Stargate Universe: Light

As this episode of SGU ended my wife turned to me and said, "I kind of like this show". I responded, "At the very least it does give me my weekly dose of Scifi".  That's pretty much a review for this entire series thus far.  The plots are serviceable, the characters range from mediocre to likable but still four episodes in I am finding myself emotionally un-invested.  

Since they introduced the plot thread of Destiny out of power it seemed inevitable that the ship would be quite literally solar powered.  The fact, that they were on a collision course with a star confirmed it for me.  Especially since the ship is the only character in the series doing anything of any consequence (at least the only character who isn't already dead).

Destiny gave the humans an opportunity to save themselves with the air situation last episode but obviously was not overly concerned whether the puny humans survived the experience as it only gave them 12 hours to accomplish the task.  The ship chose the stargates to call and ignored the others.  The ship solved the power situation while the humans almost got 17 of their band killed needlessly.

This brings us to the one character that is off the "mediocre to likable" scale and falls into the category of "interesting".  Dr. Rush knew Destiny would survive her encounter with the star.  I know this because I knew that was the most likely way the ship would power up and if I knew Dr. Rush knew.  I must say I was impressed Colonel Young was able to identify the fact that Rush knew so quickly (that makes Young a bit more interesting).

I know this sounds cruel, but I really was hoping that the writer would have killed off all 17 characters on the shuttle.  The SGU crew has not dealt with significant loss relative to the danger they are in.  Losing 17 souls would have considerably raised the stakes in the series, especially considering some of the characters on the shuttle have had a decent amount of screen time.