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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I liked it. A good change up to the ol' formula, with a much cleaner slate to start with than Altantis had. My (mostly tech-related) notes: - The Destiny, so far, has a great "steampunk" look to it that makes it look old and dirty without really BEING old and dirty. The look is unlike Atlantis, but seeing as the construction of the two are separated by at LEAST several hundred thousand years there's plenty of time for the Ancient design ethic to change. - Despite being a basically symmetrical design, the Destiny has various greeblies which are not so. Most interesting is the placement of the two shuttles on the port and centerline, with a dome of some sort on the starboard area where you'd think the shuttle should be. - We don't know what that dome was other than that it looks like a large empty space with a hole in the actual dome. They're not getting in there anytime soon; in fact I think that they won't find the bridge, engineering, sickbay or any other "typical" starship sets you'd see on other shows for a while. This is good because it potentially allows the show to "discover" new sets on occasion if/when they find the resources to do repairs, keeping things fresh-ish on the design side. - On that note, they seem to have put some forethought into WHERE certain sets are on the ship as there's an external visual reference. We see the dome, the damaged shuttle, and the forward observation lounge all in the same area... We don't know where the quarters, control room (or whatever it's called where Wallace and Rush spend most of the time tapping buttons), or Kino room (which looks to be an away team prep room) are. They're certainly all clustered in the same area of the ship we've seen so far, which is centered on their gate room, itself probably somewhere in the central raised "spine" of the ship. - We do see weapons turrets of some sort... I doubt that we'd see them in use anytime soon, either. However, it does mark a change from Atlantis which seemed to rely on drone weapons exclusively. - The most distinguishing single feature of the exterior is probably the pyramid-shaped block off the central back. It's got lots of windows, so I'm guessing crew quarters or the bridge or something, but IMO they're not up there yet. - The Destiny shuttles look identical from the outside. The interior set shows that they have a crew of five plus seating for twelve passengers. - How big is the Destiny? Not as big as Atlantis for sure, though it's larger overall than a Daedalus-class ship. Almost anticlimactic, really - I was hoping for it to be almost as large as Atlantis, but certainly larger than any other ship we've seen before. From the looks of it, it would still be smaller than most Goa'uld ships. - Oh, speaking of Daedaluses and Ha'takses: it certainly was convenient that the shiny new USS George Hammond (Colonel Samantha Carter, CO) had no Asgard beam weapons to cut the Lucian Alliance fleet to shreds. I've seen discussion already that "Air" happens mere weeks after the Atlantis finale... If that's true, then the rest of the Earth fleet isn't in that great shape following the Wraith superhive ship attack. Following the SGC track record, I guess it makes sense for the new Hammond to be sent out on a milk run to a secret base relatively close to home without all her systems operational (Odyssey and Korolev were launched before they were ready as well). - They re-established contact with Earth a lot quicker than I thought they would - spoilers suggested they'd find an Ancient communications device on board early on, but it turns out they brought a homemade version WITH them in the first place. They didn't explicitly SAY so, but I'm guessing that when the Hammond detected the stargate functional but that they didn't gate to Earth, they dropped Dr. Lee in a chair next to their active other end and told him to wait for someone to pick up the phone. Shorter notes: - Hey! Walter's been re-assed to the Pentagon? - On Icarus base (which is a re-dress of the old SGC sets), everyone had the Atlantis-style earwigs, which obviously don't work on the Destiny. - Ona Grauer plays Col. Young's wife. She's best known as the frozen-Ancient-hot-chick that SG-1 found in Antactica a while back. - Carter reports twelve confirmed dead with 80+ unaccounted for - this presumably makes up the initial crew of the Destiny. - If the Destiny was sent out unmanned, why are her CO2 scrubbers full of black caviar crap? - They say the ship looks like it's been through a battle. Hm, perhaps the ship has had a crew before at some point? The Ancients DO make stuff to last... - Pet theory of the week: Rush lost his wife and wants to ascend as a way out of his life. More in head... Need to watch it again, which I think will be pretty enjoyable to do. Looking forward to the third part! Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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