The Stargate Franchise - A First Timer's Watchthrough

[JirinPanthosa]

Might have been some sort of experiment were they used the humans as test subjects.

Jason

IIRC the idea of that episode is it's a paradise that transports you to a different place and does not allow gu'ald through. And they couldn't get to it themselves so they sabotaged it by sending hallucinatory herbs through.

Then at the end they figure out it's just the planet's moon.

 

[tomalak301]

Paradise Lost is a weird episode. If the paradise was just the moon, why did the gu'ald need to send some bitter herbs over to destroy it? Why not just go to the moon?

It took SG-1, what, a month to figure out that the transporter was going to the moon? The Goa'uld probably thought it wasn't important, and sent the plant over as a way to enslave those living on the moon. I'm not sure though. I do agree. It was a weird episode.

 

[Farscape One]

You know, O'Neill gets left behind a lot...

 

[tomalak301]

You know, O'Neill gets left behind a lot...

Either left behind or captured, like in this episode:

Metamorphisis

Another System Lord bites the dust. Nirriti was a pretty cool villain, from her experiments on Cassie's world to this episode where she was experimenting with these people. We also learn that Jonas is a more advanced human, probably because of how quickly the Kewloan's evolved from when the ancestors came because of the Goa'uld? Anyway, this episode was pretty decent to average as a whole.

 

[Romulan_spy]

Either left behind or captured, like in this episode:

Metamorphisis

Another System Lord bites the dust. Nirriti was a pretty cool villain, from her experiments on Cassie's world to this episode where she was experimenting with these people. We also learn that Jonas is a more advanced human, probably because of how quickly the Kewloan's evolved from when the ancestors came because of the Goa'uld? Anyway, this episode was pretty decent to average as a whole.

The next episode is Disclosure which is a clip show. But you are getting closer to the big finale!

 

[Farscape One]

"DISCLOSURE" has one of my favorite moments of the series at the end.

 

[tomalak301]

Disclosure

It's a clip show, so by defualt it is not my favorite episode of the season. However, the way it was framed was well done and the Gate program had to get out to the other governments eventually. However, this episode did provide one of the best "screw you" moments of the entire series. Thor comes down, speaks very highly of General Hammond and SG-1, and it leaves everyone else, including Senator Kinsey, speechless. If that's not the best convincing ever, I don't know what is.

Also one of my favorite scenes in this episode was when the Chinese and Russian ambassadors were talking and the Russian guy made an outstanding point. America is paying for this, and they are putting their people at much higher risk. They perfect the ships and the technology, and the other countries can just take the blue prints with less deaths and half the cost. Money talks.

 

[bigdaddy]

"DISCLOSURE" has one of my favorite moments of the series at the end.

SUPREME commander.

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[tomalak301]

SUPREME commander.

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You were just waiting to put this clip up, weren't you. Impeccable timing.

 

[bigdaddy]

You were just waiting to put this clip up, weren't you. Impeccable timing.

Well everyone here was talking about it and that's one of the best parts of the season.

 

[tomalak301]

Forsaken

Another good solid episode in Season 6. This one was about how prisoners took control over the prison ship and started hunting down the guards. I liked the switch that the aliens were the good guys and the humans were not, even though I was suspicious on how Aden and Raynard was hitting on Sam and Jonas throughout. We also got some good stuff on Jonas and how Hammond respects him. I didn't really like Jack's lack of interest in the telescope at the beginning though. I was reminded in the first episode that he did have an interest in astronomy so I wish he and Sam could have bonded a little from that angle. Still, good episode.

 

[Romulan_spy]

Forsaken

Another good solid episode in Season 6. This one was about how prisoners took control over the prison ship and started hunting down the guards. I liked the switch that the aliens were the good guys and the humans were not, even though I was suspicious on how Aden and Raynard was hitting on Sam and Jonas throughout. We also got some good stuff on Jonas and how Hammond respects him. I didn't really like Jack's lack of interest in the telescope at the beginning though. I was reminded in the first episode that he did have an interest in astronomy so I wish he and Sam could have bonded a little from that angle. Still, good episode.

It seems like you've really liked season 6.

The remaining episodes are quite good IMO. And the finale is fantastic!!

 

[DonIago]

^^I have no memory of this episode.

