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Stargate Universe Season 2 Episode 3

Awakenings

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Aired Monday 9:00 PM Oct 12, 2010 on Syfy

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AIRED: 10/12/10

The ship find another Ancients ship that is almost identical to Destiny, and could provide them with the means to return to Earth.

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A senior crewman is left behind after Destiny docks with a Gate Seeding ship inhabited by aliens.

4.5

By AdrianCremona, Jun 10, 2011

At this point i'm really left scratching my head. I found this simply terrible and i'm struggling to find a way to convince myself, and you, that the good outweighed the bad. And I'm sorry to say it but Louis Ferrera is my biggest problem.

Overall, the script is horrible, HORRIBLE, the plot is laboured, the direction is terrible. Fantastic special effects, brilliant brilliant aliens, but this is primetime dribble. Why are you doing this?

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It's the whole Rush vs Young thing... Young watching Rush everywhere he goes. Rush running off to the Bridge to save the day. Blah! In one scene where the two ships detach Young is yelling "why" - oh my God! Why is right? There could be a million reasons why! The most obvious being that Destiny seems to have a small level of AI and has always acted in the best interests of the crew. That aside, seriously why is his character focused on the mundane? The answer is to heighten the drama between Rush and Young which is so blatantly being pushed into our faces. I cant stand another pathetic moment between these two.

It seems we have our answer about Franklin too - he is now the ships Avatar. We have only seen him when there was real danger to the crew. Unfortunately, it looks like we'll be seeing a lot of Rushs' dead wife. I find these scenes boring and too detailed for what they're meant to represent.

T.J and Chloe - the 'are you okay about the baby?' scene was pathetic. Chloe says her gun shot is healed and T.J says "how is that possible?" UM, What? You just went to another planet T.J. and your baby is living in a cabin made by Aliens who also made a sun. I think "Show me" is what most people would say. You could argue that i'm knit picking - and maybe i am, but what i'm trying to get at is if this is meant to be 'real' space drama, stargate style, pls work on your scripts cos they suck. Seeing Camille and her worst enemy sharing a quiet moment was a hard pill to swallow - given the history of inability for most of the characters to get along to date.

In general i just found the whole episode tiresome. Really not their best moment.

As an aside, I read a few posts about why the Lucian Alliance (L.A.) would care about Destiny and here is my answer: The L.A. have a history of scavenging tech. Ancient tech is the most advanced tech. They're smarter than Terrans so they could have stripped the ship and taken heaps of cool stuff back home by now.moreless
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Another day, another loss

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By entil2001, Dec 09, 2010

I was a little taken aback by this episode. I had a feeling that the Destiny crew would run into some kind of alien trouble while on the "seed ship", but I certainly wasn't expecting Telford to be left behind. They left his fate rather open-ended, so I'm hoping that this is not his final curtain call. My sense is that Lou Diamond Phillips is only available for so many episodes, so the writers have to find creative ways to keep him in the story.

I like the fact that Young continues to get more and more strung out by the pressure and his own psychological issues. Rush keeps pushing his buttons, and now that Telford is gone, his one apparent "safety valve" is effectively gone. I seriously doubt that Young would give any control over to Camille or Rush, based on past conflicts, and there's really no one on the military side who is ready to shoulder that kind of responsibility.

Rush continues to be one of the most interesting characters, if not the best thing about the show as a whole. The longer he tries to run the ship by circumventing Young, the more he exposes himself in the process. Events keep conspiring to force Rush to show his hand. While some anomalous activities on Destiny are to be expected, Rush is struggling with the fact that Young and the rest of the "command" have grown accustomed to Destiny's patterns. There are only so many "mysterious" events that can be swept under the rug.

At first I was a bit annoyed with how the aliens were acting in this episode, because it felt intentionally obtuse. Then I realized that I had been all too programmed by previous "Stargate" and other franchise shows to expect aliens with semi-intelligible motivations. As had been said many times in the episode, there was no frame of reference for communicating with the aliens, so their actions were equally inscrutable. While I think it's convenient that the aliens waited until Rush took pre-emptive action and Telford was trapped to reappear, it does suggest that there was a purpose to it that may come into play later.

