SG:1 - 9x10 - 'The Fourth Horseman (Part 1)' [SPOILERS]

ixoy

Wahh it's the mid-season finale! It won't be till January when we see new episodes, most likely on Sky One. Was it good? Did it whet your appetite for more? Or will you be tuning out of the show for good...

ixoy

9.10 = (10/2)

Another goody, if not immediately as fun as "Prototype".

Most importantly, we got a reasonable and believable explanation for why our Ancients/Altairans never interfere and I can actually believe it. So well done them.

We got Garek as Prior - a twist I didn't see coming and which could actually have some interesting consequences.

We got a plague sweeping earth, and I'm wondering where that will go. They can't have the whole earth going "Hallowed be the Ori" but they're going to have to find some reason for when the plague's covered (even from a show which makes skyscrapers vanish).

We got Dr. Lee who's always fun - I loved the way he laughed at his own "sound" joke.

We got Sam's weird relationship with Orlin. I was immediately reminded of "Birth" in the fact that, like in the movie, she meets someone she's had a relationship with in a younger body. Oh and the fact that Cameron Bright was that kid in "Birth" and Orlin in this episode - surely that had to have been deliberate?!

Makes me look forward to the second half of a season that, IMHO, has had a better first half of a season than the show's had in a good while.

Winters

9.10 = (10/2)

I never liked Garek from the start, never trusted the guy and I think it has really shown in this episode.

I'm assuming the plague on Earth is something similar to what the Ancients were suffering. Possibly this is the reason as to why they allowed the kid [Orlin], the fact that the Ori are meddling with people in such a way, but even this wouldnt explain this as the Ancients never stepped in to help the people on lowers plains.

I do really hope we discover why this time, the Ancients seem to be playing some sort of part in helping to stop the Ori.

Also, it was nice to finally understand how the Ori gather their power. The fact that they seem to nearly feed upon the weak [Wraith style] for their power. That they dont actually accend etc.

Now we just gotta spent ages waiting for the second half of the season to start

JohnK

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

The wait for the next episode is going to kill me as I really liked this. I didn't see the Garek thing coming although it was nice to see his desire to save lives before he was made into an Ori killing machine. I'm looking forward to seeing if the Anti-Prior "gun" works. If it does it could really change the balance of power. I'm guessing that Orlin is going to croak in the next one though as they cant have him re-ascend *again*. Either that or he's going to lose all his memories and be told he was a plague victim.

Venom

Could be a good story if they dont **** up the 2nd part. Garek being one of this seasons villians could be seen miles away and I found the whole notion of the Jaffa leaders just going along with the Ori being gods as very bad ploting from the writers. 6 weeks of freedom from the false gods of the goulds and they jump in bed with the ori?

Wasnt mad on Orlin coming back but at least the truth about the Ori was well done. Hammond and Bretak are always a nice addition to the show but couldnt they have given Hammond more screen time?

Cabaal

Oh no not the waiting, please dear god no!

madrab

9.10 = (10/2) - x, 1.5<x<4.5

how long is the wait till the next epp?

Winters

9.10 = (10/2)

madrab wrote:

how long is the wait till the next epp?

from tv.com

Sunday January 1, 2006
The Fourth Horseman (2)
The Ori unleash a deadly plague on Earth, prompting a powerful ally from SG-1's past to come to their aid.

Although it says 1st Jan I seriously doubt that is the correct date as I'd expect the Sci-Fi channel to keep with their usual Friday night episodes. I'd expect the date to be more around the 6th 13th [ooh, Friday 13th .. as evil as the Ori] or the 20th etc.

JohnK

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

Thats like 15 weeks! How the hell are we expected to last that long?!?!?!

Nukem

9.10 = (10/2)

9/10 cant wait for the next one!!!!!!!

is_that_so

9.10 = (10/2)

Good cliffhanger and IMO the best episode of a fairly humdrum season. Some bits were a touch obvious - Garek for one and the reappearance of Orlin. TBH that is probably the only way the Ori story could develop. Still a decent enough effort.
Suspect that we may see Episode 11 on Sky1 before the US come back.

