A Dark Age For Stargate Fans Is Fastly Approaching

We all know by now about the news that any possibility of Stargate returning any time soon is a very distant dream. In fact I've been seeing a lot of sites that are pretty much throwing in the towel when it comes to saving SGU or the films and are now praying to the master of reviving old science fiction franchises: JJ Abrams to "Star Trek" the Stargate franchise as soon as humanly possible. Brad Wright himself has said that "Somebody smart from MGM is going to figure it out, and something will happen."

As to whether or not there is actually any person at MGM who is smarter than a single-celled organism has yet to be confirmed, considering what a ginormous clusterf*ck the studio has been in.

While I still retain an iota of hope that we will see the stargate spin once again, I am afraid it won't spin on either the Destiny or Atlantis. The idea of "Star Trek-ing" the Stargate franchise pretty much scares the crap out of me as much as it excites me. I love Abrams' reboot of the original Star Trek, but do we really want to see someone like Chris Pine step into the boots of Jack O'Neill?


I bet he'd look like this throughout the entire film. Totally what you'd expect in a military leader...


Of course it's a gross hyperbole, but we all know that if MGM did go the "Star Trek" route we'd be getting something like this. We'd probably get a little cameo from maybe Amanda Tapping because she has boobies and because she'd be the one passing on the torch like Nimoy did in Star Trek. I might sound pessimistic but come on, the Star Trek film was aimed at a wide audience and not just us geeks, but the mindless masses, and let's face it, the masses don't care about the Destiny's mission unless the message in the background radiation was a fart joke.

Unless the Stargate team manages to pull a rabbit out of their ass like Joss Whedon did for the Firefly franchise we're up shit creek without a paddle and cuts on our hands.

I may sound really bleak, considering I said I still hold some hope for the Stargate franchise, but it's the kind of hope you really don't rely on. It is only due to the fact that popular shows like Red Dwarf, which has just been given a new season on Dave, after years of inactivity and the failed attempt to make a feature length film (sound familiar?) have returned to the small screen.

After all, Wright did say the franchise isn't dead, after all, the Stargate franchise can be rather profitable, but that's the issue, it will be profit, not the desire to continue a story, that will persuade MGM to greenlight anything with the title Stargate on it.

The only possible route I believe could be a viable way to please the fans would be to have a Stargate mini-series that encompasses all three series' stories.
Wright had been trying to get a film off the ground that would've done such a thing, but of course it was shot down faster than Mitchell's F-302. However, Syfy still likes putting up mini-series like Tin Man and Neverland, as well as Reise: Kingdom Falling, a mini-series that had alot of Stargate alumni working on it. A mini-series that ties up all the loose ends left behind by Atlantis and SGU (can we really say SG-1 has any loose ends to tie up apart from Jack finally hooking up with Carter?) would be a dream come true.

Alas, I'm more likely to find closure in my own twisted drug induced dreams.

It's a sad fact that alot of us don't want to see but, it's a fact nonetheless. Stargate is dead for the forseeable future. And with only shows like Sanctuary and Eureka keeping the sci-fi fans tuning into the ever growing idiocracy that is Syfy, it is a very dark day to be a Stargate fan.


When will we see the this baby spin again? Only time will tell...

"With great big swirls, you step inside into a starship headed for the skiiiieess!" My review of the first half of SGU season 2

Wow, it's been ten weeks since SGU kicked off their second season after one heck of a cliffhanger. So how was it? The first ten episodes of the second season were, by far much better than the entirety of season one. Though, to be honest, season one was and always will be known as this show's very rocky beginnings. With the only exception being the episode "Time" which had been my favorite SGU episode until now.

Season 2 kicked off with a big shocker of an episode as the Lucian alliance took over Destiny and kicked most of the military personnel off the ship. With a handful of scientists led by Dr. Rush (of course) to try to take back the ancient vessel. We were treated to a strange vision of TJ having her baby be "taken" by the aliens who supposedly built a planet back in season one. Though the premiere ended with the very predictable solution of everyone getting back on board the ship and continuing on the unknown path set out by the seed ships.

