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I'm writing this review watching 2010 for the first time since coming up with my Jack/Janet fic idea for the episode. It's kinda strange, since it's really influencing my thoughts - right from the first scene with Sam and Joe.
Seriously, Sam let him go. Janet has no real reason to stay away anymore. ;-)
And there she is, appearing in time with her name on the screen. Bizarrely, even with her onscreen position being where it is, you can still see the heavy make-up. It's... different. Which, I guess, is the point. And honestly, it isn't bad, just different.
And way better than Daniel's glasses!
Oh dear, Janet almost didn't come. She's defending Jack.
Oh wow.
In fact, that's something a little different. Sam and Janet are both there, but it's Janet that defends Jack's position. It just goes with what I've been thinking more and more. For Janet, 2010 - the future - isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Though now, it's weird thinking that in the 'corrected' timeline she'll never make it that far. I.will.not.cry.
Back to the point. It's obvious the advances have really affected Janet. The career she spent years training for (a process I'm well acquainted with!) has been practically taken away from her. I know I'd find that hard. It's weird, the thought of studying for all that time, in Janet's case pursuing her career for a number of years, then simply finding one day that your skills are no longer required. Did anyone ever help Janet through that? What's she actually been doing all these years?
She's so good at her job. The very next scene, telling Sam about her prospects of children... it's sad in two ways. Obviously, Sam's inability to have children is a shattering blow. The addition for Janet is the chance to practice her craft again, it must bring some fairly conflicting thoughts to the forefront of her mind. Yet she's there for Sam, and she knows just how to get her friend through this.
Thought: she walks quickly for someone so small. She's obviously spent time trailing her seniors in ward rounds at some point in her past. Personal experience? Yeah sure ya betcha!
So, Janet can't read the Aschen language. Sam can. Janet says it herself - Sam's on the inside. Poor Janet!
She has to go! No, she's not going o call Jack. Nuh-uh.
Janet really has a huge part to play in this episode. She was really the start of the doubts, the investigation, the ultimate "turning back of time". In a bizarre, twisted way, she brings around her own death.
Good grief, it just occurred to me. She's the only one not dead in this timeline by the end of the episode. Such irony.
Back to where we're at. Hammond knew. He knew she was the one to talk to, she was the one with doubts. Even if she didn't realise it fully at the time.
And there's the fighting spirit. "Fight back!" No kidding.
Okay, how did Janet not know about "1969"? Surely, as their doctor, she would know they've been to the past. After all, no one would know the effects of time travel on the human body. It would be... almost negligent not to inform her, assuming she wasn't the one performing their post-mission physical.
Janet started this, yet she's still the moral, ethical voice when they discuss the plan to change things. Very in character.
Side note: And there it is. Osiris' coat. *g* [See review of "The Curse".]
Why does Sam call Janet "Dr. Fraiser" when she's talking to Jack? In this scene, that always sounded out of place to me.
How did I not notice before how gorgeous Janet/Teryl looks in this scene? (When she meets with Jack and Daniel to discuss the note.) *makes mental note to capture scenes with Jack and Janet*
Hee! Janet asks how the solar flare predictor works, and actually seems to know just what Sam's saying. It makes a nice change from Jack's blank looks!
On the subject of Jack, I wonder what Janet was thinking during the "confrontation" between him and Joe. Very interesting.
And there she goes *waves*. She had such a great part in this episode. In this future.
We next see her back in 'our' time, handily in the control room with SG-1, Hammond and Chevron Guy. Back in her white coat. Back in her job. Able to be useful.
And I can't help but think that, no matter what's to come, Janet herself might ultimately choose this timeline.
Contributed by LauraJo
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{Vicki goes into trance to avoid Sam/Joe scenes}
Uh, Sam? Remember your best friend? She’s a doctor… Y’know,
just a thought.
Hee! Sorry. Got distracted by the terminal building. Been
there {big grin}
Wow! We see Janet and “Teryl Rothery as Doctor Janet Fraiser” on
screen at the same time. Okay, bit too over-excited about that. And
she’s standing with SG-1 (or the three of them there) which is always nice.
