teaguemcmartin

This felt like a very mid-season episode. Nothing too special. Go to a planet. No Go'Auld but everyone is gone (apparently not by their hand). CGI surroundings and some bugs that didn't look terrible. Until the CGI swarm maybe.

However, there was character named Ally. She helped an infirm Teal'c throughout the episode.

Always a gift to have a good supporting cast but when it's a kid, that's an extra shout out to the actor/actress and casting crew.

A quick IMDb search shows she hasn't been in anything else that I know, but respect to Colleen Rennison. She killed it in an otherwise mid-grade episode.

If you watched TV in the 80's and 90's (and even the aughts) you know what a clip show is. They take memorable parts from previous episodes and combine them to make up a full episode. Perhaps it was due to a strike, a week of unoriginal ideas or maybe just the anniversary of the show and the writers felt like they needed a break. With the advent of the internet and user reviews, producers quickly realized that watchers hate clip show episodes. So they retooled them into a new kind of lazy episode. The "dream sequence" or the "inside the mind of..." episodes.

But don't be fooled. They may contain an original idea and advance the plot more than a clip show but at the end of the day it's just exposition parading as a metaphor.

I enjoy the Boys and Gen V. I will continue to watch both. However, this episode was, sadly, was a Prime example of when good writers are lacking in original ideas.