Silvana, Eric and Tegan watch the 2003 Film "Timeline." The hosts described this movie as jurassic park for archeologists instead of paleontologists. Eric Bana was dreamy as always in this intellectual movie made by non-intellectual people. The battle scene in this movie also really stood out. Silvana and Tegan educate on the problematic history of the depiction of consent in Hollywood. Overall, the hosts all enjoyed this movie and would definitely recommend it.

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Movie ratings:

Comedic Effect - 2/7 Chevrons

Emotional Impact - 5/7 Chevrons

Enjoyability - 5/7 Chevrons

Culture/history/lore - 7/7 Chevrons

Novelty - 4/7 Chevrons

Technical Quality - 7/7 Chevrons

Plot - 6/7 Chevrons

Silvana, Eric and Tegan watch Stargate SG-1 Season 6 Episode 17 "Disclosure," a truly uninventive recap episode. However, a good jumping off point to talk about the culture and media of the early 2000s.

In this episode, The SGC invites leaders from various nations to disclose to them the Stargate Program. Senator Kinsey is there to try to convince them that the NID would be a better organization to oversee the program. Thor swoops in at the last minute to have a sassy one liner and to convince everyone that keeping control with the SGC is the right call afterall. No need to confront any of the problems with the U.S. military overseeing such a program!

The hosts talk about ancient YouTube videos and you can find those linked below:

Episode ratings:

Comedic Effect - 2/7 chevrons

Emotional Impact - 1/7 chevrons

Enjoyability - 1/7 chevrons

Culture/history/lore - 2/7 chevrons

Novelty - 1/7 chevrons

Technical Quality - 2/7 chevrons

Plot - 1/7 chevrons

Relevance to the overall story? Yes relevant, but skip - "FUCK THIS EPISODE!"

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Silvana and Tegan watch Stargate SG-1 Season 6 Episode 16 "Metamorphosis," which should switch it's name with the episode "Bane."

Nirrti is up to her shenanigans again but is now changing people's genomes to try to make a Hok'tar. She has convinced a group of people that she is their god and can heal them and give them special powers.

This episode highlights once again that Jack hates Russians, he hasn't learned anything after "The Tomb," episode and we really need Crystal Jack back to deal with these issues. This episode reminds of the Hell episodes where we are going back and forth from a jail cell and being interrogated and tortured outside the jail. Another Russian Colonel dies reinforcing the redemption by death trope.

Jonas catches the attention of Nirrti because his DNA is special in some way we aren't quite aware of yet. Unfortunately for her, this episode marks the demise of Nirrti, so she'll never get to get with Jonas or give him extra special abilities. That's the 9th Goa'uld they've killed so when they kill their 10th they get a free sub!

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Episode Ratings:

Ratings

Comedic Effect - 1/7 Chevrons

Emotional Impact - 2/7 Chevrons

Enjoyability - 1/7 Chevrons

Culture/history/lore - 2/7 Chevrons

Novelty - 1/7 Chevrons

Technical Quality - 2/7 Chevrons

Plot - 1/7 Chevrons

Relevance to the overall story? Yes relevant, but do skip it

Silvana, Eric and Tegan watch Stargate SG-1 Season 6 Episode 15 "Paradise Lost." The bromance between Jack and Colonel Maybourne is back with a vengeance. The queerbaiting is off the charts from the very beginning with the hot dog jokes. Maybourne springs his new plan to avoid being imprisoned and convinces the SGC to authorize a mission to a planet that he claims has a cache of goa'uld weapons. As expected, SG-1 is double crossed but Jack accidentally goes through a portal with Maybourne with no way to get back to the Stargate.

Sam, Jonas and Teal'c are back on earth trying to find Jack with the not very helpful assistance of Dr. Bill Lee. There is a touching moment between Sam and Teal'c which acknowledges the loss of Daniel.

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Episode ratings:

Comedic Effect - 7/7 chevrons

Emotional Impact - 6/7 chevrons

Enjoyability - 6/7 chevrons

Culture/history/lore - 3/7 chevrons

Novelty - 2/7 chevrons

Technical Quality - 5/7 chevrons

Plot -5/7 chevrons

Relevance to the overall story? Yes relevant, do not skip

Silvana, Eric and Tegan watch Stargate SG-1 Season 6 Episode 14 "Smoke and Mirrors." In this episode, Jack is framed for Senator Kinsey's attempted assassination using technology from a prior episode "Foothold." Agent Barrett wants to fix the NID from the inside and Sam and him clash on their views of trust in their employers. There is an explosion and Teal'c is being the muscle again.

Episode Ratings:

Comedic Effect - 4/7 chevrons

Emotional Impact - 2/7 chevrons

Enjoyability - 4/7 chevrons

Culture/history/lore - 4/7 chevrons

Novelty - 3/7 chevrons

Technical Quality - 2/7 chevrons

Plot - 5/7 chevrons

Relevance to the overall story? Yes relevant, don't skip

Silvana, Eric and Tegan watch Stargate SG-1 Season 6 Episode 13 "Sight Unseen," could these "creatures" be the legendary Furlings? This is an earth-based episode where everyone who has come in contact with an Ancient device (or touched a person who has) can see huge "bugs" everywhere. A Veteran's grandma really steals the show in this one. Silvana introduces Eric and Tegan to "Flatland" which a strong recommendation for any math nerd.

Episode Ratings:

Comedic Effect - 4/7 Chevrons

Emotional Impact - 1/7 Chevrons

Enjoyability - 2/7 Chevrons

Culture/history/lore - 2/7 Chevrons

Novelty - 1/7 Chevrons

Technical Quality - 4/7 Chevrons

Plot - 2/7 Chevrons

Relevance to the overall story? No, skip unless you just really want some Jonas or Sam time.

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Eric and Tegan are flying solo this week and watched Stargate SG-1 Season 6 Episode 12 "Unnatural Selection." Jonas has another first and meets replicators for the first time. Spoiler alert, there are humanoid replicators now?!

The team has been tasked with helping the Asgard doctor a plot (sadly Silvana wasn't there to help them) to freeze the replicators in time until they came up with a more permanent solution. The time dilation stuff gets confusing really fast and Eric and Tegan discuss time travel in Sci-Fi.

Overall this episode was a cool concept, but didn't really feel like a follow up to "Prometheus."

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Episode Ratings:

Comedic Effect - 5/7 Chevrons

Emotional Impact - 4/7 Chevrons

Enjoyability - 3/7 Chevrons

Culture/history/lore - 2/7 Chevrons

Novelty - 3/7 Chevrons

Technical Quality - 2/7 Chevrons

Plot - 1/7 Chevrons

Relevance to the overall story? Yes it is relevant, don't skip

Silvana, Eric and Tegan watch Stargate SG-1 Season 6 Episode 11 "Prometheus." There's been a leak about the Stargate program, AGAIN! And it's revealed that the Air Force has been cooking up something big underground in the desert - the X303, also known as Prometheus.

Will giving a tour of the Prometheus get the press off their case? Jonas meets as Asgard for the first time if that's any indication!

You may recognize some of the guest stars in this episode from other famous Canadian Sci-Fi shows!

Episode Ratings:

Comedic Effect - 3/7 Chevrons

Emotional Impact - 3/7 Chevrons

Enjoyability - 6/7 Chevrons

Culture/history/lore - 4/7 Chevrons

Novelty - 5/7 Chevrons

Technical Quality - 6/7 Chevrons

Plot - 5/7 Chevrons

Relevant to the overall story? Yes relevant, watch it

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