'Hope' (214) General Discussion

[LeonK]

I found the episode to be quite good, much better than most of the other episodes this season.

Though the title of Hope is....unfortunate....as any hope the episode raises for the remainder of the season is quickly lost as one realizes that the rest of the season has been shot, ends on a cliff hanger, and the series is cancelled.

[Mevi]

Paused during power spike...

Spoiler:

Is that Young choking Ginn? Telford?

[MattSilver 3k]

Paused during power spike...

Spoiler:

Is that Young choking Ginn? Telford?

Simeon. Who else?

[morbosfist]

Though from a viewer's perspective, it's probably a body double, hence why they blacked out the features.

[Mevi]

If you have it DVR'd look at it again. Reading a bit into it perhaps? if it was a body body they made a terrible choice. Furry head, wider head, broad shoulders.

[morbosfist]

It's not like it really matters when you blank out almost every recognizable feature. It's a memory of her death. Nothing beyond that. They just didn't feel like tracking the guy down for a cameo.

[MattSilver 3k]

But it's a logical point - a figure is choking her, Simeon choked her. So what if it's dark and it's not the same actor making a cameo? I don't really think magically deciding it's Young or Telford is a factor here, like, at all.

[katikatnik]

I thought it was awesome.

One question though, are kidney transplants ever done through the front of the body? That kind of annoyed me.

Can we call Franklin, Amanda & Ginn the "AI" even though they aren't artificial?

My mom had a kidney transplant. The damaged kidneys are left in their place, not cut out, and the new one is placed in the abdomen, not in the back.

[Kanten]

This episode also marks out first cross-gender stone swap (Telford and O'Hara)

On SGU at least. Daniel and Vala did it a long time ago.

Fate willing if SGU gets a movie(s), the Ginn/Perry plot is one thing I definitely want to see resolved.

[knowles2]

Is it just me or does anyone else think Greer is going to die of an infection? I know the series is ending but I hoped that all my favs would make it to the end.

Spoiler:

I think I read that two characters are going to die so that certainly a possible and we have had two Geer episodes in a row, which might mean that they are developing the character before they kill him off.

[knowles2]

With Perry having access to all of Destiny's files, there should be no reason to find a way back to Earth. But that would be too easy.

You are presuming the Ancients had a plan to return. An we have a way home we just need a other seed vessel.

[Superhero in Disguise]

I have to admit this was certainly one of the better episodes, but I do have one thing that's been bothering me about Greer's donating a kidney. Now I could be wrong about this since neither myself or anyone I know is in the military but I vaguely remember hearing something about that people who have either donated an organ or received an organ transplant were barred from active combat service in the military.

If that's true does that mean that Greer's career is pretty much over? I know that in their current situation Young will probably over look any regulations on the matter seeing has how they're short handed as it is and everybody needs to pull they're own weight. But if they manage to someday make it back to Earth will Greer be forced to take a medical discharge or at best be given a drill instructor/desk job position?

[escyos]

On SGU at least. Daniel and Vala did it a long time ago.

Fate willing if SGU gets a movie(s), the Ginn/Perry plot is one thing I definitely want to see resolved.

ahhhh no, Vala and Daniel crossed to female and male respectively. Telford (male) switched with O'Hara (female)

[dvdrts]

ahhhh no, Vala and Daniel crossed to female and male respectively. Telford (male) switched with O'Hara (female)

when vala was in the ori galaxy she used the stones there to switch with daniel to report to earth.

[Rylor]

ahhhh no, Vala and Daniel crossed to female and male respectively. Telford (male) switched with O'Hara (female)

I think he / she meant "Crusade", where Vala (in the Ori galaxy) switched with Daniel (although it was a one-way exchange, since Daniel was not in Vala's body)