#sg1: ex deus machina

[lenalake]

“I think, personally, she is referring to O’Neill, and whether they’re dating or not, I mean, it’s—”

“They’re sleeping together…they’re sleeping together that’s for sure.”

- Ex Deus Machina (S9E07) commentary with Joe Mallozzi and Martin Wood

Whatever their relationship stage/status, Sam and Jack are obviously a couple in season 9 and I love that. 🥰

[spockvarietyhour]

Ah, the fine trekkian tradition of repurposing matte paintings (even digital ones). top is from SG-1's Ex-Deus Machina and was where one the Ba'al clones was hiding out, and bottom is from Atlantis' Outcast. the building barely got a facelift and some shrubbery has been moved around.

[california-112]

[writingherhope]

Finally back on my Stargate rewatch. Ex Deus Machina, while not a favorite of mine, is still great and further serves to prove that I would have much rather preferred Sam to have had an arc with Agent Barret than Pete. He at least could be seen as more of a threat to the favorite ship of the show. He was smart, kind, knew of the SGC and respected all things classified because he too had a classified job.

I would have loved that relationship. Not as much as Sam/Jack but still loved it nonetheless because it seems to me like it would have had more potential than Pete. If a show is going to provide the audience with a character to seperate a fan favorite ship for drama and angst and some layer of jealousy and "oh damn, I may have lost my chance"/"well they never made a move so they must not feel the same anymore"; then why not make it a legitmate threat to actually cause those feelings in the audience? Pete, at least to me, did nothing but irritate me at his actions and disrespect. As well as the complete disregard that a background check on a scrubbed identity within a top secret program would not have raised flags and been cause for concern for Hammond and O'Neill.

Again, not my favorite episode (I just really despise Garek), but we did get this lovely little snippet for us Sam/Jack shippers. :)

[stargate365]

[SG-1] 9.07: Ex Deus Machina

Previously on SG1… The Trust got Snaked, and Gerrak took over the Free Jaffa Nation…

Um… wat… did a Jaffa just get hit by a car???

So… why was a Jaffa on Earth? And whats this fancy company got to do with it?

Yes Gerrak, what do you plan to do.

Lol, Cam’s on a roll, and then: “Outsiders are not permitted to address the council.” “…nevermind.”

What the hell?? Garrek has the missing dude as a prisioner?? The missing dude is a Snake?? THE HELL?

Blonde lady annoys me… she’s bullshitting her way through this.

Oh… oh dear… Ba’al is on Earth?

Okay, wow, that suit.

Whelp… this is not going to go well…

Lol. This is one night this guy is going to wish he didn’t work late.

A… a naquada bomb? On earth? Well damn, Ba’al is stubborn af.

Wha… oh. Lol. Cam, you’re hilarious. Putting your mark on them. But at least you’re human and didn’t have to pee on them.

Oooh, we need some Pink Floyd for this now.

Not exactly?? >> Is… is Sam dating Jack now??

Excuse you Mr Jaffa Dude, this is OUR Moon.

Are… are you sure Teal’c? Are you sure they don’t already know??

Well crap… how are we going to fix this??

“How the hell are you going to get there?” *Sam beams out*

Oh… oh hell… There isn’t a bomb in the building, the building is the bomb.

Cam has had an Idea! :D

Oh… oh… that’s sneaky sneaky clever. I like Cam.

Gonna teleport the entire goddamn movie into space… So… how they gonna explain the missing building to the public??

Ba’al escaped, goddamn he’s one slippery weasel.

The Jaffa have Ba’al??

The Jaffa killed Ba’al??

I don’t buy it… it’s too easy…

I… what… more than one Ba’al?? He cloned himself??

Lol, Teal’c is done playing nice with the Jaffa.

A Gas Line Explosion?? Lol, wat?

Oooh… look at that. So pretty. Multiple Ba’al’s in one room… That’s… dangerous.

“Over 600 channels and nothing to watch.” #MOOD

[stargatelov3r]

I would love to hear everyone’s thoughts on this: Would Ba’al fuck his clone(s)?

[mysg1spacemonkey]

Ex deus machina

[bagheerita]

Ba'al shows up in "Ex Deus Machina" and it's like that moment at the end of Dead Man's Chest when Barbossa comes down the stairs and I'm just throwing myself at him, crying, do you know what I've had to put up with for the last two hours, thank god for antagonists who can make things fun bc so help me I've been bored out of my mind

[zavuya]

[stargatecaps]

[jumpingpuddles]

Stargate SG-1: Ex Deus Machina

[spockvarietyhour]

A room full of Ba’als.

[pass-the-bechdel]

Stargate SG1 s09e07 ‘Ex-Deus Machina’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test?

Yes, once.

How many female characters (with names and lines) are there?

Five (27.77% of cast).

How many male characters (with names and lines) are there?

Thirteen.

Positive Content Rating:

Three.

General Episode Quality:

Delightful! 

