Stargate - 48 Hours
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ravenHee. An absolute cracker of an episode, and as predicted, has cheered me up no end. Not what I would call a team-focused one, though, as SG-1 were only together for a total of one scene, but I loved the way each one of them had their own subplot. A Teal'c episode, but Teal'c only appears for two scenes, the beginning and the end. Clever.
Basic premise - wormhole shuts down while Teal'c is en route, causing his energy signature to be trapped in the Earth Stargate. The military allow 48 hours for attempts to get him out. Otherwise, they reset and lose him forever. Cue Daniel being sent to Russia, to negotiate with the Russians, which I can't watch properly because he's sent there with Major Davis. The slashy potential is there, particularly when Major Davis forgets himself and says "Daniel" instead of Dr Jackson. In any case, I just liked the fact they were sent to Russia, of all places. And the bit where Daniel is on the phone to Sam is cute:
"Any chance you can get them to give us the DHD?"
"Not without giving back Alaska."
Sam herself is wrangling with both the problem of the Stargate and with the Pentagon expert, Dr McKay. I love Dr McKay. Love him. Yes, he's an arsehole. But he's also cute and smarmy and so, so good at what he does; ie, being an arsehole. I love the way he talks to Sam - "Sexy. Very sexy." - and the way he speaks to the food server: "I am mortally allergic to citrus. One drop and I could die."
And then she tells him! "Go suck a lemon!"
I don't know if I'm getting it across, but he's a great character and an example of perfectly executed jerkdom. I also love the food server, who maintains his disgusted expression with aplomb.
And Jack! Jack is off playing hunt-the-Goa'uld with Maybourne. Who is growing on me. He's staying at a place under the name of Cassidy. Quoth Jack, "David? Sean?"
Maybourne yells back, "Butch!"
Fantastic. Everything about the episode is fantastic. And the DHD being brought back to the SGC is good. One thing I've always liked is the way the Stargate abbreviations are always also tongue-in-cheek: DHD is Dial-Home Device, so not exactly technical, and my personal favourite is GDO - Garage Door Opener. The one thing that bothers me is the way the Earth Stargate is operated sans DHD. According to McKay, it's a fluke they got it working at all. In Children of the Gods, Apophis dials in with Teal'c and some Jaffa, and manages to dial out again - without a DHD. Granted, the computer system is operational - but what does that mean? In the space of five minutes, Apophis dials in, kidnaps a sergeant, faces down General Hammond, looks generally threatening and learns to use Windows 95?
Huh. And I am so out of touch with the canon, I have no idea what happened to the original DHD. But going back to this episode... There's the final bit, when the wormhole is re-established and Teal'c comes running out. Apparently, he's killed Tanith! As well as that, the SGC has a DHD, the Russians are behaving, Jack and Maybourne have incriminated Simmons and Hammond and Sam have pissed off McKay and sent him to Russia! ("This sucks!") It's all good!
And then... ah, and then. The power surges, the circuits blow, there's a moment of tension and the DHD explodes! Fab. And Daniel, turning helplessly to the Russian guy. "Well, it never did that in any of the simulations."
And Jack calls Siler "Sparky." It really is all good. Absolutely loved it. My only quibble is the changed title - they should have stuck with the original one, "Teal'c Interrupted." Much cleverer.
And the Lemon Chicken Guy deserves his own show.
Basic premise - wormhole shuts down while Teal'c is en route, causing his energy signature to be trapped in the Earth Stargate. The military allow 48 hours for attempts to get him out. Otherwise, they reset and lose him forever. Cue Daniel being sent to Russia, to negotiate with the Russians, which I can't watch properly because he's sent there with Major Davis. The slashy potential is there, particularly when Major Davis forgets himself and says "Daniel" instead of Dr Jackson. In any case, I just liked the fact they were sent to Russia, of all places. And the bit where Daniel is on the phone to Sam is cute:
"Any chance you can get them to give us the DHD?"
"Not without giving back Alaska."
Sam herself is wrangling with both the problem of the Stargate and with the Pentagon expert, Dr McKay. I love Dr McKay. Love him. Yes, he's an arsehole. But he's also cute and smarmy and so, so good at what he does; ie, being an arsehole. I love the way he talks to Sam - "Sexy. Very sexy." - and the way he speaks to the food server: "I am mortally allergic to citrus. One drop and I could die."
And then she tells him! "Go suck a lemon!"
I don't know if I'm getting it across, but he's a great character and an example of perfectly executed jerkdom. I also love the food server, who maintains his disgusted expression with aplomb.
And Jack! Jack is off playing hunt-the-Goa'uld with Maybourne. Who is growing on me. He's staying at a place under the name of Cassidy. Quoth Jack, "David? Sean?"
Maybourne yells back, "Butch!"
Fantastic. Everything about the episode is fantastic. And the DHD being brought back to the SGC is good. One thing I've always liked is the way the Stargate abbreviations are always also tongue-in-cheek: DHD is Dial-Home Device, so not exactly technical, and my personal favourite is GDO - Garage Door Opener. The one thing that bothers me is the way the Earth Stargate is operated sans DHD. According to McKay, it's a fluke they got it working at all. In Children of the Gods, Apophis dials in with Teal'c and some Jaffa, and manages to dial out again - without a DHD. Granted, the computer system is operational - but what does that mean? In the space of five minutes, Apophis dials in, kidnaps a sergeant, faces down General Hammond, looks generally threatening and learns to use Windows 95?
Huh. And I am so out of touch with the canon, I have no idea what happened to the original DHD. But going back to this episode... There's the final bit, when the wormhole is re-established and Teal'c comes running out. Apparently, he's killed Tanith! As well as that, the SGC has a DHD, the Russians are behaving, Jack and Maybourne have incriminated Simmons and Hammond and Sam have pissed off McKay and sent him to Russia! ("This sucks!") It's all good!
And then... ah, and then. The power surges, the circuits blow, there's a moment of tension and the DHD explodes! Fab. And Daniel, turning helplessly to the Russian guy. "Well, it never did that in any of the simulations."
And Jack calls Siler "Sparky." It really is all good. Absolutely loved it. My only quibble is the changed title - they should have stuck with the original one, "Teal'c Interrupted." Much cleverer.
And the Lemon Chicken Guy deserves his own show.
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on 2004-03-04 01:12 pm (UTC)If by that you meant the DHD belonging to the SGC's first Stargate, that's the one the Russians had. Germany somehow got ahold of it before Dr. Langford, and the Russians confiscated it when they held East Germany. As for the DHD to the second and current Stargate, I have no idea.
And you're right, 'Teal'c Interrupted' is much better.
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on 2004-03-05 03:54 pm (UTC)They go through Stargates, don't they? One would think something that size would be impossible to lose.