I have had mixed feelings about Stargate Universe in the first half of the series. While on one hand it has several outstanding actors and character drama, on the other it often has an overemphasis on sex and soap opera elements, and that is even before the issue of not dealing with the ethics of body swapping. Thankfully Justice is a powerful character drama which while at times predictable highlights all of the best elements of Stargate Universe, with none of the worst.

Stargate Universe finally gets around to showing us the standard daily routine of the Destiny crew, and along with the standard intrigue and deception from Rush, there are also the awful soap opera elements of the show which I personally cant stand in such high doses.

After last week’s controversial and disappointing episode Stargate Universe went back to its roots with one of the staples of the Sci-Fi Genre Time Travel. While last week I was frustrated over the lack of thought regarding the consequences of peoples actions, my main complaint this week is that all the welcome character details and development is erased through use of the reset button.

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For the second week in a row I found the episode of Stargate Universe to be less than inspired. Thankfully the episode was not another “we have run out of this resource” episode, but I found that the episode as a whole felt slightly disjointed and could have used expanding into a 2 part episode so that some of the issues raised, especially the ethical ones could be explored instead of ignored.

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This was a strange episode for me, since while there was nothing particularly bad about the episode, I was not particularly enthused about it at any point. The most likely reason for this that I can come up with is that all the episodes so far have been concentrating on resource issues to the detriment of any other plot and Water was more of the same.