Before I start, first of all, a big thank you to Petra who started the thread, and find some good words to introduce our idea to everybody. I hope some of you who want to participate in the discussion, will have a good time going with us from episode to episode, and discuss a few things anew, or see some things in another light, or whatever might happen.
Just keep in mind: stay to your opinion, say what you want to say, discuss everything, but keep it fair. No bashing, neither of people here, nor of those in the show. All of us are here to have fun, so, please have fun!
The Beginning couldn’t have been better. Space. Stars. Haunting music. A giant Spaceship floats slowly throw the space until it fills the whole view. The sound steps up. The camera is gliding above the surface of the ship starting from its nose, across the erratic surface, which shows a lot of uprisings and conducts. A small dome came into sight. The camera came closer and closer, and finally digs into the ship. Now she is flowing above the ground through dimly lit and empty corridors and reaches a room with a spinning stargate. A man flys through the gate, he’s a soldier. He tries to calculate and back up his position. Before he’s able to do his job more people are flying through the gate, faster and faster. Flying on each other, one upon the other, and in no order at all. Screams and chaotic voices can be heard. Some people are injured, others were injured while hurling through the air and reaching the flour. Hard. Too hard. The camera dwells on some faces, and finally stops on a person lying on the ground. It’s a man. He sits up, is looking for something on the basement, grabs his broken glasses, stands up, is going to a staircase, and starts to climb up the stairs. In the meanwhile the sound has changed. The chaotic and screaming voices starts to fade, they sounds like a wafting tone after passing a wall of cotton. The man had reached the top and stoped at the railing. He overlooks the chaotic mass at the ground, and starts to grin, suddenly. From now on the story is interruped with cut-backs to show how all of this starts.
The first person we met in the first flashback is Eli Wallace. He’s a computer freak, a nerd, who spents most likely most of his time playing computergames with his nerdy friends. Without having a choise he’s convulted into a story which will be no question the biggest adventure of his whole life. As will be seen later, he is very smart, but also a bit annoying in his „nerdyness“. Aside from that, he looks like an everyday guy, nice and a little bit overweighted.
Aside from General O’Neill people may recognise from the former Stargate series, Dr. Nicholas Rush is the second person we met. He’s the chief scientist of the Icarus base, a relative small fascility far away from earth. People there are working on a secret project to encode the so called ninth chevron. Rush, who couldn’t decode the ninth chevron on his own tried to find help, therefore he created a computergame to find someone who is able to solve the problem. In the end he finds Eli Wallace. So, Rush is obviously smart, smarter than anybody in his former surrounding, but he’s not a genius. As we’ll see later he’s woraholic. He don’t take part in social life at the basis, and he grieves his wife.
When the Icarus basis came under attack, he dicides, without thinking about the consequences for everybody else, to dial the ninth chevron instead of a safer address somewhere near earth to evacuade the Icarus base. On the ship he’s unfortunately the only one who is able to use the ancient computers, without too big problems, and to read Ancient, fluently. Though some of the other scientists seems also have a rudimentary understand of it, but by far not all, and with the exception of Ser Riley, also none of the soldiers. The people who are not very amused about his decission know that very well, and therefore they have to deal with him, even if nobody wants to. And when Chloe Armstrong nearly smashed him into a wall, and hits, and kicks him as best as she’s able to, nobody seems to be very shocked about it.
As the story proceeds it shows up, that he has a bad relationship with Colonel Young, and seems not to be too exalted about any of the soldiers. During an argument he had with Lt Greer, it came to light that he is not from a more or less rich family, but had a working class background. That means he has learned to fight, and had to fight hard enough to reach his goals, so it seems not too far away, in hindsight, that he didn’t let the last opportunity pass away to dial the ninth chevron.
Rush is not the classical bad guy, but he’s also not the easiest person to deal with, and he is the person who generates the biggest discussions. Most of the time it’s possible to understand his actions and why he does things, but not always, and sometimes I got the fieling that the writers were a bit too obsessed with making him the bad guy, and forget to keep it traceable.
And not to write too much I have to sum up the rest. From this first three episodes I got a good introduction to all characters. The colonel who don’t want to lose any of his men and woman, the „green“ but smart Lt Scott, the loyal soldier Lt Greer, the „nice“ Lt Johanson, The smart and feminiene Lt James, Dr Volker, Mr Brody, the unsure (at the beginning) Camile Wray, the smart, but in the begining overextendet Chloe Armstrong and all the other folk I’ve seen.
It was a good start for me, though, I think I’d prefered to shorten the family stories on earth a bit and expand other scenes more, for example to show more of the ship, or give more interactions between persons onboard Destiny. But I can live very well with the product I got. Nothing really to complain about.
