Bad science bugs me, so I do have to admit that the alien signal causing mutations calls for a conscious decision to suspend disbelief. It's not that sound waves can't in principle alter DNA. And it's not that DNA can't in principle carry information that guides behavior. I suspect it's a practical impossibility, and probably guarantees immediate death. (Incidentally, the reemergence of the fractal triskelion on different scales is exactly to be expected of a fractal.)
But it is impossible that human technology, like video cameras, VCRs and laptops can do this! It's even worse than claiming your walkman can be strapped to the bottom of your rowboat to serve as a sonar!
But on the other hand, once you swallow that camel the plotting has pretty consistently held that the alien probe's goal is for its newly minted agents to find a way to recreate, then broadcast the signal, to make more more agents.
The previous episodes however have laid the groundwork for another avenue of attack, by the main army after the shock troops have opened a beachhead so to speak. Namely, biological reproduction between male and female agents.
Notably there are none aboard the Big Horn. The mother exposed to the earlier (failed?) probe killed herself, suggesting her desire to avoid a Fate Worse Than Death at the, uh, hands of the survivor of the father/son struggle.
But, the members of the Threshold team were exposed to part of the signal. Fenway can check somatic cells for mutations easily enough. Clinically, the alien flesh is a neoplasm, that is, a cancer.
But, Fenway can't check reproductive cells so easily, since they will not grow abnormally until actually reproducing! Remember, the show has already established that pre-reproductive age children are not affected. This suggests that the probe's first target is the gonads.
Molly Caffery is the only surviving female known to have been exposed to even part of the signal. No wonder they're after her! Any changes in Lucas' reproductive processes may soon bear fruit. Is this why he was target number two?
And...
Does this mean that a Lucas/Molly 'ship endangers the human race?
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But it is impossible that human technology, like video cameras, VCRs and laptops can do this! It's even worse than claiming your walkman can be strapped to the bottom of your rowboat to serve as a sonar!
But on the other hand, once you swallow that camel the plotting has pretty consistently held that the alien probe's goal is for its newly minted agents to find a way to recreate, then broadcast the signal, to make more more agents.
The previous episodes however have laid the groundwork for another avenue of attack, by the main army after the shock troops have opened a beachhead so to speak. Namely, biological reproduction between male and female agents.
Notably there are none aboard the Big Horn. The mother exposed to the earlier (failed?) probe killed herself, suggesting her desire to avoid a Fate Worse Than Death at the, uh, hands of the survivor of the father/son struggle.
But, the members of the Threshold team were exposed to part of the signal. Fenway can check somatic cells for mutations easily enough. Clinically, the alien flesh is a neoplasm, that is, a cancer.
But, Fenway can't check reproductive cells so easily, since they will not grow abnormally until actually reproducing! Remember, the show has already established that pre-reproductive age children are not affected. This suggests that the probe's first target is the gonads.
Molly Caffery is the only surviving female known to have been exposed to even part of the signal. No wonder they're after her! Any changes in Lucas' reproductive processes may soon bear fruit. Is this why he was target number two?
And...
Does this mean that a Lucas/Molly 'ship endangers the human race?
pm
Teal'c--what's with the hair?
SAM & JACK 4EVER!!
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