Stargate SG-1, Season 7, Episode 18

"Heroes: Part 2"

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Overall Rating:  Good

Commentary by:

Andy Mikita — Director
Robert C. Cooper — Writer and Executive Producer
Andy Wilson — Director of Photography

The commentary is very informative and interesting.   Lots of behind the scene information.   The commentary stays on point with what is on screen.

Review:  

Continuing immediately after the events of “Heroes: Part 1,” SG teams are sent off world to help SG-13 with their wounded.  The documentary filming is still going on, although they are not allowed to travel through the stargate.  Back at SGC, it’s revealed that one of the regularly appearing Stargate SG-1 characters is dead, killed off world.

Failures:

A regular character is gone, from what I understand in order to see how the other characters deal with loss.  Thing is, there have been SGC characters killed off on Stargate SG-1 before.  And, the surviving characters had to deal with those losses.  Sometimes, background characters, starting within the first few minutes of Stargate SG-1’s initial episode, “Children of the Gods.”  “Meridian” was meant to be, and treated like, Daniel Jackson’s swan song.  O’Neill was ready to let an entire planet’s population starve because some SG personnel were killed in “Red Sky.”  We've seen Stargate SG-1 characters sacrifice, and grieve for lives lost, before.  Nothing was added to Stargate SG-1 by the events of “Heroes: Parts 1 and 2.”  I rate this episode as good based solely on the actors performances, the effects, and the sets.