I believe he was barefoot. But I've tried to purge the memory of that episode from my mind.
His back was in no immediate danger, and besides, if he'd managed to get the key, he'd be out of there. Not to mention, many more nerve endings in the hands, and hands are pretty useful. It was moronic.
Huh. That may be more deeply stupid than the Sunnydale police. Wow. I missed that it was like that when I read that particular synopsis.
Well, IIRC, that particular episode was written by the same guy who wrote A Prefect Murder and WSS #3, both of which were problematic (and probably seriously doctored by others just to make them filmable, but I'm guessing here). They were desperately short on writers.
I need to take a moment to say that not only do I love how Teal'c neither flinches nor moves quickly out of the way, but in Upgrades where the mountain starts blowing up, and everyone, including the evil Jaffa, falls down?
Not our boy.
Teal'c also managed to stay up when the deceleration from hyperspace occured the first time they showed it.
Teal'c has principal character powers.
Okay, I did watch Century City and it wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be (I watched it because there were quite a few actors that I liked in the cast.)
Maybe the genetically engineered son that turns out to be gay story is later -- because it definitely wasn't in the pilot.
(There was a guy who was suing the government for the return of a vial that was taken from him by customs -- turned out he had cloned his son for medical reasons. . . but there were further twists -- that was the main story. And one of David Paymer played the father.)
Saw this on lj:
Canadian History Television newsletter item:
Richard Sharpe returns to the network with swords swinging and canons blazing. Set in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, Sharpe is based on Bernard Cornwell's best-selling books.
The mini-series begins Friday, March 19 at 9 pm ET/PT.