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And he's back. Naked as a Jaybird. Daniel Jackson. Fallen, trying to find the lost city of the ancients with super cool weapons turns out to be a bust. Anubis is trying to be the big guy. DJ messes with him, determining he's (DJ) really an ancient, although his promise to wipe Anubis out seems to have been thwarted by super duper wavy white light nu-age Numi or whoever she is.
Homecoming in which after big heavy duty battles, the Jonas Quinn character comes up with excuse to get off the show as a regular so DJ can have his job back. The cast says goodbye. In the meantime, Jonas and DJ are on Anubis ship and Anubis is being his usual crank fest self, making efforts to bomb the Jonas home planet with the naquada he's absconded with. Everyone is an bottom, but at the end, everyone agrees that Jonas is a good guy who now has a promising career as a diplomatic negotiator. Hooray!
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Fragile balance. O'Neill is cloned into a 15 year old version of himself and it's hilarious. The Asgard rogue who is responsible screwed up the clone, but all is fixed in the end. The younger actor's ability to replicate O'Neill's phrasing, demeanor and vocabulary is really spot on.
Orpheus: Briac, Teal'c and his mini me are on a planet mining camp as slaves to a guy who really likes to bleach his hair so he can really come across as a total richard. Teal'c and Briac are running out of the nifty synthetic drug that replaces their symbiote. More father/son bonding and the SG1 team helps free the camp. DJ is sort of "I realized that belonging here was more important than hanging out on the astral plane." Ta da.
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Revisions: Interesting plot about a dome that shelters inhabitants from toxic exterior atmosphere. The power source has been failing but the computer controls the population and the memories and behaviors of the inhabitants through a link worn on the temple/forehead. Our heroes show up and slowly figure out what's going on and save the town from certain extinction. Good job.
Lifeboat: Daniel Jackson obtains the personalities of a bunch o' cryogenically frozen people in a ship SG1 explored. Two words: overactors' theatre.
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Enemy Mine: DJ acts as diplomat with hostile group of Umas who took offense at the humans messing with their sacred ground. Finally, after deaths on both sides, they come to a mutually beneficial agreement.
Space Race: Amusing take on capitalism and the apparatus of sports announcements/endorsements, commercials, etc. via a space race with aliens. The sports coverage was pretty funny. The whole thing was sort of camp and goofy. Especially the sièges à gran confort in the lobby of Tektron, designed in the 1920's by Le Corbusier. Who knew that modernism was so popular that aliens chose it for their corporate interiors.
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I like the joke about not remembering when the meeting was, and then he calls Jack "Jim". Just a tiny little note, but it's great.
They brought a lot of guns out in this one? next one? my notes on this disc suck. Jack does the thing where he lets people explain themselves rather than bark orders, it makes him an effective leader.
I have something about Jaffa here, somehow I missed the fact before, but every time Teal'c suits up in his Jaffa uniform, he's essentially dressed as an SS officer. We got some of that in season 1 when he was put on trial, but this one brought that memory back.
This time the plan involves evacuating civilians, I guess they learned that lesson from Abydos.
Don Davis said he liked this one because he doesn't have to do the classic monosyllabic responses "CLOSE THE IRIS, OPEN THE IRIS, YOU HAVE A GO".
Jonas gets the boot. They did him dirty :(
Fragile Balance
was hilarious, and you're right, the kid got the mannerisms spot on. Shame they never did anything with the character ever again, it seems like a very stupid waste. At least send him to Atlantis and let his rank carry, they're used to weird poo out there. He's got almost 40 years of field experience, and a proven track record of kicking alien ass, the only thing he doesn't have is physical conditioning, but he also doesn't have O'Neill's bad knees.
Hell, they pulled him from the F-302 briefing, and he managed to do it anyway. The room was full of professionals and they got over being snotty after two jokes. Once again, Effective Leadership.
They managed to make the Thor puppet look angry! That's progress, originally the puppet couldn't even walk!
Orpheus
Disc was messed up, I watched it on streaming. I don't like this episode. They just wanted to use those kicky guys.
