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I have only started watching sg-1 recently and i'm now up to the start of season 5. Can anyone tell me if Ra , the Gould from the film , ever makes a return or does he stay dead? cheers.
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Not until the 8th season finale.
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They emphatically label him as dead in the series premiere. In essence, it's his death that sets the Goa'uld balance of power on its ear, breaking a stalemate that has led to eight years of high adventure.
Don't worry though - for a couple years we end up having to deal with Ra's son Heru'ur, who inherited his dad's armies and power upon his death. He gets dealt with eventually (no point explaining how, here) but it was always cool to see the Horus guard helmets again.
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The Horus Guard showed up even afterwards after the Jaffa were sort of dispursed. I think Amonet had some serving her during the events of her death. Or were they serving Heru'ur who had taken her prisoner... I can't remember.
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Not entirely. You're probably mistaking the episode in which Amonet was napping while Sha're was bringing the Harcesis child to term. Heru'ur showed up on Abydos (where, despite having possession of his father's massive armies, still went there in the same kind of apparently unarmed "pleasure yacht" as Ra), and after SG-1 dealt with him, they left Amonet with the belief that Heru'ur had taken the child.
It's too bad they got rid of the helments following the third season or so, seen mostly since then in flashbacks or on pikes in rebel Jaffa camps. It's true that the production team and cast hated them because they were huge and top-heavy (and never really retracted well for the serpent guards), but it helped with the whole alien look - now they're stuck with bald cap helmets, and even those are mostly gone.
I'd have liked to have seen a Setesh guard helmet just once, though. Apparently, their noses droop.
And no... I'm pretty sure there were Horus Guards present when Amonet was killed by Teal'c.
Remember, at that point, Apophis was sort of in limbo after the whole resurrection/Netu/escape/return to power thing.
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From What I've seen it's just a guy in the mask/headdress: not the same actor.
I could be wrong, though it's almost never happened.
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Nope. Jaye Davison, aka Ra, aka the shemale from "The Crying Game", retired from acting a while ago. It'll be just the headress, and probably David Palffy (Sokar and Anubis) waving his arms around from under it.
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It's been awhile since I saw the movie, but did this head dress show up there? I seem to remember the first time we see Ra, his mask folds down like the Jaffa helmets, but I don't remember what the mask looked like.
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Lighting does wonders. I expect that Ra will be just as eerily spooky as before.
Also, in the movie, when Ra's mask retracts, it actually MORPHS into his face as well as moving around behind his neck. He covers up in style, he does.
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