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Gatecast 335 SGU Cloverdale

Nov 122016

Cloverdale

Cloverdale the home town of Scott and Chloe (also the location of many a Canadian tv series such as Smallville) plays host to their wedding after Scott on leave from the military returns home. Eli is the designated camera man for the wedding and all the preparations and Greer is the best man, oh lets not forget that Everett is Scott’s father not just the normal father figure. A lot is going on in the opening scenes of the episode but things come to an abrupt focus when we see the crew of the Destiny on an alien world battling some sort of native life form and Scott in critical condition. The episode then proceeds to tell the story of the events on the alien world as Scott lives an alternate life in Cloverdale surrounded by his friends and family played by crew of the Destiny. We see these people showing traits that is not the norm or others with attitudes highlighted, it may be that Scott is interacting with the people with character traits he believes them to have which may explain Volker being a little more fluffy than usual, Brody the source of things booze and in an interesting choice Vanessa as the love lorn ex who would still swallow her pride and offer herself body and soul on the eve of Scott’s wedding.

Cloverdale works in many ways, some of the location work is excellent especially the simple colour timing tweaks which turned a normal piece of woodland into a very alien world. Of course the Cloverdale location shooting was spot on and some of the in jokes worked very well including a very well crafted stunt which Brian was allowed to at least partially perform, check out the DVD extras for a full behind the scenes look. The standout character of the episode was perhaps Greer who was the life and soul of the wedding party and the true warrior as he fought off the alien planets aka Triffids. Rush was a close second thanks to a stellar performance as the registrar and both Brian and Elyse delivered solid performances.

The episode viewer ratings wise is pretty average and I wouldn’t disagree but there are some good scenes and performances and serves a purpose as a standalone episode allowing for a breather for this seasons main story arc. Our thanks to Steve (once again) for joining us for the podcast and to Brad for the feedback, apologises for the shorter show which was the result of the second episode with corrupted audio recordings. Next week should be back to normal as the flaw in the recording software has been worked around, touch wood. This weeks podcast promo is for the Babylon Project Podcast which discusses an episode per show of the great Babylon 5 scifi series, next week we will be taking a look at Trial And Error with out guest Thomas, we hope you join us for that and let us know what you think of it and all things Stargate.

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Episode 169 SG1 Sacrifices

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Mar 092013

Upon returning to the SGC our Jaffa seems upset and we learn that his son is engaged to one of the female warriors who are rebelling against the system lord Moloc, this seems to be upsetting news as he sees it as a betrayal of the oath the boy took to fight for the freedom of all Jaffa. The situation becomes more complicated when Ishta and her people are forced to move to the SGC as their worlds location is leaked to Moloc and then their secret meeting is ambushed and both Ishta and Teal’c are hunted by the Jaffa.

Sacrifices is written by Christopher Judge and sees the return of Jolene Blalock as Ishta the strong leader of the female warriors who are making a successful stand against Moloc, events are conspiring to force their hand which goes against Teal’c’s belief that there is little to be gained by attempting to over throw Moloc while there are ready made Goa’uld replacements who will simply take over. It gets more complicated when Rya’k falls in love with one of her people and they are engaged, Teal’c sees his son as turning his back on the large fight and by extension disrespects both Ishta and the young woman Kar’yn much to Bra’tac’s annoyance which gets spread around with the exception of Jack who seems to be handling the horses, children and leather clad young women rather well, we even get a Kirk shoulder grab of Sam which was held way too long for comfort if you ask me.

Well if you must.

We finally get to meet Moloc played by Royston Innes who is the stereotypical system lord maybe even more so since the idea of slaughtering so many females seems counter productive when the size of the Jaffa army can be the deciding factor in a battle and limiting the number of women will impact that figure long term. It’s also tricky in that we can fully understand why Ishta is so eager to bring Moloc down as she is focussing on the immediate deaths and why Teal’s does not see the benefit long term but it’s unlikely any Gou’ald replacement would carry on the sacrificing of young girls especially with the ongoing struggle for dominance on the galactic scale.

Sinister!

We got some feedback via Facebook this week and there are a few birthdays and a bit of news in the podcast and the promo is from Colin and his Trek News & Views, I can highly recommend the show.
Next week we are covering the Stargate Atlantis episode “Home” as Weir and her people have the opportunity to return home thanks to an alien energy source, hope you can join us and please feel free to drop us a line, review, feedback via this site, Facebook, G+, itunes, stitcher and of course email.

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