So james and
Catherine have clearly been happily busy since they wake up half naked in a
tent in time for Asset’s arrival with her Nazi fanpoodles and professor
Langford who continues to serve as nazi translator with no objections
The people all bow
and scrape before Asset, their god, and for some bizarre reason Brucke the Nazi
decides that he wants one of his Nazis to fight one of Asset’s soldier in hand
to hand combat to the death to prove whether their minions will die for for
their leaders. Which seems… bizarre. Unsurprisingly Asset’s warrior wins
because a) he has a spear vs a knife and b) Asset’s arm is armed with medieval
weaponry and therefore used to hand-to-hand combat more than the Nazis who are
armed with guns.. I have absolutely no idea why he would think this was
remotely a good idea.
When he sees his
soldier about to die, he decides to shoot the warrior to save his soldier which
really annoys Asset but she decides to let it go. And then he murders his Nazi
soldier.
Eva is absolutely
enraged that he dare kill a Nazi soldier and servant of of Hitler. She is not
behind his god claims and is a loyal Nazi. So, y’know, evil either way. She
keeps snarling at him from now on and has some pretty good put downs. He’s
still promising Asset lots of slaves to convince her to keep allying with him.
Watching all this
Catherine does her standard thing of wanting to charge in and get herself
killed and James does his thing of stopping her, as he does. This dynamic is
getting old.
Asset also makes a
big speech about how she can give things to people and how she can take them
away - and decides to break her healing stick she had given to the people. She
has a tear in her eye while doing it so clearly she does care which is very
un-Goa’uldy but there’s still not a lot of explanation of why she did this
rather than have it used to heal her downed warrior? Serqet, the hotpants
Goa’uld tries to handwave this but it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
What it does do is
convince Kasuf and all his people that the Nazi has corrupted their god which
I’m assuming is not her goal but who even knows.
Catherine speaks to
Kasuf and shows him Stargate symbols so he can lead her to a place where
various codes and co-ordinates for the Stargate are. She copies them down -
then destroys them so the Nazis can’t use them. Of course when she returns to
James and Wasif she realises Asset can just dial it up for them. On the way she
tries to talk Kasuf out of his gods, that they’re enslaving him - but he
insists they’re free and genuinely worship the gods. It’s hard to convince
people they’re slaves when they don’t believe it? That’s the advantage of
calling themselves god in the first place.
Waif and James plot
how to get to the Stargate - and Wasif is very very very concerned about what
the Nazis can do with all the naqueda and the Stargate, while Catherine and James
are mainly concerned with each other (Wasif is finally frustrated by this).
Langford finally
finds something resembling a spine and doesn’t translate Asset asking if they
should kill Catherine et al. Eva continues to give Bruke shit and Bruke continues
to be more and more of a megalomaniac. Langford also finally tells Asset that
nazis are not nice people and Langford and the Nazi fight, Asset and Sequet
just watch to let the humans fight their own battles
Asset also seems to
have raided Lady Gaga’s wardrobe while Sequet is still rocking her hotpants.
James and Catherine
kiss before heading into battle, upon hearing that they’re kissing because they
fear they wouldn’t see each other again; Motawk kisses Wasif: hey I’ll take it
And then Ra arrives
in his pyramid which rather puts the cat among the pigeons and sets everyone -
including Asset - to panicking.
Catherine takes the
chance to confront the Nazi to save her dad - Brucke insists that she totally
won’t shoot him and she does. Repeatedly. He then insists that she can’t kill
him because he’s a god and whoooooa that megalomania caught on very very
quickly and out of nowhere. Who needs coherent motivation? Langford decides to
convince Catherine not to shoot the Nazi because Reasons; Eva does it instead.
After all him declaring himself a god pretty much means he’s no longer a loyal
follower of Hitler and she’s officially done with him
Serqet then kills Eva
and i have no idea why (which pretty much applies to everything here) but hey,
dead Nazi, no complaints.
Despite freaking out
about Ra, Asset decides to take the time to erase Langford and Catherine’s
memories because motherhood and she’s a soft and fluffy Goa’uld. They can now
make a run for the Stargate
And Ra arrives. And
he’s just pissed at everything: the forbidden baby and Asset clearly planning a
rebellion. And he knows all this because Serqet is secretly on his side - he
sends her to stop Catherine & co escaping through the Stargate. The mind-wiped
Catherine and Langford return home - but James is caught and presumably killed
to ensure canon is preserved
Kasuf escapes to the
city where he will lead in time for the Stargate films, while both Wasif and
Mowtak don’t get to develop a relationship and are both enslaved by Ra. He then
destroys Asset’s temple, all of Kasuf’s people and even moves the Stargate
because he’s pissy like that
That just leaves
Catherine and professor to tell the British officials they have no idea where
Wasif and James got to - and how they never even knew he existed. And lo, this
is right up there with “and they all woke up” for ending a story - just more
depressing
Ok, that’s over and….
Why?
I mean, I can’t see
it adding particularly to the overall canon, it’s obviously not going to be
renewed (ending as it did with the rather dull and depressing ending), it’s not
leading into anything new and I can’t imagine it’s earned enough money to
justify its creation. It doesn’t add to any real backstory and the whole motivation
of the characters and plots seems… bizarre at times.
I just don’t know
what the point is unless you were going to do something with the survivors we
haven’t already seen - like Wasif/Mowtak as Jaffa or Serqet or Aset as Goa’uld.
If you’re not you’re just adding pretty irrelevant back story to people like
Catherine and Kasuf who didn’t really need it
First gay male
character in the entire greater Stargate ouvre… so… I guess that’s that? But
limited points for doing this reveal like 5 minutes before brainwash and
presumably jaffaness. But hey it was there at last, I guess. I will allow one
very half-hearted yay. I would say Wasif wasn’t amazingly developed but no-one
was - not even Catherine or James who just tended to wander around and
squabble. And at least with Wasif we got away from the early Stargate habit of
kind of portraying POC as either uneducated primitive people needing rescuing
or aliens. So let’s have a second half-hearted yay.
