A Hundred Days

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A Hundred Days - Season 3, Episode 17

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[0:00] Music.

[0:36] Welcome to stargate sg1 for the first time still not a star trek podcast my name is Jeff Akin and i'm watching stargate sg1 for the first time and i'm brent allen and i'm also watching stargate sg1 for the first time actually it's my 47th time but for the first time i am intentionally watching the show trying to seek out the messages that the writers and show creators are hidden deep within you know the sci-fi stuff the the things that hold up a mirror to society, give us hope that things can be better in the future or just teach us how to be better human beings to one another let's see if that happens in this the 17th episode of the third season of sg1 a hundred days last week you told me this was the title of the episode i went through quite a journey to decide what this was in fact i think i basically pulled out the plot of fire and water.

[1:27] And said it would be that but with jack instead then i changed my mind and i think that jack is getting arrested basically and he's going to serve out a hundred day sentence you're a good guesser that's what you keep saying yes now this might be a hundred day sentence but this wasn't a hundred days episode of an episode so why don't you tell us what day it came out and all the cool stuff about this one yeah so 17th episode third season aired first here in the united states february 4th of the year 2000 uh this story is credited to vc james okay vc james is a name you probably are unfamiliar with i would like to give this person a shout out jeff are you familiar with the name dc fontana yeah a little bit she's done a couple a couple little little things in star trek and how do you happen to know that dc fontana is a she um only because of modern times where like she has been able to come out as dorothy fontana and the reason she had to go to dc is because people wouldn't accept a female writer as readily as they would a male writer exactly especially in the 1960s probably into the 70s and 80s as well yeah now i have no idea if that's the the issue here with uh with vc or victoria as they called her normally on set victoria james or vc james It might've been an homage to DC Fontana.

[2:49] It, I have no idea. There's no information out there that says one way or the other, but I just want to say, listen, if she is doing this for those stupid reasons, I'm, I mean, I know this was 24 years ago for us at this point, 25, 20, God, Lord, I don't even know where math is hard. Um, it is.

[3:14] I'm glad to be done with that i hope we're done with that today like we're generally done kathleen kennedy is a name that we hear out there whether people like it or not it's still her and uh what was the lady did the discovery she was with oh michelle paradise you know so so i'm glad that we're in a spot where that is a thing anyway uh that being said vc james basically is listed as a production associate through the entirety of season one and up through the first half of season two through the episode the tokra and she's done several other productions she's like i said production associate she's not a production assistant which is usually like go get me coffee go do my laundry go pick my kids up from preschool yeah this girl is like she's done things like she was the art department coordinator and the clearances coordinator which is one like make sure that they have rights to the music or names that they need or things like that uh labels that her in the show and things like that. She's a script coordinator, that kind of stuff. So she'd been around on the show, basically must just call it and say, Hey, I got an idea for an episode.

[4:17] And I imagine that it was going something like this. Hey, so you know how you guys just did like two episodes that kind of mimicked Star Trek next generations measure of a man. Well, I was just watching this other Star Trek next generation episode and I've got an idea. Let me pitch it to you she's talking to brad wright show creator show runner a name you should know by now and he goes great idea i'm gonna buy it from you and then he writes the teleplay jeff my challenge to you is i want to know which tng episode is this uh.

[4:55] That in Brent's headcanon, this episode is modeled after. Okay. Okay. I am not saying that's how that went down. I'm just saying that's in my imagination how I think it went. Because, yikes, I have always said this is Stargate's blank, blank, blank episode. Yeah. You know? So, anyway, there's all that. But much credit to her.

[5:20] You're going to want a box of Kleenexes. I hope you have one nearby. Uh-oh, one of those. Well, you're either going to be – it could be from laughing so hard or it could be from other things. I'm not going to tell you which. I'm just saying you may – don't be drinking milk because you may like spurt it out of your nose at one point or maybe not. I don't know. Actually, I do know. We'll see. But we'll see what happens for you. So anyway, that is this episode. What do you say, Jeff? Let's go watch it and find out exactly what happens. Yeah, let's do it. All right. Hey, listen, if you guys are joining us for the very first time, first of all, welcome. You're amazing. You're awesome. We're so glad that you found us here. The way this works is Jeff and I are going to go watch this episode right now. If you're hanging out with us on YouTube, stick around because you're going to get the reaction video to Jeff and I watching this episode. And if you're interested in the full unedited reaction, along with all our stuff from Babylon five and all the other stuff we have going on here at the by nerds channel, you just head over to patreon.com slash bye nerds.

[6:25] If you're listening to us on a podcasting app, we're about to meet you on the other side of the episode where I'm going to share my first time reactions. Brent's going to share any of the sci-fi messages that he pulled out of this bad boy. Hey, Brent, I think we've got some time on our hands. Let's spend a hundred days. 7-7-1-Locked.

[6:53] So, Lara, when's the big show start? It's the big show. No, I'm patient. I'm nothing if not patient. When's it start? Is he always like this? Quite frequently. Quite frequently. Laro we haven't seen anything you could call fire rain these past few nights how come you're sure it's going to fall tonight it begins this night each year whoa the same night every year that doesn't make sense i mean unless the planet's orbit travels through a debris field like an asteroid belt in which case please don't suck the fun out of this sorry sir stop with your math and your science my father told me that the fire rain was the tears of our ancestors longing to be reunited. It's like Jack's falling in love. Oh, he just made a wish. That's what we call fire rain, where we come from. In our culture, you're supposed to make a wish. On Chulak, we call it Talpac Ride. Talpac Ride. Falling Star. What do you think, Jack? Was it worth the effort? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of fireworks.

[8:12] Music. Carter. How close was that? Close, sir. How big? Big. Thought so. I was rather concerned for a minute there, sir. I don't understand. Lara, that's what we call a near miss. If that meteor had struck the ground instead of bouncing off of the atmosphere... This is an annual event? Yes. Though it grows more spectacular every year. By tomorrow evening, the entire sky... Yeah, we should probably start evacuating you people. I'll make some more observations tonight, sir. Time for that math and science to start. It's a logical record in the morning. I'll... Make a wish. See, that's what I got. Tilk will stay silent.

[8:17] Whoa.

[9:22] That would be kind of cool, like just hang out by a lake and just watch that stuff shoot overhead. Like, if you're unaware of what that could potentially mean. It's just fun and it's beautiful. I got to say, in season three so far, like they're not sparing any expense with the effects. No. You got a lot of space, a lot of big stuff. And you know what i think a lot of it could be accredited to jeff, babylon 5 you think so well i mean think about babylon 5 went full digital effects for its entire run and they got significantly better all the way through yeah you know you have that kind of experience coming out showing it can be done you know now it's the year 2000, babylon 5's been off the air for a few years computers are getting better toy story's been out for over five years they're doing bugs life all that sort of stuff it's getting there yeah it's getting you got three years about three years of uh star trek doing computer graphics and stuff also so yeah but you're right babelon 5 was kind of the enterprises in full hd i think at this point or getting close to being it.

