Hey folks!! Sorry for the long, long, long wait. The holidays kept me very busy and I just.. kind of.. got lazy. But I’m back to having this updated regularly. So, hope everyone had a good Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/federal day off of work and is enjoying the holidays. The New Year is just days away!
Oh, and you guys should know that my parents very graciously have accepted my obsession by (A) watching season one with me every night (and even dealing with my giggling every time Teal’c so much as raises an eyebrow) and (B) even gave me a Stargate SG-1 t-shirt for Christmas. I’ll post a pic one of these days. It is a super spiffy shirt. It’s got the team and the Stargate and Serpent Guards and aahhh just awesomeness!
But enough about the holidays. Let’s watch some SG-1!
Hey, we’re on Tollana! SG-1 is in formal uniform, and Omoc has recently passed away. But here’s where it gets interesting: the High Councilor seems to imply that they’re ready to renew talks about the sharing of weapons technology. Hm…
We head back to base, and Narim has just handed Carter a device, which projects his holographic image and voice to them. He says that Omoc gave him a warning, saying that Earth was “in grave danger”… but nothing more.
Well. That’s ominous.
The next day on Tollana, O’Neill and Jackson meet with High Councilor Travell, and Carter and Teal’c have gone to talk to Narim. It turns out that with Omoc’s death, the Curia (kind of like our Congress) has made a sort of split on their non-interference policy. Gets better: Since they’ve grown so quickly, they’ve already begun to deplete their sources of trinium.
“Off the record”, the whole trinium thing is just a ruse… and in exchange, we get an ion cannon. You know, that thing that Teal’c operated like a BEAST to take down those Gliders?
Here’s your “big, honkin’ space gun”, Jack.
But it seems too good to be true…
Back with Carter and Teal’c, everyone’s favourite Jaffa expresses how he’s noticed how Narim has feelings for her, but before they can go any further, Narim himself shows up.
Oh my gosh, I bet that if Earth is recognized as having an ion cannon, it would an alien technology, and maybe it would interfere with that wonderful treaty we have! It would be a huge advancement; like painting a big red “SHOOT HERE” target on our planet. Maybe.
There are more problems, though, as we discuss back on Base. One single ion cannon won’t do us much good for the whole planet. Besides that, the Russians don’t like us very much right now and they’d have issues with it, too. Carter thinks we’d need at least thirty-eight of these to defend the planet. However, Hammond encourages the negotiations to proceed… but encourages O’Neill to remain skeptical of all things.
On Tollana, Narim reveals to them that Omoc’s death may have been part of a larger conspiracy – it just doesn’t make sense, given their advanced medical system.
Oh man. And I liked these guys.
When O’Neill and Jackson tell Travell they’ll need thirty-eight cannons, she merely says she’ll present their request… and walks off with no further argument. Hm… That’s suspicious…
Narim lets Teal’c and Carter into his home, and it turns out there hasn’t been a murder for as long as he can remember. The Tollans just don’t, which is why he’s had to be so sneaky about this. He shows them the logs, and it’s time to get reading.
As Teal’c works on one computer, Narim and Carter try to narrow the search. Jack and Daniel join them soon thereafter… and the Tollans have promised the ion cannons over time.
Uh… yay?
Teal’c finds record of an unscheduled ion cannon test, and that Omoc had protested. Gets worse. There are two hours missing from the records, maybe more. Maybe there’s our conspiracy.
Back on base in the Hangout, Hammond is concerned about what the Tollans would use our trinium for (“The Other Side”, much?), so they decide to try tagging the first shipment. Narim’s upset he’s involved with this, but he agrees to help them out… albeit reluctantly.
They are each given the phasing devices, as well as Tollan weaponry. Narim goes with Jackson and Carter to check out a communiqué. We learn that, a while back, when they fired ion cannons at a Goa’uld mothership, they were ineffective… but then the mothership just left. Oh man. This is getting crazy!
Meanwhile, Teal’c and O’Neill have adventure time and go check out the trinium we let them have. There is a little funny:
Teal’c: “Narim said in order for the device to work on both of us, we must hold hands, O’Neill.”
O’Neill: (Apprehensively) “…I know.”
(Oh suck it up, Jack. Be a man. He’s your bro.)
And he shakes off Teal’c’s hand once they get through. Ahaha.
In the room, they discover some very strange-looking devices… quite a few of them. And Narim knows what it is – it’s a weapon of mass destruction capable of phasing through anything.
