I only have a few comments about "Smoke & Mirrors", which, in spite of its flaws, is one of my favorite episodes.
On the subject of Jack thanking the team for clearing him, I agree that I would like to have seen even a tiny scene of him doing that. However, I don't think he's ever thanked anybody for rescuing him from any of the situations he was in where Sam and/or the team rescued him; at least not that we ever got to see. I'd like to think that he did, though.
For that matter, I don't recall anybody ever saying thank you for being rescued; though I could be wrong about that. Maybe in less severe situations there may have been one or two thank you's along the way. (Not that I think about it, he did say thank you for the rescue in "Tangent", but I don't recall any others - and I always had the impression that it was more Jacob he was thanking than anyone else.)
And I agree with pretty much everything Petra said, especially the "rant" () about Jack and the neighbor who supposedly saw him. I'm a bit surprised there wasn't at least a little more attention given to that detail.
I also agree that Barrett would have been a far better suitor for Sam than any of her other suitors. And even if there was major distrust between them in the beginning, they got past that and became friends (it happens in RL all the time) and could have gone on to something more, had Sam been interested, ... which she clearly wasn't.
I also think that Barrett throwing himself over Sam to protect her when the house exploded was intended to be a "shippy" gesture. But I also think he did it just because she's a woman. I also think that Jonas and Teal'c would have done the same thing in the same situation, though, and they don't have shippy feelings towards her (at least as far as we know). None of the guys would have thrown themselves on any of the other guys to protect them in that situation. (Teal'c threw himself over Vala in "Uninvited" when the grenade he threw at the creature exploded near the two of them.)
I would only add that as far as Jack feeling insulted over the secret mission comment, I think had he not been in prison for a crime he didn't commit, he might not have been so insulted and might even have made a bit of a joke about it.
And with Jonas being familiar with people on the base: when he first came to stay at the SGC, he had three months to do nothing but familiarize himself with everything related to the SGC; and with his super duper special high powered memory, I'm not surprised he was the only one to remember the face of somebody that nobody else remembers.
Hmmm, I guess I had more than a "few" comments.
On the subject of Jack thanking the team for clearing him, I agree that I would like to have seen even a tiny scene of him doing that. However, I don't think he's ever thanked anybody for rescuing him from any of the situations he was in where Sam and/or the team rescued him; at least not that we ever got to see. I'd like to think that he did, though.
For that matter, I don't recall anybody ever saying thank you for being rescued; though I could be wrong about that. Maybe in less severe situations there may have been one or two thank you's along the way. (Not that I think about it, he did say thank you for the rescue in "Tangent", but I don't recall any others - and I always had the impression that it was more Jacob he was thanking than anyone else.)
And I agree with pretty much everything Petra said, especially the "rant" () about Jack and the neighbor who supposedly saw him. I'm a bit surprised there wasn't at least a little more attention given to that detail.
I also agree that Barrett would have been a far better suitor for Sam than any of her other suitors. And even if there was major distrust between them in the beginning, they got past that and became friends (it happens in RL all the time) and could have gone on to something more, had Sam been interested, ... which she clearly wasn't.
I also think that Barrett throwing himself over Sam to protect her when the house exploded was intended to be a "shippy" gesture. But I also think he did it just because she's a woman. I also think that Jonas and Teal'c would have done the same thing in the same situation, though, and they don't have shippy feelings towards her (at least as far as we know). None of the guys would have thrown themselves on any of the other guys to protect them in that situation. (Teal'c threw himself over Vala in "Uninvited" when the grenade he threw at the creature exploded near the two of them.)
I would only add that as far as Jack feeling insulted over the secret mission comment, I think had he not been in prison for a crime he didn't commit, he might not have been so insulted and might even have made a bit of a joke about it.
And with Jonas being familiar with people on the base: when he first came to stay at the SGC, he had three months to do nothing but familiarize himself with everything related to the SGC; and with his super duper special high powered memory, I'm not surprised he was the only one to remember the face of somebody that nobody else remembers.
Hmmm, I guess I had more than a "few" comments.
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