[10:34] Now i will tell you they don't start doing sg1 in full hd until season nine for whatever reason yeah yeah well it's expensive you gotta like new cameras and everything everything new sets they've already got it ready to go so, See this bright dot? It represents your world, Adora. Now, it orbits your sun in a big circle like this and crosses through an asteroid belt up here at its widest point. Now, as you pass through millions of tiny rocks and particles, some of them burn up in Adora's atmosphere. As fire rain. Exactly. The problem is, the asteroid belt isn't uniform, so certain orbits in certain years must pass through a denser debris field. Can you ever remember the fire rain striking the ground? Not in my lifetime, nor in my father's. But there is a tale of the ancestors, that on the second day of the fire rain, there was a distant thunder, and the horizon burned as though the sun never set. How long ago was that? Many, many years ago. Like how many? Morning, campers. Who's going on Daniel's little geology field trip? Darren. Because suddenly Daniel is a geologist. No, why not? That's how doctors work, right? Just whatever science you need. Truth be told, I imagine archaeologists probably have a few geology classes. Mother. Some of the prereqs. Have a day and be well.

[12:02] Sir, I'd like to go back to Earth and input the data I collected from last night's observations into the base's mainframe. Go ahead. We're still calling it mainframes back then. I was going to say the same thing, mainframe.

[12:15] So real quick, I want to pause because I want to put my story beat idea thing out there before anything else happens. Not Star Trek, but there's a series of books. I don't know if you're familiar. I know a number of our viewers are, but the Dragon Riders of Pern and McCaffrey. Love i love the first couple books in that series i got got a little lower but the gist is there's this planet pern and in its orbit is this erratic planet that every 200 years is supposed to come, close enough that pieces of it basically fall down into the atmosphere they call it thread and if it lands on the planet it just devours all organic life so they've found these they have these dragons that they've bred and they ride dragons. And when the thread falls, they fly through the air on dragons and they burn it out of the sky. But in this, in this story and the way it starts is there was a missed rotation. So it's been 400 years and everyone's accepted. It's not a problem anymore. Thread's gone because they don't understand the science of it anymore. It's, you know, it's gone and then, you know, all hell breaks loose and they have to fix everything and blah, blah, blah. So far, this story is really, really sounding similar.

[13:30] So I hope we get to see some dragon writing that would be cool yes Stargate goes fantasy I like it why not it totally could between our two worlds.

[13:46] Sure we could do that yeah that's what she wants to talk about it's like ore, I figure the decay rate differential between the layers of Nacqueta is about 150 years give or take so What's an aquita? A mineral substance. You see, the further down these striations we go, the further back into Adora's past we travel. You see, these layers are different. They represent an aquita dust thrown out by impact events. Cool. Cool. Uh, Jack says that. I don't, I gotta be honest. I don't know how they know that. Cool? I'm not really sure that, uh... No, just... applies to this was done by that thing over there you see something like this happened on my world millions of years ago and nearly wiped out all life he's a scientist right well we only know that it has happened uh in varying degrees of destruction every 150 years or so and it appears that it's precisely the amount of time since the last impact i see no reason to withhold the truth from these people daniel jackson.

[14:55] Music.

[15:01] Get some dragons, shoot them out of the sky. Exactly. Start breathing fire. Did you guys not hear Jeff? We just gave you the answer. So simple. The first of hundreds of car-sized asteroids directly in the path of Adora. P5C768. The night sky is full of... Giving us the code. We can't evacuate an entire planet, Major. As far as we know, these are the only descendants of a people brought to Adora by the gold thousands of years ago. There may only be a small number of strikes locally. If that's the case, we can send them home in a few days. If not, we'd be saving the last of a people, sir.

[15:40] We got some extra rooms here. But I don't think that falls within Stargate's mandated mission. No. I mean, doesn't that violate Prime Directive? I know this isn't Star Trek, but I mean... Kind of would. Hey, you don't know what any of this stuff is. Come through here, and then we'll just send you back. But, I mean, actually just coming through the gate and saying hi violates brain directive too, so. He's already poisoned the culture. Kids are saying cool. Next thing you know, they're going to start growing their hair long, listening to loud music. Old man doesn't believe that they came through the gate. There is nothing more than meets the eye here. Our fields, those few buildings, our children. What we have, we need. What you have is about to go away. We're only interested in fair trade, sir.

[16:32] He's like a hobbit he reminds me of a hobbit like very tall but still a hobbit, very curmudgeonly hobbit, well there's you remember how excited carter got the day we got here something in our soil that's a mineral called anaquita we don't have on earth it's very important to us It's probably from the fire rain hitting every 150 years or so. It's like spice from Dune. Exactly. Medicine, technology, education. We'd become friends. We're already friends. Aw. Closer friends? Yeah, there you go. My mother taught me to be wary of men wishing to be closer friends. Heck yes. Your mother is a smart person. Negotiate this treaty with your mother, that way there'd be no conflict of interest.

[17:30] Music.

[17:50] I'm sorry. She had to stop and identify herself. Right. In case you didn't know. Daniel, Teal, and Carter. The only three other people who could respond to him. It's like she came on and said, indeed. It's like when you're on. Do they get on the comm and like try to pretend to be their other people? Right. It's like they just get bored. It's kind of a game they play. It's like being on a zoom call where there's four people and then like you i unmute hey uh jeff here blah blah yeah yeah brad wright show creator and seasoned telepathy writer i'm looking at you on this one uh that one was silly great show you have a phenomenal show that line was silly probably got paid by the word so he's like why if i squeeze one more in here Did it count for two? No, wait, wait. This is Carter's cert. There you go, yeah. I see what you're doing there, Brad. Good job. Here we go.

[18:53] Look at this. Is that a skull? Or a bowl? It's a cooking utensil. Could be a skull. Which probably means at some point a number of people spent time here. Perhaps this cave provided a means for a small number of Edorans to survive the last media bombardment. Or it's where they came to die. Ancestors. Two, Daniel, back to the village ASAP. Somebody had to survive or the population would be gone. There's people, and more than like two people had to survive. Bucks, we think the fire rain is going to start hitting the ground pretty soon. As a precaution, we'd like to take you all back to our planet. There's enough genetic diversity there. There is no threat. Make them okay, so... If just one big meteor lands within a few miles of here, the resulting explosion could wipe out the entire village. Year after year, the fire rain comes, goes, and harms no one. Do you not see what they are doing they want us gone so they can claim our lands for themselves that's not true if you go with them you'll never see your land again.

