I can see all of the arguments and justifications for the scriptwriters and their ideas absolutely pouring out of the woodwork. However, there are easier ways of killing off the spare symbiotes than actually snacking on them. Unless of course the act had a symbolic importance to the Goa'uld as a species.
After all, even Goa'uld stomachs have to get full sometimes. You can almost see Baal shaking his head, hand on belly and hear him say.... "Oh no.....absolutely NOT. I couldn't eat another morsel! But you go ahead and snack your heart out.... So many symbiotes to devour......so little time!"
Personally I think everyone can justify it until their eyeballs drop out, but I still see it as a desperate measure to gross out the fans to such an extent that they'll accept anything that's put on screen.
The Goa'uld have been attributed with every single negative and abysmal cruelty that the human......and I stress HUMAN...mind can think up. So why not cannibalism? Except that there are certain human societies that believed that eating the dead gave them the strong and positive attributes of that person...I think there are a couple of tribes in Papua New Guinea who still practice that. And before everyone starts in on the 'Ah yes well.....they're savages and don't know any better than us superior Western modern humans' routine, cannibalism has been practised on and off by most societies. All we have done is cover up our own primitiveness with a thin veneer of civilisation and sophistication. Scrape under the surface and the primal creature is alive and well and living in New York, London, Paris, Rome etc....
I still think that Mallozzi, Mullie (finally remembered the cretin's name!) and co are scraping the bottom of the barrel. They want to make the Goa'uld horrific but if cannibalism is the very best they can do, they needn't bother to my mind.
I think that Last Stand left more questions than it did answer anything at all. There was very little view of the inner workings of the Goa'uld apart from the fact that when the chips are down they eat their own offspring. I have often wished that my sons would grow up and live their own lives, but have never considered eating them..... I was disappointed because the Goa'uld still seem like flat one-dimensional characters, no depth..... creatures that now just hang around in motherships and space stations......eating...... mmmmmmmmmmm...... CRUNCHY.............mmmmmmmmmmmmm....... (shades of Homer Simpson here).
But having said that, everyone will no doubt think the exact opposite to me..... SNAFU!!!!!
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