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10/30/09
i'm waiting to hear that Daniel Day-Lewis will be in it..... #thor
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It's still hyped as fuck, but I'm seeing it. #thor
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...in Norwegian.
(the movie would be in Norwegian, he wouldn't say "action" or "cut" in Norwegian, though the thought of that amuses me and makes me giggle a little). #thor
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Of course, during the long voyage between galaxies, in that dark void where nothing exists, could be a completely different story. One that might be worth seeing, should the series ever get that far. #thor
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Even if it was unmanned, the ancients had plans to inhabit it, and as such would want it habitable at a moments notice..
They just didnt plan for it to be, what.. a 100,000 years later.
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As for the co2 scrubbers being depleted, I heard that it's supposed to imply that someone else were already on board until they got off (probably the c02 problem and the fact that they stop the ship) #thor
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If the ship was designed as an escape route as well, I can see the need to have everything up and running at all times. Also, if the Ancients sent people to the Destiny to begin colonization of the planets the ship had encountered. They could have brought replacement co2 scrubbers etc. with them. I guess it's all moot anyway, we wouldn't have the dramatic 'survival' stories if all the ship's resources were up to capacity. #thor
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As for the CO2 scrubbers and the life support systems being activated... can you imagine gating onto the Destiny before the life support systems had been turned on? The implication is that the Ancients sent the ship out to deep-space probe and send out probes to automatically set up stargates on habitable worlds, with the Ancients themselves making regular trips to and from the Destiny to check up on things. That means keeping the life support on.
The problem is that other things stopped the Ancients from returning to the Destiny. There was Atlantis and the Ascension, so the Ancients abandoned the Destiny, letting it auto-pilot and set up new gates on it's own. So, the Ancients stopped bringing supplies to the Destiny, like their CO2-scrubbing liquid, and let the ship fall into disrepair.
There, I believe that covers all questions for this particular thread. #thor
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But last week's episode just established that the ships don't have FTL drives, so actually whoever did launch that ship is probably dead given that they probably ended up between star systems. #thor
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I guess they'd have to fix the door before they got to him, of course. #thor
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So, the writers have already addressed this. The shuttle that came off the Destiny detached from the hull, and did not undock from the Destiny's shuttle bays.
Implications seem to be that the shuttle belongs to either the Lucian Alliance or something a little less axiomatic... perhaps even a fringe group that has been tailing the Destiny for a LONG time. #thor
10/30/09
Oh and your above comment explaining the Destiny to Golf_nut, I thought the Destiny was the ship that followed the ship that seeded the gates and then tested them and double checked for accuracy. The Destiny itself doesn't seed the gates.
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10/31/09
Yes, you're right. The Destiny is following up. The probes sent out centuries before the Destiny are setting up the Stargates and the Destiny is using them as waypoints.
Totally my mistake. :D #thor
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I'll have to take a look at SyFi.com to get more info on SGU. I really haven't watched any of the other Series. I only saw the movie. #thor
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"That jerk Loki laying smack down on the puny humans." #thor
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This is getting old.
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Hopefully, anyway. #thor
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When BSG started running out of food, it brought up that whole subplot with the prisoners, which was really very interesting. Or when they started to run out of power, they had that subplot about the workers unions, which was also interesting. Meanwhile, when SGU runs out of something, all the characters just sit around suffering until the ship saves them.
I'll keep watching SGU... I mean, I like the show... but man, I'm getting tired of waiting for something more interesting to happen. #thor
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Somehow seeing Charlize Theron walking around in that setting just seems wrong... #thor
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@atrus123: Don't be coy. You know what he did. #thor
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