Oh! I just realized which S1 episode I like the least. It's Politics. 'Cause Kinsey + clip show = a world of yuck.
The character of Hathor, I take as high camp. You can laugh at her as long as you don't think too hard about Daniel getting raped and the fact that the wiggly symbiote-lings in the tubs are Daniel's kids. Ew. (Genetics? What frickin' genetics?)
Another S1 ep I love that doesn't get mentioned too often is The Torment of Tantalus. I love Ernest, even when he is naked and crazy. And the lights! So pretty. Plus, it's got one of the earliest Jack/Daniel conflicts at the end. It's all good.
ETA: Huh. Sabine just put up a multiverse ficathon challenge. Someone sign up and write me a SG1/DS9 crossover, in which Jack first encounters a trill, yeah?
as long as you don't think too hard
MmmHmmm. This is what it boils down to. I broke the cradinal Gate Viewing rule on this ep (and the actror didn't pull off the camp for me; I'd have liked to see, maybe, the woman who played Worf's TNG mate ... also played Paul's sister's partner on Mad About You -- I think it's the same actor, anyway. She would have killed in that role).
Love Tantalus ... Daniel's fierce desire to stay and learn at any cost and Jack snapping him out of it. And I'm sucker for long lost lovers reunited.
I have been thinking of Jack/Jadzia for a while, Vonnie.
Yup! Still love Cold Lazarus. I love how Jack loves.
I don't mind Jack playing dumb. It works for me (cf Rite of Passage), but that's hardly the same as RDA playing Jack dumb. That makes me grump.
You can laugh at her as long as you don't think too hard about Daniel getting raped and the fact that the wiggly symbiote-lings in the tubs are Daniel's kids.
Oh, yeah. That's one where I keep having to hit the off switch on my brain. Because, hey, look! Daniel's not traumatized, just kind of embarrassed! It's funny! Yeah.
Aww, bad news, ladies (& gents). Omar is getting hitched.
I hope that being newlywed doesn't mean that Omar will never recap Smallville again -- because that would be a crime.
But ... but ... I was saving myself for him!
I'd have liked to see, maybe, the woman who played Worf's TNG mate ... also played Paul's sister's partner on Mad About You -- I think it's the same actor, anyway. She would have killed in that role.
Suzie Plakson? Hey, she's from Buffalo, who knew?
Carry on. I haven't seen 30 seconds of SG-1, but I am a Suzie Plakson geek.
Also, do we know how Dr. Swann got the key? I'm very confused by the whole episode, whose name escapes me right now. I think I'll call it The One Where Clark Rips Open Lex's Shirt.
No, they didn't explain how Dr. Swann got the key. I think he must have had some kind of device surreptitiously set up in the cave to capture it if it was used again, but there is no evidence for that.
Did anybody else wince when Chloe asked Lionel for the truth about him murdering his parents? I thought it was a really dumb thing to do, and it was capped off by the "I've saved the answer on my voice mail, so it's ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY SAFE with no possibility that the powerful head of an evil conglomerate can get to it and erase it, no sir".
I mean, Clark is usually the dumbest person on the show, right? What happened here?