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

Passing the Bechdel:

Carter interviews Charlotte Mayfield.

Female characters:

Samantha Carter.

Charlotte Mayfield.

Male characters:

Daniel Jackson.

Hank Landry.

Cameron Mitchell.

Teal’c.

Garek.

Yat’Yir.

Ba’al.

Lionel Pendergast.

Malcolm Barrett.

Marks.

Williams.

Walter Harriman.

Ba’al, again.

OTHER NOTES:

I love Ba’al. I love him using his human voice and wearing dapper Earth suits. Best - and most stylish - Goa’uld ever.

It took seven episodes, but we officially have a team again.

Carter’s still helping out with Cassandra. It’s the good stuff.

They just beamed an entire building into space! This is exactly the kind of imaginative use of science fiction that last season lacked. 

THERE ARE LOADS OF BA’AL CLONES RUNNING AROUND. THIS IS THE IMAGINATIVE USE OF SCIENCE FICTION THAT LAST SEASON LACKED. I find it pretty funny that Ba’al has evidently cloned not just himself, but his host body as well; does he just really, really like that body? Has he been using it so long he identifies with it and wouldn’t feel right with a different one? Or is it so that all his underlings will always know they’re dealing with him, regardless of which one of him it is? I mean, hopping a whole bunch of other bodies would help him to sneak into places and commit nefarious deeds in disguise, but it’s less convenient from an episodic television perspective. Anyway - I’ve listed Ba’al twice in the character list, since we know we definitely hear from at least two different Ba’al’s in the course of the episode (and each one is its own distinct character now despite coming from the same source), but technically we don’t know how many clones we dealt with, maybe the one who was hanging out at the office with Charlotte Mayfield and the one who sent the SGC video messages and the one who gave a press conference and the one the Jaffa caught were all the same guy (I’m going with that theory), or maybe it was a different clone every time. No way to know, really. Very confusing.

I know I basically said it already, but remember how last season played it so safe and didn’t really have much outrageous fun with the fact that this is scifi and practically anything is possible? I’m really glad they got over that. With all the changes they had to make by necessity for this season, it makes sense to just lean in to the chaos and start thinking of big, weird, crazy new plots and twists and resolutions, but so much tv fails to go for it anyway. This is using your assets well - thinking outside the box, bringing back successful guest characters from previous seasons, and setting the stage for new and different and ambitious plots in the future as well. This is the kind of rock-solid entertainment value that legitimises a show like this lasting for so damn long.

[benbrowdernetwork]

Ben Browder

Stargate SG1 - Ex Deus Machina

[esamastation]

A rough Stargate Viewing Guide For Better Understanding of the Fics I’ve written... I guess?

Since there have been lot of comments from people who have not watched Stargate reading my latest fics and who probably don’t have the time to dedicate to a series with over 200 episodes.... never mind the spin-offs, and the movies...

For both Stargate Brotherhood and Cohabitation (and Queen Mother, I guess) the most important episodes of SG1 are S02E02, S02E11-12, S06E10. For Stargate Brotherhood S05E15-16 and S06E06 are also useful (they concern Ba’al. There are later good Ba’al episodes, but they don’t really matter for the actual fic. For Cohabitation S05E11, Desperate measures, is also semi-important, that’s the episode where Sam was kidnapped.

Anyway, here is an Essential Viewing Guide I found and then heavily modified.

Season 1

1/2 "Children of the Gods"

9 "Thor's Hammer" (concerns Asgard)

10 "The Torment of Tantalus" (loosely concerns Ancients/Asgard)

11 "Bloodlines" (Concerns jaffa and symbiote plantation)

13 "The Nox" 

14 "Hathor" (Goa'uld queens)

16 "Cor-ai" (concerns Jaffa)

17 "Enigma" (concerns Tollans)

19 "Solitudes" (concerns Ancients, also kinda cool episode)

20 "There But for the Grace of God" (concerns overall plot, and alternate universes)

21 "Politics (Part 1)" (Goa'uld attack earth)

22 "Within the Serpent's Grasp (Part 2)"

(Honestly, I can’t remember much of season 1, don’t see any reason to rewatch any of it, and it isn’t really all that important concerning my fics.

