I see that more as a Robert Frost issue. Susan #2 (or #1) decided to leave, but I got the impression that it was not an easy decision for her, it could have gone either way. Walter just created Susan #1 and said "hey, we're moving to eureka", which is something that there was a strong possibility that she would have done anyway.
Still, I doubt he would go through all the trouble of cloning her just to risk her saying "No, I don't want to move to Eureka" again.
Though that could be a somewhat frightening possibility. Maybe there are multiple Susans running around that all decided they didn't want to move to Eureka.
Well, they would've stayed once they saw their dream house made reality. I mean, that's what seems to be the real reason Susan #1 is staying. It's the only explanation I can come up with for her change of heart with regards to Brian. (Hey, hug the kid once in awhile and get a free house.)
I'd have been down with "this kid needs a mother and I'm his best shot and man, he does look like he's mi...dammit! I already hugged him! Now it's too late!"
Or something a wee bit less simplistic. But finding out that she'd been happy with this choice, plus was needed, plus wasn't giving up anything major on the outside, plus seeing the man she loved...not inconsiderable.
Also, not depicted.
Just saw the replay on SciFi. It's the first ep I've seen, and I liked it. I am easy, when it comes to television, so I'm not necessarily a good barometer, but I did enjoy it.
I did not, however, figure out that the ghost was Walter, seeing as I'd never seen Walter. So there was me, and everyone on the show. Oh, and I was a little puzzled at the lurkity of what I presume now is evil-shrink-lady.
Also?
Indiana?!?
We have baseball in Indiana, dammit! We have one of the finest (okay, admittedly minor-league) fields around. But still. Harumph.
Anyway, I liked it, I liked Colin, I liked several of the characters, I think I liked the premise, although it was not altogether clear just from this episode alone, and I'll give it a shot.
Now, about this episode, specifically, that lady made a crazy bad call and I kind of hate it. I have my whole own life, I left the man I married, I walked away from my hopes and dreams of a perfect little house and family, and I've been on my own for years. I get a crazy hysterical call, I turn up in a whacky town that subjects me to scanning alongside the corpse of cloned me who has been living with my ex and their son in my dream house. And I'm supposed to walk away from everything I've been living for the past decade to pretend to be the mother of an orphan and the wife of a staticky ball of electricity? That's all kinds of wrong. And I mean in gender roles ways, and I mean in personal life decisions ways, and I hope it plays out in future episodes.
Anybody watching Night Stalker?
It's 15 minutes in to SG-1, and I've Cackled Like A Loon at least six times.
So... where do they keep getting Stargates to throw around?
And I'm supposed to walk away from everything I've been living for the past decade to pretend to be the mother of an orphan and the wife of a staticky ball of electricity? That's all kinds of wrong.
Did she actually say she was going to stay? It was implied that she had a change of heart about the kid, but I never read it as set in stone that she was going to stay and be that Susan Perkins from now on. That would just be sloppy writing.
(Also, does Walter even know that the other version died and that the one standing outside the big ball o'static is the original who left him? We never got a scene where they explicitly filled him in on what was going on while he was mostly dead.)
We have baseball in Indiana, dammit! We have one of the finest (okay, admittedly minor-league) fields around. But still. Harumph.
Yes, but that would've been "Indianapolis," not "Indiana." The only teams called "Indiana" are basketball teams, as it right and proper.
Oh, and I was a little puzzled at the lurkity of what I presume now is evil-shrink-lady.
Evil-shrink-lady murdered Susan #2, and made it look like suicide, if that helps. Which brings up a point. Did anyone do an autopsy on Susan #2, or even investigate the fact that it might not be a suicide? Sure, she was distraught, but there was also evidence that her husband might have been in cahoots with persons unknown to obtain tech from Section 5, something she might have had knowledge of. You'd think someone might wonder about the suspiciousness of the circumstances. Where's Grissom when you need him?
Also, does Walter even know that the other version died and that the one standing outside the big ball o'static is the original who left him?
He knows the latter, at least, because Susan #1 asks him "Why?", and he explains about wanting a family, etc. They didn't depict a lot of stuff in the episode.
