damn i never realised how good of an actor MS really is , he was great all those different characters he played , he had to change the personality of the character he was in an instant & he did it well , it got quite emotional @ some bits , i felt sorry 4 the guys who had 2 be 'lifeboats' , yes this ep really made you think hard about alot of things.

Snore. No action. Shanks did a great job acting. Multiple personalities are hard to pull off. But he made it convincing.
TR is looking old. I use to think she was the youngest member on the cast. Now it looks as if she and Jack are jockeying for the Old Person award. Who ever did the makeup for this ep really messed up. And her Hair!! Whats up with that?

unrelated - I was watching Bird On A Wire on sunday morning. Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn. There was a cop that wasn't on camera for very long but it was deffinetly Christopher Judge. I was like " Hey, Check out Teal'c in that cop uniform" my wife was laughing.

Happy week everybody

Devil's Advocate or just my opinion : was this episode the kind of thing that got MS to come back to the show? more air time, more acting, more use of his Wonderful Talent? ... at the expense of the action of the whole, at the expense of the rest of the cast? ....

I enjoy the character of Daniel etc. etc., the show story itself was ok, I lean a little to those who yawned about this episode.

But more so, I think this was about MS and not the character or the team or the fun and action of the show, etc, etc, etc.. This was the MS episode.

Hope Amanda and Richard and Terry and ...what's Tealcs name? (and how does one spell Tealc?) ... get their share of episodes to glow in...

Caio!

I think this was a very good episode for MS and TR. The acting was excellent! And the way Daniel kept switching personalities was priceless! I think this was an excellent episode!

I know this is off the subject but i actually drove by the REAl Cheyenne Moutain yesterday, and it has all kinds of towers and radars on top of it. We weren't allowed to drive by the entrance though. I aslo found out that they supposedly do Deep Space Radar Telemetry there. Key Word: Supposedly

Oh, by the way solar, it's spelled: Teal'c

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I thought m.s. came back to get more screen time.(lol he couldn't find a real job to make child suport payments) but i think the producers are going to let each actor direct episodes again, yes i know r.d.a. is a producer.

i'm so hoping there is action in the next episode, like the sneek preview showed....!!!!

This episode proves my theory, Shanks only came back to stargate because they promised him more acting (Dramatic scenes) and the only other shows that would hire him where crapy SciFi's, have you seen the other crap hes done ( Twilight Zone & The Outer Limit )[they are ok shows just not the eps he was in]

My usual summary on the latest episodes. This should be shorter than usual, mainly because of the reasons I am going to mention.

I didn't like the episode. Okay, it wasn't a bad episode, it wasn't even a boring episode, it was just that to Stargate SG1 standard it seemed a little bland. Nothing much seemed to happen - actionwise, storywise, science fiction wise, there wasn't anything to hold to. It ended to quickly before you got completely drawn in.

The one major thing that stood out (and Im sure lots of people here will have notice) in this episode, is that it seemed to showcase on Shank's acting. Unfortunately for him, the episode is pretty poor making it seemed like it was made just for him.

The talking about souls in one body was interesting enough but it didn't go deep enough, just touched the surface and that was it. The resolution to the episode is just as simple - Earth offering their people another way that the guy accepted readily.

The ending is sad though. Overall, a very very light episode, another 'filler' episode that doesn't really contribute to the main storyline. Nothing really happened, nothing really changed - even if you didnt see this episode, you would have missed nothing. (Unless your a Shank fan then you would have missed his acting).

A shame really - I never really have anything negative to say usually. Just one guys opinion.

Edit: BTW, I forgot to mention that I liked the fact that Jack opted to stay with Daniel. It was one of those rare moments that Jack showed he cares.

This post has been edited by Chrominium: Jul 22nd 2003, 5:50 PM

A good non-action episode. The problem is that if ever episode was filled with action, it would get boring, not to mention expensive. I agree with the majority that MS can act. His portrayal of the young kid was impressive. As soon as the episode revealed that the one awake person was the kids father I knew what sacrifice was going to happen. Quite touching and sad.

One thing, maybe just me, but this story reminded me of an episode of The Next Generation where Data has personalities downloaded into him from a probe and goes through similar mood swings. Right now I cannot remember the name of the episode, but it ended with a cool temple set and the fact that the various personalities in Data were describing how the sun and the moon are related and chase each other.

I actually really liked this episode. But I agree with what everyone's saying about Michael Shanks & his acting. I had a huge crush on him when I first started watching SG-1, but the more I watched & the more I found about about him...the more the crush deflated. Oh well. Too bad RDA is old enough to be my father!

Also, was anyone else disturbed by the idea of being DEAD while you're consciousness is still alive & aware???

Yah... Jacky O is turning into a puss. he's not the cold hearted bitch that he was..




quote from Chrominium "Edit: BTW, I forgot to mention that I liked the fact that Jack opted to stay with Daniel. It was one of those rare moments that Jack showed he cares. "

I really enjoyed this episode. I thought that it was impressive how Daniel's personality changed his whole desposition. He had a diffrent posture for each character and everytning. Its weird. I watched a movie on PAX the night this episode first aired caled All Around Town. It was about a young woman with multiple personalities and Micheall Shanks played her phyciatrist. It was pretty ironic.

