Isn't that a bit too convenient?
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Quoted from my own post in the main thread:
Except that that did not happen. They never said they were precisely eight short. They said (thanks Callie for the transcrtipt):
VOLKER: Well, as you know, we’ve been powering up all the stasis pod corridors and it’s been ... it’s been going pretty well up until now. But, uh ...
YOUNG: Well, what is it?
VOLKER: It’s the last section. It must have taken some damage, possibly even before we came on board the ship. We can’t bring those pods online, so we’re not gonna have enough for everyone.
BRODY: The damaged pods put us eight short of the total we need.
Later, Eli says...
WALLACE: We repaired the eight pods, but one of them was more damaged than we thought. It came online with the rest of them, but when we ran final checks, it just ... died. We might be one short.
They didn't say how many were damaged, just that some of them were damaged and they were, therefore, eight short.sigpic -
Meh, no less convenient than every other SG episode plot solution ever in the history of everything, but it's a hell of a lot better than the wormhole drive.
In fact, I suppose it's supposed to lend credence to Rush's statement last week about the ship not being a passenger ship. Sixty, or maybe less, crew, or so. Eight pods in each room... I'll say there's about eight stasis chambers...
Meh. Either way. Yes. It is convenient, but I'll forgive it. I'm good that way.~ When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take back the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! WITH THE LEMONS! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN! ~
~ Burning people! He says what we're all thinking! ~Comment
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It also stands to reason that there are other pod rooms they just have not found OR they can't bring online for power reasonsComment
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It is indeed convenient, so I like to think there were a couple of chambers more which were badly damaged, and that the chamber with 8 that they fixed was one of those. After fixing them 1 of them just died, but is still in better shape than the other couple rooms they didn't use.
But yeah, a tad convenient, but at least it served the plot instead of the wormhole drive taking over the job of the hyperdrive.Comment
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But it's not convenient, because they never said they were precisely eight short! They said a section was damaged, therefore they were eight short, meaning they had eight more people than working pods. They fixed eight (that they needed) with the mineral, but one of them died. They never said there weren't more than eight broken.sigpicComment
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It sort of sucks that LA people were in pods and there was a terran going short.Comment
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On the contrary, Gin is there... albeit, not physically.. just tucked away somewhere in Destiny's memory banks. =)Originally posted by Pharaoh Atem View PostComment
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Maths girl actually counts quite well as it happens...Comment
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He meant she didn't need a stasis pod, so in terms of people using stasis pods, she wasn't a consideration.Originally posted by KEK View PostComment
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If you take life too seriously, it ceases to be fun -Alan Shore
But yeah, I found it a bit convenient too, it would have been better to say "we could only fix eight of the remaining pods" rather than "we fixed the eight pods". Eli was left to fix the (only) remaining pod, or at least that's what the episode seemed to imply...Comment
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They couldn't power the last section of pods, putting 8 people into a bad spot and giving them the "8 short" line.Originally posted by KEK View Post
There wasn't only 8 pods in the last section, just 8 people would get screwed.sigpic
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