Stargate Universe's David Blue Has A Fascinating Eli Wallace Pitch For Season 3

Blue's abovementioned joke pitch makes sense in the context of the preparation he had been doing for the character since season 1. In the same interview, the actor mentions how he had "intentionally lost weight" to convey that Eli lives in a world where survival is the primary goal. Keeping this in mind, Eli's dramatic fog reveal idea acts as a fun subversion of expectations, as Blue gets pretty colorful with the details informing us what the character has been up to during the three-year wait period: "I wasn't even remotely fit at the time [...] [the idea of Eli] doing pull-ups, and then [he] drops down and turns with like a peg leg, a gun, maybe an alien on his shoulder, a patch, and he goes, 'It's been a long three years.' I liked this idea that you see him and he's different. What happened? We never had to do that, which was funny. But that's why that hiatus between what would have been [Seasons] Two and Three, I started working out even harder, because I just liked the idea of, 'Ooh, what now?'" Now, this does sound fun, as it undercuts the anxiety surrounding Eli's doomed circumstances, but it doesn't quite fit the tone of the series. Sure, Eli is the only comedic relief in a show brimming with melodramatic stakes, but such an elaborate gag reveal wouldn't have worked at all. Anyhow, Blue's humorous idea is intertwined with a real dedication to Eli's growth as a character, which is emblematic of his love for "Stargate" as a whole. Sadly, Eli's fate is currently confined to the comics, and we will never know what really happened to him or the crew aboard Destiny.