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S. One
S. Two
S. Three
S. Four
S. Five
S. Six pt I
S. Six pt II
S. Seven pt I
S. Seven pt II
S. Eight
S. Eight pt II
S. Nine
S. Ten
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Season One

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These episodes are in the order given in the Starguide, not the order they come on the rental tapes, which is completely different (and wrong). The order of the rental tapes next to the broadcast order is at the bottom of this page.

• The tough, intelligent airmen a) flinch from a moving tarpaulin and b) pick up the probable bomb
• I do like the way the tarp billows forwards, then gets whipped back behind the gate so it's not in the way
• Oh, that blonde makes up for seasons of competence from Sam
• That is ridiculous armour, one good push and the weight would tip them right over! 
• How does Apophis dial out from the SGC without a DHD or using the base computers?
• Richard Dean Anderson gets to be pre-titles boy
• Major Samuels is outwitted by a branch, which is pretty much his role for the rest of the season
• Hammond is going to have to get used to O'Neill's humour very quickly
• An historic moment, Jack's first "Ya think?"
• Jaffa/kangaroo same difference
• Potted plot
• Hammond is so bluffing about the bomb
• However Hammond isn't unequipped to deal with O'Neill's approximate attitude to reports and the like
• Jack's first "with all due respect"
• Actually, the bodies aren't saying very much at all, that's because she's dead
• Oh my God! It's Jay Acovone! I have to shamefully confess that as an impressionable 5 year old, I suffered from a crush on David Hasselhoff for 3 years! I was misguided and young. Then I watched a program which, loosely translated, was called 'Hollywood Detectives' and was seduced away from my immature infatuation by Jay Acovone, the lead. It was only on for a year and for years after I would talk about him but suffer ridicule at the possibility that someone with such a patently daft name could exist. Eventually I began to wonder myself until, when I was twelve years old, I was swept off my feet by the gorgeous Michael Paré in 'Houston Knights' and forgot all about him (I know, so fickle!) I had to wait till I was 22 before I ever heard of him again, in this scene. I felt vindicated and validated and called everyone to tell them so. But it was a shock, I can tell you 
• Ferretti and I 
• "Never even knew you had a son" this doesn't quite tally with 'The Gamekeeper' which implies that Jack and Kawalsky have known each other since 1982 at the very least. In those fourteen(?) years he never mentioned his child?
• RDA working all the MacGuyverness out of his system
• The desert's probably the best place for someone with allergies, not a lot to be allergic to
• "Planning an attack" what, as retribution for the SGC's vicious tissue bombing of their installation?
• He's just a note on a tissue box and already I like him 
• SG mission being turned into a retro toy discussion
• Considering most of Jack's report was a crock, she's not really that well prepared. Sam also has a serious complex building there
• I just love the Sam and Jack pissing contest here
• I bet this 'freezing cold' crap lasts less than 4 episodes 
• That's an awful wig. The brother's hair looks like some awful 80s perm throwback 
• Sam gets very excited about the DHD, a real genuine scientist's excitement about a new toy. Like me with a new historical series on the BBC
• RDA acknowledges his move into popular vernacular
• "It wasn't me!" thinks Daniel
• Sha're very nearly swallows Daniel whole, but then who can blame her
• "The aliens could have come from anywhere" and she says it like its good news 
• Like a horse, Apophis checks Sha're has good teeth 
• Daniel needs to specify Earth year or Abydos year, because they've got to be different
• See, those kids like that long hair too, can't wait to get their hands on it
• I love the way the iris pauses before completely disappearing. I always expect it to get stuck so someone from the SGC to has to go and bang the side of the gate to get it to retract properly. Iris, only useful if they actually use it. They should keep it closed and then open it when they get a friendly signal
• That holding castle thingy looks awfully medieval 
• Those snakehead helmets look awfully dangerous to the noses of the actors in them.  Which is why they don't put Peter Wingfield in one, obviously.
• "I'm not afraid of you!" How stupid are you? 
• Not confident enough to take it as a "yes"
• And it's they very last team that's the diplomatic one
• Thank God Ferretti had such a good memory
• They got all those patches run up quickly, they must have Air Force seamstresses. I wonder about those kind of people, do the women in the cafeteria have to have top secret clearance? Or the cleaners
• It's just like the time tunnel!!! All they needed was the spinny little bodies! 
• Sha're discovers being picked first isn't always as much fun as it seems
• I'd be worried about being in a relationship where the guy had more make-up than I did
• First "for crying out loud", they really are getting them all in
• SG-1 feeling slightly overdressed for the occasion
• What is that thing on her head?! She's terrified to lower her chin in case the whole contraption tumbles off 
• Another historic moment, Daniel's first (series) encounter with the hand device, first time Daniel comes round from a state of unconsciousness... "Welcome back to the land of the conscious" We look forward to your occasional visits 
• Really stupid hat for Kowalski
• How does Daniel know that's Apophis? This is a serious question. I think he recognises the serpent symbol on the heads of the Jaffa
• It's hard to think they can fit both of them and their fancy headgear in one litter
• "Kneel" he repeats helpfully in English for those three people who can understand
• Ooh, Sam really needs to get her roots done
• What is the point of that armour? Bullets go through it, staff weapons go through it… What's it protecting them from? A chill?
• You can never find the page you want when you want it
• Oh dear, not looking good for Kawalsky
• SG-1 are the subject of some serious adulation
• Where are they going to send the refugees to? They can't send them back to Abydos because they buried the gate
• SG-1 pose for the publicity photos
• 7:30, why so early? They've just saved the world, they deserve a lie in
• Daniel has a huge bruise on his jaw

