Stargate

Last night while exercising, I watched the next episode of the first season of Stargate SG-1, ‘The Nox.’ I really enjoyed it. I found the race of people that the SG crew came into contact with, the Nox, pretty interesting.

The Nox were portrayed as very mystical, very ‘woodsy’ people. They reminded me a lot of fairies minus the wings, actually. They could do magic-like things, including a ritual that could bring people back from the dead. Furthermore, they could make themselves, or other things, disappear from sight. Like I said - fairy-like stuff.

It was actually their ability to make things invisible that led the SG crew there, as well as Apophys (one of the primary ‘bad guys’ in the Stargate show). There was a large flying creature on the planet that many believed could cloak itself. It had been hunted by many different peoples who wanted the ability to become invisible, but it always vanished. It was the Nox who were making the creature invisible, to protect it.

To make a long story short, Apophys and Co. actually killed O’Neill, Carter, and Daniel. The Nox bring them back to life. Because the Nox appear so weak militaristically and technologically, the SG-1 crew are concerned that Apophys will find them and kill them.

The Nox simply keep repeating, “You will go. We will take you to your doorway and you will go.” This in turn leads to the SG-1 crew repeating, “We can’t, we put you in danger, Apophys will kill all of you. We have to fight them and protect you.”

Near the end of the episode, right before SG-1 returns to earth, one of the Nox (Anteaus) says he wants to show them something. He then waves his hand through the air, and a gigantic ship appears in the sky.

Before disappearing for the last time, he says:

Fear not. Maybe one day you will learn, that your way is not the only way.

Awesome quote, awesome episode. That quote made me genuinely smile.

Edit: Speaking of the Nox, here’s a music video made out of the Nox episode. The song is pretty fitting for them (or at least for the appearance they give to outsiders).

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=qOoApGMrkk4]

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As mentioned previously, I’m in the midst of watching the first season of Stargate SG-1. Thus far, I’m quite impressed.

A few days ago while exercising on my elliptical, I watched episode six, Cold Lazarus. It was the second episode in which at least one of the characters had to act rather differently than they do normally. In Cold Lazarus, a crystal-like creature duplicates O’Neill.

I was really impressed how well Richard Dean Anderson pulled off this duplicate creature’s character. While it was obviously still Richard Dean Anderson, it didn’t really look like O’Neill at all. Very nice usage of facial expressions to differentiate the real O’Neill from the fake.

When I first started watching SG-1, I was a bit concerned. There were a couple of initial episodes that were pretty crappy (see my previous post about the Mongol episode…) But, by episode 6, it seems to be pulling out of crappiness and into ‘pretty damn cool’-ness.

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I finished watching Emancipation the other day, the episode of Stargate SG-1 that was bugging me. I bitched about it already here. After finishing Emancipation, I moved on to the next episode, the Broca Divide.

While the Broca Divide still had descendents of ancient peoples from earth speaking English, it didn’t bother me as much. I was too caught up in the interesting plot line to really care much about the language.

The Broca Divide episode brings up an interesting question. What if the alien species that we finally make contact with has built up an immunity to a disease over the centuries? A disease that we have absolutely no immunity to whatsoever? What if the entire population of earth dies like the Native Americans died when Europeans came to the North American continent, bringing disease with them? (By the way, yes, I realize that all of the Native Americans didn’t die to disease. Just a sizeable chunk of them. But the analogy serves its purpose well enough.)

That’d be a pretty crappy bit of luck, eh? Years and years, searching for other life in the universe, to be wiped out by, what to them, may be on par with the common cold.

Damn. That would suck.

Of course, it could go the other way. We could finally find other intelligent life in the universe, and give them our common cold, wiping them out. Not quite as dramatic as an all out invasion, is it?

“Man wipes out entire alien race by sneezing on them.”

Oh, and speaking of Stargate… it appears there’s no rush in me getting caught up. The SCI FI channel is not renewing Stargate SG-1 for an 11th season.

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