stargate season three

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Into The Fire

How could anybody forget Major Davis?
Colonel Makepeace's revelation would have been so much more dramatic if we hadn't already had it revealed to us
Nifty new titles. Disappointingly, these are only on the video release and not a permanent fixture, cause they do kick ass
And how they usually do things around here is by disobeying orders and doing unfeasible things because they feel like it
What if all the volunteers had to take one step backwards?
No, no the grey doesn't bother anyone
The symbiote makes a bid for freedom, and Teal'c is attacked by a carpet
I always feel sorry for the actors in the snakehead suits, they cannot be able to see a thing.
When you witness something, it's always through your own eyes
Hathor really can't keep her hands off Jack's lovely new hair. Makes short work of his shirt though
I'm starting to wonder how far we'll get through this episode before Daniel actually makes an expression
Area is empty - secure would be a very different thing
Did they bring spare camouflage or has some kind marine lent Sam his jacket in case she starts to feel the cold?
Love Teal'c's one-upmanship on Apophis "false god, dead false god"
Could Sam not have mentioned that they won't penetrate it before they wasted half of their ammunition trying?
Love Daniel's bravado
Hathor falls prey to the mistake of all villains, when you're being attacked, kill them all. Trying to take them alive just make it easier for them to survive and then kill you
You know, I think I’ve cracked an SG-1 code. Whenever any member of the cast says “With all due respect”, what they actually mean is “With absolutely no respect whatsoever”. Guess the main culprit? It took 3 seasons? No, in Tobin's defence, this was one of the first episodes she saw
Major Davis gets to break all the bad news to General Hammond. I think the president is too scared to do it personally
Daniel looks at Makepeace's gun with a sort of confused horror, "what the hell is this?"
It's a lie, Hammond isn't surgically attached to the SGC and he can survive in other environments
In answer to Colonel Makepeace's question, find the power source and nuke it
Hathor really can move can't she? And quietly too
Destroy them for this? As opposed to destroying them for all the other crap they've pulled over the past two years
Jack and Sam cling together like there's no tomorrow whilst they catch up on current events
Sudden realisation that these two episodes are just a way to have a cool looking show without spending any money on new sets
How does he know Sam is out there? Or has he just been shouting into an empty treeline for the past half an hour just in case she can hear him?
Jack has vehicle envy
I think that life should contain more “Yee-haw!” moments, personally.
Michael Shanks is an autumnal person, but with terrible hair

Seth

Sam and Daniel have less in common than they think
Just how many Goa'uld are hiding out on this planet anyway?
Gives lying to yourself a whole new meaning. Can a tok'ra and its host stop talking to each other if they have a spat?
Who are the Seth guards guarding if Seth hasn't been seen for thousands of years?
Teal’c has such a cool laugh. Teal'c's joke is amusing if not hilarious. I'm ashamed to say it, but I laughed
I’m a bit worried about how much Daniel trusts the internet for his sources. If we can have a website…
Cult leader one-upmanship 'well, ours can make his eyes glow, I bet your cult leader can't do that'
This is going to be a theme, I can tell, but Daniel has such a stupid hat on in this episode.
Is there such a word as surveilled? If it is a word, it shouldn't be
Possibly it's just a nosy guy mending the overhead cables?
I'm with Spike on this, no such thing as overkill, you can't kill somebody too much
I would really love to know what those hand signals mean because Jack looked like he was a stranded synchronised swimmer. It means yell real loud so all the Goa'uld that don't know we're coming have a sporting chance
Male egos abound in the Jack/ATF guy pissing contest.
Seth is so cool. He does however wipe all memories of Sam's life and then ask her questions about it, which is not clever. Love his throne though, and the hardwood flooring, which is not cheap
Nice armoury
Has Seth saved all those zat guns or does he know how to make them?
Oh no! Not a Magic Eightball! How will they survive?

Fair Game

A politician- that bodes
A man of very few appropriate words maybe, but few words, no
Well that was unexpected
Thor doesn't knock or anything before beaming Jack up
The Asgard chose Jack to negotiate for Earth's safety? I thought they were on our side?
You see, they do have Sokar as the equivalent of Hades, i.e. Osiris
So Earth was spilt up amongst lots and lots of Goa'uld? Why was Earth spilt up whereas all the other planets tend to have only one Goa'uld as ruler? How come we got lumbered with the entire pantheon?
Jack is making puns at the expense of Chinese Goa'ulds, I fear more for Earth's safety by the second
Bless Daniel for seeing to the petty needs of the Goa'uld
I notice no one translates what Teal'c says to Chronos
So Goa'ulds might end up defending Earth from other Goa'uld? That would be a fun situation
Damn those Asgard, they really are impartial
Oh Crap, Teal'c
It might be nobody's friend, but at the moment a vague disclaimer might be their best weapon
Jack and Hammond have some kind of bizarre communication-by-facial-tic thing going on

