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Colonel Carter
01-14-2006, 03:11 AM
EPISODE NUMBER - 912
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 01.13.06
SYNDICATION AIR DATE - 11.20.06
WRITTEN BY - Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
DIRECTED BY - William Waring
GUEST STARRING - Anna Galvin (Dr. Reya Varrick), Warren Kimmel (Dr. Marell), Benson Simmonds (Dr. Amuro), Gary Jones (Sergeant Harriman), William Atherton, Ian Robison (Mitchell's Father), Brian Drummond (Officer)

Colonel Mitchell stands falsely accused of murder -- but he remembers committing it, thanks to technology that grafts memories into someone else's mind. I didn't think I would like this episode as much as I did. I wasn't liking it at first with all the shaky camera movements of the memories. It felt more like a horror film that Stargate SG-1. However, I do like that we got to see some of Mitchell's pain.

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I didn't feel that the episode ended well, however. I felt more suspicious of the military commander or whatever he was. He seemed likely to commit the murder the night of the party, the way he watched Cameron and the woman go off and then how he immediately refused to let his men discover more deeply who committed the murder.

They said that the ex-husband implanted a memory of the one where he committed the murder so he could forget it. That mixed with the commander's quickness to dismiss the case altogether - I found it more likely that the commander committed the memory and then put a false memory in a false memory to really cover his tracks. So that if by chance Cameron insisted on retrieving the memory of who the culprit was, there would be another false memory to blame someone else.

That's how I felt about it anyway. I really don't think the ex-husband was the murderer. I think he was the scapegoat.

They also didn't end the episode with any information on where earth stood with trade negotiations and what not with that world.

I liked General Landry's little pep-talk in the locker room at the end though.

However, I'm tired of so much focus being placed on the new characters and not enough on the established ones.

I did notice that Sam called Cameron by his first name. Since they're the same rank I thought that this was good. But it's a weirder dynamic to have two colonel's on the team.

I want more of Sam, Daniel, and Teal'c.

cb49747
01-14-2006, 01:09 PM
I agree I thought it was the big wig too. Maybe that is why he let him live and did not have him executed.

Anissa T
01-15-2006, 06:03 PM
I think it was mr. head honcho too. I think they may have left the ending (which I did not like) this way to maybe revisit down the road.

I also wondered how that left trade relations. Also, I don't know that it matters, but the girl I did not picture being Mitchell's type. But, then again, I'm not a writer for the show either.

Do you think they got their memory device ideas from the Tok'ra? :scrch You know, we haven't seen the Tok'ra in a while (unless I missed a show), they are working behind the scenes. :b

Livia Sabina
01-19-2006, 03:32 AM
Anyone know when the first space shuttle was launched?

I want to see where Cameron slots in on my list of dates of birth. He must be older than Sam if he made Captain by the end of the Gulf War, but that's all I've got so far.

Colonel Carter
01-19-2006, 03:38 AM
1970's I think.

cb49747
01-21-2006, 05:31 PM
maybe test flights, but I think the official flights started on April 12, 1981.