{"id":2245,"date":"2013-04-23T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2013-04-23T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:07:56","slug":"mark-watches-stargate-sg-1-the-enemy-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/04\/mark-watches-stargate-sg-1-the-enemy-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches &#8216;Stargate SG-1&#8217;: The Enemy Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Devon for commissioning some crucial episodes that I needed to watch before I got to the Tok&#8217;ra arc in season 2! This particular episode, which falls after the pilot episode, ended exactly as I thought it would and not at all like I thought it would.\u00c2\u00a0<em>Discuss<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/twobhikvx9jydfx\/stargate1x03.mov\" target=\"_blank\">The video file for &#8220;The Enemy Within&#8221; is available for download here<\/a>, and all Mark Watches videos are indexed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/xx9l6nxutvo9mo3\/1IyIM77u_L\" target=\"_blank\">my Dropbox folder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">When all is said and done, this is a fairly standard body invasion\/infection story, one you see a lot of in science fiction.\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Twilight Zone\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>did it,\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Thing<\/em> is my personal favorite in the genre, and most sci-fi shows I&#8217;ve seen since that movie usually contain a nod to it. We knew Kowalski had a Goa&#8217;uld within him, so it was only a matter of time before everyone else knew.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Is there an explanation for why a lot of sci-fi writing has proper nouns that use apostrophes in the middle of words? Why does that happen? THIS IS A GENUINE QUESTION, I&#8217;M NOT BEING SARCASTIC.<\/li>\n<li>I found &#8220;The Enemy Within&#8221; far more compelling because of Teal&#8217;c&#8217;s plotline, which played off the clever title of the episode. He&#8217;s treated as if he is a possible enemy, despite that he&#8217;s demonstrated a clear desire to ally with humankind. I know this aired before the United States had enemy combatants and before 9\/11, so it&#8217;s interesting to watch this\u00c2\u00a0<em>after<\/em> those events and see how relevant the themes still are.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, so there&#8217;s a moment where the show references the movie, right? The whole &#8220;humans are actually the Tau&#8217;ri,&#8221; right? Because otherwise this show just dropped a massive mythology plot twist into the middle of a conversation like it was no big deal.<\/li>\n<li>GOA&#8217;ULD HAVE GENETIC MEMORY. okay, THAT is super cool.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, so wait, Teal&#8217;c has a Goa&#8217;uld within him in the larval state, so is it gonna grow up and rebelliously move out someday while screaming YOU&#8217;RE NOT MY REAL DAD because I&#8217;d like to see that.<\/li>\n<li>FAKE OUT. I honestly didn&#8217;t think Kowalski would survive the surgery, but he DID, and that was GENUINELY SURPRISING TO ME. So I totally fell for the twist that came after this. Kowalski had been dead FOR HOURS. Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>AND THEN HE GOT HIS HEAD PARTIALLY CUT OFF BY THE STARGATE. Well,\u00c2\u00a0<em>that<\/em> was unexpected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just a reminder that we have THREE MORE\u00c2\u00a0<em>Stargate<\/em> episodes for commissions this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Devon for commissioning some crucial episodes that I needed to watch before I got to the Tok&#8217;ra arc in season 2! This particular episode, which falls after the pilot episode, ended exactly as I thought it would and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/04\/mark-watches-stargate-sg-1-the-enemy-within\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[433,474],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-does-stuff-2","tag-commissions","tag-stargate-sg-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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