Review of Politics

This episode follows immediately after the events of There But For the Grace Of God. This episode serves as a plot device to make it difficult to save the planet because the president has shut down the Stargate program through the Senate Committee of Senator Kinsey. Kinsey played by Ronny Cox is a caricature of the most annoying, frustrating character ever put to screen. He is deliberately antagonistic, completely unlikeable as a character which makes trying to engage him worse in that he was making good points. Ronny played the character way to bullish and over the top. If the character was toned down and sensible, at least his points would have been acceptable, but due to the tone, he comes of as stupid, and foolish. Obviously the point, but that because the episode needs him to be stupid and foolish just to give the Stargate team an obstacle to save Earth.

All in all this episode is annoying at best, stupid at worse. If you want skip it by simply knowing that Daniel conveys his message to SG1 and the base. They barely believe him, but now they can't go to the coordinates because they are shut down.

Watch the first five minutes. That's it. That's all you need. The ending is just the program has been shut down.

Clip shows drive me crazy but I realize they were a necessity back in the day since the production ran out of money and clip shows are very cheap to produce. But most of the time they are skippable and the b-story is never worth it.