And then the big bad Tollan comes in with her two henchmen.
Travell walks in and catches them…
…and then OH MY GOD GET AWAY FROM ME YOU BIG FAT SLIMEFACE. SLIMEFACE!!!!!
(…Ahem. It’s Tanith. And Teal’c is not here.)
OH THIS JUST MAKES ME SO MAD.
Guess what happened? Tanith had managed to get out of Apophis’ ship in an escape pod before the sun went supernova. How? Because he’s a slimeface. That’s right, he’s a slimeface, and Apophis was a jerkface, and Hathor was a creeper, and soon I hope his slimy face will be smashed INTO THE FLOOR by TEAL’C’S FISTS.
I mean I know that Travell’s just trying to protect her planet, but you don’t make deals with the freakin’ Goa’uld!!! Narim manages to escape though.
Teal’c and O’Neill pull Narim into some bushes, and when he mentions that the Goa’uld the Curia has made a deal with is Tanith, you can see Teal’c about to rage.
Oh, gets better. Turns out Tanith’s once again working with someone… with no name. (Is it that Ba’al guy? Anubis? I keep hearing about them.) Tanith knows this Goa’uld’s name. We’re just “forbidden” to know it. (Well you know what you slimeface you can just…)
And if they capture Teal’c, Tanith wants him for himself.
Yeah, Tanith, the only thing you’re going to get is TEAL’C’S FIST.
And Travell has thirty minutes to give Tanith a demonstration… by sending a weapon, activated, back to our blue little world called Earth.
Oh man Travell DO NOT DO THIS.
Meanwhile, Teal’c and O’Neill try to figure out how to destroy the weapons, but they’re soon surrounded by security. …And Teal’c looks awfully happy.
…And then an ion cannon fires… on one of their own buildings! The weapons facility!
With that, SG-1 goes straight to the Stargate, and the last we see is the Goa’uld wreaking havoc on Tollana…
And our guys get back safe and sound.
We get a transmission, and it sounds like Tollana is… well, screwed. Oh man.
Poor Carter!
Final thoughts… You know, I’m really getting sick of this whole “annoying guys showing up and Teal’c not being allowed to exact his revenge on them”. First Apophis, and now Tanith? Come on, writers, that’s just not cool. Tanith seriously needs to die. Now. Please. PLEASE.
That little rant aside, this episode seemed to have everything: treachery, politics, conspiracies, Goa’uld, explosions, CARTER’S FEELINGS, and just general awesomeness. But more than anything, it seems we have a really big problem… aside from Slimeface Tanith still being alive.
(Girlfriend killer!)
So there’s this big new Goa’uld in town. It seems like there’s this pattern of one super-powerful Goa’uld dying (usually at the hands/guns of SG-1) and then an even worse one takes his/her place. First it was Sokar, then it was Apophis, and now it’s this guy who’s apparently so amazing that we’re not even allowed to know his name. (I bet it’s that Ba’al guy. I bet it is. Unless it’s Osiris or something. OR MAYBE APOPHIS ISN’T DEAD.)
It doesn’t seem to fit Goa’uld as we know them. I mean, all the snakes that SG-1 encounters are very pompous and always want everyone to know who they are and what they do so that people will fear them, bow down to them, etc. If you ask me, the not knowing is pretty frightening.
But frankly, any Goa’uld that can scare the Tollans has got to be one of the most formidable enemies pretty much ever. In fact, I’m more concerned about whoever he is than I am about the Tollans right now. He just about convinced the Tollans to pull the trigger on poor little blue-and-white Earth. Luckily they didn’t… but still. I don’t think this Big Baddie is going away any time soon.
All in all, there’s a new bad guy in town, one of Earth’s best allies is probably gone for good, and the future… does not look good.
Hey, Thor, you in town? This Goa’uld’s starting to frighten me, and I don’t even know his name yet!
PREDICTION/REFLECTION THINGY
(Great. More problems.)
O’Neill: I can’t believe this. Another snake? They’re comin’ out of the woodwork!
Jackson: Apparently he’s so powerful we’re not even permitted to know his name.
Teal’c: Perhaps Tanith was merely being pompous.
Carter: …Or we’ve got a really big problem on our plate.
O’Neill: Better than Replicators. Do you think they’ll like this guy’s ship as much as they liked Apophis’?
Marie: My mom watched part of this with me! She thinks Tanith is CUTE!!!!
I CANNOT BE RELATED TO THIS WOMAN.
