#stargate the serpent's venom

[autumnknight]

How was I supposed to not ship them?

Sliding Daniel's glasses up is such an iconic Jack move.

I just love the look Jacob gives Sam.

[ekaterin1701]

Totally normal for your CO to lean over you like this 😀 (I think this is from Fail Safe in season 5, but I’m not 100% sure).

Edit: @jadedrepartee has confirmed it’s actually from The Serpent’s Venom (season 4; episode 14).

[ekaterin1701]

SG1 does not need personal space 😀 And Jack leaning in like that…!

Sam/Jack/Daniel moments 2/?: “The Serpent’s Venom”

[justplainmels]

4.14 | The Serpent’s Venom

Jack & Jacob

[spockvarietyhour]

[maniacalshen]

Full-bird Colonel Jack O’Neill, great military leader and tactician, to Major Samantha Carter, the person with whom he shares an unending, unceasing case of UST: Let me just graze my ear over your fly zipper while you try to reprogram an alien mine in a language you don’t understand.

Carter: *Flops flat in confusion*

[samantha-carter-is-my-muse]

Stargate SG-1 Rewatch - Sam in every episode.

04x13 The Serpent's Venom: Just trust me, it's a math thing.

[theiravshade]

Stargate Propmaster: (Sweating profusely)

Stargate SG-1 | 4x14 The Serpent's Venom

[stargatecaps]

[the-goofball]

I would have loved to see Sam’s grin there at the end.

[stargate365]

[SG-1] 4.14: The Serpent’s Venom

Chulak! Yay Chulak!! Tiny, tiny Jaffa is adorable.

Oooh. Teal’c is on a super secret diplomatic mission for the rebellion?

Whoo! We are planning a... Wait... What?? Teal’c has been kidnapped!! or is it Teal’c-napped?

What do you mean Birdman and Snakey-snake want to be buddies??

“If it succeeds” “Galactic badness!”

Ooh, Danny is having a thought. :D

Jaaackkk... why must you be so rude to Dad? We like Dad!

Minefield in space?!?!

"Obviously I’ll need Dr. Jackson, and there may be some complicated mathematical equations to be done, so Sam would be a big help too.”

*hem hem* “Of course Colonel O’neill is always lots of fun to have around.”

Are those manacles?

“Have you thought of a laptop?” “Oh, I have one. I just couldn’t find Beck’s Ancient Phoenician Symbology on CD at Archeology.com.”

Lol @ Jack pushing Daniel’s glasses up his nose.

“What about the escape pods?”

Jeez kid, enough already, we get it, you’ve been brainwashed into being Apophis’s groupie.

“Clear the rings.” In other words, Daniel, clean up your mess.

This goa’uld is clearly high as fuck bc he believes his own hype.

*sighs* Silly Snake, Teal’c can outstubborn anybody.

“Can you raise the bomb any higher?” jfc this show.

Odds on Sam murdering Daniel before this is all over??

“It’s flashing green. Green is good?” “Bad.” “How bad?” “Very bad” “Dad!”

“I think it’s going to expload”

“What does Selmak say?” “Try again.” Like gee, thanks Dad.

Ugh, it’s Birdman with his tacky earrings. 

“Teal’c is on Chulak.” “Apparently not.”

“Just trust me, it’s a math thing.”

Okay, and now we’re chucking a bomb at Apophis?

What do you mean we missed him?!?

Tok’ra password?? Wtf??

Teal’c! Yas! You live!!

Well... that went sideways. So much for the plan.

[theiravshade]

Well...Sam and Daniel are working. Jack is fidgeting. Teal'c is being tortured.

Another day, another dollar.

SG1 is working.

[data2364]

#CarmenArgenziano as Jacob Carter/Selmak 2000  in #StargateSG1 "The Serpent's Venom"

https://twitter.com/Data2364/status/1039253445033611264

[justplainmels]

4.14 | The Serpent’s Venom

“How long is this going to take kids?”

[spockvarietyhour]

[pass-the-bechdel]

Stargate SG1 s04e14 ‘Serpent’s Venom’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test?

No.

How many female characters (with names and lines) are there?

One (8.33% of cast - a new low!)

How many male characters (with names and lines) are there?

Eleven.

Positive Content Rating:

Three.

General Episode Quality:

Whatever.

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

Passing the Bechdel:

Wake me up when it’s over.

Female characters:

Samantha Carter.

Male characters:

Ma’kar.

Rak’nor.

Teal’c.

George Hammond.

Daniel Jackson.

Jack O’Neill.

Jacob Carter.

Selmak.

Apophis.

Heru-ur.

Terok.

OTHER NOTES:

Stab a guy in the belly pouch with a torture stick. Damn.

Apophis has so many concubines and it is hilarious. Stop compensating, dude.

This is the way Heru-ur ends: not with a bang but a whimper. Dude died the same way that he lived: like a punk.

Why did Heru-ur even exist? He was introduced back in season two, and achieved approximately nothing ever between then and now, when he is unceremoniously ditched, just like that. Sokar was intro’d after Heru-ur, and died before him; it’s just weird because the show wants us to buy this new Goa’uld or that new Goa’uld as the latest Big Threat, but Sokar and Heru-ur (and Hathor, though she was of a different sort) just kinda postured a bit and then fizzled out. I love Apophis because he’s like, classic mustache-twirling supervillain, no complex backstory or anything, but he makes logic-based decisions and enacts his supervillain plans with some semblance of thought, and that places him a cut above these other randos who just show off and spend more narrative time telling us that they’re Bad than they do showing it. Apophis is like, the real deal villain. Accept no substitutes.

P.s. my cat, Apophis, is an extremely affectionate lap-cat who tries to scratch the blankets off my bed when he thinks it’s time for me to wake up, and who suffers from a nervous disposition which leads him to lick obsessively until he gives himself bald patches. So, he’s just like his television counterpart, basically.