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Redemption pt I

In Daniel's absence, SG-1's bad injury karma has earthed itself in Jack
Jack is know starting to realise just how valuable Daniel's abilities were. Although let's be fair, quite often Daniel's screwed up just as badly as this
Geez, again? says Hammond, ducking a spear that comes hurtling through the Stargate.
They obviously don't make archaeologists like they used to.
Very cool new titles
I'm determined to be nice to Jonas, I really am.
The Weather Channel? Oh dear, I'm feeling a terrible urge to pat him on the head and say 'there, there'
Oh hell, what did Jack say to the poor 2 hour guy?
Hah! Tobin was right, they do plan their laundry. Ah ha! My laundry question answered!
Jack's moving around quite well for someone with a damaged leg.
Sam just knew there was going to be a problem, and that it'd probably be Jack who had it
"If this performs the way it's designed to" famous last words
Is Jack fleeing at sight of the Russian, or at the sight of a meeting? See Jack run away from the Russian. Jack sees politics happen and makes a break for it
I've said it before and I'll say it again, to put up with Jack Hammond must have the patience of a saint.
"Happen to agree" also he knows it won't do any bloody good
Ok, SG-1, it's time to face facts. No matter how many people comprise the team, if it's three, or four, or the entire base, there will always be a Daniel-shaped hole. You need to find someone who can do the job and put up with Jack
As fit? From my quick visual inspection, I'd say he's a damn sight fitter than most of the ones I've seen
"Learn much quicker.." ooh, can you say hackneyed plot device?
If he's so keen on taking Daniel's place then he should be prepared to get well and truly whumped whenever he leaves the planet.
The make-up girl doing some sterling work keeping Chris Judge dry during the boxing scene
Wow, Jonas is like a weeble, he just keeps popping back up! Jonas is ideal for the job, look at him, he must be part weeble. This the producers way of breaking the new guy in isn't it? "Corin, we'd just like you to stand there whilst Chris slaps you around a bit..."
You could win Jack's respect, or you could let him break a major bone in your face so that he'll feel better and accept you
Teal'c feels totally secure in the knowledge that he can look generous without being in any danger of having to give anything away. I, however, think he's about to get floored
Oh look, for the first time we see the lunch ladies with the highest security clearance in the world!
"Diplomatic.." I think Teal'c's raised eyebrow says it all
Teal'c managed to look askance at Jack there, which is a bit of a change from stoic.
I can always tell when Teal'c is joking, cause when he's joking, he's funny
Yeah, that's an argument that isn't going to work with Teal'c.
Ah, potted plot. Didn't Teal'c's family go to live with the 'stick it where the sun doesn't shine' people?
That was heartfelt. Poor General Hammond
Okay, so what's down? (Sorry)
He's ringing the President to let him know that nothing's going on?
Jack is fiddling with something back there.
Nothing gets past Hammond does it? "It's still on"
I'm sorry, it's hard for me to care about Teal'c's wife, we just haven't seen her enough.
Helpfully wrapped corpse so they don't have to get a third actress in to play Teal'c's wife
Don't be stupid R'yac
Simmons changes his display, which automatically changes the one behind Sam. I hope that doesn't happen to all the screens, because that must be a real pain if you're using the base computers to play Minesweeper in your lunch break
God this kid needs therapy
At this stage of grief, he's likely to welcome it
Sitting in front of the gate can't be safe
Ah, plot progression through the minor characters.
I'm sorry, I know he's a pain in the arse, but I think McCaig is fantastic. Oh, it's that really annoying physicist. I quite like him really, but it's the sort of like that only extends to seeing him annoy someone else. I'd have to hit him if we ever actually met.
Great plan, send the only person who could save the planet off in an experimental ship to find the Asgard.
There's a brief pause as the Jaffa try to remember which one Annubis actually is.
I'm also seriously fond of that silver flight suit
Sam just thought she'd brighten Jack's day
"My notebook" says Jonas
That was a very hopeful request for phasers from Jack.
Sam has far too much faith in technology.
Won't Sam and Jack appear on many countries' satellite reports and so forth?
Lets add to the collection, another big aah for Jonas, he's crossing the wrong fingers bless him
They managed to get the experimental ship ready, get Sam and Jack to Area 51, launch, abort the mission and get back all in half an hour? I think they're on a different countdown now
Nice little bit of Fringedweller humour from Jack - "It's the one after 605-2."
Jack and Sam, Lost In Space.
Oh, and Jack just keeps on digging
Carters revenge!! That was very diplomatic of Sam, and I'm not sure why given the egghead and butt comments from Jack.
That was the commissary cake alarm going off. The lunch ladies are arming as they speak. If you've only got three days left on Earth, you could do much worse than spend it eating cake
That is freaky and not at all good
Annubis eh? What's this, 'The Day Of The Jackal'?
"Who talks like that", well gods do, they love melodrama
Annubis is such a drama queen. I'm just waiting for "I am the Great and Powerful Oz!"
He's been nicking free software from the Asgard website again
I'm with Jack on this, I'm not sure that you can take a man seriously when he finishes a sentence with "prepare to meet your doom"

