At first when I was watching this I was thinking "wow they really underestimated this guy" but after thinking about it a bit more he didn't really do anything particularly incredible on his own. He wasn't even a particularly good shot, missing the main characters several times when he had all the time in the world to line up initial shots on them from ambush.
Basically Simeon didn't do anything particularly impressive, it was just the SGU security being retarded that enabled him to be as successful as he was. First, as I think was pointed out, why wasn't security on him increased given the problems he'd been causing in the past. They started out escorting all LA people but as some of them lost their escorts those escorts could have simply be rotated on to him so he had at least 2 men on him at all times.
It was fairly obvious early on that if anyone was going to cause problems it was going to be him.
There was nothing too inherently implausible about his escape though, aside from maybe how empty all the vital areas seemed to be, thus preventing anyone calling in his location. The SGU military teams are under manned, under supplied and likely overworked. It's not surprising that things would gradually start to slip until something really nasty like this comes along and shows just how far they have.
Basically Simeon didn't do anything particularly impressive, it was just the SGU security being retarded that enabled him to be as successful as he was. First, as I think was pointed out, why wasn't security on him increased given the problems he'd been causing in the past. They started out escorting all LA people but as some of them lost their escorts those escorts could have simply be rotated on to him so he had at least 2 men on him at all times.
It was fairly obvious early on that if anyone was going to cause problems it was going to be him.
There was nothing too inherently implausible about his escape though, aside from maybe how empty all the vital areas seemed to be, thus preventing anyone calling in his location. The SGU military teams are under manned, under supplied and likely overworked. It's not surprising that things would gradually start to slip until something really nasty like this comes along and shows just how far they have.
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