The Sentinel (520)

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

I thought it was a boring episode. One of the worst from Season 5.

Tomorrow, Jonas Quinn makes his first appearance. Will Daniel Jackson die?

[Jae'a]

^ I thought it was kind of 'meh' too, but I don't really like so say 'boring' when talking about Stargate...

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[Krisz]

^ I thought it was kind of 'meh' too, but I don't really like so say 'boring' when talking about Stargate...

LOL! You feel like you're a bad fan if you do!

In this instance I'll use the word 'uninspired'. The idea of the melding of man and machine to create a powerful weapon for defence was a great idea, but the whole episode was poorly executed in every way it seemed.

When I first saw Henry Gibson in this I thought it was the weirdest bit of casting I'd seen in ages. I hadn't seen him on TV since 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh In' show in the late 60's, early 70's, so it was unexpected to say the least! He really didn't work in a more 'serious' role for me because of how I remembered him, as the man with the silly poems!

[Lieutenant Sparrow]

Yeah not the best ep.

Best part of the ep being Daniels line.

Ah yeah what end do the bullets go in again

[jelgate]

I find this one hard to swallow. Yes I can understand the concept of a society degressing technologically but not to the degree the society in this episode did. To have such an advanced device and not even be able to fight back the Goa'uld is unconciveable to me. Besides that its not to bad. The way the Sentinel works is an interesting idea and if the Goa'uld knew the weakness that it requires a human life they probably would just send wave after wave of Jaffa after them. The NID getting redemption is an interesting idea but its a little too forced. It seems a little much for them being sorry about what they did.

[Vanysh]

It's just boring. I was bored watching it.

[Cluas]

I wouldn't say boring. I would call it average. I felt sorry for Kershaw.

[Falcon Horus]

Since I had totally forgotten what this episode was all about, I can't say it was very memorable. It was kinda boring actually.

And the tune to (de-)activate the shield was rather annoying to the ears as well.

The device looked kinda cool... but that's about it.

[Baron Of Hell]

I enjoyed this one. Like everyone said Daniel had the best line when asking where do the bullets go. I thought NID guys would betray SG1, nice that they didn't go with obvious thing.

Kind of funny at the end the aliens were still in a position of not knowing how the device worked. A deal could have been negotiated that they must allow SG1 to examine the device otherwise they will not tell them how it worked. Jerky thing to do for sure but have a weapon that would protect earth would be worth it.

[garhkal]

Unless they could have removed it TO earth, i doubt they could have duplicated it to protect earth.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

A deal could have been negotiated that they must allow SG1 to examine the device otherwise they will not tell them how it worked.

I'm a little confused by your pronouns. Are you saying that the originating society must allow SG1 (read: Carter) to examine the device or else SG1 won't tell the originating society how it works? Because it seems to me that, as things were left, no one knows how it works; the originating society because they've forgotten, SG1 because they've never had the chance to study it.

Seaboe

[I Am Not James Spader]

Does anyone know why the none of the original actors from "Shades of Grey" were used?

[garhkal]

Perhaps those actors were unavailable?

[Anja]

The bad ones get the chance of making good and then they vanish from Earth - faith in some divine power is restored.

[Cluas]

After re-watching this episode, I realized that Teal'c must have some special unknown super- powers. He should have been wiped out with the rest of the Jaffa and Lord Svarok



Henry Gibson was cool as Marul - He has done many good roles on tv. He also had a role once in MacGyver