Episode 11: The Torment of Tantalus
Ye Olde Stargate Program. Interesting. Manual turning...oh how far we have come.
So Ernest goes to heaven...sounds like some kind of silly comedy movie. Poor old lady who gave Daniel the pendant in the movie...lost her love and now will have to search for upwards of 30 minutes to find him. Amazing how many problems can be solved in that span of time...
I like how it is both stated but not overly so that the reason they are encountering goa'uld so much is because the only planets they can currently dial are ones goa'uld have been to, due to the Abydos coordinates they gained. Once they gain other sources the show can open up more and introduce less goa'uld centric worlds, but for now....pretty much luck.
So they go through and instantly find the geezer who has been so long removed from civilization that he forgot what clothes were. Ew.
50 years alone...you would have to be crazy not to go insane from being isolated that long >_>
Ok, so hallucinating Catherine. Perfectly understandable.
And the Dial Home Device is borked. Welp. At least they can spend the rest of their years in a neat castle! Assuming it will defy O'Neill's expectations.
So Daniel thinks the atoms are language. Like a carpenter thinking every problem can be solved with a hammer. What a small world he lives in.
Anyway, four races. I saw nordic runes for the Asgard and what looks like evil writing for the goa'uld. The other two who knows what they could be (Nox and Furlings >_>)
Sam and Teal'c try to macguyver the gate into working, but alas, the DHD decided to sleep with the fishes. IF ONLY THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE IN THE CASTLE THAT HAD A LOT OF POWER AND VAGUELY LOOKED LIKE A DHD.
Sadly they can not use it because Daniel wants to understand the meaning of everything. Maybe in a few years kiddo....>_>
Plan B: Lightning
Daniel in the meantime, doesn't care about getting home at all. Character consistent and I kinda agree with him. Though I kinda also agree that said knowledge is useless if it can not be communicated. If I were in his shoes, I would be obsessive about it too though.
Oh hey, scene from the opening credits. Shocking.
I like how they did not show the manual dialing and just...wormhole.
Not a bad episode either. Sure the only enemy here was time, but what they found was still neat. An ancient gathering place for the races. Why this would be a castle on a cliff with dangerous storms once a year...who knows.
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