The scene were Young strangles the Lucian Alliance dude almost to death is a direct ripoff of when Adama did the same thing to Athena (right after Boomer, another Number Eight, had shot him and he had to be operated on by Nurse Sharpspoon Nobedsidemanner because, oh never mind) on Battlestar Galactica. Like most of SGU's multitudinous ripoffs of BSG, this one just doesn't come out right. Young just comes off looking, as Rush tells Angel Whoever, mentally unstable (even, and this is the important part, compared to everyone else).
I think the problem is that his rage, ostensibly at the loss of his near-term unborn child, was too diffused. From what I gathered from the episodes, no one intentionally shot TJ, she just got in the way when one of the marines decided to start a fire-fight. And the guy Young strangled was just some random dude, not even (as far as we know, or Young knows) one of the guys in the room at that time. Nor was he an identical copy of the guy who shot TJ.
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