Legacy

Daniel really needs to start shutting his mouth occasionally, grim cobwebby corridor like that, all sorts of things could fly in
Ex Goa'uld to be precise
Love Jack's attitude (don't I always) to the dead Goa'ulds "let's leave this to the medical containment unit, this is getting creepy"
Were you expecting the eyes to glow? Cause I was
Is that SG-1's private little dressing room?
That's a very fetching bathrobe. Yay!
Daniel worries about his sanity
This week it's Daniel out of laundry sync
Hey, at least Jack's trying. Anyone else want to try coming up with a theory?
Daniel worries some more about his sanity
If it's not real why are you reaching out to touch it Daniel?
There's a Goa'uld in my closet dear Liza, dear Liza. There's a Goa'uld in my closet dear Liza, a Goa'uld. (Then zat it dear Henry...)
What is Jack doing with that I.V. fluid and shouldn't someone tell him to stop?
Daniel choosing to ignore that "through your closet" remark
Dr Fraiser looks shifty at having given up medical files
Migraines are also a sign of stress, take it from one who's suffered from them for the past ten years. Traveling to other planets and the risk involved with alien contact could be considered stressful
You would hope that soldiers sent into battle would not have delusions at the beginning, middle or end of a crisis
Would you describe Jack O'Neill as calming?
I like the way Daniel's surprised about not having a wormhole in his cupboard
That's a kick ass hallucination Daniel's having. Particularly the way the little goa'uld practically pops it's head up and waves 'hello'
That's so cool. When the little thingy moves up Daniel's face it bumps the arm of his glasses as it goes past under his skin
If you don't think Daniel needs a hug at this point you have had your heart cut out and replaced with styrofoam packaging
Not very well, they've taken his glasses away
Treating is the word, overtreating is more like it
Oh, Daniel
One of the many reasons that no-one should be told that seeing is believing
Jack's right, there is nothing worse
A normal expression of frustration is treated as a sign of aggression to be treated, sedated away. 'THX1138' anyone? This is what has always bothered me about these things - when you come right down to it how do you tell the difference between a whacko and a bloke having a really bad day? To be fair to the psychiatrists, Daniel is actually having paranoid hallucinations. He saw a goa'uld in his closet for crying out loud, you can hardly put this down as a misdiagnosis
Jack is uncomfortable with the word 'nuts'
Daniel is perfectly happy with the more specific 'schizophrenic'
Daniel using the guilt factor of the little room to full effect
Big whoa
"Likewise Colonel," Janet's wondering if she could punch Jack now whilst she can still enjoy it. She can always blame it on Ma'chello later
As Sam begins to regret not cleaning out the wax in her ears more regularly
No! Not a centrifuge! I've spend far too many dull Monday afternoons watching those things spin round. Just seeing the word on an method sheet used to give you chills
Jack in the name of scientific research picks up his organism and throws it across the room
Ma'chello obviously didn't make them that smart (it's a good job)

