'Stargate Universe' - 'Divided' Recap

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Best line...(forgive me if I mess it up)

Johansen: ...you started a war. This is what we do.

Wray and Rush violated the first rule of staging a coup, "If you strike at a King, you must kill him". They had a perfect opportunity to get rid of Young and Scott, but they didnt have the stomach for it. Its a good thing too, because, while Wray and Rush do have legitamat concerns about the military being in control, they werent worth killing people in cold blood over. The whole mutiny/coup was a huge overreaction on Wrays part and it puts her judgement and integrity in question every bit as much as Youngs is from leaving Rush to die.
All Wray had to do was go to Young and suggest to him in a calm, reasonable manner(admittedly not her strong point) that the civilians would like to be kept in the loop a little bit more about what was going on and propose they elect some kind of advisory councel to give them a voice in the decision making process, except in obvious military tactical situations. That would have been to Youngs advantage as well, because it would help put a stop to a lot of rumours and suspicions and made his job easier. Now she has stirred up a bunch of nonsense and made the situation worse.
I loved it when Johansen basically told Rush and Wray that their shit was weak and clued them in that they had declared war on the professional warriors. And I agree that when it all shakes out, I think Johansen will end up in charge. Everyone seems to trust her because she isnt insane and doesnt have any hidden agendas, like a few other people do. She is decisive when she needs to be and has good command presence, something that I cant say for Scott, who just strikes me as dumb and possibly unbalanced.
Despite all of that, this was the second good, strong episode in a row, so things are looking up for the show.

Only way unite everyone... he keeps command, but they elect a civilian to be at his side..

My benchmark for a show is if I know the names of the characters. I know Rush, Eli, and Young, and now Wray after reading this. Everyone else is just a vaguely familiar face. Good writing makes you care about the characters. If you don't even know their names, I guess the caring is missing. This was the problem with Enterprise, as well. I remembered Doctor Phlox's name every week, but that's about it. Oh, and Porthos.

Whether or not Young has some political right to run things, the fact is he is an idiot who keeps making stupid choices and alienating the people whose skills he needs to make sense of the whole situation. I despise him and would love to see him take a big fall.

God I'm getting SO sick of Young. I wanted him to lose his power SO badly because I do think that right now the military pretty much has a dictatorship going on.

I get that they run into all kinds of new situations all the time and they need leadership and decisions to be made quickly, but for EVERY decision to be made by Young? Yeah, really no.

I really do hope they'll sort out the powerplay at some point and distribute the power a bit more evenly among the crew. It's never good to have only one guy (or just the guys & gals with weapons) in charge, cause you basically running a prison camp that way.

But the episodes were really great and at least I wasn't bored. Stargate Universe is turning out to be completely different from the two previous versions and I'm really liking it.

While Wray is right that a civilized society has the military under the people's rule, it's still true since Young takes his orders from his generals on earth who take their orders from the President. I may not be recalling correctly, but this is still true, right? If anything, Wray should be under suspicion since she's enabling a coup to happen.

This episode of Battlestargate was great..... Sigh no it was semi-decent but it seems they are just trying to jam too many BSG type episodes into one of a Stargate show. New Caprica coming up next week...sigh....
Ohhh we have aliens following us dropping out of hyperspace a little bit after we do ohhh noes....
We have a self serving scientist aboard ohhh great... and we still have Izzy sorry Johansen not sure of her full role beyond being a medtech/doctor on the Seattle Gracetiny.

To me it's like Stargate Universe "Destiny High school"
Young (The Jocks) VS. Rush, Wray(The Nerds)
I love the show but hate it at the same time. Greer goes from cool kickass guy to I'll shot a bitch episode to episode, Chole gets way to much screen time, Eli the only likable person on the whole ship gets crapped on by almost everyone. One of the few reason I watch is at some point I hope Eli tells Chole, Yong, and Rush he's taking over the ship and putting them out an air lock.