A few other things make little sense from there, like Daniel suddenly having the mirror control thing right after Sam got done blowing it and the Jaffa up. Why the hell did they not just escape to another world, ANY world with this one shot, which would allow Daniel to dial the mirror world from there. And where were the rest of the people on that beta site list? These oddities aside, it was still a very nice episode.
Episode 21: Politics
Daniel: Now I know this is hard for you guys to believe but I swear to you, the entire time you thought I had disappeared on P3R233, I was experiencing an alternate reality
Jack: And you were there, and you were there, and there's no place like home
Daniel: As a matter of fact you were there!
Sam: Daniel it's not that we don't believe you
Daniel: So you do?
Jack: No it's just that... we don't believe you.
Meanwhile, this plot gets interrupted so that Senator Kinsey can unleash the most horrible weapon imaginable on the SGC: The Flashback episode.
Hammond: It costs nearly a billion dollars just to turn the lights on around here.
Jack: How about a bake sale? Yard sale? Garage...?
Hammond: This is what I look like when I'm not laughing, Colonel.
Jack: Car wash?
Kinsey berates them for putting the world at stake with only minor success at bringing back useful things.
DANIEL: Oh, you're right. We'll—We'll-we'll just upload a computer virus into the mothership.
<3 genre savvy people.
</3 mass clips. Especially ones that keep on going and going and going.
And at the end of it, the senator decides he wants the gate program shut down, and Daniel tries out his alternate reality plea, which really does kinda come off as a bit crazy, though equally crazy is not at least being open to it considering all the other crazy things the stargate has enabled.
Aaaand the 'One nation under God" card is played. Welp.
To Be Continued
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