• Oh my God! Can you say over reaction?! Can you imagine working there and knowing that every time someone dials a wrong number you have 3 minutes to live? 
• Oh, now there's a duty that sucks, being on the "radiation team"
• For 'guest', read 'prisoner' 
• At least Jack isn't lying to anyone
• "I have carried your enemy..." surely he still does?
• Teal'c didn't refuse to kill - he refused to be told who to kill. As the series proves, he clearly has no issue with killing per se 
• How come Teal'c knows how to spell his name in English? And how come Jack does? Or does he spend the rest of the time writing his name like that simply because Jack invented it to irritate Kennedy?
• Kennedy does not look happy at the thought of being someone's greatest hope
• Daniel takes all those shocks very well. I would have screamed like a girl and not just because I am one 
• Of all the medical equipment I've ever seen, that revolving metal bed thing is probably the most menacing
• You shouldn't make people in pain laugh. Contrary to popular belief IT DOESN'T HELP! Says the person with a cracked rib and a flatmate who thinks she's funny
• Country? World I think you'll find 
• Gee, chevron seven guy doesn't put up much of a fight does he?
• Yes, we know it deceived us Teal'c, the question is how
• How manly is that pose? It just screams 'here are my genitals!' 
• I love the little bit of symbiote that flops out of Kawalsky's de-materialised head. An ignominious death in naff pyjamas 
• Hammond is so  sucking up to the president
• Photo ops 2 and 3 

• I know it's not really relevant cause they were wild dogs, but, how come whenever SG-1 or anybody else for that matter, come across people being chased, they always assume that the guy being hunted down is an innocent? Surely when someone is being pursued by a lot of men and dogs it's usually cause they've done something wrong
• I’m glad that they eventually stop putting Daniel in the silly helmet because he really does look ridiculous
• He's a terribly forward thinking savage primitive
• Oh goody, another cultural excuse for misogyny.
• All the signs are telling them to go home now, but do they? Oh no.  That would be far too easy.
• It says a lot for Sam's character (or potential for violence) that nobody laughs...Yeah, but they do take the piss to an extreme level. Jack’s liking the whole ‘dress Sam like a girl’ thing far too much. I bet that Sam’s still got her boots on, though. And her army gear - it would explain the bulkiness 
• You know, I really don’t understand why men in so many cultures, alive and dead, fear women to the extreme point of keeping them in slavery.
• If you want to prove how much you aren't threatened by that guy, then don't shut up when he tells you to. It's at times like this when I worry about my sadly lacking sense of self-preservation, cause I know I'd just keep talking back
• Notice how he concedes defeat by walking round her to take a look when she wouldn't turn around 
• Oh hang on, yes I do.
• When the nasty warlord had Sam by the hair she had the perfect opportunity to headbutt him. Why hold back?
• At least Sam gets to ditch the horrendous blue dress.
• Erm, I'm going to disagree slightly, just occasionally women deserve a bloody good slap just as much as men do
• Jack! What about the Prime Directive?! I know it's not theirs, but there are reasons for these things! 
• You know you're just pushing the price up there, Danny boy
• Yes, lets give the psychopath automatic weapons
• Always knew Jack was a cowboy at heart!
• How did the kid get to know her well enough to suffer the madness, or is this really a euphemism for lust? 
• Oh wake up Jack, it's always a fight to the death
• "What is an Oprah?" We've been asking that question for years

• Why are they all in dress uniform for the briefing?
• Hammond must be a very tolerant man to have a second in command like Jack.
• I think that there should be a special SG team devoted to protecting the backsides of SG-1. One of them, anyway! (The amount of times he manages to endanger it, he bloody well needs it.) And it's such a nice backside too, well worth the effort. If SG-3 want a break I'm happy to protect the backsides of at least two of the team
• They carry a lot of crap with them on these early missions 
• Yes why didn't the MALP have night vision, and how will Daniel fit those goggles over his glasses? 
• What is that squiggle that Jack makes in the event horizon? 
• So, they went through the Stargate into complete darkness, not knowing if there was a DHD there? Intrepid they may be, but possessing common sense? I don’t think so.
• You’ve got to admire the spirit of the Touched that jumped on Teal’c’s back and tried to beat up the backpack, if not his intelligence. What? What? It was too dark, I couldn't see! 
• I really don’t like Daniel’s casual acceptance of ‘forcible sex’.
• I wouldn't be so quick to deny Godhood. Who knows what the fringe benefits might be 
• She must wait to suffer in public? Couldn't they put her somewhere private? 
• So, if one of the Minoan people told another to stick something where the doesn’t shine, they could just point to the horizon and go “What, you mean over there?”
• Imagine the US government spending all that money on art appreciation, and if they can do it on another planet why can't they do it in schools?
• What’s wrong with the bloke? He’s rabid, by the look at it.
• I thought that glass was supposed to be bulletproof or is that after people have fallen through it a couple of times?
• All round approval for Daniel's black polo neck, and for the complete lack of a polo neck, or anything else for that matter on Jack
• Jack’s not too quick with the ladies, is he? Sam has him pinned to the bench and growls “I want you.”  His response is “Why?”.  Well, I’ll give you three guesses… Although, he's not completely uninterested, his response isn't "no" but "not like this"
• Jack asking Sam "what got into you?" unfortunate turn of phrase considering
• Jack should have been able to tell that Sam was unwell, she had psycho hair.
• I can understand the behavioural changes, but how come they suddenly develop the Angel-esque facial features? Can a virus suddenly cause bone growth leading to overhanging foreheads?
• Daniel's classic reaction to Jack being jumped by Sam "you poor man"
• Jack hits a man with glasses! If it wasn't Daniel I'd be impressed, especially as he tries to kick him as well as he is dragged away
• What on earth do they carry in those huge packs? Answers on a postcard…
• Did Jack just wipe the snot on his trousers? Eeeugh! 
• For a minute there I thought he was going to say "What brains?" 
• How has Jack got to be a Colonel without thinking through the consequences of various actions? "Experiment on me"
• That Minoan is being awfully brave for a man in a truly ridiculous hat.
• Definitely approve of Teal'c's practicality, and his left hook, which is equally worthy of praise
• Feeling so nonchalant about forcible sex now, Daniel?
• Did Carter stab the roommate back? 
• Poor Teal'c. As the first one to lose Daniel he has no idea that this is not his fault. It will happen whatever he does. You know, whenever any one of SG-1 says that they have ‘lost’ Daniel, what they mean is they have misplaced him, not that he’s dead. This seems to happen a lot.
• Finally hay fever hits back. It's been my impression from watching Tobin that hay fever is constantly hitting back 
• Daniel showing a nice bit of thigh. Oh dear, CaveDaniel has a monobrow. Daniel has a monobrow anyway - he just waxes. Excessively. I'm surprised she falls for it. If she remembers, why shouldn't he? 
• Jack, you are a sod. 

