Wipe out an entire enemy race you nothing about in exchange for naught but water and get all the tech you can ask for in return, Jack has no problem.
Pick on Teal'c, fuck you no deal. Jack can be such a jackass.
On a side note, Farrell looks like she single-handedly inspired the design of Zeus in Tron Legacy.
Probably one of the show's finest moments. A gripping moral debate filled with excellent actors and writing. I'm so glad they got Rene Auberjonois to play a part here. Daniel shows a lot more passion than usual and really aims it in the right direction, and this is Michael Shank's best performance so far in the show. His friendship with Jack can always be on a knife edge despite their love for each other, and this episode pushes it before allowing Jack to see the error of his ways.
Good on General Hammond for being more willing to listen to Daniel. And I love the dark ending even though it feels perhaps like Jack going too far.
So we all know Daniel can be clueless at times, but he must have taken some stupid pills before this mission. Jack must have shared them.
Daniel almost had a decent point but in his usual way he completely went about making it the wrong way. However, there is no good way to determine what the war is about without talking to BOTH sides. One side will tell you what they want you to know and it will be impossible to put it in context. The fact that they are xenophobic is worrisome, but is that enough to not help them? The fact that they don't want to provide details about the war tells us that they likely started/provoked the war, especially since they had the bunker in place. They also cloned a few thousand soldiers like the pilot that was supposedly brain damaged from the neural link. But again, just because they are xenophobic and started the war doesn't tell us anything truly meaningful about why and whether to help them.
Why is Jack upset that he killed someone in a bomber? That is about the most asanign thing I can think of. How many people has he killed in combat? And now he has a problem with it? WTF? This shouldn't have even registered beyond a curiosity. Then snooping around to find answers is just going to make them upset. This is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. If you suspect wrong doing, investigate where you shouldn't, piss of your potential ally, and don't have an ally; did you really have any reasonable chance of gaining the ally? Even if there was no wrong doing, sneaking around behind their back will not necessarily show that. You can still draw the wrong conclusions.
So we have a genetic purity culture that uses cloning trying to destroy a culture that is breeding rampantly. We know that over breeding is a detriment to any ecosystem. And the very fact that this culture values planned procreation makes them the bad guys? Seems a little narrow minded. Don't we try to cull species on Earth that over procreate? Perhaps they already tried just culling the others and had to resort to extermination? The US has regional allies that have a different way of life and are constantly a source of friction (Saudis for example), but sometimes the benefits outweigh the problems and the difference in ethical standards.
Ugh... this is why there are people with training in negotiation. Untrained people can derail negotiations so easily, especially when they are narrow minded. Yet another failure of the team to acquire anything to help Earth survive a potential onslaught from the Goa'uld.
Daniel is so annoying, I wish he would be thrown out of the series.
This is my favorite episode because the message is just crystal clear: f*ck nazis.
Kind of frustrated that I didn't recognize René Auberjonois' voice in the teaser, before seeing his name in the guest star credits. :expressionless:
I wonder if the character name "Farrell" is a reference to his co-star, Terry Farrell, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine…
Shout by psychicroxBlockedParent2019-06-26T02:01:13Z
can they please just listen to Daniel? Please, just once.