The Tomb (508)

[jelgate]

Thier is something funny about the hypocritical nature of Jack when it comes to the Russians. He always has this unfair cynical nature towards. And I kind of like this as given Jack's age he probably had rough time with the Soviet Union. Yes that time is over but its interesting to see old wounds don't go away. As for the story itself its a nice bottle episode for me. I think it was an interesting way to show an unending torture. And I have to chuckle at Jack's saying that the Goa'uld always make the cliche threats. All in all its a good episode. What sells it is the clashing of American and Russian ideals of fighting. I would have liked to see what the eye does but that is a small compliant

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Personally, I don't think TPTB had decided what the eye does at the time of this episode.

Seaboe

[Krisz]

Personally, I don't think TPTB had decided what the eye does at the time of this episode.

Seaboe

True, for all we know it may have ended up as one of the 'eyes of...' that Anubis collected and only needed the "Eye of Ra" to complete the set in 'Full Circle"? Anubis may have sent some of his Jaffa back to the tomb to dig it out or beamed it out with his more advanced beaming technology, having learned of it being found by the SGC but left in the tomb. Wonder if the Russian's had come across descriptions of this 'eye' being a part of some alien weapon. as I did wonder why the second Russian team was sent back with specific orders to retrieve it. Just some of my rambling thoughts!

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

True, for all we know it may have ended up as one of the 'eyes of...' that Anubis collected and only needed the "Eye of Ra" to complete the set in 'Full Circle"?

IIRC, it was one of the eyes. I'm just saying while they decided the set all together made a weapon, I'm not sure they thought through what the weapon was or did.

Seaboe

[discodiva]

Lovely Daniel Jackson snark too...

"Yes, you go down the dark hallway alone and I'll wait here in the dark room alone."

Deeds xx

[bookwormjules]

Not a bad episode as it did have it's moments and it helped set up for some future tension with the Russians, but it is easily one you can forget.

If RDA's hand slap cost much, why didn't they cut it out, or re do the seen when they originally taped it?

[Lunaeclipse]

Not a bad episode as it did have it's moments and it helped set up for some future tension with the Russians, but it is easily one you can forget.

If RDA's hand slap cost much, why didn't they cut it out, or re do the seen when they originally taped it?

Ooops. No loops (WOO) to fix that...

[Zysu]

Watched this today & loved it. Definitely one of my favourites. The atmosphere in those dark tunnels was great, and I liked the interactions with the Russians.

[Cluas]

Whoah this was so creepy. Definitely above average. And my average is really high. Loved it.

And ofc the russians had plans of their own, can't wait to see more of them.

[garhkal]

One thing i always wondered..
WHY was the place made so 'maze like/?

[Cluas]

One thing i always wondered..
WHY was the place made so 'maze like/?

Maze's were a part of the earth pyramids, and I guess that is why. It also made it much more exciting for the viewers

[Falcon Horus]

Pyramid - Ziggurat

There is a distinct difference, both in built and use of material.

Anyhow...

Let's start with a random note: the flashlight on RDA's P-90's on when he's bragging about it in the hallway.

So, someone watched The Mummy and thought this was a good idea to use in Stargate, except that the bugs in The Mummy weren't goa'ulded and looked slightly less ... err... like that rubbery thing that fell on Carter's shoulder. Marduk... interesting Babylonian god.

Anyway, joint operation between the cliche'd russians and the americans... that's just going to end in tears.

Another random note on the CG-surroundings: they looked cheap.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

What CG-surroundings? As I understand it, it was a set (which may be why it looked cheap).

Seaboe

[Falcon Horus]

What CG-surroundings? As I understand it, it was a set (which may be why it looked cheap).

The outside, the rest of the buildings outside of the ziggurat. Not the inside. The inside was the re-imagining of the Goa'uld mothership set from episode 1 of season 5.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

See, I paid no attention to that background, so I never noticed it looked cheap. Just shows to go.

Seaboe