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| Arcady |
 Dec 1st 2002, 6:14 PM
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Base Commander  Group: Admin Posts: 4,952 Joined: November 26th 2002 From: Dallas, Texas USA Member No.: 1 Gender: Male  |
Season 5, Episode 17 - Fail Safe
Original Air Date: April 5, 2002 Earth finds itself threatened by something even larger than the Gou'ald, when the team learns that an asteroid is on a collision course with the planet. With no luck getting help from the Tok'ra or Asgard, the team must put together a plan to solve the problem on their own. (Note: This episode aired before Summit in the UK.) |
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| ussshorty |
Jan 2nd 2003, 2:53 PM
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Major General Group: Members Posts: 2,830 Joined: January 1st 2003 From: planet wales. Member No.: 215 Gender: Female |
ok i admit this was a real enjoyable episode i liked the referance jack kept on making was it "ive seen this movie its gonna hit france"
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| Alexz |
Jan 9th 2003, 7:38 PM
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Airman Basic  Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: January 9th 2003 From: Michigan, USA Member No.: 292 |
This was my second favorite episode. I loved it. I like Jack's comments. I also like the little problem with the all yellow wires. Oh and the end where the Tok'ra come and ask if they need assistance and Jack says they have it all under control, love the looks his teammates give him. Great!
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| ussshorty |
Jan 12th 2003, 7:39 AM
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Major General Group: Members Posts: 2,830 Joined: January 1st 2003 From: planet wales. Member No.: 215 Gender: Female |
yup i agree |
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| Death_to_Anubis |
Jan 18th 2003, 12:00 AM
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Airman Basic Group: Members Posts: 33 Joined: January 16th 2003 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 361 |
Is it just me or isn't there a serious question about what happens to the asteroid after they hyderdrive it through the earth? After all you've got a high quantity of the a mineral the earth deseperately wants in the asteroid. Then another question why didn't the Asgard at least check the asteroid out? If they had've they could've intervened cause it was a deliberate Goa'uld attack on a Protected Planet.
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| ussshorty |
Jan 18th 2003, 4:02 AM
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Major General Group: Members Posts: 2,830 Joined: January 1st 2003 From: planet wales. Member No.: 215 Gender: Female |
i will always love this episode cause its got comedy and sci-fi my 2 fave tv elements.
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| Zee905 |
Feb 17th 2003, 5:11 AM
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Civilian  Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: February 17th 2003 Member No.: 705 |
Can some one enlighten me on something? I only watch the series off and on, what do they mean when they say "Alpha Point?" Is this some off-world SGC command center I don't know about? A friendly world? What?
Totally lost, ~Zee 905 |
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| ussshorty |
Feb 17th 2003, 5:21 AM
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Major General Group: Members Posts: 2,830 Joined: January 1st 2003 From: planet wales. Member No.: 215 Gender: Female |
well theres 4 quadrants right alpha ,delta ,beta and gamma so they could be saying that its in the alpha quadrent.
just a possibility but i wreckon its a pretty good theory. |
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| chiroho |
Feb 19th 2003, 9:04 AM
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Second Lieutenant  Group: Members Posts: 603 Joined: February 1st 2003 Member No.: 535 |
I think because nobody expected that the Goa'uld would try and sidestep the protected planets treaty in this manner. Asteroids are pretty common things in any galaxy, and the fact that one happens to be headed for your planet is an unhappy coincidence. I'm sure that once SG1 got back to earth they communicated the true nature of the asteroid to the Asgard, but without the "smoking gun", who would they actually blame it on? And as to what happened afterwards, the SGC didn't actually have any spaceships capable of travelling to the asteroid and starting mining operations. Also, the trajectory that it was on would likely take it out of the solar system, which means longer and longer trips with the minerals. Much easier to stargate to a planet like Edora from A Hundred Days which is rich in naquadah, and you don't need a space suit to mine it! |
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| quiquito |
Feb 27th 2003, 4:51 PM
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I kill Mass-debators  Group: Donating Members Posts: 1,386 Joined: November 27th 2002 From: Southampton Member No.: 7 Gender: Male |
it was too tidy to be a real astroid, it was too neatly shaped, i emediatly suspected the goaul'd, it was too obvious. and the coinsidence that the tok'ra are only capable of comeing to the rescue after the threat is neutrolised!
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| chiroho |
Feb 28th 2003, 11:48 AM
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Second Lieutenant Group: Members Posts: 603 Joined: February 1st 2003 Member No.: 535 |
Yes, it also seemed a little on the big side for something that just happened to be floating by.
And as for the Tok'ra, while there are definitely times where they've been a little slow helping us out, to say the least, there are also times when their assistance has been timely. More so Jacob Carter than any other Tok'ra, but you can't always write them off as being unable to assist. |
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| quiquito |
Mar 2nd 2003, 8:24 AM
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I kill Mass-debators Group: Donating Members Posts: 1,386 Joined: November 27th 2002 From: Southampton Member No.: 7 Gender: Male |
yes i must admit they do help us sometimes, but aren't they all dead. you know when the base got crushed! i think the only ones that have survived are jacob and alll the spys!