• You know, nobody who says “Go! Save yourself!” in a terribly heroic way actually means it. What they mean is “Stop! And carry me to safety!
• I’m sorry, but those potato-head masks look like they’ve been badly made by infant school children.
• There are trees round the stargates not because of Goa'uld terraforming but because they film in Vancouver
• Lt Connor is the filling in an SG-1 sandwich. Although most sandwiches don't carry weapons
• Does it say 'Colonel' on his uniform?
• Jack is upset that people aren't respecting his authority? 
• What’s with all the Oz references?
• Silly headgear abounds once more.
• "SG teams are made up of well trained professionals" like Daniel and Teal'c obviously. Well, Daniel is a well trained professional, just in a totally different field. I don't know about Teal'c. Is he a professional? Does he get paid? And if so what the hell does he spend it on? You can't spend your entire army paycheck on candles
• “I’ve always had a soft spot for the lunatic fringe.” Doing her job with that lot, you’d have to! Either that or it's a casual remark about the state of Daniel's hair
• Note the look on Jack's face as they talk about Sam's ex-fiance 
• "The crazier the person the more extreme the situation" note the look Daniel gives Jack and consider how they first met
• Isn’t there some sort of psychiatric tests for SGC personnel where the doctor can tick a box for megalomaniac tendencies?
• What are the people with hammers and picks hoping to achieve? Not square blocks that's for sure. I’m a bit worried about the logic behind the loon’s building plans. The foundations of his temple are being built by slaves that will die because of the heat from the sun – the chaff, in his opinion. The fancy bits will be done later on by those who survive – the wheat. Would you want the most important part of your building built by chaff?
• "Not posing" posturing then
• At least he's a loon with a plan
• I've got to use that "All knowing" as a comeback. It's excellent 
• No it's the strength of a loon
• That makes a change, a drawing on TV that doesn't look like anything at all
• This episode gives a rare opportunity to have a good point-and-loon at the TV (in case you hadn't noticed)
• Extension of the Hasegawa principle (if something isn't working on Friday afternoon, leave it alone over the weekend, on Monday morning it should be fine); if it didn't function before Teal'c fired the staff weapon at it, it will do now. I want a staff weapon.
• Should the SG team guy not recognise the second in command of the entire base? 
• "From whence it came? I've been spending way too much time around you" sorry, random Buffy flash, continued with Sam's wonderful high kick
• Oh just shoot the loon in the foot and have done with it.
• Did the people in the SGC hear a sickening thump as the body of the loon hit the iris? Yes they did And what would happen to the body? They wash it off the back of the iris with a sponge later
• This is pretty much a me and Lizard thing, but Sam would have been able to help out the White House staff in the West Wing with her snappy definition of the first commandment. Not any more! After my recent 'West Wing' conversion I too understand the reference!

• It's the Vancouver sulphur mountains. Where Mac whacked Grayson. That sulphur must be smelly, but it does make for a good ‘alien’ setting.  
• How come people always keep possessions in a cigar box? Even people who have never smoked in their life, or are at least twenty years younger than the box in question
• How come Sam isn't worried about Daniel being in the "women's locker room"? How hard would you complain? Is this locker room on a rota? Doesn't they have space in the mountain for two? 
• Should Daniel be telling this stuff to Sam, or should he wait until Jack is ready for her to know? Especially since Daniel is still calling her "Captain Carter" so they can' t be that close
• "What do you have here?" A very phallic looking crystal 
• Is his wife supposed to look like Sam? 
• His son wasn't called Charlie in the film, I think it was Jonathan Junior
• Teal'c is not having much luck with visual entertainment. Oh yeah, all those channels and there’s nothing on.
• Jack not much of a talker? Have they met? 
• Love Daniel and Sam failing to get permission to fire the weapon in the gateroom
• For once it's not a line of bull
• Daniel and Sam get overexcited about crystals and computer simulations, it's really quite sweet
• I joined in with Daniel's wow at the crystal morphing
• I'd forgotten that the real Jack was still out there. 
• Nice that they can tell it’s really Jack because of the way he’s ranting at the security camera.
• Yes, she's furious, Jack should remember where they first met
• "Why didn't you talk to me?" falling back on Buffy again, "they grow body hair, they lose all ability to tell you what they really want"
• Surely touching the electricity-riddled bloke is not a good idea? Fake Jack is either growing lightning or he's having a quickening of some sort. Where does that fit on the 'nearest immortal or tree' theory? Surely seeing their ex-husband being tortured by mysterious bolts of blue lightning is what every ex-wife wants for Christmas?
• Jack has a moment of the 'eh? what?' variety
• Daniel still has the non-scientist's (admittedly not unfounded) terror of the word "radiation". After he's been exposed to it seven or eight times he worries a lot less, although see what gets him in the end...
• They stopped to change?! In the middle of an emergency? 
• Personally, seeing my ex with my dead son would push me screaming and howling right over the edge
• Nifty bit of characterisation, we get to see Jack's inner pain without him ever having to drop his guard. Great acting from RDA

