This is my first post! Hi guys!! 
I just watched this episode for the first time in my life and one thing really struck my attention: at the point where the goa'uld decided to plant the bomb down there herself, and the other characters remind her of there being dangerous gases, high pressure and stuff in the shaft, she (the goa'uld, mind you) says something like:
My symbiote will take care of this.
Now, aren't we having a serious identity problem here? I thought that the goa'uld were actually the symbiotes themselves (the symbiote being an organism containing the memories / consciousness passed on to it by its "mother"). The Tok'ra often said things like "my symbiote will do this", but it was always the host speaking. Now it was the symbiote (goa'uld) speaking, and it says "My symbiote will take care of this".
Well, I know people sometimes say things like "my body will take care of this, my body will cleanse itself" etc, but have you ever heard anyone say "My body will heal me"? How can the symbiote see itself as its symbiote?
On the whole, I think the episode was quite good, the goa'uld part added a nice twist to the plot and all... but still, the way it ended was really weak (the symbiote dies healing the host - i.e. we, the writers, no longer have to deal with the problem of "how to carry on writing stuff about a goa'uld who would not be conveniently black-and-whitedly evil like all of our goa'uld characters are"
).
I just watched this episode for the first time in my life and one thing really struck my attention: at the point where the goa'uld decided to plant the bomb down there herself, and the other characters remind her of there being dangerous gases, high pressure and stuff in the shaft, she (the goa'uld, mind you) says something like:
My symbiote will take care of this.
Now, aren't we having a serious identity problem here? I thought that the goa'uld were actually the symbiotes themselves (the symbiote being an organism containing the memories / consciousness passed on to it by its "mother"). The Tok'ra often said things like "my symbiote will do this", but it was always the host speaking. Now it was the symbiote (goa'uld) speaking, and it says "My symbiote will take care of this".
Well, I know people sometimes say things like "my body will take care of this, my body will cleanse itself" etc, but have you ever heard anyone say "My body will heal me"? How can the symbiote see itself as its symbiote?
On the whole, I think the episode was quite good, the goa'uld part added a nice twist to the plot and all... but still, the way it ended was really weak (the symbiote dies healing the host - i.e. we, the writers, no longer have to deal with the problem of "how to carry on writing stuff about a goa'uld who would not be conveniently black-and-whitedly evil like all of our goa'uld characters are"
).
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