Politics

Plot: Senator Kinsey arrives at the SGC with the intention of shutting the Stargate Program down. Before making his final decision, he hears testimony from SG-1, involving them explaining details of previous missions.


Ah, the clip show. It's like committing televisual heresy. This one was really by the numbers. An arbitrary frame for showing several clips to sum up the season ahead of the finale. In all honesty, this wasn't the worst I've seen. In the frame, Senator Kinsey arrives to shut down the SGC. Apparently they can't justify spending 7.4 billion dollars a year on exploring the galaxy and expanding Earth's horizons to untold levels.

There's some fine retort from SG-1. In particular, Teal'c put in a strong argument to try and convince Kinsey. It was interesting because Teal'c has tended to take a back seat to Earth matters.

Notably, this episode carryies on almost immediately from the end of the last episode, in which Daniel arrives from the alternate time line with portents of a Goa'uld invasion. In this, it really forms the 2nd part of a 4 episode series that runs until the season 2 premiere. We've not really seen episodes link together in this way yet and it works quite well.

The clips included episodes such as the pilot, Children of the Gods, The Nox, Singularity, The Enemy Within and Brief Candle. It also included a clip from the film, in which the Goa'uld mother ship lands on the pyramid on Abydos. That's the first and last time that we'll see such a reference to the film.

All told, it wasn't the most terrible of clip shows and the writers did a good job of really making Kinsey look like a complete ass in the end. I've got one episode of season one to go. :)

6 out of 10