Revisions
This one was super creepy, and they filmed it in an abandoned theme park. Tons of shows used it, the last being the Black and White episode of Supernatural. It's bulldozed now.
It was also super tragic, and the people on the planet don't even know who the hell they actually are, for all we know the internet devices changed them up on whims.
Funny thing is I thought this plot was recycled from the outer limits series, and it turns out they even used the same props.
Lifeboat: The scenes on the ship were super interesting, the episode was not.
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Possibly one of the funniest episodes of the series, I loved it. Even the little infographic they use for SG-1 is funny. Huge Jonas, Tiny Daniel. Tealc actually acts like a brat and gets away with it.
Modernism showed up a lot on planets in the Delta Quadrant on Voyager to make them look somewhat alien, I wonder if that was what they were aiming for.
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Avenger 2.0: comic nerds from MIT who are obsessed with SG1 manage, by introducing a virus into one stargate, to shut down all of them, thenceforth rendering them useless as a transportation device. Nerdy guy is obsessed with Carter despite the clear interest of his own lab assistant. It gets fixed. Big surprise. Kind of lame.
Birthright: Hot blonde leader of amazon type genetically altered and symbiote needing group of wild women takes up with Teal'c. The SG1 guys have to convince these stubborn ladies to forego symbioted and try the nifty new drug that Teal'c has come to depend on. There is resistance. Another kind of lame episode in which I could swear I've seen a couple of the actresses on other shows. All gets worked out and the Earthlings give drugs and food, etc. to the amazonian women and they all kicked ass happily ever after.
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Evolution: Anubis (aka "Tarface") has co-opted a technology to make some kind of super soldier out of symbiote hybrid... They look like snot turned into the Terminator. Goopy slimy guys who can't be beat. They make Arnold Schwarzenegger look like a wimp. DJ goes to the Yucatan and digs into some pyramid to find an object that glows and turns regular guerillas into cruel nutjobs who can't be killed. They kidnap DJ and sidekick for ransom. O'Neill and former CIA guy save the day. Anubis manages to get thousands of identical creepy soldiers together. Not a good situation. It's not resolved but left hanging. Incidentally, why doesn't Anubis have a jackal head like he's supposed to.
Grace: the name of the episode and the odd little girl who shows up when the Prometheus gets stuck in a gas cloud after fleeing from the alien craft who attacks. Carter gets to listen to a bunch of the SG1 guys who engage in nifty psychobabble delving into why she's stuck, why she's unhappy, how she deserves a man, blah blah, etc. She gets to have a pretend kiss with O'Neill, more Barbara Cartland manipulation. She engages in enough navel gazing until she realized that the aliens captured her crew as they were also stuck in the cloud. We have a distinct Wizard of Oz thing going on here... Auntie Em, Auntie Em! I don't think we're in Kansas any more...This, despite the fact that the aliens' attack is why she went into the cloud in the first place.
So how could they chase her into it when they were already trapped in it? Logic is also on holiday here.
Not to worry. Bubbles save the day. Girl blows them, Carter gets to remember some basic physics about surface tension and comes up with the answer. The aliens give the crew back and she takes a break. All is well and everyone is saved. O'Neill shows up and says that the others are planning to give her some cake. He's about as uptight as it gets. 30 minutes of this, "when are we going to be relieved of this claptrap" stuff. Not the best writing in the world.
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Come on, Avenger was a reprise of other guys, and is fun in that it isn't a typical episode. We get a bit more goof, even from a baddie than we usually do. It's also a plan that would TOTALLY pass military guidelines. "We re-key the stargate network, and lock everyone else out? Sounds good!" Then reality intrudes.
I agree that Chloe was a bit gratuitous, but we've had more annoying one off characters, and sadly, have more to suffer through.
One thing I found interesting is that Felger and Baal are both aiming at the same weak point. Felger has the benefit of one lifetime of education, and has clearly spent quite a lot of time being ridiculed.
Baal has genetic memory and is a god.
