#LIV UR A FREAKIN LEGEND

[rodneymckays]

stargate episodes that should have been, part 63: operation don’t let teal’c and jonas know santa isn’t real. overnight, the entire base’s halls are decked on general hammond’s orders. sg-3 (on colonel reynolds’s first mission as leader of sg-3) bring in a huge tree through the gate from p3x-whatever and set it up in the gate room. siler is in charge of decorating it, somehow gets tangled in the lights, and the rest of the gate room staff debate letting him stay there to be the star on top of the tree before finally getting him down. the kitchen staff are frantically baking and decorating cookies. jack called in a favor from santa thor (it’s thor wearing a fake beard) to beam in a ton of asgard presents for every single person on-base. some of them are good (sam’s cool tech thing) and some of them are…. not so good (walter’s stick. it’s a stick. that probably has some secret asgard-y function he has not discovered. he can’t even use it to hit people because he would only ever hit whoever’s in charge of the base and that’s Not Allowed). through all this, walter is blaring christmas carols through the base intercom (that can be turned off if one does not wish to hear christmas carols, because he is considerate, but also please do not turn off dj walter). these carols interrupt teal’c’s kelno’reem, causing him to go into the hall to investigate. he sees what appears to be an elf hanging decorations on the walls, raises an eyebrow, and goes back to his quarters. he leaves the christmas carols on. (camera zoom on the “elf” once teal’c leaves the scene. it’s major davis.) jonas sleeps through the whole ordeal, because jack requested dr frasier give him something to make him sleep on christmas eve otherwise he DEFINITELY would’ve been up all night trying to catch santa. in the morning, jonas gets to be so happy that santa brought him a good present (an asgard weather-predicting device) and that the team got him a good present too (a book on 100 must-see locations on earth, that jack definitely didn’t have santa thor beam out of a bookstore without paying for it). teal’c also got a good santa present (a working lightsaber, color customizable) but jack just gave him some money and told him to buy himself whatever video game he wanted. (teal’c buys star wars: jedi knight ii: jedi outcast, which i still need to get on the switch.) it’s a very nice christmas and they have good food for dinner and no goa’uld attack the planet today. there’s a mysterious breeze in the cafeteria during dinner that may or may not be ghost daniel. at the end of the episode we cut to general hammond, having dinner at home with his grandchildren.

OPERATION PROTECT THEIR INNOCENCE & SENSE OF CHILDLIKE WONDER 😤✊

here's hoping there are no alien creatures in colonel reynold's tree (especially if siler is stuck in it alsdfkjhasdf)

anyone who would choose to mute walter's dulcet tones is Wrong. they let him call out chevrons for a reason, people.

and u raise an excellent point; why are all of our favourite air force peeps ears like that? are they more aerodynamic, i-

JONAS' FIRST CHRISTMAS?? and they spoil him with a weather related present <33 his favourite!!! they know him so well 🥺 of course jack doesn't actually pay for his present aldfash

im picturing the camera doing a little zoom out of hammond's window, panning away from him doting on his grandchildren to the sound of gauraldi's christmas time is here and i'm crying 🥺