A Hundred Days (317)

[Talon]

I quite liked this episode but I have one problem with it. At the end how the hell did they dial home. The DHD was apparently burried under tons of earth god knows if it eaven suvived.

[RubyRed]

i think they might have used a naquadah reactor. i wish they show more of sam building the particle bean. she is incredibly brilliant and i think they needed to show that. i didn't like that he had lost faith, i can't believe he would have lost faith in sam. he should have known that if anybody can get him is sam. they didn't show him showing appreciation for what she had done. she gave up so much yet he seem kind of ungreatful. i think it was selfish of Laira to not tell him at first but she finally came to her senses. i like that sam, teal'c and daniel didn't give up on jack. althought it was very screw up that he gave up on them.

[Believer]

I liked this episode very much. I think it showed the resiliancy of Jack, though it took him a while to realize that he wouldn't be returning home, and this new place would be home. He grew to care for Laira and although I did not want him remain with her, I was saddened at the end, when Teal'C rescued him. The last scene, of her, standing alone, with her hand over her belly, well, it touched me. I guess we'll never know if there is a little Jack running around there with her, or if it was just wishful thinking.

[QuiGonJohn]

I liked this episode a lot. Nice change of pace and dealing with Jack resigning himself to staying there. As to Laira and the radio, I thought they did that well. Her first instinct is not to tell him, but at the meal, you could see she was agonizing over having to decieve him forever and she quickly decides she has to tell him, whatever the consequences.

[Abydosian]

I was surprised quite a few people didn't like this episode - for me, I really enjoyed it

This episode had an interesting perspective for Jack and was enlightening considering the possibility of not getting home and when he had pretty much given up hope of returning.

It had Great music and created a good emotional response, especially the scene where Jack is in the boat moving accross the water on his own and I also loved the music at the dance - very moving

Also nice to see the reuse of the idea of penatrating an "iris" and it was a good solution.

One thing I did wonder was how they got the stargate out from the bottom of the hole, but I guess they must have found a way. It was quite deep down, and they didn't have many good tools, but I guess they must have had something

Overall, enjoyable episode and enlightening to see it focus on points not really considered before - For example, the possibility of having to give up life and live on a new planet, and also what happens the stargate is horizontal and something falls back into the event horizon.

[divcon]

That's true, all the 'enhancing the gene pool' and 'my (possible) baby needs a father' stuff wasn't reason enough for Laira to decide to keep Jack from the truth. It was enough to cloud and muddy her mind awhile though.

After being widowed and not finding a new life-partner for years (and in such a small community she must have resigned herself to never ever) she has now got one, and wow what a lovely feeling that must have been for her. She has dreams of wedded bliss and a new baby, and I know how heady that can be. Then the radio crackles and she can see her dream being torn apart. Her heart must have been wrenching itself within her chest, she stood to loose the dream she had been hoping for for nearly three months and had finally allowed herself to believe in. It's cruel fate.

No wonder that she delayed her action. The poor woman must have been quite numb. When you're in that much pain you don't think quite as coherently as normal, and the significance of things can be muddled. Her subconscious probably threw out all the reasons not to tell him - the gene pool argument, he's happy here why let him be uprooted again, I might have imagined it - and in her befuddled state it took her a while to straighten everthing out.

But she *did* straighten it out, and of her own accord. I still think she's selfless and lovely.

Don't know if anyone pops in here anymore but I wanted to post my opinion on this episode. After reading Madeleine-W's take on the actions of Laira, I would have to agree on her take of things. I totally enjoyed this episode. I found it touching that even though Jack had given up any hope in his head of ever getting home, in his heart he never gave up. Why else would he have kept all his Stargate uniforms' for so long. He had already been wearing Edorian clothing for a while so the uniform was like a security blanket of sorts.

I loved the scene where Jack was paddling down the lake and Laira meets up with him to walk back to the village together. Wonder how long she had been waiting there for. Then the desperation in helping to dig Teal'c out of the ground showed us and Laira that Edora truely wasn't where Jack belonged.

However I would like to know whether Laira was pregnant with Jack's child because the way tptb left the episode(with Laira placing a hand over her abdomen), it's anyone's guess.

[zats]

Just watched this one tonight, and amazed myself by not hating it. After all, it's sort of the Antichrist for shippers. I'm a shipper. Therefore, I should be sprinting the other direction and waving cloves of garlic. Right? Evidentally not.

