Originally posted by majorsal
spoilers for s9's avalon
hi, sybil. i mean bink!
sally
hi, sybil. i mean bink!
Spoiler:
yes, i caught the COMMANDER of r&d!
as i said in the official thread for rating avalon... here are my thoughts:
* i *really* liked mitchell. the flashback made me connect with him. i felt sorry for him with his sincere regret of not being able to work with sg1.
* i liked landry.
* i didn't see vala again, because the moment she came through the stargate, i fast forwarded through the rest of the ep. i just can't make myself watch this type of character/humor.
* i loved the scene where mitchell tries to convince sam to return. i like how he was actually scared of screwing up without 'sam' there to fix it all. that said a lot about his respect for sam.
* i'm glad sam and mitchell are already friends.
* i'm glad it was sam that gave mitchell his medal.
now, i missed a lot of this ep by fast forwarding, so this is where i'm going to need everyone's help. i need a concise and brief summary of the events so that i'll know what's going on when sam returns. i'm going to need this with all the eps until beachhead. i don't think i need dialog, just the basic facts so i'll know who's who and what's what. please help. i'll even save the text to refer to if i get lost in beach head.
i'm not sorry i missed so much, though, because my heart isn't in it. i might have started off watching stargate because of my love for scifi, but sometime along the way, it focused to sam and sam/jack mainly. and now that jack's gone and s/j ship being scarse, all i've got is sam. and five eps without so much of my fave elements... my heart's not in it. BUT, sam WILL RETURN, and then things will be better.
as i said in the official thread for rating avalon... here are my thoughts:
* i *really* liked mitchell. the flashback made me connect with him. i felt sorry for him with his sincere regret of not being able to work with sg1.
* i liked landry.
* i didn't see vala again, because the moment she came through the stargate, i fast forwarded through the rest of the ep. i just can't make myself watch this type of character/humor.
* i loved the scene where mitchell tries to convince sam to return. i like how he was actually scared of screwing up without 'sam' there to fix it all. that said a lot about his respect for sam.
* i'm glad sam and mitchell are already friends.
* i'm glad it was sam that gave mitchell his medal.
now, i missed a lot of this ep by fast forwarding, so this is where i'm going to need everyone's help. i need a concise and brief summary of the events so that i'll know what's going on when sam returns. i'm going to need this with all the eps until beachhead. i don't think i need dialog, just the basic facts so i'll know who's who and what's what. please help. i'll even save the text to refer to if i get lost in beach head.
i'm not sorry i missed so much, though, because my heart isn't in it. i might have started off watching stargate because of my love for scifi, but sometime along the way, it focused to sam and sam/jack mainly. and now that jack's gone and s/j ship being scarse, all i've got is sam. and five eps without so much of my fave elements... my heart's not in it. BUT, sam WILL RETURN, and then things will be better.
sally
AVALON SPOILERS
Spoiler:
So Cam has command of SG-1. Goodie. Problem is the reason he requested SG-1 was to work with and learn from the best...Sam, Daniel and Teal'c. And try as he might, Sam's not interested in coming back (she said she has her reasons), Teal'c's dealing with Jaffa stuff and promises to get him a list of good candidates for the team when he gets a chance. Meanwhile, Daniel's psyched about going to Atlantis via the Daedalus.
One cute line from Cam when Teal'c asks where the rest of the team, he said right now SG-1 is SG-ME. That was cute. Plus a little earlier with Daniel, he said he wasn't interested in joining 2 letters a dash and a number...
Okay anyway so things really suck for poor Cam. And while he's trying to put together a new team (from a really SAD group of candidates I might add), in comes Vala through the Stargate (she's searched by SG-12 before being allowed to go to Earth and she's ONLY allowed because Daniel said it'd be okay). Vala jokes about where HER Daniel is...next scene is in the briefing room.
So Daniel, who's in the midst of preparing to ship out and Cam are there in the briefing room with Vala and Landry. Daniel's wanting to look at a tablet she...um...acquired that's written in ancient and talks about a treasure...and apparently, this treasure is located on earth...thus she needs Daniel et al's help to find it. The tablet is written in code and Vala knows how to decipher it, but not translate it.
So while Daniel and Vala later on are discussing the material she brought with the tablet, she snapped a special Goa'uld bracelet around his wrist and hers...making it so that they could not be too far apart from each other...that way she'd be ASSURED of getting her share of the loot from this treasure. Only problem is that if they are separated, they both get seriously ill...which sends them both to the infirmary.
Daniel wakes up to find Teal'c standing at his bedside. The Daedalus left and Daniel's stuck on earth...and what's worse, stuck HAVING to be near Vala. So since he's there, he decides to do some research on the tablet and finds a name that rings several bells...a name that's also listed among those who left Atlantis and came to earth...a name that translated into English is pronounced...Merlin. Therefore, Daniel deduces that Merlin is actually an Ancient...not necessarily Ascended though but a higher level of human. Cam's all psyched thinking THIS will definitely get Sam to reconsider, but the others tell him that she can't come.
Another meeting in the briefing room...and Daniel convinces Landry to let them use Prometheus's sensors to find the location hinted at on the tablet. The Prometheus's scanners detect the cavern and they learn that something's preventing them from using the beam technology to get there. So they use the rings.
When they get down there (they being Cam, Daniel, Teal'c and Vala) they see a sword in a stone and Daniel corrects Cam who said it must be Excalibur...(a common misconception). Cam tries to remove the sword with no avail. Then a hologram appears (Merlin) telling them that someone who is like pure of heart or something to that affect can proceed.
They split into teams...Daniel and Vala on one team and Cam and Teal'c on the other. Amusingly, the teams consist of people who don't like each other... Daniel is thoroughly irritated by Vala and Teal'c clearly doesn't like Cam (his enthusiasm seems to really irk him). One funny line between Cam and Teal'c...there is ZERO rapport between these two and at one point Cam says something like "I just love the rapport were building between us."