Redemption pt II

Sam wants to garrote that guy with her bootlaces and I'm not sure that I blame her.
Look, Sam just wants to make sure you had all the facts
This EM pulse thing, won't it fry all of their equipment too?
I love the way that she points out that the pulse machine is pointing the wrong way. I had a wonderful couple of hours entertainment at university once watching the demonic housemates trying to block a doorway up with the contents of the ground floor. It was only after they stepped back to proudly survey their handiwork that I told them that the doors opened inwards and the person they were trying to trap was safely in a pub in town. Oh, happy days.
"Please Daddy , please, let me blow up the evil Jaffa, please!"
Ooh, Chevron Seven Guy gets to fire the pulse machine.
That's it Sam, touch the obviously live and dangerous sparking computer, because that turned out so well the last time
Having your name on the titles never harms your chances of survival either
Can they not bleed the energy off somehow, and light a few cities for a year or so?
Alien guy has a plan, I recognise the stance
If anyone out there was looking for Jonas' good side, I think that shot just found it...
You know, until Jonas mentioned it I'd never considered how they got the Stargate into the mountain.
Sam has an encounter with the infamous invisible wall
Jonas is wandering around the base with a notebook and a cup of coffee; that was Daniel's thing, get your own cute habits.
Okay, that's one seriously strong cable
Well, that was an empty threat
I like the Annubis symbol
That Jaffa needs to adjust his armour, it's gotten all wonky
Why does he need to drive to the plane? It's right there
So he doesn't hit Europe!
It's a good job sons don't listen to their fathers
Teal'c was a bit hampered by his suit there.
As well as waving, Jack was probably swearing a bit as well. Conscious and gesturing "get me the hell out of here and into a boat!"
Sam really freaked physicist guy out there. Poor guy desperately trying to figure out a way to get that tension back
I never had General Hammond down as the kind of man who would steal office supplies
What airbase do they land the cargo ship at?
He's all right Jack, get your head out of your ass and admit it
Well, it was either this or a Russian
Given SG-1's record, I'd be demanding a helmet before I even set foot on the ramp