[19:50] There's always one guy like that on these ones isn't there, look at that I have come to know these travelers and though their world seems far it is only a step away I will take that step in good faith Netflix made a movie about exactly that guy I think it's called look up, because there was a meteor coming for and people, no there's not just literally look up there's always the one guy who wants to keep everybody back mmhmm, who thinks everybody's trying to take their stuff away hey smart guy, do you remember that from ever happening? all right folks, train's leaving, let's move, they're now looking at each other going what's a train? What's moving? Garen? Oh, no. Mm-mm.

[20:47] Just so you know, Garen was that boy and then his girlfriend who went to the cave with Daniel. Okay. You should be here, O'Neal. The cave. We were talking about how previous generations survived. They must have gone back there. All right, you three go. Get these people out of here. We'll find the kids and catch up. Sir? Go.

[21:17] SG-1's code, sir. Oh, there he is! Doctors, stand by to receive refugees. Yes, sir. Wow, that had some stank on that. Mm-hmm. He does not look happy. Don't be afraid. There'll be others waiting for you on the other side. Sir, this is Carter. What if one of those flies through the Stargate into the SGC? It would come out with at least the same momentum, right? Uh-huh. I think. What they do is they shut the Stargate off while it's mid-transport. It stays in pattern buffer. Yeah, for decades. The rest was to remain behind. How many? Approximately one-third of the village. What? You go through, let the Adorance know that everything fell right Beyond your six Colonel, please respond, He doesn't have good sleep This is where the ancestors survived We brought food and some water Garen, try this my way.

[22:44] She should have said phone home, I think there might have been a little legal issue with that. BC would have had to go do some clearances to make sure that would work. Ah! You don't often see the gate through the other side. Yeah, that's kind of cool. We're losing Wormhole's ability. Does one of them come through with him?

[23:25] Colonel O'Neill went to help some villagers. We waited until the last possible moment, sir. I know you did. We almost lost you. General Hammond, I wish to return immediately with the search party. You can't, Tilt. That last hit was right on top of the gate. You'd be walking into a firestorm. I am willing to take that risk. I'm not willing to let you. You could wait 24 hours and send a map through, sir. Major Carter's right. If it's safe by tomorrow, you'll all go. He looks a good guy like I'm returning right now.

[23:59] Not so much Ammon's right you know yeah, great to go help your buddy I like that they don't argue with him they allow him to actually be an authority you know, and when they have argued with him it's in his office behind closed doors Very rarely do they ever just outright support him. Exactly. In the end, they listen. What do you do? There's good news. It's raining. You should put out some of the fires. Could you see the village? No. It's not pretty well. It was lit by all the fire in it. Garen, we had a plan. Daniel said there's nothing you can do. We were afraid.

[24:58] Me too. Wow. That got me in my headphones. Really? Yeah. That's why I was like... That was a good leadership moment by Jack. like just exposing a little bit of vulnerability right there and connecting.

[25:29] Chevron 7. Locked. No one says it like him. I know. He's got it perfect. Okay, so it's been 24 hours. So, fun fact, his name's Gary Jones. As a character? No. Or the actor? He's from Wales. Really? So think about that when you hear his voice. He doesn't look like a Welshman. Doesn't sound like one either. Uh-oh.

[26:18] No signal environmental reports no telemetry communications no telemetry and the mount must have been destroyed as soon as it reached the other side there's no other explanation. Shut it down.

[26:36] Until you can provide me with answers to this problem, the rescue mission is scrubbed. Inform our visitors they'll be staying with us until we can make a proper assessment of our situation. Literally what their guy said back on the planet. It's not a good look, Jeff. I hope dudes still on the planet and not in the SGC. It's going to get ugly real fast. you know I know it's not a good look but sometimes not a good look is just a look, you know like it's not there's actually nothing nefarious here it's a bad look I get it but any bad that's there is you're feeding it in yourself, kind of a life thing right there uh huh chew on a little bit water Lara, It is all right One struck Talmar's home Three families were inside You feeling like a jerk right now? Maybe just a little bit? Why did you stay? On the third day, we could take no more. We fled to the stone ring. Oh. Where it used to be, Used to be, He didn't go through the gate.

[28:06] Music.

[28:26] You remember how explosive Naquita is? Uh-huh. They've got it in the soil and the gate's made out of it. Looks like Shady Sands in the Fallout TV show. It's gone. So, Earth doesn't have spaceships. Like, they couldn't just gate to a nearby world and fly or whatever. Like, they don't have a way of getting him unless they can get somebody to help. Well, they know the Tok'ra. They have spaceships. The Asgard has spaceships. Did the Tolan have spaceships? I think so. I don't think so. No, I don't know. Because, yeah, they just had the defense cannons. You're right. They probably don't. The Docks don't have a spaceship. Well, actually, the Docks might. They have the flying city up there. Right. They could also just like whoosh, whoosh to get to him, maybe grab him and whoosh, whoosh their way back. Right. But I think without calling in extra help, Jack's a Doan or whatever now. And who knows where in the galaxy anybody is. Like, they could be in the Delta Quadrant or whatever for all we know. Mm-hmm. All right. So this is – okay, now we're in the episode.

[29:43] I'll never see my people again. They can never come home. Oh yeah, that was them too. Nope. Nope. And you... Say it. Say it! Say it! We all know it. It's gonna go with Kick Rocks.

[30:19] So at least these guys striking didn't cause like full-on nuclear winter. You know. It's pretty shocking, really. Yeah. I mean, it messed a bunch of stuff up, but... Thanks be to the ancestors that we live and have a roof to shield our heads. Thanks be to the ancestors that we have food. It's almost like if they just went into the caves like their ancestors did, things would have worked out okay. Except they'd all be stranded there then, just go punch that guy straight in the face, there you go, You would have gone on a week's vacation then. This is my home. And you are welcome here. Tell him, Lara. You need to eat. This isn't going to be uncomfortable at all.

[31:47] Jack has a stoicism that's going to serve him well where it's like he's upset also he's like this is the situation The meteor hit while the wormhole was active So it's possible that the molten neck would have hardened just above the event horizon Like an iris Yeah, sergeant shut it down okay what do you i i feel like i know what you're questioning here and i can totally answer it for you but what are you questioning here yeah what does that even mean okay like so if so the you've heard them tell people to bury their gate yes okay and the reason why is because when you bury the gate you fill in the the circle the wormhole cannot establish, It can't whoosh. So when they try to dial the gate, the seventh Chevron won't lock. Okay. Okay. And you can't, you can't establish a wormhole period. Right. So what they're saying here is, well, why, if we, if we can't get through, if, if nothing's getting through, if nothing's rematerializing on the other side. Then what's going on? Because they were able to establish a wormhole. They connected. Yeah. They were able to have a connection.