 

[tomalak301]

It seems like you've really liked season 6.

The remaining episodes are quite good IMO. And the finale is fantastic!!

I think it's safe to say Season 6 is my favorite season so far. Things are just consistent and the episodes are pretty memorable. Also, it's Sunday in Quarantine and I think I want to finish the season tonight.

I wonder if Shanks was just holding everyone back.

 

[The Wormhole]

Disclosure

It's a clip show, so by defualt it is not my favorite episode of the season. However, the way it was framed was well done and the Gate program had to get out to the other governments eventually. However, this episode did provide one of the best "screw you" moments of the entire series. Thor comes down, speaks very highly of General Hammond and SG-1, and it leaves everyone else, including Senator Kinsey, speechless. If that's not the best convincing ever, I don't know what is.

Also one of my favorite scenes in this episode was when the Chinese and Russian ambassadors were talking and the Russian guy made an outstanding point. America is paying for this, and they are putting their people at much higher risk. They perfect the ships and the technology, and the other countries can just take the blue prints with less deaths and half the cost. Money talks.

The interplay among everyone at the meeting makes it such an entertaining one for me, despite it being a clip show. Plus:

SUPREME commander.

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is such a great moment.

 

[Romulan_spy]

Also, it's Sunday in Quarantine and I think I want to finish the season tonight.

Go for it.

 

[Romulan_spy]

SUPREME commander.

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Yeah, Thor correcting Kinsey about being "supreme commander" with his little finger up, mocking Kinsey's gesture, is great but I also love the line that comes before it when Thor tells Kinsey, "O'Neill told me I should send you to a distant planet but I am sure his statement was in jest". Coming from Thor, it is priceless. For one, I can really see O'Neill saying it too. And of course, we love seeing Kinsey getting put in his place.

 

[bigdaddy]

I wonder if Shanks was just holding everyone back.

Oh he was, and will continue to well into the future.

It gets so bad that he even gets his wife involved.

 

[Jayson1]

I think it's safe to say Season 6 is my favorite season so far. Things are just consistent and the episodes are pretty memorable. Also, it's Sunday in Quarantine and I think I want to finish the season tonight.

I wonder if Shanks was just holding everyone back.

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Jason

 

[tomalak301]

The Changeling

Holy Crap.

That episode was freaking incredible. You spend the entire episode wondering what is real and what isn't and then the big climax hits and you just want to give Teal'c a big hug because he's a fucking hero. I've brought up Buffy The Vampire Slayer a number of times in this thread, and part of the reason why I wanted to do this thread was because I really enjoyed watching and talking about Buffy last year. Well, this episode reminded me of one of my favorite season 6 episodes of Buffy called "Normal Again". In that episode, Buffy is trapped not knowing what her reality is, either a normal teenage girl didn't have a Sister but both her parents were alive, or the life of a Vampire Slayer, where she just lost her mom and has Dawn. It's that theme of what is real and what isn't that has come up in that show, this one, and some other sci fi shows and I think it's a theme that always works.

Christopher Judge shined in this episode, and I would say this was his best work on the show. He's been great as Teal'c, but I feel sometimes the range for Judge to really stretch out isn't really that wide. Here he was able to really pull in so many emotions and I was gripped going on that journey with him.

Then we get to the end where we find out the reason for the Hallucinations and it was basically an ambush where he was trying to keep Bra'tac alive via the symbiote. That calls back to the 5th season episode Threshold where we learned how close they both were. Then, if that isn't enough we get a call back to probably my (second now) favorite episode of this season, Cure and the Tritonen and the real possibility that Teal'c doesn't even need Junior anymore. When I started this thread, I asked the question what happens when the Symbiote matures. Well, it looks like this episode gave the answer and it was already established thanks to the Tok'ra Queen. I also liked the use of Daniel Jackson here, which was similar to what happened with him and Jack in Abyss, and the commonality there was Jack and Teal'c are both are having near death experiences. Daniel Jackson is a guardian angel.

This season has been rocking it, but this episode was amazing.

I was a little confused about the title though. Why did they call this episode Changeling? Maybe it's the Trekkie in me, but I hear that terms and think Shapeshifter. Teal'c was drifting in between dreams here so maybe that is "loosely" the same kind of thing?