O'Neill does for a time on Argos too when the shining light at the end of the tunnel grows near and becomes an impending reality. I can't help but ponder them from time to time. It certainly doesn't consume me, but they exist in my life and perhaps they even shape us to a degree. I have never understood those that say they live without regrets or never consider regrets of past decisions. With a pad and pen he attempts to formulate thoughts for a letter he has addressed " Dear Sara." Sara is O'Neill's ex-wife and Brief Candle considers the idea of regret and in effect foreshadows events that would take center stage in Stargate SG-1, S1, Ep7, Cold Lazarus. In an interesting character moment, O'Neill is growing old on Argos (like the dog wwaiting for Odysseus), waiting for Carter, and he understands death is approaching. Did the Goa'uld in effect spread the Replicators? Is this the invasive enemy that would remain a crucial component of the series? Did the replicators actually first appear here in Brief Candle? These things even attempt to spread at the SGC.
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In effect, Brief Candle introduces viewers to the earliest form of machine replication or what would become more prominently referred to in the series as the beloved Replicators. Or sheer coincidence?Ĭarter determines O'Neill's affliction is a form of nanotechnology or nanocytes. Jack not jump over the candlestick. Am I the first to think of this? I wonder these things sometimes. In a strange coincidence the episode, Brief Candle, channels the old English nursery rhyme Jack Be Nimble (1815), but with the lyrics inverted. Offering my best O'Neill impression, well that would suck. At the rate he grows older O'Neill has roughly two weeks to live as a result of already being a middle-aged man. While Carter returns to the SGC ( Stargate Command) to find a solution, Jack O'Neill is indeed aging at a rapid pace. So there is much to allude to age in Brief Candle. Ironically and for the historically minded, Argos is also a reference to the old and faithful dog of Odysseus who died upon the final sighting of his master in Homer's ancient, epic Greek poem The Odyssey. Like a dog's life in dog years, people are born and grow to maturity only to die in roughly 100 days exaggerating and accelerating the equivalent of 100 years. Given its thematic content the title for Stargate SG-1's latest, Brief Candle, is a fitting and beautiful allusion to the story. And with Brief Candle Anderson arguably delivers the best performance of the season to date as a transformative, aging, crusty O'Neill.ġ00 days (the name would be applied to S3, Ep17, A Hundred Days). Here, 100 days is the brief celebration of life when the end comes, life ends and the candle is symbolically snuffed out.
Kirk of the Stargate universe (not the series of course, but generally speaking) bedding a beautiful woman. Jack O'Neill delivers on his potential as the resident James T. The personalities and dynamics of their relationships always elevated the material and bolstered even the weakest stories. Tales were always entertaining thanks to the chemistry of Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge. It was always about the wonderful ensemble that developed for the series. Brief Candle certainly doesn't ape these stories outright and offers its own Stargate flavor to the proceedings. It is a place where beautiful people reside and elders are nowhere to be found.īrief Candle doesn't exactly break new ground choosing instead to riff on old (no pun intended actually) ideas that can be found in everything from Star Trek: The Original Series ( Miri) and Star Trek: The Next Generation ( Justice) to Space:1999 ( Black Sun) with concepts found in films like Logan's Run (1976). Pelops is not a god but a front for an alien experiment by the Goa'uld. The SG-1 team lands itself on a world, Argos, which is given to an appearance and flair for the Greek lifestyle centered around a statue of Pelops. There's an infusion of a touch more humor and flow within the latest entry to Stargate SG-1's (1997-1998) inaugural first season with Stargate SG-1, Season One, Episode 6, Brief Candle.