[33:05] So what's going on? And Sam just said, well, the molten Naquita from the asteroid or whatever must have like it was an active wormhole. Right. So it just covered the wormhole and hardened. And so now it's over like an iris. It's like their iris protector thing. Pretty much. Yeah. So if they go through, they're going to smack and turn into... Smack right in that iris. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, which is what happened to the map when they sent it in the second map, when they just sent it. It is bam, bam. Can't do anything about it. So that's where they are. That was our last shot, people. I'm calling this one. As of right now, I'm officially declaring him missing in action. Don't have a right thing to do. That's right. The toker could send a ship. Or the tolen. Let me at least contact... Oh, the Tolan! There you go. See if they're willing to help. Very well, Doctor. Just dial them up. Yeah. 1-800-THE-TOKRA.

[34:13] Honestly, Jeff, you don't know how accurate that statement is right now. It'd have to be duh, TOKRA, because it's too many. Well, we'll talk about that on a future episode. Just file this way back of your memory. I thought you might like a clean work shirt. Here you are back in 1955. Calvin Calvin Klein. It's the name on your underwear. And there are very few of us now. So get to work. Right? We need you in the field. Go. I know you're not feeling pretty great. You're probably tired, sore. Get to work. We need to plant some seeds. We gotta get this thing rolling again.

[35:18] That's good leadership on her part. Uh-huh. Totally. I mean, we certainly get the impression she's the village leader. I think so. I don't know that we've ever really established that, but you kind of get that impression. Um... But you talk about Jack stoicism just a second ago. I'm not going to call her stoic, but I mean, hey, so here's where we are. This is what's going on. We can't dwell on all of this and have a pity party. We got to get back to living here. Yeah. You know, she's somebody who's been through some stuff and understands, you know, that this is life has to go on and life isn't easy. Right. Right. It's also getting a little uncomfortable. like so she she's gonna like he slept in her bathroom basically because she's like i'm just gonna come in here and wash in my leg yeah there's her leg and everything right there and then hey here's a shirt i made it for my husband just before he died and now it's yours.

[36:21] I think i think jack's gonna yeah see what happens you know i mean it's it's a it's a fair point though anytime you move in with somebody you're gonna eventually see them in their underwear yeah it's gonna happen you're that's that's part of living together like you know hopefully it's a time that is appropriate for underwear wormhole physics a field major that you pioneered states that under these conditions ordinary matter won't even reintegrate on the other side there's no way to overcome that? I think there is, sir. And I'm not the one who thought of it. Sokar did. Sokar? Yes, sir. When he tried to breach the iris by bombarding it with a particle beam. Subatomic particles barely small enough to reintegrate produced energy as they decayed. Which caused the iris to heat up. Exactly. Now, if we could do the same thing, we could melt the hardened aquita barrier just above the event horizon and create a pocket of superheated gas. Then what? Well, then all we have to do is open the gate again, sir. The unstable vortex it normally generates would then be allowed to expand into that pocket and create an even larger cavern. One person might be able to go through, sir, and dig it out. I think we can safely assume Tilk would volunteer. We don't have a particle beam generator, sir. We'd have to build one.

[37:49] Then you better get started. Cool. I need one and a half billion dollars. You know, here's the thing. I would love to believe that that our military and i'm going to speak for the american military here i can't speak for the rest of the world but this is marco how we do all of her and a lot of our tv we would go through all of that for one person i would love to believe that that's true right in no way shape or form do i think it actually is i would love to believe that if one of our people is unjustly kept kept in another uh area especially if it's a military person that we're sending delta team six in to go extract them and it's a four-man team and they're going to get in and out unscathed and you know whatever i would love to believe that that's true, i just don't think it is you know we do instead write a movie about it oh yeah yeah and then make you know cash in on the the tragic story of so-and-so yep yep.

[38:59] I didn't miss it. I skipped it. He's not wearing a shirt. That's a good observation.

[39:22] Yeah, it actually kind of is. He didn't know. You can't blame him for that. He's just trying to do what he thought was the right thing to do. Mm-hmm. Are you working through the night again? Yeah. A lot of work to do. Thank you. Look, Sam, there's no doubt you are going to solve this. But you have to accept the fact it's going to take time. Yeah, well, if I think that way, it could take months. Daniel says the Tolan could have a ship in the vicinity of Adora sometime early next year. No. He shouldn't have to wait that long. You miss him? Yeah. There's got to be some survivor's guilt at play there, too. No. No, of course not. Good call on Frazier's part there. Okay. Are you sure? I mean, ever since they had that little thing in Broke a Divide. Right? Bubbly, bubbly, bubbly.

[40:46] Also, it could just be the, we got through and he didn't. And I don't feel good about that. Well, she also said, you miss him. She's like, yeah, I do miss him. Which i mean you know jeff when when you and i go too long between getting together and record i miss you i miss you it's like our whole thing where it's been too long right and then we spend two hours before pressing record it happens folks it happens sometimes we actually record that part on our patreon page do you, If Daniel was right, and he always is, it'll be another 150 years before that happens again. It's a long time.

[41:37] You've been that old before. I wonder in which direction home was. This way. Aww. I'm just grounding you. This is home. I'd like your company, That's not all she'd like I don't even like my company right now You will again Loss is that way, I mourned my husband for a hundred days I never left my house I never spoke to anyone, After that? I left my house, and I spoke to people. There you go. Very matter-of-fact. It's good. Walk with me. When the hurt was strong, I did not do the things. When the hurt lessened, I started doing the things.

[42:43] Music.

[43:11] It still has the sunglasses on, though. Right. You know, those kind of canoes always freak me out. Because they sit so low in the water. Oh, yeah. Just the water, like, spilling in over the sides. Yeah, I cannot get out that gracefully from those things. Uh-oh. Paynon has invited you to evening supper. Why? He doesn't even like me. He's very grateful for all the help you've given him in rebuilding his home. I just hammered a few nails. It's interesting he still has his dog tags on. I was just noticing that. Still, you've worked very hard. Thank you. Anything I can do. Settling in, but still has a foot back home. Yeah. What? No. It's too soon. No, come on. Don't do that. What? You'll know when the time comes. I need a little help here. Hint. Oh, there it is! Does that help?

[44:26] Music.

[44:36] Now, this is an earned relationship. And it's happened in the space of 25 minutes. Three months. Well, but for you and me. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's not hard. It is not hard. This isn't Janeway and Chakotay and resolutions. Or resolutions. Resolutions. Where they're trapped on that planet. Yep. He makes it a bathtub. He's just trying to get off. The particle beam is operating at 112% of predicted efficiency. How long will the beam have to be maintained? Longer the better, sir. The important thing will be to dial again as quickly as possible as soon as it shuts down. We'll play Potts and stuff. Every culture has its shot glasses. What do you think?

[45:25] Music.

[45:27] Absolute rot gun. More, please.

[45:53] What just happened? The ancestors guided him to the one they wish him betrothed. Oh. Oh. He was peaking. What? What? The children! Oh, wow! 10 points if you can guess who he's going to get led to. Right, I wonder. Sneaking or not. Oh, Lyra. It's Panaya. Whatever his name is. Oh, look where the ancestors guided me.

