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Stargate SG-1 - 'Beneath the Surface'
By Michael Bender
Special to SPACE.com
posted: 04:16 pm ET
05 September 2000

Stargate SG1: Beneath the Surface

Our heroes get their brains washed and spend some time working in an alien mine. 

Written by Heather E. Ash
Directed by Peter DeLuise

Love Blooms in the Slave Mines


CARTER: How do you stay so calm?

O'NEILL: I think in another life I handled dangerous explosives.

CARTER: What do you mean in another life.

O'NEILL: I don’t mean anything by it, it's an expression, isn’t it?

JACKSON: I had this dream and you were in it. There was this big glowing puddle.

JACKSON: Did you have the same dreams?


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O'NEILL: About you?

CARTER: No, about the shimmering circle of water.

GUEST STARS

Alison Matthews - Brenna
Kim Hawthorne - Kegan
Laurie Murdoch - Administrator Caulder
Russell Ferrier - Major Griff

WHAT HAPPENED

Teal'c wakes up in a dingy underground chamber filled with prison-like bunk beds and lit with burning trashcans.

He seems understandably disoriented but gets up and follows the rest of his bunkmates. We see O’Neill, Carter and Jackson join a line of grimy people dressed in brown uniforms waiting to be served gruel and large crackers. (spoilers)

ANALYSIS

This was a nice nonlinear episodic installment of SG-1. All and all this reviewer gives it a thumbs up.

I enjoyed the characters' "stamped" personalities and thought everyone did a nice job at pulling off the relatively complicated acting job.

In particular, I thought that Daniel's involvement with Kegan was interesting and I would like to see it continue.

On the other hand, the O'Neill/Carter romance, although poignant and well done, must come to a head soon. So far we have had many situations this season where due to some freakish event Jack and Sam almost get together, only to come back to the reality of their military status.


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