Descent

Who are they hiding at the back of the transport ship? Because one, if not both, will die soon.
Jack and his Peter Pan complex are still (inevitably) behaving like six year olds
Isn't Jonas a sweetie?
"Until something goes horribly wrong" thinking about it, Jack hasn't had much luck with ship travel has he?
Ooh! Major Davis!
Oh, the Marie Celeste plot.
Doesn't this hulking great ship show up on anybody's satellites or something? Because you'd think that someone would notice. Even if they did notice, no one else could do anything about it
Very cool, completely different to 'Redemption', new titles. Are we getting a montage a week?
Teal'c's unfeasibly large staff weapon made it onto the titles!
They'd have left Daniel behind too
Ok, everyone, TOUCH NOTHING!
Have they tried seeing if someone pressed pause?
What is Jack standing on?
He's seriously considering commanding that ship from the looks of it
Jack's quick Mr. Burns impression.
Oh, that's what they carry in those backpacks everywhere, really big USAF stickers.
It's amazing how Jack's attitude is determined by the size of the ship involved. He was really suspicious of the glider, but give him a mothership and he's as happy as a pig in shit
Duh, the door won't open.
Oh, wait, I know him. He's Major Davis. So the other guy's going to die.
And here the sacrificial lamb is. Who is he and why is he there? Other than to die, I mean. What knowledge can he possibly have?
Well, Major Davis is on a hot streak, "Something bad definitely happened here"
You know, anybody else (with the possible exception of Pratchett's wizards) would have taken the hint and left the ship the hell alone.
Ah, blowing things up, Jack's speciality. We need something demolishing, and luckily, we've got just the guy to do it
BIGGER!!!
Green lighting, this won't end well
Oh, mysterious Chinese assassins. Of course. Because this is a plausible plot line.
That was 'Highlander's old "menacing" sound effect
There's got to be a joke about that banana somewhere, but damned if I can find it
Well, O'Neill met Teal'c under different circumstances
Who'd have thought that Teal'c made such a good liar
"One day" just not today
A conspiracy of aliens rather than an alien conspiracy. Teal'c's been watching too much 'X-Files'.
Warned about Teal'c's humour? Seems a sensible precaution
Why are they trying to radio the Sacrificial Lamb? He didn't have one!
You could do with one alive. Oh, good man Teal'c
Oh, poor Jonas is just like Daniel used to be for the first three seasons. You know, when they were arming him with a swipe card.
My, that was inconvenient.
Shame we didn't get to see it crash
Hammond just hung up on the President.
Given their past history, it's a safe bet that SG-1 are alive.
What happened to the Jaffa?
It crashed just off Alaska and their nearest rescue vehicle is in Hawaii?
Don't worry Jonas, you'll get more practice
Jack striving for grammatical accuracy there.
"Evidence of flooding" so, water then
Very belated security measure
A little bit too much information from Jack for Sam's liking there.
Jack really should have used that last breath for something more productive
Nice aim on the broken collar bone Major
I love the way that Jack and Sam squelch down that corridor.
What are they going to download Thor's brain onto? Is there a floppy big enough?
As floppys go, that's pretty big
"You have five minutes to reach minimum, safe distance..." What is minimum safe distance from a self-destructing mothership? Are they going to get that far away in a dinky little DSV? I doubt it
How much pressure do you think those gliders were designed to withstand? That's very deep water they're in
This Jonas fella, I like his style
Did I miss something or did Jonas only take one boot off? I think you missed it, I saw him take off both
Hmm, that's very impressive breath control. Have they CGI-ed the water round him? It looks like he's breathing down there
Love the big column of water in the ring device. I was wondering if they'd remember that
The only reason Jack did that is because he didn't get to push Jonas through the Stargate. Apparently Jack is the only one allowed to grin after SG-1 narrowly escapes death

Frozen

Heavy snows in St Austell halt the development of the Eden Project
Wow, someone else's tax dollars at work
Why is she surprised by that? If it had been covered by a glacier already it would have been a pretty dumb place to put a stargate
That must have been a red-letter day, finding two Jaffa in the ice
Ahh! Lone gunman!
I'd be sharing Jonas' worry at watching your only means of escape fly away leaving you abandoned at the freezing cold, isolated, research station where nothing good can happen
Personally I'd want a cup of tea and a bit of a sit down first
Darwin was a scientist, he'd be fascinated
Yep, been there. Although for me, this is usually followed by a frantic phoning of everyone I've ever met to see if they can tape it for me.
That's perfectly understandable
Just bang her in the microwave for a few minutes
She's impossibly preserved. Oetzi didn't look that good
Lucky they had a doctor there on the off chance that the woman buried in ice for three millennia would have a pupil response
Why is Jonas in there? If they need someone lifting, they usually ask Teal'c
This is 'ER' on ice
With all those people looking down at her I'm surprised she can tell which way is up
Jack feels surplus to requirements
Jonas employing the Englishman on holiday method of communication, saying everything as slowly as possible in the belief that will help
Teal'c jumping to the most paranoid conclusion
A race of potential underwear models that can survive under ice
No Colonel, we can't blow her up
Frankly anything shutting down sounds like a bad sign to me
Just imagine how big the birthday cake would have to be to fit three million candles on
Not in any words actually
Eewww! Green toenails!
Jonas wondering why he's not getting any of the nice fondling
Mystical healing powers? That's not so impressive, my lip balm has mystical healing powers
"Maybe she just needs some time" a good, patient attitude from the woman who's already been cured
Did Teal'c secrete those candles on his person?
Slim to nil, if she lives, she'll really complicate the storyline
'I'm not allowed off the base' thinks Jonas, 'I'm not getting a girlfriend any other way'
"No! No! There goes my sex life!"
How many people do they need to perform resuscitation in the quarantined room?
If the Tok'ra is surprised, he's the only one
Ah, now we get down to it, the Tok'ra want the military intelligence. What a surprise
The Tok'ra have wrapped Jack in tinfoil to keep him warm on the way home
Hey! Where did the end of the episode go?