Just keep in mind: stay to your opinion, say what you want to say, discuss everything, but keep it fair. No bashing, neither of people here, nor of those in the show. All of us are here to have fun, so, please have fun!
The Beginning couldn’t have been better. Space. Stars. Haunting music. A giant Spaceship floats slowly throw the space until it fills the whole view. The sound steps up. The camera is gliding above the surface of the ship starting from its nose, across the erratic surface, which shows a lot of uprisings and conducts. A small dome came into sight. The camera came closer and closer, and finally digs into the ship. Now she is flowing above the ground through dimly lit and empty corridors and reaches a room with a spinning stargate. A man flys through the gate, he’s a soldier. He tries to calculate and back up his position. Before he’s able to do his job more people are flying through the gate, faster and faster. Flying on each other, one upon the other, and in no order at all. Screams and chaotic voices can be heard. Some people are injured, others were injured while hurling through the air and reaching the flour. Hard. Too hard. The camera dwells on some faces, and finally stops on a person lying on the ground. It’s a man. He sits up, is looking for something on the basement, grabs his broken glasses, stands up, is going to a staircase, and starts to climb up the stairs. In the meanwhile the sound has changed. The chaotic and screaming voices starts to fade, they sounds like a wafting tone after passing a wall of cotton. The man had reached the top and stoped at the railing. He overlooks the chaotic mass at the ground, and starts to grin, suddenly. From now on the story is interruped with cut-backs to show how all of this starts.
The first person we met in the first flashback is Eli Wallace. He’s a computer freak, a nerd, who spents most likely most of his time playing computergames with his nerdy friends. Without having a choise he’s convulted into a story which will be no question the biggest adventure of his whole life. As will be seen later, he is very smart, but also a bit annoying in his „nerdyness“. Aside from that, he looks like an everyday guy, nice and a little bit overweighted.
Aside from General O’Neill people may recognise from the former Stargate series, Dr. Nicholas Rush is the second person we met. He’s the chief scientist of the Icarus base, a relative small fascility far away from earth. People there are working on a secret project to encode the so called ninth chevron. Rush, who couldn’t decode the ninth chevron on his own tried to find help, therefore he created a computergame to find someone who is able to solve the problem. In the end he finds Eli Wallace. So, Rush is obviously smart, smarter than anybody in his former surrounding, but he’s not a genius. As we’ll see later he’s woraholic. He don’t take part in social life at the basis, and he grieves his wife.
When the Icarus basis came under attack, he dicides, without thinking about the consequences for everybody else, to dial the ninth chevron instead of a safer address somewhere near earth to evacuade the Icarus base. On the ship he’s unfortunately the only one who is able to use the ancient computers, without too big problems, and to read Ancient, fluently. Though some of the other scientists seems also have a rudimentary understand of it, but by far not all, and with the exception of Ser Riley, also none of the soldiers. The people who are not very amused about his decission know that very well, and therefore they have to deal with him, even if nobody wants to. And when Chloe Armstrong nearly smashed him into a wall, and hits, and kicks him as best as she’s able to, nobody seems to be very shocked about it.
As the story proceeds it shows up, that he has a bad relationship with Colonel Young, and seems not to be too exalted about any of the soldiers. During an argument he had with Lt Greer, it came to light that he is not from a more or less rich family, but had a working class background. That means he has learned to fight, and had to fight hard enough to reach his goals, so it seems not too far away, in hindsight, that he didn’t let the last opportunity pass away to dial the ninth chevron.
Rush is not the classical bad guy, but he’s also not the easiest person to deal with, and he is the person who generates the biggest discussions. Most of the time it’s possible to understand his actions and why he does things, but not always, and sometimes I got the fieling that the writers were a bit too obsessed with making him the bad guy, and forget to keep it traceable.
And not to write too much I have to sum up the rest. From this first three episodes I got a good introduction to all characters. The colonel who don’t want to lose any of his men and woman, the „green“ but smart Lt Scott, the loyal soldier Lt Greer, the „nice“ Lt Johanson, The smart and feminiene Lt James, Dr Volker, Mr Brody, the unsure (at the beginning) Camile Wray, the smart, but in the begining overextendet Chloe Armstrong and all the other folk I’ve seen.
It was a good start for me, though, I think I’d prefered to shorten the family stories on earth a bit and expand other scenes more, for example to show more of the ship, or give more interactions between persons onboard Destiny. But I can live very well with the product I got. Nothing really to complain about.
It took me a really long while to warm up to Rush and even this, I think, was in part due to cool Rush fangirls I've met on this forum.
) but I think he outdid himself in SGU. The score at the end of part III, when Matt and Ron are rushing back to the Gate and everyone's anxiously waiting for them is one of my favourite tv/movie scores ever.
Still, in Air he got one of the most fascinating introductions in the franchise.
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