What was good:
a. RDA. I'd read the transcript wondering what the hell Jack was thinking by accepting his fate: since when has Jack calmly lain down and allowed fate to walk all over him, even if there's nothing he can do? RDA pulled it off.
b. AT. We didn't see much of her, but what we did see was enough of set a presence for the ep. [And I love the sort of 'I know you're flirting and you should know I can kill you six different ways before you hit the ground' look she was giving Laira at the beginning of the ep. ]
c. Laira. Yeah, I know. As I said above, I was prepared to hate her, and I didn't. I don't even think she was a slut or a b!tch or anything else you care to call her. She was trying to help Jack. She didn't know about SG-1's track record of continually beating the odds twice on Sunday [and let's face it, that's something you sort of have to see to believe]. She had no reason to assume other than that he'd be stuck on her world for a long time. She was trying to be kind to him, & I don't just mean the sex. Just about the only real reason I can come up with for despising her so intensely is that she's not Sam. Fair enough for dislike, but not enough for hate.
d. Storyline. Kewl.
e. Techie stuff: editing, props, settings, SFX. Nicely done. I liked the shot of RDA walking with Laira that cut to RDA on the river. I liked the Edoran culture. And the 'fire rain' was awesome.
f. Ship...but not too shippy.
g. Teal'c. Nice to see him doing something other than give people the eyebrow, which is about all he did for the first six seasons.

What wasn't good:
a. Laira. Okay. So there's no rational reason to. I still...don't like her.

[Perriman33]

It was almost like a filler episode where it could have gone in anywhere in the first six series. There was nothing wrong with the episode although it was a bit mushy for me.(sorry)
Teal'c was cool and sam did her own little thing which was good. It was good but not memorable!

[Stricken]

Durrin this episode i thought maybe it was the end of SG-1 as we know it but Sam all pulls ideas out of her... anyway RDA was great in this ep he even got to fish on another plannet!

[Ascendant]

IMHO sometimes Carter, Teal'c, and Daniel are possive of Jack. Teal'c and Carter do not like him out of thier sight sight at times.

That's just because he breaks stuff if you don't watch him carefully.

This was a good idea for an episode, it was just boring and pastoral. Aside from the fire rain (am I the only one who thought that was unbelievably cool?), it's essentially an episode about Nothing. It was a well thought-out Nothing, though. Notice that Laira tells Jack that she mourned for her husband for a hundred days before letting go of him. Jack stays on the planet just a bit over three months - I'm guessing 95 days - before he's finally able to begin letting go of Earth, Carter and the SGC. Cleverly done overall.

And I actually did like Laira. She's not quite feisty enough to keep up with Jack, but she's a sweet character who seems to honestly fall for him. The fact that she hesitates with the radio is just further proof of how much she's come to care for him. It doesn't make her a bad person.

I thought it was kind of funny that Jack just sort of forgets about her, though. I can just imagine what Jack's answering machine sounds like:

BEEP
"Jack, this is Laira. Honey, why haven't you called me back? Do you need my number?"
BEEP
"Hello, Jack. It's Laira. We were going to have a feast this evening and I was wondering if you might want to join us. It's been so long since I've talked to you. I'd love to see you again..."
BEEP
"Jack? Honey, why haven't you returned any of my calls? I have something important to tell you. Jack? Are you there? Jack?"
BEEP
*sob* "Jack? Call me back, please. It's been five years...I miss you so much. Oooh, I never should have given you that radio back..." *sob*
BEEP
"Hello, darling. It's Laira. Just thought I'd let Little Jack say hello."
"Hi, Daddy! I'm in first grade now! Please come visit some day? I wanna meet you! It would be so fun to have a daddy to play catch with!"

[walter_MacChevron]

It was alright hey! Jack might have a 6 year old kid in the far reaches of space!

[Pharaoh Atem]

This was, IMO, the weakest and worst episode for me, out of all seven series'.
The first quarter of it showed great promise. But then it went downhill from there. I do not believe that Jack would go native that soon. He would have more faith in the SGC than that.
I also wanted to see more of Sam building the supergun. One minute she's adding up numbers on a bit of paper, next she's firing the thing. I felt that too much time was spent with Jack.
The other thing I felt was that the writers ran out of ideas at the end, and the whole thing just petered out.
All in all, a disappointing ep. for me.

i love this episode why does so many people hate it i love it althought i really like season 3 all together just wuh there was a audio commuintary

[Samuel J. Tilden]

About the only good thing this episode did was set up a convenient excuse for Jack's alleged defection in "Shades of Grey". Oh, and the fire rain was cool-looking.

[Darth Buddha]

I loved the episode.

I found Jack's "going native" to be wholly believable under such a stressful situation. Any expectation of rescue was obviously WAY off if he truly thought the gate was destroyed.

Moreover, the woman he fell for wasn't quite chopped liver either. All in all, a good Jack episode, the only Stargate romance that ever worked for me in the least (though I'm sure all the various conventional 'shippy types hissed the whole time) and I for one always held out hope that that really WAS where Jack would go when he retired.

[Metarock Sam]

this episode is ok but not one of my personal faves. I mean it is quite predictable what happens and after accepting his fate jack leaves his new women with a basic ill be back. That never happens he never returns to visit edora which is a shame. Perhaps the Orii may come for a little visit.