Then we were treated to some very interesting episodes that focused on Rush's discovery of the master code and the bridge. Though it was obvious that Rush would keep this secret (cuz that's what Rush does) it simply didn't make much sense. Sure he wanted time to uncover more mysteries about Destiny's purpose before others had a chance to beat him to it, but in the end what did it ultimately serve him? He was discovered, beaten up, and lost yet more credibility to his name. As a guy labeled a "Machiavellian scientists" the ends simply don't justify the means when it came to hiding his discovery. And Rush's thinking that he couldn't trust Col. Young on the grounds that he was mentally unstable was kinda silly coming from a guy who was arguing with his dead wife at the time.
Which brings us to the biggest game changer of the season and one of my new favorite episodes: "Trial and Error" (which claimed "Time"'s no. 1 spot as best SGU episode in my list). Here we were revealed that Destiny is doing more than just being a little stingy with the countdown clock, it's very much aware of our reluctant heroes and is beginning to influence them with strange visions and programs in an attempt to "test" them. This fact made Destiny a much more mysterious "character" almost becoming like Lost's island in many respects (once again I am calling out similarities between these two shows). It also allowed us to look into the minds of what I felt was a very under-utilized character: Col. Young. It was this episode that made him feel like an actual human being underneath the gruff uniform of command. By this point it was obvious the stress of his job on Destiny was affecting him in visible ways (his drinking habits being a main focus). Though this was a step in the right direction, "Trial and Error" took this sub-plot and ran with it churning out one of the best episodes of the season. Much like Stargate Atlantis' "The Shrine" it was the human aspects that drove the plot (Young's internal struggle with being the leader everyone needs, McKay slowly losing his mind and the team's struggle to deal with the inevitable result of it) and not a cheesy cliche plot about alien invasions or strange god-like beings.
Which brings me to one complaint I had about the first half of this season. The aliens. Last season Destiny faced a seemingly malevolent force of aliens who kidnapped Rush and Chloe. Of course it was expected that we'd run into dangerous aliens but why not some friendly ones?
At first the episode "Awakening" proved very promising. We were shown what a stargate seeder ship looked like, which expanded the mythology that the show has been lacking for the most part by the time this episode aired. However, in a twist, it turned out that there were aliens on board this seeder ship who, at first, seemed very friendly. They were adorable looking aliens, and I was actually very happy about this because not every alien in space has to try to kill you (remember ET?). Yet, sadly, this didn't last long, and we were stuck with what felt like another alien enemy for our wayward crew. Which is why I was happily surprised when the aliens returned in the mid-season finale to save the day with the help of Col. Telford (who I was sad to see leave in Awakening). The explanation that the aliens were just a desperate group of people trying to find an advantage against their powerful enemy (mirroring the very similar situation SG-1 and Atlantis faced with the Goauld and Wraith). I felt that it was about damn time aliens weren't interested in blowing up the Destiny. I mean, seriously, if you were a space faring race who came across a group of explorers who traveled from a galaxy billions of light-years away wouldn't you want to help them and get to know them? I would.
Though their very questionable actions later on made me very disappointed, I honestly don't blame them. After all, Young planned on double crossing them. Just because they saved Destiny doesn't mean they aren't flawed like most of the people on Destiny. In either case, I do hope that we get the chance to meet a more friendly race later on, there's only so much space battles I can take...
Then there are the Lucian Alliance prisoners. Goodness I was hoping that they would have been handled a little better. I liked Varro's (Mike Dopud) thinking: We need to work together, since we're both practically stranded out here. However, Young gets rid of the problem completely by ditching most of the Lucian Alliance on an abandoned planet, which I can understand, it's not worth all the trouble. Yet he keeps some of them, though most seem to be harmless and more than happy to help Simeon was one who I felt was shoehorned in to create some drama in a later episode. In fact by the time he killed Gin I didn't know what his name was. Why did Young keep this ticking timebomb on board? Because Stargate Command told him to. Which brings me to another problem I feel has been hurting the show: the fact that we don't know if Destiny's crew is actually stranded or not.
This is a thought I feel has been forgotten in these episodes whether it be because of the communication stones or some other reason. It doesn't feel like Destiny and her crew aren't far from the Milky Way. Remember the first season of Atlantis? There was no going back after stepping through the gate, no way to communicate. That was it. You're on your own once you step through the puddle. That is what SGU should feel like but doesn't. I remember back in season one when they learned that Rush had a tracking device in his heart. There was tension in the fact that there wasn't a fully capable medical doctor on board to do the surgery. TJ is a Medic, and the only anesthesia they have came from the critters in "Time." You definitely get the feeling that they are on the other side of the universe at that moment. Then the tension is quickly removed when they use the stones to call up a doctor.
Of course this makes sense, and I like how the surprise disconnection of the stones reapplied the pressure right in the middle of the surgery. But you never feel like these people are on their own. However, you'd figure that they'd be using the stones to do something like bring people who actually should be on the ship fixing things, or bring in psychologists to help people deal with their problems. Which I think would make perfect sense considering the fact that the writers seem like they don't intend on getting rid of the stones any time soon.