Allana lightly touched her wristband and came back into phase. She trembled slightly as she wiped away a tear with the back of her hand.
ReplyDeleteThe devastation was complete ... she could no longer recognise her home among the rubble. It was possible there were other survivors, but the attack had been so sudden that she doubted many Tollan had escaped. A few had perhaps reached the Stargate, some might have been off world ... not that she had any way to contact them. As far as she knew, she was alone.
A desperate cry for help welled up in her heart, but didn't make it to her mouth -- she had no one to cry out to. She bit her lower lip and began to search through the wreckage for any piece of technology that she might be able to salvage. It wasn't exactly her field, but she might be able to improvise some kind of distress beacon -- once she was sure the Goa'uld were no longer around. With a sigh, she acknowledged that the Goa'uld had probably left a satellite or something to detect such signals. But it was the only idea she could think of right now.
After a few hours of fruitless searching, she found a place to sit down and take stock of her situation. Food could become a problem, though the pools of the public fountains provided plenty of water. Thankfully she hadn't come across too many bodies; but eventually disease could become an issue, too. No more health monitoring system. It was hard to imagine life without it, or many other things she had become so used to on Tollana. Without all that technology, life seemed so ... primitive.
That word reminded her of their long time allies, the Nox. With all their knowledge, and even technology, many of them still lived among the forests and hills rather instead of their beautiful city in the clouds. A simple way of life, yet she could hardly call them primitive really. Just a matter of taste, she supposed.
Allana had visited the Nox's planet more than once. One of the kids -- was it Narida? Narita? Something like that -- kept following her around the last time she was there. She was very young by Nox standards; no more than fifteen or sixteen years old. Innocent, but still wise in her own childlike way.
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ReplyDeleteSomething that surprised her was the way the child -- (Allana decided it was "Narita") -- occasionally claimed to see invisible things. Not just the normal "Nox-invisibility-trick" things, either; more like the legendary Sher'mau, or angels. Sixteen years old should have been more than enough to outgrow such fantasies.
More surprising was the reactions of the adult Nox; they never actually confronted her about these claims. Maybe they just knew it was a phase she would eventually grow out of.
Narita was also very open about something else -- prayer. She would just come out with these short sentences obviously addressed to God. The idea of believing in a God (also invisible) was just as bizarre as the Sher'mau thing. Strange that the adult Nox with all their knowledge would allow such primitive beliefs. But Narita did have a certain radiance about her. Probably just a naturally cheerful personality.
With a deep sigh, Allana came back to reality. It hit her quite hard this time: she was alone, it would be dark soon, and she had neither food, shelter or much hope of getting out of here. A deep and involuntary cry welled up inside her once again, and it reached her vocal chords and tumbled out of her mouth: "Help me."
Shielding her eyes from the setting sun, she scanned the rubble once more. Her heart skipped a beat. There in the distance a man in the white ceremonial robes of the Curia was standing staring back at her. He turned and started walking away. Allana waved her hands above her head and yelled, "Hey! Wait! I'm coming over there."
As quickly as she could manage it, Allana picked her way through the broken buildings and the tangle of sheared off metal, and soon reached the spot the man had been. There was no sign of him; the dust on the ground didn't even look disturbed. She cried out again, but there was no reply. Louder still -- but still no reply.
With a gasp she noticed a stick-like object half buried under some concrete. She carefully drew it out, and verified her hope: it was an ultra long range communications device. The kind they used to communicate with the Nox.
She programmed it with a brief message, and set it on the ground. A burst of light shot out into the sky. Allana's sat down and wrapped her arms around her knees, barely daring to believe her situation was changing.
A short time later, she heard the unmistakable but muffled sound of the Stargate activating. It hadn't been destroyed! Then a gentle "woomph" as a mass of concrete was reduced to its component atoms. She headed towards the origin, and stared down into the rippling event horizon. As she watched, a small device appeared and landed just beside the ring. She climbed down and picked it up, recognising it instantly. It was a dialler for the gate. The event horizon quietly vanished, and she starting dialling the Nox home world.
After a few days of adjusting to her new life among the Nox, she tracked down Narita, who was her usual cheerful self. (Which could be slightly annoying, but was better than being morose and depressed, Allana supposed). "Narita, could you tell me a little more about this God you believe in? I just think maybe he might have, um, saved my life back there on Tollana."
So, it's January 12, and I assume you're back at school--and too busy to blog? Or has another show stolen your attention?
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Are you ever coming back? :(
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