Nightwalkers

Love Sam's practical yet very revealing night wear. How come no woman on TV is ever woken up in the middle of the night when they're wearing some ratty old t-shirt with a cartoon cat on the front? Sam has awful bed hair. At least that is accurate!
Why does she always get those sort of phone calls from men?
And Jonas finds his niche as Information Guy.
Love the expression on everyone's face when Jonas displays his memory retention
The SGC has a library? I'm guessing that was Daniel's idea Why does it have a subscription to Evolutionary Science magazine? Well, I'm guessing that was Daniel's idea too
Thank you Jonas, I had forgotten.
Nice change of subject, Sam.
Oh, Teal'c's seen 'The Matrix' and really wants to look cool. Oh yes, the black leather coat is definitely staying. That's going in Teal'c's personal box along with the unfeasibly large staff weapon. I'm less sure about the diamond patterned golfing jumper though.
Sam suddenly realises that she's leading an earth-bound SG-1 field trip
Jonas sweetly being pacified with a lollipop
Having limited experience at rooting around in other people's houses I must ask, what the hell are they looking for? A helpful note headed "Ten things I must do before I mysteriously disappear"?
He put his address as the senders address? That was particularly stupid. Why is that stupid? It's not like he didn't know he sent it
As a worker for the powers of the Royal Mail, I'd just like to thank the scientist for dumping his very toxic and scary looking syringe on the postal service for three days without even a 'care' label on the box
That paper should have been a tumbleweed.
Beard! Trust not the bearded one!
So these would be the nightwalkers then?
Did he just dip an onion ring in his milkshake? Oh, that was disgusting.
Somewhere around there will be a bus stop or a phone box where all the cool kids hang out, every small town has a spot like this somewhere
Oh yes, I've been part of the phalanx of staring drinkers before. Oh, there's nothing like a friendly welcome, and that's nothing like a friendly welcome.
They could well be their seats, it's a small town pub, the locals could well have supplied the furniture. No kidding, seats in pubs, it's a hierarchy, serious stuff. Yep, I've kicked people out of my spot at the bar as well
Silver, it's the new black - your ideal colour to menace
It's been bugging me all episode, but seriously, could SG-1 stick out any more if they tried? Check out the leather trousers on Sam!
Yeah, thanks Teal'c, "even for humans"
I was waiting for that hand of Teal'c's.
Tobin! It's the coolest name!
"Wormhole theory, motorcycle riding and lock picking". Sam really did go to the best university didn't she? And all I learnt were a couple of Darwinian evolution jokes and how to say 'moose' in sign language
Cool!
Being General Hammond, he really would be calling in actual troops
It took them all day to get a camera up to the level of those traffic lights, and damn it they're gonna use the shots
Uh oh!
The new Microsoft 'hieroglyph' font. Now, where's Daniel when you need him?
The Goa'uld takeover their host for those few precious hours and they use them to sit in the pub? Go symbiote!
Should immature symbiotes be able to take a host at all?
At this precise moment, Jonas is the only fully human member of SG-1
That was rather a wussy slap from Sam
Why would it be better for the Goa'uld for the containment team to not find Sam's report? Does Sam have some control?
The containment team audition for the chorus line in 'Riverdance'
That's what I thought
Honestly Jonas, she didn't "really slap" you, that was just checking your chin for stubble. Sam's got a good right hook when she wants
Sam discovers a ploy, to distract Jonas, use food

Abyss

The symbiote just bailed out and left him. It knows when it's time to cut and run
The Tok'ra tunic makes Jack look as if he has no neck
And we know that Hammond is a patient man
If there are less Tok'ra than ever, how hard can it be to tell that someone's missing?
That's because you'd be assigning blame to yourself, due to it being your fault
A slimy, wriggly brother
That's an easy way of attracting men
Goa'uld in a jazz beard, very dapper. Baal? Is that Baal?
Yep, that's Baal
Any plan that relies on Jack having useful information is on to a loser from the start
Why isn't he dead?
That isn't a star chart, someone's sneezed on the plastic sheet
The gravity cell is incredibly clever
Neeah!!! Reanimated in some extremely attractive knitwear though
Who could forget? Snarl
Jack really, really wants to throw that shoe again
So he's not going to help him, just watch and console?
Wriggled off
Thank you Daniel, really cheering Jack up here. Daniel never fails to put his usual, positive spin on the situation
Jack O'Neill as a supreme being of light? He looks about as stunned as I do right now
Smug!Teal'c in the background
Especially since Oma means Granny in German
Ow! Plane of existence!? "Old carpenters don't die , they just move to a higher plane"
I bet he's backed up against the wrong wall... Yay! There we go. Never mind which way is up, always remember which way is down
Ah, it's always a blonde
Oooooh!
This is Daniel being lonely, or bored
Yet another plan relying on Jack's intelligence
Extremely attractive knitwear, but some horrible suede slip-on shoes
Daniel himself has been rescued from some much sticker situations than this. Where's his faith in the SGC?
They're going to change the gravity and drop him on his head aren't they?
No! Such a disappointment
Money? Power? The chance to knock off her boss and ascend to the throne? It's not always about sex, people!
Has Teal'c ever had an accident with all those candles? Has he run away and left them all burning?
Well, they had one, it just had a little bit of an accident
"What did he say?" I'm threatening to end diplomatic relations?
Nice lingering crotch shot there
A fighting chance is just what he needs, he must be dying to thump someone
I never noticed the big, helpful, pointy signs before, the ones showing which way down really is
So the other week we got the climax without the tag scene, this week we get the tag scene without the climax. Have they considered missing out a bit in the middle next time?
Daniel came out of it alright, why shouldn't Jack?
Oh the smugness of the ascended

