SG:U Light
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tenayaYes, this was better than the other eps. As I said elsewhere, this is the first ep that seemed viable to me, where the characters seemed to gel together and many of them seemed more likable, Young and Greer in particular.
Out of curiosity, what is your opinion on whether Rush knew that the Destiny was not in any danger? I thought he didn't know. Granted he might have hoped/speculated that there was a reason for the ship to aim for the sun, but I can't see that he knew. And I can't see any reason for why he'd want to off 15 people with supplies. So, the suspicion from Young that Rush knew...I think I'm gonna get real tired of that really fast.
Rush is certainly a glass half empty type of guy, but is that a reason to doubt the closest thing to an expert you have? I liked the moment when Young tussled Rush's hair and told him he did good, but then that accusation at the end of the episode just turned that feel good moment sour.
TBAB usually show the scientists as dweebs, overweight and clumsy. As jokes. Rush is high strung, focused, impatient. Is the foregone conclusion that EVERYONE buys into that he can't be trusted, is that some new way to diss the scientist?
The Chloe love scene seemed wrong. I'd buy it as a moment of lust, but they were selling it as a big emotional connection, which they haven't laid the foundation for (but it let the director have his fun.) And then Chloe putting her head on Eli's shoulder. I get very tired of how TBAB portray women. You could say she's just a touchy feely type of gal, but she's a politician's daughter/aide. She would be savvy about what is giving mixed signals and...how to manipulate people. I trust her a lot less than Rush at this point, but to the TBAB, they will write her as very available, an innocent...the nubile prize to be protected, to be gained.
Greer. Let's see, we have a big muscular man of color and he took his shirt off to mediate in the warm glow of a really, really and I mean REALLY big candle. Who does this remind me of? Truthfully I liked Greer a lot more this ep. He was more in control of himself which works for me. Giving the character the parameter of being violent with poor emotional control is a dead end unless you want the audience to dislike him. Would you want to be stranded in a small place with a lot of tense people with a man wearing a gun who doesn't mind or likes to hurt people? Scaling it back so he has his moments, is a better choice. I don't buy him being a meditator given his previous displayed character traits, but perhaps writing that scene is just automatic to Wright. Or maybe by now he figured out the character had to be tweaked.
This ep is #5 and I'm thinking by this time, the actors are having more influence in the outcome, and they are breathing life into these characters. Jamil Walker Smith seems to have enough chops to do something interesting with his character so I wish him luck. It'll be an uphill battle for him.
Out of curiosity, what is your opinion on whether Rush knew that the Destiny was not in any danger? I thought he didn't know. Granted he might have hoped/speculated that there was a reason for the ship to aim for the sun, but I can't see that he knew. And I can't see any reason for why he'd want to off 15 people with supplies. So, the suspicion from Young that Rush knew...I think I'm gonna get real tired of that really fast.
Rush is certainly a glass half empty type of guy, but is that a reason to doubt the closest thing to an expert you have? I liked the moment when Young tussled Rush's hair and told him he did good, but then that accusation at the end of the episode just turned that feel good moment sour.
TBAB usually show the scientists as dweebs, overweight and clumsy. As jokes. Rush is high strung, focused, impatient. Is the foregone conclusion that EVERYONE buys into that he can't be trusted, is that some new way to diss the scientist?
The Chloe love scene seemed wrong. I'd buy it as a moment of lust, but they were selling it as a big emotional connection, which they haven't laid the foundation for (but it let the director have his fun.) And then Chloe putting her head on Eli's shoulder. I get very tired of how TBAB portray women. You could say she's just a touchy feely type of gal, but she's a politician's daughter/aide. She would be savvy about what is giving mixed signals and...how to manipulate people. I trust her a lot less than Rush at this point, but to the TBAB, they will write her as very available, an innocent...the nubile prize to be protected, to be gained.
Greer. Let's see, we have a big muscular man of color and he took his shirt off to mediate in the warm glow of a really, really and I mean REALLY big candle. Who does this remind me of? Truthfully I liked Greer a lot more this ep. He was more in control of himself which works for me. Giving the character the parameter of being violent with poor emotional control is a dead end unless you want the audience to dislike him. Would you want to be stranded in a small place with a lot of tense people with a man wearing a gun who doesn't mind or likes to hurt people? Scaling it back so he has his moments, is a better choice. I don't buy him being a meditator given his previous displayed character traits, but perhaps writing that scene is just automatic to Wright. Or maybe by now he figured out the character had to be tweaked.
This ep is #5 and I'm thinking by this time, the actors are having more influence in the outcome, and they are breathing life into these characters. Jamil Walker Smith seems to have enough chops to do something interesting with his character so I wish him luck. It'll be an uphill battle for him.
