1.03: Emancipation

[Hatshepsut]

Yeah, like in 'Need', where he wanders off once again and Jack says:
"I wish he'd stop doing that..."

I loved his independent spirit and childlike curiosity and enthusiasm.

I also liked the way that violence was always - er, usually - a last resort with him, rather than a first resort, yet he wasn't a goody-goody pacifist and was prepared to get stuck in when the need arose, even if he wasn't terribly good at it, as in 'Prisoners':

Daniel: What happened?
O'Neill: Well, you actually won a fight, Danny Boy.
Daniel: I don't particularly remember getting the upper hand.

and

O'Neill: And this just...came to you?
Daniel: No, this came to me while I was suffocating.

Best wishes,
Hatshepsut :wave:
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[PTeppic]

Yeah, I agree. Although "child-like optimism" is probably correct, perhaps naivety, even terminal optimism or perpetual curiosity as an archaeologist and anthropologist get the better if him in almost every situation - even from the very start: walking out to meet the priests in COTG.

 

[Hatshepsut]

You're so right, PTeppic

Best wishes,
Hatshepsut :wave:
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[lisasg1]

I love the way he acts when he discovers something new, or like in solitudes, when he finally figures out where Sam and Jack are, he is really proud of himself, and looks cute in the process!

 

[skoon]

Originally posted by markpud
The writers obviously felt the need to play the "Sam card" early on to assert her as "not just a dumb blond"

getting back to topic, this is what I was also thinking. But also I think it tried to show, though somewhat failed, that she eas more volnerable because she's a woman. Just because we to some extent have accepted woman as 'suposedly' equal (so we're not perfect...though women do rule...) humans that have been transplanted have not necessarily come to this same conclussion. Indeed, other contries on our same plannet haven't reached this conclussion. I think they were trying to do a hack job at sexism early so they could get it out of the way & not revisit it. Only my 2 cents. & not very well expressed I might add

 

[lisasg1]

I thought that it was very well said skoon! ( clap clap clap )

In an interview, AT said that she didn't like the way that Sam was in the first eppie, because it drew much attention to the fact that she was a feminist type. So she asked the writers to tone it down for the rest of the season.

 

[skoon]

ya she was rather femanist in the first, though I liked her interaction with Jack...being a major shipper at heart:blush:

 

[lisasg1]

Ahhhhh yes, those two are just soooo cute!

 

[Highlander II]

this episode was okay --

i agree that it looks like one of those 'let's get this 'hot button' topic out of the way so we don't have to deal with again' things, but it wasn't really well-thought out --

it could have been better -

and like others, i don't hate the episode (there's only one i hate and it's in season 5) - but i don't love it either - it's just one of those 'middle of the road' episodes --

 

[skoon]

of course I'm surprised they don't run into that problem more often. Sure they addressed it once, but when all these humans were transplanted, historically women were more often than not discriminated against, bla bla bla, you get my drift, so why wouldn't they incounter it often & on more planets?

 

[Highlander II]

b/c it would be trite and all-together too boring to do it all the time ---

i think Emancipation was meant to be the 'extreme' case - and they let the others slide -- (just a wild guess)


they gotta have other plot devices to play with - playing the 'girls are lesser beings' thing each time would get really old really fast -

 

[skoon]

ya I think yer right there

 

[lisasg1]

Yeah, I think you're right too.
It would be pretty boring if every few eppies had something in them about women not getting equal treatment.

 

[Hatshepsut]

Originally posted by Highlander II
b/c it would be trite and all-together too boring to do it all the time ---

i think Emancipation was meant to be the 'extreme' case - and they let the others slide -- (just a wild guess)

they gotta have other plot devices to play with - [...]

Yeah, like Girls on Top!

Seriously though, not all terrestrial societies are patriarchal. There have been a number of societies in which women hold the reins of power.

[plug] <muttermutterbrazenhussymuttermutter> My current fan fic. - 'Brane Child - features a world run by a race descended from the Amazons, and who are at a similar technological level to Earth. [/plug]

There are others run less aggressively by women, and where women are the real power behind the throne without being pushy about it... S.G.-1 have come across a few, but I guess that's for another thread...

Best wishes,
Hatshepsut :wave:
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[RangerOne SG13 SOR]

Just watched this again on Sky One, (UK)

And I realised we never got any more good shots of Sam`s cleavage like we did in this episode...

That alone makes it one of my faves!

:evil:

Hehe Slap my hand!!!

Ranger

 

[Eway]

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