The Torment of Tantalus (110)

[SF_and_Coffee]

*tries to parse what "medicore" means*

[jelgate]

No one likes a smart mouth

[VampyreWraith]

I guess I'm the black sheep for this episode.

I don't find the episode spectactular. Its medicore to me. I just don't care for Daniel's fascination with the device from the alliance and its meaning of life. The reason I call it medicore is because I really did like the Catherine angle and her fascination with Ernest and its background of using the gate in 1945. Also the first manual dialing was interesting.

I pretty much feel the same way as you do about this episode. I think it's an ok episode, but I personally don't view it as one of the best of the season.

[Angela V]

So the whole family is watching (ages 7- um... 40ish ) and we have ALL watched SGA. Didn't even notice. Get to the credits and I see Paul McGillion. I gasped. Son asked me what is wrong. I said Doctor Beckett was in that episode! Wow are be bad SGA fans or what?

[Matt G]

Listened to the fan commentary for this ep(audio only I'm far enough behind on S2 I I don't want to rewind back to S1). This was 'not' the ep I voted for(that was There But For the Grace of God) but...*shrugs*

1. Never really thought about the actress deal with Catherine, didn't notice the age of the little girl in 1928 either.

2. The start of "we don't leave our people behind?" I dunno...they tried to rescue Lt nobody in COTG.

3. LOLd at David not knowing about the details of Darren's interview with EH.

[Trig]

Pretty far behind as far as te rewatch goes but still


Why does the gate close when Ernest goes thru it in 1940 whatever?
He still has all his life lines attached so surely the gate wouldnt close?

[hlndncr]

Pretty far behind as far as te rewatch goes but still


Why does the gate close when Ernest goes thru it in 1940 whatever?
He still has all his life lines attached so surely the gate wouldnt close?

Could be a power issue. They really had no idea what they were doing then. It was really all a fluke.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Could be a power issue. They really had no idea what they were doing then. It was really all a fluke.

Or maybe the 38 minute window. It looked to me like they didn't start to gear him up until after they made the connection. It's gotta take a while to get into that suit.

Seaboe

[hlndncr]

Or maybe the 38 minute window. It looked to me like they didn't start to gear him up until after they made the connection. It's gotta take a while to get into that suit.

Seaboe

Good thought. Had not considered that, but it is a plausible explanation.

[garhkal]

In that case, why didn't it close sooner, since nothing was passing through.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

In that case, why didn't it close sooner, since nothing was passing through.

We don't know that. We saw only scraps of the film. They may have sent through other things.

Seaboe

[peterbjornx]

Was a meaning for the "meaning of life stuff" ever found?

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Sort of. How much of the series have you seen?

Seaboe

[peterbjornx]

most of it butnot so recently

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

The "meaning of life stuff" ties into the Asgard and leads to the discovery of Cimmeria, which in turn leads to the development and alliance with the Asgard. So yes, a meaning was found.

Seaboe