User Reviews

Everyone is swerving everyone in this episode.

Frankly, the sub-plot with the out of control plant is more interesting than the main plot. Ba'al swerves O'Neill, Cumulus tries to swerve O'Neill and Ba'al, O'Neill swerves Cumulus and Ba'al.

But it moves up from a -3 to a 7 for the sub-plot of O'Neill wanting to resign. When things are darkest, the whole of SGC gathers in the Gate Room to show their faith in O'Neill's leadership.

This episode, and the whole of O'Neill's command position to this point in the series, is about minutia. The heroic stuff in life, the big stuff, on its own is hard. But it's the every day concerns - potatoes, bunting, silly negotiations, menus - in between that take up energy and make the heroic and big stuff tough.

The episode doesn't advance the main story. It uses Go'auld as props. But it's worth watching for the show of faith.

Matthew 8: 5-13 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. "Lord," he said, "my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly." Jesus said to him, "Shall I come and heal him?" The centurion replied, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, "Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that moment.