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Okay, yes, I'm using this icon because it's the only SG-1 icon I have at the moment, because it doesn't exactly express the way I felt about the episode.
My opinion on the episode is really more like "... Huh?"
It kinda felt like about half a season (say ... season 11) compressed into one episode. There wasn't any *setup* for anything; more like a bunch of plot points flying out of the woodwork. I figured out the Vala trick immediately because there just wasn't enough setup to believe that it was anything *other* than a dupe. (Also, the SG writers -- both sets -- have played the fakeout card a few too many times; at this point, anytime things seem the slightest bit fishy, I figure it's part of a sting.)
And again, as with "Shroud", I kept thinking that this was a plot that wouldn't have really worked with the SGA bunch, because there really is just no question of that group turning their backs on each other; it doesn't *work*. Really, any plot that involves serious doubt about whether or not an individual member of the group will be backed up by the others ... as with Shroud, or Talion, or this one ... the SGA gang just don't HAVE that doubt, despite their much higher level of tension on the surface.
Anyway, this episode had a real "tying up the loose ends" feeling about it. Ori? Dead! Clones? Dead! Ba'al? Dead! Adria? Dead! (Sort of.)
And speaking of whom, how can they NOT be concerned about an Ascended Adria? Why is no one freaking out about this? Won't she have all the freaky Ascended powers, only without the Ancients' "rules" about using them? And even if she just descends immediately, doesn't this mean that she'll be out there and just as powerful as she was before she Ascended? HELLO!
You know what I'm depressed about, though? Only one more episode with Vala! EVER! *sniffle* I did love watching her reactions to everything in this episode -- the gambling *hee*, so much sadness when she thought SG-1 had betrayed her, so funny as she figured out what had really happened.
And what IS this thing with the others trying to push her out of her emotional comfort zone? I'm thinking here about Daniel's trying to get her to own up to the way she feels about her daughter. I mean, if they've got to kill Adria anyway, and Vala is okay with that or at least controlling herself, what the heck is the point of pushing her until she breaks? If she's made her peace with that, why is Daniel trying to get her facade to crack, anyway? *smacks Daniel for being an idiot*
My opinion on the episode is really more like "... Huh?"
It kinda felt like about half a season (say ... season 11) compressed into one episode. There wasn't any *setup* for anything; more like a bunch of plot points flying out of the woodwork. I figured out the Vala trick immediately because there just wasn't enough setup to believe that it was anything *other* than a dupe. (Also, the SG writers -- both sets -- have played the fakeout card a few too many times; at this point, anytime things seem the slightest bit fishy, I figure it's part of a sting.)
And again, as with "Shroud", I kept thinking that this was a plot that wouldn't have really worked with the SGA bunch, because there really is just no question of that group turning their backs on each other; it doesn't *work*. Really, any plot that involves serious doubt about whether or not an individual member of the group will be backed up by the others ... as with Shroud, or Talion, or this one ... the SGA gang just don't HAVE that doubt, despite their much higher level of tension on the surface.
Anyway, this episode had a real "tying up the loose ends" feeling about it. Ori? Dead! Clones? Dead! Ba'al? Dead! Adria? Dead! (Sort of.)
And speaking of whom, how can they NOT be concerned about an Ascended Adria? Why is no one freaking out about this? Won't she have all the freaky Ascended powers, only without the Ancients' "rules" about using them? And even if she just descends immediately, doesn't this mean that she'll be out there and just as powerful as she was before she Ascended? HELLO!
You know what I'm depressed about, though? Only one more episode with Vala! EVER! *sniffle* I did love watching her reactions to everything in this episode -- the gambling *hee*, so much sadness when she thought SG-1 had betrayed her, so funny as she figured out what had really happened.
And what IS this thing with the others trying to push her out of her emotional comfort zone? I'm thinking here about Daniel's trying to get her to own up to the way she feels about her daughter. I mean, if they've got to kill Adria anyway, and Vala is okay with that or at least controlling herself, what the heck is the point of pushing her until she breaks? If she's made her peace with that, why is Daniel trying to get her facade to crack, anyway? *smacks Daniel for being an idiot*