Stargate Universe (TV Series) The Greater Good (2010) User Reviews

Visually spectacular; storywise going into the wrong direction

[ok-notifications-517-439932 · 8/10 · 30 December 2021]

This episode looks amazing. Destiny meets an alien vessel and they try to salvage parts from it. After the alien vessel fires up its engines the away team has to jump back through open space and we get to see some amazing visuals of both ships.

Besides this major storyline this episode sets some things up: The bridge is discovered as well that Rush having had the Master Code for several weeks. We learn the task the Destiny was built for. Rush and Young find a common ground. Ely gets to know Ginn better, so his friendzone days with Chloe are finally over. Also Amanda Perry is back and helping with the propulsion system, which is always a pleasant thing. This episode feels interesting and wholesome.

Near the end of this episode everything seems to be set up great and cozy for upcoming episodes: We now know why Destiny is out there. Will we pursue the mission? With Amanda, Alien-Chloe, Lucian-Ginn, Eli and Rush we now have a decent science team to learn everything about the Destiny and its mission. Also, with Ginn and Amanda, the tone of the series is less dark and harsh. Rush is rather cute with Amanda and the same can be said for Eli and Ginn. Which leaves only Simeon as the one dimensional bad guy.

This might have been a good path for SG:U. But they chose differently: Simeon kills Ginn, Amanda and several military guys, then leaves to a wasteland planet (what for? To die?). Eli and Rush want revenge. Earth now knows, that the part of the Lucian Alliance Simeon and Ginn belonged to will attack earth, but more information is not available, because everyone is dead. Sigh.

They even thought, that bringing back all the useless people from that paradise planet would be a good idea.

S2E7

[syntory · 7/10 · 19 February 2024]

SGU is back in full swing with episode 7 of season 2. Good episode. The series gets back to the main story of destiny and its true purpose. I don't understand why more of this story wasnt told in this series.

A few petty observations: Why does Simeon only target Ginn? Varro said previously that he was also cooperating with Earth and was being very friendly to TJ. There were others from the lucian alliance helping earth too. Simeon killing Ginn made no sense. It was also inconsistent how they let Simeon continue to walk around given all the trouble he kept causing after he was released from detention. How did he get away from his escort?

I also think the excuse Rush gave for not telling anyone about the master code doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Young not being fit to lead is the reason you let Riley die? And it was all for nothing.

Poorly utilized characters

[jasonemartin-75927 · 4/10 · 11 May 2023]

It was a real shame the writers killed off the Lucian Alliance woman who was in a relationship with Eli in this episode. She was a fairly interesting character, and it seemed like a waste for her to die at this time just to set up a circumstance where Rush would go chasing after the Lucian Alliance character who killed her. I guess the whole point was to set up the next episode, but I also get the sense that there were other ways they could have done it that would have kept this very interesting female character alive to be enjoyed a bit by the viewers. I mean, they only just introduced her a few episodes previously, and already the writers had her die in this episode.