Three more episodes. 22 episodes to a season. Later on this will become 20. I remember a time when seasons of things were 26 episodes. Those were the days...
Episode 20: There But for the Grace of God
A world destroyed by the Goa'uld, a symbol Teal'c identifies and tells him that the world is unsafe. Mission over, everyone heads back. Man what a short epis...what are you doing Daniel? No Daniel...go back...leave the mirror alone Daniel...nothing good will come of this...hurry! Before it is....oh...nvm.
That guy never listens to me : (
And now he is stuck in an evil alternate universe (clearly evil, i mean...it is the other one. duh)
And he knows things.
Also the goa'uld are destroying earth. That tends to happen in alternate realities. Deliciously sweet bad ends.
The news was lulz. Anchormandude just happened to exposit what the audience and Daniel needed to hear. As if anyone on this Earth wouldn't know of the situation by now. "Welp, the aliens are still killing everything and have been for days now. It is the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. Up next is Bob with sports...."
And they blow up Chulak with the coordinates Daniel freely gave.
General O'Neill is kinda a humorless guy here...though considering over a billion peoples are dead on this Earth, it is understandable.
Daniel discovers where the him from this reality is located: Egypt
DANIEL: Uh oh.
[Carter looks up and sees him.]
CARTER: What?
DANIEL: (motioning to the map) I think I'm dead.
CARTER: What?
DANIEL: The me in this reality.
Poor guy, just can't catch a break...that is like the 5th time a Daniel has died.
We learn that the max time a wormhole can be established is around a half hour or so.
And a potential goa'uld homeworld is located. The plot thickens. And here the slow dialing speed is kicking SGA in the butt. If only they knew about the Antarctica gate. Gonna be hard to get to it when there is a mothership above the base though.
Gotta say, if I were in this situation and some dude popped in and got information that could save his world, I proooobably wouldn't use the last chance I had to save some people from my world. They have no guarantee the attack is coming to that Earth, just that...it might? Sorry Daniel, the stirring music is a bit silly and flies in the face of rationality when an infinite number of earths have been invaded and an infinite number survived. And here I am spiraling off into nihilism. If every choice is already played out, what is the point in choosing?
Anyway...they help him.
But since they did the bomb thing, Teal'c stays a bad guy and blasts Jack with some kind of super cannon version of the staff weapon. Whoops.
But he manages to make it through, despite 5 seconds really not being enough time to be faster than the goa'uld, and also despite a solid hit by evil Teal'c.
Bit of a gloom and doom ending too. Perhaps the next two episodes will directly follow up on this. (they will).
Alternate realities tend to be a lot of fun and free up a lot of constraints a show can have about how things should be done while still maintaining a semblance of being true to the characters. Shift events around and the actions O'Neill took to blow up the Jaffa homeworld makes perfect sense. Without the guise of alternate reality, that would have been a decent blow to the enemy, if only a minor one.
On an unrelated note, I can never look at the word Jaffa the same way after discovering Jaffa cakes.
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/attachment.php?attachmentid=155859&stc=1&d=1317940013
(Jaffa cakes are also delicious <3<3<3)
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