I really enjoyed the episode. It was a good team episode IMO. Good action even for an Earth-based ep. Loved the humor. 
When it turned out to be Anubis, it kind of surprised me, though I guess it shouldn’t have, but I didn’t give any thought as to what the entity was that boarded the International Space Station when I first saw it. From the commercial trailers for the episode, I was expecting Daniel to come back from a mission infected with something. Must say the commercials kind of spoiled it for me because I had already deduced that poor Daniel was going to be shot by Jack and then later zatted by an infected Carter. Just had never figured it would be Anubis that would cause the base to go on alert.
I know this nit pick would have lead to only a 15-minute show, but why did Anubis alert the medical staff to the Russian when he had taken over Daniel? All he had to do was hide the guy in the closet or something, and nobody would have probably missed him at least until Daniel had gone off-world with SG-11, barring that there were no security cameras in the room.
I also though Major Kearney was a little stupid for following “Jack’s” order to set the self-destruct. I know Jack is his superior, but with what was happening, you would think he would be a little more keen on questioning why the self-destruct was going to remedy the problem since Anubis is non-corporeal. Yeah, it would prevent him from using the gate, but they already had a handle on that because all you had to do was zat anybody who attempted to go through the gate.
I know these are random thoughts, but I guess Anubis did not shoot Jack at the end because he figured they might shut down the gate, but if I were he, I would have jumped at the chance to kill the guy who destroyed my empire. Also I guess they were hoping that with the lockdown, Anubis would just eventually get tired of waiting around and risk being found out by the Ancients in order to return to his base otherwise there was no way they were going to be able to physically catch him and get rid of him. So that leads you to wonder how Jack was going to know if Anubis was really gone, because if the Ancients had been alerted to him, I doubt they would have battled it out at the SGC or informed Jack that the problem had been resolved. Even with the fake announcement to lockdown indefinitely, Anubis could have just waited it out until they resumed gate travel. What are a couple of months or years to him?
BTW, the above are just nit picks and not criticisms of the show because I still enjoyed the episode.
Didn’t much care for the doctor, but I liked the Russian. Too bad they couldn’t have kept his character, but you knew what was coming there at the end. Overall, it was a quality episode IMO, and I’m hoping next week’s is just as good or better.
When it turned out to be Anubis, it kind of surprised me, though I guess it shouldn’t have, but I didn’t give any thought as to what the entity was that boarded the International Space Station when I first saw it. From the commercial trailers for the episode, I was expecting Daniel to come back from a mission infected with something. Must say the commercials kind of spoiled it for me because I had already deduced that poor Daniel was going to be shot by Jack and then later zatted by an infected Carter. Just had never figured it would be Anubis that would cause the base to go on alert.I know this nit pick would have lead to only a 15-minute show, but why did Anubis alert the medical staff to the Russian when he had taken over Daniel? All he had to do was hide the guy in the closet or something, and nobody would have probably missed him at least until Daniel had gone off-world with SG-11, barring that there were no security cameras in the room.
I also though Major Kearney was a little stupid for following “Jack’s” order to set the self-destruct. I know Jack is his superior, but with what was happening, you would think he would be a little more keen on questioning why the self-destruct was going to remedy the problem since Anubis is non-corporeal. Yeah, it would prevent him from using the gate, but they already had a handle on that because all you had to do was zat anybody who attempted to go through the gate.
I know these are random thoughts, but I guess Anubis did not shoot Jack at the end because he figured they might shut down the gate, but if I were he, I would have jumped at the chance to kill the guy who destroyed my empire. Also I guess they were hoping that with the lockdown, Anubis would just eventually get tired of waiting around and risk being found out by the Ancients in order to return to his base otherwise there was no way they were going to be able to physically catch him and get rid of him. So that leads you to wonder how Jack was going to know if Anubis was really gone, because if the Ancients had been alerted to him, I doubt they would have battled it out at the SGC or informed Jack that the problem had been resolved. Even with the fake announcement to lockdown indefinitely, Anubis could have just waited it out until they resumed gate travel. What are a couple of months or years to him?
BTW, the above are just nit picks and not criticisms of the show because I still enjoyed the episode.
Didn’t much care for the doctor, but I liked the Russian. Too bad they couldn’t have kept his character, but you knew what was coming there at the end. Overall, it was a quality episode IMO, and I’m hoping next week’s is just as good or better.
He could have been a very sympathetic recurring character. Oh, well, maybe his actions will make life easier on the next bunch of poor Russians sentenced to Jack's authority. "/
Anybody here know what kind of heavenly body that might refer to? He's obviously not stranded on a planet or moon, or comet or asteroid, or....
Sounds a bit hooey-ish to me, but that's the most "reasonable" excuse I can imagine.
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