I'm probably going to get my head in my hands here, but I've found that a lot of people find something to love in the episodes just because SG1 are in them. I'm not generalising or pointing fingers, but when people really adore a show as many of the Stargate fans do, they will forgive almost anything and if something IS missing, they will replace it themselves by writing a fanfic around the 'missing scene' or 'scene that they believe would have worked better' or even some perceived piece of interaction between their much loved characters.
....and before anybody gets the gun out to shoot me down in flames. I am not referring to anyone or any one group in particular. All I am saying is that 'if the cap fits, wear it'
This episode was a rehash of others, it revisited the constant issue which is a bugbear with all of the characters except perhaps Daniel, and that is the issue of supposed gods and faith and the humans apparent hostility and quite often, violent opposition towards anyone who appears to pose as a god.
It constantly surprises me that Jack in particular, who doesn't appear to have any strong religious views should be so adamant all of the time on this. Especially since SG1 often unwittingly portray themselves as almost 'semi-godlike' when they promise things to people like the Katalans.... "We can fix it, we can work miracles..." was what Jack more or less said, without even knowing whether they could. He made a promise that he was possibly not going to be able to keep on the premise that they had saved the universe before. "We can do it, can't we Carter?" And she just looks stunned and very worried because it was her meddling that upset the sun. And General Hammond himself looked more than a little annoyed that SG1 had caused a problem which meant that another expensive project had to be moved and used to get them out of trouble. And it still didn't because it got blown up. And here is Jack, getting really mad, mad enough to kill over a situation that his team caused and justifying it by saying, 'but we would have saved you if you hadn't blown the rocket up."
If they hadn't overruled the dialling protocols in the beginning they wouldn't have needed to find a solution to a problem they had caused. Catch 22.
What could be more intrusive than clever little Sam Carter cunningly overriding the dialling protocols just to gate to the planet and causing the problem in the first place? That action reeks of arrogance all on its own. She is enough of a scientist to realise that if the lock wasn't happening that there might be some device on the gate to prevent indiscriminate gating. But she went and did it anyway.
The whole episode was a self-fulfilling prophecy. And brings the issue of whether SG1 have the right to gate indiscriminately to world after world. Other people's and species' worlds in fact. After all, would we just allow indiscriminate gating from other worlds onto earth? Damn sure we wouldn't! The Earth gate has got an iris fixed to the gate and it's in a guarded facility.
It's like wandering into to someone else's property and then demanding that they think and act like you do. Or is it that there is one rule for us and another for them?
I don't like the kind of morality portrayed here and I don't agree or condone it. It's like they're saying to everyone 'screw you, we're going to come to your planet whether you like it or not..."
....and before anybody gets the gun out to shoot me down in flames. I am not referring to anyone or any one group in particular. All I am saying is that 'if the cap fits, wear it'
This episode was a rehash of others, it revisited the constant issue which is a bugbear with all of the characters except perhaps Daniel, and that is the issue of supposed gods and faith and the humans apparent hostility and quite often, violent opposition towards anyone who appears to pose as a god.
It constantly surprises me that Jack in particular, who doesn't appear to have any strong religious views should be so adamant all of the time on this. Especially since SG1 often unwittingly portray themselves as almost 'semi-godlike' when they promise things to people like the Katalans.... "We can fix it, we can work miracles..." was what Jack more or less said, without even knowing whether they could. He made a promise that he was possibly not going to be able to keep on the premise that they had saved the universe before. "We can do it, can't we Carter?" And she just looks stunned and very worried because it was her meddling that upset the sun. And General Hammond himself looked more than a little annoyed that SG1 had caused a problem which meant that another expensive project had to be moved and used to get them out of trouble. And it still didn't because it got blown up. And here is Jack, getting really mad, mad enough to kill over a situation that his team caused and justifying it by saying, 'but we would have saved you if you hadn't blown the rocket up."
If they hadn't overruled the dialling protocols in the beginning they wouldn't have needed to find a solution to a problem they had caused. Catch 22.
What could be more intrusive than clever little Sam Carter cunningly overriding the dialling protocols just to gate to the planet and causing the problem in the first place? That action reeks of arrogance all on its own. She is enough of a scientist to realise that if the lock wasn't happening that there might be some device on the gate to prevent indiscriminate gating. But she went and did it anyway.
The whole episode was a self-fulfilling prophecy. And brings the issue of whether SG1 have the right to gate indiscriminately to world after world. Other people's and species' worlds in fact. After all, would we just allow indiscriminate gating from other worlds onto earth? Damn sure we wouldn't! The Earth gate has got an iris fixed to the gate and it's in a guarded facility.
It's like wandering into to someone else's property and then demanding that they think and act like you do. Or is it that there is one rule for us and another for them?
I don't like the kind of morality portrayed here and I don't agree or condone it. It's like they're saying to everyone 'screw you, we're going to come to your planet whether you like it or not..."