[46:34] It's kind of cool. It seems like the village is accepting of him and the relationship and everything. He's settling back in. Three, two, one. Receiving telemetry. No, wait, wait. We've lost it. There's no signal. What's happened? Transmission interrupted the source. Play back the visual. Whoa, there. See? It's like my colonoscopy. The gate is horizontal as you thought, Major Carter. And the map just slipped back through the event horizon. It means the vortex will have dug partway to the surface. Teal, you'll need to secure yourself above the event horizon as soon as you're on the other side. And you'll have to carry everything you need. I understand. I hope you do, son. Because if you fail to dig your way to the surface, this will be a one-way trip. Knackwood is pretty hard stuff right.

[47:42] Well here we are here just us, i know that ask where the kids it's been a while but uh I expect a massive headache tomorrow. So I should get a head start. Do you remember when I told you there was something you could do for me?

[48:20] I want you to give me a child. Whoa! I forgot about that line. I feel like we skipped a couple steps. I wanted to wait until you had let go of the life you left behind. Until you knew that you belonged with us. Tonight, I see it in your eyes. That is a bittersweet realization. You should know, a part of me is never going to let go of what I left behind. It's not the part i want, it's right here so let's bear in mind this is a family-friendly show here it is this is also a showtime show we're watching right now isn't garen her son, a grown-up garen who's now going to be betrothed or whatever and she wants another kid. That's a pretty big age gap. Yeah.

[49:41] That's a very different culture, different needs. That's a cool shot. I like how they did that. Oh, my God. She is a fine woman Yes, she is Took you long enough to see that I was afraid you were going blind Now, if I've gone blind It's from whatever we were drinking last night, God, drinking like that and then splitting wood the next day There's an easier way to split wood than that.

[50:43] Music.

[51:12] I feel like there's a few other supplies, Tilk deeds in that room. Going somewhere with that stuff? I just thought you might not need these things anymore. Well, hang on. Some of that's pretty good. The jacket is... Does it remind you of home? Toss it. Are you sure? She seems pretty bent on eliminating everything from his earth story kind of thing well i mean she's really smart and knows that as long as he as long as he exists there he cannot exist here.

[51:56] What if you go through a drill bit or two what's your progress steel Four inches, Leave me alone, Daniel This was difficult, Daniel Jackson, The gate will shut down automatically 60 seconds At that point we won't be able to open it again from this side The vortex will vaporize everything within the cavern, You'll have a maximum of four hours of oxygen Once we're cut off If you haven't reached the surface by that time Then you may want to wish me routes or a key, Good luck, Teal. Four hours of oxygen, Jeff. Feels like they could have sent him with a breathing machine and a few tanks of oxygen. A little bit, maybe. Maybe some lights. Maybe some... The power bar. Oh. Battery's still got charged. Five seconds. There you go, at least crack some glow sticks or something man.

[53:13] Curling big where my grandfather's from in northern minnesota throw a big round kind of slab of rock down this slab of ice and sweep. That sounds exactly like what it is. It's a moment of truth right here. When I was taking your things away today, I thought I heard a sound come from this. Perhaps a voice. It's good for her. She could have hid that. By how long? has she hid that? Well, she said earlier today. Dude has four hours. Not that she knows that. Four hours. This is Colonel Jack O'Neill. Come in. Sorry, I can't hear you. O'Neill.

[54:06] Music.

[54:21] It's amazing battery life. He had it turned off most of the time. Also, don't swing too hard. His head's right there. Feels like this is an all-hands-on-deck call the village. Mm-hmm. But we need this. This is... It's uncomfortable. There is nothing here. His friend is down there. Go. She can let him go. She can let him go and still feel awful about it. I'm a stubborn son of a bitch.

[55:05] Music. So when the third map sent back just a few seconds of telemetry we knew the gate was horizontal, is he all right he's still in there he's fine i just don't think he was expecting to go home again, you must be very happy to be going home no i'm not you don't have to, It's true. Come with me. I belong here. I'll come back soon. We still have that treaty to talk about. Back to business. Our two worlds are going to be friends. Closer. Time.

[55:12] I'm a stubborn son of a bitch.

[56:19] Music.

[56:28] Not very clear if I gave her a child or not. There's the search for Spock there, Jeff. Right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the universal sign right there for I got a kid. Although it just happened last night, so it's a little early.

[56:54] All right jeff we have just finished watching this episode a hundred days, you just watched it for the very first time talk to us my friend didn't realize that i watched a hundred days i thought i was watching tng's the inner light boom there it is yeah absolutely, I'll call it the inner light. I'll call it the inner light light. Okay. Fair enough. You know, because like, you know, Picard went, he lived an entire life, right? Kids, grandkids, everything. Accepted it. It went through the same journey Jack did. Yep. Jack, we got his for three months, but still same, same idea. I think a little less of a emotional hit than the inner light, but still a very emotional hit. This, this is. I disagree. I'm sorry. I'm going to disagree. Okay how because when we got to the end of the inner light what you realize is everything he experienced was all of those people were already dead for years maybe centuries millennia.

[58:04] They're all still there. He was living some Picard was living somebody else's life in the inner light. Jack was living his life in a hundred days. It's the difference to me of finishing a really good book and experiencing it for yourself.

[58:29] And the fact that he had to hug her and leave her which we'll talk about that in a few moments but the fact that he had to go through that he his heart was already there in indora.

[58:42] You know and now he's gonna go back and this is still syndicated television so you know yeah probably probably not yeah gonna happen that's like that's actually my last note is will he come back will this be an ongoing relationship and probably not but i think i i will agree that the what makes this emotionally as heavy or heavier than inner light is that, jack consciously made the choice to leave and go back whereas with picard it just ended the simulation ended and sent him back what i think is is different though is yeah he was living someone else's life but it was his life he he went through the same thing of giving up hope that he was going to go back to whatever he accepted his fate went all in like that was him he wasn't just like in the character and watching he was making those decisions and experiencing all of those different things he had to learn how to play the flute and all those so i think i think the life piece i think that, I think that Picard. So my note right before my last note is just Jack going to need some therapy. I think Picard would need more therapy.

[1:00:04] Jackson needs some different things, but not here to compare it. Also, Jack can go back and visit anytime he wants. Exactly. Yeah, that's done. It's it's like, and I think that's why even in the series, Picard, we got the callbacks to him playing the flute was because that's his only connection to all of that like there is a version of this where he and lara do have an ongoing relationship and he does go back and see her it's just long distancy you know and or she moves in with him or back and forth or he retires and goes to her or yeah there's real next steps that could come from this very unlikely given you know given the nature of television especially that time but i will say though don't forget how stargate operates how often have you seen a character come back how often have you seen a character come back multiple times looking at jacob martu you've seen braytac a few times you've seen uh i i'm not thinking of anybody else off the top of my head right now i I mean, gate guy, gate guy's back. Finally, finally.

