Most of the 'bad' things I see coming from that episode are good things dramawise, like the tension between that section of the government that wants alien tech at any cost vs SGC.
Episode 18: Solitudes
Carter and O'Neill sitting in a tree...
...and by tree I mean ice planet. Something about an attack and retreat and the gate overloading back on earth. Daniel and Teal'c made it back though.
Oh...OH...I know what this is. I forgot about this. This is gonna be big. Very big. The biggest. >:3
I definitely did not see this being a season 1 thing....aaaaanyway...
Jack has a broken leg. The team got split heading back to Earth from wherever they were. Two made it to SGC, two made it.....somewhere
What a crappy engineer...doesn't he know you're supposed to always give a little more time than you can actually spare? Star Trek taught me that :3 (it occurs to me they might be lampshading this, much like they will be lampshading their tendency to identify worlds by what is immediately around a stargate :p)
Meanwhile back in Iceland...Sam and Jack have a very lovely and human chat. Good stuff.
Sam: Is this your first broken bone?
Jack: Ah, ah... no... this, this would be... uh... nine, if you count skull fractures.
Sam: How'd you manage that, sir?
Jack: Little parachuting mishap over the borders of Iran and Iraq back in... '80...
Sam: This is going to hurt, sir.
Jack: Ah, I know, I know, I know, I know
Sam: So, what happened?
Jack: I hit the ground, go figure.
a little bit later after the DHD is found.
Sam: What's wrong with your chest?
Jack: I think I cracked a rib too.
Sam: Why didn't you say something?
Jack: I was afraid you'd try to put a splint on it.
ahh probability...
Sam: With all the possible Stargates, a random search could easily take...10 years.
Jack: Not if they look here first.
Sam: Even if all SG teams started searching right now, the mathematical probability of them even...
Jack: Captain!
Sam: I think too much.
Gotta love how many times the dialing computer says they are dialing Abydos...seems to happen almost every episode. Lol recycled footage.
So theoretically, stargates are like extradimensional electromagnets. ****ing stargates how do they work?
Back with Jack and friends: NAP TIEM!
Sam can't get this gate to work for some strange reason and Jack says to go topside and survive on this ice planet.
Sam doesn't listen and does what any good computer technician would do: Reset the device. Everything shakes. Shame she does not think to dial.....any other planet but Earth. They know a few friendly worlds by now...
This prompts Daniel to have an aha moment.
Daniel: (to Teal'c) What happens when you dial your own phone number? (Teal'c looks blank) Wrong person to ask. (to Hammond) What happens when you dial your own phone number?
Surprise! There is a second gate on earth in Antarctica. Yup.
Sam: Its an ice planet. All there is as far as the eye can see. There's no chance. *cue Sam looking defeated*
Sam and Jack get rescued and we learn a bit more about the gate network. Many other oddities to come though.
Great episode, both with characterization and plot and future implications. Certainly a highlight of season 1.
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