Season 2:

1 "The Serpent's Lair (Part 3)"

2 "In the Line of Duty" (Concerns Tok'ra)

6 "Thor's Chariot" (concerns Asgard)

8 "Family" (concerns Teal'c)

9 "Secrets" (concerns Sha're)

11 "The Tok'ra (Part 1)"

12 "The Tok'ra (Part 2)"

14 "Touchstone" (concerns NID)

15 "The Fifth Race" (Concerns ancients, cool episode)

18 "Serpent's Song" (Apophis death, the first one)

20 "Show and Tell" (kinda re-cap on what's happened so far)

22 "Out of Mind (Part 1)" (concerns Hathor)

Season 3:

1 "Into the Fire (Part 2)" (concerns Hathor)

3 "Fair Game" concerns Goa'uld system lords)

10 "Forever in a Day" (Concern's Sha're)

12 "Jolinar's Memories (Part 1)" (concerns Tok'ra and Apophis)

13 "The Devil You Know (Part 2)" 

15 "Pretense" (concerns Tollan's and Skaara)

22 "Nemesis (Part 1)" (Concerns Asgard and Replicators)

Season 4:

1 "Small Victories (Part 2)" (Concerns Asgard and Replicators)

6 "Window of Opportunity" (optional but pretty neat, timeloop episode)

7 "Watergate" (I honestly can't even remember this one, but it was recommended viewing, so eh)

13 "The Curse" (concerns Osiris and Stasis Jars)

14 "The Serpent's Venom" (again, recommended viewing, can't remember anything about this one)

15 "Chain Reaction" (concerns NID)

17 "Absolute Power" (optional for overall plot, concerns Goa'uld genetic knowledge and also ascension)

22 "Exodus (Part 1)" (3-parter, concerns Tok'ra, final death of Apophis and replicators. Also, a sun is blown up, which was cool)

Season 5:

1 "Enemies (Part 2)"

2 "Threshold (Part 3)"

6 "Rite of Passage" (Concerns Hok'tar)

9 "Between Two Fires" (Concerns Tollan)

11 "Desperate Measures"

15 "Summit (Part 1)" (Concern's Goa'uld system lords)

16 "Last Stand (Part 2)"

20 "The Sentinel" (Optional, concerns NID)

21 "Meridian" (not optional - concerns ascension)

22 "Revelations" (Concerns Anubis and Asgard)

Season 6:

1 "Redemption (Part 1)"

2 "Redemption (Part 2)"

3 "Descent" 

4 "Frozen" (Concerns the Ancients and Hok'tar)

6 "Abyss" (concerns Ba'al and Ascension)

7 "Shadow Play" (concerns Jonas and Kelownas)

9 "Allegiance" (concerns Tau-ri, Jaffa, Tok'ra alliance)

10 “Cure” (Concerns Tok’ra and Goa’uld queens)

11 "Prometheus (Part 1)" (Concerns Earth making ships :D)

12 "Unnatural Selection (Part 2)" (Concerns Asgard and Replicators)

16 "Metamorphosis" (Optional for plot, concerns Hok'tar)

17 "Disclosure" (optional, recap episode with politics)

21 "Prophecy" (Optional, concerns Hok'taur

22 "Full Circle" (3 parter, concerns Anubis, ascension and all that)

Season 7:

1 "Fallen (Part 2)"

2 "Homecoming (Part 3)"

3 “Fragile Balance” (Concerns clone O’neill, of whom I think i’ve written fic about and probably will in future. Also Asgard)

11 "Evolution (Part 1)" (Concerns ancients and weird creepy goa'uld science)

12 "Evolution (Part 2)"

17 "Heroes (Part 1)"

18 "Heroes (Part 2)"

21 "Lost City (Part 1)" (Concerns Atlantis)

22 "Lost City (Part 2)"

And here on out it's whatever, continue if you want, it doesn’t really apply to any of my fics all that much... though Reckoning is kind of what I consider the Ultimate Finale of Stargate SG1 I’m kinda meh on everything that followed - though there were some cool episodes in later seasons, I was overall not a fan of the Ori plot and what it did to Ancients (and thus will always completely disregard it in every fic I will ever write)

Season 8:

1 "New Order (Part 1)"

2 "New Order (Part 2)"

3 "Lockdown"

9 "Sacrifices"

11 "Gemini"

12 "Prometheus Unbound"

14 "Full Alert"

16 "Reckoning (Part 1)"

17 "Reckoning (Part 2)"

18 "Threads"

19 "Moebius (Part 1)"

20 "Moebius (Part 2)"

Season 9:

1 "Avalon (Part 1)"

2 "Avalon (Part 2)"

3 "Origin (Part 3)"

4 "The Ties That Bind"

6 "Beachhead"

7 "Ex Deus Machina"

10 "The Fourth Horseman (Part 1)"

11 "The Fourth Horseman (Part 2)"

14 "Stronghold"

19 "Crusade"

20 "Camelot (Part 1)"

Season 10:

1 "Flesh and Blood (Part 2)"

3 "The Pegasus Project"

4 "Insiders"

6 "200"

7 "Counterstrike"

8 "Memento Mori"

9 "Company of Thieves"

10 "The Quest (Part 1)"

11 "The Quest (Part 2)"

12 "Line in the Sand"

14 "The Shroud"

17 "Talion"

19 "Dominion"

20 "Unending"

If I start writing something on Stargate Atlantis (which I probably will, love that series) I guess I’ll make a list for that too

[stargatelov3r]

Barrett: “So you’re single again.”

Sam: “Not exactly.”

PLEASE

COULD IT BE ANY MORE OBVIOUS