[1:01:17] So. But I think for watching this for the first time, you know, I went through a lot of thoughts as to what the episode was going to be. Right. So during the watch of the episode, I stopped and thought, oh, this might be a version of the Dragon Riders of Pern. And, you know, just the weird astrological events that happen in Impact Planets. My very first note that I made on here was this has to be the episode with the most techno babble and science in it. Like it was so overloaded and it was totally appropriate. Like it was kind of cool. And it was like, here, this is the work that Sam does. Right. Right. And Daniel too. And Daniel, we see Daniel do his stuff a lot though. It's not as, I don't know. It's just geological, geological stuff or whatever. Sam was like creating stuff from nothing. And I think a lot of credit has to go to Amanda tapping for just rattling that stuff off. Like, I believe that she knew exactly what she was talking about. Right.

[1:02:22] But I think, so there's the whole episode that happens. Lara was great, a great leader, really encouraging person. I had questions around like, you know, is she being weird, you know? Like, is she overly aggressive in cutting him off from his old life? Because we really quickly pivoted away from the science stuff. I mean, that still happened over there, but, you know, the real story happened to me. The real story started when we saw Jack on the canoe and it says three months later, that's when we got into this stuff. And Jack at that point was in the process of making that decision of this is where I live. And I think what's interesting about it is, you know, we, I asked the question at the end, what was the nature of his relationship with Lara? They she said that night i believe it was that that night before the time the way they handled time stuff was a little weird in the episode and difficult to track but she's like i want you to give me a child and then like they kind of you know was jack about the whole thing and not sure if anything actually happened or not we got the sign at the end she's kind of holding down in the womb area. She did the Savick thing at the end of Search for Spock.

[1:03:48] Right or the or the beginning of voyage ah it's all running together for me right now, it was it was uh end of end of search end of search yeah when they were on vulcan yeah the same thing so so i think i think what's neat about the way they did that is it's wide open as to what can happen but i what is the most interesting part of this episode to me though is the second that she shares the the radio and says there was a voice on it because in that moment if daniel's like or daniel if jack is 98 this is me now and then he heard that voice that slapped over that that went down to zero percent that fast just in a heartbeat and he went down he's got you know i'm gonna get tilk i'm gonna do this he was so eager and so excited to reignite that old life and it wasn't until he looked at her and saw her that he had that realization of like oh i had a really good thing that was building here and i have to walk away from that and in that moment you said it a minute ago in that moment when he gives her the hug.

[1:05:04] And brings up the treaty i found that to be a hug goodbye yeah and a readjustment of the relationship to like oh by the way we're going to talk about treaties now and thank you for the memories and i'm out right yeah this was this is a powerful episode really well done really strong, um and good placement in the season as well i think you know we just were coming off ergo which was you know it meant to be a good time it was hilarious it was intended to be that and then it was getting here and then and then you know from what i understand we're going to start picking up yeah we had well we had pretense we had foothold we had uh uh you had the two-parter um that you really liked before that like yeah yeah we're at a good run here yeah very good and i think just the pacing and stuff the the the way the episodes are moving us through you know big big big kind of little and fun okay getting a little more intense uh you know but and you also have like big action and you have this and you have this and then you're gonna almost small it down to something like this yeah like it's it's it's a good pacing i like i like your word there It is. And I think it's, it's really just helping me appreciate season three even more than I, than I have so far.

[1:06:30] We need to update our tracking board with the nothing. Well, before you get there, yeah, yeah, there's nothing. Nothing on our tracking board. This is the section where we talk about Jeff's first-time watch.

[1:06:43] And I really try to abstain from putting my own experiences in there because I've seen this show so many times, and I try to just let that pure first-time watch. Maybe I'll ask some questions, push back, or string you along a little bit. But I would I would like to in this moment, because this is one of the few episodes where I clearly remember Brent's very first watch of this episode. Oh, really? OK. And my feelings coming out of this.

[1:07:09] And I I want to express what I know is my first time watch reaction, which is my same reaction. I have every single time I come out of watching this episode and I'm having it right now without foreknowledge of what comes in the future. You said it in the middle of this episode this relationship is earned this isn't some closing shot we're gonna interlock our fingers and now everybody's gonna freak out this isn't you know chakotay and and seven or wharf indiana which is way worse than chakotay and seven ever was um it's not jack and alt sam right right it's not jack and and broke a divide sam you know who's hopped up on antihistamines or whatever non-antihistamines um it's an earned relationship i i like lair lair is a great foil for jack yes she puts him in his place she lets him know what's up.

[1:08:18] She, uh, also respects him. She clearly admires him. She clearly loves him without supports him, believes supports him. Yeah. Yeah. They, they, you know, um, she wants him to father a child with her. She wants him in her life and she is trying to help push him that way. And this will lead more into my messages here in just a few moments. But when they leave, my response to this every single time is I love this relationship. I want to see her back.

[1:08:56] Perhaps not in every episode. I understand how television works, but I need to see her back as a regular recurring character. I, when this show is done, I need Jack to return to her. That's the end. Yep. You know, but I need to, I need him to not just be gone from her life for the next however many years the show's going to have left. You never be the Jacob that shows up from time to time. Yeah. Have him decide I've got some leave time. Yeah. I'm heading off to see Lara. I'm going to go see Lara. I yeah hey we've got this weekend off cool I'm going over to the seat to Laris you know what a great way like you know because art Robert Ian Anderson is doing other stuff and the other times you know you're you're only gonna have a couple lines in this episode for whatever cool those lines can be hey I'm heading off to see Lara cool you don't even have to you don't have to bring the actor in just just mention the name and keep it alive just tell us he's gone to see Lara yeah he doesn't have to be dial him up on the gate tv computer thing or if you have to if you got to get him in the episode for some reason or another yeah yeah all all of that is is true um like i said i know what happens i know how often they do or don't come back i'm not going to tell you i'm going to let you just hold it in the back of your mind for as long as i always had to.

[1:10:18] That's fair that's fair because i want her back i like her and she's still there, yeah she's still there and still leading stuff into your point that you made in the episode in 25 minutes they developed and earned this relationship in a way that both you and i want more of it yeah that's really great writing, Sci-fi messages, my friend. What do you got? Yeah, so I have two, and I don't know that these were necessarily intended messages of a show, but certainly something we can pick out of the show.

[1:10:56] Mourning. Let's talk about mourning. When you experience a loss, time is needed for mourning. You have to take time. You have to give people time to mourn.

