I have to admit, as much as I love the Stargate universe, Stargate Universe has not really grabbed me that strongly. The first few episodes focused solely on the “shortage of the week”, it seemed, and I just am not that enthusiastic about seeing the ship pick a planet (with no real input from the crew) just so the crew can send a team through to pick up something they need.

Yesterday’s episode, Earth, was much better than the prior episodes. It answered one question that I’ve seen pop up in discussions since Light^[a], and gave us a little better feel for the dynamics between Colonels Young and Telford.

Some of the Earth scenes annoyed me^[b], especially the nightclub scenes, but I can sort of understand why they were there. Letting “non-essential” personnel like Chloe come home while scientists are sent to Destiny makes sense to me, and seeing what our characters do while on Earth is a reasonable part of telling the story.

I’m not real pleased with the constant hints that Rush is a traitor. If he is, it’s too hamhanded, and if he’s not, I think it’s just an annoying waste. My take on the episode is that he may have deliberately exaggerated the danger to drive Telford and the others home, but if there was a way to dial Earth, I can’t see him just pretending there wasn’t.

Anyway, I was already sticking around at least through the first season, but I’m glad to have some hope of actually enjoying it more than the first few episodes made me think I would.

1. Why not just dial Earth while the ship is recharging? [↩]
2. I’m still not pleased with how the communication stones are being portrayed; I’d let Louis Ferreira play the character on the ship regardless of whether it’s Young or Telford or someone else [↩]