I'd say Felger's weakness is that he thinks too big, he's aiming for plasma weaponry, and SG-1 is still using Intar's like they picked them up at a garage sale. He needs to realize he isn't Tony Stark, and this episode gives him that wakeup call.
the insides of the DHD look lame as poo. I liked the crystal systems in Goauld vessels, I can buy their cowpoo, but the DHD looks like a decorative fountain with Ring Pops pasted in.
Once again, comedy episode goes real deal serious with the bombing run. Avenger was a success... sadly it was a success for Baal.
Birthright:
Jolene Blalock is very pretty, but this was poo. I liked Daniel's heart to heart with the teenager, but the Haktyl were written as if they were a joke, when this would be serious as golly. Plus, we've seen Jaffa wear essentially Jedi robes while traveling, the booby uniform has seriously outlived it's usefulness. Like I could TOTALLY see... who was it, creepy bald one, Moloc, totally making his female Jaffa wear booby uniforms, but once they are a resistance movement, why are they still dressed like xena rejects?
One thing I do like, a member of the Haktyl is a member of the Jaffa council... later. I don't mean to get into spoilers, but it's the only time the Haktyl are relevant.
God I hate Ryac.
Evolution:
This episode is ridiculous and I love it. Enrico Colantoni is criminally wasted. Dude takes ZOMBIES in stride, and gets the mission done. At the very least, he deserves his own SG team. The drama between him and O'Neill is fantastic. The zombie box is... lame as golly. I've seen better in fanfic. No seriously, they replace the zombie box with El Dorado and make it an ancient city ship. That's right, they mock the entire premise of Stargate: Atlantis by putting one on earth, underwater. The show could have done so much better. The Kull warriors are extremely creepy, they did a good job there.
Grace:
Amanda Tapping says this episode got the best ratings out of the entire series. I thought it was poo, and EXTREMELY insulting to her character (Carter)
golly that episode.
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Re: Grace. I agree with you that the episode was about as anti feminist as they get. Here's a genius engineer injured in the line of duty and being laid out for us to examine. This is like some kind of whack Freudian session where we learn she's unhappy and unfulfilled because she has not yet given birth to a male child, therefore explaining penis envy. Christ on a crutch. If only she had a penis, she could escape this kind of ridiculous scrutiny. Can you imagine any of the male characters being subjected to this kind of nonsense?
The idea that this drew especially high ratings makes me gag. Your comments about the Haktyl costumes are also spot on in this vein. Science fiction shows have a long way to go. At least the Expanse has managed to escape this kind of thing so far.
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Glad to hear it. Didn't mean to conjure you up via my fit of pique. Happy to have your input on this series if you have any.
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It's marginally better than Earth: Final Conflict. The only person who might be able to explain how I got through that is a psychoanalyst. After Season 1, it sucked, and I watched the entire run.
This isn't as bad, although the last two were only a tiny bit better than Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Fallout: Jonas comes from a planet of assholes. One that's about to blow up. A Goua'ld who is keen on Jonas (who reciprocated her feelings before he knew she was a Goua'ld) manages to save the planet from blowing up. This saves SG1 from having to locate the Bores to another inhabited planet that will be then victimized by having to put up with their endless infernal squabbling.
Chimera: The real Chimera is the hideously bad makeup job they do on Carter to make her seem normal and feminine. She looks like a bad drag queen when they're done with it. She's inexplicably drawn to a dull cop, who also seems to be suspicious of her enough to call FBI to get nothing about her. Sarah, the Goua'ld infested chick with the curly 80's hairdo, like the nice girl from Carrie, comes back to mine DJ's mind in an effort to find the lost planet. She puts a disc on DJ's head while he's asleep and gives him translation tasks. He wakes thinking he's had weird dreams, but Teal'c is wise to this. After a shootout they manage to capture the Sarah/Goual'd character and remove the symbiote, spurring a tearful forgiving reunion between DJ and his former assistant.
