I so can wait till this in on...I only have another hour and 4 mintues till Fragile balance is on sky one.
OH I can't wait.
I don't know what i would do if i didn't have sky cause channel 4 is so far behind its just not funny.
Only one hour and 2 mintues to go.

go asgard, go asgard

This post has been edited by princessgater: Oct 13th 2003, 12:59 PM

Just watched this episode and it was really quite good... more for the humour of the situation and Young Jack though as I thought the story wasn't as great as some have been.

My favourite bit was when he zatted Loki... I think that's the first time we've seen an Asgard be shot right? ... and the look on Loki's face when they mentioned contacting Thor - priceless. I just love it when their big black eyes widen

A couple of things I noticed that might be wrong, but they stood out for me were:

i) Was it me or were those things holding down Loki common cable ties? I take it they found them on the Asgard ship but they really did look like cable ties.
ii) When Daniel was talking about Loki in the third person one time he really seemed to emphasize the 'As' part of Asgard making it sound more like Assgard... I wonder if this was intentional so as to convey Daniel's annoyance or if it was just something I'm imagining.

I've just finshed watching it on sky and some of the bits were so funny...I'd have to agree with what was said earlier the asgard look so funny when they are shot. The whole scenes with the two jacks were so funny.

The scenes with all the pilots were funny aswell what with Sam trying to keep control and the fight outside the rom...when jack came in and just took over.

The fact that mini-Jack kept trying to buy beer was so funny, and when Sam took a beer of him his face was just classic.

Maybe they took cable ties with them to try the asgaurd up when they got there.

Oh I just remembered this the way mini-jack had to keep pullling up his trousers was so Awwww.




This post has been edited by princessgater: Oct 13th 2003, 3:39 PM

I really liked this episode. Always nice to meet a new Asgard I always say.

One thing that I'm wondering about is how many more Asgard that there might be out there - Odin. Forseti, Njord, Skadi, Baldr, Tyr, Bragi, Hel ?

And I think it would be nice if Thor, during some idol conversation, could thank the people of Earth for naming a day after him. It would be the courteous thing to do wouldn't it?

Yip I loved this ep - best so far!! That kid was brilliant at playing Jack, like I mentioned in another thread - it definitely made up for the lack of Jack in this episode. that kid deserves a mini oscar

heee hee - yeah the pulling up his trousers scene was well funny GREAT PIC - how cute!

We saw quite a few Asgard that were part of the Asgard High Council in 'Fail Safe' (I think it was this episode). I assume that Odin is their leader, while Thor leads the Asgard military.

That I can remember, so far we've seen or heard of Thor, Freyr, Heimdall and Loki.

While Thursday may be named after Thor and Friday after Frigg, his mother, I don't really think it's something Thor need thank us for. After all, it's not like anyone in the SGC (or indeed anyone still alive) was responsible for this. He would be quite used to seeing things relating to the Asgard in the beliefs and every day lives of people on other planets anyway.

sorry if im wrong but
ok going on a limb here but since when did jack move house cos that certainatly the one maybourne and danny visit him in and if for sure aint his cabin.

~ err, no.

~ Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a chain, with links. ATCG are it's links. Telomeres are the sequences of repetitive DNA at the end of our chromosomes. & are found in studies to break down as a we age.

~ The current understanding of aging is far more advanced today then it was a few years ago. We know that the chains in gene sequences break down over time, damaged by the stress of cellular mitosis. The entire process of cell division including division of the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Basically DNA tears like a zipper, forming new chains with corresponding links floating around matching up. It's also noted that the process of using oxygen as an energy source generates a cellular waist byproduct noted as free radicals, witch further damages DNA, amongst other environmental constraints cosmic rays, etc... All Causing DNA to engender damage throughout the life span of a living organism.

~ Evolution gave us an answer, aging. Then death. Bummer huh. The Cells have an internal clock that tells it when to stop reproducing, (Mitosis.), a combination of damage, & natural mechanisms that stipulate that the chain is no longer viable to take another zipper rip before detrimental damage causes mutation. (Mutation is bad, the cell stops doing it's job, Cancer, Inappropriate cellular growth, etc...)

~ At any rate this is the prime variable in the aging process, The cells over time become to damaged to function/repair themselves. & no longer are able to replicate, (by increasing the odds of survivability by mass quantity they/we have a thriving chance.)

~ All right now, onto cloning. When you culture a DNA sample from a mature specimen, The DNA is indeed aged. The biological clock has ticked, in that the zipper has already incurred damage to it's links in the life span of it's donor. Rapid cellular degradation fallows in the cloned specimen, Most attempts to clone a viable specimen are aborted because of damage caused by mutation. There are quite a few failures that came before Dolly. Breaking the normal value of the Cell's Clock causes it to attempt to use DNA for growth that may already be damaged.

~ It's also an assurance that a cloned specimen will indeed most likely have a shorter life span then an adult specimen would normally have.

~ Evolution wins out where man's attempts to clone fail. Reproduction recombines DNA from two Donor's increasing the odds and making up for flaws, mutations, etc. That my be present in one of the donors reproductive applications. The reproductive system attempts to combine two DNA structures filling broken links from one parent, with good links from the other,. (Sometimes even this process fails, children born with mutations, pregnancies that don't take, etc...

~ Thus the problem with cloning is identifying viable DNA, (for witch the odds are against) within a donor that will attribute to a true clone.