Episode 8, "malice' was nothing short of brilliant. Amazing cat and mouse story, excellent villain, superb camera work and editing, great fx, drama and tension, the whole thing was simply superb and in my opinion, one of the strongest episodes of this show to date.
My favourite moments had to be when Rush was told that Amanda Perry, his friend who he loves a great deal, is now dead thanks to Lucian Alliance member Simeon. The moment he finds out, storms off down the corridor, yells and smashes his fist into the wall was one of those small moments which makes Stargate Universe stand apart from its predecessors by a country mile.
Episodes 6 and 7 were great too, 'Trial and Error' brought us Young having a vision of Destiny being destroyed over and over, Eli finally gets into a romantic relationship with a beautiful Lucian Alliance crew member (Ginn), Rush continues to manipulate events from the secret bridge.
'The Greater Good' has Destiny encounter and alien spacecraft lying dead in space, Young and Rush investigate only to accidentally trip the engines and send the craft off in a direction away from Destiny. Rush communicates with the crew and tell them to get Amanda Perry on board asap to help out. Once aboard, Rush secretly communicates with her about the bridge and tells her to get there without revealing anything to the crew. All is finally revealed of course and the crew are not happy, including one fist swinging Col Young who decides to hammer Rush in the face. Interestingly, Rush and Young come to an understanding, a crossroads perhaps and they leave the alien ship together.
Finally, Episode 9, 'Visitation' was an interesting one. The people who were left on the alien world during the first season return in one of Destiny's perfectly refurbished shuttles. Everyone is rightly suspicious and they are kept in isolation until Destiny's crew are happy that they pose no threat. Turns out they are all dead!
For some reason they were reanimated and sent back to Destiny, perhaps by the aliens who created that world.
I thought at first that this was just an excuse to get a shuttle back in the program for the Destiny crew to use, and I think it probably was. However, the story was good and I can't really fault it too much, I liked it. Perhaps in a more Star Trek way, but I liked it all the same.
Sci Fi Stuff.
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I agree with your assessment. I figure we will find out who sent back the dead crew and why, hopefully before they break. Not much time.
very very good
I've really been enjoying SGU. I normally find that scifi shows disappoint me. I like my stuff kind of serious.
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