And, yes, Chris, the description you gave of the characters is apt. I tend to sympathize with "aw gee, I was enjoying retirement" O'Neill, who tends to escape to go fishing every chance he gets. Who wouldn't? His snark is entirely understandable. The General just seems like a guy who lucked into a role that is minimal while guaranteeing a paycheck. "You have a go." Who talks like that? really. I've never been in the military, but are you serious?
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Uh yeah, they do talk like that. There are other super annoying phrases, and even gestures! Wheels up, for instance, when they impatiently demand to leave something.
In the game ARMA II, it often took 10 minutes to program the bless'ed radios we were carrying. No neat little shoulder Motorola's like in the show. Even moving around was bless'ed tedious. You'd radio command to go 4 squares on the map, then wait for permission. Fairly humorless lot too. Real soldiers are more fun than the cosplaying retards in video games. I had a roommate who did Airsoft, they are some insufferable douchebags.
Make an L outwards and up with your elbow, extend index and middle finger as if making a salute, and rotate hand in circle. (Means the same thing as wheels up)
It's like a two year old repeatedly saying "Let's go".
I was going to describe a command dilemma with potatoes, but that's actually an S8 spoiler. Multiple S8 spoilers actually. See you back for S8 episode 3 on that one. :P
c, the series plots are as dreary as you describe, but the characters are not Barbie dolls. When they demanded more lines to emote to, one of the series running directors told them no, and to fill the space nonverbally.
So people wordlessly interact. It's great, gives the world a lived in feeling a lot of shows fake. You get a feeling that these people have real, rather than superficial connections.
As to the episodes, poo, let me consult notepad.
FALLOUT:
Production gripe: Producers were very unhappy that the guest stars both had the same haircut, and yeah, it's super weird.
And yes, the Kelownans suck. Jonas should have stayed on earth. Sad note: we never see him again. :(
CHIMERA
Carter goes low cut, which is... different from how we've seen her in the past? Pete is funny, but there are some serious line crosses in this episode.
They once again waste Osiris/Sarah, she was a way better baddy than that turd anubis. There were some behind the scenes things that showed she had a great sense of humor about it all, I have no idea why they decided to ax her here, even if sarah lives.
They tried to get Ben Browder to play Pete the cop, he turned the role down. Good move, Browder!
Teal'c is a horrible therapist to Daniel in this episode.
TEAL'C: With all of your past experiences, Daniel Jackson, I do not know how you have slept well before now.
JACKSON: Thank you, Teal'c. This session has been disturbing on many levels.
I think c would actually like the "little grey aliens" The asgard have a dry wit, do not hesitate to kill things that annoy them, and are endlessly confused by humans.
I bless'ed despised the King Arthur poo, but I'll add to that when/if we do an S8 thread. I'm still stalled right in the middle there.
also, the farscape stuff comes up in S8 as well.
I think it's interesting c enjoyed S1, it's weak. It really could just be a season of Outer Limits, which was the producers prior show, hence a lot of overlap in guest stars, and sadly, they occasionally lifted plot and filed the serial numbers off.
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8ully, I did find it comical that the Goual'd woman and Jonas looked so much alike, including the haircut. And the odd cleavage in the following episode seemed so uncharacteristic of Carter. Holy Wonderbra, Batman!
I'm not sure if I should feel amusement or despair at the news that people really do talk like the General IRL. Gak. It makes Picard's "Make it so" a bit more palatable.
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To be fair to the general, he's issuing orders. The team is readied at the gate, and he gives the order to go.
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I can sympathize with the actor, in that he has a limited number of lines and they tend to be highly repetitive.
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Death Knell: Carter and her Dad are working on a weapon to neutralize the Drone soldiers of Anubis when they are attacked. Big boom. Many people killed. Dad goes back via stargate and Carter is hunted by scary Terminator Plus guy.
She kicks its ass, partially, and is just about to be killed when Teal'c and O'Neill show up to save her. The alliance between Tok'ra, Jaffa and Earthlings is rent asunder. Too bad.
Heroes part 1: The annoying guy from Frazier who was to marry the Dad's assistant/helper, is here a documentary filmmaker who is generally not well liked by the crew and they try as best as possible to ignore him. This is a two parter. A group goes to another planet and are enjoying the ruins when they're attcked by evil Goua'ld. Will they escape this mess? Stay tuned.
