Thanks for the patience, all! It’s been a long week. Before I begin, a warning you really should read, however little you like warnings in fanfic or other places.

Caveat Lector: I love this episode, and I rarely write meta, because I have trouble being serious about this series. This show is my post-Star Trek escape from dark and depressing ( Read more... )

In Between Two Fires, we witness the betrayal of the Tollan people by their government, the attempted perfidy of the Curia against Earth, and the destruction of the Tollan race. The loss of the Tollan is designed to serve two purposes: to emphasize the menace and power of Anubis the new, mysterious nemesis that is threatening the galaxy, and to ( Read more... )

(Thanks to Solutions for the transcript of the episode)

Ultranos: Hello, and welcome to the drunken MST of "Red Sky"'s Bad Science. I'm Ultranos, a senior mechanical and electrical engineering student. I'll be the one yelling "Engineering doesn't work that way!" My poison of choice to get through this is shot glasses of vodka.

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I have the impression that The Light may not come up on many people’s top ten episode lists. It's not on my top ten list either, but it is an episode that I enjoy. One of the things that I find interesting about it is Loran and the way Jack, Daniel, and Teal'c relate to him. (Sam has very little interaction with Loran so she doesn’t really factor ( Read more... )

In Chain Reaction, the team spends most of the time fighting against the clock. Jack races to find the source for the threats against Hammond before the SGC is irrevocably damaged by Bauer, then has to find the answers before Kinsey can call for back-up. Sam tries to slow down the runaway train of testing before it can crash by protesting all the ( Read more... )

Up to this point in Stargate, and due to the legacy of the Movie, the Egyptian gods and their stories have been quite involved both as characters and as plot lines. I thought that for my meta on this episode -- let me say there were so many subjects I could have chosen to write about here I was spoilt for choice -- I decided to write a piece on the ( Read more... )

Jack: Who will I talk to?

Teal'c: There is little to say, O'Neill. We have fought and won many
battles together. It has been an honor to serve the Tau'ri by your side.
 We are brothers.One of my favorite things about Stargate is the friendships that abound on the show. Each is special and interesting in its own right. Now that we're up to Tangent ( Read more... )

Beneath the Surface has always fascinated me as an episode, partly because it's nice to see the team out of uniform, and partly due to the idea of memories and identity. Are we who we are because of the sum of our memories--or is there a core personality? Just how does the brain function in that we can create false memories? Which leads to some ( Read more... )

When I was watching Beneath The Surface the first time I saw this episode I went 'NO WAY, they are so **NOT** doing this are they?' Then, having watched the episode in its entirety, and seen the whole thing played out, it was perfectly obvious they were doing exactly what I thought they were. Of course it made a lot of sense too ( Read more... )

Goa'uld Evolution Evilution

First, a disclaimer: I am an interested layperson, not a biologist of any stripe. I don't even play one on t.v.! So while I think I have a pretty good grasp on what I'm talking about, I'm not an expert. So if you disagree, or want to elaborate, or whatever, please feel free.

Okay, onward!

( And suddenly I feel like I'm back in school with an essay... )