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    #16
    This is not a particularly good synopsis - couldnt seem to get into this - but here goes anyway. Not sure what the spelling was of Valas fathers name so forgive me if it not right. Pics to come later


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    Opening Teaser
    SGC
    Vala and Sam dressed to the nines in civilian clothes have been shopping. They look fantastic. They are carrying lots of shopping bags and have had a girls day out. Shopping, pedicure, etc.
    Cam and Siler bump into them as they walk down the corridor. Siler turns tall quickly to get away and is smashed in the nose by someone opening a door as he turns around behind.
    Cam talks with the girls about their day and what they have been up to.
    They are interrupted by an offworld activation. Landry is talking with a man who says he has heard highly of him.
    Sam Vala and Cam come into the control room.
    Vala exclaims “Jasec!” Landry asks she knows him – Vala says “a little – he is my father”

    Act 1
    Vala obviously doesn’t like her dad. She trades insults and barbed comments about his parenting skills, absence as she was growing up and her relationship but he brushes it off.
    Jasec says he must come though to the SGC and give them information about the plot Arkhad put in motion. It is still a threat although Arkhad is dead.

    SG1 go to the planet to meet him.

    Jasec asks for sanctuary. He admits he was not a great father, husband etc as he and Vala trade barbed comments
    He explains Arkhad sent out some Naquada loaded cargo ships which are still out there waiting attack on Earth. He wants to trade their location for sanctuary.

    Back at the SGC, SG1 discuss the offer with Landry. Vala thinks its just a way for him to avoid all the people he has previously annoyed before they catch up with him.
    They agree to test out some of the intelligence and see if that can verify the ships existence.

    Act2
    Lam is treating Siler for a broken nose, Landry calls her away.
    Landry talks with her about reaching out to Carolyns mother. Although it has been 5 years since they have spoken, Lam agrees to call her mother and put in a good word for Landry.

    On Odyssey
    Vala tells Cam that they are travelling to a location on false information– the ships wont be there. Cam says they should wait and see.
    They arrive at a planet, there are 12 life signs and a massive evidence of Naquada.
    The people are trying to make a run for it. They fire on the planets surface. There is a massive secondary explosion which suggest that the intelligence was good and that they have destroyed all the naquada cargo ships.

    Back at the SGC, Vala tells Landry they are making a big mistake giving Sanctuary to Jasec. He comes through to the SGC, 2 airman loaded down with bags.

    Landry visits Vala in her room.It is 3 weeks later. He brings her a letter from her father. She puts it in the bin.
    She wants nothing to do with him. Landry says family should come first but Vala says he wasn’t around much. Landry admits he wasn’t either for Carolyn but Vala says that his profession was more honourable than her fathers.
    She reminisces about the few times he was around when she was younger, about when he did come home he always brought her trinkets, bracelets, necklaces etc. She kept everything in a treasure box but as she grew older she realised it was all worthless.
    Landry tries to get her to give Jasec a break – he has tried every day to get in touch.
    He retrieves the letter from the bin and leaves it with her on the bed.

    Daniel and Cam go to visit Jasec in his new apartment. He is playing bingo with the old people in his building. He is fleecing them for payment and at the game.

    When all the others lead, Daniel says he has been scamming people with phone calls etc. Jasec says he needs to supplement the small money he gets from the air force.
    He asks them to get Vala to meet with him.

    Carolyn goes to see Landry in his office. Her mother has agreed to have dinner with him (so long as Carolyn goes along) when she passes though Colorado. Landry is surprised (but pleased) at how easily it appears that Carolyn was able to convince her mother to meet with him.

    Daniel and Cam return to the SGC and are meet by Vala. She says its not worth them trying to get her to talk to her father – she has already decided to go see him.

    Vala arrives at his apartment. She tells him she is not seeking reconciliation. She wants a cathartic experience. She gets all her feelings off her chest, telling him how badly she thinks of him. How he has no right to mess up her life now that she has found a place she is happy with SG1 and at the SGC. She says he has no right to mess up her life
    She want to leave, Jasec wants her to give him a chance to prove he is on the level and trying to turn over a new leaf.
    He gives her a trinket necklace, it makes her remember all the past times he brought her gifts when she was young and she is beginning to waiver but still leaves. She tells him goodbye using his first name. He asks – “for once please call me Dad”.
    Vala says “you have not earned that right – yet”
    She calls out that she will be in touch.

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      #17
      Originally posted by Owain View Post
      And you've now said that three times. We get it!
      I second that..

      Most of my comments for this are in the other thread but I started out fairly interested then the valas dad came in and the ep dipped - luckily it picked up towards the end so i would say in general it was decent.. nice charecter stuff for vala - claudia black rocks as usual.. not much of cam (shame) Walters line too landry was very funny especially the looks.. the end was so extremly funny
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        #18
        What a waste of an hour! If you haven't seen it yet, I envy you. miss it. do anything else! Whatever you fancy.

        They even managed to get some complaints about how the Stargate Programme has done so much for the "NETWORK" of planets, yet they aren't getting any budget. Basically whining about the show itself ending.
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          #19
          That last scene is the funniest thing I have seen in Stargate...EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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          Part 2 coming very soon!! (this is a fic btw, not the Fandemonium novel)

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            #20
            screencaps?

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              #21
              Second part of the synopsis

              *****************************************************
              Act 3
              Vala returns to the SGC. Sam catches her and calls her to her lab. She shows her an advert she has found on the internet staring Jasec. He is scam selling vials of “genuine stardust” for $49.95.
              Vala storms out.

              Jasec and Cam talk in the conference room.
              Cam spells out that it was a scam and that they will not tolerate it.
              Jasec finally agrees to no more scams and leaves.