• The disappearing Stargate is a good trick
• Should they all be breaking cover like that just cause Jack got shot? Sam at least should know better, you can understand Daniel doing it though
• So they very carefully plan the attack and all die, what exactly were they planning?
• That's tantalising, a peephole view of Michael Shanks' stomach
• Buffy turned left at Greenland
• "Killed as in dead?" As in what else? Ah. But aren’t there many different types of dead? And shouldn’t they be on the Mice Page?
• The Nox are a cryptic bunch, enigmatic even
• I believed Jack's ruse
• Love the way Teal'c has half a tree as a club
• Wouldn't you love to live in a floating city? Not if there was a risk of falling, no.

• It's always a bit of a shock when god actually answers
• Why does everyone hopefully look at the woman? I suppose it's hoping that they personally won't have to do anything It’s a typical male thing – just because we have a womb we are supposed to have innate knowledge of what to do when something comes shooting out of one.
• Notice Jack paces while the expectant father sits like a rock
• Making good use of Daniel's midwifing skills, and setting them up handily for next year
• "I have a son!" not for long if you keep holding it like that
• Jack compares eating from the tree of knowledge with Dr Pepper "what's the worst that could happen?"
• Why is Jack wearing Daniel's hat?
• Teal'c so rarely does
• Not often that SG-1 get to take the piss out of Jack, they should make the most of it
• Kinthia does move fast doesn't she? I'm not sure whether I should condemn or applaud her
• Ah, so that’s how you get a man – you drug him, them wriggle about in a red sheet thing. Right.
• Naked Jack
• For some reason I expected him to be wearing a towel, so the multi-coloured bedcover was quite a surprise.
• What does he mean "what exactly just happened?"  you'd think he'd know, you'd hope he does, cause it scuppers most of our fantasies if he doesn't. Was what they did that different? At the very least he should have been able to work it out from that position, if that's not an unfortunate choice of word.
• Despite his awful behaviour once he comes to, Jack has managed at some point to find out the name of the woman he was shagging.
• I've seen parties end like that
• "The matter at hand" another unfortunate turn of phrase
• I've also had mornings like that
• Shouldn't those horses be in front of the chariot?
• Kinthia is 31 days old. Can Jack say 'cradle snatcher' Or child molester.  
• “We keep it as Pelops left it” Well, Pelops obviously wasn’t one for soft furnishings, then.
• “Physical contact”. Nice euphemism.
• Why do they not take Jack home with them? They could have put him in an iso suit. Which would have solved all of their problems 
• Wow, Jack does not age well. How come the aging process makes Jack's hair grow? Why is it that whenever a sci-fi guy gets aged, he automatically becomes Texan?
• Yes Jack can and will mouth off at Goa'ulds
• That'll teach you to eat weird foods in ritualistic festivals - in future, Jack, ask "Is that in any way related to a life long commitment?" before you stuff your face 
• Love does take time, but you'll notice that Jack went off to have sex with her after about 10 minutes
• Jack breeds heresy and discontent (misery loves company)
• He could be having wild passionate sex with a beautiful woman, so yeah, he's wasting his time. And hers. No way would I feel guilty enough to shag the skanky old man 
• A person from the North American continent who can say 'warrior'!
• I don't know whether to be insulted, sickened or endeared, he's letting her win at noughts and crosses
• Pelops’ First Law isn’t as good as my First Rule.
• I'm glad that they're not going into the prostate problem

• Is this part of a series forming the ‘Toolbox of the Asgard’ arc? Can we expect ‘Freya’s Chisel’ or ‘Woden’s Drill’ anytime soon?
• Daniel’s so sweet when he’s excited.
• Daniel stands up to lecture
• Thor's weapon is just called a hammer, it was only called Thor's hammer because it belonged to Thor. Thor's hammer was actually called Mithrandil. Sorry, being knowledge girl there
• I do love the clearly Celtic decorations on the Viking cross
• I would not have called the people laughing at them a good sign. Oh, those locals know something.
• Scattered bones, never a good sign
• James Earl Jones racking up another voiceover credit.
• Uch, I hate it when Teal’c whips out Junior.
• A God who talks like a lawyer - an oxymoron, no? 
• You know, it must be hard to chair all those intergalactic meetings and deal with all the bureaucracy it entails while wearing a stupid hat like Thor’s.
• Not a Goa'uld trap, but a trap for Goa'uld, it's a whole different thing
• When hearing the phrase “Thor’s hammer”, you can tell Jack is thinking of an actual hammer squishing a Gou’ald.
• No, the next time you want to fight, you pick on someone smaller than yourself.
• I would be far more worried than Daniel and Sam about a woman who talks to thunder
• The sleeves on Kendra’s dress look pretty, but must be a bugger to deal with if she wants to eat soup. It's a pretty dress. Want one 
• What would have happened to them all if it hadn't been the rainy season? Kendra would have just stayed at home
• Unas looks like the creature from the Black Lagoon, or the aliens from 'Earth Girls Are Easy' although not pink
• Teal'c deludes himself
• Hate those omnipresent boonie hats.
• If the mythical Unas is real, you might want to consider that the mythical tales of its regeneration might also be true
• "He knows the secrets of the labyrinth" is the Unas the goblin king or just a Spider from Mars?
• New silly hats! Silly helmets, actually, which appear as if by magic.
• Why not just throw Teal'c through the doorway to the outside, which would mean Thor's hammer could still be used
• Making Daniel blast the hammer was a mean thing to do.
• It's a little concerning that one blast from the staff weapon could destroy the hammer