Shadow Play

Claxons, guns, aliens, just another day at the SGC. I'd love to know what a normal day looks like there.
7.00am? That's just rude.
Jack's really not going to get a job with SG-9 anytime soon.
Jack understands it's a necessity, but still doesn't like it
And by that time Teal'c had his ridiculously large staff weapon, so nobody was going to argue with him anyway.
Jack's highly tuned antenna sensing subtext between Jonas and the Professor
"What made you think we would care?" Seriously, why do they still let Jack sit in on these meetings? You can almost see Sam wince here.
That's a girly ring on Jonas.
Ah, finally realising the value of the Prime Directive.
"To protect our people" there's a lot of scope for interpretation here
Hundreds and thousands of *Kelownan* lives.
"Detailed projection" that was convenient
Jack need to be a little more sympathetic to the fact that this was Jonas' home world six months ago
"You sound like Dr. Jackson", not necessarily a bad thing, even for a Colonel
Why does he need Jonas?
That's a lovely fish tank
That's a good sprawl for a swivel chair.
Credit to Jonas for not falling backwards off the chair then
You threw him out!
So what's the definition of "non-military" technology? Because if it's something that has no possible chance whatsoever of being used to blow people up, then they won't be getting their hands on anything more advanced than a bookend. Bookends can hurt. Ask someone who lugged two pairs around Cardiff on a busy Saturday for a friend.
Yeah, there's probably a load of people who don't even know who he is
Ah, Teal'c cutting through the diplomatic bullshit.
How could they have missed the antibiotic? Don't they have mouldy bread on Kelowna? Their scientists were probably just bright enough to keep their windows shut when they're doing experiments
Looks like the professor is coming down with something
What's the Professor guy up too? He's developed a very suspicious-looking facial tic, is he hallucinating this whole resistance thing?
"He trusts you Jonas." Yes, they want you to spy on him
CN has a nicely menacing air about him sometimes
Them personally? Oh, no Sam means one of the diplomatic teams. For a moment there I thought she was going to bring Jack's awesome negotiating talents to the table
Or they might be a little more eager to blow them off the face of the planet and take the stargate for themselves
Do the rest of the resistance know that the professor's giving away their naquadria?
That was a very 'Highlander'-esqe shot, the pan down to SG-1 from the tall building
There's that menacing thing back again
Ah! He is hallucinating, I knew there was something up
Oh, laundry clash! Sam and Jack in perfect disharmony.
And there's the 'Stallion Gate' metaphor they've been working up to for the past 40 minutes
So their idea of safe storage is stacking it on pallets?
Briefly aboard a mother ship, before they sank it
Okay, that was an incredibly mature episode for 'Stargate', with actual thinking and emotion and stuff. Weird, very good, but weird

