Episode Discussion Common Descent

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#1 shockwave04
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StarGate Universe Episode Discussion 'Common Descent"

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#2 shockwave04
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I really enjoyed it. It was a nice twist on the whole time travle thing. It would have been cool to see the city in working form I wonder how much they could have helped.
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#3 mjk1
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Its a ..to be continued, right? because it didn't say it at the end.
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#4 Kurushio
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Ive kinda wondered why they have never ran into any other human like lifeforms and that was a big move to have them be from the future. Im getting worried on how it's going to end though.because it didn't say it at the end.

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#5 shockwave04
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I wonder whar they are going to find in the dead city.And I alose wonder if they will find some surviors, maybe from the Rush country (forgot its name)
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#6 Kurushio
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Russia? lol. I think it was Futura or something. Doesnt seem like any survivors will be around but if they were so advanced why didnt they have a few of their own ships and how hard would it be to find another planet if they had stargates?
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#7 shockwave04
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yeah they people that they found did say that they were ther for 30 years, so you would think they would have seny other to different planets.
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#8 theone86
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SyFy and MGM are now officially on my list for cancelling this show just as it started to get real ****ing good. Only one slight problem, and that's the gate getting destroyed from one drone blast. Gates have stood up to untold kinds of forces, hell one gate survived black hole forces that ripped a planet apart, and that gate gets a chunk taken out by one blast.
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yeah they people that they found did say that they were ther for 30 years, so you would think they would have seny other to different planets.shockwave04
I think they said something about not being able to dial other addresses that they knew. So do we suppose it is going to turn out that Futura created the drones in the first place? What would have been a huge mind**** would be if the Destiny survivors had gone way way way back in time and become the Alterans :P I do agree with theone on the drone destroying the gate; also, even if it could have, the gate should have blown up pretty violently with the amount of energy used for an active wormhole, at least based on what we've been told before.
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#10 shockwave04
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Only one slight problem, and that's the gate getting destroyed from one drone blast. Gates have stood up to untold kinds of forces, hell one gate survived black hole forces that ripped a planet apart, and that gate gets a chunk taken out by one blast.theone86

It could be possible that the gates in SGU are even older than the ones in Atlantis, so not as advanced.

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#11 Kurushio
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I never could understand how those drones could be so small yet so powerful. It only takes a few to cause alot of problems for destiny and it's a huge ship so the power of the drone must be quite extrodinary. I would have prefered it have just fused the gate so it couldnt dial or something rather than blow a chunk but like shock said these gates are different and could be using some other type of mineral or metal.
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#12 shockwave04
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Their size is probably why they are so powerful. Smaller = harded to shoot down. You know likr the saying "Death my a thousand pin pricks"... I think thats it anyway
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So I've now convinced myself that this episode was a setup for what would have been the series finale where the crew travels back and becomes the Ancients. The conflict between the Tenarans (I think that was it?) and the Futurans seems a lot like the Alteran/Ori split and it would explain why the Ancients have so many physical and genetic similarities to modern humans. It would also fit nicely with the name of "the Destiny", if they knew that the ship had to be launched in order for them to exist. Since it seems like we'll never know, I'm just going to assume that I'm right :P
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#15 shockwave04
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@ xaos

Mind=Blown

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So I've now convinced myself that this episode was a setup for what would have been the series finale where the crew travels back and becomes the Ancients. The conflict between the Tenarans (I think that was it?) and the Futurans seems a lot like the Alteran/Ori split and it would explain why the Ancients have so many physical and genetic similarities to modern humans. It would also fit nicely with the name of "the Destiny", if they knew that the ship had to be launched in order for them to exist. Since it seems like we'll never know, I'm just going to assume that I'm right :Pxaos

No offense, but I would hate that. Also wouldn't they then have knowledge of the Goua'uld, Replicators, Wraith, and everyone else and be able to defeat them all in advance?

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[QUOTE="xaos"]So I've now convinced myself that this episode was a setup for what would have been the series finale where the crew travels back and becomes the Ancients. The conflict between the Tenarans (I think that was it?) and the Futurans seems a lot like the Alteran/Ori split and it would explain why the Ancients have so many physical and genetic similarities to modern humans. It would also fit nicely with the name of "the Destiny", if they knew that the ship had to be launched in order for them to exist. Since it seems like we'll never know, I'm just going to assume that I'm right :Ptheone86

No offense, but I would hate that. Also wouldn't they then have knowledge of the Goua'uld, Replicators, Wraith, and everyone else and be able to defeat them all in advance?

Not any more than the version of SG-1 that chased Ra and the Goa'uld off of Earth kept the Replicators and Wraith from being a problem, talking about fulfilling history, not changing it. And I didn't say it was a necessarily good idea, just seemed like something that they might have been setting up, considering the amount of attention that has gone into this whole thing with the other Destiny crew
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#18 theone86
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[QUOTE="theone86"]

[QUOTE="xaos"]So I've now convinced myself that this episode was a setup for what would have been the series finale where the crew travels back and becomes the Ancients. The conflict between the Tenarans (I think that was it?) and the Futurans seems a lot like the Alteran/Ori split and it would explain why the Ancients have so many physical and genetic similarities to modern humans. It would also fit nicely with the name of "the Destiny", if they knew that the ship had to be launched in order for them to exist. Since it seems like we'll never know, I'm just going to assume that I'm right :Pxaos

No offense, but I would hate that. Also wouldn't they then have knowledge of the Goua'uld, Replicators, Wraith, and everyone else and be able to defeat them all in advance?

Not any more than the version of SG-1 that chased Ra and the Goa'uld off of Earth kept the Replicators and Wraith from being a problem, talking about fulfilling history, not changing it. And I didn't say it was a necessarily good idea, just seemed like something that they might have been setting up, considering the amount of attention that has gone into this whole thing with the other Destiny crew

That is true, but it still seems like they could prevent a lot of that stuff with the technological level of the Ancients. I mean, if the Ancients are really humans then what harm is changing history so that the Ancients never vanish in the first place and thus never have to go back to the level of humanity? That, and it would also make the whole SGU thing seems like an endless cycle of them becoming ancients, dying off, spawning humans, and eventually coming back into existence as their past selves and starting the whole thing over again, makes my head hurt.

As for if it will happen, didn't they finish filming before the series got cancelled?

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#19 Kurushio
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If it turned out that the old destiny crew (the one that rush got lucky enough to escape before dying) were the Ancients, why would they change their language and writing?