Of course it sounds like I'm being hypocritical, saying I want to feel isolated but believe it's a good idea to keep the stones. No, I'm saying that if you're not going to have the feeling of isolation then stop making it feel like they're on their own. Have more people show up to fix or at least teach the people on board how to fix and run the ship (teach a man how to fish and you feed him for life, kind of stuff). Use the fucking crap out of those stones if you insist on keeping them around! Atlantis wasn't afraid of maintaining connection with Stargate Command after they got a ZPM, so why is it that these stones aren't being treated like the true lifeline that they should be. The best use of the stones I saw this year was when they brought Eli's mom on board. It served many purposes: It showed us a window into Eli's pain as he struggles to accept life on board ship, it gave us a heartwarming scene with Eli telling his mother the truth thus helping Eli with his stress, and it also made Wray more of a sympathetic and caring character and less of an IOA bureaucrat. Since that episode I've come to like Wray more and more because she has actually done something nice for others instead of being very self-centered.
Eli himself has definitely shown some interesting character development as we were shown a window into his depression and loneliness. We saw this through Gin, the Lucian Alliance girl, as she poked through his documentary. This was an excellent way to peer into the heart of a character who we've seen be used most often as comedy relief or completely left out in most episodes. Which brings me to another problem: Eli's relationship with Gin. Which started just as suddenly as it ended. I mean sure it was nice to see Eli finally get some after running around Chloe like a drooling dog for the first year of the show, but there was no lead up into this relationship. It was like: (we both like math, let's f**k!). Sure I liked how it kinda helped when Gin saw Eli's video about his being lonely, but right afterward they start to make out. Which I felt like she instigated out of pity for the genius she admired, and not the budding beginnings of a sweet romance. The suddenness of this "romance" only detracted from the impact of her death in "Malice." I felt more bad for Rush and Amanda Perry (who I loved in season one) than for Eli and Gin. Though I have to admit the fallout from that has definitely taken a toll on poor Eli, which I like to see even if it felt like a one night stand.
Of course this romance plot did allow for some great stuff with Greer who we see in full friend mode for Eli here leaving them to be alone so he can make his move. I've always loved Greer for his no-nonsense attitude, but his helping Eli out in the love department made him feel like a really nice guy you'd regret not being friends with. Though I felt that his constantly bumping heads with Simeon was going to build up to a climactic stand off between the two, instead we were treated to some Lone Ranger Rush action. Which I didn't mind much, but with the already established tension between Greer and Simeon I was hoping he would have been the one to pull the trigger and not Rush.
Then there was Chloe's transformation, which was hinted at in season one evidently, I didn't catch it until I went back and watched "Lost" where she could suddenly read the alien language. As for the overall plot about her transforming I find only mixed feelings for it. Of course I feel bad for Chloe, she's becoming less and less human as time goes by, but I also feel like her gaining superhuman powers was an attempt to make her more useful when in all actuality she was pretty much useless to begin with. What I liked about this is that she is a perfect representation of most of the people on Destiny: the wrong person for the job. Which I felt was a great source of drama and story. This was prevalent in the episode before "Lost" where she admits to studying Dr. Jackson's notes in an attempt to be of some use and not dead weight. This gave her character a depth that I hadn't seen before, just from this statement I had the feeling that she realizes that she can't be sitting around doing nothing until the big wigs come up with a way to dial the gate back to earth, she has to pull some of the weight. This is one reason why I felt that the whole transformation plot wasn't truly needed. There was already drama right there before she was infected. However I do like the conflict that this has caused between Young and Lt. Scott. The commander and the woman he loves. It seems like the show is hinting that one day Scott will have to choose his job or his woman, and what will the consequences of that be?
Though now I'm wondering if her being infected will play a bigger part in the future, obviously the finale left us wondering what the hell she was doing on the console as the ship was being shot to bits. Is she going to find a way to bring the blue aliens back to Destiny, like a sleeper agent? Will she be forced to make a similar sacrifice like the one her father did? Or will her new found powers prove to be the key to unlocking the mystery behind Destiny's mission?
Which brings us to the most interesting revelation this season: the truth about why Destiny was launched. Though Rush made it very cryptic, it sounds like Destiny was launched to gather and decipher the pieces of a hidden code written into the very fabric of the universe itself. A code that was found, by the ancients millions of years ago, to be as old as the universe itself. What does this code represent? The message left behind by the creator of the universe? God? The writers of the show? The question to the answer of Life, The Universe, and Everything? The real explanations for the mysteries of Lost? In either case, color me interested, and I hope we get the chance to at least unlock a piece of this universal puzzle by the season's end.
Overall the first half of Season 2 has left a far bigger impression than most of Season one. Bringing a couple truly magnificent episodes and some very lackluster ones as well. Though I say the show still hasn't found it's footing, it's definitely got a few toes on the ground. Hopefully the rest of the season will promise more human stories, adventure, and mythological expansion than just alien battles and hammy drama. Only time will tell...