Learning Curve

The stargate has gone all pink. It’s like Laura Ashley got in there and went bananas
Oh look, Daniel actually gets to do some archaeology. For a consultant archaeologist, he doesn’t get to do a lot.
Doesn't Merrin know you never ask a lady her age?
Teal'c eyes the child with some suspicion
"So you're not as smart as Major Carter and Doctor Fraiser?" just say no Jack, you know it's true
"While they were stuck in school" it's called skiving Jack
Daniel is so excited about his dig bless him
Funny how these people who are descended from a civilisation that pre-dated the Aztecs all look like they come from Northern Europe.
I would have got suspicious about this Ovarium business near the beginning. Anything that you have to “undergo” or “go through” can’t be good.
I am going to finally have the definitive hat rant. Is the wardrobe department mad? The baseball caps are alright, I suppose, and sometimes Daniel wears the sort-of-sexy bandana thing, but those ridiculous boonie hats have to go. Nobody can wear them and not look ridiculous. Teal’c is the only character to escape this stupid hat ritual by steadfastly refusing to wear one, though I suppose if you go through the bother of shaving your head, then you really don’t want to cover it up. In this episode, the only person to really suffer in the hat department is the young girl, who has a bizarre white rag tied around her head. Other aliens also get stupid hats, and they’ll be commented on later.
Sam subtly checks she hasn't been drooling in her sleep
Yelling at the poor kid won't help, Teal'c
It is their culture and their way of doing things and they are happy with it, don't go in judging with inapplicable standards
Daniel could do with a bit of a wash and a shave, he's starting to get that unkempt archaeologist look about him
Hmm, wonder what exactly it was that happened when Sam turned 15...
It’s amazing how ‘reversing the polarity’ always seems to make highly advanced technical doodads work, isn’t it?
Not having permission has never stopped Jack before and won't again
Ooh, Sam's reactor explosion merits a call from the red phone
Ordered to do what exactly?
So Jack decides to give her a taste of fun when she knows she has to go back and give it up? That's just cruel
How does being yelled at about her choice of paintings qualify as fun?
General Hammond really does let them get away with murder. Is Jack blackmailing him with something?
Something that I’ve noticed but never commented on before is the well, uniform way of dressing amongst the members of SG-1. They have their standard green uniforms, the nice dark blue when they feel like a change, the desert camouflage for hot planets, the cute ponchos for wet ones, the all black ensemble for stealth missions and Sam and Jack get posh blue dress uniforms if they’re let out of the mountain. Whatever they wear, though, they always wear the same colour. If one wears the green, they all wear the green. Except in this episode, where Sam is out of synch with everybody else. She wears the blue, they wear green. Later she changes to green to discover that they have changed to the blue! What happened here? Did she spill coffee down herself and upset the delicate laundry balance in the SGC?
I probably shouldn't mention it, but by stopping the nanyte learning thing, they've probably halted the progression of the entire civilisation
Maybe somebody might have taught her to do something more advanced than a stick man. An entire culture will be learning a legacy of stick men art. How do you draw a Goa’uld in the stick man school? Would it be just a line? ‘Cos things could get quite confusing
As far as I know, there aren't any purple dogs, except possibly a few that were hanging around at the kind of party where colouring your dog with hair dye seems like a good idea

Point Of View

I do love the way they manage to bring back Kowalski at every available opportunity
Presumably they just aimed for a reality that looked like Earth and wasn't actually exploding at the time
Jack has multiple reality trauma
Daniel, very maturely, doesn't spend this entire episode running round going "see, I told you so, I told you there were alternate realities"
All the realities are real, they're just alternate
At least having a double means Sam doesn't have to do all the exposition by herself
"Understands what the hell you're talking about," it's possible Jack, but unlikely
Wow, talk about stand-offs, I half-expected one of the Sams to growl “This reality ain’t big enough for the both of us” under her breath.
They put Sam in Daniel's going mad room. If the Goa'uld is still in the closet, she's going to be really freaked out
Jack looks very handsome in his wedding photo
Jack hates clichés, but in the alternate reality Sam and Jack are married? Looks like a whopper of a cliché to me.
However, the fact that nobody was willing to tell Sam that Samantha was married to her Jack seemed really unfair to me. There are things to remain tactfully silent about, and things that need to be said, and this needed to be said.
Entropic cascade failure, I've had mornings like that
It's not totally unreasonable that Kowalski doesn't trust Teal'c
Teal'c's looking on the bright side again
Hammond has no idea what they're yammering on about, so he's just going to say yes, and pray to God that they do
I know that he managed to use the mirror device properly in the end, but didn’t anybody have even the smallest twinge of worry when Daniel was given the remote control, after what happened the last time?
So the one remote will work on any mirror?
Jack has an entropic cascade moment of his own when the Carters try to explain how they got the machine to work
Those little black saving the world suits again. And Teal'c gets to wear his Buffy costume as well
So, if it's safe for Teal'c to go, why can't Sam go?
Alternate Teal'c has far too much composure to simply leap backwards and go "gaahh" when he sees his double
So everyone gets to kick ass, except Daniel who has to stand in a cupboard
Perhaps this comes from watching too much Stargate in too little time, but I found myself wondering exactly what ‘Kree’ means about two minute before Jack asks Daniel for an exact translation.
I'm slightly frightened by alternate Apophis' goatee
The reality with the beach looked kind of nice
Oh for goodness sake, will the nasty big aliens please stop hitting the archaeologist? It’s not fair, he can’t fight back.
One in which Apophis is allegedly dead anyway
The Asgard must have got one hell of a move on to get to Earth that quickly
Sam is not unreasonably weirded out by her other self kissing Jack. And possibly just a little jealous. Although alternate Sam probably doesn't have alien boyfriends scattered the length and breadth of the galaxy

