So my comments...
I actually rather loved this episode, but I'm a Cold War historian by trade and it played to all my personal loves. Could have done without some of the swooning over Daniel thing, but that's a classic element in stories about war and nurses. Could have been worse though.
So, particular points....
* Loved the tourists and the MALP, sooner or later they needed to come out in museum, I only wish they'd actually walked out to meet the tourists instead of waiting for dignetaries.
* Loved seeing Carter in charge, and being in charge as a soldier. She looked more comfortable this time than in the brief scene in Zero Hour. They did the military tactics in the take over of the base really well. It seemed quite belieable to me.
* As a general point of interest I saw the following weapons. Kalashnikov AK 47 (early model, looked like a milled reciever), PPSch-41 (Soviet made submachine gun, famous for looking like a farm implement), PPS-43 (Soviet made submachine gun, famous for it's role in the Siege of Leningrad), M1 Garand (US made self loading rifle, standard infantry weapon in WWII and Korea). Based on this, and the fact that the two nations had missile technology, but not nuclear weapons I'd be willing to place their tech at about 1947.
I don't have a particular issue with the use of earth guns as props, it gave a nice feel to the episode to me. My only comment was the actors must have been dying from holding the Garand that way. I used to competition shoot that rifle and I'd have NEVER tried to fire or move that way, but than again, it's hardly a close combat sort of weapon.
In general, not a great episode, not a horrible one. Wasn't a waste of my video tape.
I actually rather loved this episode, but I'm a Cold War historian by trade and it played to all my personal loves. Could have done without some of the swooning over Daniel thing, but that's a classic element in stories about war and nurses. Could have been worse though.
So, particular points....
* Loved the tourists and the MALP, sooner or later they needed to come out in museum, I only wish they'd actually walked out to meet the tourists instead of waiting for dignetaries.
* Loved seeing Carter in charge, and being in charge as a soldier. She looked more comfortable this time than in the brief scene in Zero Hour. They did the military tactics in the take over of the base really well. It seemed quite belieable to me.
* As a general point of interest I saw the following weapons. Kalashnikov AK 47 (early model, looked like a milled reciever), PPSch-41 (Soviet made submachine gun, famous for looking like a farm implement), PPS-43 (Soviet made submachine gun, famous for it's role in the Siege of Leningrad), M1 Garand (US made self loading rifle, standard infantry weapon in WWII and Korea). Based on this, and the fact that the two nations had missile technology, but not nuclear weapons I'd be willing to place their tech at about 1947.
I don't have a particular issue with the use of earth guns as props, it gave a nice feel to the episode to me. My only comment was the actors must have been dying from holding the Garand that way. I used to competition shoot that rifle and I'd have NEVER tried to fire or move that way, but than again, it's hardly a close combat sort of weapon.
In general, not a great episode, not a horrible one. Wasn't a waste of my video tape.
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