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oh god, you stopped on part 1? Adam Baldwin!
Anyway, in order:
DEATH KNELL
Hammond is pretty seriously boss in this episode. Jack cuts back on the joking hard, this is not a laugh a minute episode, and he gets that extremely quickly.
The alliances the SGC has fought, bled and died for are ripped asunder by shitheads. Seriously, golly 'em all, earth has done them so many favors, and they just turn their backs here. It's horseshit!
Carter spends most of the time in this episode essentially running head long into a cheese grater. It's painful to watch, but really, everyone will die unless Carter pulls another miracle out of her ass.
O'Neill and Teal'c survive their own cheese grater, and team with carter in a way where no one is the supreme badass, but everyone deserves credit for the death ray.
They blast the annoying golly apart.
HEROES pt. 1.
This is a turning point in the show. It's dark, it isn't fun, and it doesn't hit until Pt. 2.
Adam Baldwin is here, that's kind of fun. Col. Dave Dixon, SG-13.
I really liked Walter's interview.
The disc ends with a TBC.
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I got tired and went to bed so no part 2 until tomorrow.
Re Death Knell, yeah, Hammond and DJ do their best to work with unworkable people who just want to go their own ways, despite the danger. Carter's Dad & his symbiote throw up their hands. The recalcitrance of the two other groups really makes little sense. It recalls the episode with Jonas and his primadonna reps from the three factions on his planet who are all such jerks that they deserve one another. For Carter, who is mostly left to her own capable devices, despite being injured, and tracked, it's a question of survival. It's also a corrective to the Wonderbra episode as well as that silly one that everyone apparently liked and that made me gag with Grace the hologram or whatever running around while Carter was visited by men who messed with her head like the series of ghosts in A Christmas Carol.
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Heroes, part 2. Janet bites the dust. People get hurt, some die. Goua'ld ambush on the planet. Ugly guy sent by ND1 pokes his nose in where it doesn't belong and he's universally hated by the SG people. So there are two interlopers here: good one (fat guy from Frazer's brother's spinoff) and bad one from evil creepy Senator Kiley or ? who thinks SG one is wasting gov't money and is careless. He's deliberately ugly and the makeup/props dept does all it can to enhance his ugliness. He gets told to golly off while Frazer guy who was fiancé of Daphne (who took care of frazer's dad and eventually marries younger brother Niles) gets welcomed into the fold and allowed to tell the real SG1 story, even with the cooperation of Sir O'Neill. This was a long bummer of an episode. And killing off Janet was just sad and unnecessary. Let's hope it was because she got a better job somewhere.
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Inauguration: The guy from Knot's Landing who gets work because he looks vaguely like a Kennedy so is often slated to play Presidents plays the President and his VP is Sen. Kinsey the creepy guy who has made a career of being that creepy guy. Sen. K. has his panties in a bunch over SG1 and wants to control it. This establishes the raison d'etre for the next few episodes.
Lost City, Part 1; more of this, and now Jack's got his brain zapped via a repository of ancient alien info while Sen. K keeps up the good work of being vile. Some pretty blonde chick who is apparently also a World Class Negotiator gets slated to run SG1. Sure. That makes bunches of sense. Sen. K runs around being menacing and pushy in such a way that the Earth will be overrun by Anubis's minions before you can say Jean-Luc Picard. Jack starts speaking in tongues. Will the SG program survive? Will Earth succumb to the raving hoardes of 20 somethings who are just out to screw things up.
Fun had by all who attended. Part 2 later.
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Lost City Part 2:
Pretty cool. Anubis gets his ass kicked. After some wanderings, the trio of Carter, Teal'c, (with Bratac) and O'Neill go to odd far planet covered by active volcanos and hot lava except one place with a souped up LazYBoy recliner that the Ancients used to kick ass. O'Neill figures out how to use it. Makes the atmosphere breathable and other nifty stuff. They take some crystals home to the south pole. Lost city outpost on Antartica, O'Neill gets jiggy with the ancients and activates weapon. Tired from his labors, he steps into a concavity in the wall and gets frozen into a state of stasis. Gou'ald are pushed back and reduced to vapor.
