So? Air, Part Three? Anyone still watching?

[sid]

What did you think?  Let 'er rip!

I loved Greer kicking Rush in the back, and wrestling with him instead of giving him a drink of water, and threatening him with his pistol and mocking him - but then being very happy to shoot someone else on Rush's say-so.

I thought that made PERFECT sense.  Very thrilling character development.

Rush remains the untrustworthy type.  "Greer shot him!"  Uh, yeah, you kind of sort of told him to, remember? 

Never mind.  But apparently Rush actually did talk to Jack last week?  *looks puzzled*

And let's hear it for Scott, who can go from hallucinations and near-collapse ("I can't make it.") to RUNNING over SAND dragging a heavy bag.  And then not pass out with an IV in his arm, but stay awake to comfort Chloe, which seems to have become part of his job description.

Orphaned young and raised by an alcoholic priest.  Now THERE'S backstory for ya!
 

Comments

[killing_rose]

*facepalm* I missed this episode due to other commitments, and now I really, really do not know if I can watch even though it's just to document the fail.

I mean, really? Would it kill them to have character development?

[sid]

I think they'd rather have flashbacks. *g*

I DEMAND THAT YOU WATCH. I feel lonely.

[sinanju]

I watched it, in an MST3000 kind of way.

I, too, loved seeing Greer (aka Sgt. Furious on TWOP) refuse to share his water with the asshole Rush, and then kick Rush's ass when the dweeb tried to take it. I like Greer a whole lot better now.

I skipped over Lt. Scott's hallucinations or flashbacks or whatever the hell they were. I love the 30-second skip on my Tivo. I'm sick to death of story-by-flashback, which was done to death on LOST and BSG. If they can't give me the relevant backstory IN THE CURRENT STORY, I Just. Don't. Care.

I also simply skipped over Dead Pol's Daughter visiting mom, because--again--I just don't care. Cutting out those scenes really tightened up the story considerably.

Okay. They've got air now. They'll still need food and water and other things, but the IMMEDIATE crisis is over. They'd damn well better sort out the chain of command and get around to leashing Rush. (I'd prefer that they put a bullet through his head, but...)

[sid]

Yes, the fact that Greer hates Rush is definitely in his favor, lol.

Rush is a total control freak. He doles out information and misinformation to suit his purpose. A leash would be a good start....

[djaddict]

I would prefer a shock collar myself!

[sid]

Better yet. *eg*

[djaddict]

I would have really liked to have seen Col. Young asking Gen. O'Neill if he really put Rush in charge in a what the hell were you thinking kind of way.

And Chloe's simpering is getting old already. Yes, I sypathize, yes it was a tragedy but there are a few more important things going on.

Like what happened to the two scientists who went through the gate to the other planet, eh?

Too many egos, too much lying and...
Since when did the controller for the flying camera ball become a portable DHD?

[sinanju]

Since the Ancients developed ADD? Realistically? Because a PSP is easier to transport to location sites than a full-sized DHD prop.


You know, for a race who build things to last hundreds of thousands of years, they've got the attention span of gnats. They "updated" the gates in SGA, and now apparently they've done it again in SGU. I liked the stargate from the original film and the first series. They worked just fine and I'd rather they stayed with that design all along.

[djaddict]

I have come to think (not that the writers probably thought this through) that the ship is so old (hundreds of thousands of years, eight) that the gate on the ship is actually older than the gates both in our galaxy and in Pegasus.

Also, following that vein, the ship was made before the Wraith war and that's why the gene is not necessary to operate technology on the ship (at least so far).

JMHO of course

[sid]

I know, the two scientists! Destiny has zipped off, but I suppose the address the two of them dialed can be dialed again from the next planet they wind up on?

Why didn't they just show us Rush talking to Jack to begin with? Or was RDA too expensive? I totally assumed that the conversation never happened, since most of what the man says is an outright lie. *fumes*

[djaddict]

Well that scientist - or whoever she was that let Chloe use her body - expected Dr. Rush so he must have talked to someone.

*imagine pathetic whiny voice*

I want my Atlantis back!!!!

[sid]

Well, Atlantis pretty much got ruined for me that final season, but it still had its moments. I'd much rather have it back, yeah.

[donutsweeper]

I did a live mocking as I watched it. There was just so many plot holes in the episode it was ridiculous.

I was happy about the sunburns though. At least they got that right.

[sid]

I didn't think Chloe should be gripping Scott's sunburned hand, though. That would actually hurt a LOT!

[donutsweeper]

True, true... but *piffle* minor detail. When there's things that go unexplained like the swirly sand sentience a little thing like that isn't going to bother me.

[sid]

Handy-dandy swirly sand sentience, yes. *g*

[samantilles]

I was very thrown by the fact that Rush did actually talk to Jack, but now it makes me wonder just what he actually said.

Rush seems to be the manipulator, who tells the truth, but in a way to get what he wants and is not being truthful. He's sociopathic and manipulative? Not to mention just a wee bit obsessed about all this? He's definitely the one who's going to be dangerous one in the group, not Greer (though he's a very close second apparently!)

I kept wanting to see Shifu come out and show himself on the planet! But perhaps Scott isn't cool enough to be on SG-1 and therefore doesn't get to see the actual ancient who helped him!

[sid]

Shifu! LOL

Obsessed, sociopathic, dangerous, manipulative. That's our darling Rush, all right!

My SIL is giving this show one more week. She likes heroes in her scifi, not whiners and liars and cheaters.