User Reviews

This episode really focuses on Daniel, who has been abducted by an Unas with whom he gradually learns to communicate (a bit). Once more, his constant comments make for some hilarious moments. Despite becoming a real veteran, he still remains the same blundering scholar he used to be -minus the sneezes, though. The Unas (Sha'ka) is very well done, you can actually decipher his expressions and most of what he means. Meanwhile, the rest of the team is not idle, but has to deal with their late discovery that this planet, the Goa'uld home world, is teeming with larvae. By the time they realise it, however, some of them have already been taken over, and Teal'c's strategy to detect them is, here again, both very clever and comically Teal'cesque.

Finally, this is an opportunity to learn some new things about the Goa'uld, where they came from (and the fact that they really haven't changed at all). Incidentally, we also learn that Jaffa cannot become hosts, which was implicit but had never been really mentioned.

Peter Deloise wrote and directed this episode. Martin Wood is far better. Deloise typically has adolescent ideas, although sometimes he has some decent ideas. Unfortunately, he compromises this by having the characters speak lines then show what they just spoke; or vice versa. This happens when a show is "dumbed down". Particularly when he has to make a point. For example, after Dr. Jackson is kidnapped by the Unas, the first thing he does is speak about his radio, then show it to the Unas. It is his best chance to be found, but instead of being covert, he does the obvious. He could gave easily concealed it and keyed the microphone on, so all would hear him talking. This is only a single example of how the writer and director makes the show wirse, when he could have made it better. If not for his father, he never woukd have gotten anywhere. Thus is long tevirw, but critical to see how different the writers and directors talents are. Some are far better than others. Here, its worse. A very stupid episode.