The Other Side (402)

[Dave2]

If the surface of the planet was poisoned, how did the "enemy," the Breeders take over most of the planet and survive up there?? The visuals show the Breeders bombing buildings on the surface. What would be the point of that if Alar's people were deep underground?
Why didn't SG1 try to establish contact with the Breeders faking an attempt at diplomacy?
Why would the stargate be located in a tunnel instead of outside?

Then there is another issue: O'Neill decided to doom Alar and all the stasised people to destruction because of their racist ideas, without any hope that they could even change their minds, and without a diplomatic option. I think this is also a bit problematic. Why didn't the new "allies" from Earth seek to enforce a surrender instead??

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

If the surface of the planet was poisoned, how did the "enemy," the Breeders take over most of the planet and survive up there??

Within the context of the show, no one knows.

Seaboe

[shipper hannah]

But do they need him? Sam and Daniel spoke with the scientists and both Jack and Teal'c tried the remote control fighters.

Seaboe

Just because you can use an iPod doesn't mean you understand the mechanisms of how they work.

[shipper hannah]

I'm reading the Stargate novel Alliances right now. I'm interested to see how it deals with the issues raised.

The Other Side is one of my favourite episodes.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Just because you can use an iPod doesn't mean you understand the mechanisms of how they work.

But the same is true of Alar. Without the plans etc. in the weird crystal thing, how much more could they really do with him than without him?

Seaboe

[Brother Freyr]

But the same is true of Alar. Without the plans etc. in the weird crystal thing, how much more could they really do with him than without him?

The short answer is they'll never know, a fact that would surely irritate Jack's superiors.

[Dimes]

Good episode.
The bad guys they tried to help reminded me of Nazi's tho.

[Major Clanger]

I love this ep. This is the kind of thing that the early seasons of Stargate were developing and it came good at the end of S3 and through S4 and into S5. Not everything is black and white and the people who control the stargate aren't necessarily speaking for the whole planet (hmmm remind you of anyone?)

It shows just how desperate the SGC and the US government were to get their hands on weapons technology, that they were ready to hand it over with relatively little in the way of background checking.

What was impressive about this was the tension between Jack and Daniel and I am really looking forward to seeing that developed through S4, as well as the position that Sam is in - she's military she's a scientist, she wants to get her hands on the tech, she knows we need the weapons but it's not black and white. Daniel gets a bit too airy fairy for me sometimes and I think that's why Jack goes too far the other way, although he was great in this ep as soon as he heard "not like us".

Good stuff.

ETA: and, of course it has Teal'c's brilliant line abut concealing things