Redial the Gate: Allegiance

[sg_fignewton]

Last week, all my fannish time was occupied with Alphabet Soup and Gen Fic Day, so I didn't have a chance to rewatch Allegiance. And it is a rewatch, too; a year or so ago, when aurora_novarum was trying to coax me into watching S6, she recced it for its general lack of Jonasness (don't forget, I wasn't anti-Jonas but I wasn't a fan either) and the high quality

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[redbyrd_sgfic]

how lucky is the SGC that the Tok'ra couldn't dial Earth and accidentally bring an invisible Ashrak to the planet?

This highlights a pretty much unfixable piece of stupid in canon. After the Reetou, the SGC was supposed to have used the TER tech to make sure that invisible out of phase creatures couldn't get through the gate anymore. And yet we have Nirrti waltzing in via the gate at will in S5.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Yes! That was so wrong.

[sg_fignewton]

It is hugely annoying, yes. Maybe the TER tech expired or something...

[redbyrd_sgfic]

Oh, one can fanwank it. It was accidently shorted out when they were trying to the fix the Gate's re-frambulator, and because no one had heard of Reetou in years, Hammond authorized them to continue normal operations while it was being fixed...which just *happens* to be when Nirrti came through. But I don't *like* it. It's inelegant, it doesn't tie to anything else and it can't be mistaken for anything but a patch for a writer bloophole.

[sg_fignewton]

trying to the fix the Gate's re-frambulator

::giggles::

Sadly, there are way too many writer bloopholes. And we can't even pretend they didn't know about the Reetou, when the TERs became part of the plot!

Sigh.

Good thing we have writers like you to fix things... :)