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[LMichelle]

Was it me or did the Anubis drones look a bit like the characters from Halo?

I loved the flashing back and forth between the game and reality. Very cool effects. Virtual Sam and Virtual Daniel looked really good. We never did see Virtual Teal'c, though.

It seems many eps are focused on how we can get CJ in the tightest shirts possible. However, we did get some good Daniel arm porn, so I'm happy.

Lisa Michelle

[Major Clanger]

Sorry, absolutely no time to read the thread.
But I have to say... nice ep. I loved that they finally finally showed that they really do study and follow up on the tech they encounter. (when was Gamekeeper? S3? S2?)

At first I thought "oh no" but as it went on I really liked the ep. Good reason given for not using Jack in there with Teal'c, so that was ok.

The only thing that bugged me was right at the end when Daniel and Teal'c were trying to decide who the goa'uld was. They knew it was a game, and they should have followed their own advice (and possibly SG procedure) from... ah, which ep? The one when the recruits to the SG programme were put through their paces in S5...

Anyhooo... IMO Daniel and Teal'c should have just shot Jack and Sam, and made sure that Siler was really dead too.

But apart from that, a massive thumbs up.

Oh and ... another Bicep Ep. Yippeee!

[Lord Zedd]

Yeah that was a great episode.You saw some screenshots that is going to be in a game.Teal'c was just getting mad he shot Daniel with absolutly no reason.you saw Teal'c was kinda giving up

[Lord Zedd]

oh, that was so good! i so enjoyed that. i felt so sorry for tealc when he finally gave up (brilliant acting by CJ, btw). i loved all the different scenarios, even if daniel did tend to get shot a lot (again? what's with shooting daniel this season?). and what a fantastic reservoir dogs moment, with them all pointing their guns at each other!! and siler as a gou'ald...brilliant, just brilliant.

and teal'c seems to have rather a shippy view of jack and sam...jack moving in between sam and teal'c's gun (action jack is back!! wonderful!) more action jack!), various little looks...

either way, i don't care if this is an advert for the game, it was FANTSATIC. i really enjoyed it.

yeah Jack Jack Jack.Poor Tea'lc And who knew Siler was a Goa'uld???

[Crazedwraith]

Excellant Episode. Nice insight in to Teal'c. Nice evoloution of the gamekeeper concept. Nice aplication of the subconcious beliefs agaisnt the conscious desire (hey I sound quite freudian only with more typos)

I feel its quite ironic that the last game Teal'c could have just let it be Carter would have stopped the generator and all would be fine. (oh and clanger they couldn't just shoot them all becuase neither T nor Dan could deactive the overload)

Intrestingly though I had zilcho emotionally reaction to any time a main character was killed the only time it really tugged at the heartstrings was when T collasped exhusted.


I thought they slightly damged that though when they said it was becuase teal'c's body was exhusted and it was carrying through to the sim. It was more effective when you thought the tireless warrior with out peer, the Mighty Shol'va had just had enough and couldn't continue.

[Crazedwraith]

Yeah that was a great episode.You saw some screenshots that is going to be in a game.Teal'c was just getting mad he shot Daniel with absolutly no reason.you saw Teal'c was kinda giving up

Not no reason he thought he was a goa'uld.

[Watters87]

Very good episode and a nice insight on Teal'c's thoughts at the time of season 2. Good to see that Jack came up with the solution instead of Sam or Daniel. Siler being a Goa'uld was cool.

MC, Gamekeeper was season 2 and it is good that they revisit past storylines instead of just forgetting that it ever existed.

[Lord Zedd]

Not no reason he thought he was a goa'uld.

yeah but Daniel tried to say something that he joined Teal'c to help him.Now Daniel actuallly had to zat Teal'c and get his gun and made him listen

[Matt G]

Well this was a pretty smooth op.

The VR graphics were pretty cool.

One thing though, I interpreted Teal'c sitting down as 'taking a few loops off' a la Jack in Window of Oppitunity to recharge his batteries.

