So this was the big Lucian Attack we've been hearing about all season. A cloaked ship, did they borrow it from the Romulans?

Nice to see Greer get a recent role. He didn't want to go back to Earth, but he got into the action pretty fast. He and Camille had some good scenes together.

I knew that airman they found was the traitor. Did anyone else?

Nice to see Telford okay. Kind of freaky to hear that you have died.

So did they stop the bomb or not?

TJ and Varro seem to be getting close, I see.

French Stewart was in this episode. He himself played an alien on the 90's sitcom, Third Rock From The Sun.

I like the new Chloe. They are finally developing her character.

So, I guess next week we find out what happened back on Earth.

I knew that airman they found was the traitor. Did anyone else?

I don't think that they could have telegraphed it any louder.

I was bored. As the episode ended on my first watch-through and I realised that I would have to go through it twice more, I grumbled to myself, “I hate it when writing a transcript is a chore rather than a pleasure.” As a result, I got easily distracted by a lot of shiny things while I was working, and it took twice as long as usual!

I love the way that, when he arrives at Homeworld Command, Greer can’t stop staring at his hands. But I wonder if anyone bothered to explain to him in advance that he would be transferring into a caucasian host.

French Stewart! He played Feretti in the original Stargate movie, so it was strange to see him playing another character here.

Michaels says she was a friend of Senator Armstrong and has known Chloe since she was a child, yet Chloe calls her “Senator Michaels” rather than “Aunt Alice” or whatever her first name is. I realise that Chloe was her father’s aide and so would have had to address Michaels by her title in formal situations, but surely they would have had a more relaxed relationship outside work, and I would have thought that seeing her for the first time in such a strange place would kick in the more familiar greeting.

Why is Greer (in Covel’s body) not wearing any I.D. while he prowls around Homeworld Command before the attack?

Peter deLuise is an accomplished long-term director, so I was surprised at how badly he filmed the initial moments of the attack on Homeworld Command. I had to run the video in extreme stop-start slow motion before I realised that Greer shoved Camille down onto the floor and under the table just before the ceiling caved in.

What’s with all the “over a million years ago” references that have been appearing in scripts recently? In Air, Rush said that they’re “several billion light years from home,” so Destiny’s launch took place a whole lot more than simply over a million years ago.

OK, I know that the Pentagon is a huge building, and we know from bitter experience that part of it can be struck while the rest is undamaged but this is a sci-fi show and is supposed to be visually entertaining. Could the budget really not run to a few bits of debris in the car park outside?!

Also, could the script not have had just one line explaining the absence of General O’Neill while his headquarters is under attack?

It would have made more sense if Telford – and therefore we – heard Michaels’ voice over the radio rather than Camille’s.

What’s happening out in the rest of the galaxy that means that all our spaceships are away from Earth at the moment and so couldn’t beam Camille and Greer – or, even better, the bomb itself – out of the Pentagon?

I love the looks on the faces of Adam and Dale as Covel tells Eli that people at the S.G.C. call him the Boy Wonder, and then the way that Adam gestures between himself and Dale and casually tells Covel, “We work here too”!

That moment when Camille pulled out the severed arm from the rubble was a bit of a shock!

When did an H.R. person like Camille learn to know exactly what the levels on a Geiger counter mean? I mean, we all know that when the pointer’s over to the right it’s not good, but how does she know they’re already dead?

I was staggered when they went to the epilogue with only two minutes to go. I didn’t see how Camille and Greer could possibly get everything said in that time, but the scene seemed to go on for quite a long time.

The two of them seem concerned that there hasn’t been a connection via the stones since they got back a few hours ago. It’s hardly surprising if the box is buried and inaccessible, and the rescue teams are going to be looking for people and not exactly prioritising unearthing the box.

A cloaked ship, did they borrow it from the Romulans?
The Alliance got most of their technology from the Goa’uld, who have had cloaking technology forever.

So, I guess next week we find out what happened back on Earth.
I reckon that next week’s episode might be what I will forever think of as a “Phew, Tamara” episode (after your description of how the episode following Time might start!). I’m assuming that Michaels and Covel will have defused the bomb and everyone on Earth will live happily ever after, and that this will be mentioned only in passing, if at all.

OK, I know that the Pentagon is a huge building, and we know from bitter experience that part of it can be struck while the rest is undamaged but this is a sci-fi show and is supposed to be visually entertaining. Could the budget really not run to a few bits of debris in the car park outside

So I guess this will be explained away to the general population as an Al Quaeda attack.


Also, could the script not have had just one line explaining the absence of General O’Neill while his headquarters is under attack?

I agree, they could have said he was on vacation, or somthing like that.


What’s happening out in the rest of the galaxy that means that all our spaceships are away from Earth at the moment and so couldn’t beam Camille and Greer – or, even better, the bomb itself – out of the Pentagon?

How many ships has Earth got? How can they keep something like this a secret? Ships all over the galaxies, transporters, cloaking devices. This is almost like Star Trek, only set in the present, rather than centuries in the future.

Humanity has done a lot, it seems, in only 17 years (when the original Stargate movie happened).


I’m assuming that Michaels and Covel will have defused the bomb and everyone on Earth will live happily ever

Except for poor Michaels and Covel, that is.

I noticed the absence of General O'Neill too. I know they could not get RDA but they could have mentioned his name, like the General radioed that he is ok or something like that.

And it looked to me as though Greer pushed Camille through the doorway before the actual ceiling came down; did he hear the ship crashing through the roof before we did?

Camille says, "You're afraid of what I do because I help people with their problems."
Huh? I thought Camille was a buearocrat on the Stargate Oversight Commission rather than someone who does something useful?

I had read something a while back about geiger counters & decided to look them up to see if I remembered it right. What I remembered reading may not have been right, but Wikipedia's explanation made me wonder if the writer was using it right himself.

Slightly edited from the article:
A Geiger counter is a type of particle detector that measures ionizing radiation.

They detect the emission of nuclear radiation: alpha particles, beta particles or gamma rays.

the Geiger counter cannot distinguish the energy of the source particles.

Sooooooo... IIUC Geiger counters do not measure radiation per se just particles produced by radiation so Camille & Covel assessments about the radiation levels may not be quite accurate?