Lost city parts 1 & 2

The earth is going to be destroyed by a powerful enemy and the situation looks bleak. Only SG-1 can save the day. I wonder if they will be able to do that, one more time. They've only done it once a year for the past seven years. Yawn.

Of course they will, they always do. There was so much wrong with these episodes, but the good bits were also very good.

Bad:

• You know how it's going to end
• When an unknown young man appears out of nowhere to offer you just what you're going to need, he will turn out to be a traitor
• Healing powers of the Ancients? Please
• Cheap endings: "...and then suddenly they all died"
• Cheap endings, part 2: Will Jack O'Neil survive? Well, what do you think?

Good:

• Master Bra'tac (Tony Amendola) - I love this guy
• Teal'c and O'Neill - I have been missing this close realtionship between these two for many seasons now
• O'Neill and Carter - although my prediction of them getting it on this season turned out to be false, they were not far of. Definetly my shippy couple at the moment.
• William Devane - 'nuf said
• Some great looking space battles - more please

What can we learn from this then? Characters and actors: very good, writing for these episodes: very bad. I was expecting something huge to happen to pave way for Atlantis, but that didn't really happen either. What Atlantis brings to the table is left to be seen on July 16th.