When the FTL drive exploded, we immediately suspected that Lt. However, during the commercial break, my husband and I quickly sussed out that this was somehow related to our friends, the insect aliens. My initial reaction to Scott, Chloe, and Eli walking through the gate was “Are you freaking kidding me?!” Last week, those three were left in such a dire situation that there seemed to be no way out of it, and the writers chose to solve it by having them just stroll through the gate and say, “What do you mean, you weren’t expecting to see us? Didn’t you guys figure out a way for us to dial in?” What?! What a cop out. In fact, my biggest beef with the episode is the seeming ease with which they resolved last week’s massive cliffhanger. I don’t know if the creative team adjusted the direction of the story after the internet firestorm, but I didn’t see anything here that should cause massive offense to anyone.
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And now that I’ve seen the episode and the series to date, I think the premature backlash was much ado about nothing. At the time, I took a wait and see stance, feeling it wasn’t really fair to cast dispersions or pass judgment on an unfinished product, particularly outside the context of the series as a whole. A lot of folks in the internet community took exception with some of the casting materials that were leaked during production for the episode, and there was quite a hue and cry about the writers being insensitive to both the physically challenged and lesbian communities.
Perry and Camille back before the series even premiered. I was somewhat apprehensive going into ‘Sabotage,’ because I had heard a bit about the basic premise with Dr. Another very enjoyable episode with some tense action and a few nice character beats.
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