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It's on thie Friday, but promises to have a hell of a lot of bang for your hour following the setup mediocrity of "Crusade" (which was dull enough that I haven't written a review for it yet). I don't get Skiffy, so seeing these preview pics really raised some hairs:
-The new Daedalus-class (BC304) carriers USS Odyssey and Korolev, blasting away. And one may not survive...
-Lots of Ha'tak class motherships, which will undoubtedly end up as cannon fodder;
-The fancy new Orii warships in action! Jeebus, it rocks to have such an original design in SF again! They remind me a lot of the various ships and models from the 1980s "Dune" movie. They are also apparently inspired by the whatsit that the Doci guy was wearing in "Origin". And, kickass use of stargate-like rings as a power source.
-And last but not least, an O'Neil-class Asgard ship. Been a while since we've seen 'em, and it looks like the Asgard are getting into the action too.
-Naturally, the battle seems to be happening in open space...
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"On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place." I had no idea that my little joke would be so spot-on. Not only did Arthur and Merlin go to Camelot, but Arthur also went out to search for the Holy Grail! I'm getting a flashback to two seasons ago, and the search for The Lost City�. Certainly should prove interesting, if slightly repetitive...
Concerning the destroyed ship, my guess is that the Korolev was destroyed � that's the one that Mitchell was on, and he was talking about scrambling the F-302's a few minutes before. So naturally, he managed to launch just in time, and poor Colonel Chekov just bought the farm. (That is, unless, the Asgard ship pulled a deus ex machina and beamed off whichever main characters were left on whichever ship was destroyed.)
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I sure hope the episode is fifty minutes of wandering around a muddy ren faire and ten minutes of something interesting.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: That'd still leave Daniel unaccounted-for.
Oh right, I forgot that both Daniel and Mitchell were on the Korolev. Okay, so that means that the Odyssey was the one that got destroyed, since no one important was on the ship.
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I'm sure they won't do this, but I suddenly got this picture in my head. The four Ori ships are through, and the ubergate deactivates. They've destroyed most of the allied fleet. They survey the carnage, and prepare to go assimilate-- I mean, convert the galaxy. But then, Sam dials the gate and the kawoosh vaporizes them all.
It'd just be fun to see.
I think we know why bizarro-Sam seemed slightly traumatized by their failures against the Ori...
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Well, I noticed that the SuperGate was continuing to stay open for many minutes after the Ori ships came through. My suspicion is that, based on Sam's comment about dialing out first, the SuperGate will be able to remain open indefinitely. It is, after all, powered by a black hole (on our end, and probably on theirs, too).
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Ok, so what was Vala doing on the Ori ships all urped? I have missed the last couple of episodes.
It still seems kinda cheap how the "good guy ships" get blown apart with NO consequences to the Ori ships. Of course, if they capture one of them, then they have the means to defeat the Wraith ships that are heading to Earth from Atlantis.
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Vala convinced her Ori-follower husband to take her with him.
I think it would be amusing if the Wraith arrived in the Milky Way, only to prove a nuisance to the Ori which promptly wipe them out. Then, of course, the Ori would start sending Priors to Pegasus...
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It's going to get to a point where we're going to have to spell out the history of the ancients in a single timeline. They did so much, over so long a span, that it doesn't all fall together easily. There were obviously multiple factions or groups of them, some ascended, some didn't, all at different times. My understanding was that the Ancients were preventing the Ori from knowing about the humans in our galaxy. Does the same apply to Pegasus? Just how far are the Ori spread? Just how far did the Ancients explore and spread, for that matter? Why were the Asgard active in our galaxy particularly, and not Pegasus? Spatial proximity? There are a lot of unanswered questions.
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-People are going to be arguing which of the two Daedalus-class ships were destroyed for months. It's already been revealed, but it's a season-premiere spoiler, so I won't reveal it here.
-Despite being an identical ship, Korolev orients its aft display like Prometheus did, and not like Daedalus or Odyssey do. Those wacky Russians, we give them the keys to a brand new starship and they start right off changing things around for no reason... They also changed the lightbulbs too!
-The O'Neil-class ship is seriously out of scale - it seems around the size of the Odyssey, but in fact should be much, much larger.
-While the making of the Alliance to fight the Ori should have taken much longer than spending most of the episode slogging through a medieval town, it DOES reveal who the major players are left in the galaxy. Earth, the Jaffa Nation, and the Lucian Alliance are obvious significant powers. Baal is the sole remaining System Lord of any consequence, and the Asgard are only peripherally involved though they understand the Ori threat. Who else is there? No one major, except for a few races here and there with really advanced technology. No real empires or multi-planetary governments left, eh? Well, things have been chaotic over the past two or three years (specifically with the Replicator invasion, which could conveniently wipe out any high-tech civilizations we haven't heard from in a while), so any other potential powers probably aren't that great.
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