I must admit that when I first saw the beginning of Season Nine the change of Stargate mythology use,and the on screen placement of Glastonbury Tor in Daniel’s Power Point Presentation to General Landry, it found me, a Brit and an history lover, getting a little indignant. I even had a bit of an arm wave. Stargate doing stuff with Egyptian myth was ( Read more... )

This meta was initially inspired by a comment left behind by kedd  on the discussion for Moebius: Teal’c was the founder of the Sodan… Here’s the discussion if you’re interested. Now please note that this is mostly speculation based on a few well placed coincidences.

Before we get started here are a few facts:
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As we have reached Avalon with all its Arthurian and Grail goodness at redial_the_gate I thought I might post a few photos of the actual Glastonbury mentioned in Daniel's lecture. Bf and I often go to there to enjoy the atmosphere - and not for the festival either; that is held in fields a way away from what we go to see. The town of Glastonbury is an eclectic  ( Read more... )

In the climactic scene of Homecoming, Herak tries to escape through the Stargate with the naquadria data crystal. Sam tackles him; Daniel grabs the crystal; Herak orders his Jaffa to shoot Daniel; and Jonas throws himself at Daniel, shoving him out of the way and taking a non-fatal staff blast in his stead. (Why Jonas needs to wear a sling when he ( Read more... )

I apologise whole heartedly to one and all, for taking so long, and posting this right at the last minute. This week has been a bit awkward to say the least! RL got solidly in the way and I have also spent three days in bed with a respiratory infection. A bunged nose means cotton wool brain, and today was the first day I had the strength to get out ( Read more... )

Paradise Lost brought us two very uncommon behaviors from Major Carter. In one instance, she was uncharacteristically aggressive towards Dr. Lee. In the other instance she broke down and cried on Teal'c's shoulder. It puzzled me when I first watched the episode. What would bring such a scientifically confident and accomplished officer to this ( Read more... )

There are so many things happening in Abyss that I really, as I began to write, I was wondering less if, and more how, I was going to get everything covered. Since then I have had a misbehaving USB drive, had to resort to Linux to find the lost file and then had a major virus scare at work knocking out my workstation and all three of my work USB ( Read more... )

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It came to my attention after redailing Meridian (RL got busy at the time and you were pretty lucky to get the meta I wrote!) that something rather important was missed out. Not one person mentioned Dr Louis Slotin. I feel I should do that now and would be pleased if you could post ( Read more... )

Before I start on posting this, the first part of what I have nicknamed 'The Ascension Meta from Hell' I will have to explain how it all came about and how I plan to deliver it in chunks on redial_the_gateI intend to be popping up, as the relevant episodes dictate, and within each season, to show how all of the events around Daniel's little internship with the ( Read more... )

Oh dear ... I have been having some lovely conversations recently with people about how TPTB use and mis-use the mythology of the ages when they create their aliens and allies for Stargate. However when I learnt that they were going to use Imhotep as a gou'ald I just knew it was going to be good. The 1932 film The Mummy had Imhotep in it and the ( Read more... )