Chronicling Mitchell:
902 – Avalon, Pt II
Tangibles:
Took a little fencing in college. Later says he flunked fencing, but I think he was joking since he was doing so poorly.
Saw the movie, Patton.
Intangibles:
The sword fight tells us a few things about Mitchell: He is willing to accept help and not be the hero: he tosses his sword to Teal’c to take over. When needed, he finds the inner reserves to overcome insurmountable odds* [both when the HoloKnight has knocked him down and in the flashback of his crash recovery]
Leadership skills: Mitchell takes an interest in what his team’s specialties are. A different approach from O’Neill’s “Just give me the bottom line”; Mitchell wants to understand why his team will make the recommendations they do: “Room full of golden jewels and Dr Daniel Jackson finds the one book. So what's it about?” After his little joke about Daniel, Mitchell wants the details – and he sits down and listens to the answer.
Keeping the team focused on the goal: To Vala and Daniel [again! They’re like the naughty kids in class!] “Focus! Maybe we should focus on the task at hand.”
Mitchell reacts to situations quickly, but will pause to listen to reason: He quickly calls for a med team when Daniel and Vala first collapse, and he quickly acts to shoot the communication device when things get worse, but does stop to listen to the input from Dr Lee before overreacting.
Quotes:
‘Reading’ ancient: “A U with a square over it. A chair with a square! Upside down backwards L, call that seven! Squares unevenly stacked. A chair and big N, um...”
After finishing the tests and the treasure is revealed, he whispers, “Worth it.”
Upon discovering the ancient device among the treasure: “Well, one of these things is not like the others.”
After Daniel uses that he missed the Daedalus as the excuse that he get to use the stones and communication device: “You gonna dine on that for a while?”
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*While I’m here, let me reiterate that the swordfight had nothing to do with how well the challenger could fight and beat the HoloKnight. The ancients could care in the least if anyone can handle a sword. After the HoloKnight beat the challenger down [and he was programmed to be slightly better than whoever the challenger was, so his skills weren’t much better than Mitchell’s], the test was whether the challenger could find the inner strength, the conviction of spirit, the ability to NOT give up. If the challenger got up and continued to fight the HoloKnight, he would let him/her win.
902 – Avalon, Pt II
Tangibles:
Took a little fencing in college. Later says he flunked fencing, but I think he was joking since he was doing so poorly.
Saw the movie, Patton.
Intangibles:
The sword fight tells us a few things about Mitchell: He is willing to accept help and not be the hero: he tosses his sword to Teal’c to take over. When needed, he finds the inner reserves to overcome insurmountable odds* [both when the HoloKnight has knocked him down and in the flashback of his crash recovery]
Leadership skills: Mitchell takes an interest in what his team’s specialties are. A different approach from O’Neill’s “Just give me the bottom line”; Mitchell wants to understand why his team will make the recommendations they do: “Room full of golden jewels and Dr Daniel Jackson finds the one book. So what's it about?” After his little joke about Daniel, Mitchell wants the details – and he sits down and listens to the answer.
Keeping the team focused on the goal: To Vala and Daniel [again! They’re like the naughty kids in class!] “Focus! Maybe we should focus on the task at hand.”
Mitchell reacts to situations quickly, but will pause to listen to reason: He quickly calls for a med team when Daniel and Vala first collapse, and he quickly acts to shoot the communication device when things get worse, but does stop to listen to the input from Dr Lee before overreacting.
Quotes:
‘Reading’ ancient: “A U with a square over it. A chair with a square! Upside down backwards L, call that seven! Squares unevenly stacked. A chair and big N, um...”
After finishing the tests and the treasure is revealed, he whispers, “Worth it.”
Upon discovering the ancient device among the treasure: “Well, one of these things is not like the others.”
After Daniel uses that he missed the Daedalus as the excuse that he get to use the stones and communication device: “You gonna dine on that for a while?”
.
.
*While I’m here, let me reiterate that the swordfight had nothing to do with how well the challenger could fight and beat the HoloKnight. The ancients could care in the least if anyone can handle a sword. After the HoloKnight beat the challenger down [and he was programmed to be slightly better than whoever the challenger was, so his skills weren’t much better than Mitchell’s], the test was whether the challenger could find the inner strength, the conviction of spirit, the ability to NOT give up. If the challenger got up and continued to fight the HoloKnight, he would let him/her win.
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