It started out in Kinovision (the world viewed from a Kino), with our heroes checking out a new planet, rife with foliage. Before long, some of the crew began to fall sick, including Chloe (Elyse Levesque), so the team stayed on the planet to try to determine whether it was something there that was making them sick - they did not want to bring a contagion back. It turns out that this was a bad idea because by nightfall the stargate was malfunctioning and squid creatures attacked. They started biting, and one ate through Chloe. That's right, Chloe died!!
Naturally, I knew at that point that something wasn't quite right. As delighted as I would be by Chloe's death, Elyse Levesque is scheduled to appear for the rest of the season.
As it turns out, the folks watching the Kino video also realized at that point that something wasn't right, particularly Chloe who had to run out of the room to puke.
And so we have all our friends watching themselves on the planet, where they have now never been since they found the Kino full of information. Is it an alternate timeline, dimension or what?
It's not a time loop - too early for a time loop episode - instead, the stargate is passing through a solar flare, which past stargate experience has taught us will throw the traveller back through the same gate but at a different time - past or future. In this case, the Kino went to the past.
Yes, we got some cool scientific stuff going on, and, for once, we had some great connections happening between the characters. Alaina Huffman's TJ finally showed herself as a smart, competent and tough woman. She did everything she could to save her sick patients, in both timelines, and was equally crushed by her failure. Eli (David Blue) connected with TJ and Rush (Robert Carlyle) since Chloe ended up dying in both timelines. I already loved Eli for his goofiness and the truth of his supergeekdom, but seeing him befriend characters who I respect, well that was a thing of beauty. And Rush, confronted with death again, was brave and true and tried his best. All the actors brought their A games to this episode, and so did the writers.
What do you think? Can they keep it up in next week's episode, entitled Life, where our heroes will have little time to capture a squid and extract its venom to cure the disease they carry?
Also, what do you think of the linking of episodes, no longer whole independent, but one leading carefully into the problem of the next?
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