Late with my opinions on the episode, but whatever. I really liked this ep. The Lamdry drama was a nice subplot, the opening teaser scene really felt like old-school Stargate (despite the fact that it only featured two of this season's new characters), and the A-story about the Ori's influence was great. I especially liked the fact that the heroes lost this round. It's never a good sign for the good guys to start kicking the bad guys' asses right out of the gate, after all. Hopefully we'll get more episodes like this over the rest of the season and fewer purely laugh-driven eps like "The Ties That Bind."
My two complaints for this episode are:
1) Teal'c with a P90. Staff and Zat, dude. Come on.
2) Mitchell's getting sick was totally glossed over initially. I didn't even realize it was Mitchell lying there until the Prior healed everyone and he sat up. I thought it would be the leader of the village while Lam was talking and then, when it panned down to show him, I thought, "Oh, not the leader, just some random red-shirt who died from the disease." No clue it was Mitchell.
I did enjoy Daniel's conspicuous lack of a P90, however. I hate seeing Daniel walk around with the heavy armaments. He's a diplomat and explorer; give him the bare minimum for self-defense and send him on his way.
My two complaints for this episode are:
1) Teal'c with a P90. Staff and Zat, dude. Come on.
2) Mitchell's getting sick was totally glossed over initially. I didn't even realize it was Mitchell lying there until the Prior healed everyone and he sat up. I thought it would be the leader of the village while Lam was talking and then, when it panned down to show him, I thought, "Oh, not the leader, just some random red-shirt who died from the disease." No clue it was Mitchell.
I did enjoy Daniel's conspicuous lack of a P90, however. I hate seeing Daniel walk around with the heavy armaments. He's a diplomat and explorer; give him the bare minimum for self-defense and send him on his way.
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