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You're fairly cruel to Robert Picardo - the lighting is dark, but I don't think they particularly tried to make Richard Woolsey look ugly. He also ended up being right. Not in the financial sense, but that the rescue mission was a bad idea. The SGC lost it's chief medical officer, and should have also lost it's second in command - Jack. Honestly, the ads at the time made it look like he got hit by a staff blast and took a dirt nap. In the past, that's all it takes. Weaponized plasma is not something people walk off.
Hell, all his arguments are correct. The SGC was an ad-hoc program that was designed to do one thing, the Abydos mission. When that mission concluded, the SGC was mothballed, and the gate was put into storage.
Hammond was essentially working off the end of his contract before retirement, when Apophis kicked the anthill over.
After that the SGC operated under reactive conditions, utilizing very much a good old boy network, both O'neill and Hammond mention being close friends with the sitting (never seen) President.
Kinsey was always a sleemo, but most of his arguments, when stripped from his naked ambition are correct, the SGC is flat out a slapped together, duct taped up and play it as it goes institution.
And the world is tired of it. The UN forms the International Oversight Committee to put the program in check. Hammond is offered the option to remain in the service, but step down from command of the program. He takes command of the Prometheus.
Dr. Elizabeth Weir is a noted diplomat, when crafting the alliance with the Tok'ra, Daniel cribbed from her notes.
They don't elaborate too much, but do state that she is responsible for a ton of the treaties currently in place on SGC Earth. She's a peacemaker.
Much like Jack and Hammond, she has a personal friendship with the NEW US President, Henry Hayes.
William Devane actually did play JFK, and the callback is him looking at a bust of JFK and comparing himself to it.
Interestingly enough, Hayes actually served with Hammond, they reminisce in the oval office.
The unstated political party forced Senator Kinsey on him as VP. In many alternate timelines, Kinsey took the office, presumably having Hayes killed at some point.
That's right, one of the SGC's most dogged enemies is now one heartbeat away from the presidency.
This clip show was necessitated because ALL OF THE MONEY went into the series finale. COUGH season finale. They weren't sure.
Lost City
poo, I jumbled up a bit.
The SGC is stood down for three months, and possibly permanently. All off-world teams are recalled. Jack is in danger, as he has once again made the sacrifice of downloading the Ancient Database into his brain.
Honestly, I wonder what the Asgard did with it the first time, since they "uninstalled" it from his brain. Either way, Jack is essentially living with a death sentence, since the Asgard aren't handily available to pull a miracle again.
Bad things happen in the galaxy as the SGC is shuttered.
Honestly, this probably saved every offworld team from a horrible death, considering how fast Anubis is gobbling up... well everything.
braetac shows up and tells earth that they are next. TBC
LOST CITY 2 ELECTRIC BUGALOO
Huh, I didn't write much about this one. The Nimitz battle group dies offscreen. In space war, it's all about the orbitals. A water navy is essentially a sitting duck.
The fight is fairly exciting, I note that Weir made a hell of a hard call allowing the mission to proclarush.
Anubis always sucked.
I don't get why they kept flirting with killing O'Neill off, it's somewhat distracting. Putting him on ice was a good plan.
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Picardo is dressed with glasses and a suit that are deliberately un-flattering. They stress his meanness by these wardrobe/makeup tricks. The man is relatively plain looking but they go out of their way to emphasize his weaker physical characteristics. Hollywood and the film industry in general thrive on this physical beauty=goodness vs evil=ugly. This is not novel, as you can see it in art all the way back to the middle ages.
