On 5/21/2023 7:01 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> On 5/21/2023 3:24 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>> On 5/21/2023 9:39 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>>> On 5/21/2023 9:08 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Well, since you asked....
>>>>>
>>>>> What Did You Watch? May 20 2023 (Saturday)
>>>>>
>>>>> Stargate SG-1, S5E05 'Red Sky' (DVD)
>>>>> "When SG-1 inadvertently dooms a planet upon arrival, the team must
>>>>> overcome Asgardian diplomacy and indigenous religious prejudice to put
>>>>> things right."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Major Samantha Carter: Sir, I've been thinking.
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: I'd be shocked if you ever stopped, Carter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: I have great confidence in you Carter. Go on back
>>>>> to the SGC and... confuse Hammond.
>>>>>
>>>>> Major General George Hammond: I thought the odds of success for this
>>>>> scenario were one in a million, Major?
>>>>> Major Samantha Carter: Yes, sir. But I now think that we can increase
>>>>> that estimate to one percent.
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: It's your call, General. I only understand about
>>>>> one percent of what she says half the time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: Miracles?
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: Yeah, that's what it'll look like to them.
>>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: That's what what will look like to them?
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: Whatever Carter comes up with.
>>>>>
>>>>> Commentary by Martin Wood (director with the big wrench), James Tichenor
>>>>> and Amanda Tapping.  There was some discussion during pre-production
>>>>> about making this episode one where SG-1 "loses" and is unable to fix
>>>>> the problem they caused.  It would have left the audience with that
>>>>> doubt in the future "can they win this one?"  (I think its related to
>>>>> the urge to kill off a lead character every once a while.)  The Asgard
>>>>> are one of Amanda's favorite guest stars.  :)  Some discussion about
>>>>> successive generations of "Thor" (the Asgard animatronic puppets).
>>>>> Amanda hates having to use food props to explain complex physics issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Stargate SG-1, S5E06 'Rite of Passage' (DVD)
>>>>> "When Cassandra collapses at home, she is taken to the SGC for
>>>>> treatment.
>>>>
>>>> I have *no* idea who Cassandra is. And she's an alien living on Earth?
>>>>
>>>
>>> She appeared, what, three times? Played by as many different actresses?
>>> She’s the old woman in the future at the end of “1969“. And another one of
>>> those characters that they just memory holed. She doesn’t even appear when
>>> her mother dies, does she? Although they might mention her.
>>
>> *shrug* They built a huge complicated mythology for this show with a
>> LOT of people and moving parts. There are a LOT of things and people
>> who could have appeared more often but didn't.
>>
>>> I always
>>> thought super extra creepy teenage clone Jack would probably hit on her.
>>>
>> Strangely enough that thought occurred to me too. :D
>>
>>>
>>>> A retrovirus is causing her to emit an EM field and she
>>>>> expresses a need to return to her planet for an initiation ritual. SG-1
>>>>> investigates and finds a Goa'uld laboratory, probably having belonged to
>>>>> Nirrti, meant for experimentation on the planet's population. They find
>>>>> that the ritual is part of the experiment, a time when Nirrti studies
>>>>> her subjects and cures them when she is done. SG-1 has found a way to
>>>>> cure Cassandra, but now all that remains to be found is Nirrti."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dominic: [Cassandra has collapsed on the porch] Nothing. She just fell.
>>>>> I kissed her and the light exploded and she fell.
>>>>> Dr. Janet Fraiser: She's running a temperature... What was she doing
>>>>> when she just fell. You kissed her?
>>>>> Major Samantha Carter: You kissed her?
>>>>> Dominic: It's her birthday so I kissed her and she just fell.
>>>>>
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: She killed everyone on this planet, except Cassie.
>>>>> Why would she cure a bunch of kids?
>>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: Well, if I'm reading this right, it was part of some
>>>>> sort of experiment she was conducting.
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: See? That sounds like a Goa'uld.
>>>>>
>>>>> Trivia: Cassandra is played by Colleen Rennison, the same actress who
>>>>> played Ally in Stargate SG-1: Bane (1998). Ally was the young girl who
>>>>> befriended and assisted Teal'c.
>>>>>
>>>>> A running gag in the show is O'Neill saying everything is because of
>>>>> magnets.  He's finally right for once, sort of, when Cassandra uses the
>>>>> EM field she is generating to remotely move a chess piece with a magnet
>>>>> in its base.  :D
>>>>>
>>>>> Commentary by Peter DeLuise (director) and James Tichenor.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Stargate SG-1, S5E07 'Beast of Burden' (DVD)
>>>>> "Daniel has been surreptitiously studying the Unas people of P3X-888.
>>>
>>> How exactly has he been doing that? Is he gating over on weekends when no
>>> one’s looking?
>>>
>> He put cameras up and goes to collect the videos. Its an approved
>> project of his, General Hammond and the other knew about it, just not
>> the audience. :P
>>
>>>
>>>>> He's learned a great deal about their culture and 70 individual words in
>>>>> their language. His most recent video images from the planet however
>>>>> show one of the Unas, named Chaka, apparently being abducted by a group
>>>>> of men. Also of concern is that the kidnappers are using Goa'uld
>>>>> weapons. They follow the through the gate and find the Unas are being
>>>>> used as slave labor. The head slaver, Burrock, isn't too keen to hand
>>>>> over his latest slave to Daniel and he and Jack soon find themselves
>>>>> behind bars. In the end, there is only one option available to them: to
>>>>> fight their way out. The Unas slaves stage a revolt."
>>>
>>> “The Unas are revolting!“
>>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: [Chaka attempts to apologise to Colonel O'Neill for
>>>>> getting he and Daniel captured by the slavers] Jack, it's not his fault.
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: Daniel, I'm chained up in a bad man's barn with a
>>>>> bunch of Unas, whose to blame is not at the top of my list of concerns.
>>>>> Yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Burrock: It is our custom to welcome visitors with a drink. Will you
>>>>> join me?
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: It is our custom to drink. Of course.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: They say Chaka is their leader. They must recognize
>>>>> that he wouldn't leave without them.
>>>>> Colonel Jack O'Neill: Daniel, dogs sniff each other's butts, and they're
>>>>> friends for life. We still keep them as pets.
>>>>>
>>>>> Trivia: This episode was shot at Bordertown, a Virtue Studios filming
>>>>> ranch just east of Vancouver. This was also the location for Edora in
>>>>> the season three episode "A Hundred Days".
>>>>>
>>>>> Larry Drake plays the big bad in this episode.  I'm sure Ian will know
>>>>> who he is if no one else does.
>>>
>>> He’s the guy I always confused with Richard Kind, right?
>>>
>> Who's Richard Kind?
>
> https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/4/46/Richard_Kind.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150405145504
>
> He made a couple of appearances on SGA as a guy who had a magic serum that
> made everybody love him.
>

I forgot about the serum. I also forgot he was in the original movie too.