Ep Discussion: SG1 1.18 "Solitudes"

[Varthikes]

Stargate: SG-1
"Solitudes"

From here on out, Season 1 picks up.

This episode is the first to be directed by Martin Wood, who would become one of Stargate's top directors. And, it is a really pivotal episode of the series. It introduces the O'Neill/Carter relationship. And, what is established in this episode plays out really all the way down to the recently-released Continuum with... SPOILERS---> Earth's second stargate and the Ancient's Outpost in Antarctica.<---SPOILERS

This episode also plays out really nicely. One really gets to feel the hopeless situation O'Neill and Carter find themselves in. The music magnifies that feeling terrifically.

A bit of trivia: to give us the illusion that Carter and O'Neill were in a glacier, the production team literally had to freeze the set. When O'Neill tells Carter that his butt was freezing on the ground, he really was freezing!

[Tsukiyumi]

I always appreciate it when a production goes the extra mile for realism's sake. What a great show.

[Sionnach Glic]

Another great episode.

[Monroe]

Another great episode. I really loved the idea of an older stargate on Earth. Antartica is still such a mystery and I'd love to see them explore that possibility. Maybe find a temple where aliens use human hosts to breed and Predators come to fight them ritually... actually come to think about it its scary how much of the AvP universe fits with Stargate.

[Deepcrush]

Is it bad that a VS topic for that just popped into my head???

Either way. Good ep, though most were.