Recap: 5x21 Meridian
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We start out with an angry Daniel looking like he got poo all over his hands coming out the gate only to have everyone walking behind him like a confused parade down to the infirmary. Sam announces as the nurses take Daniel away that he’s been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation and all we get from Jack is a pensive, confused look. This is the part where I start crying in the episode, so if you see tear drops, don’t mind them!
*Cue the opening credits and composes self to finish episode, in dire denial of what might be coming forth*
The debrief begins: Immediately we find out that that Kelowna has the technological and political development of the United States from the 1940s, because we all know how peaceful that was for the rest of the world. Sam makes the point that the Kelownans are very eager to get more technology to aid them in “defending themselves”.
(Begin flashback #1: Hey, look! The standard uniform for every industrial age alien planet SG-1 goes to! Add an overjoyed Jonas Quinn, and it’s a recipe for a successful mission.)
Debrief continues: Jack: “He’s a nerd, sir, he and Daniel got along great…” and yet he gave that grim rolling of the eyes like he didn’t like nerds or geeks...
(Flashback: Daniel immediately wants to see the temple and the artifacts. Then Jack tells Kelowna that Daniel bills out at $500 an hour, US dollars only. Kelownan money is useless to the US military. On the way to the artifacts, Jonas feels compelled to show off the country’s newest toy, Naquadria, brought to them by the Guld (a.k.a The Goa’uld, but apparently the Kelownan linguists haven’t figured out apostrophes yet.)
Back to the debrief: Turns out Kelowna openly shared that they were creating a bomb at least a thousand times more destructive than our own nuclear bombs on Earth, and surely as the official reports came around to the highest levels of the government and the NID, the cold hearts of politicians and evil people all around were just trembling in hope for a chance to steal Kelowna’s new discovery
Sam in Daniel speak: “Surely building a bomb won’t be the answer to your problems!”
Imaginary Jonas answer: “Sure it will! There’ll be peace and love and happiness!!” *rolls eyes*
Imaginary Kelownan Daniel speak: “Well, then, if you’ll just move to the side, I’ll just break your new toy! So there! Nyah!!”
“Liars!” (So sayeth Jack and Teal’c, showing true team loyalty.)
And that is when Sam announces that if Daniel doesn’t die here, he’s got to go back there and deal their justice system. Perhaps dying of radiation poisoning doesn’t seem that bad now?
We turn our attention to a rather disturbingly composed Daniel, who seems to have spent quite a bit of time memorizing just exactly how he’s going to die. (Yeah, thanks for that! Really wanted to know everything we couldn’t see!) He then gets defensive with the “I’m not any better than anyone else.” And that’s why we call Joe from SG-17 the conscience of the SGC, not Daniel. Thankfully, Jack is here to keep his friend’s name clean from the mud and naquadria slinging the Kelownans are doing.
We then meet up with Sam in her lab, and while Jack has only Daniel’s well being in mind (bless his heart), Sam suddenly realizes that Kelowna has the good stuff and the US military must have some! Jack gives her the look, which he then gives to Hammond when no one seems to look past the Naquadria to see the massive injustice the Kelownans and the US government are doing to Daniel. So he takes the opportunity to shove the letter where the sun don’t shine and take on Daniel’s role with a hint of Jack to get Jonas to understand that “weapons of mass destruction can only be used for one thing” and it certainly ain’t peace
*OMG blood! *cries** While every Danny-whumper’s dream is beginning in gruesome detail, Janet confesses the heartbreaking dilemma every doctor faces when watching patients die and Sam realizes that hey, she has a healing device! When explaining to Daniel that she doesn’t know how to use it, she mistakes his grimace for approval and tries her best. Note to SGC-start trials for Healing Device training for patients suffering from paper cuts and constipation from the food served in the commissary, not people dying of radiation poisoning. Meanwhile, Daniel gets a vision of a shiny angel-like woman who seems to be speaking gibberish.
