GateWorld sat down with actor Robert Carlyle in San Diego last month at the 2010 Comic-Con International Convention to discuss the future of Stargate Universe and what changes fans can expect in Season Two of the hit show.
“Rush is still at it in the second season,” Carlyle said, “but even more so this time. When we join the second season, we discover instantly — in the first two or three scenes in fact — that Rush has discovered the bridge of the ship. Not only has he discovered the bridge, but he knows how to fly the thing. He’s steering it around. [The others] don’t know that. He hasn’t told anyone this.
“He’s under pressure, because the countdown clock when they stop the ship is not activating. The ship is stopping, the clock is not activating, and there are no planets in sight. Rush keeps leaving the room at these points.”
Carlyle revealed that the rest of the crew is kept in the dark for some time, and it won’t be until episode seven — “The Greater Good” — that Rush’s secrecy is revealed. “Rush and Young go investigate an abandoned alien craft which is just outside the Destiny,” Carlyle explains. “When they’re over there, it hits the fan back on [Destiny]. They find the bridge. They find Rush is responsible for all this stuff.
“That puts Rush in a difficult position, as you can imagine, because the last time he was left with Young anywhere, he left [Rush] on the planet.”
Moving forward, the relationship between Dr. Rush and Colonel Young will move in a new direction. After Young learns the truth there is “an 11-page scene between myself and Colonel Young,” Carlyle said. “It’s tremendous, and it’s something you don’t normally get in television — followed by a 6-page scene after that, where Rush explains everything to [Young] and confesses.
Rush risks the Colonel's wrath once again. From "Justice"
“But, not only that. There is, in fact, a mission. There has always been a mission. It has never been about going home. It’s a game-changer, as they like to say around here. Everything changes in that moment.
“So Young, instead of wanting to kill [Rush], says, ‘What is it?’ [Rush] tells him, and it’s so mind-boggling he actually manages to get Young on [his] side. The dynamic changes between Rush and Young in that moment. They decide to come together and move forward. Don’t start looking behind. Stop saying we don’t belong on this ship. Embrace it, and move forward.”
“But is Rush telling the truth?” Carlyle added.
To watch these and other developments unfold, make sure to tune in to Stargate Universe this fall on the Syfy Channel! The new seasons starts Tuesday, September 28. Learn more about what’s to come in GateWorld’s Season Two episode guide.
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Awesome. Can't Wait.
I love the tangent it's taken from SG1 and SGA. People can complain that it's too different all they want. But it's so dramatic, gritty, and real (The emotions and acting)... that I love it!
1st? Hmmm. What could the mission be?
@sgan
To boldy go where no Ancient has gone before, of course. :P
@Michael Sacal
Queue Star Trek theme music plz.
Finally! It's great to know that there actually is a secret mission or purpose involved with them being on the Destiny.
The explanation that the Destiny was the most important discovery they'd ever made hadn't made much sense to me. Why would an Ancient ship that predated even milky way ancient technology or Ori Tech, that had a stargate less sophisticated than even Milky Way gates, be more exciting than Atlantis, the height of Ancient achievement before they finally ascended? It wasn't a bulls**t answer, it was a cover story. :)
@Michael Sacal
I think sgfan means the ACTUAL mission of the Destiny, the one we don't know about yet. :-)
I'm eager to find out myself.
I suspect the mission is catch up to the gate-seeder ship - the one that's way out in front of Destiny - and capture it, so that Earth can manufacture its own stargates.
wooh!!! yeahhh!! i believe they're headed for the ancient's original galaxy..err the "ori" galaxy. they would probably just use the supergate since they never really destroyed it. but they wouldn't do it in just 1 season....hope there's more to go! the ancients probably programmed destiny and the ships ahead of it to go to their original galaxy....or maybe they're just headed to a place where it makes them ascend...naturally (like a doorway or something)
This is going to be awesome, I can't believe he gave up so much info... It's crazy
SOOO AWESOME! cannot wait. i agree, it is surprising that they gave so much away. They must be trying to draw in more viewers, either that or season 2 is so freakin sweet that these details aren't that big of a deal compared to whats to come.