Post by Ahryantah on Mar 13, 2005 12:01:46 GMT -5
Review of the Stargate SG-1 episode "Threads," first airing on the Sci-Fi Channel on March 11, 2005
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There's too much I want to say about this episode, so I'm going to go through this review in parts to keep it more organized.
The Good: Jack's rant at the beginning about how he wasn't "falling for it" (Daniel being dead). Jack, at least, appreciates how the Stargate universe works.
Teal'c and Bra'tac's interactions, as always, as well as the scenes in Dakara where the Jaffa are cheering them. Uplifting. Also, that they actually discussed the fact that no one could expect all to be well with the Jaffa just because they gained their freedom. There's going to be a long period of adjustment, and I'm glad they went into that. Makes Stargate more complicated and realistic.
More information about ascension, including what happened when Daniel was ascended, why he decided to descend, why Oma was an outcast from the Others (it's a little more than what we all previously thought), and how Anubis had been ascended in the first place. Jim turning out to be Anubis was great (even though I saw it coming), and him asking constantly for coffee was a definite metaphor - Anubis just couldn't get enough of rubbing Oma's punishment in her face. Also, Daniel's indignation at the Ancients' complete lack of regard for the galaxy recalled Daniel of earlier seasons. Glad to see he's still in there.
Jacob/Selmac meeting Pete. Talk about awkward silences.
When the base nearly blew up. They've engaged the auto destruct so many times that it would seem to get old, but here I was actually worried that the base was going to blow up. Even though I knew it wasn't, this was still an intense scene.
It was ridiculous, but still a little funny, that Daniel decided to ascend just so he could immediately descend. And he turned up in Jack's office. Naked.
The Bad: The outside shots of Dakara - bad, bad, bad. Usually the effects people are better than this. Were they running out of money?
NOOOO! Jacob/Selmak are dead! It was a testament to the growth of Jacob's character, though, that he accepted the fact he was going to die. This is a far cry from his anger at the world before when he was dying of cancer. The last scene between Sam and Jacob was touching, except for one part I'll get to later. Also, they kept saying that Jacob had been blended with Selmak for "four years." Um, more like six, people. This is season eight. He was blended in season two. Do the math. I'm surprised no one on set pointed this mistake out. I'm a little unsatisfied that Jacob's death seemed glossed over. There was so much stuff going on in this episode that the fact a major recurring character died was kind of shoved aside. Couldn't this have waited for another episode, one where there weren't a billion other storylines going on at once?
Exactly what Oma and Anubis were doing while they were fighting. They said neither could destroy the other. So are they just going to fight forever, or just until someone manages to destroy the weapon? And how did Daniel ascend again, anyway? The Others wouldn't have done it, and Oma was kind of preoccupied. This was all skipped over, going straight from when Oma started fighting Anubis to Daniel showing up in Jack's office.
The Ugly: It looks as if Pete has managed to escape his grisly death. However, he and Sam are over, because Sam is too busy pining over Jack to see the good she has in front of her. Pete takes it all surprisingly well, though. Suspiciously well, actually. I want to see the episode where Pete snaps and comes after Jack with a machete or something. I was especially disgusted that Jacob, on his death bed, basically told Sam to go after Jack, and Jack's ex-girlfriend told him the same thing. How wrong and creepy is that? This whole relationship between Jack and Sam is digusting and unconvincing. Those two characters could never be happy together; that is, if the writers actually wrote the characters they created in the first place. But no, silly things like personalities can immediately be changed in favor of some stupid simpering romance between the male and female lead. Does no one remember how badly this turned out on "The X-Files"? Before I was upset that Richard Dean Anderson was leaving the show. Now I'm glad, because if the writers are going to pursue this farce of a romance, then at least we won't have to see much of it.
The good vastly outweighs the bad, so normally I would give this episode a 10 out of 10. But in light of this retarded shippiness, I cannot do that.
8 out of 10.
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There's too much I want to say about this episode, so I'm going to go through this review in parts to keep it more organized.
The Good: Jack's rant at the beginning about how he wasn't "falling for it" (Daniel being dead). Jack, at least, appreciates how the Stargate universe works.
Teal'c and Bra'tac's interactions, as always, as well as the scenes in Dakara where the Jaffa are cheering them. Uplifting. Also, that they actually discussed the fact that no one could expect all to be well with the Jaffa just because they gained their freedom. There's going to be a long period of adjustment, and I'm glad they went into that. Makes Stargate more complicated and realistic.
More information about ascension, including what happened when Daniel was ascended, why he decided to descend, why Oma was an outcast from the Others (it's a little more than what we all previously thought), and how Anubis had been ascended in the first place. Jim turning out to be Anubis was great (even though I saw it coming), and him asking constantly for coffee was a definite metaphor - Anubis just couldn't get enough of rubbing Oma's punishment in her face. Also, Daniel's indignation at the Ancients' complete lack of regard for the galaxy recalled Daniel of earlier seasons. Glad to see he's still in there.
Jacob/Selmac meeting Pete. Talk about awkward silences.
When the base nearly blew up. They've engaged the auto destruct so many times that it would seem to get old, but here I was actually worried that the base was going to blow up. Even though I knew it wasn't, this was still an intense scene.
It was ridiculous, but still a little funny, that Daniel decided to ascend just so he could immediately descend. And he turned up in Jack's office. Naked.
The Bad: The outside shots of Dakara - bad, bad, bad. Usually the effects people are better than this. Were they running out of money?
NOOOO! Jacob/Selmak are dead! It was a testament to the growth of Jacob's character, though, that he accepted the fact he was going to die. This is a far cry from his anger at the world before when he was dying of cancer. The last scene between Sam and Jacob was touching, except for one part I'll get to later. Also, they kept saying that Jacob had been blended with Selmak for "four years." Um, more like six, people. This is season eight. He was blended in season two. Do the math. I'm surprised no one on set pointed this mistake out. I'm a little unsatisfied that Jacob's death seemed glossed over. There was so much stuff going on in this episode that the fact a major recurring character died was kind of shoved aside. Couldn't this have waited for another episode, one where there weren't a billion other storylines going on at once?
Exactly what Oma and Anubis were doing while they were fighting. They said neither could destroy the other. So are they just going to fight forever, or just until someone manages to destroy the weapon? And how did Daniel ascend again, anyway? The Others wouldn't have done it, and Oma was kind of preoccupied. This was all skipped over, going straight from when Oma started fighting Anubis to Daniel showing up in Jack's office.
The Ugly: It looks as if Pete has managed to escape his grisly death. However, he and Sam are over, because Sam is too busy pining over Jack to see the good she has in front of her. Pete takes it all surprisingly well, though. Suspiciously well, actually. I want to see the episode where Pete snaps and comes after Jack with a machete or something. I was especially disgusted that Jacob, on his death bed, basically told Sam to go after Jack, and Jack's ex-girlfriend told him the same thing. How wrong and creepy is that? This whole relationship between Jack and Sam is digusting and unconvincing. Those two characters could never be happy together; that is, if the writers actually wrote the characters they created in the first place. But no, silly things like personalities can immediately be changed in favor of some stupid simpering romance between the male and female lead. Does no one remember how badly this turned out on "The X-Files"? Before I was upset that Richard Dean Anderson was leaving the show. Now I'm glad, because if the writers are going to pursue this farce of a romance, then at least we won't have to see much of it.
The good vastly outweighs the bad, so normally I would give this episode a 10 out of 10. But in light of this retarded shippiness, I cannot do that.
8 out of 10.