The Other Guys

They really have some bizarrely dressed bad guys on this show.
Three Humans And A Jaffa- screenplay by Richard Curtis
This looks like a place that Daniel would have liked.
Oh God, are The Other Guys us or what?
Aha! A Vancouver reference. This is obviously this season's comedy episode. I love these.
It's encouraging to see quite how badly SG-1 cope when they're forced to go on the kind of dull missions everyone else has to do all the time
Top bit of covering from the professor
That professor has very white teeth.
Jack's lunch is in a brown paper bag? That's rather disappointing, I expected him to have a proper plastic lunchbox with a picture of Toto on the front
How many bets he put that scanner there?
Somebody has to keep track, Jack, although I bet the writers had to send somebody to check on that number. Of course Teal'c's been counting, he's got a little tick chart on his wall. Though I am feeling a terrible urge to go back and check that he's right
Oh, he had to ask.
The Goa'uld attack vessel looks like someone chopped the top off a pyramid possibly to see if it was soft boiled and ready to eat
So the team sent to protect the scientists are actually the thing endangering them? That worked out well
Is that Sam or Jonas firing from behind Jack? It upsets me that I can't tell
I'm sure they have at some point. The left the raw recruit at the end of 'Last Stand', but that was mostly so he could die heroically. I'm sure there must be more
Yeah, that's probably what Colonel O'Neill would do.
The Goa'uld really should be able to leave the ring device off the hook or something so this kind of thing doesn't happen
That was how many bullets out of the clip?
"Move out" surely that would require large cardboard boxes and a friend with a van
I noticed Hammond's lack of reaction at the news that SG-1 have been kidnapped, I just assumed he was getting blase about it by now
Air vents! They've got scientists in the air vents! You've got to love every sci-fi cliche here.
Sam's unusually snarky with Jonas. You have to appreciate new experiences like this
They arranged to be kidnapped and they never told Jonas? That's a bit mean
Jack's been here, done that on cue, here comes the melodramatic Grand Vizier-type.
They have no idea who Jonas is do they? Oh poor Jonas! I'm a bit worried actually, because the Tobinometer has started to go beep over Jonas. I think we need to call the repair man.
How does the Jaffa know what a resume is? Do they have to send a c.v in when they apply for their First Prime jobs?
Yes you did capture them, but the trick is to keep hold of them and not let them destroy your way of life
That's how Jack spends his mission briefings, jotting down suggestions for Jaffa-taunting comebacks
You know you're in bad shape when Teal'c gives you advice on your jokes
Love the scientist trying to be surreptitious down the corridor
Er, oops? I thought this was a bit too easy.
I've never heard an American use the word "nit" before
Poor SG-1 solidly refusing to be rescued
Jack aims for nonchalance as the rest of SG-1 try to huddle innocently in the corner.
We should have known he was a Tok'ra, his hair's much too stylish for a Goa'uld. He's missed out on the fetching Tok'ra grim rags as well
Jack had to touch, didn't he?
Jonas is still pissed he wasn't in on this
They're just going to keep feeding him the Trek gags aren't they?
"I don't get that." Yep, Tobin's right, this is just Fringedwellers In Space
At least it's applied maths, that's a start
Love the doubt about how Jaffa spend their free time, "I don't know that for sure..."
Nice to see that the scientists managed to blast two Jaffa that were their exact duplicates, clothes-size wise.
I've never seen a Jaffa with glasses before.
Vomiting as a diversionary tactic, it's not the worst idea in the world
There's a batleth(?) on the wall too
Jack is right to be suspicious because I'm not convinced that Apophis is dead yet.
A grey area which Jack could clear up just by checking the mouse page
Sam still manages a hasty kick to the shins before being over-powered
Ow, that glowy stick is really nasty
Ooh, grammar!Jack. It's a Stargate/Fringedweller first, instead of channeling Jack, he's channeling me! Ending with a preposition indeed, the bastard!
Hah! The other scientist managed to get an "With all due respect, General..." in!
Did they draw the symbols on their foreheads with black biro?
I'd be sadly tempted to start making crank announcements over the tannoy
I wonder how many bathrooms they have on a mothership
Oh look, proof that Jack learns from experience, like the hamster in Lisa Simpson's experiment.
Neatly pulled punch from Teal'c
"This is what you do!" well, he's got you there Jack, this is pretty much your job description. Yes but they try to avoid doing what they do for as long as possible
Shame on you Jay, you tempted fate
Is this the place where they filmed the episode where Daniel gets abducted by Chaka the Unas? Because this lake looks familiar. They only have three locations, it's always the same place
That was an overly dramatic leap from that Jaffa, the one who just hurls himself into the Teal'c-infested waters of the lake
Teal'c being unnecessarily dramatic in his attack on the Jaffa. I mean really, was a water-based attack really called for?
Ooh, Teal'c gets to play with an unfeasibly large staff weapon. That one's so unfeasibly large he even needs a stand to rest it on
I love the sounds of merry mayhem from outside the door of the command centre.
At this point I would be firmly staying behind the desk until I knew it was Jack on the other side of that door
Love Jack's apologetic shrug to the Jaffa
What's the medal for? Being fundamentally stupid in a mission situation?
Actually, three times
Ah, so it's a fantasy medal. It's important to mention that no fringedweller would be picturing Sam in this situation though

