What a touching episode. Tear jerker. I love Teal'c
This is a great episode showing how our "enlightened" "justice" system is still archaic and brutal. There is very little justice involved. We have codified mob justice. We punish people that already punish themselves. We don't help reform people, we simply lock them away. Statistics for decades have shown our "justice" system is beyond ineffective. In the vast majority, it only reinforces criminal behavior. The US is the worst among "civilized" countries with the highest number of incarcerated individuals per capita. It is truly abhorrent.
It is a little complicated in this episode with the conflation of a criminal act and following orders and making the best of a bad situation. Three different sets of "right and wrong" are all mixed together.
We see our justice system compared with the backward Cor-Ai and see there really is very little difference to the accused. General Hammond explains this all very well. What is even better is that O'Neil counters Hammond's example head-on with a perfect rebuttal.
What I love about Hammond is that he initially gives a decision based on his duty, but he can be appealed to as a good person. He is such a great character. In this case, the appeal was shot down by the President. But of course, it was... The tension between Hammond and O'Neil was fantastic, but Hammond did do a good job delivering a bitter message; one that he obviously was wrestling with himself.
It is all about justice system
If guilty person regrets the guilt, allowed to be free? This is about it. Courts, laws, countries maybe can change but always justice system will make mistakes because punishments are open to discuss.
So , in this episode, it was only a nonsense part, when Goa'uld came to the planet. After that, teal'c did what he had to do as a good warrior. And that is why, he was forgiven. If goa uld did not come, so teal'c could be killed but maybe daniel, carter and jack could attack them to rescue him.
I was thinking stargate was in canada , not usa but in this episode they said usa. So why do they sometimes talk about toronto?
It was also good to see how teal's is full of pain. He regrets every crime he did.
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"That's weird. Two root languages in one culture." HA! I see what you did there. *stares pointedly at the English language*