A Hundred Days (317)

[Espeon1962]

I always really enjoyed this episode; in fact in some ways I feel it is one of the finer standalones. It was rare that we got to see any other side of Jack in the series and I thought there was very good chemistry between he and Michelle Green. I found many of her actions highly believable. Under emotional stress, people will often make decisions that they regret, and to her credit, she fessed up.

What I actually felt needs to be resolved to this day is the matter of Jack's child with Michelle. That could be the plot to a whole new movie if they so desired. Certainly by Season 10 you would have to believe they most of thought of each other at least on occasion! And they left the gate co-ordinates with the village, so at some point you would have to think she would want Jack to meet his child.

[Alois Fisher]

indeed, very good episode!

[The Stig]

The jack in this episode was not our Jack. Our Jack wouldn't have given up so easily.

[jelgate]

The jack in this episode was not our Jack. Our Jack wouldn't have given up so easily.

It took him a 100 days to give up. That is a long time.

[Ishay]

It took him a 100 days to give up. That is a long time.

exaclty stuck on a planet with no way to get home what else was he supposed to do

[Pic]

I get the whole plot-line of Jack "moving on" with his life and then the whiplash of having your old life come back just when you'd accepted this other thing. But...

#1 - Jack, didn't you think Sam would figure something out? Maybe she'd call her dad and have his Tok'ra buddies pick you up or something?
#2 - 100 days? Pfft. Sam/Jack shippers have been waiting 100 years. Sam deserves better.

Don't hate me for that last comment, it's just the episode talking...

[Tchernobyl]

What I truly like the most about this episode?

The *music*. That recurring theme is beautiful, yet it's not available anywhere, to my knowledge. Unless someone can prove me wrong on that part?

[Coela Bellatore]

I have this terrible feeling I've seen the actress the played Laira in a porno somewhere.

EDIT: No I haven't, thank god. But it could darn well be her sister. Crisis avoided people.

[rylett]

i like this episode and agree with the 7.49 rating that we fans have given it.

there is a technical issue that has always bothered me.

would the battery in jack's radio have lasted for almost 3 1/2 months? apparently it had been turned off at some point but i suspect he left it on 24/7 for many days(if it lasted that long) when he first became stranded.

i have a couple of 2 way radios and the batteries last about 24 hours, at the most, in receive mode and much less when used for both transmit and receive.

[Automission]

one of my annoying points in this episode is most likely just a continuity error/not a rule yet applied in the show.

But Teal'c fires the grappling hook through the worm hole, and the cable is still on his side. By the shows laws of stargate travel it'd never of materialized, as the entire object was not all the way through.

Also the malp in the beginning revealed no telemetry as the gate was buried, so it had nothing to show. Yet if that occured, surely the gate wouldn't of dialed as the earth covering in/inside the ring would of acted as a barrier, stopping it working.

Still, a good episode!

[mrscopterdoc]

I liked this episode, but yet it is kind of annoying there are so many questions left unanswered. For example, did she have Jack's child? Did Jack ever think of her again?

[maneth]

Indeed, lots of unanswered questions. Still, I enjoyed Jack and Laira's relationship.

[Darkland]

Loved this episode, as it was the "asteroid" near end of earth kind of apocolypse and the fact that I realize that our beloved Carter, is "in love" with Jack. I admit I only purchased season 3 & 4 and not the earlier first two seasons, so I'm just starting to pick on that.

I think the episode had it's good and it's bad point - mainly it's bad point was the way it ended it so quickly - they had me focused on the storyline but they quickly wrapped it up out of no where- I know there is certain time limit on hourly episodes, but quick wrap up just didn't satisfy it. And what was with the relationship that Jack had with that woman? That wasn't made clearly at the beginning either, only in the middle when they were a "couple" or (rather she insisted upon it).

What I don't get is - how on earth the star gate portal still survived when it was "destroyed?" To me, that to have it in the earth's surface was a quick fix and one that remains illogical - by all means IT should have been destroyed when the asteroid (or comet) when it was hit.

[Merricles]

Just watched this ep again, and it is still one I enjoy. Reading on here I see a lot of people didn't like it though. I think everyone likes to forget that Jack would much rather be at peace then at war. He doesn't step through the gate for himself so much as for the world. He is a very black and white character. Plus, 100 days is no short time. I am in the service ahd have been deployed well past the 100 day mark. Moving on is, to some extent, a must. That doesn't mean you don't miss the life you had or the people that were in it. It just means you have to adapt and change to make the best of what you have. I think that is what he did. He didn't give up hope, but he accepted that this was his life now. On a side note, I think it would have been pretty cool if his alien chick had got pregnant by him and he had another kid he didn't know about. That surely could have gone somewhere.

[Taniwha]

I only started watching Stargate of any kind about two weeks ago. I have always known that the stargate franchise had developed into something quite big, but when it was new I just couldn't cope with Richard Dean Anderson in a sci-fi setting, MacGyver was still a recent memory and I just couldn't take him seriously.

But now its 2011 and that's all ancient history, so I got a hold of the Stargate movie, then started on the Stargate TV show.

One of the things about RDA's performance in Stargate is that the writers have tried to keep the character close to the kind of guy Kurt Russell played in the original movie - sarcastic, facetious, always ready with a dumb joke about whatever calamity they are involved in at the moment.

So quite often I think he's being too flippant and not treating the other characters properly, but I then remember that he's being the guy that Kurt Russell first played on the big screen. This works pretty well in most episodes, but in 'A Hundred Days' they really needed a different type of performance and he couldn't do it justice.

I think it's pretty clear that the Stargate writers were trying to produce an episode with a similar vibe and emotional payload as 'Inner Light' from Star Trek, Next Generation.

Many people vote this as the best TNG episode of all time, and Patrick Stewart's acting is what elevates the show above average into the sublime. The story has some similar elements, including the leader who gets stuck in an impossible situation and can't get back to his team, and has to face up to a life spent in new surroundings, where he has to rebuild relationships and a career.

Patrick Stewart delivers a pitcvh-perfect performance, and it clear when watching this episode in Stargate that RDA just can't do the storyline justice. In some ways I think the casual, sarcastic nature of O'Neill is problematic because the characterisation as I desribed at the start of this rant, just isn't drawn deep enough to show the kind of emotion needed for this role.

But I think the bulk of the problem is that RDA just isn't a good enough actor. That will probably drive some fans to hunt me down or something, but that's just how I see it.

I actually found both this and the ST;TNG episode pretty boring - I'm much more of an action fan anyway. But it's a further testament to the strength of Stewart's performance that I can easily watch 'Inner Light' a couple of times a year and never get bored like I would with any other 'thinking' episode.