A Hundred Days (317)

[mathpiglet]

fems, I think you are applying your cultural norms to a completely alien culture. Her behaviour was likely in accordance with her own culture.

As for not giving Jack the hundred days, I still think her thought was to help him in a way nobody helped her.

[Brother Freyr]

Spend every day with someone you're in love with, for three whole months, and not sleep with him? To me, that's remarkable restraint.

A 40-minute episode can't show you everything. Much must be implied through a series of short vignettes. I felt the show's makers did this quite well. I got the sense that Laira tried and succeeded in getting to know Jack, as they lived and worked side-by-side, day after day. The celebration where Jack got drunk is meant to demonstrate that he's been accepted as a member of the community. Laira made her move that night, not because Jack was drinking, but because Jack, too, had finally reached an acceptance of his new life.

BTW, fems, I don't think you're correctly understanding the meaning of the exchange in which Laira says, "that's not the part I want."

[Starscape91]

Never really like this episode, probably because they never followed up on it.

[jelgate]

I have always liked this episode just for Jack calling Teal'c a stubborn....oh wait I can't stay that on GW

No I like this one for the long term aspects. We have seen SG1 team members stranded on planets before but for an extended period of time. So I like seeing how Jack adjusts to his new life. I think its only natural when stuck on a planet for months that he moves on and begins settling into a new life. On the other side its an interesting to see how just basic difference of having resources (something Jack lacks) that the SGC doesn't give up hope of being reunitied. So I like it for the extreme character analysis of Jack of him adjusting and get accustomed to new people.

As for the thing people think Lara was pregenant at the end. I think that is looking into something that really isn't there

[dtheories]

"Please don't suck the fun out of this."
If Jack only knew it would be Carter's genius and understanding of wormhole physics that would save his bacon, maybe he'd go a little easier on her!
He's not as obvious in his rejection of Carter as he is toward Laira, but it's soooooo apparent that he realizes Laira's taken a shine to him and wants no part of her even before the Fire Rain causes them to sit it out in the caves.
And when he does begin to care, it's almost as though she's a consolation prize. This SO was not in the job description!
And I agree with Seaboe that Laira is a strong leader, but also with Fems that she's manipulative. The way she handles even the elders of her clan brooks no argument. She's single-minded and very persuasive, as seen after the dance when she must sense Jack's avoidance of her. But, she's also thinking of the future of her people, so I can't dismiss her actions as simply selfish or even, at a stretch, altruistic in consideration of Jack's apparent loss of the life he knew due to her son's actions.
Daniel getting "it faster than Sam at the end shows how single-minded she can be as well.

[Brother Freyr]

Interesting how people can watch the same show but see it so very differently.

[mathpiglet]

Interesting how people can watch the same show but see it so very differently.

If we all saw it the same way, there would be little point in the discussion!

[SaraBahama]

Painful ep for me.

* Can't believe Jack would believe so quickly (yes...I think that 3 months was a little soon for him to accept that he was never getting home) that his team would give up on getting him home. I understand that Jack knows that the military has no way of knowing if he survived asteroids, and that they will eventually declare him MIA or KIA, but I think he gave up a little fast.

* Loved the Janet/Sam conversation about Sam missing Jack and her concentrated efforts to get him home.

* I don't like how easily/quickly Jack broke with Laira to leave once the team got there (even though I don't care for the Laira/Jack story arc) -it seems a bit of a Jack O'Neill character assaination.

* The pained expression on Carter's face at the end of the ep tears at my heart every time.

[Lt.Colonel John Sheppard]

you wanna know something interesting. this was originally going to be a two-part episode.

[fems]

* Can't believe Jack would believe so quickly (yes...I think that 3 months was a little soon for him to accept that he was never getting home) that his team would give up on getting him home. I understand that Jack knows that the military has no way of knowing if he survived asteroids, and that they will eventually declare him MIA or KIA, but I think he gave up a little fast.

I agree; Jack should have known it wasn't just about him. Perhaps if it was, the military would have declared him MIA/KIA and wouldn't have bothered with Sam's machine, but it wasn't; there were still people from Edora on Earth and they needed to get home as well. Bringing those aliens back to their planet would make Earth look good when they continue their negotiations (for whatever it was they were negotiating about in the first place).

[Matt G]

Naquadah deposits.

[garhkal]

you wanna know something interesting. this was originally going to be a two-part episode.

If so, i wonder what prompted them to make it only 1.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

If so, i wonder what prompted them to make it only 1.

IMO, there isn't enough story there for two parts.

Seaboe

[Dave2]

On all these planets where the Goa'uld put a handful of humans thousands of years ago, how is it that they never multiply into the millions. On Edora there should be millions of people by the time SG1 gets there. Same for other planets. Especially where the goa'ulds managed to forget about them......

[Dave2]

And how did they gate back to Earth from the cavern with no dialer and with the gate lying on the ground? What happened to the probe vehicle if it was going through the gate vertically?