This episode was fairly interesting, though with some slow parts. I like how Rush (which is a great character) keeps undercutting Earth’s efforts to open a channel back home. Hopefully, they’ll never be able to gate anyone back to earth.

I also liked the bit where Eli introduced himself to his mother as Philip (J.) Fry (nice tip of the hat to Futurama there) and the expression on Telford’s face during the “comms” glitch with Young’s wife, but the rest was just more blah for me. Drunk Chloe was good, but WTF was Eli thinking? They have been drinking, randomly swapping back and forth between real/alternate persons and he decides to drive home?. I thought he was supposed to be smart?

I liked drunk Chloe, and perhaps her character development might pick up now that she has realized just how little character she really had in the past.

All in all though, it still feels like it isn’t up to full speed yet. It was nice to see that Earth and Jack are still involved, and the nod to Carter saving Jack’s behind with science he didn’t understand was excellent.

As for the episode itself, they’re still missing their stride. Most of the stuff on Destiny this week was at least passable, but the character development stuff on Earth was hit and miss. I liked the Camille and Eli scenes, and thought they added to the characters. The Col. Young and Chloe scenes were mostly hard to sit through (though the first “glitch” bit was entertaining).

Next week’s episode finally looks like it’s moving away from using the ship as the main source of conflict.

The episode was primarily focused on highlighting the political conflicts both on Destiny and on earth, along with lots of some occasionally awkward character development thanks to their intergalactic brain swap thingy.