SGU: still watching, but perhaps not for long

[beatrice_otter]

So, I spent a lot of time channel surfing during this week's SGU ep.  The horrible desert scenes--gaah.  At least the military guys are supposed to have desert survival training, even if everyone else is clueless, right?  So they should know that it's better to drink whenever you feel thirsty (even if it means you run out of water sooner) than to conserve water, right?  Because trying to ration it only weakens you quicker.  And splitting up such that some people are on their own in the middle of the desert is a bad thing.  No, really, it is.  As for the emo hallucination scenes--frankly, I don't care about any of these characters enough for their emo-ness to be interesting.  As for the confrontation between the main scientist dude and the black soldier (I can't remember anybody's names yet), I think they were trying to point out the scientist dude's racist assumption about African-American men, which would be cool that they were paying attention to such things.  But I'm pretty sure they didn't actually succeed in showing that his racist assumption was unjustified, which kinda loses them all the points they almost made by reiforcing the point they're trying to argue against.  Still.  I appreciate that they tried.  And it was nice that the medic chick actually grew some balls.  I have absolutely no frickin' clue why the scientist dude is in charge of things; he has no leadership abilities that we've seen, and everybody but the Last Starfighter-geek actively hates and distrusts him.  Even if he were the smartest and most qualified guy on board, that doesn't mean he's suited to command, and even if he were suited to command the group will spend more time intriguing against him than actually getting things done.  Defeatist as the senior military guy is, he'd probably be much better at actually getting people to work together constructively, and we have no clue if one of the civilian types might have leadership potential.

Comments

[From: squirelawrence]

Not to mention that our baby Marine second in command is wandering around the desert in full black fatigues. Which I would reluctantly have accepted as maybe that's the only uniform he brought, except that everyone else in the party is dressed in desert camo.

It was sort of cool to see the medic go "Hey, I'm massively unqualified for the post but I'm the Chief Medical Officer now - I don't HAVE to take shit from my patients."

[From: beatrice_otter]

Amen!