A Comfort watch of Stargate SG-1 by two people new to the show
Episodes
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Season 2 Episode 22: Out of Mind
I mean, Daniel’s hair may not be the first thing we see in this episode, but it certainly the most notable.
Teal’c tells a joke and learns he has no friends at all when no one even gives a charitable guffaw. Or maybe that happens in the first episode of season three, the conclusion of this episode. This two-parter is a blur for me.
The gang relive some weird shit via the magic of TV Recap episodes, thinking it's a future SGC asking. But it's Hathor back on her bullshit of wanting to put a shrimp in someone–excuse me! They are now little snakes out Resident Evil–in one of the Gate Gang!
Oh, and sorry about the audio quality. Things happened, issues persisted, will be all good next week.
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Tuesday May 17, 2022
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Season 2 Episode 21: 1969
Teal’c wears plush purple bell bottoms and he wears the hell out of them.
The Gate Gang is thrown back in time due to a solar flare and amazing timing. They have to journey their way out of this mess; but, get a load of this, DADDY HAMMOND KNEW ALL ALONG. What the ever-loving shit is that? He gives Sam a piece of paper he’s just been carrying around while waiting to see her embark with an injured hand??? Glad he wasn’t sick that day or whatever.
Timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly, just go ahead and tell the team so they can avoid this whole bullshit nightmare. Oh! Daddy is tall in the past! And also hot. Send comments to verticalwateringhole@gmail.com
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Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Season 2 Episode 20: Show and Tell
First and foremost, they did get another mention of the episode “Spirits” into this one; they’re obvi proud of that one. But don’t worry, it was just used to illustrate what a good guy Jack is. Kind like a savior.
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Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Season 2 Episode 19: One False Step
Jesus Jumping Christ, I don’t know about you, but this season has WAY too many of this episode. Don’t upset the “primitives,” whom you don’t understand, Gate Gang.
Amazingly, Dr. Frazier *doesn’t* find “some kind of virus,” but she suspects one, of course, even though she can find “nothing physically wrong.”
Sam saves the day without making a whole thing of it. Again. At least that’s how I remember it. If I got that wrong, ping me at verticalwateringhole@gmail.com and maybe we’ll play your clarification on an episode!
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Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Season 2 Episode 18: Serpent's Song
Yeah, that shit really *is* pretty dark. I mean, the Gate Gang condemns two lives in one to perhaps an eternity of horrible torture and repeated death, but kind of in an oopsie doodles sort of way. But let’s not dwell in the shadows:
This episode is amazing to watch! Like a little movie. Apophis is a huge dickhead, but then so is “good guy” Lantesh. Humans (read here: Americans) eat a lot of shit sandwiches, but could probably use the humility points. Oh yeah! Daniel tries his best to be menacing, but just sounds like he has a little cold.
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Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Season 2 Episode 17: Holiday
So in this one Daniel finds out what it’s like to be entered without consent.
They go to this world with one guy on it, a very old man who's been sleeping in a Michael Jackson machine waiting for some idiots to show up. He tricks Daniel into changing bodies with him, but no one believes Daniel until they do and they chase this guy down, but not until he acts like a first-day-out robot instead of the seasoned warrior he really is. It’s pretty silly.
Anyway, he figures the universe owes him a second chance at life and fuck Daniel. Local cops pick him up without shooting or arresting his Black companion and he very unconvincingly changes his mind and gives Daniel his body back just before dying. Oh, and Teal’c is Jack and Jack is Teal’c and then Jack is Daniel and Teal’c is the old man and Daniel is Jack and I think that’s it. It’s a real Freaky Friday.
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Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Season 2 Episode 16: A Matter of Time
SG-10 is toast, getting eaten by a big black hole on their first mission as a team!
Jack makes this all about him because he cannot stand to let the team go. It turns out he recommended their commander for the post, but also that the commander reminds him of Sam. Ohhhhh, what! No way, Sam likes Dianne? I mean, Jack likes Sam? That’s Air Force Illegal!
Anyhoozle, the time warp extends through the gate and they can’t shut it off or close the iris, even when they unplug it. They figure it out though.
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Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Season 2 Episode 15: The Fifth Race
Is Jack Special Forces or Gomer Pyle?
He derp-a-derps his way over to a horror flower, stays after it moves toward his face, and gets face-sucked by it. And like everyone in the Gate Gang is fuh-reeking out.
Dr. Frazier continues to give compromised people the medical all-clear, but even so, Jack is soon speaking an unfamiliar language and playing Mr. Wizard…or actually MacGyver! Yeah, so Jack has all the knowledge of The Ancients and uses it to MacGyver an E.T. machine to phone the grays and get it all removed before it kills him.
By the fucking way, the grays totally admit to experimenting on humans and have the fucking nerve to say we’re not quite ready to be the fifth fucking race in their stupid fucking anti-Goa’uld clique. Whatever.
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Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Season 2 Episode 14: Touchstone
This one has it all: secret government agencies doing evil shit, Krippendorf’s (problematic) Tribe, and instantaneous catastrophic climate change!
As a bonus, they somehow slip in even more anti-indigenous racism despite this episode’s affected tribe being lots of white people. Also, Teal’c goes to his podcatcher of choice and gives us five stars and a glowing review.
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Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Season 2 Episode 13: Spirits
Oh my stars and Holy Hannah why didn’t we just skip this one?
In summary, Hard Racism. And O’Neill does pointedly smell his hands a couple of times; weird. Please support Federal Recognition for the Duwamish Tribe; and, especially if you live on Duwamish land, consider paying them rent at www.realrentduwamish.org
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