EPISODE NUMBER - 818
ORIGINAL AIR DATE - 03.11.05
WRITTEN BY - Robert C. Cooper
DIRECTED BY - Andy Mikita
GUEST STARRING - Isaac Hayes (Tolok), George Dzundza (Mike), Mel Harris (Oma Desala), Clare Carey (Kerry Johnson), Tony Amendola (Bra'tac), Carmen Argenziano (Jacob Carter)
ORIGINAL AIR DATE - 03.11.05
WRITTEN BY - Robert C. Cooper
DIRECTED BY - Andy Mikita
GUEST STARRING - Isaac Hayes (Tolok), George Dzundza (Mike), Mel Harris (Oma Desala), Clare Carey (Kerry Johnson), Tony Amendola (Bra'tac), Carmen Argenziano (Jacob Carter)
Daniel must once again decide whether to risk death or ascend when Oma Desala gives him a second chance. O'Neill and Carter struggle with their respective personal relationships.
NEWS AND SPOILERS
(Newest information is added to the bottom)
# The evil Anubis may not quite be gone, despite being blown up in "Lost City, Part 2" and frozen in a human body in "Lockdown." "Michael Shanks is going to have a couple of good episodes of his own, and I guess the big thing that Daniel is going to do is to have a bit of a show-down with Anubis towards the end of the season." (Executive producer Robert C. Cooper, in an interview with Cult Times magazine [#106, July 2004])
# Daniel Jackson is at a cross-roads. With his life placed in mortal danger, an old friend has returned to help: Oma Desala. Daniel finds himself stuck in a 60's style diner, symbolizing an in-between state where he must decide whether to ascend once again, or go back and risk death. There he meets Mike, who is also trapped there and who serves as Daniel's subconscious as he wrestles with the fateful decision.
Oma is also there, apparently playing the part of the diner's waitress. (At least she isn't speaking in riddles.) She speaks with Daniel about his decision, and what is keeping him from ascending again. He also confronts her with the existence of Anubis -- the Goa'uld who managed to ascend only to be cast out by the Ancients, and who became stuck between ascension and physical form. Oma herself, Daniel learns, had quite a bit to do with it: Anubis went to Kheb.
Meanwhile, Jack O'Neill has begun a romantic relationship with Kerry Johnson, a 30-something woman who is on the new S.G.C. Professional Oversight Committee, an organization charged with the task of overseeing base operations. The two have really hit it off -- but something is holding Jack back, and Kerry knows it.
Colonel Carter is facing personal issues on multiple fronts: Sam is having second thoughts about her engagement to Pete Shanahan, who has just bought a house for the two of them. She tries to talk to Jack about her feelings for the general, but is interrupted when Kerry arrives. And her father, the Tok'ra Jacob Carter, is seriously unwell. (GateWorld news story)
# The evil Anubis may not quite be gone, despite being blown up in "Lost City, Part 2" and frozen in a human body in "Lockdown." "Michael Shanks is going to have a couple of good episodes of his own, and I guess the big thing that Daniel is going to do is to have a bit of a show-down with Anubis towards the end of the season." (Executive producer Robert C. Cooper, in an interview with Cult Times magazine [#106, July 2004])
# "Anubis is indeed free of his icy prison, where he was last seen in Season Eight's "Lockdown." He has apparently been busy reclaiming his armies, while at the same time the Replicators have engaged the Goa'uld in battle. Many of Anubis' Kull warriors have been wiped out in the conflict, but Anubis is marshalling the remaining force on the planet Tartarus (seen in "Evolution, Part 2"). O'Neill, Teal'c and Bra'tac discuss the possibility of an ambush.
In the "diner" of Daniel's subconscious, he talks to Mike about whether or not he should ascend again. In fact, Daniel learns that he knew Mike when he was previously ascended. Mike follows Oma Desala in walking a fine line with the Ancients' mandate over not interfering with the mortal universe, though they don't always agree on how far to go. In the case of the current crisis, that question is especially important: Anubis has found a device once used by the Ancients to re-create life in our galaxy after it was virtually wiped out by the plague, and plans to use it to wipe out all life throughout the galaxy and reshape it as he sees fit -- to use it as an unparalleled weapon of mass destruction. And Mike is convinced that the Ancients won't step in and stop him.
