Aside from watching in horror as Daniel flirts with a women 20 minutes after I watched him bury his wife, my biggest problem with this episode is letting Keira go.
I have no problem forgiving her for what she can't remember. My problem is, if the SGC is constantly under pressure to find new technologies and justify gate travel, then wouldn't Keira's biochemistry knowledge be like finding a Holy Grail? I mean she made a cold fusion reactor out of roots and a fountain of youth out of a pesticide. Why can't we keep her in a lab on Earth (and with Daniel since he so quickly got over Shar're for her). It seems a find like Keira would keep Maybourne off they back for quite a while. I think the people of the planet they found her on would be better off without her. Not to mention it would keep her from re-discovering her true self.
As far as her true self goes, it is possible to remember the most important (as judged by your subconscious) memories relating to personality (which I believe is mostly stored in the frontal lobe), motor function, and of course in Keira's case scientific knowledge. As far as her mass murdering tendencies, when she says she has two people within it I thought that lent some credence to an argument for severe emotional trauma at a young age. It is possible that she had some evil tendencies, I like to think you don't leap to mass murderer without severe emotional trauma. After all if you agree with Eddie Izzard Hitler might have been a nice guy if he had been a better painter. ;^)
I thought the photography catch was a good one. I too assumed they had only recently brought photography to the masses and therefore only photos of old people. When they first stepped through the gate I started thinking Genni, but they're a little less developed than the Genni. Only just.
I have no problem forgiving her for what she can't remember. My problem is, if the SGC is constantly under pressure to find new technologies and justify gate travel, then wouldn't Keira's biochemistry knowledge be like finding a Holy Grail? I mean she made a cold fusion reactor out of roots and a fountain of youth out of a pesticide. Why can't we keep her in a lab on Earth (and with Daniel since he so quickly got over Shar're for her). It seems a find like Keira would keep Maybourne off they back for quite a while. I think the people of the planet they found her on would be better off without her. Not to mention it would keep her from re-discovering her true self.
As far as her true self goes, it is possible to remember the most important (as judged by your subconscious) memories relating to personality (which I believe is mostly stored in the frontal lobe), motor function, and of course in Keira's case scientific knowledge. As far as her mass murdering tendencies, when she says she has two people within it I thought that lent some credence to an argument for severe emotional trauma at a young age. It is possible that she had some evil tendencies, I like to think you don't leap to mass murderer without severe emotional trauma. After all if you agree with Eddie Izzard Hitler might have been a nice guy if he had been a better painter. ;^)
I thought the photography catch was a good one. I too assumed they had only recently brought photography to the masses and therefore only photos of old people. When they first stepped through the gate I started thinking Genni, but they're a little less developed than the Genni. Only just.
but a little slow.
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