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Brief Candle

After being greeted with open arms by the people of Argos, SG-1 discovers that not only do the Argosians suffer from rapid aging, but O'Neill has been somehow infected and will die in a few short days if they don't find a cure.

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StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Goofs...

The Stargate is only active for a fraction of a second before shutting down. However, SG-1 is shown to have completely come through, all side by side, while it has been established that it takes a few moments for a Stargate to dematerialize something, send it through the wormhole, and rematerialize it. It has also been established that protocols within the Stargate prevent it from shutting down while there is matter within the wormhole, or its buffer unless its power is cut from both ends.

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago

Goofs...

Despite the regulation set by Stargate Command that MALPs are sent through the Stargate to all unexplored planets, no MALP appears until much later in the episode, in order to communicate with a rapidly aging Colonel Jack O'Neill.

StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago
Gary Jones (MSgt. Walter Harriman) was credited in this episode but does not make an appearance.
StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago
This is the only episode of Stargate SG-1 written by Steven Barnes.
StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago
This is the first episode in which the term "Death Glider" is used.
StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago
O'Neill laughs at the idea of a 'good Goa'uld' in this episode, which is a possible foreshadowing of the Tok'ra.
StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago
The frequency emitter that Pelops left in the base of the statue of him is reused in "Exodus" on the weapons console that Teal'c uses onboard Cronus' Ha'tak.
StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago
O'Neill makes a reference to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, who ate the forbidden fruit and were expelled from Paradise.
StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago
This is one of three episodes in the Stargate franchise with a title referring to Shakespeare, the other ones being the Stargate: Atlantis Season 4 episodes "This Mortal Coil" and "Be All My Sins Remember'd", with the titles from the famous soliloquy from Hamlet, Act III, Scene I.
StevenJDickie posted 3 months ago
The episode title refers to the brief, ephemeral lives of the Argosians before SG-1 released them from the work of Pelops. It is also a quotation from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." (Macbeth: Act V, Scene V)
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