              Tealc escorts Jasec out and gives him some advice “be less annoying”
              As he waits for the lift, Vala unfortunately passes by. Jasec invites her out but she says no.

              Vala and Daniel talk. He asks how she is.
              Daniel says, she seems disappointed. She agrees – but she is disappointed in herself rather than him. She always thought he would lie but not that she would start to falter and believe in him
              Daniel draws parallets between her struggle to change and better herself and Jasec. He gets her to see that despite the fact that she wanted to change it was hard. She should give him a chance too.

              Daniel and Vala go to his apartment.
              He seems to have left, he has taken off his tagging device but fortunately they planted a sub cutainious tracking device.
              Daniel calls Sam and they track him by satellite.
              Daniel and Vala find him talking in the woods with a man.

              Daniel startles him, and the man tries to zat Daniel but he manages to shoot him first.
              The man was a Jaffa.
              It seems that Jasec was in on a plot with Arkhads Jaffa. One of the Cargo ships was already placed on earth waiting for the attack. Jasec was going to work with the Jaffa to get to the ship. He wanted the Naquada.

              Landry and SG1 discuss the situation.Jasec has offered to help them find the ship in return for a 50/50 share of the naquada. They said no!!!

              Sam and Dr Lee are trying to find the cloaked ship that has been left on earth with Jasecs help.
              Jasec hits on Sam and asks her to Dinner once everything is over – she says no and calls him a jerk!

              Sam lets slip it is taking time to find the ship as they don’t get a lot of support anymore for the Stargate programme.

              Carolyn calls Landry and remind him about dinner with her mother. He had forgotten and tries to postpone but eventually says he’ll be there.

              Sam and Jasec go to see Landry and say they have find the ship. It is about 30 miles from the mountain.
              Landry is going to order a strike on the rebel Jaffa and the ship. Jasec lets slip that the ship is booby trapped but he has the code to disarm it. It’s the first they have heard of this.

              Vala and Jasec are walking to meet the Jaffa and the cloaked ship. The rest of SG1 are backup. Tealc is somewhere else and radios Landry to say he “has delivered the package”

              Vala and Jasec are captured by the Jaffa but just in time, Daniel and Cam overpower the Jaffa and Vala and Jasec are sent to find the cloaked ship.

              They find it and zat the Jaffa guard.
              Jasec says that Vala should stay behind as takes the ship and input the disarm code to stop the booby trap. He gives her the necklace keepsake that he tried to give her before.

              Act 4
              Jasec is on the ship. He power is up, decloaks it and takes off, leaving Vala behind.
              Vala calls him on the radio. Jasec admits that there never was an override code and that he is taking the ship.

              But they have double crossed him.
              Sam has the real ship safely, they have let him take an old ship. But now they know they do not need an override code anymore.
              Vala goes to the Jaffa guard that they zatted and turns him over. It was Tealc!

              Landry rushes off to meet his ex wife.
              At the restaurant he finds Carolyn alone, and thinks he has come too late. But his ex is thereafter all. They sit and touchingly agree that they have a lot to talk about.

              On another planet, Jasec is trying to sell the cargo ship he has taken unaware that he has been scammed. When the potential buyer says all there is lots of lead rather than naquada, Jasec thinks on his feet and scams the buyer into believing that it is something of value!

              Vala is in her room and has her trinket box out but quickly hides it quickly as Sam comes to visit Vala with a bottle of wine and 2 glasses – “girls night in”. Sam says she is sorry that Vala has been let down again by her father. Vala is quite sanguine about it. At least they managed to out scam Jasec on his scam!

              Vala asks where the boys are. Sam says, Cam has a date, Daniel is tired and Tealc has tickets to a show.
              Cut to Tealc entering a theatre and sitting down amongst lots of women. The show starts – its is The Vagina Monologues. He is mortified and ends with his head in his hands!

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                #22
                Pictures anyone? any vala/daniel interaction

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                  #23
                  Best Ending Ever hahahaha. Classic.

                  I also liked the not-so-subtle stabs at Sci Fi for cancelling

                  Was an ok ep, not the best, but is good to get something like this before the end

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                    #24
                    For anyone who hasn't seen this episode. Don't bother. It's a complete waste.

                    Closure to the Landry/Lam storyline????????????? PUHLEEEASE!!!! Because Landry and his ex wife went to dinner? What a joke.

                    Anyone who gives this episode more than 3/10 must be kidding.

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                      #25
                      Cam is on a date ?
                      Is it with the chick from "Bounty" Amy something ?

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                        #26
                        And yeah, most people on this forum hated this episode, luckily.

                        Again, for all who hasn't seen it, don't bother.

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                          #27
                          I found this fairly boring and predictable, and I think they could have come up with something better for an ep so near the end.

                          The Landry/Lam stuff seemed pointless to me, and Vala's dad just felt very predictable.

                          There were some good things though, Teal'c at the end, given what JM & PM had said I never would have seen this coming, I thought there would be some big political statement or something.

                          Liked the Sam/Vala interaction, going shopping together, straight out of fanfic
                          Vala has grown on me I'll admit, she's become a bit more grown up recently, especially that in recent eps she's not been joined at the hip with Daniel and is being allowed to interact with the others more.

                          Thanks to Kidwizz for sig

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                            #28
                            The Lam/Landry thing is enough to not watch. Hopefully Lam won't be included in the movies!



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                              #29
                              Eh, I give the first 40 minutes of this episode 5/10. Not bad, but not good either.

                              However the ending was absolutley priceless and gets a 10/10
                              You go ahead, I'll be right behind you (In an F-302)
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                                #30
                                yes there were bad bits in this episode but also some good bits and most people agree. i have always enjoyed stargate and yes some eps may be less favourable than others.
                                Thankyou SG-1 for 10 great years!
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