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The fish men had a very Borg-like feeling to them, mainly in the fact that their more interested in Destiny's technology than the people who are on it. They seem a little more sophisticated than the Kazon
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And they don't have the silly hair. I like how this time around they actually acknowledge that an alien shouldn't be speaking fluent English. That was always something of a rather substantial elephant in the room in previous series.
It's obvious that the aliens were the ones in the pod that detached way back near the beginning (3rd ep?) So it begs the question, if they're so interesting in getting the Destiny and they've already been on board, why wasn't the place swarming with the buggers when they arrived or for that matter, why now that the ship is manned and inclined to fire back, what's so damn valuable it's worth sacrificing half a dozen fighters just to get another prisoner?
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And yet the aliens did respond to nerdy boy's message in English. Also I'm sure the aliens would be interested in the knowledge stored in the info-chair(pardon my lack of knowledge about Stargate terminology).
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Rev, refresh my memory on what happened with that pod you mentioned? I don't remember that part at all.
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Not a lot happened really, just right near the credits, a pod (pretty sure it was one of those fighters) detached from Destiny's left wing while it was in FTL and flew out of frame.
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Oh, I remember that. I think that was just for effect, nothing mysterious about it. Remember that the ship only has two shuttles, and one of them is damaged and still has Chloe's dad's frozen corpse sitting in the pilot's seat.
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No, I'm about 99% sure it was an alien fighter. Totally different shape to the ancient shuttles and had the same little red lights. Plus it actually flew out of frame like it was being piloted, it didn't just drop into the Destiny's wake like a chunk of inert wreckage would.
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I thought they said there weren't going to be humanoid aliens on this show. Yet here we are with humanoid aliens. I knew it couldn't be long before they'd switch back to KILL THE BAD GUYS WITH COOL LAZERZZZZ. Oh well. I wonder if they'll explain what the crap happened with the stones.
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Woke up this morning and geekishly checked the stargate wiki for the ep details; apparently, there was a scene in Rush's reading of the alien's mind where he sees one handling a communications stone, so I guess they did explain how that hiccup occurred. What I still don't understand is...what, anytime anyone in the universe handles a stone, the next person to use a stone anywhere else in the universe drops into their body? So there must only be like half a dozen stones floating around, or a handful of people who know about them/use them, or otherwise every time any Tau'ri used one they'd end up in the body of a starfish in Orion's belt or something.
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Ooh, I think I know what happened with the stones... Maybe the alien that Young swapped with was the one in the fighter at the end of the pilot. That means he could have had the opportunity to handle a stone if he was sneaking around on the Destiny.
Also, in fairness I don't think we can call he aliens exactly "humanoid." in the context of the show, I think humanoid means played by human actors. These aliens are sufficiently different, IMO.
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To me humanoid means "Has a head, torso, two arms, two legs, walks bipedally, and breathes oxygen." So they qualify in my book completely.
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^To me too, however TV executives should be forgiven for not appreciating the distinction. I suppose it's ironic since the Goa'uld weren't humanoid at all, but they were all played by humans.
To be fair, if Young had swapped bodies with an amorphous blob, a radially symmetrical multiped or an insectoid hexaped he'd have no hope of figuring out how to walk, let alone pick up stuff or communicate. He'd probably just fall over and have a heart(s) attack and/or squirt ink everywhere. As it was I got the impression nether he nor "it" could operate the other's vocal cords. So there's in the context of this story, it's justifiable for them to be "human shaped".
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