• I'm with Daniel on this, the lure of TV over physical assessment. Unless I was the one getting to physically assess Daniel
• The scientists horror of incomplete notes 
• Why is someone as intelligent as Daniel naive enough to trust the Pentagon? Glad to see Jack doesn't, although he's known the Pentagon for longer than Daniel has. But then he doesn't trust their competence, whereas I would trust their competence but not their honesty. Jack doesn't trust the Pentagon, despite having taken orders from them for the last twenty years
• How many people out there wouldn't let Daniel in if he knocked at the door?
• Did Daniel edit footage for simplicity's sake? Presumably when he got the video transfer done he just picked the bits he wanted
• The idea of General Hammond as a soft toy- strangely marketable
• Jack quietly undermines Hammond "despite the fact"
• Notice that Jack doesn’t answer Hammond’s questions.
• A hero by any other nationality would smell as sweet
• Anyone going to check the little old lady can handle the extreme physical conditions of going through the gate? 
• That's Hill from 'Cheers'! 
• I would have to agree with Ernest, it's about time
• Oh dear, nobody can handle the naked old man. Why is he naked? 
• Catherine is a tad harsh here. Poor Ernest, I think everyone would have gone slightly nuts
• Jack tries to surreptitiously prod the hydrogen.
• I wonder if one of the extra elements gets to be Ernestium?
• You’ve got to love the way that Daniel actually bounces when he’s excited.
• I thought the chevrons only glowed when they were engaged, not when they were carrying power?
• Oh, they’re going to be bruised after throwing themselves down those steps.
• The DHD oops. Strange how the DHD falls through without at all weakening the surrounding floor and sending SG-1 plunging to their deaths
• Surely Valhalla has nothing to do with information and learning and everything to do with handmaidens and beer? Depends on your idea of heaven, really.
• Daniel's head explodes! Don't tell Tobin! Oh bloody hell
• They need energy they could put Teal'c on a big wheel and make him run
• Did Sam say that static electricity would make the Stargate work? So if they blew up a load of balloons and rubbed them against the stargate long enough, it would work?
• Why shoot it? What would that do except break it?
• Thank you Jack
• The last time I saw RDA doing "the Ben Franklin thing" was in an episode of MacGuyver where he was in Mediaeval times and used it to break open a lock on a cell door. He was at the time wearing a leather doublet and tights. He was also dubbed in German, which I understand just about enough to follow the motor-racing commentary (which involves knowing numbers and 'hydraulic failure') but not nearly enough to understand why he was in the Mediaeval period. The reason he was in the tights was immediately obvious 
• Jack feels left out
• At last, a Greco-Roman mythology reference (this is my subject)! Tantalus was a king who invited the gods round for a feast found he was a little short of groceries, and stewed his son instead. He was punished in Hades by being eternally hungry and thirsty, yet surrounded by fruit and water that moved away whenever he tried to eat or drink (not to be confused with Sisyphus, who was the one with the rock (and a Pink Floyd track named after him) or Prometheus, who was the one with the vulture and the liver (well part of a liver anyway)) Or the one who stole fire from the gods, depending on which version of the myth you’re reading. Yes Prometheus stole fire from the gods, the punishment for that being the rock and the repetitive liver

• This little dream sequence thing always makes me think that I've gone over the beginning of the episode and jumped straight to the middle
• I was going to ask what about the innocent humans you would have to kill to get to the Goa'uld?
• Except Faustian bargains are with the Devil, not with a god
• Good luck Jack, don't trip over your robes
• That shot from behind of Teal'c in the knee-high boots and the short chain mail skirt, doesn't he look uncannily like Buffy? Except you can't see his bra-strap
• Why is he chewing on Daniel? Do you really want me to answer that?
• You know, someone's going to try and swipe some coffee from Sam's thermos and get a really nasty surprise
• Teal'c starts stripping off, maybe we will see his bra-straps after all
• After all this "I would rather die free" crap, he then chooses to let his son live whilst enslaved to the Goa'uld
• They should put Bra'tac in charge of the SGC, he can actually make Jack do as he's told