Allegiance

Okay, here's a question. What are SG-1 and the medical teams doing at the alpha site in the first place? It's not like they were expecting the refugees from the surprise attack
Oh look, refugee naked Jaffa. Haven't seen them in a while
Oh bad luck getting hit through the wormhole
Look, Dr Frasier has been let out to play!
Yeah, blame Jonas, go on
I'm sensing tension between Jack and the the-producers-think-he's-dashingly-handsome Tok'ra
I hope that scaffolding is secure
Teal'c the human subtitle. He could be saying anything
That was neat. Love the little trails of smoke coming from what's left of the pyre. Okay, when I die, I don't want to be cremated or buried, I want to be stargated! That was cool
They can't speak but it's perfectly alright to start a brawl?
Jack tries his hand at diplomacy again
That's a quite Germanic-looking eagle. I thought that too. Whose Jaffa was he? I thought all of the Norse/Germanic gods were Asgard
Yes, tell 'em that. Where else are they going to go?
That bloke with the paddle must be very handy in a fight. Not only does he take out the enemy but also any poor Jaffa from his own side that stands too close
He never liked them much to begin with
Jack very nearly ended up dead anyway, and in a lot less pleasant fashion
I think he's considering packing his espresso machine next time
Jonas and Hammond's 'yes ma'am' scene
Jonas should be grateful for the time off
Um, nobody else is worried about the fact that the Tok'ra are using the device?
That's a very dramatic pose for the corpse, I think someone's making up for the fact he didn't get to die on camera
Okar was belligerent and arrogant and may well have started a fight
No, we've got a far more complicated system
Is Janet a qualified pathologist?
How can she tell when he's still face down?
I feel a terrible urge to walk down the line of Tok'ra and Jaffa separating them, "you go to that side of the compound, you go to the other and if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all"
It's like Romeo and Juliet without the horny suicidal teenagers
I'm sure these Jaffa aren't as scantily clad as before
Whoever the killer is, they're not very light on their feet
Check out the smug look on Teal'c's face
They just happen to have exactly the same number of each?
Nice to see that the universal military sign language is in operation
Fire you fool! Just don't hit Bra'tac twice
So Teal'c taking Bra'tac's death as well as could be expected
Bra'tac was using his ears
"That's all I need!" A long standing issue between Jack and Sam being raised again. Jack making one last plea for an end to the technobabble
"If you can see it, you can shoot it", Jacob shows his origins
Was Jack not shouting loud enough for the ashrak to hear?
I bet that soldier feels really secure from the invisible enemy behind all those sturdy sandbags
Ah, potted plot!
If you were the ashrak wouldn't you just clear the hell out until the reactor broke down (which it's going to do)?
It's behind you!
That's what's needed, indiscriminate bullet fire
Oh yeah, like we really thought he was dead