News about SGU season 2 and general junk going on at the moment.

To start off, I've recently heard that some Stargate Atlantis characters are coming to the Destiny on SGU next season. One in particular, the always loveable Dr. Rodney McKay. When I heard the news I had only one thought that has since stuck with me ever since: There is no way this isn't going to suck.

Why? Well think about it for a moment. Dr. Rodney McKay will be showing up on the Destiny (obviously by using the communication stones. When aren't they ever used after all?). Rodney will obviously be there to fix something if not find a way to turn the ship around being one of the best people in the field of ancient technology and overall science and handsomeness (I added the last one if you can't tell). However, so far in this show any attempts to get these people off the ship has either been a big lie or nearly causes the ship to blow up. Knowing this, and the fact that most of the special guest stars on the show like Michael Shanks and the rest of the SG-1 alumni have been sorely underused or have had really bad breaks in character (seriously no one thought Jack's behavior in the finale two parter was out of character?) it's only an inevitability that we'll be getting a Rodney McKay we haven't seen since the episode where Teal'c got stuck in the stargate. The one who everyone hated and eventually was proven wrong (sure by Sam, which is always the case but seriously now). I can see it now, the episode will have Rodney show up, give some pretty good nostalgia for Atlantis fans, then have him nearly blow up the ship in an attempt to do something that would kill the show if it actually worked.

That's the problem, we know Rodney now, we've seen him go from pain in the ass scientist we hate to pain in the ass scientist we love because he never lets you down no matter the odds (sure he blew up a solar system but that was one episode). The only way they could make this impending episode any good is if Rodney actually succeeds through sheer adversity. He's not in Atlantis anymore, and this ship is full of very angry people who probably end up beating him up before the end of the episode. I can see Greer wanting to choke the life out of Rodney, and fighting with Rush on the correct way to operate the Destiny. The only person who should like him is Eli. And when the ship begins to blow up and Rodney does his last minute hero routine and saves the day he should leave the Destiny crew in a better situation than before, and they all know why he is one of the best in the end or more likely they know why everyone puts up with his bull. Not every episode of this show has to end on a low note. That's why I enjoy the pilot episode so much, we are left with a battered crew who just staved off death for another day and they all get to rest easy for a moment.

