I'm slightly confused. Wasn't everybody going to die from Space Flu last week? Airing episodes out of order, hopefully?
edited 22nd Nov '09 9:35:03 PM by GreatLich
Time spiral, solved off-screen.
The problem and spiral effect was shown in the episode with the ending that the device carrying the answer to salvation was sent back into the past, for the next round to find and fix the problem... Or not, and the cycle continued. But seeing as how they're all better now, i think it worked out.
And last time I checked, school does make it easier to make money if yo pick the right major.
Fight smart, not fair."Matt want's to give you his monthly paycheck." "Really?" "Yeah! That way, you can quit your job, go back to school, and follow through with your dreams-"
While noble and all, his ex explicitly states that if Matt wants to help them out, and give them money to make their lives better, that's fine and dandy, but she doesn't want money from him with the expectation that she's going to be doing something different from what she's doing.
You may not like the occupation she chose, and she might not either, but Pride does weird things to people.
It's not like Matt couldn't send the money regardless. It seems to me that he chose not to by the end of the episode. As i said before, if he really cared, he would have set up the payments regardless, and hoped for the best. He doesn't because she said no. This says more about him than it does about her.
edited 23rd Nov '09 8:03:35 AM by Swish
Matt is a Jerkass. That's all there is to it. I'm getting pretty tired of his pornomancy, and it's about time he started really suffering because of it.
I took his ex for a stripper or prostitute the minute she sauntered on-screen and, assuming she's just keeping it to the legal (if skeezy) exotic dancing, Matt has no real justification for his attitude. She feeds and puts a roof over the kid's head. She is working to make things better for him. Matt can get on the bus and support his biological kid as well as he can from a different galaxy or he can take the easy way out.
"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - E. Gary GygaxHm, I must have missed that part. He either needs to make it a gift with no attachments or an offer with some attachments, but if he's doing it for his son, he shouldn't be making attachments. I can see wanting to try and raise his son, but seriously man, make a decision and remember you're not in your own body.
Fight smart, not fair.I'm wondering if this isn't a situation where this woman needs to be given clearance to know that this is really Matt she's talking to.
Regardless of whether Matt was attaching strings to the money, unconscious or not, to reject it so easily for such shallow reasons makes this woman a jerk in my eyes. Hey lady, if you don't want conditions, lay it on the table and say "Tell Matt I don't want conditions attached to this money. He can send me a letter when he's ready to talk."
Wasn't that what she basically did?
I don't know, she's not the best mom, but she's got the moral high ground in that situation.
And no, even with the moral high ground on this one issue, there's no way she gets top security clearence. Taking the chance that a stripper that one of your people dated almost a decade ago can keep something quiet is not a good risk.
"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - E. Gary Gygax"Matt's on a super-secret mission out someplace you can't know about doing something you can't know about for a duration of time that you can't know about. I just talked to him because what i found out here seemed really important enough for me to talk about (and I'm a Colonel, so I could do that), and he gave me this offer to give to you."
Now... what part about that seems like there's a negotiation aspect? One can either take the deal, or say no.
Renegotiation is awesome. But really only works when the two parties can at least meet each other and work out their issues. Seeing as how Matt and his ex will never be in the same room together, that seems as a tad unlikely. And it's not like Colonel Telford (or whoever visits her next time) can step away and call Matt about everything that's going on. Matt has important things to be doing. If he didn't, he wouldn't be where he was.
Cover stories really screw with the reality of situations.
Did she actually reject the money? As I recall, Matt arranged it and then expected that she wouldn't need to keep her job now that he was helping. Then she says she's going to keep doing it anyway. I never got the impression that Matt rescinded the offer after that point, or that she rejected it. Just more that he was disappointed.
The easiest way I could see to negotiate would just be a letter saying "I give this man power to negotiate on my behalf" and then just show up.
Fight smart, not fair.I'm guessing he's going to open the ship or the aliens are going to come say hi. Or they just leave him to die. I'm not too picky on his character, he's what happens when For Science! goes to far.
Fight smart, not fair.Rush is abandoned, alone, with no way to get off that rock except an awesome spaceship. He'll be back in an episode or two. I'm glad they didn't have to leave the ship behind to taunt us with aliens.
Young leaving Rush behind really tied into the survival theme on this show. Great episode overall, though I knew from the beginning that if it did turn out to be suicide, Rush would have been the one to take the gun. I'm just surprised they caught him.
I guess Eli knows the kinos better than even Rush. How many times has he saved the day with them so far? And people call them annoying.
We're not just men of science, we're men of TROPE!"Seems to suspect?" Eli saw the end of the Kino recording that Young wants. That's how Young knows about it. The conversation between the two was him asking Eli if anyone else saw it.
Eli is smart enough to put it all together. Young doesn't want anyone else to know of what happened. More than likely because he's a tad Genre Savvy.
He left Rush alone on a planet to die. If Rush does die, Young still might not want anyone to know why he had to die, but he still wants the data for himself so he can explain it away if anyone comes to suspect the truth. Alternatively, he suspects that Rush may somehow make it back on the Destiny. If and when that happens, and the truth comes out that Rush was left to die, the recording is what will keep anyone from thinking Young is the bad guy.
I just saw it. Rush alone on a planet with a spaceship. What's the point? I mean, seriously, we know main characters in Stargate can't die unless it's the start or end of a season. I feel insulted that they would even bother with this nonsense.
Eli keeps two days of Kino footage on his laptop, keeps the good stuff for his documentary, then deletes the rest? When does he find time to watch that footage?

This is a slight misconception of events. Matt didn't use the stones and think to himself "I'm going to visit some girl i knew 8+ years ago." He got a letter. So it seems to me that she decided that she wanted him to know after all that time. For what reason? Who knows.
As for her reasons for not taking the money, you're wrong about the offer. It was an offer of money to help make their life better with the "catch" being she has to go back to school.
Pride does awful things, but if Matt truly cared about them, he wouldn't put conditions on his paycheck, he'd give it to them regardless. He doesn't. That says more about Matt than it does about his ex.