Deadman Switch

Owww!
Surely those bullets would have gone ricocheting round the red glowing thing until they hit someone? And surely Jack should have thought of that?
That would be so cool if they weren't prisoners there
Good grief, silly hats abound. Silly helmets even
Boch is completely lost by the Earth honours system. "A doctor." "Of archaeology..."
I would happily trade a day’s rations for Daniel personally, even now when I’ve got fancy chocolates from the parents. I'd give a day's rations for Daniel too. Yep, so would I. In fact, as it works out at about £16, I'd give a week's rations for Daniel
Having a Reduced Shakespeare Company moment Everybody hates the Goa'uld
Daniel's flycatching
Are you allowed to say "Good thinking" without adding "Batman" on the end?
You have to say Beetlejuice three times for it to work
Baroca sesame
720 (yes, I know, I'm sad, but it'd irritate me if I didn't know)
Does the size of the hand device matter?
Is there nothing this Tok'ra doesn't know?
I can’t believe that the only usable take they had of the scene in the forest where Jack and Teal’c think they’ve overcome the bounty hunter is the take where Richard Dean Anderson nearly falls on his face.
Someone actually calls them ‘Earthlings’!

Demons

Wow, Jack’s on fine form, two wisecracks in less than a minute.
Trees etc, that would be Vancouver again then
Yes Jack, God
Strange that they’ve waited three seasons to do this story, when it seems such an obvious one to do.
Aaargh, huge medieval history rant. Granted, Daniel is an archaeologist whose speciality is thousands of years ago and they have to give this information to him because nobody else would conceivably know it, but he is very wrong. He confuses the Middle Ages, dated by historians from c.1000AD to the late 1500sAD with the Dark Ages, which are considered to be pre 1000AD. The reason they are called the Dark Ages is not because of the torturous medical practices such as trepanning. To be honest, we don’t know what they did back then. They are called the Dark Ages because to historians they are dark – there are no sources to enlighten us. Even if the English on the stone pedestal in the village square is pre-Chaucerian, that would still put it in the early Middle Ages, not the Dark Ages. All the ‘authentic’ practices of the Dark Age villagers - the witch-hunts, the trepanning, the language - come squarely from the Middle Ages. Sorry, their take on ancient Egypt may be very good but they need to go back to the classroom for a few history lessons.
"Are in fact a species" Teal'c couldn't have weighed in with this information sooner?
"Are we not in God's hands?" Not a definite answer then
The evil Canon is the only person with a silly hat in this episode.
Shouldn't a Canon and servant of God be resisting the demon? Not calmly (or manically in this case) handing over his congregation (and yeah, I know it's not exactly inaccurate to have clergy from the Middle ages be nothing but power-hungry mini dictators, but still)
Even the dog slinks away from Teal'c
Is there any reason beyond his usual stoicism that Teal’c isn’t screaming in agony? Why can't Teal'c just say 'ow'? Because he would just say it, slowly and clearly, and it wouldn't be very convincing
The big question, does Teal'c float? Apparently not
Trepanning wasn't a ritual, it was just a medical practice, and in a lot of cases, quite a successful one
Teal'c wakes up, this is not going to help
Couldn't Jack shoot Daniel himself? Why does he have to delegate?
Does Christopher Judge get paid extra for voicing the Unas (or Quetzacotl)?

Rules Of Engagement

Can I just say Huh?!?
This time the flag really is in case they forget what country they're fighting for
You would have thought, serving with Daniel for three years, Jack would have gotten used to being mouthed off at by people with no or lower rank. Although Daniel doesn't usually shout, yell yes, but shout no
Some punishment, "you must execute me for the remainder of the day"
"Know much", but somehow not nearly enough...
Poor Daniel getting undermined there
Could Jack think of a less convincing excuse than 'rain stopped play'? Bad light perhaps?
Rhetorical question Nelson
Possible wolf logic from Nelson there
Oh Daniel is way smart
They should sedate Rogers
I think Hammond could get used to that "My Lord" thing, and some unquestioning obedience wouldn't go amiss either
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people." "Yes, but guns save so much time." Nice 'Drop The Dead Donkey' quote for you there
Which, very shortly, they do
Under tuna torture I would crack like an egg
Poor old SG-11, I think they must be cursed
I know they don't want to mollycoddle him, but in a strictly military situation like this, why are they taking Daniel?
Did they manufacture the tau'ri weapons or have they stolen them from various SG teams?

