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"Grace" is a surreal episode of "Stargate SG-1" that begins like "Star Trek", with Samantha Carter acting like Scott in the cult-series. Then there is a twist in the storyline and the episode changes to "Twilight Zone" like, with the inner conflicts of Sam. Unfortunately the promising show ends pointless without explanation for most situations. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Grace"

I guess this episode is the Carter counterpart to "The Changeling". Except that I was willing to play along with The Changeling, and all the mystery surrounding Grace (most of which will never be explained) kind of annoys me. And I am also starting to OD on Carter after half a season of watching her race spaceships / tutor stupid engineers/ save spaceships *all by herself*.

So we get our little trip down her subconscious and all the issues she has to work out. This part is actually very interesting and insightful; even more interesting is the fact that there will be some follow-up on the topic of her sentimental life (or total lack thereof). I wouldn't complain about it... if this 40mn episode had anything else to offer.

The rest just feels very unclear, an exercise in mystification rather than a real plot. The episode begins on a nice reminder that Earth now has its own (semi) functional spaceship. We miss the main event, which is okay as past episodes have successfully used that strategy to create mystery and suspense. But no real investigation ever takes place. We watch Carter stumble through the empty ship and hallucinate, but she never acts on any of the advice that "Teal'c" and "Daniel" keep giving her, so we are left with a bunch of unverified theories about what is really going on. The same goes for the little girl, who may or may not be the sentient incarnation of the gas cloud --except that to all intents and purposes Carter saves the situation without any external help, so here again, who knows.

Finally, we never get to meet the aliens who had abducted the whole crew, so that's not one but TWO missed opportunities in one episode. I know that the SGC is getting used to abnormal events, but they usually try to take control more.

"Calm" is the word I'd use if I had to describe this episode in one word.

The beginning is a little shaky and could have done things differently to show (with 100% confirmation) that this is a stand-alone episode with the Prometheus on a new mission. That information does get added later, but the "previously on Stargate SG-1" part doesn't make this clear at all. My initial impression was that this episode was going back to an earlier point in the series, which it didn't.

After the crew of the Prometheus encounter the alien vessel and Sam wakes up, this episode takes on a slightly surreal and slow (but not sluggish) pace to go with the mysteries of what's going on.

There are a lot of unanswered questions here but that's not necessarily a bad thing, since it's done in a way that allows people to draw their own conclusions without being too curious about everything. Usually having unanswered questions is annoying, but it's fine here.

The Prometheus' mission should have been clear from the first minute or two, and it wasn't - that's pretty much my only major complaint. While this episode probably isn't for everyone, and can be skipped if you're concerned with the main storyline, I thought it was pretty well-directed and well-acted.

If I could I'd probably give this episode a 7.5 but I'll round up to 8. It's definitely not a 'bad' episode.

Compared with Space Race, I'll watch Grace 1,000 times. Episode is a "slow burn", following Carter around in a "last person on Earth" plot line. Could have done a lot more with this idea but 40+ minutes just can't hash it out. There's a little bit of a psychological thriller element, toying with the audience to try to understand what is real and what is imagined. You're left until the end to understand what is actually happening and the resolution is good enough. The main purpose of this episode is seemingly to declare to the audience that "Carter/O'Neill is not going to happen so give it a rest". To this end, this standalone contributed to a long-standing plot line in the series. Watching this episode, you start to connect the dots that SG1 may be running out of gas and the writers are preparing for the end. Things are getting wrapped up, just in case. What I appreciate most of this episode is that it wasn't goofy and there were clear stakes. Worth the watch.

Watching this episode, or not watching it, or fast forwarding through it, is a good time to reflect on how nice it is not to be stuck watching shows episode by episode, week by week.

This is another nothing episode that explores Carter's inner conflicts.

Prometheus is returning home, but has to rest the hyper drive on the way. An alien vessel attacks. P flees to a nebula of some kind. But on the way Carter is knocked out.

Now it's a lot of hallucinations, or living nebula talking to Carter, or Carter talking to her own thoughts as personified by the living nebula, or some other cool to pot smoking writers scenario.

Thankfully you won't miss anything by skipping this awful episode.