Cure

Pastoral arcadia again, always ups my paranoia levels
Don't usually see too many suits around a Stargate.
Oh God, he's talking about Jack, isn't he?
You'd be lucky if the leader of that group could spell negotiator without having to write it down first (sorry, Jack)
Nice mix of multi-cultural styles they've picked for that building, Japan and Frank Lloyd Wright in one fell swoop, along with the pseudo-Victorian scientist look of the costumes
Gosh, bilingual!Jack
Is that bath oil? Bath oil with amazing healing powers? Because I could give some to Lizard to match her lip balm with healing powers.
Okay, and I'm thinking they were offered that cure-all thing before, and it turned out just to be a stealthy way of wiping out the population
Earthlings! I love it when they're called Earthlings!
They are two fairly inappropriate people to be representing Earth aren't they
This is a nice ego boost for Teal'c and Jonas.
That or a really good place to lay an ambush and rob blind the travelers who came through the stargate
Ah, mysterious side effects. Why do I think that they are going to return as a plot line later?
Yes but most people have no side effects from my old medication and I still used to spend ten minutes spitting blood every morning
Jack don't say stupid
Oh here we go, Jack diplomacy. Everybody take cover. Hell, let them go, if they want to get themselves blown up, that's their lookout
Look at all the archaeology going on in there. Daniel would have loved this
It's lucky that Teal'c can read all these rare dialects. He's just enjoying the chance to flex his translating muscles, as since Daniels departure, Teal'c gets to be knowledge boy instead
Love Teal'c's little glow of smugness that practically lights the room
Hmm, believe *that* when I see it. Allegedly killed, I'm not going to fall for that one again
Oh Jonas, take the hint.
Jonas really isn't used to having that gun (zat?) on his hip yet, he keeps touching it to make sure it hasn't fallen off
Love the stealth dive into the tent.
That was a picture of one of those Goa'uld preserving jars
Was someone watching through night vision goggles then, or was that meant to be dusk? So that was meant to be dusk then
Hmm. Does this look like the inside of the Luthorcorp factory to anybody else? I thought that, then I looked again, thought it probably wasn't and decided not to mention it. However, now I've got corroboration; doesn't that look like the inside of the Luthorcorp factory?
The security guard leaps dramatically from the stair, then comprehensively gets his arse kicked by Teal'c
This is just like the shark tank in a Bond movie
Keep your mouth shut Jonas! Protect your orifices!
Way to cause a diplomatic incident guys
"Betrayed their openness? They said SG-1 had the freedom of the city, they can't complain when they take advantage of that freedom
They're not objecting on moral grounds, it's not like they're not the Team for the Ethical Treatment of Symbiotes
"Every precaution" apart from a grid over the water so nobody falls in
Wow. But I thought Amaunet was a queen? You're telling me Shau'ri had one of them inside her? It's huge
I like "cliched behaviour" as a characteristic of a species
Well, most of them do
Translations. Right. Because that exactly how I'd have him working off his debt
Ooh, it's the producers-think-he's-dashingly-handsome Tok'ra with the bad attitude again
Yes, that's it Jack, the whole taking over the universe thing is just a ploy so the Goa'uld can get laid
Jack struggling to comprehend the new goa'uld mating behaviour as it flies in the face of all the Hathor episodes.
Ah, I knew this drug was not a good thing.
"They sucked the queen dry, Doc!" That's a fabulous line that RDA must have been itching to say.
Surely at least one of the babies must be female. How do you sex a Goa'uld anyway? Carefully. Very carefully
Jack has the grace to add "usually" to that sentence.
What is Teal'c doing in the background?
It was a Tok'ra queen - oh bugger. I'm suggesting they find a way to not mention this to the Tok'ra
"This could be a problem" in your own words Jack, gee, ya think?
Malik finds it difficult to recover his moral laissez-faire when he discovers that the evil Goa'uld is actually the progenitor of his people
Oh so the big gelatinous blob wasn't actually part of the queen?
"Nice place to live" so those people who pick the hosts are the Goa'uld equivalent of estate agents?
What does the other patch on their uniform indicate, the one under the SG-1 patch?
Yeah, well, that's irony for you.
That was another cracking episode. Say what you like about Jonas, but his arrival certainly hasn't harmed the scripts any

Prometheus

Sam's moved house since 'Ascension'
What did I tell you, Major Davis, Official Breaker of Bad News For The SGC
If they wanted to intimidate her they'd have sent someone other than 'the lovely Major Davis'. Ooh, I like threatening!Major Davis. Yum
Maybe they could shoot Senator Kinsey just in case
Looks like Sam hadn't considered the treason option, but is now giving it serious thought
I like the fact that, with no hard evidence, she could run it at all
Jonas is looking very casual. Is there a reason the SGC are putting him across as a civilian?
Looks like the designers of the X-303 had been watching 'Star Wars' before they went to the drawing board
And they even slapped a USAF bumper sticker on it!
Why X-303? You'd think they'd save that number for the next evolution of the death glider, this ship is a different series altogether, like an S-type
I was just about to ask if those people should be playing with the zats
Nice to see that on a ship like that, the most advanced means of communication is the telephone
Yes, dear, he means it can explode. You don't need to be that bright to be a journalist do you?
Quite fond of Jack's little tantrum here
That's some truly high-class MacGuyvering from Sam, building a radio from a keypad and some duck tape
A hostage situation where they blackmail the US military and he thinks nobody's going to get hurt? I'll ask it again, how dumb are these people?
This is where Sam finds out she's made the hole just that bit too small to crawl through...
The ladder's behind you Sam
The gliders from 'Descent' right?
"Released"? I'd be wary of that option since they're in orbit
Well, if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it means the engines are off-line
Is this meant to be excitingly filmed or is it my cable? Because last time it was the cable
Erm, haven't we done this episode?
They need another stupid plan. We've done that episode before too. Two season finales in one mid season two-parter. How's that for value?

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