Sight Unseen (613)

[greytop]

Jack hates replicators but does he hate these bugs? They looked like one that were see everyday but only bigger.

[Rhodan]

You know, I and my dad are both loyal fans of SG-1 but when we saw some episode with very lame premise, our analyze could be covered in one simple word: "Mongols ". As you probably know, episode that shocked us was the fourth one, " Emancipation". But I guess that after the story about terribly dangerous creatures who are such dangerous simple becouse people see them and this abillity is created by touching of previous person with it, our code wil be now "Bugs".

[Mr Prophet]

A bit of an up and down episode. Why could the bugs foat through some things and crawl over others?

Becuase if they only went across them, how would anyone know they were magic bugs?

[Symobolt]

There's a great sci-fi story by Gardner Dozis, called "Chains of the Sea". The idea there is identical -there are creatures on earth that live in another dimension (out-of-phase? ). In that story, most of the creatures are also weird funny-looking "bugs", like here, though their interactions with the "real" world are touched upon in greater detail (e.g. one species sucks a certain kind of fluid out of cows, and the loss of that fluid is the reason why cows lose their inborn superior intelligence ). I really recommend it. :]

[Major Fischer]

Not the best episode of SG1 ever, but not horrible.

[LMichelle]

This ep started off being interesting and even showed some promise, but then the second half was about finding Vernon and that's when I stopped caring.

[jckfan55]

This ep started off being interesting and even showed some promise, but then the second half was about finding Vernon and that's when I stopped caring.

I was less interested in that half too--though I did enjoy the Sam-Jonas moment when they were interviewing his grandmother.

[Yu`]

Not a great episode, the whole hysteria thing could have been more hightlighted, like maybe a montage of funny situations of people freaking out!

[Bastet11191967]

It probably wasn't one of the better episodes, but I really liked Teal'c's reaction (his eyes went as big as saucers) when he started seeing the bugs.

[button]

what i liked most about this episode was that it made me think about schizophrenic suffers.
If the out of phrase thing was possible, then made the visons suffers have are actually there but unable to be seen by humans without a ability to see out of phase.
any thoughts

[Hex.FTB.enabled]

The ONLY thing I could really stomach in this episode was the Alf/Macgyver joke at the end.

[Willow]

Yep, I have to agree it was a pretty weak episode.

[kelmah]

It was the brightly colored bugs that really got me. They were just so... unrealistic.


But then, this is scifi

[Believer]

what i liked most about this episode was that it made me think about schizophrenic suffers.
If the out of phrase thing was possible, then made the visons suffers have are actually there but unable to be seen by humans without a ability to see out of phase.
any thoughts

The majority of schizophrenics suffer from auditory hallucinations, not visual ones, especially, not like the "bugs" seen in this episode. However, the character (?Vernon) that had been in the Gulf, and was running away, did display classic paranoid behavior. I thought Jack handled him very well.

Was that too clinical? I could add some jokes........

Now, back to the topic at hand. I did not like Sight Unseen. It seemed to me like everyone was just going through the motions of acting, but there was no real humor or pathos in it. And the bugs themselves were kinda......weak?

[QuiGonJohn]

I liked this episode. Noticed it had a minimal amount of Jack, guess part of RDA's scaling back during Season 6. I liked how Jack jokingly referred to it as a bug zapper, then they started seeing bugs.