Berns

9.10 = (10/2)

Hopin the kid can help out a bit more before looses all memory, goin sorta groundhog day there. Wonder what the reaction of the council will be after Garricks entrance & the intial shock, any killin attempts

JohnK

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

A few people have said they saw the Garek thing coming, do you mean you saw him being the bad guy or him becoming an Ori Prior? I think everyone saw him as the bad guy but to be honest the Prior thing came totally out of nowhere for me! I dont think anyone could have seen the prior thing coming.

JohnK

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

Thinking about Orlin, I don’t think they’ll want to kill of a kid so who wants to bet he’ll lose all his memories and be sent to the same school as Jack Clone?

sutty

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

Your math confuses me

also a good ep. nicely played out.

stag39

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

ok heres my theory in why the ancients are helping out with kid gloves!!!

maybe the ori are warring with the ancients ...and that they don't want the extra power from the billions of extra belivers in the hallowed ori!!!...

this was a little pro church episode alright!!!!!! :rolleyes:

madrab

9.10 = (10/2) - x, 1.5<x<4.5

JohnK wrote:

Thats like 15 weeks! How the hell are we expected to last that long?!?!?!

Lost, veronica mars, threshold, prison break & maybe surface if it is any good




ps Veronica Mars is HOT

daveirl

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JohnK

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

Season 5, episode 3 - Ascension. He was a bit older then.
http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s5/503.shtml

Cabelo

Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on SG-1 (although sad to say that Atlantis had a better season start this time around) and loved this episode and the one previous to it.

I have to admit there were four of us in the room when Garek didn't kill the jaffa and I said, "He's gonna be a prior" and there was a "Yep," "Yup," "Yeah," and a single, "Awww yeaaaaah..."

Not an unexpected twist but what's nice about it is that it's the kind of thing people say they'd like to see happen; and it did. Everyone's happy

Lazareus

In the book of Revelation, the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse is Death, who rides upon a pale horse. Death and Hades are "given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth" (Revelation 6:8).


Are the Orii going to be identified with the fallen angels of Christianity? "Cast from heaven by God" = "Cast from the society of the Ascended?"

Id like to say i found this myself but someone beat me to it,

Do u think this will realy happen or do u have any other theory's?

corblimey

Can someone explain something to me quickly? Right at the start of this ep, the 2 smelly guys come in from another planet, and one of them says something about Lam giving him a spongebath. Cameron gets upity about that, and by way of explanation, the other smelly guy says that Lam *was* Landry's daughter. A bit weird to state it like that, and also doesn't explain why Mitchell was p*ssed.

senordingdong

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

I thought it was brilliant.

Hooked from start to finish....my only flaw was that we didn't really get a good idea of the extremity of the plague.

I understand that Orlin being a young fella was good for the story but I wonder was it really necessary.
Also, to do with Orlin, I didn't entirely hear what he said when he explained why the Ancients won't interefere the same way the Ori are.

Oh, and I could have sworn that when the credits began on sky, the lady said they are taking a four week break.....anyoneelse hear this?

ShaneOC

senordingdong wrote:

Oh, and I could have sworn that when the credits began on sky, the lady said they are taking a four week break.....anyoneelse hear this?

Returning on Sky One on the 10th of January.

senordingdong

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

Bollocks.

America gets them on the 6th.

Also, I recall Sg-1 going after the Sodan, why were they doing that?

chickenchaser

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

In regards to Orlin, maybe the Asgard could use one of their devices to download his memory onto one of their computers.

Can't wait til jan 6 for the next episode!!

timeout

9.10 = (10/2)

senordingdong wrote:

Bollocks.

America gets them on the 6th.

Also, I recall Sg-1 going after the Sodan, why were they doing that?

They have an anti-ori gun / cure for plague on earth not sure which, but they need the DNA from the original ori that infected them who is sodan planet. me thinks.

senordingdong

9.10 = (10/2) + x, 1.5<x<4.5

Oh yeah.

So what about what Orlin said about why the Alterans won't interefere in the same manner as the Ori.