I liked the last episode of Stargate Universe, more or less, except for one thing. Remember how I complained that Scott’s relationship with the Senator’s daughter was out of the blue? I wasn’t just imagining things – there’s another female soldier that he was “sleeping” with in the first episode, and they refer to it in this episode.
What’s particularly confusing about this is that last episode (Darkness), the Senator’s daughter says to Scott, “I’ve never felt so close to anyone.” (Something along those lines, anyway.)
Wait, wait, wait. They’ve given this exactly zero screen time, and they’ve spent two or three segments developing a relationship between her and Eli. What happened? Did they just randomly decide to switch who she’s going to want? What happened to developing a relationship with Eli?
Basically Scott is coming across as a jerk who sleeps with whoever he can, whenever he can. I don’t like that.
Oh, another thing that bugged me about this episode is that Eli seemed to be excessively angry for no apparent reason. Perhaps he was jealous of Scott for his thing with the Senator’s daughter? I don’t know. It didn’t make much sense.
As far as the plot goes, it was fairly good. They explained the dust creature from the second episode, which was a good thing.
I have a question for anyone who knows. Did anyone else notice a ship detaching from Destiny at the end of the first or second episode and flying away? What was that? Did they ever give any other indication of what that might be?
I assumed that the ship detaching from Destiny was a stargate package on its way to a planet Destiny detected that would be suitable for stargate travel. The shot seemed to indicate that Destiny was continuing on its mission to set up stargates on distant planets … sort of a moving on at the end of the episode technique, somewhat akin to riding off into the sunset.
I actually just caught parts of this episode on TV while I was on vacation. Other than that, I’ve only watched the first two-hour episode on Hulu since I don’t have SyFy at home. I haven’t kept up with it because I didn’t like the pilot much, although for different reasons than you. I didn’t like the scene mentioned above, which I think only served to tell the audience that the show was trashy. I also didn’t like the angry crowd dynamics, which are very characteristic of the SyFy (then SciFi) original movies that I saw a few years ago when I did get the channel.
I’ve actually been watching all the old SG-1 episodes on Hulu, so I thought I’d enjoy those before I let myself get hooked on SG-U. I’m currently on season 6, and my wife has actually become hooked.