Forever In A Day

Good shot, always nice to see a woman with a rocket launcher
I thought that the small tank was a golf cart, and it would only be slightly less deadly if it was
The wafty fabric tent is standing up quite well to some sustained automatic weapons fire
Why didn't Teal'c just zat her?
Better than grapes
Daniel and I have the same birthday!
I have to say that throughout this episode Christopher Judge does a really good job of acting emotion yet keeping Teal'c's stoic exterior, which can't be easy
That's a very, very nice jumper
How exactly do you check that you're living in a free country?
Um, naked Daniel, naked Daniel
Technically, her grave should be boat-shaped, but most of the rest is very accurate (or nothing that can't be explained as changes through time)
I love Daniel's apartment by the way, and he has some lovely swords on his wall
Daniel worries even more about his sanity
If Daniel's quit, should he be allowed to go running around the base?
Jack feels a terrible need to argue with Daniel on sheer principle here

Past And Present

I wonder if Teal'c's mother got a say?
They don't know how it works Jack, they can't remember
Love Jack's little eye roll at Daniel's flirting
There's an oddly Monty Python look to those flying airships
Dr Frasier just wants these people the hell out of her infirmary
"Wife?" Daniel thinks to himself "There was something about a wife?"
He's managing to look less than embarrassed about having sex with the Destroyer of Worlds, although he really needs to shut the door so the Air Force guys don't get an eyeful
"It's up to you Sirs" it must be so nice being a Major sometimes
So what happened to all the young people on the planet?

Jolinar's Memories

No pressure then, "No one but Jolinar"
I wonder if Jack would be so keen if they knew how Jolinar got out?
Jack considers putting down a deposit for a place in hell
Why don't they give them a decent ship and beat it up on the outside?
She spends all night with Martouf, leaving her in perfect combat readiness for the next day
Martouf is so lovely
So you hide the weapons Martouf, get with it
So, they’ll be launched from a great distance at a very high speed in ominous, coffin shaped pod things towards a planet manipulated to resemble hell? No wonder Daniel isn’t too keen.
What’s with the Oz references? They crop up all over the place, with two in this episode. Perhaps we should have a separate Oz reference chart.
So, this is hell. All it’s missing is the Shania Twain music.
"At least it's a dry heat" Jack morphs into Hudson from 'Aliens'
Always gotta be a pit. Is it the pit of despair? And is it the weapons going in the pit or SG-1?
There's no way to break that well Sam
Why do people always ask "Are you okay?", when he quite clearly isn't okay at all
Good grief, they manage to strip most of the male extras to the waist, why don’t they do the same to Daniel?
That's so cool, Sokar's eyes glow red
Martouf needs to talk faster, not stop talking, like Angel braking so as not to run the demon over
Yep, a rescue mission that involves leaving the rescuee behind, really is kind of pointless
Teal'c is a little busy due to being under attack
Oh BUGGER

The Devil You Know

Apophis, aka the Phantom of the Opera
Apophis is back from his dead break
"A communication device" damn
Poor Teal’c, he must have had a huge shock. There he is, orbiting the planet in the rescue ship, being bald and inscrutable, when out of nowhere the voice of someone he used to worship as a god comes booming out of the radio, threatening a slow and painful death. Not the way I’d want to be communicated with by a deity, false or not.
Wouldn't you love to answer the phone with "this is your god here"
How come Sokar let Apophis become first prime at all? I know Goa'uld aren't exactly reliable when it comes to getting rid of their enemies, but actually giving them weapons seems particularly stupid
How long before Teal’c hits the Tok’ra? About twenty minutes.
Martouf has his ritual suicide face on
If you're going to have a member of SG-1 for entertainment it may as well be Jack. I now have mental image of him as the court jester in the red and yellow tights. And with a bladder on a stick
Explaining Jacob's death to his grandkids would be difficult
Please let Martouf be lying
Oh good, he is
Yep, Sokar has a serious Apophis block. He actually believes this "in your service" crap?
Poor Aldwyn, he's like the Tok'ra equivalent of Major Davis, only he has to break bad news to Teal'c
Apophis obviously spent his time on Earth well, he watched 'Taxi Driver'. Or possibly 'Angel'
Surely Alaska's cold most times of the year?

Foothold

I do love the wet-weather ponchos.
"Did I mention the rain?" that's not Keb, that's Wales
He's got mushrooms growing out of where?
Jack needs to tilt his head to one side to let the water run out
So, Dr. Fraiser has to stick a needle in the arse of everybody who goes on an SG mission? Why is that? I think that she’s frustrated because she’s never allowed to go anywhere or do anything, so she takes it out on the people that do. However it does bring a new dimension to having your ears syringed
That shot knocked them out quickly, especially since it was intramuscular and should have taken much longer than that to have an effect
RDA does cover a bed well doesn't he? After you've worn him out with one thing or another, you can use him as a throw. Kind of like my Ferrari flag, which has been a bedspread for several years and is now doing duty as a roller blind
Is there any reason the aliens keep their disguises on all the time? Other than the fact that it saves on the special effects
Things you find in the best military hospitals, elevator boys with Uzis
Teal'c happened to them- poor them
That gas worked quickly too
How does Sam know Maybourne's mobile number?
Of course the base wasn’t designed to keep people in, otherwise it would be a jail.
I love how Daniel and Jack were trying to look faintly menacing in their civilian clothes and shades, but end up looking faintly ridiculous.
Have I been conditioned by endless sci-fi to believe the one lone crusader to the world despite all evidence to the contrary? You're not the only one, it's this 'anyone running from the authorities must automatically be innocent' thing again
Wow, did they use Air Force One to get Sam back to the base?
Does Daniel need glasses or not?
Sam pointedly doesn't drink the juice fake!Daniel gives her
On behalf of Major Davis, ouch
Jack just has to poke around with the alien technology doesn't he?
Expressions of mutual distrust...
Got the water out of your ears now Jack?
Love Jack completely unable to manage a smile for Maybourne