So each team finds a separate room and in both rooms torches along the floor light up as they enter. Cam's all excited and Teal'c...isn't. When they go in a big stone door slides down locking them in. So Cam and Teal'c are in one room and Vala and Daniel are in another. At the center of each room is a test...a puzzle. After Teal'c tells him he doesn't recognize the writing, Cam starts fiddling around with the tiles on his puzzle and the ceiling starts to slide down. Teal'c, who's Mr. Snark here, says something like..."are you not happy to be here anymore, Colonel Mitchell?"
In the other room, the puzzle's different. There are two pots...one silver and one gold. Daniel translates the text in front of them both. One of the bowls has the phrase "the treasure is in here" and Daniel prevents Vala from opening the lid on that bowl. Temporarily.
She can't stand not doing anything and removes the first lid. But there's nothing in the bowl and she's upset that the note lied to her...(she hates lies). Daniel warns her, but she took the lid off the other bowl (with another message in front of it but I don't remember what it was) saying, "We're trapped down here, how could things possibly get worse?" A few moments later, THEIR ceiling starts to slide down too. Vala then says, "I knew that was a mistake the moment I said it...the moment" LOL
One cute line from Cam when Teal'c asks where the rest of the team, he said right now SG-1 is SG-ME. That was cute. Plus a little earlier with Daniel, he said he wasn't interested in joining 2 letters a dash and a number...
Okay anyway so things really suck for poor Cam. And while he's trying to put together a new team (from a really SAD group of candidates I might add), in comes Vala through the Stargate (she's searched by SG-12 before being allowed to go to Earth and she's ONLY allowed because Daniel said it'd be okay). Vala jokes about where HER Daniel is...next scene is in the briefing room.
So Daniel, who's in the midst of preparing to ship out and Cam are there in the briefing room with Vala and Landry. Daniel's wanting to look at a tablet she...um...acquired that's written in ancient and talks about a treasure...and apparently, this treasure is located on earth...thus she needs Daniel et al's help to find it. The tablet is written in code and Vala knows how to decipher it, but not translate it.
So while Daniel and Vala later on are discussing the material she brought with the tablet, she snapped a special Goa'uld bracelet around his wrist and hers...making it so that they could not be too far apart from each other...that way she'd be ASSURED of getting her share of the loot from this treasure. Only problem is that if they are separated, they both get seriously ill...which sends them both to the infirmary.
Daniel wakes up to find Teal'c standing at his bedside. The Daedalus left and Daniel's stuck on earth...and what's worse, stuck HAVING to be near Vala. So since he's there, he decides to do some research on the tablet and finds a name that rings several bells...a name that's also listed among those who left Atlantis and came to earth...a name that translated into English is pronounced...Merlin. Therefore, Daniel deduces that Merlin is actually an Ancient...not necessarily Ascended though but a higher level of human. Cam's all psyched thinking THIS will definitely get Sam to reconsider, but the others tell him that she can't come.
Another meeting in the briefing room...and Daniel convinces Landry to let them use Prometheus's sensors to find the location hinted at on the tablet. The Prometheus's scanners detect the cavern and they learn that something's preventing them from using the beam technology to get there. So they use the rings.
When they get down there (they being Cam, Daniel, Teal'c and Vala) they see a sword in a stone and Daniel corrects Cam who said it must be Excalibur...(a common misconception). Cam tries to remove the sword with no avail. Then a hologram appears (Merlin) telling them that someone who is like pure of heart or something to that affect can proceed.
They split into teams...Daniel and Vala on one team and Cam and Teal'c on the other. Amusingly, the teams consist of people who don't like each other... Daniel is thoroughly irritated by Vala and Teal'c clearly doesn't like Cam (his enthusiasm seems to really irk him). One funny line between Cam and Teal'c...there is ZERO rapport between these two and at one point Cam says something like "I just love the rapport were building between us."
So each team finds a separate room and in both rooms torches along the floor light up as they enter. Cam's all excited and Teal'c...isn't. When they go in a big stone door slides down locking them in. So Cam and Teal'c are in one room and Vala and Daniel are in another. At the center of each room is a test...a puzzle. After Teal'c tells him he doesn't recognize the writing, Cam starts fiddling around with the tiles on his puzzle and the ceiling starts to slide down. Teal'c, who's Mr. Snark here, says something like..."are you not happy to be here anymore, Colonel Mitchell?"
In the other room, the puzzle's different. There are two pots...one silver and one gold. Daniel translates the text in front of them both. One of the bowls has the phrase "the treasure is in here" and Daniel prevents Vala from opening the lid on that bowl. Temporarily.
She can't stand not doing anything and removes the first lid. But there's nothing in the bowl and she's upset that the note lied to her...(she hates lies). Daniel warns her, but she took the lid off the other bowl (with another message in front of it but I don't remember what it was) saying, "We're trapped down here, how could things possibly get worse?" A few moments later, THEIR ceiling starts to slide down too. Vala then says, "I knew that was a mistake the moment I said it...the moment" LOL
And there's your cliffhanger... both teams are
Spoiler:
about to be crushed by the ceilings in their respective rooms
I liked it...wish there had been more Sam and Jack...but DELIGHTED that there was any Sam at all since I wasn't expecting any. Plus I didn't really see too many people talk about the added Lost City scene
Spoiler:
with Sam talking to Cam and then a follow up scene with her breathing a sigh of relief when Cam takes out the Alkesh because "that was close..."
WHEW! That was a mouthful. Wait...I didn't actually speak. So I guess it'd be more accurate to say "All that typing was a real workout for my fingers..."
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