Her only real smile so far has been when the three of them stepped up for their
medals. She’s so proud of them!!
She looks shorter than usual in the standing with the champagne scene.
Okay, who mucked up Teryl’s shoes in wardrobe? Just because Richard Dean
Anderson’s not in the scene… Hehe.
Aw, she almost didn’t come. Which would have seriously sucked (and Daniel
seems to think so too!)
They made plans and DANIEL KISSED HER!! Hee! Michael Shanks and Teryl
Rothery actually did a take where they did a full on kiss, and Chris Judge
turned around in surprise and was like “man, have I missed something?”
Highly coveted footage is that (especially by some members of the danandjan
mailing list for some bizarre reason…)
Girly chat time with Sam and Janet. Bless her. Poor Janet is feeling
obsolete. But y’know, at least she wasn’t dead!
{pauses to sob} Serious suckage that changing the past to save the future
is condemning her to death {pouts} Sam and Jack better end up together in
the current timeline, else what was the point of the note?!
Heh! She’s still got her white coat! And why does she have an office
in Washington? Surely she’d be better off in a more remote area where the
Aschen influence wasn’t so ingrained as it would be in the cities? (Unless
she meant Washington State (been there!) which is possible, but less likely.
Hehe)
Her office seems a bit impersonal, with a nice tidy desk! She’s got quite
a few certificates on her wall though {grin}. And then she has to break
the news to Sam that she can’t have children, bless her. This is clearly
just highlighting further how useless she’s feeling.
Wow!! How high (and noisy!) are her heels when she enters the Aschen lab?
I may seem to be obsessed with her shoes (it’s because I am!) and they’ve got to
be larger than normal, because Sam’s also wearing heels too!
The shock and horror is played so subtlety when she realises what’s happening
and she tells Sam to turn it off, even though she can’t read it herself.
She leaves very quickly, almost on the brink of losing her emotions. The
realisation of what’s happening seems much more personal for her at that point.
Maybe she was thinking about having a child, or children herself, as we’ve seen
her maternal instincts… well, not so much before this episode, but they are
there!! {grin}
Ahh, time for dinner (and she’s sitting next to Daniel. Actually,
LauraJo’s just paused it at this moment, so she’s staring adoringly at him.
Hehehe) [Edit: It was not paused that way on purpose. ~LJ]
Janet was clearly the first to start to doubt and General Hammond contacted her
before he died. When she tells the story – obviously for the first time
ever – her voice is strained, and she’s clearly kicking herself for just
accepting the Aschen’s diagnosis. Aww, someone give her a hug!
Hey – how come Janet got given the bill?!
Hmm, surely Janet should have known what happened in “1969”? Because,
y’know, they reported to the infirmary in their 60s gear, and Janet and Sam
clearly talk outside of the infirmary. And I dare say that would have been
an interesting conversation!
It’s interesting, and nice, that it’s Janet who brings up the ethical question
of it all. Sam points out that if they don’t, they will live to see the end of
the human race (wow, she’s being optimistic!). Well, now Janet’s not going to
live to see anything.
Heh. Cabin scene. Woah!! Why did Sam call Janet “Doctor
Fraiser”? They’ve been friends for fourteen years by now! Plus,
Janet’s not exactly feeling much like a doctor now at the moment either.
Daniel and Teal’c are standing around waiting for Sam. Where’s Janet?
Yay! Janet’s back! And I love her hair!! She looks absolutely
gorgeous in this scene. Hehe. The exasperated look she gives Jack as
he asks if they could put in who won the Super Bowl is great!
So why did they send Janet through with the co-ordinates?
Aw, it’s now our last scene of Future!Janet as she and Daniel wave at each
other. Aww… bless them.
She’s now safe on Chulack, while the others are all about to die.
In this future, she’s the only one still alive, but in the
future we’re going to see, she’s the only one dead {sobs}
Hey, Janet’s in the control room! What’s she doing there? And she’s
the first one to follow Jack and Hammond to the gate room.
Hehe, she was grammatically correct and is then off to be useful again!
Yay Janet!!
Contributed by Vicki
