Briangate78
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Ok here is my full review...
Plot/Story
Ok we have a main and B story for this episode, one being about a mission to go to the Langaria to try and use their Stargate and resources to dial destiny, and they bring in Atlantis' Mckay to do the job. The other story was Rush and Amanda Perry being in some kind of dream world or Matrix.
Starting with the main story. It seemed they were all over the place with this. They had a mission that served no purpose, you had an angry Telford trying to force people to make it work, and in the end was just a big failure, sorta like the episode, imho. Mckay and Woosley were underused in the plot even they had decent air time. It was cool how they used the stones to trick the people on Langaria to switch bodies.
What really irked me was Telford trying to offer Mckay a job on Destiny, it felt like a slap in the SGA fans face that there will be no more Atlantis. That line almost made me turn off the TV set, but I prevailed and continued to watch.
Getting to the B Story. Well the sex scenes don't bother me too much, but I just think it was a filler story and then the whole end with Ginn and Perry being forever locked into Destiny where they cannot access, basically took last week's episode and made it pointless, imo. So one step forward, two steps back, imo. I felt the story should of been one main one.
I am looking at some of the votes for the Lucian Alliance question on Syfy. With the exception of Simeon and Kiva, the LA has been a weak enemy, and I think one of SGU's issues is not having a strong main enemy or nemesis.
Characterization/Character
I was looking forward to seeing Mckay, well SGU managed to throw out the 5 years of SGA where he developed. Also, when did Mckay ever become a pervert? He was always taking that nervous approach with woman like Carter, Katie, and Keller. He never tried to look down their shirt, and always had a respect for these three woman even if he did have a crush on them. No offense, Lt. James is pure eye candy and a sex symbol for this show, and it makes you wonder why SGU lacks a female audience.
Woolsey was not bad in this episode.
I liked Woolsey in SGA's 5th season because he tried to be more fair with a situation and review both viewpoints and sides. Young and Telford had a plan and he did not want to have anything to do with it, but he went along with it, only to find proof that the langarians were not siding with the Lucian Alliance.
As per the main characters, all of them annoyed me in this episode, and that is very hard to do.
Overall/Final Thought
I jumped into this episode with high expectations. I truly am one of the SGA fans who knew SGA was canceled by a creative decision, and the show was still performing, and was very vocal and passionate about the cancelation. It really dissapointed me that SGU has now made SGA, no pun intended, Extinct. If the franchise ends with SGU, I will be truly dissapointed. Even David Hewlett said in an interview that he thinks SGU's problem was that it did not take as much "Stargate influence" as it needed from the other two series. I am in total agreement, and that has been my arguement since day one.
Final Grade: C
*See, I warned ya, I was not holding back if this episode was not as good as I wanted it to be*
Ok here is my full review...
Plot/Story
Ok we have a main and B story for this episode, one being about a mission to go to the Langaria to try and use their Stargate and resources to dial destiny, and they bring in Atlantis' Mckay to do the job. The other story was Rush and Amanda Perry being in some kind of dream world or Matrix.
Starting with the main story. It seemed they were all over the place with this. They had a mission that served no purpose, you had an angry Telford trying to force people to make it work, and in the end was just a big failure, sorta like the episode, imho. Mckay and Woosley were underused in the plot even they had decent air time. It was cool how they used the stones to trick the people on Langaria to switch bodies.
What really irked me was Telford trying to offer Mckay a job on Destiny, it felt like a slap in the SGA fans face that there will be no more Atlantis. That line almost made me turn off the TV set, but I prevailed and continued to watch.
Getting to the B Story. Well the sex scenes don't bother me too much, but I just think it was a filler story and then the whole end with Ginn and Perry being forever locked into Destiny where they cannot access, basically took last week's episode and made it pointless, imo. So one step forward, two steps back, imo. I felt the story should of been one main one.
I am looking at some of the votes for the Lucian Alliance question on Syfy. With the exception of Simeon and Kiva, the LA has been a weak enemy, and I think one of SGU's issues is not having a strong main enemy or nemesis.
Characterization/Character
I was looking forward to seeing Mckay, well SGU managed to throw out the 5 years of SGA where he developed. Also, when did Mckay ever become a pervert? He was always taking that nervous approach with woman like Carter, Katie, and Keller. He never tried to look down their shirt, and always had a respect for these three woman even if he did have a crush on them. No offense, Lt. James is pure eye candy and a sex symbol for this show, and it makes you wonder why SGU lacks a female audience.
Woolsey was not bad in this episode.
I liked Woolsey in SGA's 5th season because he tried to be more fair with a situation and review both viewpoints and sides. Young and Telford had a plan and he did not want to have anything to do with it, but he went along with it, only to find proof that the langarians were not siding with the Lucian Alliance.
As per the main characters, all of them annoyed me in this episode, and that is very hard to do.
Overall/Final Thought
I jumped into this episode with high expectations. I truly am one of the SGA fans who knew SGA was canceled by a creative decision, and the show was still performing, and was very vocal and passionate about the cancelation. It really dissapointed me that SGU has now made SGA, no pun intended, Extinct. If the franchise ends with SGU, I will be truly dissapointed. Even David Hewlett said in an interview that he thinks SGU's problem was that it did not take as much "Stargate influence" as it needed from the other two series. I am in total agreement, and that has been my arguement since day one.
Final Grade: C
*See, I warned ya, I was not holding back if this episode was not as good as I wanted it to be*