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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[sg_fignewton]

I strongly agree that Jolinar was the worst possible introduction the Tau'ri could have ever had to the Tok'ra. But then, don't we see Jolinar as particularly ruthlessly pragmatic, even for a Tok'ra? Think of how she escaped from Netu and never told Martouf how. If that kind of thing was par for the course, maybe it wouldn't have been so impossible for her to tell him.

I like your analogy, but I'd go a step further and suggest that the Tok'ra started off as seeing the Tau'ri (or all humans, perhaps) as somewhere between slaves to be petted and pets that know how to perform. To be fair, I think they spent a lot of time trying to overcome that over the years. They just weren't... very good at it.

There are fierce advocates of the Tok'ra out there. A few of them (waves at merrykk) are right here on my flist. :) I don't think I'll ever be a real Tok'ra fan, because they take the greyest of special ops and see it as a starting point, but they've given us some marvelous and thought-provoking storylines and some great characters along the way. Gotta give 'em credit for that! :)