#oh P3X-595

[justplainmels]

1.03 | Emancipation

“Remember that time on P3X-595? You drank that stuff that made you take off…”

[geneeste]

Genie’s SG1 Rewatch: The Enemy Within

This one is slightly less gross than the last one, but not by much. (Also, there are quite a few time breaks in this one, just ignore them.)

Season 1, Episode 2:

9:03 PM “With all due respect” everyone take a drink I don’t think I’ve watched much of any of the first season since I originally watched it 9:04 PM I hardly remember any of The Enemy Within Poor Kawalsky 4:14 PM I will say it's fun to watch them figure out all the Stargate terminology we take for granted and to watch their relationships develop 4:15 PM Uh, yep, the doctor was here before and the gross goa'uld killed him 😬 I already don't like COL Kennedy Yay Jack, so glad you're here 4:19 PM I really do just love Chris Judge He gives such nuance to often really stilted dialogue 4:20 PM See, here though, discovering that Earth was the seed planet for all those humans that are now enslaved/mistreated that is plenty compelling. it's a great motivation for the SGC and really anyone to, you know, join the cause Which makes the fact that they abused and then fridged Sha'ré even more frustrating to me Because it was just. So unnecessary. (and Skaa'ra too!) Poor Daniel 😢 I love Sam and Daniel's budding friendship (Side note: I get frustrated by all the shortcomings of the show and then they give us great little moments and I remember why I loved it to begin with.)

4:24 PM Oh jeez, that hand falling, I don't think Daniel's gonna sleep any time soon

5:26 PM Yeah sure doc, you go ahead and hit that alarm that'll help I mean it will but maybe also run I dunno Eep Sam I will forever love how you can see Sam calculate the risks of what she's about to do Like, "this is a terrible decision but I'm gonna do it anyway"

5:28 PM So that part where Kawalsky throws Sam into the wall in the elevator? That's another AT story: "And so they had a shot of my face, so I couldn't use a stunt double and I smacked my head against back of the elevator and dropped down, so when you actually see Carter drop down to the corner of the elevator slumped into a pathetic little heap, that was really Amanda slumped into a pathetic little heap."

5:32 PM Daniel sounds constantly bewildered in these early episodes "Someone in the elevator hit the emergency stop..." WHY WOULD SOMEBODY DO THAT? 😆 Oh Kawalsky I hate that they did this to yoooouuuuu

5:33 PM What an uncomfortable gurney do I even want to know where they found that gurney I mean jeez I can't take the close up on Kawalsky's face I'm such a baby

5:36 PM (it occurs to me that Kawalsky's begging Jack to help him, then they do the exact same thing to Jack later during In The Line of Duty -- ugh, poor Jack)

5:38 PM No seriously Kawalsky is heartbreaking ugh Fucking Kennedy He’s so rude

7:23 PM This is very unpleasant Somehow I don’t think it’s going to be interested in talking 

7:25 PM This is just not super fun to watch Dr Warner needs Frasier desperately lol 7:27 PM Kennedy is a jerk and I don’t like him I do love me a sassy hardass Hammond however 7:30 PM Teal’c is a really amazing person for letting them experiment on Junior like that 😳 Also: yuck

7:31 PM Yeah Jack, let the man settle his affairs jeez Sigh. Poor Kawalsky. I would not be watching this surgery  7:34 PM I think warner is just speaking jibberish now I’m so glad they got most of the gross stuff out of the way early 🤢

7:37 PM I totally don’t remember how Kawalsky dies Oh fuck off Kennedy This whole “already took over the host” dead symbiote thing is hard to believe 

7:40 PM Oh yikes Walter, ow Also goa’uld are really not strategic at all Just lay low  and pretend you kumquat 7:42 PM Oh no Now I remember how Kawalsky dies 😬😬😬

7:43 PM Oof What even Was the thing falling out the back of his head really necessary

7:45 PM Oh man ahahahaha I LOVE Hammond flexing on his phone call with the President and making Kennedy stand right there and watch We stan a sassy hardass Hammond 7:46 PM Yay Teal’c A bright spot in an otherwise miserable ep

7:47 PM Is P3-575 the one with where Sam gets drunk on alien booze and gets naked? (According to show lore?) [It was P3X-595 for those of you following along at home]

7:48 PM Aaaand that’s over, phew

[somuchpotential]

It’s their missing mission to... oh, either P3X-595, the one mentioned in “Emancipation,” or P3A-575, the one they’re leaving for at the end of “The Enemy Within.” 

Sacrifice Moon is FANTASTIC and does a little explanation of why the DHD is so important that is really just so cool. (Julie Fortune also wrote a bunch of SG-1 fic back in the day and it’s all pretty great. You can still find some of it at her livejournal.)

I heard this book gets messed up. Of course I had to buy it.