Well, it looks like they're going to keep to their whole 'less adventure, more characters' plan. With this episode, I'm especially worried that they're pushing too much too fast, and it's overwhelming. This episode was a break of pace from the 'oh god oh god we're all gonna die', but last week's was so much better than this one. Last week I could watch and it would hold my interest; I got to know the characters better, and see a fun and interesting plot at the same time. It was an adventure, and I thought it was one of the best episodes (if not the best), we've had this season.

This week, it wasn't so fun. I like character development, but this episode was 100% of that, and at times I wish I had a fast forward button. They tried to cram a seasons worth of development into a single episode for some characters. It was just... boring. There's no more adventure, just who is with who and who had an affair with who and who hates who.

One good thing I saw in this episode was that the comm stones might be having troubles. Scott getting Telford's memories is not a good sign, and I'm hoping it'll make them stop using the stones as much. At the beginning of the season, using the stones was neat and interesting. Now, it's just repetitive and detracts from what the show is really about: Destiny. It really is a Voyager remake in the Stargate universe, but really, they could be out at Alpha Centauri for all we care. The stones pretty much solve any distance or isolation issues.

I like this show, I really do. I was liking it a lot after last episode, but this one was just disappointing. Young hitting Telford was the highlight of the episode, and it wasn't even that good. The whole Telford/Young's Wife thing happened far too quickly, and should have been spread out over a few episodes. Scott having an eight year old kid? Also came out of freaking nowhere. They can't expect viewers to watch every episode, and if they push so much so fast, if you miss one you could be completely confused about what characters are like next week. At this rate, they're pushing it.

Not to mention some oddities like Rush forging data... Rush is a very smart man, if he was going to forge that kind of data he wouldn't have left any clues behind, especially if there's a years worth of time ahead of them. And if they wanted to use that for development, let the crew actually believe Rush for a few episodes! That way, the viewers also are led to believe that Destiny will be saved. The second Rush announced it, I sat there and want 'the hell its real'.

There's still another 12 episodes though, which is something. The Next Generation took a season to pick up, maybe SGU will have the same lag. If the episodes keep being like this, then I'll probably stop watching soon.

I want some adventure, you know.

However, I read in the wikipedia page for SGU the synopses for the next episodes and it seems that slowly it will start picking up. For example in next few episodes it will be revealed that a spy is on board and in the last couple of episodes for the season, members of the Lucian Alliance will get on board! This definitely means more action