Time for more
impossibly pretty people to keep investigating the desert land beyond the
Stargate (I’m assuming this is Abydos because it looks a lot like it).
The pretty Wasif,
pretty Catherine and impossibly pretty James go through the Stargate, arrive in
Abydos and begin to set up their theme for the next two episodes: Catherine and
James argue constantly while Wasif provides the odd word and the odd comic relief.
I won’t say he’s cast as the comic relief because that would be like saying one
of the three stooges is the comic relief.
They see the alien
skies and realise they’re not in Egypt any more, more they can’t figure out how
to use the remote to get back to Earth because Earth’s symbol isn’t on the
remote. They may also be entering the code wrong.
Lots of bickering,
James being in favour of being cautious, Catherine in favour of charging in.
Catherine making it abundantly clear she’s not going to obey James and pretty
much setting the tone of her doing her own thing. They find the dead Nazi… and
a Goa’uld. And Catherine smacks James for suggesting that maaaaaybe her elderly
father is dead
(He’s not, he’s
imprisoned by other Nazis who are busy taking pictures and occasionally talking
in mix of German and English. So that was a useful segment. Writers, each
episode is only 10 minutes long, you need to not waste time. We have more
bickering)
She’s female, and
what seems to be inevitable, the female Goa’uld is wearing what appear to be
daisy dukes and some wisps of gold cloth. They fight her and though she’s
decided to dispense with Goa’uld technology in favour of a big stick, she
easily fights them all, knocking them escape. Luckily for them Catherine manages
to accidentally hit a bracelet button activating a teleporter and removing the
Goa’uld from the fight. Oh and James has a semi-freak out in the middle of it
because he accidentally touches Catherine’s breasts
To which our intrepid
explorers think they’ve found a magic stick.
They also run into a
young human who is clearly afraid of them (as James proves by yelling “boo” of
course) but trying to lead them somewhere. Which they duly ignore and decide to
go somewhere else. Oh and they don’t understand a word he says and when Wasif
starts to mention he may recognise the language, James and Catherine silence
him. Because sensible like that
After managing to
exchange names, they follow Kasuf to some tents and are quickly taken prisoner
and tied up with lots and lots and lots of bickering. Poor Wasif, stuck with
the pretty bickering people.
Wasif manages to free
them so they can bicker some more and bicker some more and then accidentally
stab Wasif.
Oh Wasif, these
pretty people are dangerous for you.
Thankfully the locals
regret the whole stabbing thing and have a magic stick of healing.
Meanwhile, the
Goa’uld in daisy dukes, Serquet, speaks to her queen Aset. they are surprised
these humans fought (albeit not very well) rather than just surrendering like
the Nazis did (to be fair, Aset used magical tech against them. Serquet used a
stick). She thinks Ra is going to come back for the new human visitors which is
a problem because Aset wants to use them to help her in her rebellion against
Ra. Ra who will also disapprove of Harcesis - apparent a baby which is
forbidden for some reason
Honestly she has not
been studying their pretty intruders much if she thinks they’re going to be an
asset in… well… anything.
Against my better
judgement I’m almost intrigued - not by the characters (albeit their prettiness
is a nice distraction) but I do want to know what makes a baby forbidden… and
this clearly failed rebellion against Ra.
