Originally posted by GateGipsy
I can't put Abyss, much as I would like to because although I think the scenes between Jack and Daniel are some of the best that have ever been done in the entire history of the show, there was just too much else wrong with that story for me to give it unqualified approval.
For a start, it was where my problems with the whole ascended arc storyline started, and I started to see that my view of what ascension was was not the storyteller's view, and that there would be trouble further down the line, and I think I've been vindicated in that view by events in Full Circle. For me, Daniel acted totally out of character. Granted, if he hadn't, there would have been no story, because he would have found a way to get Jack out of there.... but maybe that would have been a better story in the end. Watching Daniel struggle with, not rules and regulations of some uber-glow club, but how much intervention was allowable from the point of view of someone who has acquired beyond-human perspectives and sees more clearly how actions can have consequences that can't always be predicted. There were so many avenues and possibilities to the ascension storyline that weren't explored, and they were mostly not explored because this episode locked the relationship between humans and ascended down so tight that there was no wiggle room afterward.
I also thought that although Baal was menacing, his line of questioning was pretty pointless. It seemed to me a rather poor script-excuse to get the Jack torture that was needed for the continuation of the story rather than a motivation internal to the plot which naturally carried the story forward.
So on balance, Changeling, which was a tightly scripted, well flowing story which made good use of all of the characters, and kept me guessing for longer than stargate scripts normally manage, has it for me.
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