[1:11:08] There's a reason why many cultures, a spouse dies, a father dies, or whatever. They wear black for so many days, weeks, months, or something of that nature. They, um, do something that signifies that they're in mourning. And then there comes a time when they're out of mourning and they got to move on. It is okay to be sad about what you lost, you know, and Lara really pushed Jack to like, get over it and get on. I don't know that Jack would have done it without her pushing him to do so. I agree. You know, I think Jack very well could have lingered in that spot for a very long time, you know, and I mean, gosh, can we just talk about a masterful performance by Richard Dean Anderson for real in this episode? Because you felt every bit of pain in his eyes in how he was holding his shoulders and how he swung an ax or a pickaxe or a shovel like you felt every bit of it you you were inside his head as he's making his decisions to let this go when he's when she's got got his clothes there and he's like hey you should keep that that's like really good stuff and she's like but does it remind you, you could follow his whole train of thought to the point he said, you know what, toss him. You could follow it and you were there with him. You went on that journey, all acting. So phenomenal.

[1:12:35] There's a time that's needed for morning. It's okay to be sad, but here's the thing. You also have to get back to life. You are still alive. You're still here. You still have things that you need to do. That doesn't mean you forget. That doesn't mean you give up hope. That doesn't mean that you never, ever think about that again, which might be where layer layer kind of seemed to really want him to get to. And that's not helpful you know and he told her at some point he laid down he's like look i'm there's always going to be a piece of me that is from there that that has that in the back of my mind that holds out hope and that's fine that's good you know a pet dies there should be i i you know i reckon if if it's a beloved pet especially something to remember the pet by i've shared on this show before many shows my wifi password is my dead dog from two dead dogs ago yeah my last dead dog has a memorial stone out in our garden you know just something just something but you have to get on with the business of life that's a message that um if if you are in mourning please hear me. I'm not saying get over it.

[1:14:00] What I am saying is take your time to mourn, but also get back to the business of life. And getting back to the business of life does not mean, like I said, forgetting or giving up. It just means getting on with the business of life because you got some stuff you got to do here. And frankly, just like that society needed Jack, they needed his skills. They needed what he could bring they needed him they were a small group of people they needed him to get back and be there um the people around you need you people in your life need you things need you i think it's interesting too and was well done by by lara in that she kept bringing up her husband who had passed but not in a way of she wasn't clinging to the person she was honoring the memory, if that makes sense. There's that difference. And I think in your message, I really want, like you just very eloquently put the piece of, it's not about getting over it and moving on. It's really about processing it and feeling it and sitting in it and then understanding there's still life. It's still there. But I think the other piece of it that's really key is take that time to mourn. How many people do you know who experienced a big loss and that's fine. I'm all right. I'm all right. It's okay. You know what? It's not okay.

[1:15:28] It's not. Like, sit in that for a little while or a long while. Sit in it, let it happen.

[1:15:35] And then proceed with your life. You'll be a changed person because of it. Lara was a changed person because of being with and then losing her husband. And she was, you know, I mean, that it's a good thing. It is a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. So that's one sucky thing. That's a good thing. Sure. So that's one thing. I said, I have a second one. Now I will say this is a bit of Brent's own personal life philosophy. This is how I operate. this is my default mode and i'm noting it here because it didn't happen okay and it makes me upset when we get to the end and sg1 finally comes back together they get jack jack's in the garb of the locals we're going by and they're having that whole goodbye conversation and you you really get the field Jeff this is a goodbye this is not a so long this is not a I'll see you this is a goodbye, I hate that there is zero reason why Jack should be saying goodbye right now, he has every reason to look at SG one and say yes I'm coming back to work I work there I live here hmm.

[1:17:00] This is where my family is now but i go to work there turns out it's not that long of a commute to get back to the sgc when you go through the start pretty short pretty short walk yeah i mean even if it's a long walk from the village out to the field where that where the where the stargate is it's not that bad yeah he can go to work you know uh there's zero reason what they didn't do was they didn't find a way to have both it was a one or the other and again i'm not speaking to how much they do or don't come back to this planet or how much layers involved in jack's life going forward but i really detest this idea that this now means that you have to go back realities of television show making jude or jeff is she she's not joining the main cast there's a spoiler alert right. You know, uh, do we ever see again? Well, I'm not going to, I'm not going to dive into that, but you gotta, you gotta be able to find both. You gotta be able to find both. Um.

[1:18:09] Yeah. Figure out how to figure out my, this happens in my life all the time. You know, it's a, Hey, my kid wants to take up playing the sport. Well, that's going to be really hard because we have a time conflict with this other thing over here and my wife who keeps me grounded and keeps me from doing really stupid stuff a lot of times okay uh this is part of how our relationship works right her first response is usually why we can't do something okay whenever i bring something well we can't do that because of this this is the other and i go i no no it's Not we can't, that's just a challenge to overcome. How do we do both? Does it do, do we have a little shuffle? Is she just going to be late from this one thing going into this other? Do we take a pause here? Do we move this temporarily so that we can find room to fit this in? I will tell you, this is also how I often get in trouble and overload my schedule. There's that too, right? You know, but you got to find a way to have both.

[1:19:15] So that being said, we're either one of those two things, Brad. Oh, good. I was going to say, on that, there's a tool that I use and I encourage others to use. And it's one of those, you know, there's a lot of, I don't know, self-improvement stuff. It's, you know, eliminate this word from your language. And there's no such thing as mistakes. There's only opportunities and all those kind of platitudes that are out there. Some of them kind of work is the thing. And this is the one where instead of coming in initially with a no, like your wife might, No, we can't for these reasons. Flip it and just use this phrase.

[1:19:51] Yes, if. Yes, we can do that if we give this thing up, if we're late to this thing, if we get the kid an Uber card and put them on the account and do whatever. You identify what the options are, what the constraints are, and then you're not making a decision as to whether you do the thing or not. You're making a decision as to if you can deal with those barriers. With what it means. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's a much different way. And so then, especially when kids want a thing, you know, they're, Oh, well, that's awesome. You want that thing? Here's what we need to say yes to that. Can we get there? And the kid's like, yeah, I can't do those things. Okay. Then you have your, I'm not telling you, no, you identified the constraints admitted they're bigger than the thing. You made your own choice. Yeah. I think one of my greatest growths as an employee, He, as a person, even I dare say as a leader in so many terms, was coming up with the concept of when a boss, a supervisor taught me this idea, don't bring me problems. Don't bring me problems. I don't ever want to hear a problem come out of your mouth. Bring me a solution.

[1:21:07] If you're going to come to me and tell me that there's something going on, I need you to have already thought of two or three ways that we can fix it and get around it. Don't bring me the problem. Bring me the solution. Hey, boss, X, Y, Z is going on. Here are the three options that we can do to work around it. Pick one. I recommend this one, by the way. Right. It's a pretty great way. Well, I'll tell you in my experience though, that actually discourages people from bringing things forward. Here's this problem, but I can't really think of how to solve it. So I'm going to keep it quiet. So what you do instead is say, bring me problems and a willingness to collaborate towards the solution.