I know I'm going nuts on an episode that probably hasn't even been shot yet, but I needed to voice my concerns. After all, Universe has yet to convince me that it is better than another season of Atlantis. It has the potential, but the show really needs to kick into a higher gear soon. I'm done with the whole soap opera drama, it doesn't need more episodes like "Earth." It needs more episodes like "Air" and "Time."

After all, the first ad for Universe they showed after the Atlantis finale said: "The greatest journey is the journey home." not "the bestest Stargate is the one with pregnancy drama and love triangles" .... wait Atlantis had both of those!

I just hope the show does find it's place, because it seems about as lost as the Destiny crew.

In other news I've been on the market for a new computer. The one I'm using now is about as annoying and overused as the Twilight saga. I hope that with a new one I can get back to writing more often than I do now. That and I'm tired of having arguments with this computer...

I intend on making the next Somewhere In Another Universe soon, I just have to find more things to joke about.

My thoughts on the Lost season finale and SGU

One of the many subjects I will cover in my blog are small "reviews" of shows I frequently watch. I will try my best not to come off as one of those dudes who basically bashes anything he watches, instead I will focus on constructive opinions (with some humorous jokes thrown in from time to time) that are mine and mine alone.

To start off I want to talk about the upcoming finale of one of the biggest shows on television: Lost! I am a self-proclaimed Lost fan. However I didn't start watching the show until before season 5. I was lucky enough to find seasons 1-4 on youtube before they were taken off and was instantly sucked in after the episode "Walkabout." Ever since, I've followed the crazy adventures of the survivors of Flight 815 with some of the largest amounts of enthusiasm I have ever had for a television series.
Sadly, just as I'm entering into this show, it is ending (much like how I discovered Stargate Atlantis but I will explain later). So far season 6 has been a wild ride, with amazing twists and turns and unexpected deaths (some of which I was shocked by). But sadly it must end sometime, and on sunday the 23rd it will end. So in an attempt to look back I will write down some of my favorite moments from this season:
"LA X" was just an overall mindblower, introducing us to the flash-sideways and the fact that Locke was actually the Smoke Monster (or Man In Black).
"Sundown" was an awesome episode with some good Smokey mayhem!
"Ab Aeterno" gave us some of the most important answers to the mythos
"Happily Ever After" was basically The Constant part deux which was one of the best episodes of the entire series, plus this episode proved the flash-sideways weren't pointless.
"The Candidate" a heart stopping episode with a sad ending.
As for the finale, I'm sure it will be placed on the list when I watch it.

