My favorite parts of this episode were when Young got pissed and beat ass, both on the ship and on Earth.  It was nice seeing that other bitchy soldier on the Destiny get slammed against the wall by Old Man Young.

I liked SG-1, thought Atlantis was okay, and I've been trying, I really have, but I just cannot connect with this show.  It's got this weird, BSG-lite vibe that is just irritating and boring at the same time.

Actually, I kind of liked the episode. The communication stones actually add a bit more stress to the crew for the simple fact that they actually *can* go home even if for a few hours. It adds to the stress levels aboard the ship for everyone involved. The only two characters I'm not digging at the moment are Lt. Scott, and his shallow senator's daughter girlfriend.

I'd like to see an entire episode dedicated to Dr. Rush's background since he is the most interesting character on the show. I still think this show is FAR superior to the sleep-inducing Sanctuary.

Do you think there should be some sort of etiquite for body swapping?  So far we've watched Destiny's crew members use their borrowed bodies to have sex, get falling down drunk and get punched out in a fist fight.  If I was assigned to swap boddies with someone from Destiny and found my body had been used for such shenannigans when I got back I'd be a little miffed.

Also, what's with using your borrowed body to sit in a car in front of someone's house for hours?  That's stalker behaviour and shouldn't be encouraged.

The whole episode I felt like we were supposed to be going "Oooh, Ahhh, Lesbians!".  Would anybody have found Camile's story even slightly interesting if she were heterosexual and was hanging out with her husband?  What did we learn about her?  She's lonely in space and misses her partner?  Well, Duh.  They are ALL sad and lonely and frightened. 

Kara S

Whe is Telford still on the project?  It should be obvious to any moderately competent commander that he is poison to morale on the Destiny. 

I continue to have major issues with this show.

The first being the constant use of the damn stones. Personally I think they should be tossed out the air lock at the first chance, simply because it takes an interesting Sci-Fi show and turns it into nothing but a half rate drama with a gimmick.

Beyond that though is the fact that the writers have not the slightest care for tying up their loose ends. The show watches more like the Twilight Zone with completely unattached episodes than a serial.

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I'll give you just three perfect examples of this.

Second episode when they found the desert planet a bunch of people gate off to a different world to see what its like and boom they never existed. No mention of them no notice they are gone by the rest of the characters.

A recent episode one of the scientists gets hurt trying to repair the ship. He's in a medical bay and TJ comments something like "It's going to be touch and go." And boom no mention of it. No explanation of what happened or how he's doing or any outcome at all. Except, and I'm not even sure because they never made it clear who was in the suit to start with, that I think he's back in later episodes doing just fine.

Finally, last week they make this big deal about the virus in the water supply and they introduce this whole plot line about going to this alien world and sending a remote back in time to warn them, all of which I thought was really great and interesting sci-fi, and then nothing. No resolution, no explanation, no further mention of how they solved the problem or what happened just the cheesy you have to save yourselves ending.

*End of Spoilers*

Even the best attempts at good story telling just fall flat when they completely disregard any attempt to provide continuity or flow between one episode and the next. Don't get me wrong I love the Stargate Universe as a whole but this show is just painful to watch.

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Um, they did resolve the problem in Time. Well, they at least pointed how they were going to resolve it which was enough for me who can connect dots...I've been watching old episodes of Lou Grant on Hulu and they don't resolve nothing.  Oh and he most likely has a whole bullpen of reporters yet only two actually get the assignments. Oh and only one photog aparently... My point is, at least the writers of SGU try.   Oh and regarding missing crewmen, it's called weeding the cast...

Now that I've defended them: Light,  Time and Water, in that order, have been the best episodes of the season with the others being meh.  I really think the stones sounded better on paper than they turned out to be on the show.  Its confusing to watch especially when they malfunction. Also, I think the plot device of the devices if you will has elimated the need for the character to suck it up and work together.  I can't think of an example of a series where the characters gelled less except for Married with Children perhaps...    

The stones are the worst part of this show, and this episode was the worst one yet.  Everyone in this chat is now dumber for having watched it.

Lesbians are fun to watch, but what a waste of time that was too.  

Ugh.. throw the stones in the trash and get back to the cool mysterious ship stuff.

Karas, you beat me to it.  I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who had a problem with people using the stones to go have sex with their wives, girlfriends, or other significant others.  I for one would be pissed if someone used me to that.  The lack of ethics on this show is amazing!

I love SG-1 and Atlantis to a slightly lesser degree and I've even been rewatching the first couple of seasons of SG-1 last two weeks.  This show really is not deserving of the Stargate name, so far in my opinion.  I feel absolutely no connection to any of the characters.  How are we supposed to feel anything for these guys when we don't even know who half of them are.  I think I know TJ, Young, Rush, Eli, Lt. Scott, Teleford, and Greer.  Anyone else and I can't tell you there name.  Hell, I don't even recall the annoying Senator's daughter's name.

Chloe, her name is Chloe.

We can add Telford to the list of people with no morals.  Moving in on the wife of a guy stranded in another galaxy is pretty low.