Episode 9: Brief Candle
Greeeeeeeeeeeece iiiiiiiin spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace
Mongles, Minoans, Egyptians...truly the Greeks could not be far behind.
Hello Chekhov's Birthmark.
Is that...a flower pizza? If I know my video games right, that should not only restore health but also let you shoot fireballs...
Or maybe just drugs you and makes you open to the power of suggestion.
Cue the next day when the birthmark is revealed on a boy that is suspiciously not a baby. As it turns out, these people only live for 100 days. Welp.
And now Jack will become old and die unless SG-1 can find a cure! Will our brave hero who still has many seasons ahead of him perish so soon?
Yes, and he will be replaced by his robot double duh. That actually becomes a thing down the line iirc. Damn replicators. But I get ahead of myself...
You know, this virus pretty much makes them antivampires. Can only be in daylight, decidedly not immortal, and no need to hunt. Huh.
Though it also makes one question, why 60-100ish years? What fun would it be if this same plot were taken to the other extreme and an alien were to visit earth and declare that the natural human lifespan actually should have been 500 centuries. That would be fun. True immortality would blow, but living for millennia? Awesomeness.
Poor cranky old man Jack, he barely has time to think these kinds of thoughts!
I like this O'Neill, and I like how the apple comment they made about this place being a paradise is apt. They really are destroying it with knowledge...
I remember I loved the concept of this episode. Resolved a bit quickly, but the underlying themes it provokes makes this episode well worth it. We'll probably never see these people again, even if they seemed to have something like replicators in them >_>;;
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out