Pretense

It's Schrodinger- the Tollan used a cat as advance warning
How many aliens does Sam have a flirtatious understanding with?
Jack has Stargate envy Yes, love Jack's Stargate envy
The exteriors of the Tollan planet must have been filmed at a university, that looks suspiciously like a campus to me.
Jack, if you're dead you won't have much use for the money and how would you explain the compensation to your next of kin?
Isn't the forcefield pretty?
Evil Zipacna looks unconscionably smug for someone in such a silly hat On the silly hat scale, the evil Zipacna must be rating an eight at least.
Interesting, do the Goa'uld really believe that nothing of the host remains and if they don't shouldn't they be called out for lying to the Triad?
Ok, so Daniel is calling him out
The Tollan's superior technology is making them complacent
Cunning bastard

Urgo

Oh dear, Jack wasn’t ever a real contender in the wise aphorism contest, was he? Although running with scissors is dangerous.
How come Hammond hasn't just slapped Jack at least once?
Has Jack gone nuts? Please say yes
You say goodbye, and I say hello... etc etc
How come they don't hit the iris when they come back? Do Urgo's creators deactivate it? If they'd sent a GDO message first then Hammond wouldn't look so surprised to see them
Or to the best of your knowledge it wasn't
Trust me, drinking half a gallon of coffee straight from the filter jug is unusual, but not impossible. Some mornings it's positively necessary
Teal'c obviously drinks milk out of the carton. And probably puts the empty carton back in the fridge when he's finished
First of all, I'm bothered by the blue jelly
The SGC has been invaded by a task force of vastly intelligent, technologically superior chefs
I like Urgo. I know people like Urgo. I went to school with people like Urgo, even down to the vocabulary and characteristics. Although without the facial hair.
I love the way Hammond and Frasier are huddled together as far away from SG-1 as possible
After all the 'me'ing, I'd take my chances with Urgo's creators
Meaning they're sane but afflicted
Oh dear, "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"?
I’ve never understood the purpose of the person who has to say things like “Chevron seven engaged”. They seem to do nothing else, and anyone who can count and look out of the window at the same time can see exactly how many chevrons are locked.
Okay, equally valid question, how come Daniel hasn't slapped Jack yet? Just how much blackmail information does O'Neill have on these people?
Communal changing rooms in a system that does not allow relationships between serving officers? Seems a bit odd to me. Especially since it seems as though SG-1 have their own private little room just with uniforms for the four of them

A Hundred Days

Her laptop battery must last for ever
Mothers galaxy wide, all the same
That's a very clear geological record
Doc Fraiser almost gets to leave the mountain
The gate must be buried
Always a catch isn't there, having to build your own particle beam
That is a really super edit through the "three months later" part
I bet whatever they're drinking in those pottery cups is lethal. Anything served in cups that small has to be
There's only so much patience a girl can have, I wouldn't have waited three months
We all know what part she wants, and who can blame her?
Jack is not a hoarder of stuff
Bad memories or not, you wouldn't have thought they'd throw away perfectly good cloth
Usually in episodes like this you wonder whether the rescue team will succeed, but in this case you know they will, but are kind of hoping they won't

