Stargate Universe/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* The ''Destiny'' itself gets one in "Light" by {{spoiler|''flying through a star'' to refuel itself}}. It has to be seen to get the full impact.

* In "Earth", Rush sets up a [[Batman Gambit]] {{spoiler|to get rid of Telford, who had taken over Young's body and wasn't going to give it back. He sets up their experiment to see if they can dial Earth so it appears to spiral out of control (as opposed to killing everyone), getting Telford to make a beeline for the communication stones and leave. Then Rush calmly ends the experiment and proves himself to be a [[Magnificent Bastard]] to the rest of the senior staff}}.

* "Space". Pretty much all of it.

** For Crowning to be established, it have to go to Lt. James. After doing a whole lot of [[Ms. Fanservice|nothing]] for Season 1.0, she starts evacuating people to safe areas of the ship when they {{spoiler|come under attack from the catfish hominids.}} When she runs into a corridor that's shooting lightning bolts at people and already took out a couple of earlier runners, does she look for another way around? Nope, she tells her group to stand back, takes a beat to compose herself, and ''runs down a electrified corridor'' to trip one of the ship's breakers, and gets the medic in soon enough to save both of their lives. That is how it's done, folks.

* Chloe gets a couple in "Lost". {{spoiler|While not awesome in the technical sense, the fact that she twice picks up details her teammates missed, thus pretty much putting them on the right track to survive, is really a step up from being [[The Load]]. Stay the course, Chloe.}}

* Also in "Lost", when Colonel Young says, "We're gonna make this work."

* In "Subversion", Young and Rush discover that Col. Telford {{spoiler|is a spy for the Lucian Alliance}}. When he {{spoiler|refuses to tell them the location of the Alliance's base}}, Young locks Telford (who is using Rush's body no less) in his quarters and {{spoiler|begins venting the atmosphere out of the room.}}

* O'Neill's epic dressing down of Young in "Incursion, Part 1" for his indecisiveness in {{spoiler|dealing with the Lucian Alliance invasion}}.

** I think Greer started getting on the awesome bandwagon when we ''beat the '''snot''''' out of Colonel Telford in the previous episode when Telford jumped Young. It wasn't even a very long fight, either. Greer went in and beat the shit out of Telford in six seconds flat.

* At the end of season one, {{spoiler|1=the Lucians have basically won, and have herded all the military into the cafeteria for execution. They get all of them to kneel, hands behind their heads, but Young just stands there, at parade rest, refusing to move or even ''look'' at their captors, not doing anything but slowly look up...as the lights go out again. As [[Cliff Hanger]]s go, that's a pretty cool one.}}

* In the following episode, it looks like Eli, Chloe and Brody are about to be gunned down by two Alliance soldiers, when Scott and Greer pull a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. Scott does a relatively simple pistol whip and takes the guy gun. Greer tackles his opponent and ''chokes him unconscious'' (hell, he might have killed him).

* A few from Rush in the same episode. He comes up with a plan to expose the entire ship to radiation, killing everyone on-board. When Dannic points this out, Rush, utterly deadpan, says they're willing to die to keep the ship out of Alliance hands. Later on, when Rush has concocted a way for his group to survive while everyone else dies, his steadfast commitment to the plan in spite of the fact it would kill Scott, Greer, TJ, and Wray is equally badass, because Dannic utterly loses his shit when faced with someone who's just as willing to go the extreme as he is.