Sgu 5/2

Ok, so they somehow manage to open a gate that not only connects with Earth but connects with it in the past. Then they find that Pittsburgh was destroyed by drones.

There has never in all the previous Stargate series been a gate located in Pittsburgh and on top of that in that time period the Goa'uld would have seen active stargates and would have gone to war with the drones. This was just plain a stupid premise for an episode.


JUST KIDDING! I just thought I would post an irrelevant argument based on only watching bits and pieces or not watching at all before somebody else got around to it.


I actually thought this episode was again really well done. Almost everything about it made perfect sense. I would have liked to see the team moving faster through the town and ferrying stuff to the gate for one thing. They knew that they were under a time limit and should have been moving rapidly from store front to store front and quickly showing anything they found into packs. Instead they were just sort of ambling their way around town. It's possible to be cautious and still move quickly.


My biggest problem however was with the drones. There is no reason for the drones (and mothership) to have high level artificial intelligence. They just need to be simple hunter killers. Yet in this case they were not only able to somehow figure out that Destiny was no longer using gates but that it fueled itself by diving into stars and calculate which stars they needed to travel to in order to intercept it.

But even with those problems I still enjoyed the hell out of the episode.

I see we both atarted thread.s I'll try to shut mine down.

Well I was surprised to hear them admit that ammo is running out but Young's off hand remark about getting one of the scientists to make more was hardly believable.

They don't have the equipment necessary to make ammunition nor the supplies needed to make modern gunpowder, lead for the bullets, and brass for the shell casings. Furthermore even if they wanted to recycle the shell casings they already used they haven't any brass catchers on their weapons to catch spent cartridges, and they haven't been making any efforts to police the brass from the ground around where they've been firing their weapons during the past 2 seasons.

Now from previews it seems the drones are far more widespread than some people argued in previous threads. If the drones can blockade every star and planet with a stargate Destiny can reach their territory must be vast.

While some may argue that the drones are just predicting the course Destiny is following they still need to know which planets actually have stargates since they can only detect them when they are in use.


Over all another good episode.


Edit: Oh and how stupid are the Ancients for designing a space suit without vision filters to protect the wearer from blinding light? Even our current primitive by comparison space suits have that feature.

It's not really high level AI. It's more like pattern recognition software. The ship refueled at <x> type of star in the past. It is not untoward to monitor nearby stars of <x> type. Extend the monitoring to stars of <x+1> and <x-1> to be sure. Or they don't even need to know that it refuels from such stars, but rather that it stops in systems containing such stars.

If it was high level AI, the drones would've figured that they gated in to that world. Between the first activation and that Morrison's idiocy, they could figure out where the gate was. Take out the gate and then you can mop up the remainder.

What bothered me was how durable that drone was. Greer took out one by himself, essentially, and that one was zooming around overhead. This one took combined, sustained fire from 3 weapons to finally go down.

And I liked how they handily mentioned the ammo situation..."We're running low on ammo.". "That's ok, Brody can make more.".

I predict the drones will have been created by their "descendants"

I say they're from Futura (it's a font).

So was Rush's letting Eli drive an admission that Eli is smarter and better at calculations on the fly in his head, or was it some admission of some deep seated self-doubt after the last few episodes portrayed Rush as a less than successful, less than admirable person?

Something that strikes me as being odd from this episode, they talked about only having 3 space suits.

A few weeks ago when they were grabbing supplies off the other Destiny, it’s strange that no one thought to grab the other 3 space suits so that they would have 6 of them now.

There's a whole lot of stuff they could have salvaged from the other Destiny if the writers hadn't insisted on having the ship falling into the sun while they rushed to grab whatever they could carry.

Was not enough hills for Pittsburgh lol. Not a bad episode but kinda felt like filler to me.

So I'm late to the party as always but just finished watching the episode and I agree it was a pretty good show

A few things though....


Did I miss an episode because where and when did the descendants get off to? My dad and I were perplexed...last time I remember they were on the ship or is that just another "don't worry about it" moments in writing?

I also thought the whole "don't worry Brody can make more ammo" was a bit laughable....plus I thought they got a lot of ammo/supplies from the 2nd Destiny before it went into the star (and they didn't use a lot of ammo in the 2 episodes after that one as far as I can remember)? o_O

Thought for sure Parker was going to die I was half-way expecting her when Eli was trying to save her, be all like, "no, save the plants!" and she hands him the plants and then gets sucked away into space and dies.... heh....glad she didn't.


Edit: And now that the ship has full power it can just blast the mothership away right?