Season 6, Episode 1: Redemption part 1
on July 15th, 2011 at 6:13 amOriginal Air Date – 7 June 2002
SG-1 returns to SGC from an off-world mission, running away from hostile natives. Three months have passed and SG-1 still hasn’t found a replacement for Daniel, thus far just recycling potential candidates who fail to prove their worth. During this time however, Jonas Quinn has been on Earth, living on the base and using his super fast learning skills to read SG-1’s case files and reports. It seems that he is eager to join the team and he managed to persuade Samantha and Teal’c thus far, leaving the toughest nut to crack for the end and Jack will need a lot of persuasion. In the meanwhile, Bra’tac arrives, informing Teal’c that his wife Drey’ac is ill and dying. She doesn’t wish to accept a new symbiote, fastening her impending death. Teal’c returns to Chulak, but it is too late, his wife already dead and their son Rya’c blames his father for the death of his mother. At the same time, Anubis is attacking SGC with one of the weapons hailing from the ancients, which keeps a constantly operating wormhole, building up an overload which is enough to destroy an entire world.
“Redemption” is, simply put, a total bomb of an episode and it is the best choice for a season opener. I think that never before did we have so much separate stories and events packed into one episode. Teal’c’s journey to Chulak under sad circumstances, the attack constructed by Anubis toward Earth, Jonas Quinn’s wish to join the team and the lingering of Daniel’s remembrance…the viewer doesn’t know what to ponder about first! Thanks to so many plots in a single episode, everything is happening quite fast and events are extremely rapid. Even the slower parts concerning Teal’c and his son on Chulak are somehow quick to unravel, thanks to constant shifts between plots. We are literally thrown from one corner to the other and this type of storytelling is superb.
I was very happy to see more doings and schemes of Anubis and slowly he is really becoming one of my favorite antagonists. For the sake of this episode I won’t write so much about the climax of the plots in these forty minutes, yet I will leave it to you dear reader to witness an amazing new season’s birth.
