Stargate Universe S01E17 Pain HDTV XviD-FQM

episode 1x08, named "time".
and it goes something like this:

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the crew found a kino on an alien planet, containing a video showing the crew dying in a near future.
and of course they had to investigate, and ... did manage to die like the movie shows
(how is this not a cool memorable stargate story btw?)

some alien creature infected them i think, and they manage to die several time before they managed
to send a kino to them self, warning them of going to the planet in the first place.

the only bad thing about the episode, was the "cliff-hanger" like ending, with no continue.
the next episode moved on like it never happened.

sounds like a typical stargate sg-1 ep to me

the "cliff hangar" ending wasn't the "only" bad thing about episode 01x08 ... the logic of the writers
is/was "flawed" ... the idea suggests the co-existance of an identical self traveling through time and
living out your life ahead of your own self .... this misguided concept only exists in the minds of those
who "wallow" in crass fiction.

sure, sg.u is "science fiction" ... i accept and understand that... however up until that 01x08 episode
most of the scripts were fairly plausable, on a [stargate] sci-fi level.
the 01x08 episode proved to me {if not to others} the limited imaginations of the writers / directors /
producers ... and in-so-doing undermined my will to continue. it was only on the advice of a fellow sg
fan [whom incidentaly missed 01x08] that i started watching it again .. and even then i had to
play "catch up" for a while as 3 episodes had passed me by.

01x08 and 01x17 are 2 episodes that i will be avoiding in future [i like to watch the decent ones, one
after the other, on a sci-fi night with my friends], as both caused me "pain".

i doubt that 01x18 will explain why 01x17 exists ... much like 01x09 didn't explain why 01x08 exists
[though i hope it will]... .

i also expect the writers / producers / directors have some pre-designed sophist explanation for them,
but as yet, i personally "can't be bothered" to contact them and ask ... it would be a bit like asking
government why they maintain the belief that "anyone" who comes forward claiming to "be" christ is
insane .... whilst also maintaing the claim that they themselves "are" christian.
the answer is simple : in thier world "they" are "god" ... and can therefore [according to them] do
anything that they like.

there will be more 01x08 + 01x17 style episodes to come .... and like them [for me, if not for you]
they will end up in my "recycle bin". [shame i can't do the same with anti-christian, false-god
worshiping governments].

se la vie.

lol, what are you talking about za-ha-doon, they used one of the most widely used concepts of time
travel. ...the same one they have used in sg1 and atlantis. not to mention the star trek series and
who knows how many other shows/movies involving time travel. there is no "co-existance" of a future
self, you have only the past, present and a possible, non-existent future. it is the most basic method of
time alteration, you in the present, send information, like a note, video, etc... into the past to alter what
is currently your present. once the past is changed, your present is now gone, you cease to exist. the
past used the information from the possible, now non-existent future, the future that would have
happened if time was unaltered, to try and change whatever bad thing happened in the alternate, non-
existent future.

in the case of episode 1x08, information and a person traveled into the past. so that information and
person were outside of the future timeline, hence they didn't cease to exist when the alternate future
ceased to exist. that is the more common concept vs the (rather silly) concept used in the "back to the
future" movies for example, where you are tied to your future so if you alter your past, you and your
future cease to exist.