OK - so I didn't have huge hopes for this episode, and I'm quite glad I didn't, really. I thought it was too slow in moving into the story.
The first few minutes of the episode were great, up until we see the AU characters introduced, I thought from this point everything was too slow. From what we had from both Reckoning and Threads, this first part, really let it down for me. The standard of those two episodes were great, and now, that standard has fallen, unfortunately. I hope better for next weeks episode.
With a bit of luck, part two will return and focus on the real team, not AU, as we spent the entire episode revolving around AU characters, and they could have been dealt with a lot quicker.
OK, when Teal'c dressed up as the Horus guard, that was a really cool special effect, all those little extra parts.
Glad to see some of those big masks again. I'd have thought it might have been a little more difficult to steal the ZPM from Ra, but then if he didn't know what it was, I suppose you can't fight for something, if you don't know what you're fighting for.
I think Amanda Tapping done an excellent job at playing her AU character, all the shaky hands bits, how she speaks, facial expression. Great stuff! A few other things are interesting, too;
- Jack's boat is called 'Homer'. It has it engraved on the back.
- Sam was afraid of stepping on a bug, just what Homer did on a Simpsons, Halloween special episode
- How did the jumper activate the gate, all the way in Antarctica? I thought they have to be close to the gate?
- Rodney still enjoys his lemon chicken
- Rodney still tried hitting on AU Sam, with no success.
- An image of the Deadulus is shown at the start of the ep.
Overall - I wasn't that impressed by what I see and for this episode to work for me, part two has to blow both Reckoning and Threads right off the picture. Not very big hopes for part two .. but we'll see.
The first few minutes of the episode were great, up until we see the AU characters introduced, I thought from this point everything was too slow. From what we had from both Reckoning and Threads, this first part, really let it down for me. The standard of those two episodes were great, and now, that standard has fallen, unfortunately. I hope better for next weeks episode.
With a bit of luck, part two will return and focus on the real team, not AU, as we spent the entire episode revolving around AU characters, and they could have been dealt with a lot quicker.
OK, when Teal'c dressed up as the Horus guard, that was a really cool special effect, all those little extra parts.
Glad to see some of those big masks again. I'd have thought it might have been a little more difficult to steal the ZPM from Ra, but then if he didn't know what it was, I suppose you can't fight for something, if you don't know what you're fighting for. I think Amanda Tapping done an excellent job at playing her AU character, all the shaky hands bits, how she speaks, facial expression. Great stuff! A few other things are interesting, too;
- Jack's boat is called 'Homer'. It has it engraved on the back.
- Sam was afraid of stepping on a bug, just what Homer did on a Simpsons, Halloween special episode
- How did the jumper activate the gate, all the way in Antarctica? I thought they have to be close to the gate?
- Rodney still enjoys his lemon chicken
- Rodney still tried hitting on AU Sam, with no success.
- An image of the Deadulus is shown at the start of the ep.
Overall - I wasn't that impressed by what I see and for this episode to work for me, part two has to blow both Reckoning and Threads right off the picture. Not very big hopes for part two .. but we'll see.
So demanding that people do is a bit unreasonable, imo. For me, it's perhaps preferable, but often not practical. 
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