Crystal Skull

DVD, Stargate SG-1 S3 (Crystal Skull)

Having just watched 'Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull' I feel I've gone from complete ignorance of such phenomena to an expert on the subject. Okay, maybe an exaggeration, but it is ironic that I should watch that film one day and then see this episode the next! It was nothing special for most of the time, with a duff CGI cavern and nothing spectacular going on. Daniel always seems to be the one to get trapped or go missing alone, perhaps that's why he adjusts so easily to such situations, and I always love the way he's not too surprised either getting into or out of such scrapes!

There's a bit more interest when Grandpa Jackson (aka Nick Ballard) shows up, and this is when the story takes off. You get a sense that he can see Daniel from the first moment, but he's soon concentrating on the 'flesh and blood' members of SG-1 so Danny boy doesn't get a look-in until the fabulous moment when they're alone in his guest room and he talks to him. A great moment, and great fun, though not as funny as 'Urgo' in a similar vein.

We also get Sergeant Siler and the hilariously inept and worried Rothman returning, but there doesn't seem to be much of a conclusion to the story. They're aliens who transported via the skull? Anything else? It doesn't appear so. I don't remember seeing Ballard in future episodes so it could be another case of Ernest, except this is a guy that wants to be there so it was a happy ending. I thought the voice of the alien was familiar, and then the credits said it was Chris Judge. But how did they return to our 'phase' of vision or whatever? The same way I suppose, but it ends before they get back so they could be invisible forever. Maybe not.

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