[Anubis]

I actually really enjoyed this episode, I think it was great. Some great highlights.


I liked how when Teal'c entered the game that Teal'c was so confident that he thought he would require no help, thankfull Daniel stepped in, others he would have been trapped.

Teal'c giving up was quite a nice touch too, showing that he really can't be bothered and he know he can't win against the game.

Overall, I really enjoyed the episode and thought it was great.

[CultTVGirl]

However, we did get some good Daniel arm porn, so I'm happy.

Gotta agree with you there!

And just how funny was it when Daniel stepped into the game to help Teal'c and Teal'c shot him? Poor Daniel!

Felt really sorry for Teal'c in this one though. I bet he won't volunteer for anything like that again!

[Anubis]

Felt really sorry for Teal'c in this one though. I bet he won't volunteer for anything like that again!

I think he would, perhaps just ensuring that he is able to escape the game for certain.

[Madeleine]

I really liked this one. Fun and teamy.

When Dr Lee said that the chair wouldn't allow anyone to disconnect it from the outside Mr W and I exchanged One Of Those Looks. You know, the kind that you used to exchange whenever the preamble of ST:V or ST:TNG indicated that it was going to be a Holodeck ep - read Holodeck Goes Horribly Wrong ep.

Luclkily it was a well-scripted scene, and Dr Lee is pretty great. He's been allowed to develop nicely for a while now. (Although it does sometimes stretch credibility that he's an expert in everything vaguely scientific. So I've decided he must be Head Of Research, having a background in Xenoengineering; that way whenever he seems to be doing stuff beyond his ken it's probably that he's reporting as an administrative supervisor or something. He probably wasn't actually working on that Plant last week, it must have been just someone else's project that he was nominally in charge of.)

Anyway, the story was pretty basic, but well executed.

Each of SG-1 were well served. Teal'c was great. He brought a lot of feeling to the scenes where he just gave up, but more impressive still was how when he had gone back to participating in the game (when Daniel was first put in) Teal'c seemed totally different to how he had been at first. He really seemed to be just going through the motions, and not very Teal'c-like at all.

Sam's comment that maybe Teal'c didn't believe the Goa'uld could be defeated made me unhappy at the time; I really don't want the show to go that route with Teal'c. But the scenario didn't keep getting harder after Daniel got in - a fourth SS or a second goa'uld never showed up - so instead it's more the case that Teal'c doesn't believe that he can defeat the goa'uld *alone*.

Daniel and Sam had nice roles too. And if this ep had been in s4 I'd never have noticed it as Jack-lite. He was in enough of the scenes in the lab that it felt like he was there in the room with Teal'c, Lee & co most of the time. And his appearances in the Game each had impact. Definitely well written in that respect.

The solution - Daniel gets pregognition courtest of a faster version of the programme on top of the standard feed - was the nice simple sort of solution that I like, although it took a heck of a lot of technobabble to get there. I'll take it gladly though, seeing as I was worried that the solution itself would be technobabbly, like resetting the system or tweaking subroutines.

So I'm five eps into the season, and I've enjoyed all five eps lots. That's pretty good going for a show that's eight years old.

[Terok]

I really liked this ep. Didn't think we'd see Teal'c just giving up, and even in his state of mind with knowing he couldn't win, he got back up and still tried. Maybe that parallels the feeling given that Teal'c thinks the fight against the Goa'uld can't be won, yet he still tries and does his best with SG-1 against them. Again nice acting from CJ.

Would have thought Jack would be the one to go into the game, though it makes sense that Daniel did with having less tactical experience.

[Crazedwraith]

Just a couple of niggling details i wanna clear up.

1) The Doctor. Have we seen this actor before? He looks oh so familiar,
2) Are we in the supposed Jack-lite portion of the season yet? Cos i can't tell.

Answers on a postcard please. (j/k reply in THIS thread )