Tag: stargate universe

one weird thing that’s evident if u watch sgu 8 times is that Dr Brody is right about everything. other scientists guess around at things, or admit they don’t have any idea about something, or are like Rush and know everything, except they’re cryptic, withholding information and are just horrible to be around. but Brody is never wrong about anything we see on screen. if he says anything at all, he’s on the right track.

he’s never seen bumbling around and admitting he doesn’t know something, or even saying he needs more time for a solution. possibly because he’s a minor character and that’s the job of the more well developed scientist characters.

alternative hypothesis: everyone else is a theoretical physicist and astronomer and he’s the only engineer. it’s entirely in-character that he just knows to shut up until he already has a solution.

alternative alternative hypothesis: it’s a low-level magical power he gets from being the ship’s bartender. all tv bartenders get that nearly omniscient “knowing exactly what to say at the right time” straight-talk ability, and it bleeds into his knowledge base as a scientist.

the fact you can get drunk while bodyswapped through the ancient communication stones raises some philosophical questions.

why are you drunk at all if your consciousness is plugged into another person’s body? if the stones transmit your mind out of your body, then the drunk person should be whoever has the drunk body. you shouldn’t get drunk in their body, they should be getting drunk on the other side of the universe. but no, in the show being in a drunk body is what makes you drunk, and the person on the other end isn’t affected, even if their body is drunk, despite their mind coming from a body which is currently drunk.

it implies that using the stones doesn’t transmit your mind from your body like a signal, but instead there’s a complete disconnect between your body and mind. body and mind are properly swapped, as if there’s a mind, containing your memories and your self, that can exist on its own as separate to the brain.

although, this does make sense in the context of the show. there is, literally, a computer hard drive full of ghosts we find in season 2, as well as, Ascension as a concept. this thing with the stones is just the weirdest example of the existence of a soul or something in this show now that I’ve noticed it.

sgu i love u but your pilot is a painfully slow 3 part episode and it’s followed by a painfully slow 2 parter and all of this is still setting up the basic premise of the show. that’s like, well over 3 hours. in shakey cam. with unnecessary sex scenes. it’s a miracle that anyone watched for long enough for it to get good

stargate universe i love you but you have both diegetic and non-diegetic shakey cam; the kinos (flying camera balls) which actually film what the characters are doing documentary-style, but half the show outside that is also shot doco-style without a reason for it. who made that decision it’s so tiring and so awfully late 2000s why did we ever just accept shakey cam as a given