Enter Jack to Daniel’s bedside, who really had hoped that Daniel was unconscious so that he could spill his heart. He stumbles through his feelings for Daniel, including the gem: “despite the fact that you’ve been a terrific pain in my ass for the past five years, I may have, might have, grown to admire you, a little, I think.” Daniel states its touching. What is touching is “This will not be your last act on official record,” which is said with the utmost confidence. *cries some more*
“Oma! Its you!” Daniel realizes as he heads off to Oma-land and he is told that when he took off his shoes at Kheb (and nearly killed off the Jaffa with the stench) that he started down the great path towards ascension. Any chance of understanding Oma went through the gate as she goes into cryptic phrases and Daniel just loses his temper a wee bit, but not enough to anger Oma into not helping him ascend.
Daniel would have been so pleased at Jack’s success at taking on Daniel’s traditional role, and Jack realizes there might just be hope left for Jonas when he was disgusted at the reactions of his superiors (which Jack realizes will be the reactions of the NID when they find out they have the Naquadria).
We flashback again to Daniel and Jonas geeking out together, with a side note of Daniel getting to play the part of the Nox with the "very young" Kelownans. Then *gasp* the accident, where Daniel jumps through the glass and single-handedly saves the millions on the planet...and kills himself slowly.
Jonas comes to the conclusion that every one of us knows, that Daniel is a HERO!! Well, everyone except Daniel, he doesn’t seem to realize that either.
Sam and Teal’c follow the colonel’s lead and give heart-wrenching final words to Daniel at his deathbed. Meanwhile Daniel’s in Oma-land again, unchanged by his friends pleas and commentaries, and he proves that we are our own toughest critics. I’m sure Oma, Jack, and everyone else just needs to take Daniel by the shoulders and knock some sense into him. Thankfully Daniel doesn’t think he’s evil, otherwise this would be truly hopeless cause.
The last hope for Daniel to remain in this mortal plane arrives through the gate: Jacob is infinitely more qualified to use the healing device, having at least practiced on minor injuries in the past. Daniel decides he’s ready to move on just as there’s hope for him to survive, and counts on his best friend to do as he asks. “Just let him go” Jack says. Daniel’s team, his true family, get the view of a lifetime and a hope that he is still out there, watching over them. “So, see you around?”
Questions:
We start out with an angry Daniel looking like he got poo all over his hands coming out the gate only to have everyone walking behind him like a confused parade down to the infirmary. Sam announces as the nurses take Daniel away that he’s been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation and all we get from Jack is a pensive, confused look. This is the part where I start crying in the episode, so if you see tear drops, don’t mind them!
*Cue the opening credits and composes self to finish episode, in dire denial of what might be coming forth*
The debrief begins: Immediately we find out that that Kelowna has the technological and political development of the United States from the 1940s, because we all know how peaceful that was for the rest of the world. Sam makes the point that the Kelownans are very eager to get more technology to aid them in “defending themselves”.
(Begin flashback #1: Hey, look! The standard uniform for every industrial age alien planet SG-1 goes to! Add an overjoyed Jonas Quinn, and it’s a recipe for a successful mission.)
Debrief continues: Jack: “He’s a nerd, sir, he and Daniel got along great…” and yet he gave that grim rolling of the eyes like he didn’t like nerds or geeks...
(Flashback: Daniel immediately wants to see the temple and the artifacts. Then Jack tells Kelowna that Daniel bills out at $500 an hour, US dollars only. Kelownan money is useless to the US military. On the way to the artifacts, Jonas feels compelled to show off the country’s newest toy, Naquadria, brought to them by the Guld (a.k.a The Goa’uld, but apparently the Kelownan linguists haven’t figured out apostrophes yet.)
Back to the debrief: Turns out Kelowna openly shared that they were creating a bomb at least a thousand times more destructive than our own nuclear bombs on Earth, and surely as the official reports came around to the highest levels of the government and the NID, the cold hearts of politicians and evil people all around were just trembling in hope for a chance to steal Kelowna’s new discovery
Sam in Daniel speak: “Surely building a bomb won’t be the answer to your problems!”
Imaginary Jonas answer: “Sure it will! There’ll be peace and love and happiness!!” *rolls eyes*
Imaginary Kelownan Daniel speak: “Well, then, if you’ll just move to the side, I’ll just break your new toy! So there! Nyah!!”
“Liars!” (So sayeth Jack and Teal’c, showing true team loyalty.)
And that is when Sam announces that if Daniel doesn’t die here, he’s got to go back there and deal their justice system. Perhaps dying of radiation poisoning doesn’t seem that bad now?
