Crusade (919)

[GateWorld]

SG-1 SEASON NINE CRUSADE EPISODE NUMBER - 919 Vala Mal Doran makes contact with Stargate Command from the Ori home galaxy, and tells the story of her life undercover in a village of followers building the Ori's invasion fleet. VISIT THE EPISODE GUIDE >> SPOILERS! PHOTOS! AND MORE!

[Skydiver]

how better to try and curtail all the extra threads that we then have to merge into this one?



Thus far, it's pretty much half bottle episode with vala telling what's going on in the Ori universe(cheap to make and shoot using the standing sets)...intercut with snippits where they actually show some of what goes on.

it's kinda fun to watch them try and disguise baby in the sgc shots while they accentuate the tummy in the rest.

vala and claudia fans will find tons to enjoy, daniel fans won't since he's mostly absent and the rest....set up for next week.

tune in if you want more details than you'll see in a 'previously on' but if you want 'classic' stargate?, well they do TALK about the round spinny thing.

a little heavy handed 'omg, we have to redeem this character and we have to redeem her fast' vala angst but there's not 'oh wow' moment or real feeling or emotion like we're sure to get in BSG tonight

exciting? not really. but it is a necessary info dump for the 'super big and exciting finale'

[freyr's mother]

WTF? We gave them a ******* Daedalus class battlecruiser. They better have paid for it!!!!

[Seldini]

Great episode... its very interesting that the Daedalus-Class is actually the 304, and that the Korelev is going to be a US-made ship. I just don't understand why they didn't just take one of the stargates they got back from Ba'al and told the Russians to go screw themselves. The DHD is gone so neither gate would have been dominant (who knows what would have happened?)

[MarshAngel]

I actually enjoyed this episode. Vala was more toned down and serious. I like.
I like the tone. The balance was just much better in terms of humor and serious drama.

[AGateFan]

Can’t wait for Atlantis.

Another stupid useless freaking line, thank god at least Cam called her on it. Maybe they will use Vala as a tool to make us like Cam…. They both are tools…

Well, I was right…. a talking\flashback episode all narrated by a guest character, how exciting.

Oh, good they are going to make her butt of stupid of jokes too… is that all Stargate is now, characters made butts for stupid jokes?
Speaking of which … Great, another freaking stupid grandma quote.

Oh, look this weeks “guest Star of the week”… Michael Ironside.

Well, at least they are making Landry more likeable every week. I say he is the one shining light of all of the new characters. He’s still not Hammond, but sans the stupid jacket I think I like him as General just fine.

And there’s the start of babygate….oye, how does anyone think this is a good idea?
I can’t wait for Atlantis… though the “andromeda babe of the week” makes me sad.

Teal’c is still a star wars fan… yay at least there’s that.
Nice try to sidestep the Christianity quagmire
Thank god for Landy…. I agree, in the words of Ivonova, “I’ll be in the car”….

Russians are going to take back the Stargate with the Chinese?!?! Hahahaha, now that’s funny… just go get a new one from another planet… don’t you have like 20 of them from that Off the Grid ep… ones with DHD’s (which make them priority)… problem solved.

Can we get back to the Russian\Chinese plot please.
Toilet ships of Doooommmmmmm. And they are fully flushable too!!
Its only 9:40?

Landry figures out that the Russians will go with the highest bidder. Yay for him… but I still say just give them their gate back and get yourself a new one.

So every single SG-1 member is wallpaper in this ep, except Daniel who’s not even in it.
Why wouldn’t the prior just destroy it himself? Can destroy entire planets but not one communication device?
That guy looks like the guy from firefly, but he’s not.

Flush….down, down the drain.
Hey, theres DANIEL…
See’ya Mikey.
Wow, we get staff weapons back… at least there’s that… maybe Teal’c will get one.

So we gave the Russians a ship?!? Checkov… dude… we are about to fight a galactic war… maybe a ship would be a bad thing for you, means you have to actually fight.

Spoiler:

bet it’s a short lived victory for the Russians

[MarineCorp]

I saw an asgrad ship in that preview!!! So the Daedalus is a 304!!! So did Landry give the Russians a 304 or the plans to the 304?? Can't wait for the next episode.

[shester]

Cam in a towel was worth the whole episode.
Sybil

[GateMan2000]

Wow...This weeks was kind of slow but next weeks looks awesome!

[mgehman]

Originally Posted by MarineCorp

I saw an asgrad ship in that preview!!! So the Daedalus is a 304!!! So did Landry give the Russians a 304 or the plans to the 304?? Can't wait for the next episode.

I saw the Asgard too. Unfortunately it also looked like it was going Boom. Not a good sign.

[freyr's mother]

Originally Posted by GateMan2000

Wow...This weeks was kind of slow but next weeks looks awesome!

True, it looks like they try to ambush the Ori ships as soon as they exit the supergate.

[Vash]

Originally Posted by MarineCorp

I saw an asgrad ship in that preview!!! So the Daedalus is a 304!!! So did Landry give the Russians a 304 or the plans to the 304?? Can't wait for the next episode.

a 304

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

Damn was a great episode. i give it a *** 1/2 or a ****.

Camelot looks like sweet ass finale, because the trailer looked sweet.

Good Director Debut for RCC (aka Robert Cooper).

[Dani347]

Kind of disappointed that we didn't get to see more of MS acting like Vala. I thought maybe Colonel Chekov (? Is that his name?) or Ms. Shen would have insisted that Daniel join them, and then hilariousness would insue. But, they probably still would have had CB playing it. But, I don't understand why they had Daniel on the screen. I mean, it let me get a little MS, but it didn't make sense, since everyone could see Vala right there in the room. The screen seemed redundant.

I'm so glad that creepy face was a two second thing. I never would have guessed that the barkeeper (man I suck at names) was really a part of the resistance.

So, is this whole thing with the Russians going somewhere? I hope so, since they brought it up, and it kind of goes back to The Scourge.

[Lil Naitch]

Interesting ep- loved the Vala/Daniel intro in the beginning with Cam.

Yeah, Val's husband looked like Nathan Fillion...kept throwing me off... cool new staff weapons, though...

Good ep, but all in all, it just wets my appetite fro next week, with the big-ass space battle.

Oh, and Teal'c line about Anakin- priceless.

[MarineCorp]

Originally Posted by mgehman

I saw the Asgard too. Unfortunately it also looked like it was going Boom. Not a good sign.

To me it looked like the ori ship was going boom. Hopefully the asgard commited a fleet to the battle rather then thor going off on his own. It looks like we are going to get to see an asgard ship in action this time rather then trading a few shots with a ha'tak.

[Dani347]

Originally Posted by AGateFan

Can’t wait for Atlantis.

Another stupid useless freaking line, thank god at least Cam called her on it. Maybe they will use Vala as a tool to make us like Cam…. They both are tools…

What line?

Nice try to sidestep the Christianity quagmire

I'm fine with them doing that. More than fine.

Why wouldn’t the prior just destroy it himself? Can destroy entire planets but not one communication device?

Good question.

[keppiezbt]

summary?

[kymeric]

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The ENTIRE galaxy is looking for the supergate. The Jaffa nation covers the whole galaxy, plus the tokra, plus the extra galactic Asgard.

This is a definite YIKES enemy.

There is compelling storytelling and then disturbing storytelling. Theyre screwed!!!!

[AGateFan]

Originally Posted by Dani347

What line?

The Daniel one ... that I have now locked out of my brain and happily will never, ever hear again... but kudos to Cam for putting a stop to it.