A model of how to do outstanding episodes. One of the best episodes of the season one along with "The Torment of Tantalus" and in top five of the series in whole. And as far as I can remember, it's the only four episode season ending/start amongst all SG series.
I agree that it is a nice way to tell a "what if" story without damaging the main plot curve and dealing with its aftermath. What if Daniel wouldn't be here from the very beginning? What if Teal'C would stay Apophis' First Prime? What if Sam wouldn't be Captain Carter? What'd happen if Catherine would still run the program?
Daniel clearly got ears deep in you-know-what on that planet just from his plain curiousity and willingness to study everything possible. But in the end that saved our Earth from destruction. It was that bit of luck that literally is capable of saving world.
I enjoyed the weirdness of things in that episode greatly. Colonel Hammond, General O'Neill leading the StarGate Association (according to GW's wiki), though after later seasons General O'Neill sounds more familiar than Colonel. Speaking of Jack, he was way different there. But it's understandable as his home just got destroyed. He's no longer a joker, but a ruthless soldier. Sam as a civilian was a strange view, but interesting. And that was gem for Sam/Jack shippers. And she's the same tough Sam as in our reality when she uses that grenade to take all the jaffa with her. Daniel of AU had some reason to refuse join the program, and I can't even guess why, but it was ironic after he got killed by the same aliens he was trying to study in Egypt without leaving Earth.
Local Teal'C seems to be different from ours only in hair. His face told the truth, that he hates being a slave of the false god in this reality as much as in ours, but Jack's decision to nuke Chu'lak toughened his heart. He lost family and people and had nobody to free from shackles from that moment, and he killed the man who ordered the death of his beloved ones. But he gave Daniel a chance in the end of episode. Instead of shooting him dead on sight, he waited until the gate was opened and Daniel ran. So maybe O'Neill message had some impact on him after all. And it was fun to watch jaffa trying to disarm the selfdestruct and batting each other hands.
The most important people of the whole world were evacuated from Earth via SGA and that attracted Goa'Uld to the Cheyenne Mountain complex and speeded up things there, making Daniel eventually the only survivior there. Watching Chevron Guy in civilian and doing a lot of fighting was amusing too. It's a shame he never made it to the gate, obviously either getting killed by jaffa or by self-destruct. Can't understand well what made Jack helping our Daniel except of realisation that his own world was doomed already and urge to save some similar then. I guess if he hadn't used the camera to show Teal'C our reality, Daniel would record some of that reality and used that tape in the next episode. Catherine did the same thing Jack did, technically: if there's another she living happily with Ernest, so be it, let's save them.
So, this episode is centered mostly around Daniel, in my opinion, and shows how important he is to the program. He brought that slim chance of salvation with him from that reality and what happened to it where he wasn't along with SGC, influencing its actions, was a disaster.
Those aliens who made that quantum mirror surely did a great thing, both dangerous and beneficial.
Oh, and the ending of the episode: "Jack, they're coming!" sounds and looks extremely similar to "Everett! They're coming!"
10/10
I agree that it is a nice way to tell a "what if" story without damaging the main plot curve and dealing with its aftermath. What if Daniel wouldn't be here from the very beginning? What if Teal'C would stay Apophis' First Prime? What if Sam wouldn't be Captain Carter? What'd happen if Catherine would still run the program?
Daniel clearly got ears deep in you-know-what on that planet just from his plain curiousity and willingness to study everything possible. But in the end that saved our Earth from destruction. It was that bit of luck that literally is capable of saving world.
I enjoyed the weirdness of things in that episode greatly. Colonel Hammond, General O'Neill leading the StarGate Association (according to GW's wiki), though after later seasons General O'Neill sounds more familiar than Colonel. Speaking of Jack, he was way different there. But it's understandable as his home just got destroyed. He's no longer a joker, but a ruthless soldier. Sam as a civilian was a strange view, but interesting. And that was gem for Sam/Jack shippers. And she's the same tough Sam as in our reality when she uses that grenade to take all the jaffa with her. Daniel of AU had some reason to refuse join the program, and I can't even guess why, but it was ironic after he got killed by the same aliens he was trying to study in Egypt without leaving Earth.
Local Teal'C seems to be different from ours only in hair. His face told the truth, that he hates being a slave of the false god in this reality as much as in ours, but Jack's decision to nuke Chu'lak toughened his heart. He lost family and people and had nobody to free from shackles from that moment, and he killed the man who ordered the death of his beloved ones. But he gave Daniel a chance in the end of episode. Instead of shooting him dead on sight, he waited until the gate was opened and Daniel ran. So maybe O'Neill message had some impact on him after all. And it was fun to watch jaffa trying to disarm the selfdestruct and batting each other hands.
The most important people of the whole world were evacuated from Earth via SGA and that attracted Goa'Uld to the Cheyenne Mountain complex and speeded up things there, making Daniel eventually the only survivior there. Watching Chevron Guy in civilian and doing a lot of fighting was amusing too. It's a shame he never made it to the gate, obviously either getting killed by jaffa or by self-destruct. Can't understand well what made Jack helping our Daniel except of realisation that his own world was doomed already and urge to save some similar then. I guess if he hadn't used the camera to show Teal'C our reality, Daniel would record some of that reality and used that tape in the next episode.
Catherine did the same thing Jack did, technically: if there's another she living happily with Ernest, so be it, let's save them.So, this episode is centered mostly around Daniel, in my opinion, and shows how important he is to the program. He brought that slim chance of salvation with him from that reality and what happened to it where he wasn't along with SGC, influencing its actions, was a disaster.
Those aliens who made that quantum mirror surely did a great thing, both dangerous and beneficial.
Oh, and the ending of the episode: "Jack, they're coming!" sounds and looks extremely similar to "Everett! They're coming!"
10/10
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