Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>
> Ah, him. He was big on 'Spin City'.
>
> Okay, now I'm confused that you could confuse the two.
>

Well, they were both bad guys on Stargate SG1A.

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.