Ahahahah I remember the Cleopatra episode! (Okay, I can't remember if she actually was Cleopatra, I just remember having the HOW DOES SHE KNOW ENGLISH?? debate)(I think we decided she must have picked it up by osmosis, hearing it in the distance over the centuries. Riiiiight...)
The question of starvation is addressed at least in passing (maybe more specifically; at any rate there's a particular description of an Immortal crossing a desert and it's said they "must have died a dozen times from heat and thirst" before they made it out. So apparently they can die, but then the great cosmic reset button restores them?)
--I always was curious about Immortal resurrection myself; its timing is very like the Stargate closing, in that it apparently just happens when the plot demands, anywhere from almost instantaneous to minutes later...!
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The question of starvation is addressed at least in passing (maybe more specifically; at any rate there's a particular description of an Immortal crossing a desert and it's said they "must have died a dozen times from heat and thirst" before they made it out. So apparently they can die, but then the great cosmic reset button restores them?)
--I always was curious about Immortal resurrection myself; its timing is very like the Stargate closing, in that it apparently just happens when the plot demands, anywhere from almost instantaneous to minutes later...!