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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Overall an excellent episode, reinforcing that even with the swap stones, they are still very isolated and can't really connect with loved ones except by proxy. Notes: - Young and Johanssen made whoopee in the past, which explains why everyone was wondering why she was still around two weeks after she was supposed to go home. Young told his wife, which explains their strife (even though he still went back to work in a place where he can't come home in the evening to work things out). - Young and Wray swap with Hamilton and Baldwin twice in this episode; we don't know what they get up to when they're on Destiny. I'd hope that they would try to make the most of each swap, and get engineers, scientists, computer experts and the like aboard when they can. OTOH, we still don't know how long they've been on the ship, so they may not have worked out a working system for the swaps yet. As we soon find out, there seem to be no regulations for what you can do with the body you swap into! - The Pentagon hosts "Homeworld Command", which is a verbal cue to the SGC. No mention has been made of Cheyenne mountain, so we can assume that Landry is still tooling away down there - unless Atlantis is still somewhere on Earth, at which point their gate system would override the older Milky Way gates. The set itself is an apparent reubuild of the SGC briefing room set, down to O'Neill's office being set off to the side. - Oddly enough, an airman scans everyone's ID tag barcode when they enter the briefing room. I have no idea if they do this in the real military, but I thought it an interesting touch. - I love how the set designers continually try to convince us that this is a military installation by hanging pictures of planes on the wall. :p - O'Neill continues to be the only guy wearing a custom black BDU in the style of what they wear at the SGC, not even the tighter black version on the Icarus base. Even the extras are wearing I guess if you're a 3-star, you pick what you wear, eh? - Camille spends weeks aboard a ship eating BEIGE PASTE, and then refuses her boss's offer of a hot dog. Say what you will of hot dogs, it's GOTTA be better than beige paste! - Camille's boss (Carlo Rota, currently also starring in "Little Mosque on the Prairie") wants to see the plan work. The IOA is always up to their tricks - here, they want everyone home if only to use the data from the attempt to enable a Daedalus-class ship to replicate the trick, thus enabling the original team to gate to the Destiny. Why the original team? Who knows, but it's certain that the IOA has some say in it. - Eli suggests that the Destiny would be able to run around for several months before needing to go tar diving again. I wonder what that number would have been if she were at full capacity... - There's no mention of why Eli and Chloe are going on this trip - was it their turn? We know there's a schedule. It's Eli's first time and Chloe's second. Has everyone else had a chance? And if it was obstensibly just to get Telford and he good looking goons on the ship, who told them to send Young and "two others"? - Young was O'Neill's first choice to lead the expedition. Young turned it down, so he got command of Icarus and Telford anted up for the star role, who imediately wanted Rush off the team. Also, Young has been part of HWC or the SGC long enough to be looking up to O'Neill for "most of his career". I can see him as an SG team member or leader... - Doctor Hottie immediately requests a change out of Eli's loose manchild outfit. He eventually ends up in a brown jacket - can anyone identify it? I'm sure it was some alien uniform from Atlantis or a later SG-1 episode, but I can't find a reference. Don't think it's an Ancient uniform... - Eli called himself Philip Fry. Yay, another in-joke from the stereotypical sci-fi nerd! - Wray hesitates on a hot dog, but Eli heads straight for the chocolate chip cookies, schnitzel and coke. Eli admits he's been losing weight since going on the BEIGE PASTE diet. - COKE? I think this is the most intentional product placement in the franchise since the ubiquitous "The North Face" jackets anyone wore when it was cold. That, and Lulu Lemon. - Likewise, this is the first time they've propped a real-life, current singer in this way, in this case grammy-nominee Janelle MonĂ¡e. Can't say I'm a fan. :p - They still only have the two functioning suits to do repair work in the unpressurized parts of the ship. Goes to show that they can only do so much with what they have. - So, transitioning between FTL and normal space interferes temporarily with the swap box mechanics; likewise, we see that the physical effects to the host body (i.e. alcohol) transfer to the psyche of the person inhabiting it. No one has said it explicitly yet, so there. :) But to put my two cents in, I'm thinking Telford feels as violated as Young feels guilty using his body to screw his wife. I know Telford's up to something by the end of the episode, but the noble part of me wants to believe that he just wants to tell her that he was there mid-coitus. - Destiny finally gets to bare her fangs, unleashing her destructive power against the evil threat of EMPTY SPACE. We've never gotten very close looks at the hull from the outside, but here we find that many of the smaller bumps on the external hull are twin-barreled energy cannons of some kins. Note that these are NOT the larger turrets we've seen before, which do not fire. So these are the shorter-range defensive batteries, and we're saving the big guns for later? Or perhaps the big ones are projectile/missile launchers? - We have a definitive location for the gate room, and contrary to what I was thinking last week, it IS the large box structure on the spine of the ship. However, to get to the shuttle dock or obs lounge you have to go DOWN from there as they are in a different superstructure and there's no apparent way to get there directly from that deck. - Rush managed to convince at least a couple of the science nerds to participate in his conspiracy, suggesting he has SOME leadership qualities even though it's purely self-serving. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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