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| chiroho |
Mar 3rd 2003, 10:17 AM
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Second Lieutenant Group: Members Posts: 603 Joined: February 1st 2003 Member No.: 535 |
They can't be all dead as they seem to work in cell groups - much like any guerilla organisation. They're bound to have had more than one base of operations otherwise they would have been wiped out centuries ago.
This is backed by by the season 6 episode Allegiance where Jacob brings the survivors of an attack on another Tok'ra base to the alpha site. And there's another point to back this up, although it's officially a spoiler. In The Changling we learn that the Tok'ra have been working on refining Tretonin, first seen earlier in season 6 in Cure, so that they can use it specifically to help a Jaffa live without a symbiote. To do this they MUST have had access to a base of some description - certainly something with research facilities. So it backs up the point that they can't have been wiped out. |
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| Raxor |
Mar 3rd 2003, 2:44 PM
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... Group: Moderators Posts: 4,361 Joined: December 26th 2002 From: England, Uk Member No.: 174 Gender: Male |
because in summit and last stand, there were no tokra survivors as i know of,
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| Nemonack |
Mar 3rd 2003, 3:27 PM
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Chief Master Sergeant  Group: Members Posts: 404 Joined: February 27th 2003 From: United Kingdom Member No.: 892 Gender: Male |
Jacoub/Selmeck (sp?) said there were operatives offworld.
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| quiquito |
Mar 5th 2003, 9:23 AM
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I kill Mass-debators Group: Donating Members Posts: 1,386 Joined: November 27th 2002 From: Southampton Member No.: 7 Gender: Male |
yeah sorry my fault but we should stick to this episode!
 has anyone else realised that we only get asteroids heading for earth in movies! and not in real life so even though it's a possibility, it's soo obvious that it was planted there and was no accident! |
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| mithwriter |
Mar 11th 2003, 6:44 PM
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Major General Group: Members Posts: 2,438 Joined: February 26th 2003 Member No.: 885 Gender: Female |
"Carter...I can see my HOUSE!"
One of the all time best moments I have ever seen on any tv show...the look on his face when he said that line was absolutely priceless.... Also liked, but not quite as much "I just wanna say right now that I think this is a very poorly designed bomb, and I think we should say something to someone when we get back." |
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| quiquito |
Mar 12th 2003, 10:16 AM
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I kill Mass-debators Group: Donating Members Posts: 1,386 Joined: November 27th 2002 From: Southampton Member No.: 7 Gender: Male |
yes i must say this is one of the eps to put in the "contains good quotes" category, no? the house one has to be the best though
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| Anubus |
Mar 19th 2003, 4:27 AM
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Major  Group: Members Posts: 1,217 Joined: December 5th 2002 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 65 |
Yea the guy has a talent for delivering one liners it cracked me up also |
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| Anubus |
Mar 19th 2003, 4:29 AM
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Major Group: Members Posts: 1,217 Joined: December 5th 2002 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 65 |
Not! a few years ago one passed within 200,000k's of us |
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| Hathor the Queen |
May 4th 2003, 12:48 PM
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Master Sergeant  Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: April 26th 2003 From: Lincoln, England. Member No.: 1,454 Gender: Female |
asteroids are coming at us all the time, they just don't hit us also they are hitting us all the time they're just not big enough to do alot of damage, they burn up.
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| SG1nut |
May 4th 2003, 4:17 PM
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Second Lieutenant Group: Members Posts: 582 Joined: February 19th 2003 From: London, England Member No.: 754 Gender: Female |
Watching it again today on channel 4 in the UK, I realised what a "Macgyver" moment there was where he had to "flukily" cut 4 of the 5 yellow wires...
Loved the, "Carter! I can see my house!" moment too... This post has been edited by SG1nut: May 4th 2003, 4:18 PM |
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| quiquito |
May 5th 2003, 1:18 PM
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I kill Mass-debators Group: Donating Members Posts: 1,386 Joined: November 27th 2002 From: Southampton Member No.: 7 Gender: Male |
yeah i agree.. i mean it's always the last wire! i mean come-on!! why do they never have them cutting the wrong wire and having the bomb blow-up in their face!! it would be soo cool! |
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| Aceuss |
May 7th 2003, 11:26 AM
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Staff Sergeant  Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: March 25th 2003 Member No.: 1,198 Gender: Male |
What is wrong with the writers on this one?!!!
 What was all that crap with the wires about? Gosh, we must live in one hell of a lucky alternate reality, don't we? If you attempt to count the times that we were saved by pure chance you'll realize they're numerous! This addition was so uncalled for. I have another major concern though and I hope that someone can asnwer me. Were all humans on earth sleeping? Didn't anybody even notice that a huge gigantic big massive great ass astroid came so close to earth and then disappeared and reappeared on the other side? What kind of cover can anyone come up for that?  |
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