SG-1 Picks of the Week: Avalon

Welcome back to SG-1 Picks of the Week.  First off I would like to apologize for not being around for the last couple of days but sinus headaches kicked in on Wednesday.  Yay me!   Moving right along I thought give the myriad of two part episodes this series loves to do we could touch base on one of my favorites.  So dial the DHD, watch for the event horizon and dive through the Chappa’ai.  This is Stargate: SG-1 Avalon.

Hey Teal'c, throw me the false idol. heh.

Vala Mal Doran: There’s nothing I hate more than a bold-faced spoiler.

After months of intense physical therapy from an F-302 crash in the Antarctic; Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder of Memphis Belle, Party of Five, Farscape, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum) assumes his prize command, SG-1.   Only the band seems to have gone their separate ways.  Now Lt. Colonel Sam Carter is residing in Area 51 and heading up the better portions of reverse engineering alien tech for Air Force use.   Many years of the struggles of the Goa’uld, Teal’c’s people the Jaffa are finally able to create a world of peace and unity their own but what this Jaffa nation does in its infancy can affect it for generations to come.    Dr. Daniel Jackson is on his way to Atlantis to better help the SG: Atlantis expedition run smoothly.  

Well Jackson at least she isn't Willy or Short Round.

So who the hell is Mitchell leading into unknown dangers?   As Mitchell is batting 0 for 3 an unscheduled wormhole kicks in and now base commander; Major General Landry (Beau Bridges of The Iron Triangle, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Agency, Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate: The Ark of Truth) gets a report from the Beta site monitoring station that an unknown woman has appeared asking for Dr. Jackson.  Moments delayed due to a frisking, the men bring her to the SGC to shock and dismay the SG-1 fans it is the same confidence trickster that beat the crap out of Daniel in Season 8. 

Now we slay the makers of Krull!

Vala Mal Doran (Claudia Black of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, City Life, Pitch Black, Queen of the Damned, Farscape and Farscape: The Peacekeepers War) a former host to a Goa’uld has managed to congeal her way back to the SGC and explain to Daniel she has found reference to a great treasure but she cannot read the Ancient writings.  As Teal’c is visiting the SGC, he decides to accompany Daniel, Vala and Mitchell to this dig site in Glastonbury or rather several meters under it.  Then the real adventure begins…

Part 2: As our band of explorers reveal in their extreme cleverness for discovers a tomb of an Ancient known as Meyordan or as he is known on Earth, Merlin.  So a few death defying traps later, the team is awarded with gold, jewels and various trinkets of which this viewer went, “SGC budget for the next 3 years.”  Daniel discovers a book written in Ancient speaking of the people of Atlantis and how they traveled across the galaxies, they further mention of how these people differed in their point of view.  As several of them ascended, some wished to be worshipped and feared while others chose a path of enlightenment and humility.    The recon team discovered an ample device that looks like a long range communications device…of course NO ONE knows how to turn the damn thing on or how it even works!! 

Sir, we frisked her many times over.

  Meanwhile back at the base, General Landry must balance being professional and personal when the primary physician is his daughter Dr. Carolyn Lam (Lexa Doig of TekWar, TekWar: TekLords, Traders, Jason X and Andromeda) who he is very strained from.   So there is that little bit of subplot there.  As Daniel and Vala bonded due to an alien device they proceed to examine the long range communications device as well.  Their bodies go completely limp and fall as their subconscious minds seem to inhabiting a couple of humans’ light years away. 

Well he's no Redford, ladies but have at him.

 What will happen to them?  Will they get back home?  Will the sexual tension between them ever be cut through?  Does Mitchell like fishing as much as O’Neill?  Will Teal’c be allowed more hair?  Will a group of the Asgard ever do the funky chicken?   Hey we may cover these very questions at a later date.