I really didn't like this ep. It was very boring. Everything was so predictable.
And I must add: The acting performance of MS was disappointing. OK, not too bad for an actor who plays in a scifi series. But look at his face. He is so limited in his expressions.
His acting skills are sufficient for tv shows like this, but are far far not good enough for a major movie or even for a good stage performance

Good acting but OMG the episode was boring.

PS: Can they PLEASE, PLEASE Stop Jack from becoming a Wuss with the constant Sarah loving eps. Not talking about Season 7 in particular but in general. I really don't want any kind of romance within the team.

QUOTE (ZxExN @ Jul 25 2003, 06:02 PM)

PS: Can they PLEASE, PLEASE Stop Jack from becoming a Wuss with the constant Sarah loving eps.

Jack? Stop Jack from becoming a wuss with the Sarah ordeal..

I sure hope you meant Daniel, because if Jack's getting weak in the knees over Sarah.. then.. there'll be some competition goin' on!

Anyway. I liked this episode.. Not the best so far this season, but it's getting better. True, MS gave a great performance (I was, well.. in tears when the little boy kept coming out, all scared) and the episode was a wee bit different from the others, despite some people thinking it's a lot like Legacy for..some odd reason with the mutiple personality thing.. But really, I give it two thumbs up.

I just wish there was more humor in this episode, even tho' it was a somber'ish ep..

Hate Janet's hair this season.. The highlights make her look like one of those "older women trying to be hip".. *sigh* She did an excellent job, as well... **SPOILER** (highlight to read) It's going to be a real shame once they kill her off in Heros..

I don't like the Doctor at all.. they should use a prettier actress.

Really great acting, kinda boring though. NOthing really happened, just a buncha talking. I think it was one of those episodes where you can watch it once and say it was good, but if you watch it again it becomes insanely boring. But thats only my opinion.

Well that was by far the worst ep in seven years. It was soooooo boring and Shank's over acting was laughable.

You seem to be in the minority on that one.

wahhhhhhhhh was RDA using a sig?????????????

Looks like the next time we see the team together, it will be in a confrontation with key Goa'uld players with Fragile Balance being the only exception. The theories behind why we are seeing more of one character one week and less of another lies in the focus of in depth character development. A couple of years back Michael Shanks wanted to see more of Daniel being developed, when things didn't go the way he liked it, he left. I'm sure there is more to it than that but it's pretty much the just of the situation.

Working in RDA's desire to spend more time with family, the increased behind the scenes contributions of Chris Judge, Michael Shanks and Amanda Tapping, this is the way things will be for the rest of season 7 and season 8. More episodes devoted to character development and not nearly as much of the full team interaction that we are use to seeing in seasons 1-6. This could also be the proper setting for the eventual transition of focus from the SG-1 series to Atantis.

Well, I liked this ep. Didn't love it but didn't hate it.

I liked the idea for it (multiple personalities in one body. I love things like that) I just don't think it was a particularly great way of doing it.

I seem to recall Voyager doing an episode like this. Seven played host to a whole bunch of personalities. She acted it really well (despite the fact that usually her acting irritates me) and I think the guys on Voyager did a better job with this idea than the good ol' folks at Stargate.

I think you only really saw about 3 personalities in Daniel. Considering that was the main focus of the show, it was kind of a let down that it wasn't explored more or developed. The pace of the show was a little off and I think the story could have done with tweaking. Add something a little more interesting rather than panning it out with, well, needless flashbacks.

I can't quite put my finger on what was missing in this ep, but something was. Shame.

Still, I like it anyway.

I once saw a foreign language movie that had no subtitles. It forced me to pay attention to facial expressions and body language to undertsand the story. What's this have to do with Lifeboat you might ask? Well, after reading all the praise for MS here I thought I may have been a bit off the mark with my earlier post. So I watched this ep again with no volume (which as a side note got rid of those laughable accents) and paid closer attention to his performance. Contrary to popular opinion he really was waaaaaay over the top on this one. He was like the star of a local amateur theater production emoting for the people in the back row. Everything was exaggerated from his posturing to his facial contortions. There was no subtlety in his performance whatsoever. With the child, the engineer and the sovereign he didn't create three characters so much as three caricatures. He's great as Daniel and previously did the sarc addict and insane bit really well. But for mulitple personalities he should have taken his cue from the actor who played Pharrin. A much better performance from that quarter.

So ends my rant.

I thought he was good in this episode, but I agree in places it did seem over the top. Playing multiple personalities has got to be hard though... he had to make sure that the audience could immediately see that he'd changed to the other personality and therefore had to make the personalities more individual than they perhaps would be otherwise - this is I think what made it seem over the top.

If he'd have put less into each personality then I can just imagine someone posting here saying how his performance wasn't up to scratch, so I guess maybe we are being too critical... I enjoyed the episode and the acting performances, so I say just leave it at that