*SPOILER ALERT* If you've seen this episode you know its the one where they try to get the fuel they siphoned from a crashed Jupiter back to their camp ground for their own. They used a wench to untrap the guy that got crushed by the toppled fuel tanker, and were worried if they flip it back upright all the fuel would spill from the hole. Well it did start to gush out, and they just stood there and stared at it like it was over. It left open the hole that if they flipped it back upright, they also could have flipped it one more time so that the punctured hole was facing up and no more fuel would have spilled out. Instead they left it upright and all the fuel poured out the side down to the level of the hole.
They left that unclear adn after a couple more scenes just cut back to the group heading back to camp with the injured guy and the team that helped get the fuel from the old tanker siphoned into a new one, and one of the characters even asks "How much fuel so we have left-- Do we have enough fuel to get us of the planet?" The answer was "Not everyone." Well, YES they could have, and for crisis-prepared engineers and doctors, who've had training, and after an argument about losing fuel if they pry the guy out from under the overturned fuel tanker, nobody saw the gallons spilling out the side by the dozen per seconds and thought, "Hey flip it one more time- we have the equipment and literally JUST did it." to save even more fuel?? Those are the kind of little details that writers don't think through. Although the writing is actually good and the show is awesome, leaving little parts like that as complete just feels like lazy writing and a missed opportunity to make the story/scene end as believable as it started- fiction-wise and imaginatively speaking.
They left that unclear adn after a couple more scenes just cut back to the group heading back to camp with the injured guy and the team that helped get the fuel from the old tanker siphoned into a new one, and one of the characters even asks "How much fuel so we have left-- Do we have enough fuel to get us of the planet?" The answer was "Not everyone." Well, YES they could have, and for crisis-prepared engineers and doctors, who've had training, and after an argument about losing fuel if they pry the guy out from under the overturned fuel tanker, nobody saw the gallons spilling out the side by the dozen per seconds and thought, "Hey flip it one more time- we have the equipment and literally JUST did it." to save even more fuel?? Those are the kind of little details that writers don't think through. Although the writing is actually good and the show is awesome, leaving little parts like that as complete just feels like lazy writing and a missed opportunity to make the story/scene end as believable as it started- fiction-wise and imaginatively speaking.