Merrick here...
...with two shots from "Aftermath", tonight's second episode of STARGATE UNIVERSE
's second season.
As I've repeatedly indicated, I've really been loving this show - but found last week's season premiere a bit unnerving. It didn't feel right. As emotional as its story was, the installment felt heartless and clinical and hurried. It wasn't involving, the stylistic tricks the show had deployed so successfully to date didn't pass muster. It was tepid.
Tonight's episode is quite a bit better - still not as out-of-the-park awesome as many of last season's entries, but much more in keeping with the vibe and solidity fans of the series have come to expect. Here are the pics...a few more (spoilery) thoughts follow below...
These are EMBIGGENABLE!!!
photo: Carole Segal
photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
MINOR, NOT-TERRIBLY THUNDER STEALING SPOILER IN DESCRIPTION FOR TONIGHT'S SGU!
We learn that Rush is actually in far greater control of Destiny than we were previously led to believe. This includes his having already accessed the ship's main bridge. I say "we" lean this because...then rest of the folks on Destiny are not aware of it.
The Bridge. You can get a decent sense of what it looks like HERE. However, I'm concerned that introducing a "bridge" into the series threatens one of the show's most agreeable and distinctive characteristics - having uncertain/decentralized/make-shift control of this mammoth vessel was a highly inventive, unique element of the show which differentiated SGU from other spaceship fare. Why blow that?
Hopefully The Powers That Be over at SGU will have some twists and turns up their sleeves in this regard, because these characters being in greater control over what's happening to them...threatens to turn something compelling and unpredictable into the mundane. We'll see...
HERE's SGU producer Robert Cooper talking about "Aftermath".
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photo: Carole Segal
