Stargate Universe (TV Series) Incursion: Part 2 (2010) User Reviews

S1E20

[syntory · 7/10 · 18 February 2024]

Another good filler episode. I think the lucian alliance story could've been left out of SGU. Good for a spinoff. There were already plenty of crew members who could've been featured instead. It's a good story but it I don't think it fits into the Destiny plot. All of this branching off of the main story only succeeds in dragging down the show since the show's premise is about a ship traveling through galaxies which the crew had no control over. I liked the pulsar aspect. Nice touch.

The part when Eli opens the door to a unpressurized compartment, arent the unpressurized sections of the ship supposed to show up red on the door buttons, in which case the doors don't open?

Cliffhanger....or mental incursion?

[Nostromo21 · 5/10 · 12 June 2010]

I thought the ep was quite good for the 2nd in a 2 part...right up until the very end. Do so many series really have to so blatantly & artificially force/create a 'cliffhanger' at the end of every season ffs? 2 points taken off for that. Look at True Blood for a great example of how to wind up a (2nd) season & yet still leave the viewer aching for more.

Other than that...

The good: the time Eli & Chloe spend together, more Rhona in leather chaps & some of the tension/racing against time.

The bad: the aforementioned ending, minor plot holes & ongoing lack of comic relief, what made SG1 & Atlantis so great imo.

The show needs to drop its attempts to copy the 'realism' of BSG & find its own way/niche into the 2nd season. I, for one, have had enough sci-fi despair, darkness & hopelessness without any comic relief after BSG to last me a decade.

Episode was founded on implausibly bad decisions.

[jasonemartin-75927 · 1/10 · 11 May 2023]

The whole episode was contrived as a result of Col. Young's implausibly bad decision not to vent the atmosphere of the gate room in the previous episode, making it possible for the Lucian Alliance to board the ship. They had to have him make such a bad decision in order to create the circumstances for this mess of a show to exist. I'm sorry, but when the actions of the characters which are needed to create all this drama don't make sense, it creates a poor foundation for future episodes to be based upon. And this episode was based on that shoddy foundation. And what's the deal with Camille accepting it when the Lucian Alliance handed them 3 live prisoners and one corpse they had already shot and killed instead of the 4 live prisoners as per the agreement in the episode? They should have turned down the exchange immediately upon seeing the Lucian Alliance wasn't even holding up their end of the bargain. Again, nonsense actions by the characters make for a bad episode.