Shades Of Grey

British spelling of 'grey'. Do you think they had two title cards one for each spelling?
Hammond's never-ending optimism...
That's stealing Jack, not the type of thing you do to allies you want to keep
Yeah, but on Teal'c that could have meant anything
That will be the Tollan, and they are pissed
As Jack behaves like a recalcitrant adolescent
You would have thought that at Jack's age it wouldn't be early retirement anymore, not from the military anyway
Interesting fact, you can only drink American or Canadian beer with a finger hooked over the neck like that, British beer bottles are the wrong shape, they don't balance
Jack crossed the line and fell into Maybourne's sandbox
Well, that won't take long...
Glad to see that Daniel has some sense of self-preservation and doesn't trust Jack's command
There's that nice font for the on-screens again
You can tell Jack is up to something by the way he's listening to opera when Maybourne comes to talk, not to hold on to the 'tough guys don't listen to classical music' stereotype, especially since they often do in TV shows, but I always had Jack down as more of a Howlin' Wolf fan (although he is American so he can't be expected to have as cool a record collection as Giles)
I'm interested in Maybourne's offer, but it doesn't mean I'm going to take him up on it
Secret? Dangerous? Now you're really trying to tempt him
"Cut back on the melodrama" you're the one playing the opera Jack (is this what Kalas was singing in 'Methos'?)
Human ingenuity usually does
Knowing Jack's luck, I'm amazed Lara didn't happen to be walking by when he came out of the stargate on Edora
You can tell they're a dashing, individual underground unit because they've all ripped the sleeves off their jackets
That's exactly the same bit of set they used for Edora not ten minutes ago!
The Asgard like Jack, God help us all
Jack's back, does that mean he can take the silly hat off now?
Teal'c, as always, is giving nothing away...

New Ground

All that rock fell away very easily.
Why would a culture bury their gate upright? Surely it would be much more sensible (and less obvious) to pull it down first. Oh, and nice timing by the way
The word is pan, Daniel
Is that woman standing at the back the overseer from 'Beneath The Surface'?
"We're explorers from another planet" even to me that sounds like a bad excuse
Finally, something that has Teal'c visibly worried. Maybe "visibly" worried isn't the best phrase...
Oh, the joy of religion
As Teal'c goes merrily into shock
It doesn't matter how many times you electrocute Daniel, it doesn't stop it from being the truth. Although if they're trying to get people to believe them, the constant lying won't help, ("three of us" and "giant worms")
Ooh, naked Teal'c, although whatever he's doing in his pouch sounds really disgusting
Well, at least they don't need to manually dial to get home
I like Nian
I wonder if the stargate powering up will aid the digestion of military minds?
Nian has a fine aim for an archaeologist. He went straight for the weapons, missing out that awkward swipe card stage
That's not chevron seven guy
Is it just me or does this episode break no new ground whatsoever? It is just a generic Stargate episode. Boring. Actually, the generic episodes are usually quite good, this one is different and still sucks

Maternal Instinct

Jack is really pissed about Apophis not dying.
Is Janet a surgeon? Because not all doctors are qualified to cut you open.
Heh hem, thinks Teal’c, ex-trainee standing right here.
"We've found it" that was quick, everyone else has been searching for years, Daniel and Sam find it in about three and a half minutes If the Goa’uld didn’t know about it, how did Amaunet send the baby there?
I recognise this place, this is the river that Mac has his 'Baywatch' moment in in 'Mountain Men'
Teal’c is now pre-empting Jack.
Nice bit of skin when Daniel's jacket slips off then
Could he not just say "take your shoes off"? Or perhaps have a sign outside the door?
I so hope someone checked that sand for stones
Daniel steps in to prevent a Jack/Zen collision. Jack is just not going to play along with the monk's pointless philosophical crap is he? Snowflake in a firestorm my arse
Okay, this guy is going to drive me mad
You can tell the idea hadn’t passed through Daniel’s head.
Oma actually means granny in German.
This "words cannot express" business is rubbish, if there isn't a word to express something, we invent a new one, that's how we developed language in the first place. Tell that to George Orwell
Bloody mystical monks just like playing with the unenlightened.
Almost got the Zen master mad there, "with your mind," proof that Daniel can irritate anybody
That's gonna be hot...
Daniel’s useful in a power cut now, and can provide mood lighting whenever he wants.
See, mental powers, total enlightenment and still he can't shout down Jack O'Neill
Love seeing the all-powerful light-being reflected in Daniel's glasses
Jack channels Homer Simpson.
That baby doesn’t look oriental, like the older Shifu does.
Does Oma have plans for the harcesis, or is she genuinely just thinking of the baby?
I know Oma is against human forms of communication but couldn't she at least manage a nod?
I hate those hovering electric jellyfish and everything they represent. Which is the eventual death of Daniel. Really should have seen this before 'Meridian'.
I love the gentle reminder about his shoes.