[1:21:48] Maybe I'm just built differently because that has been one of the greatest strengths I've ever found. And I, I encourage everybody to do that. Now, people bring me problems all the time, and I've got to solve it for them. That's a lot of times my job. That's where you flip it. You don't solve it for them. You say, great, let's sit down and collaborate and do this together. Well, and that's, that's the other thing is I try to lead people through the solution themselves. Like I've already figured it out. I know exactly where to go from here. It just, let me see if I can't help you get to where I already am. Use that almighty Socratic method to pull them that direction. Make you feel like you're the one who actually had the idea. So then. And on the journey, be open to, oh gosh, I didn't consider that. That's pretty brilliant. Let's go that way. Anyway. Anyway. So these two things, uh, find a way to do both and take time for morning, but get on with the business of life. Did Bride Bride sit down and say, I want to do a story about these two things? No. Did he look at this as an opportunity to put those in as actual messages? You know, if we put this up against our litmus test, hope for a better future, maybe.

[1:22:56] Get on with a better life. Things can be better in the future. Also, just how to be better human beings to one another. Yeah. How dealing with people. I think it fits in there somewhere. Is it overly intentional? was it super strong i mean i felt it was fairly clear um i'm gonna go let's hear we're going on a scale of seven chevrons jeff i'm going three and a half chevrons right in the middle yep i was thinking four three and a half makes a ton of sense though yeah right in the middle right in the middle so jeff i get to do the rating you my friend however get to do the ranking are 100 percent completely definitive immutable unscrutable ranking of stargate sg1 season three jeff i have no idea where you're going to place this like i have none um our current top five though is joel and our memory and devil you know the duo episode in at number one together number two at forever in a day fair game pretense foothold got ergo all the way down at seven what's wrong with you legacies at eight sheesh jeff where are you gonna place 100 days, You're right about Ergo kind of being where it is. It's a little odd for it to be in that spot.

[1:24:18] So this episode, 100 Days, is going to be the new number seven right above Ergo. Oh.

[1:24:32] Jeff. Again, I didn't dislike Ergo. It's just I liked this one better. Well, but let's go through the test here. Okay? Cause actually I, I'm going to push back on you just a little bit. All right. You get to make the final call here though. Learning curve between learning curve and a hundred days, which learning curve was the episode with the little kids. Yep. Right. That were, that would learn stuff and then they pluck a piece of their brain out and lobotomize them. Yeah. Okay. Talk to me between these two episodes. Why is learning curve above a hundred days for you? It's interesting you picked that one. Cause I was looking at six or seven for a hundred days. And I think for me, I'm sticking with learning curve just because I love the sci-fi concept behind it. Like, it's just a really great idea that I think they executed really well. Now, 100 Days is an enjoyable episode with a really great interpersonal story. It's excellent, and it's really well executed.

[1:25:30] I'm a sci-fi guy. By the way, both of those episodes feature Richard Dean Anderson with gravitas performances. Right yeah we have him as an incredible like i'm awesome with kids and hey i can also be vulnerable and a great partner too and make a kid i think he can do the stuff to do what's right here right now all right all right so you'll go learning curve over a hundred days fair enough jeff i'll tell you something about a hundred days it's not actually an episode i watch a whole lot yeah i can i can see that it's it is an episode i love i adore this episode i i don't watch i I don't watch in her light a ton. It's not going to say that it's, it's not ergo for me. It's not a sit down, feel good. Yeah. I got 45 minutes to spare. Let's throw that episode on. It's just not it. Inner light a hundred days city on the edge of forever. Like these big episodes of things. I see them. I appreciate them for what they are. I don't really watch them that much. I watch them on watch throughs when I'm doing a watch through. That's when I watch them. But outside of that, I tend to pass over them, you know.

[1:26:47] Well, Jeff, that's going to do it for us here for a hundred days. Next time we're watching a fun episode. Well, I think it's a fun episode, but I think every episode of Stargate is a fun episode. Title of this episode, Jeff, shades of gray. I feel like I've been giving you hints lately as to episodes. They've been super helpful. Clearly, I thought Ergo is going to be a water episode. Here's my hint. Somebody that I guarantee you are not suspecting is going to come back in this one oh oh, shades of gray what do you think, I want to see how long I can keep this I can give you like the weirdest most cryptic hint that you'll only understand once you watch the episode so it doesn't actually give you a hint anything yeah what do you got.

[1:27:51] I'm kind of going through all the different little you're going through all the people, could it be could it be where i went initially and maybe this just says a lot about where my head is in life right now it's like shades of gray someone's going to break the law and they're going to like argue about you know is it just like this you know either or or is there are there shades of gray in the interpretation i thought this one was going to be a getting arrested episode also so maybe that's a thing i have on my mind shades of gray i think um, i'm hitting all the obvious ones in my head that wouldn't wouldn't necessarily be the ones that come up it'll be uh this will be a broker divide the the who are the people in broker divide, the the minoan people i mean no yeah yeah yeah those people yeah i forget there's there's with them yeah yeah that's gonna be our that's gonna be our person's coming back and uh i don't know that's that's my prediction some sort of shade of gray, with him some sort of shade of gray.

[1:28:58] Well jeff you are a good guesser my friend and we'll find out just how good of a guesser you are next time right here on Stargate SG-1 for the first time. Thank you guys out there so much for joining us. You're amazing. You're awesome. We love this. We love when you guys join us. Please be sure to comment down below or send us in an email. You can do that at our website. Find that contact form. I'm sure that's out there somewhere, Jeff.

[1:29:25] Eventually yeah whatever anyway uh and also don't forget wherever you are consuming this please subscribe to the show if you're on youtube hit that like button hit subscribe if you're on a podcasting app somewhere out there make sure you hit that subscribe button and while you're there the best thing you can do is well the second best thing i should say you can do is leave us a rating and review that helps other people who are looking for shows about stargate know that hey this is a pretty good one and attracts more people so that would be very much appreciated ratings and reviews are super important also um the best thing you can do is actually just share the show with a friend or a family member or a complete stranger it doesn't matter as long as it's somebody that you know who loves sg1 or somebody who like jeff over there needs to get into the gate for the first time so for that that's jeff i'm brent we're gonna get out of here thank you guys so much we will see you next time right here hey brent yeah jeff what's up i just been thinking a little bit That's how I end a lot of these episodes is me thinking. You're doing the call to action, doing a great job, and I sit here thinking about it. And it occurs to me that, again, we had to make a choice. He had to make a choice a little while ago. Last week, actually. I have another choice for you to make. Okay. Are you ready to walk away from Babylon 5 and all of our work we've done there and commit yourself fully now to SG1?

[1:30:49] Why? Why would I need to do that? You know, honestly, your Chevron talk hit me really hard. And I got to tell you, you wouldn't have to do that because we can do both. Indeed.

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