The Warrior (518)

[Daniel's_twin]

The choreography was definitely good for the fighting scenes, and it set up the real Jaffa rebellion society that we have grown to love. But sheesh, how many times will Teal'c say he will join his brothers in arms, and then just come running back to the SGC?

[Rhydderch Hael]

Hehe, imo, all episode description is pretty much spoilers, like an episode preview.

It is rather hard to be told what an episode is about without being told what an episode is about.

Ramne may have been a little too subtle. Let me lob in a signal flare...

"The Goa'uld Kytano, former first prime to the late Imhotep, is now the leader of a powerful Jaffa rebellion."

Just a little too much info.

[Hex.FTB.enabled]

Saw it coming from a mile away.

*points upward* What Selmak said. This episode got on my nerves for some reason. I kept shouting at Teal'c and Bra'tac "hello! evil!" And yes the fighting style looks really cool, and it's a tv show so it needs to look really cool. But c'mon, for a real fight, not that practical. Do you have any idea how fast you have to be for those kicks to work without the opponent knocking you down in the middle of it?

[SmartFox]

I knew there was something wrong with K'tano i just couldn't figure out what. At first i thought he was in the service still of Immotep or the system lords and just drawing all the Jaffa together to be killed. But i was wrong.

[Kayzersoze]

Just watched this episode from my S5 Box set. I'd already seen it, but I forgot how funny O'Neill's first words in the episode are. Man ... had me in stitches for quite a while afterwards. In the first scene after the intro (in which Teal'c and Bra'tac decide Kytano is a good candidate for rebel Jaffa leader), Bra'tac turns to the table in the SGC and says: "He offers us deliverance!" O'Neill replies with: "Deliverance??? Do you have any idea what happened to the guys in that movie???"

That guy has the funniest lines in TV (IMO).

[QuiGonJohn]

I liked the episode. I never really thought about that K'tano being Imhotep took away from it some, but I can see that. It might have been more interesting if he was just a power hungry Jaffa leader. Of course, as others have said, I really thought something was going to turn out to not be right with K'tano, I just did not know exactly what.

[GeneralJackO'Neill]

Anybody turn on their subtitles on their tv, or some kind? they spell the rite of challenge, as joma secu. Anybody have a different spelling?

[Stricken]

Good idea for an episode, with a great tist having Imhotep pretending to be a jaffa just so the Goa'uld cound rid themselves of the Rebel Jaffa

[Perriman33]

This episode started out really well but seemed a bit rushed at the end. Teal'c believes kytano all through the episode and then when lord yu says he's a goa'uld he suddenly changes his mind?
And another episode where bra'tak's judgement is way out,'trust my judgment on this one O'neill' had me thinking goa'uld straight away. He goes on to mention ' a master can see into the eyes and tell if someone is true or not ' meaning that bra'tak is not anymore?
It's a shame as bra'tak is a great character but is almost always wrong, are the writers trying to give him problems because of his age?
Apart from that it was well thought out and a good insight into the jaffa not in goa'uld service.

[Metarock Sam]

This episode was great because of its final fight scene with Teal'c and Kytano loved it !

[walter_MacChevron]

It was a pretty good episode.....but it was just really weird for the camera to be moving around all matrix style on stargate...........o well

[str8edgepunker]

I'm sorry but this episode begs the question: Why did Carter not detect the Goa'uld inside of K'Tano?

[DragonGate]

I'm sorry but this episode begs the question: Why did Carter not detect the Goa'uld inside of K'Tano?

Well, both Jaffa and Goa'uld carry a symbiote and I think both have naquadah, so a Jaffa might 'sense' to Carter the same as a Goa'uld.

[Beatrice Otter]

It was a pretty good episode.....but it was just really weird for the camera to be moving around all matrix style on stargate...........o well

Actually, that's pretty cool. 'Cause on Matrix, they did it with computer FX that were really expensive to duplicate. Way out of Stargate league. So ... they figured out how to do it with a camera trick. They built a circular platform on which the fight took place, and had a rail around it for the camera to ride on. Then they attatched the camera and had it revolve around the platform really fast as they were shooting the scene. When you slow the film down, it looks like the Matrix. No fancy computer graphics required.

[Daniel's_twin]

Well, both Jaffa and Goa'uld carry a symbiote and I think both have naquadah, so a Jaffa might 'sense' to Carter the same as a Goa'uld.

Makes sense. In Into the Fire, Hathor thought that the Tok'ra operative was a Jaffa. And in Need, Carter said that she also got that wierd feeling around Teal'c.

[The Signal]

Sounds right to me, i always thought anyone who could sence the naquada could not tell Goa'uld from Jaffa.

Anyway.. a great ep IMO and we got to see a great side of Teal'c as well as some great one liners "I speak my mind, thats why i dont say much"

[captain jake]

T totaly stabbed sg1 in the back. This was one of my least favourite episodes because of that.

[Mickey23]

Teal'c stabbed SG1 in the back? How so?
I remember Teal'c getting caught up in the idea that freedom for his people might be closer than he ever imagined (at that point). And he did get carried away by believing so much in K'Tano (or however you spell that guys name). The other members understood his excitement and his desire that all would work out. But I don't remember him doing something horrible to SG1.

[captain jake]

When jack told him to come home with them he said no. I took that as not obeying a order i.e. stabing them in the back.

[Mefusta]

When jack told him to come home with them he said no. I took that as not obeying a order i.e. stabing them in the back.

Not only did he thoroughly believe that he was 'fighting the good fight' with his Jaffa brothers, but he's also not part of the US Armed Forces, and as such the call to 'come home' from O'Neill was not an order and merely a call from an old friend, which he - quite understandably - can ignore due to extenuating circumstances.

Not to mention the whole 'brainwashing' thing going on, which Teal'c has been somewhat susceptible before...