SG-1: s01-03: The Enemy Within
Interesting. I coulda sworn Janet would be in this one. Oh well. Bad memory. *shrugs* I'm pretty sure she'll show up by "The Broca Divide."
Good episode though. Much better than I remembered. I think I might totally ship O'Neill/Kawalsky now. Poor guys. You can tell they were good friends while serving together. And Jack's as great as ever. Sticking up for Teal'c and sassing that Colonel Kennedy who wanted to sacrifice Kawalsky at first, and then wanted to take Teal'c back to the CIA. I suppose that's one of the threads I didn't like so much over the years, the whole political side of things. But they did get things off to a good start at least. You could tell the writers were really starting to understand the universe they were creating.
You could definitely see the brother-sister thing with Sam and Daniel in this ep. She's completely sensitive about Sha're's and Skaara's fates. Even encouraging Daniel to get some sleep when he admits that he can't. Totally a sister thing. :) I imagine she behaved much the same way throughout the series, and probably encouraged him to try to rest when Vala gets kidnapped in Season 10. It's a thought at least.
One other thing that strikes me. In the pilot, Sha're is in excruciating pain when she becomes a host, but Kawalsky says he didn't really feel anything. He thought he just wrenched his neck. Now either he has a higher tolerance for pain, or maybe most of the pain Sha're experienced was from the memory "download" or consciousness suppression of an adult Goa'uld, like a mental rape. She gets a massive download of every atrocity every Goa'uld has ever done. My point is, since I'm a die-hard Daniel/Vala fan and that's the reason for the rewatch, is that Vala probably went through what Sha're went through instead of what Kawalsky went through. Even Sam was infected by a Tok'ra operative, right? Wasn't Jolinar one of the good guys? I don't recall her experiencing Sha're's pain either...but that's in Season 2, I think, so I have a ways to go.
It's getting late, so even though I'd like to get "Emancipation" over with, I think I'll leave it til tomorrow and contemplate some more of what Vala's early years were like. If I have her timeline correct, she was rescued a few years ago (10 years before her appearance in "Prometheus Unbound"). Probably no Lucian Alliance at this stage; she's probably just drifting around, trying to stay off any Goa'uld radar, petty thieving maybe. Or maybe assisting her dad in con-games, though, from her reaction to him in "Family Ties" I don't think they got along well in her later life. No, I bet she's mostly on her own, and soon she'll be making a name for herself. She does joke with Keto that she was the best thief in the galaxy (audiobook "Duplicity"). ;)