• Why would Daniel say "Colonel" and not "Jack"
• If he got hit by venting volcanic gas I don't think there would be much to recover. They'd be bringing bits of Daniel back in a shoebox. Can you imagine them draping the American flag over it?
• Does Jack keep the flag even when they know Daniel's okay? If he gets a flag every time Daniel is missing in action, he'd have a closet full by now. Presumably, once they got used to 'losing' Daniel they don't bother with all the palaver of a memorial unless they are really, really sure 
• What stargate did they dial when they sent Daniel's wreath through? They must have dialed a valid address or the wormhole wouldn't have opened
• I always think he's going to take his t-shirt off then and he never does
• Some lucky costume designer/wardrobe assistant had to nip on between takes and sponge Daniel down to make sure he's wet enough
• Can you insure your property against Jack? Fire, theft and acts of Jack
• My sister the professional archaeologist was furious at the amount of stuff Daniel has in his house that should be in a museum
• Ah, this is all the fish-people thing from 'The Sirius Mystery' by um, Robert Temple (I think)
• Daniel throws an almost Lindsey-like tantrum. Stop saying 'I don't know' Daniel. It really upsets him. No sense of self-preservation that man 
• Is that procedure for every time there is an unauthorised opening of the wormhole? Everyone runs to have a good look at the action? 
• That's someone blowing through a straw!
• Daniel and sea water "Hello salty goodness"

• Have these people never seen films about the excavation of ancient temples? It's going to contain a murderous mummy at best 
• Oh, you just had to go and touch the big glowing red thing, didn’t you. Has that particular manoeuvre ever done anybody any good? I don’t think so.
• Goa'uld technology, used to make quick drying, hard wearing, extra glossy nail varnish to last 4000 years
• "The God Ra?" No the well known comedian and variety performer Ra, who the hell do you think she's talking about?
• The cross-pollination of ancient cultures- take 2 cultures, a prevailing wind and get a new hybrid culture resistant to disease and all hayfever medication
• They are all being seduced by a woman, not a twig. She has curves, I mention it because it's so rare
• I want some of that pink dust. Actually, I want a large quantity of that pink dust.
• Ms Hathor? What is the correct title for a deity? “Oh great and mighty" wouldn’t do you any harm.
• After meeting Ra and Apophis and every other Goa'uld why is Jack so skeptical?
• No, I suppose that technically it is Hammond’s facility, but I think it would be a lot more fun if Jack ran it.
• Shouldn't Jack have his shirt tucked in? Aren't the army kinda strict about this? Probably why Jack joined the Air Force.
• Carter fails to find a word suitable for Hathor
• Men. So much the weaker sex.
• “You can trust us.” Speaking as Grammar Girl, I would hesitate to trust anybody who refers to themselves in the plural.
• Hands off my archaeologist! Although she has got good taste, I suppose.
• Either it was extremely pleasurable or Hathor extracted an awful lot of DNA from Daniel Either way…
• Daniel’s getting used to his new role as Base Sex-Toy.
• Jack O'Neill's stomach. Yay
• Carter gets to use her feminine wiles, do those lines work on men not drunk on Hathor power? The seduction technique only works if you’re beautiful.
• I love the way that Teal’c strolls nonchalantly down the hall with Jack thrown across his shoulders like a sack of potatoes.
• "Enemies' weakness"? What the fact that they're men?
• Unpleasant sound effects when they check Jack doesn't have Goa'uld
• When they put Jack in the sarcophagus it is a different mark on his stomach than when Hathor made it
• How did Hathor activate the gate that quickly? And where did she get that hat from? There is probably an officer in charge of the SGC Silly Hat Cupboard that she seduced

• Jack horrifies Daniel by knowing stuff
• We thought Jack only had a telescope to look at the neighbours. And apparently, so did Daniel
• "Welcome To Hanka", Please Drive Safely Through Our Planet
• Teal'c should be wearing a mask, he may not be able to catch anything, but he could breathe it in and exhale it on Earth all over someone who could
• 'Red Dwarf' moment, "everybody's dead Dave"
• Ooh, Doc Frasier gets to make a house call (planet call?)
• "Colonel, someone's in the bushes and they won't come out" Sam gets petulant at being ignored at play time.
• If she wants the tag, let her keep the damn thing
• Physicists are always convinced that photographing distant stars (or similar pointless experiments) will change the course of history. In fact, it usually just changes the course of physics
• "Survived against all odds" now I would have been suspicious about that from the start
• Why give Cassandra a stuffed elephant? Has she ever seen one before?
• Carter’s stick people make their first appearance. Later they will retard the drawing skills of an entire civilisation.
• Love Jack’s technical, precise explanation of a black hole. Jack's military training fails him when he's asked to give an explanation
• Daniel Jackson, archaeologist, anthropologist, linguist, babysitter.
• Give her a banana, she'll be fine
• I'm very impressed that Daniel can make himself comfortable on one of those evil plastic school chairs. That is an amazing sprawl for one of those plastic chairs You have to do a lot of exam cover to learn to sprawl in a chair like that.
• Sub-basement, the very bottom level, so directly under the gateroom then?
• Would SG-1 not have helped an adult left there alone who was immune to the disease, or were they just being cheap and sentimental by using a kid? They were being cheap and sentimental
• Sam catches Jack's insubordination
• And Cassandra completely fails to blow up. What an anti-climax. It's also a total cop out. This "I knew she wouldn't explode" thing completely negates the possibility that Carter was willing to sacrifice her own life rather than abandon Cassandra, which was the entire emotional thrust of the episode. Such a waste
• He could always let the dog walk instead of carting it around everywhere
• Love the little swipe at Canada at the end