Now for the actual topic I wanted to write about. I said before that I'm a fan of Stargate. I became a fan when I had my wisdom teeth removed (Col. Shepard is right, it is the best time of your life) and I watched the last season of Atlantis. I've been hooked on the shows ever since. No doubt I wanted to see the show that started it all and I found Sg-1 to be just as fun (if not more fun) to watch. So you can understand that I was bummed when I learned Atlantis wasn't coming back for a 6th season. However, I found hope when Stargate Universe was announced after the Atlantis finale.
I was excited to see it ever since as it would be the first Stargate show I'd actually watch from the start. So far the show has kept me interested, but it isn't without it's faults.
It definitely isn't like its predecessors, with a darker tone and a surprisingly large lack of exploration even though the show is set on a ship that was built for EXPLORATION of the universe. It has been criticized as being like a show called "Battlestar Galactica" which I wouldn't know about, I actually liken it to being more of a LOST in space (Lost the show not the show Lost In Space). I find this description to be the most accurate, and it isn't a bad thing. Lost is a great show, and any show that tries to be like it (without being an obvious wannabe replacement like Flash Forward) but with a different twist is like anything else you find in entertainment (Avatar is a good example, as it is Dances With Wolves in space but it was effective. That's the point it was bringing a new twist onto an old formula.)
SGU is just like Lost in many ways: a large group of people find themselves stranded in a strange setting with little experience to guide them, these characters have their secrets and faults, and the place they're stranded on is even more mysterious than the people themselves. Again, this isn't a bad thing, in fact I love the similarities because it's a formula that works, it has potential to be a great story. But that's the problem with the show, it has the potential but never uses it. Most of the characters aboard the Destiny are interesting, but they are so neglected that we really only know a handful of the characters and those the show focuses on tend to be the ones I don't honestly care about. It's not that I don't like Col. Young or Lt. Scott, they are great guys who are fighting to keep order in a chaoitc situation, but there are so many others the show could focus on and develop. One example are the two scientists who work in the control room with Eli Wallace, I don't even remember their names and that is what bugs me. I should care about what their names are, instead we're treated to more drama about the power struggle with Young, Rush, and Wray. Wray is one character I have a hard time accepting (not because of her orientation I have no problem with the workings of her personal life) it's the fact that if she's not being a stereotypical IOA snob she's on the communication stones at home doing nothing to deepen her character (and don't even get me started on those stones, they've already caused enough trouble in the past. The Ori for example.) All I can remember from the two occasions she's been on earth is that she misses her family, much like everyone else on the friggin ship! It's hard to connect with someone who is either acting like a royal pain or trying to take over the ship. Again if the show would delve into her character more and explain why Wray is such a pain I could at least understand where she's coming from. I mean why was Ana Lucia such a stone cold bitch all the time? She lost her baby after being shot and all of the survivors who looked up to her were taken by the others or killed. I feel for Ana Lucia, I don't for Wray.
In fact the only characters I enjoy following are Eli and Rush. Eli is more than the comic relief he's the character who's new to the Stargate universe (much like the new viewers Syfy wants to attract to the show) I say he should either be the center of most episodes or at least kept in the loop in most of the stories because he's gonna have the same reaction as most of the viewers which is: what is that? Then someone can explain what this Stargate fact is without it being out of context. He's the normal dude in an abnormal situation, and I can feel for the guy every time he's asked to do something shady for either Rush or Young.
I like Rush because he's such a devious character (at least in the first half, he's been a little restrained recently) you never know what's going on in his head. I refer to him as the "Ben Linus of Stargate" or perhaps even John Locke, he's a man who knows his purpose is on the Destiny and he will play mindgames with you in order to acheive his goals. My favorite "Rush Moment" was when he tricked Telford into thinking the Destiny was going to blow up, it was a ploy that proved two things at once: 1. That Rush has no intention of going back to Earth and he will do anything to keep it that way. 2. The people on earth who are trying to save the Destiny crew hold themselves over the rest of the people stuck on board (shown when they turned off the stones to save their bony butts from the "explosion"). However, Rush has kinda cooled down since being left to die on that alien planet. The thought of being marooned can have that effect, but it's cost the show one of the driving forces behind the show.
