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Sometimes I still think back to that episode where Teal'c is living off-base and throws an avocado at a fleeing mugger or something and beans him unconscious with it at like 70 yards and smile.
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Ba'al was a great bad guy, going from being another throw-away rando System Lord and ending as the last man standing after all the other big name Goauld and Replicator robots and ascended energy beings bit the dust, solely because he was the one ancient alien potentate who didn't get high on his own supply and buy into his own propaganda. The one bad guy in the universe that learned that being overly grandiose could actually be a weakness sometimes.
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Wasn't Area 51 an entirely unrelated secret government alien research facility that SGC occasionally pawned off their weirder artifacts to for study? So it's not even just Cheyenne Mountain that has to keep the alien poo poo under wraps, it's gotta be like a thousand people in multiple locations across the US. Plus fuckin' Russia knows about it too and had their own bootleg Stargate program, how that didn't leak like a sieve I'll never understand. Just some oligarch funding his Dacha by selling broken staff weapons to third world warlords and poo poo.
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Jul 19, 2023 18:37
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emSparkly posted:The debut episode was a pretty exciting ride, and I appreciate how it kinda more clearly establishes that the aliens stole culture from the Egyptians and not the other way around. Helps dodge some of the problematic ancient aliens bullshit that rubbed me the wrong way in the movie. It does feel like a recurring thing that the Goauld seem to have an inordinate fondness for Earth culture beyond the utility of just posing as gods. Like long after contact with Earth has been lost and they could in theory style their feudal domains however they want on other planets, they stick with the Egyptian theme (or whatever culture they're ripping off). Thor and the other Asgard put on the trappings of Norse gods when interacting with people because it made things go smoother than trying to talk to a bunch of Iron Age villagers while looking like Greys, but they drop the facade the second it's not necessary anymore. Maybe it's part of the whole parasite thing, they barely have any culture of their own and when exposed to some new and novel customs they get addicted to them. It's why every Goauld who spends significant time on Earth in the modern day goes native and immerses themselves in it (Ba'al being the biggest example, but there are a few others)
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