Alcoholism And The New TV Series Stargate: Universe

[Tim Bruening]

This series features about 80 people on a starship billions of light
years away, which they boarded via a very high powered Stargate (a
circular device which makes wormholes to other such devices), since
destroyed. They don't have enough power to get home via the ship's
Stargate. They can communicate with Earth via communications stones,
which enable them to take over the bodies of people on Earth if said
people are near such stones.

Thus a young woman is able to transport her mind to Earth to tell her
Mom that her Dad is dead. She sees her Mom binge drinking alcohol. She
tells her Mom to stop, but her Mom keeps drinking. What can she do to
help her Mom?

[whodunit]

Did they actually say that Chloe's mom is an alcoholic? Because all I
saw was a worried woman who knew that her husband and daughter were MIA
after an attack on a military base, then meeting her 'daughter' who had
occupied some other woman's body (and NOT her husband who would have
demanded to use the stones, as he did), take *2* drinks...that doesn't
make her an alcoholic.

Seems she would have already been drinking when Chloe showed up (not
unexpectedly, the mom knew she was coming and had clearly been briefed
on what to expect) if she were truly an alcoholic. She didn't seem drunk
to me just very very upset because she had already figured out her
husband was dead.

[Tim Bruening]

whodunit wrote:

Scott, whose priest guardian died from drinking alcohol, spoke of his
experience to Chloe and said he understood what she was going through. I
assumed that Scott's experience with an alcoholic guardian matched Chloe's
experience with her Mom, making her an alcoholic.

The two drinks came in rapid succession.

[whodunit]

See, I understood he was talking about losing someone you love very much for
tragic reasons, not because he was talking about alcoholism itself.