• Humans and Brussels Sprouts, I can see where the confusion would arise
• No vengeance, that's a good start
• It's the archaeologists answer to everything. All large structures are either religious or ritual, which is archaeologist for 'we haven't got the faintest idea what it's for' (not to be confused with ceremonial, which means 'we have a vague idea that it was something important')
• Daniel's historical knowledge gets them nowhere
• Jack bows to general opinion and is not sole counsel for the defence
• Defending Teal'c, brings to mind digging ditches and building palisades. And people standing halfway up, pouring oil on attackers
• Bit of a "Flash Gordon approaching" moment there Jack
• "Anyone who has a mind has an opinion" that's patently untrue
• As Jack once again judges with inapplicable standards. the Cor-Ai sounds fairly just to me
• What is the point of not answering when the only reason not to answer is if the answer is yes, so by not answering, everyone knows that you did it but won't admit it
• You can't use the chain of command defence here, due to Teal'c having betrayed Apophis. If he did it for SG-1 why not for these people? Practicalities aside, it's a fair argument
• "Absorption" seems a strange word to use there
• "You have a very lovely existence" Bet he says that to all the girls 
• "Hiding", place you go to hide obviously
• Hanno as a child looks very much like Hanno as an adult
• Why kangaroo court? Are they particularly judgmental animals?
• Well, knock him out, find a cart from somewhere, load him on it with a little help and push him out of there himself. I'm not sure Jack could carry him that far
• Michael Shanks overacting a little here. He's a complete drama queen in fact 
• The USA seems to stick its oar in everywhere, so that is patently untrue. What Hammond means is that it would be inconvenient
• I have to say that those are very pretty patterns they are painting on Teal'c. Is it just me or is there something strangely sexy about that sequence? Maybe it's just all that bare skin
• Jack regresses away from projectile weapons and trips up the serpent guard
• Erm, where exactly did Teal'c stab that serpent guard?
• Bloody noble fool
• He was being metaphorical Teal'c

• How long ago did they send the probe?
• Saying "don't help us" won't work when they know you're alive They just can't leave you there
• They're very clean for people who've just been round a volcano
• It is extremely arrogant of Hammond to assume that we're the most advanced possible human culture
• "Better safe than cocktails"
• Although Hammond is not nearly as arrogant as the Tollan. Sorry, but as a race they really, really piss me off
• Daniel with coffee. He spends the next five years with it welded to his palm
• So they want her to flirt with the aliens to gain information? Just call her Mata Hari
• It's not often a man will still make a pass at you after you told him he was dirty. That probably depends on the tone of voice you use when you say it
• Narim was lucky to see the bald eagle as they're fairly rare
• Schrodinger! I like Schrodinger
• You can guarantee whatever state the cat's in, it's going to be extremely pissed off when you open the lid
• I know who and what you are, you are a rude tosspot who hasn't even evolved enough to be polite. Given their behaviour at that table, I'd say the Minoans were far more civilised.  If Omoc  had grown up in our house he wouldn't be allowed to have manners like that
• Great reactions to the Tollan walking through walls
• Yay! The truly, truly wonderful Colonel Maybourne
• I like the idea of "failing upwards"
• Everyone gets upset about being called primitive. Unfortunately, by this point I'd be tempted to prove them right by exercising my primitive nature and punching in one of the Tollan in the mouth
• Daniel being shown the working face of secret military politics. He'll never vote again
• The not folding space thing, interesting
• Oh, and Daniel, there's also an Earth custom called knocking...
• That really was a "Flash Gordon approaching" moment from Maybourne
• The very young do not always do as they are told. Ain't it good to be young?

• They broke the stargate!
• Oh look, Daniel’s natural state – unconsciousness. Impressively, he not only knocks himself out, but very nearly takes General Hammond out as well
• Well, if they’re not in Kansas, they must be in Trouble. State capital, Oops
• Obviously the SGC engineers refuse to be bullied like the Star Trek ones are – Hammond barks out the usual “I’ll give you half that time” line and the engineer refuses to budge. Good for him.
• Teal'c seems to spend this entire episode doing nothing but stand around looking threateningly muscular
• Yes, you count skull fractures
• Daniel very impressively, doesn't react with a startled 'neaagh!' when he wakes up to find Teal'c looming over him
• For a man just come around from unconsciousness, Daniel’s having an awfully big conversation.
• Make up your mind Jack, either she thinks negative thoughts, or she puts a splint on your ribs, your choice
• "Except for the part that this whole trip happens outside our dimension…yeah" That man sensibly refuses to give any answer that he could be held to when the shit hits the fan. The military have a saying (no, really) "Shit rolls downwards." In short don't be where the buck stops 
• Is Earth actually in the centre of the stargate system?
• Hah!  Daniel uses Post-Its! I’m not alone in my obsession.
• "It's hard to sleep with broken ribs when someone's lying on you" The Stargate writers toy with and then laugh at the shippers. Never more so than "It's my sidearm, I swear"
• Why don't they try dialing up another planet? Although to be fair, I didn't think of it for ages and they they do have internal injuries, sleep deprivation and hypothermia as well. I thought of it straight away, but then I spend all my free time trying to get connected to the internet, and if one server won't do it in five minutes, you naturally try another one
• Sam tries to reboot the Stargate. The DHD equivalent of Ctrl+Alt+Delete
• Poor Teal'c is a little perplexed to find Daniel staring intently at a glass of water
• Shouldn't someone (or some machine) apart from Daniel have recorded the stargate shaking?
• "It's an ice planet" just goes to show that perspective is everything
• Wheee!
• They waited until Hammond had flown all the way down from Colorado before moving them out of the cave?
• Hammond says, “Let’s get these people home!” Surely it should be “Let’s get these people to a hospital!”
• Diminuendo sent me a sample tape of Stargate's best eps to get me interested. This ep was halfway through the first tape and was the first which made me think 'this isn't just funny, it's quite good too' mostly cos the conclusion is so unexpected 

