Good episode of typical Rodney-isms. Haven't had time to do the usual review, but I do want to point out one thing.
The "Ascension Device" was compared directly to the clone that Anubis made that was designed to ascend, that SG-1 dealt with last year. This in turn was related to the device made or cobbled together by Nirrti, which was to create an advanced Goa'uld host.
However, there is a strong parallel to one of the first Ancient devices that SG-1 found: the Ancient repository O'Neill stuck his head into in "The Fifth Race" and again in "The Lost City". Like Rodney's machine, the device caused incredible smartness and progressed towards death for the unprepared. What if the "repository" was instead another device that aided the Ancients towards ascension? It could be a refined device of some sort, which didn't include the superpowers but instead concentrated on the mental state the brain needed for ascension.
The inclusion of all the Ancient knowledge could be a side-effect, or something included on purpose to give the ascended all the extra knowledge that can be used as an ascended beaing (or, a way to preserve that knowledge as part of ascension). In any case, I'd always been bugged by the notion that there were libraries just lying around for people to stick their heads into. They had to have a better reason for them, and this could be it.
Mark
Posted by Chris (Member # 71) on :
Now here's a bit of confusion on my part: according to Gateworld, this is episode 3x15. The previous episode was 3x13. There is supposedly an episode 3x14 called "Sunday"... What happened to it?
Also, I wasn't surprised that all this wonderful stuff McKay invented was unusable. They can't get off that easy... Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
There's some debate about this. After all, at the end he was just saying that the equations didn't make any sense to him anymore - that doesn't mean that they don't make sense. And he'd already sat in the chair and optimized the city's power usage. Some of that other stuff, like increasing the Daedalus' shield strength, or adding a hyperdrive to the puddle jumpers (!), may still have been possible. They probably are feasible to have in the future of the series; SG-1 did just that with the X-30X series reverse engineering, over several years, after all. That, and the Goa'uld had small cargo ships with hyperspace capability - could not the smaller but arguably more advanced puddle jumper do the same?
OTOH, Wier could have beamed the little datapad up to the Daedalus, and Hermiod took one look at it and threw it out the airlock, screaming, "What the FUCK is that human smoking?!".
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