{"id":2260,"date":"2013-04-24T10:13:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2013-04-24T08:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T15:49:46","slug":"mark-watches-stargate-sg-1-in-the-line-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/04\/mark-watches-stargate-sg-1-in-the-line-of-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Stargate SG-1’: In The Line of Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"

This\u00c2\u00a0Stargate\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>commission is also for Devon, who (correctly) insisted that I watch this episode before delving into the Tok’ra arc. AND I HAVE THOUGHTS, Y’ALL.<\/p>\n

Before we get to them, the video file for “In the Line of Duty” is here<\/a>. I’m testing out Rackspace as a streaming\/storage option because Dropbox is being difficult about bandwidth. Let me know how you feel about it!<\/p>\n

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This episode does something I think I have\u00c2\u00a0never<\/em> seen in science fiction: introduce the idea of a parasite\u00c2\u00a0that cares about the consent of its host<\/em>. And up until the point that this is revealed, I have to say this episode felt a little stale. I like Carter probably more than the other characters, so I was sad that it felt like this show had done something irreparable to her. She had a Goa’uld in her now? BUT WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED THE LAST TIME A GOA’ULD INFECTED A HUMAN.<\/span><\/li>\n
Well, I must have missed the episode where Cassandra was introduced. I got the sense that Carter was quite attached to her. Is she the same girl who appears in the future in “1969”???<\/li>\n
Anyway, I was confused how this was going to be resolved since I knew Carter was alive beyond this episode. The Goa’uld was in her long enough to become a part of her, right? Kowalski’s body\/mind merged over to the Goa’uld after 24 hours or so, give or take. So how would\u00c2\u00a0this<\/em> work?<\/li>\n
The writers come up with a solution that’s not just clever, but for me was unheard of. As soon as the Goa’uld, named Jolinar, offered to give up Carter’s body and return her, I was flummoxed. That’s possible??? That’s a thing that could happen? Where would the Goa’uld live? As far as I understand it, they can’t live outside a host for that long, right?<\/li>\n
And then the writers twist this even further:\u00c2\u00a0There are actually good Goa’uld.<\/em> The Tok’ra are a rebel force who reject the System Lords. Oh my god, WHAT.\u00c2\u00a0What.<\/em> Okay, NOW I am super into this story arc.<\/li>\n
Oh god, it’s so weird to see Carter switch between her own persona and that of Jolinar.<\/li>\n
It’s also clear that O’Neill is going to be a hard sell for the Tok’ra. Understandably so, he doesn’t trust that there truly are Goa’uld that are benevolent, that are a force for good. His entire experience with the creatures was negative. So I’m hoping that it’s a sign of good faith that Jolinar gave his own life to ensure that Carter survived.<\/li>\n
BRING ON THE TOK’RA ARC.\u00c2\u00a0BRING IT<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This\u00c2\u00a0Stargate\u00c2\u00a0commission is also for Devon, who (correctly) insisted that I watch this episode before delving into the Tok’ra arc. AND I HAVE THOUGHTS, Y’ALL.<\/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-2260","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\/2260","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=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}