• This is also the title of a Star Trek Next Gen episode. One day I hope to add them to these pages - but only after persuading the webmistress and doing a hell of a lot of work. You do the fringedwellings and I'll put them up...
• The universe's second least convincing air hostess?
• Advanced technology, so Jack kicks it to see if it will work. Nice.
• I like the nifty black outfits, a little Star Trek-y but not bad
• Why has Daniel not noticed his lack of glasses? He never usually notices the lack of glasses in situations where most people who need them would be stumbling around blindly crashing into things. I'm more worried about Teal'c not noticing his missing symbiote
• This is a truly wonderful greeting to go round trilling at people who are having a really, really bad day. It always makes them feel much better
• Slight note of genuine sympathy from Jack then
• It's called mental arithmetic Daniel, you do it a lot in British schools
• Surely that must have hurt? And I would worry about people who mutilate themselves on a whim. I'm worried nobody rushed to stop him 
• Will deadly force actually hurt them? You know, usually that would be a dumb  question
• Wouldn't real Jack be more angry about being locked up?
• Military intelligence. Coughoxymoroncough
• Why send for Dr Fraiser? Surely a mechanic would be better 
• Hammond is quite quick to dump them isn't he? What if it had been their consciousnesses (is that the plural of consciousness?) that had been trapped? 
• Irritating as he is, you've got be be a little sorry for Harlan, it's not surprising he cracked up
• Carter always gets on very well with herself doesn't she? Whereas Jack always seems to wind himself up
• Fake Jack should warn real Jack that when they get back to the SGC Dr Fraiser is going to do a shed load of bloodwork on them

• Jack the Butlin's red coat
• Why does Jack just not say 'Radioactive'? This galvanised him before
• If Daniel has the remote activation device how does he figure they all left him there alone?  They wouldn't leave Daniel by himself. Yeah, they know how much trouble he can get into when he's left alone. 
• Daniel found his glasses far too quickly for someone who actually needs them to see. Trust me, there’s a lot more cautious patting and swearing involved.
• Does Colonel Hammond get to dash off through the Stargate and lead missions and stuff? Cause that would be cool
• Hammond's fatigues are more camouflage-y than Jack's. No Jack wears those too, just his body's usually covered up by the black vest and guns and stuff. Just proves I should spend more time looking at his ass then
• Apparently they've been some kind of wacky dream
• Does Daniel ever actually close his mouth in this episode?
• Nice to see that whilst most of the world has been taken over by the Goa'uld, Wales is still safe. Because it's a bloody difficult country to invade, or the Goa'uld are allergic to rugby. Or possibly, the Goa'uld saw them play rugby and decided they just weren't a threat. Although comfortingly on second look, Devon seems quite safe too
• "Lost" not in the losing Daniel sense
• What kind of database is he pulling this information off?
• Daniel's so cute when he's right
• I'm pretty sure I wouldn't doom my world to eradication on a load of suppositions.
• That's possibly the greatest dramatic line 'Stargate' has ever had, "well apparently you and I have never met"
• Love Teal'c's pony tail
• Why couldn't they all go to the beta site and then send Daniel to his planet afterwards? Or all go to Daniel's planet and then the beta site 
• If it’s a question of “Everybody’s dead, Dave” on Chulak, who sent word to Teal’c?
• That's a pretty damn grand scheme of things, John Ford grand, or possibly even epic. So Cecil B de Mille epic 
• Daniel runs into shot and his hair follows a second or two later
• Pained howl, that'll be Daniel then

• Physics makes even less sense than regulations 
• "Our boy"?
• When they turn it on it's the drain through which the money flows, now it's just a really big circle
• Kinsey confuses the entire SGC with trite metaphors
• He does actually kind of have a point here, although he is wrong. Kinsey says everything about the military I've been saying for years, and saying more loudly since the 'war on terrorism'. It's a shame someone so right is so incredibly annoying 
• Regret taking on the United States?? Can I just say ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Fair point. That's when he lost me too 
• Nice 'ID4' reference...
• Nobody ever actually pronounces it like that
• I do like the way they fade through a different colour each time, not just via black
• SG-1 are just really, really lucky
• Note inserted movie effects
• Ok - after the 'I don't know about other worlds but I have to put this country first' I have to officially conclude that Kinsey is a prick 
• In Daniel's defence, he doesn't even mention the alternate universe part, the others should have just gone with it. He doesn't understand that, so he won't be convinced by it
• Oh right. God'll, stop it. Rational argument there, Senator
• "Buried the gate" whereupon they will enslave you and you'll have no means of escape
• They should let Teal'c go home at the very least

• Is it even possible to order someone to disobey a direct order? However, if they save the world nobody will give a damn about them disobeying orders
• The first appearance of the little black saving-the-world suits. Do they only wear the black gear when they deliberately disobey orders and subsequently save the world? Pretty much yeah
• What's the point of them all kneeling before the thing transmits. Cause there's no point having a show of respect that he can't actually see
• "Officially" and "primary", General Hammond throws an escape clause to the back-up team, just in case they want to kick a little Goa'uld butt whilst they're out there
• In layman's terms Jack, you're screwed
• Alexis Cruz is really cute
• Skaara has weird teeth
• Ah the endless corridors of the mother ship, that are actually the same 10 feet of corridor that they run up and down in different directions
• Shouldn't Skaara be calling out for Jack first?
• Teal'c needs to talk faster, or possibly just put a hand out
• The way he leans forward is sexy too (Klorel, not Teal'c). You're saying he has a sexy lean?