I will never not giggle at the “here, take these guns” meme

I really love the episode where they go “this is a weapon meant to intimidate” * blasts * “this is a weapon meant to kill” fire p90

Such an iconic scene, but I never would have thought that when I first watched it for some reason.

It more or less was the thesis statement of the show up until The Battle of the Antarctic.

The Tau’ri are, technologically, bass ackwards. But whereas the rest of the galaxy has been afraid of space snakes for millennia (? I never actually thought about the timeline and doubt the writers did either, we’ve been doing our own thing… which often involves killing ourselves in ever more efficient ways.

So here we have a bunch of former slaves “waking up” (and let’s not think too much about how many of them were big black actors…), but are still beholden to tradition and fear. And then we have SG-1 basically walk up, get their physically least imposing team member (which actually would be Daniel, but Amanda Tapping is awesome and deserves every scene she got… except maybe the weird boyfriend arc that was just bad), and say “Your gods ain’t shit. Side with us and we’ll fuck them up”.

And that continues through the series. Straight up gods are staring them down and SG-1 just flip them off and unload. Even stuff like Jack and Bra’tac (I think it was those two?) getting ready for a long journey through a mothership that Jack just solves by chucking two grenades in a hole.

The show lost the plot around the time the battleship (Prometheus?) became something that could fight Anubis to a standstill and Atlantis/The Ori had lots of “Those god-like beings ain’t shit. So rather than side with their incredibly powerful alliance you should side with our incredibly powerful alliance”… and I don’t think ANYONE knows what the hell the point of SGU was.

But up until then, it really was about fighting gods and entrenched and toxic traditions with nothing but pluck and 5.7 NATO rounds.

Hey I liked Pete he seemed nice!