Crystal Skull

Bit of a 'Flash Gordon approaching' moment, it's a crystal skull because it's a skull that's made of crystal, there isn't much more of an explanation needed
Genetic trait, being thrown out of academia
Jack knows he's being laughed at but he can't quite put his finger in why
HAT!
After Daniel's quick history lesson in 'The Tomb', that's a ziggurat, not a pyramid
Make Teal'c step away from the edge
You wouldn't catch me looking down as I crossed that bridge. I know I'm a wuss, but you wouldn't catch me crossing that bridge in the first place
"It's..." pink, mostly
This is what happens when you don't pay attention to what Daniel's saying
As once again, SG-1 misplace Daniel
Teal'c, purveyor of Wolf logic
What's the deal with these really bizarre side-shots of them running?
Did they get someone's skull to cut a foam insert round?
Jump up and down more Daniel, make some noise
No one's going to answer you Daniel, all you've got to worry about is seeing the ghost of Christmas past
Daniel discovers life's futility
Teal'c lends a helping hand
Those guards look really, really bored
What the hell kind of archaeological expertise allows you to decipher alien teleportation devices? Surely it emitting radiation and so on is more of interest to Sam than Rothman?
Daniel's angst moment
It's the first time he's ever made Sam feel funny
I do feel sorry for Rothman. Speaking of which, where the hell has Rothman come from? I know he was in 'Forever In A Day' but surely he was just in the dream sequence? Or have the producers got themselves confused and forgotten that episode didn't actually happen?
Much as I love the scenes where Daniel is hanging around in the background, if he's the kind of disembodied thingy (for want of a better word) that can walk through walls and doors, then he really can't sit on crates kicking his heels, surely he'd fall through?
Question, where would you go if you were invisible in the SGC?
Comedy hat
Daniel's very polite isn't he? And not used to this invisible thing
Daniel's been in the Stargate project for the past four years, when did he get the time to publish a paper in the last three years?
Who's going to believe the old insane guy? I'm anticipating Jack again. Hmm
Good point Jack's got there, on a par with the Russian mind wipe device
She could always smack Tessa in the mouth, make her feel better
No!
Where did they find the little skull stand?
I wonder if hallucinations always claim to be real, or do some crafty ones claim to be unreal just to confuse the issue?
Typical, one day you turn invisible and suddenly everyone's taking advantage of you
Oh crap
Teal'c's been the problem all along
It's the big giant aliens
I'm always slightly disappointed by this, Quetzacotl was actually a serpent god for crying out loud. I would have thought he would be an absolutely perfect Goa'uld, (especially since the representation of him looks exactly like Goa'uld, with the ruff and everything) and I'm not entirely sure why they made him a big floaty thing, which has no mythological basis at all (sorry, pre-historian's rant there)

Nemesis

My sister let me see hers
Once he realises Daniel can't fish, Jack no longer has any interest in him
"One actually left" says Jack, still on the base
"A special element" that would be water
Is that a special alarm Sam dives for? 'In Case Of Asgard Abduction Break Glass'
Holographic mechanical spiders with Nazi music
Ooh, Hammond gets to break some bad news to Major Davis
Thor is leaving Jack to play with Asgard technology? Earth is doomed
As Thor plays 'Knightmare' with Jack
Nice of them, charitable even
Jack doesn't really need all that explosive, he just wants to go out in the biggest blaze of glory ever
Customarily, people have to volunteer for suicide missions, you can't just abduct them into it
Why do people always ask you to wish them luck as they go off to commit heroic suicide? You don't need luck to die, it's going to happen whether you're lucky or not
Technologically retarded as he is, Jack has quickly found the fast-forward button on the video
Oh yeah, like they were going to stay safe on Earth
I love the extent of Jack's technical knowledge "Stick that on there"
I realise the irony of me saying this, but Major Davis has no life. It's not as if he can even talk to other people about the Stargate
Is compromising the integrity of the hull as dangerous as compromising the integrity of the Naked Angel table?
Sam is confident that SG-1 can crash anything. If you need something damaged, that's the team to go for
I love the way Sam routinely sends the men off into danger and remains in the safest possible place herself. They never seem to recognise the pattern
Why is Jack wearing the glasses?
Yes Sam, you may have basic medical field training but Thor is neither human nor a field
Poor Michael Shanks looks very ill
That Defcon alarm is going to get very annoying. Couldn't General Hammond just make a statement to the base informing them of what is going on?
Hey, Teal'c made a joke!
As desperate as Jack is to save Teal'c's life, it doesn't extend to giving him the kiss of life. He merely grips his shoulders in a manly way and bellows "Breathe!"
Actually, in this particular situation, where they're trapped on an alien ship heading for Earth on a crash course while being surrounded by Terminator-esque techno-bugs, no they've never been there before
Go on Major Davis, you look at that bright side
Alternate uses for your archaeologist (apart from the obvious Base Sex-Toy): here Daniel appears in a fetching little headset masquerading as the new Base Switchboard Operator "Good afternoon, you're through to the SGC, how may I direct your call?"
I wonder how the Russians are phrasing that inquiry?
They're going to PXwhatever-it-was because Teal'c has less to dial that way

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