Haha, you actually managed to like Singularity. Yep, I'm convinced. My girlfriend and I are the only Stargate fans on Earth who dislike it. I'm sorry, but the Carter turnabout stuff you mentioned, and the schmaltziness of the very heavily manipulative music, and the "I love you! XD" crap from Carter... it's supposed to be touching, but it's just a wreck to us. A complete trainwreck of what happens when writers try to force you to care about something at literary gunpoint. Awful, awful episode.
I'll seriously take Hathor over it. Hathor is 45 minutes of XMFD the-writers-are-drunk, as you very poignantly agreed, but it's good for... a... drinking... game. o_o
Cor-Ai kinda rocks as far as the first season is concerned. I'd put several episodes above it, but between it and Bloodlines, it's my preferred first-season Teal'c episode. Bloodlines is fine, especially because Bra'tac's introduction is so important and handled fairly well, but it too feels a bit forced-drama for my taste. That's a common thread in the first couple of years; I feel like that they got much better about making the drama feel more natural later on. As a bit of an actor, this stuff is important to me. I write too, so yeah.
I like Fire and Water. But I'm also a huge Daniel Jackson fan. I wanna be an archaeologist, among other things. I don't have any delusions of grandeur that I'll wind up living the life of Dr. Daniel Jackson, but he's always been my go-to inspiration for recognizing the splendor of other cultures, not Indiana Jones. Seeing him have to work with that alien was pretty cool, I thought.
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