Quiet!Jack is hot as hell ("The Fifth Race").
Love that episode. RDA is usually not so great with the I Am Possessed, Robotic, Or Otherwise Alien thing--he does them all the same--but he did a fantastic job with Jack's loss of control in Fifth Race.
I suspect the movie I saw on cable was significantly edited -- weren't there scenes in the movie showing why Jack was willing to take a suicide mission?
Um, I don't think so; just the implication that he's suicidal at the beginning (sitting in the bedroom with the gun) and then telling Daniel later that no one should outlive their child. Honestly, I'm not even sure the "shot himself with Jack's gun" thing was established until the series, though I might be wrong about that.
How did Jolinar save Sam, though? I don't get it.
Well, there are a couple of options. Option One: Jolinar expended her last energy healing the damage done to Sam, and then died. Option Two: Later on, it's established that a symbiote dying in the host will release a toxin that kills the host. So one could argue that Jolinar somehow prevented herself from doing that, thus saving Sam's life.
Do all the cast members get to write or direct episodes?
Everyone but RDA (who's a producer, and not otherwise interested in other-side-of-the-camera stuff, apparently). MS directed, um, Double Jeopardy and wrote Resurrection from this year, which was directed by AT. CJ hasn't directed, I don't think, but he co-wrote The Warrior, and wrote Changeling and Birthright himself. Basically, he appears to have given up and decided that if he wants Teal'c to have lines he'll have to write them himself; he apparently seriously considered leaving the show after S4, and I wouldn't be surprised if letting him write was originally something they gave him to keep him onboard.
Also season 7 hair is scary, and she looks haggard.
I'm blaming it on the makeup. They seriously need to back off the eyeliner and weird beigey blush, because it's not doing her any favors.
As does Jack, actually: was RDA sick, or did the picture in the attic get destroyed?
Just tired, I'd guess; he's living in LA and flying up to Vancouver for four-day filming-fests every other week, or something like that.
Do the rebel Jaffa have a name?
Apparently not. You'd think they would've come up with something with an apostrophe by now, wouldn't you?
