SG1: Talion

[tenaya]

I liked it.


What I really liked about this episode was we got to see Teal'c go 100% into Jaffa revenge mode. There is something riveting about him when he has no brakes on. Powerful. Scary. Elemental. Whoa! He obviously hasn't been tamed by living with the Tau'ri, he just choses to conform to the Tau'ri standards when it pleases him to. I'm sorry but I did like him blowing up that one bad guy. That was impressive and surprising.

And I liked it when he grabbed Daniel's arm when he was demanding the truth of what had "transpired" while he was out. That was neither a threat or bullying; it was more a connection, a plea for an honest, no bullshit answer. I do love their relationship.

I did keep thinking how things would be different it Jack were still in the picture. He would never had allowed a 'stop at any cost' order to go out on Teal'c. It would be another "over my dead body" moment for him. And if he were still Col. Jack, there would have been no hand to hand fight with Teal'c; if Teal'c had to do something, he would have had his six. Having said that, I laughed and enjoyed it when T kicked Mitchell's butt. The whole disabling Daniel, Vala and Carter with a shock grenade I can see was convenient for the writer, but was totally unacceptable to me. Teal'c wouldn't do that, and besides, won't it leave them blind for a length of time that would be dangerous for them on that planet? "Yes, I will leave you all blind and helpless." NOT.

And the big fight scene at the end surprised me a few times. You expect certain things like Teal'c almost being finished off only to find something extra to fight with, which did happen, but to such an extreme it gave me pause. It kinda gave an extra inning to the fight. But honestly, once Teal'c has been skewered to the floor, that should have been the end of it. When he gets up, that is a real "My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my mother, prepare to die" moment.

So I liked that this ep went back to the prototype Teal'c, the man that was First Prime. If this had been back in the first three seasons, it would have been a very different interaction with his team.

Comments

[leviathanmuse.livejournal.com]

1. Bra'tac hasn't been harping so much on his age since they started the tretonin. I can only assume that since he's no longer dependant on a symbiote that as long as he keeps himself reasonably healthy, he'll be around a bit longer than he would have. I know that in the 5th year he kept going on about he was going to die in a couple of years because no symbiote would supposedly accept him. Don't get that impression any more that he's quite as worried about getting older.

2. Since neither the series nor the movie says exactly when Daniel was orphaned, though we know he was quite young, anywhere between about 5-9 works for me. There does seem to be a fanon thing about 8, but it's not clear in the show.

4. I think the Rambo stage was just reactionary to the fact that he felt like he wasn't in control. So, until such time as he managed to get over himself, he turned into Rambo. I think he finally just made peace with the fact that he was the new guy and that his best bet was just to be the road manager instead of the leader of the band.

Evil Orville Redenbacher...snerk!

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

1. The writers were big on setting deadlines back then. I think giving Teal'c a symbiote with a 6 year deadline turned out to be inconvenient as the show kept getting picked up. *g* Silly writers.

4. So, The Rambo thing was his 'teenage years?' *g*

"Evil Orville Redenbacher" is quite a tongue twister. I am impressed Browder managed it so easily! I bet he practiced.

[leviathanmuse.livejournal.com]

1. That could have been a fun episode, having to try and steal a symbiote for Teal'c.

4. Yeah, definitely testosterone. Needed to get it out of his system.

Considering the stuff he used to spout on "Farscape", Evil Orville Redenbacher must have seemed pretty easy.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I need to rewatch Farscape. I probably saw about 3/4s of them. It was a lot of fun. I dislike how expensive the dvds are. I was thinking of signing up for netflix to see them all.

[leviathanmuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they were a bit on the pricey side, but we had to get them all.