I do like how they're working with the Lucien Alliance characters. As someone noted during a recent conversation, these are not actors who would be cast to play characters kept in the background for too long, especially Robert Knepper. So I assume this is going to stew for a little while longer before becoming a major problem. As long as they don't fall into the "Star Trek: Voyager" trap by making them all friends by the mid-season break, I imagine I'll be happy.moreless
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Stargate Montage.

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By co_fragment, Dec 09, 2010

Sorry, Stargate Universe, keeps feeling more and more dynamic. While I don't think it's hit it's stride yet, it's getting there. The seed ship is an interesting find - not quite the big reveal I was hoping for after last weeks build up, but adds new avenues for events with all the new information they've gathered and Telford being stranded with the new aliens.

For a TV budget, these new CG aliens look pretty damn good, not up there with the 'Prawns' from District 9, but easily among some of the best humanoid CG aliens seen on tv. I liked the subversion of the 'stalking alien moment', to just have it collapse at Volker's feet.

At first glance the aliens seem like a new foe, but they are more subtly written than that and are far more ambiguous. If you look at it from their perspective, a bunch of hairy headed aliens just docked and came in waving weapons around.

There's still no movement with the remaining Lucian Alliance members. It seems likely once the bad eggs are removed we'll see a "work together or die alone" episode and they'll integrate with the rest of the crew.

The reliance on the montages remains annoying. Some times words aren't needed to get emotions across (last weeks montage worked very well), but every week? Come on, lets have some actual conversations, this is a tv show, not a music video.moreless
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This is what we want!

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By BobThyer, Dec 02, 2010

a good episode well worthy of Stargate

This more like it this series is slowly grinding to a hault and following the format of exciting series ends and starts filled with lack luster fillers in the middle.

The whole premise of SGU is very much about finding things that are brand new to the human race, so let the dogs out and lets get some action for pity sake, please stop all this self pitty and lack luster feeling sorry for my self BS. boldly go FOR PITTY SAKE. This TV show gives licence to the writers to do so much more why are they wasting the opotunity to exploit what is a god given chance to stretch the bounderies of SYFY.moreless
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Now this is stargate!

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By leogov, Nov 05, 2010

That is what everyone is expecting! Not all drama and slow episodes. Look to the ratings and you conclude that. Stargate is this: alens, combat, fight and suspense. Now i will see this show with the same fellings I have in stargate sg1 and stargate atlantis. continue with the good work! Drama fans: go to Caprica show! This first episodes all ranking +8. This means something, no? I am not from USA and sorry for the bad english, but y only submit review in this show, because something ned to be done and now I see the comments are working. thanksmoreless
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Robert Carlyle	Dr. Nicholas Rush
Louis Ferreira	Colonel Everett Young
Brian J. Smith	Lt. Matthew Scott
Elyse Levesque	Chloe Armstrong
David Blue	Eli Wallace
Alaina Huffman	1st Lt. Tamara Johansen

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Louise Lombard	Gloria Rush	Guest Star
Marie-Eve Boudreau	Alien Reference	Guest Star
Julie McNiven	Ginn	Recurring Role
Mike Dopud	Varro	Recurring Role
Peter Kelamis	Adam Brody	Recurring Role

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- Eli: Hey, am I reading this right?
  Rush: If you have to ask, my guess would be no.
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- Telford: Now, you either shape up or step back. You're tired. I get it. Let me help.
  Young: Oh, you're a persistent son of a bitch.
  Telford: Hey, you saved my life.
  Young: I had to kill you to do it.
  Telford: And I'm willing to do the same for you.
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- Music: Sort of Revolution (Fink)
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- International Airdates:
  UK: October 19, 2010 on Sky1
  Sweden: December 10, 2010 on TV6
  Germany: March 23, 2011 on RTL II
  Czech Republic: January 22, 2013 on FANDA
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