Another problem with the show is the lack of exploration, which I mentioned before, which is often replaced with soap opera-ish drama. Again, sometimes this isn't a bad thing, but in a show called Stargate Universe where the show takes place on a ship exploring uncharted galaxies millions of lightyears from Earth, I expected some exploration. This is a fact that has been one of the problems in the show, even though the episodes that have been the best have been the ones where the stargate is used. The episodes "Time" and "Lost" are the ones I personally enjoyed the most, and they were episodes where the stargate was used the most. Not only that, but these episodes gave us some of the best character development than most episodes. "Time" gave us a plot with a time-loop from hell and with it came moments that made me care about these characters (even though I knew that the time loop would be the key to saving everyone I still felt for people when they died) Eli's recollection of his mother's condition and his realizing he was mortal were some of the most powerful conversations, it also gave Eli more depth as we now know why he's here: for his mother (which is better than when it was explained in the pilot episode). It also gave us a peek into Rush's motivation, he's seeking a way to ascend and cheat death. "Time" is one of my favorite episodes.
"Lost" gave us the chance to look into the life of one of the fan's favorite characters, Greer. Greer has been one character I've grown to enjoy because he doesn't take any crap from anyone. We knew from a previous episode that his father was a piece of work, but "Lost" actually took us into Greer's childhood and showed us what his life was like. It gave us so much information on this tough guy that I can now say he's yet another character I hope the show will follow even more as time goes on. Plus, the stargates were used in a fun way, and it showed us just how fantastic the effects are on the show. I liked the idea of "gate-hopping" to catch the Destiny, but the way they solved the cliffhanger in the next episode made me feel like any danger these people are faced with will work itself out in the next episode (much like Rush's being stranded by Young).
This is yet another problem with the show, the situations they put the characters in pretty much last an entire episode, when it would work so much better if they dragged it out over numerous episodes. This is a problem I had with the episode "Divided" where the civilians stage a coup to take over the ship. It felt rushed, there was hardly any hints that they were planning this for a while (I don't count the previous episode's conversation between Rush and Wray planning great build up to something dramatic) and by the end of the episode everyone was like: "well I guess we'll just forget that you people locked us up and threatened to kill us because we have to live together." It didn't make any sense to do this, and is only explained because the show likes to wrap up a plot by the end of the episode, which I see as a continuing problem that I hope will be fixed by Season 2. Again I make a reference to Lost, as it always ended on a "to be continued," you didn't see the whole "push the button every 108 minutes" plot solve itself in under 45 minutes, or the problem with the Others be solved in a couple of episodes. Sometimes it just makes sense to keep a plot in one episode, but with the stuff SGU has been dealing with that isn't the case. Rush and Young are still vying for control of the ship (I think, Rush hasn't done anything to get on Young's hackles lately, with good reason, but the intro still talks about "Young and Rush bumping heads") but that's been an ongoing plot since the pilot, so why couldn't this coup?
In retrospect, the show still seems like it's trying to find it's footing, which I can understand is difficult. It's following shows that were focused on adventure and had a light tone to it, but the fact of the matter is that it's still called Stargate. It's nice to have a show that's trying to mix it up a little, but if it's gonna stand out among SG-1 and Atlantis it has to find the right ballance of adventure and drama, which it has done in the past, but still tries to not be about space exploration and more about people. This isn't bad, but the problem is that people are boring unless there's something for them to react to, and I find it more interesting to see someone react to a fake cgi monster and why they react like they do to that monster than when they react to the fact that "she stole McDreamy from me" or "I'm pregnant with McSteamy's baby" (Yes, Col. Young is McSteamy who doesn't think that?)
All in all, I still enjoy the show regardless of its problems, but sometimes I can't help but worry about these problems. Last night's episode "Subversion" had one of these problems. It was near the beginning of the episode when Young asked Eli to leave him and Rush to talk about their plan. Eli wants to tell Young about the secrets they've uncovered in the database and throughout the episode I kept wanting to know just what the hell they found, I mean if Eli felt Young should know it must be very important like perhaps the reason why Franklin turned into steam after using the chair maybe? It was this little thing that I kept wondering about ever since it showed up, and I couldn't stop thinking about it as Rush and Young searched for answers to who was the spy.
Again, the ship holds so many interesting secrets, yet they're never mentioned. Which begs the question: If the Destiny is so full of ancient secrets that even the Lucian Alliance will try to cross the universe to get to it then just what the hell are those secrets? I honestly don't think its because the Alliance wants the Destiny's kinos or those little fixit robots. The FTL drive is so old that most hyperdrives probably could leave Destiny eating their space dust, and the stargate itself is so primitive it can't connect to all the stargates in any given galaxy. So just what the heck is it that is so imporatnt on board the Destiny? Perhaps they should've been focusing on... oh I don't know.... EXPLORING the ship and its secrets! Sheesh, it must be something important, because I think it would be easier to just leak information about the Lost City of Atlantis (You know, that ancient city ship that's parked in the San Fransisco bay?) than dial the ninth chevron to a rusting ship over a million lightyears from the Milky Way galaxy.
I'm just saying...

But anywho... that's what I feel about these two shows that I have come to enjoy. I hope to get back to you after the Lost series finale on Sunday.