When Mike reveals to Daniel that it was Oma herself who helped the evil Anubis to ascend back when he was a regular old Goa'uld, she is enraged." (GateWorld news story)
# "We're going to do a story this year where we're going to kind of resolve the whole Daniel-Oma storyline, and what it was like for him to be ascended, and what the issues were. And hopefully when you see that episode it will feel like that story was always going to happen from the moment we first saw Oma." (Executive producer Robert C. Cooper, in an interview with the Richard Dean Anderson Web Site)
# "Threads" may air as a special, extra-long episode, if the producers can get Stargate's cable and syndication broadcasters to go along with the idea. "'Threads' was running long, very long. It really found its length in the 90-minute version. It's been a battle to get SCI FI and FOX on board to broadcast the 90-minute version so we didn't have to cut it down to 42 [minutes]. So we ended up doing both versions." (Executive producer Michael Greenburg, in a panel at London Film and Comic Con [report])
NEWS AND SPOILERS
(Newest information is added to the bottom)
# The evil Anubis may not quite be gone, despite being blown up in "Lost City, Part 2" and frozen in a human body in "Lockdown." "Michael Shanks is going to have a couple of good episodes of his own, and I guess the big thing that Daniel is going to do is to have a bit of a show-down with Anubis towards the end of the season." (Executive producer Robert C. Cooper, in an interview with Cult Times magazine [#106, July 2004])
# Daniel Jackson is at a cross-roads. With his life placed in mortal danger, an old friend has returned to help: Oma Desala. Daniel finds himself stuck in a 60's style diner, symbolizing an in-between state where he must decide whether to ascend once again, or go back and risk death. There he meets Mike, who is also trapped there and who serves as Daniel's subconscious as he wrestles with the fateful decision.
Oma is also there, apparently playing the part of the diner's waitress. (At least she isn't speaking in riddles.) She speaks with Daniel about his decision, and what is keeping him from ascending again. He also confronts her with the existence of Anubis -- the Goa'uld who managed to ascend only to be cast out by the Ancients, and who became stuck between ascension and physical form. Oma herself, Daniel learns, had quite a bit to do with it: Anubis went to Kheb.
Meanwhile, Jack O'Neill has begun a romantic relationship with Kerry Johnson, a 30-something woman who is on the new S.G.C. Professional Oversight Committee, an organization charged with the task of overseeing base operations. The two have really hit it off -- but something is holding Jack back, and Kerry knows it.
Colonel Carter is facing personal issues on multiple fronts: Sam is having second thoughts about her engagement to Pete Shanahan, who has just bought a house for the two of them. She tries to talk to Jack about her feelings for the general, but is interrupted when Kerry arrives. And her father, the Tok'ra Jacob Carter, is seriously unwell. (GateWorld news story)
# The evil Anubis may not quite be gone, despite being blown up in "Lost City, Part 2" and frozen in a human body in "Lockdown." "Michael Shanks is going to have a couple of good episodes of his own, and I guess the big thing that Daniel is going to do is to have a bit of a show-down with Anubis towards the end of the season." (Executive producer Robert C. Cooper, in an interview with Cult Times magazine [#106, July 2004])
# "Anubis is indeed free of his icy prison, where he was last seen in Season Eight's "Lockdown." He has apparently been busy reclaiming his armies, while at the same time the Replicators have engaged the Goa'uld in battle. Many of Anubis' Kull warriors have been wiped out in the conflict, but Anubis is marshalling the remaining force on the planet Tartarus (seen in "Evolution, Part 2"). O'Neill, Teal'c and Bra'tac discuss the possibility of an ambush.
In the "diner" of Daniel's subconscious, he talks to Mike about whether or not he should ascend again. In fact, Daniel learns that he knew Mike when he was previously ascended. Mike follows Oma Desala in walking a fine line with the Ancients' mandate over not interfering with the mortal universe, though they don't always agree on how far to go. In the case of the current crisis, that question is especially important: Anubis has found a device once used by the Ancients to re-create life in our galaxy after it was virtually wiped out by the plague, and plans to use it to wipe out all life throughout the galaxy and reshape it as he sees fit -- to use it as an unparalleled weapon of mass destruction. And Mike is convinced that the Ancients won't step in and stop him.
When Mike reveals to Daniel that it was Oma herself who helped the evil Anubis to ascend back when he was a regular old Goa'uld, she is enraged." (GateWorld news story)
# "We're going to do a story this year where we're going to kind of resolve the whole Daniel-Oma storyline, and what it was like for him to be ascended, and what the issues were. And hopefully when you see that episode it will feel like that story was always going to happen from the moment we first saw Oma." (Executive producer Robert C. Cooper, in an interview with the Richard Dean Anderson Web Site)
# "Threads" may air as a special, extra-long episode, if the producers can get Stargate's cable and syndication broadcasters to go along with the idea. "'Threads' was running long, very long. It really found its length in the 90-minute version. It's been a battle to get SCI FI and FOX on board to broadcast the 90-minute version so we didn't have to cut it down to 42 [minutes]. So we ended up doing both versions." (Executive producer Michael Greenburg, in a panel at London Film and Comic Con [report])
- war. Auch sehr bemerkenswert, dass er so abtritt, wie er in die Serie eingetreten ist: als totkranker Mann. Durchaus eine Art von Kreislauf, die ich sehr gut gemacht fand.
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