaches the vantage point and sees that the city was destroyed, Scott’s team passes in front of a “Kand-e-Mart” which proclaims to be open “24 hr, 7 days.” Puhlease – what are the odds that this planet has the same rotation as Earth?!

At the end of the above conversation, Scott says, “Yes, sir,” then clicks his radio again to talk to Greer, as if he has changed channel. Surely everybody’s on the same channel?

If the drones went after the city’s technology, why did it take them three days to get to the newspaper press? Surely the drones aren’t smart enough to know which bits of technology are more of a danger to them than others? And even if they were being distracted by the volunteers driving vehicles out of the city, the average command ship has hundreds of drones and I didn’t get the impression that the city was that big.

Nick’s idea of Lisa getting into the collection pool was never going to work. Dale said during the original suggestion that some compartments would go up as high as 400 degrees, so obviously the water was going to boil out.

Unless there’s going to be a flashback explaining it in the next episode, what was the point of the scene where Young was leading Greer and Scott and the others through an underground tunnel on the way back to the Stargate?

One last time – perhaps for old times’ sake?! – they get the dialling sequence wrong. On the planet, Vanessa activates the remote and the Stargate lights up. On Destiny, her Gate lights up and starts to spin. We return to the planet and that Gate is only just kawhooshing. Surely Destiny’s Gate shouldn’t respond until the in-dialling Gate finishes its sequence. As we’ve argued many times on this website, otherwise it’s like a phone starting to ring before the caller has finished dialling the number.

And those rude words I said earlier were repeated when the command ship lowered down out of the clouds. Maybe that’s where the budget went for this episode!

Yep, it's not just me shipping Young and Rush. Just look at the front cover of the Season 2 DVD!!

(Mind you, I imagine that Brian and Jamil aren't best pleased that they've been excluded!)

LOL!

Finale airs tonight in Canada.

I liked this episode a lot more than the last one. Much less things that got on my nerves. (Still a few, but manageable.)

Eli says, "Humans. I just wish they hadn't all left. I kinda liked the idea of having the new faces around."
Rush responds, "Oh yeah. Well, if they really did spread all over the galaxy, I would suggest that the chances of bumping into them again are pretty high."
With those technology blasting drones going around? (I did wonder if it will be, or would have been, revealed that Humans built the drones?) For that matter the ships leaving Novus would probably be toast if the drones ran into them.

That fat gas giant kind of looked like pictures of Jupiter run through a blue filter.

For such a smart ship how can it not know when someone pushes a button? Or was the ship hoping to blackmail Eli & Rush into turning away from the star to save Park's life?

Why those hurricane winds when opening hydroponics? Couldn't they close other doors on the ship to cut down on the amount of lost atmosphere?

Park still hanging onto those plants was kind of pathetic.
1. She took them with her into the water, effectively drowning them. (True, there are plants that can survive that.)
2. The water boiled around them.
3. There was no air for them to breath after the dome broke.
I imagine that she still clung to them because of some desperate hope that they could be revived, but it seems highly unlikely.

Why exactly was Park blinded? Shouldn't EVA suits have polarizing filters in their lenses to keep people from being blinded by a star?

Callie - If the drones went after the city’s technology, why did it take them three days to get to the newspaper press?
Maybe their newspaper press (at least by that point) was just a simple hand-worked press?

I wonder if all the humans in that galaxy will be wiped out.

Maybe, but if they adopted a low, or no, tech lifestyle the drones might ignore them.

Why should the drones NOT set up ambushes near blue giant stars? They have no way of knowing that Destiny is programmed to avoid those. As far as they are concerned, a star is a star and they should stand guard near ALL of them

Amazing how the former inhabitants of this planet used English as their written language, isn't it?

It's a long time since I saw this, but aren't humans in this galaxy descendants of the time-travelling Destiny crew?

They're from that alternate time line Destiny, yes. So that is why they speak English.