Is Cameron going to be a competent hand-to-hand fighter from here on, or will it all be forgotten?

Continuity in plot is generally respected. However continuity in character is a little vaguer. There was an episode back in season 4 during which Jack and Teal'c learned Latin/Ancient. And yet, they've never mentioned it again.

On the other hand, Ben's clearly been working out like a mofo, so it's possible they'll carry it through just because he's going to insist on it.

I also suspect he stuck that Bones comment in: it's precisely the sort of thing he'd suggest. Of course, that means Cam's a geek, but I'm not all that surprised. An SG-1 fanboy was likely to be a geek, even with all the muscles.

Oh, and Mesa's posted some very pretty promo shots, unspoilery: [link]

As referrential as the show is, they needed someone to pick that up (it was largely part of Jack's job), and I don't think Daniel's enough pop-culture to do it. I'd really miss that element if it went away, and I think Ben's up for it. (Of course, on this show' you'd think sci-fi background would be basic survival skills, but you'd think a geek would have figured out who the next of kin was. Maybe he hasn't fully realized that his life now conforms to those tropes.)

I was also jazzed at the "Wait, that's BB doing his own fighting/stunt work? Dude!" aspect of last night's ep.

I also suspect he stuck that Bones comment in: it's precisely the sort of thing he'd suggest. Of course, that means Cam's a geek, but I'm not all that surprised. An SG-1 fanboy was likely to be a geek, even with all the muscles.

I was thinking that it was exactly the sort of thing John Crichton would say.

So, ah.

SGA OT4. Hot like a hot thing, with some damned funny banter in the front end. And the back end. Actually, all the way through.

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Bwah.

Also? Ben Browder is a fuzzy fuzzy man.

Yes, bless him. I don't understand how Francesca Bueller resists the lure of hanging around the set to jump him any time the cameras aren't rolling.

Does anybody feel like explaining the whole Jaffa/symbiote thing to me?

And why are humans Taurii?

Does anybody feel like explaining the whole Jaffa/symbiote thing to me?

I can try, and then Katie can correct me.

Jaffa have pouches. Pouches hold symbiotes, which are baby Goa'uld. Once the symbiotes mature, they're ready to be implanted in a human host. The symbiotes give the Jaffa long life, strength, and other stuff. The need for symbiotes is part of what tied the Jaffa to the Goa'uld.

There is a replacement drug for symbiotes called tretonin. Teal'c has been on it since season 6, when he lost his symbiote. Apparently (did not watch season 8) many other Jaffa are on it, since Goa'uld were defeated and are no longer symbiote suppliers.

Immature Goa'uld symbiotes take the place of Jaffa immune systems sometime around puberty. In the first episode where we met Teal'c's son Rya'c, Teal'c went back to his homeworld to try to prevent his son's implantation; apparently he assumed that if Rya'c never got a symbiote, he wouldn't need one. This was shown to be incorrect in the seventh season, where we got to meet the Amazon Jaffa, who had to steal symbiotes for the new teenagers because otherwise they dropped dead.

Implanted Jaffa have to practice a form of meditation called kel-no-reem regularly in order to keep their systems in order; if they don't, they get sick. I don't think they've ever said for sure how long one symbiote can last inside a Jaffa, but it's not forever; they mature and have to be replaced. There was an episode once where Teal'c's old girlfriend taught him how to commune with his symbiote; it didn't end well, and is Not Recommended.

Humans are called Tau'ri because that's what they're known as in Goa'uld, apparently.

Also, new fodder for Katie... one can only hope and wish.

Hey, I don't need new fodder. I wrote it already. Ha!

Jaffa have an immature symbiote in their belly-pouch-things. This symbiote doesn't take them over (if they keep it once it is mature, it will), but it serves as their immune system (thus, if they don't have it, they die). When one matures, they get a new one.

Tau'ri is Earth. The people from Earth are called Tauri. People elsewhere aren't.

eta: I should have known it would be an x-post.