Dr. Carter & Mckay must be on permanent vacation, it's a good thing too or this would be a short lived show. Instead the B team arrives and are easily fooled by Rush who once again keeps his plans all to himself in the guise of saving lives. I'm sure being able to remain on the ship in order to study it further never crossed his mind.

I loved the scene with David, Everett & Emily, talk about a new take on the ménage à trois. Telford showing up at Emily's house has all kinds of implications. I can't wait to see where that storyline leads. As for the rest of the show they've now done episodes dealing with air, power, water...whats next food? The survivalist checklist is getting crossed off rather quickly, this show needs a real threat that dosn't involve where Eli is going to get his next twinki from. It's time to nut up or shut up...

Well, Carter has a ship to command now and presumably McKay is off on Atlantis saving their bacon again.  One would hope that the Stargate program would have a whole slew of competent scientists on the payroll.

Though an episode with McKay and Rush trying to work together would be interesting.  I don't think whatever galaxy the Destiny is currently in would be big enough for both egos.

Trying to power up the Stargate by causing the ship to refuel itself in a star was a good idea.  But they really  rushed it.  They needed to study the situation for months before trying anything.

I have to admit a complete and total disintrest in Col Young's marital troubles.  It's not a very original plot element.  Given the choice I'd rather be watching the crew on the Destiny trying to make the ship ready for the big plan to energise the Stargate rather than Col Young and Emily argue about his infidelity with TJ.   

Eli's dilema with his mother was more interesting.  He was essentially kidnapped by Rush and Col O'Neill and through no fault of his own is stuck in another galaxy with no way home.  His scenes with his mother when he couldn't tell her who he was were touching.

Chloe was just irritating.  Her self pity is getting really boring.  Who her ex boyfriend is seeing is the least of her troubles.  She needs to find a way to contribute to life on the ship other than lending her body to visiting scientists.

Did you guys read the letter in the latest TV Guide about SG:U?  Ouch!

Kara S

I like the show, but it s really is no SG-1 and not even close to BSG. It doesn't have enough sustainable drama.  I like most of the characters but its like the writers don't know where to put them. I think instead of having some internal catastrophe every week, they need to actually get the ship working properly and be able to actually explore. They need an enemy that isn't themselves or the people back on Earth. SG-1 had the Goa'ul and Ori. Atlantis had the Wraith and Replicants. SG-U needs someone. Even though BSG had a lot of internal drama and stryfe, they still had the continuing threat of the Cylons which pushed the drama to new levels. This show needs something like that or it will not last. What sucks is from the article I read in Empire magazine about it, the writers are trying to stay away from aliens. They want it more reality based which is ridiculous because its Stargate. You have to have some sort of aliens. SG-1 never would have survived for 10 seasons without it. This show won't survive one.

I hated this episode, I don't care about the love triangles at all.

I really don't care about anything that's happening back on earth... Focus on the 'mysterious' ship and stop screwing around with the 'magic' rocks.

Eli it supposed to this brilliant Kid, but he's just a fat kid hanging out and doing nothing.  Nobody on this ship does anything useful, except for Rush, who's decided to keep everything a secret all the time just to make the plot interesting and then we can all be surprised at the end of the show because he knew what was going to happen all along.

Stargate was successful because it followed the same formula as Star Trek. Have a core group to pull from, alien of the week, wrap it all up with a pinch hit in the last act. Ground it with a more terrestrial presence as an air force unit rather than an intergalactic unified force, and add the threat of the rest of the world finding out, you have the unique taste that makes Stargate.

This new one tries to strip that all together and mix Lost with BSG and has no core to it. It could be good, but only if they shift back to the Stargate formula.

 If Carlyle is the show's biggest asset, then this show is doomed.

This is a character-driven SF show where the grittiness has made the characters largely unlikeable.  Did this fact not occur to any of the writers?

BSG was a character driven show in which the characters were largely unlikable.  It was quite successful and garnered a lot of praise from mainstream critics.  That's what they are after with SG:U.

This was an episode in the classic Stargate mold of "civilian beauracracy with some military support fiddles with the SG team and is spurned in the end".  I really dug it.

One of the things that I'm not the hugest fan of is General O'Niell.  This is not the O'Niell of 8 seasons of SG1 and that's disappointing to me.  He barely displays the trademark sarcasm and his casual attitude towards matters of protocol.

I'm a fanboy of the franchise.  I'm going to watch this series regardless.  I'm no apologist, though.  I know this show needs a good deal of improvement.