We turn our attention to a rather disturbingly composed Daniel, who seems to have spent quite a bit of time memorizing just exactly how he’s going to die. (Yeah, thanks for that! Really wanted to know everything we couldn’t see!) He then gets defensive with the “I’m not any better than anyone else.” And that’s why we call Joe from SG-17 the conscience of the SGC, not Daniel. Thankfully, Jack is here to keep his friend’s name clean from the mud and naquadria slinging the Kelownans are doing.
We then meet up with Sam in her lab, and while Jack has only Daniel’s well being in mind (bless his heart), Sam suddenly realizes that Kelowna has the good stuff and the US military must have some! Jack gives her the look, which he then gives to Hammond when no one seems to look past the Naquadria to see the massive injustice the Kelownans and the US government are doing to Daniel. So he takes the opportunity to shove the letter where the sun don’t shine and take on Daniel’s role with a hint of Jack to get Jonas to understand that “weapons of mass destruction can only be used for one thing” and it certainly ain’t peace
*OMG blood! *cries** While every Danny-whumper’s dream is beginning in gruesome detail, Janet confesses the heartbreaking dilemma every doctor faces when watching patients die and Sam realizes that hey, she has a healing device! When explaining to Daniel that she doesn’t know how to use it, she mistakes his grimace for approval and tries her best. Note to SGC-start trials for Healing Device training for patients suffering from paper cuts and constipation from the food served in the commissary, not people dying of radiation poisoning. Meanwhile, Daniel gets a vision of a shiny angel-like woman who seems to be speaking gibberish.
Enter Jack to Daniel’s bedside, who really had hoped that Daniel was unconscious so that he could spill his heart. He stumbles through his feelings for Daniel, including the gem: “despite the fact that you’ve been a terrific pain in my ass for the past five years, I may have, might have, grown to admire you, a little, I think.” Daniel states its touching. What is touching is “This will not be your last act on official record,” which is said with the utmost confidence. *cries some more*
“Oma! Its you!” Daniel realizes as he heads off to Oma-land and he is told that when he took off his shoes at Kheb (and nearly killed off the Jaffa with the stench) that he started down the great path towards ascension. Any chance of understanding Oma went through the gate as she goes into cryptic phrases and Daniel just loses his temper a wee bit, but not enough to anger Oma into not helping him ascend.
Daniel would have been so pleased at Jack’s success at taking on Daniel’s traditional role, and Jack realizes there might just be hope left for Jonas when he was disgusted at the reactions of his superiors (which Jack realizes will be the reactions of the NID when they find out they have the Naquadria).
We flashback again to Daniel and Jonas geeking out together, with a side note of Daniel getting to play the part of the Nox with the "very young" Kelownans. Then *gasp* the accident, where Daniel jumps through the glass and single-handedly saves the millions on the planet...and kills himself slowly.
Jonas comes to the conclusion that every one of us knows, that Daniel is a HERO!! Well, everyone except Daniel, he doesn’t seem to realize that either.
Sam and Teal’c follow the colonel’s lead and give heart-wrenching final words to Daniel at his deathbed. Meanwhile Daniel’s in Oma-land again, unchanged by his friends pleas and commentaries, and he proves that we are our own toughest critics. I’m sure Oma, Jack, and everyone else just needs to take Daniel by the shoulders and knock some sense into him. Thankfully Daniel doesn’t think he’s evil, otherwise this would be truly hopeless cause.
The last hope for Daniel to remain in this mortal plane arrives through the gate: Jacob is infinitely more qualified to use the healing device, having at least practiced on minor injuries in the past. Daniel decides he’s ready to move on just as there’s hope for him to survive, and counts on his best friend to do as he asks. “Just let him go” Jack says. Daniel’s team, his true family, get the view of a lifetime and a hope that he is still out there, watching over them. “So, see you around?”
Questions:
- On a scale of 1-10, just how difficult is it to watch this episode? How many boxes of tissues did you go through?
- “Despite the fact that you’ve been a terrific pain in my ass for the past five years, I may have, might have, grown to admire you, a little, I think.” Awesome, touching line, or totally lame, even for the Jack O’Neill standard of not talking about his feelings?
- Could you have done what Jack did and let Daniel go?
- Who else came to Daniel’s bedside and gave their last words? What did they say?