I don't know that given the potential onslaught of war with a ruthless enemy, the situation calls for a peacemaker. The Goua'ld don't need Jimmy Carter, rather, they need Henry Kissinger, a practitioner of RealPolitik. The nice blonde lady ain't got the strategic chops to deal with people who are technologically advanced and who regularly enslave entire planets. They (the Goua'ld) are not much disposed toward peaceful negotiation. Really, you think Anubis is going to the UN Headquarters in NYC to make nice with representatives of Earth governments to work out a mutually beneficial compromise? That's pure craziness. That's why I think having the military dealing with belligerent alien invaders makes more sense.
I have commented elsewhere that Senator Kinsey's critiques were often warranted, but that does not erase the fact that he's portrayed as an unethical, power hungry bully.
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Actually, they did make him look monsterous for one episode of voyager where he went Jekyll/Hyde, he used a mouth prostheses he stole from the set of the howling. He didn't look washed out in inauguration because he wasn't in that blue lit interrogation room anymore.
Washington was dubious of Anubis, since a similar ultimate evil sprung up the last time SGC funding was threatened. Plus when most administration shake-ups happen, presidents tend to replace all the ambassadors. We also follow the heroes on the adventures, and may be seeing them in a more positive light than someone dispassionately reviewing the reports without a personal connection to the cast.
Over, I'd say 6/7/8, relations with alien nations went from cautiously cool to downright iced over. Remember the stupid predator episode where both the Jaffa and Tok'ra stormed out of their alliances with earth? A diplomat would have been more useful than Jack there. I mean the Jaffa respect O'Neill for his strength, but several of them just flat out hate him.
With the Tok'ra, they need hosts, and Americans tend to be squeamish about sharing headspace and body autonomy with a snake.
Jaffa and Tok'ra are literal enemies. Jaffa view the Tok'ra as Goauld playing nice, and the Tok'ra regard the Jaffa (Not unjustly) as bumbling fuckups.
There are more notable frosty relations, or the absolute nightmare of the Aschen.
When Weir is in the hot seat, she makes the right call on the mission to proclarush. That could have been the absolute end of earth.
Obviously, Anubis was never going to play nice, but SG-1 and the other teams set a lot of fires out in the galaxy, Washington wants Weir to put some out.
Hell, there are parallels with our forever wars. We went in, we killed "The leader" and guess what? That creates a Vacuum! Plus not everyone is going to be thankful you killed their god king.
As to Kinsey, I feel like Woolsey is written as his replacement, to be less of a cartoon villian. poo, Kinsey flat out makes a threat to kill President Hayes in Inauguration!
Thankfully he proves to be the coward we all thought he was when he tries to dip out to the alpha site. I liked Hayes "Sit down or I'll have you shot"
Whoops, futzed the line. I found it though:
INT—OVAL OFFICE
[Hayes gets up.]
HAYES
Will you shut the hell up!
INT—SGC, WEIR'S OFFICE
WEIR
I'm sorry, Sir.
INT—OVAL OFFICE
HAYES
Not you, Doctor.
INT—SGC, WEIR'S OFFICE
KINSEY
Excuse me?
HAYES
(through phone)
Consider your resignation accepted, Bob.
KINSEY
(shaking his head)
You can't do that!
INT—OVAL OFFICE
HAYES
Oh please. I got enough on you to have you shot!
INT—SGC, WEIR'S OFFICE
KINSEY
This is the biggest mistake you'll ever make.
INT—OVAL OFFICE
HAYES
But I think I'll stick with my original thought. Which is shut the hell up!
Also carter's near swear "Sir we're about to get our a-" bratac: "They are not goauld."
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Yeah. That exchange was entertaining. The actor, Wm. Devane, was basically the same as he was on Knot's Landing. KL was one of those evening soap operas that was popular in the late 80's early 90's. My stepmother used to watch all that stuff: Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Dallas, KL. I watched KL to have something in common. It had some amusing plot lines and a generally talented cast, but it was a soap opera. I can't remember how he fit in but he became the lover of this pretty young upstart who had a major role, Paige? I can't remember. She was Michael Bolton's RL girlfriend. I'm too lazy to look it up. Devane is personable and likable. So casting him opposite Ronny Cox, a typical bad guy, is satisfying particularly when the former tells the latter to shut up, and the latter reveals self to be power hungry bully/coward.