Okay, so Stargate should probably stop dabbling in horror. It really doesn't work. It's not for lack of trying, though. The settings are just right: a narrow mine shaft turned into a monster-incubator, a dark, foggy forest at night with the ruins of an abandoned cursed village. At the most predictable moment, you hear weird noises, glimpse dark furtive shapes or have a monster jump at you out of the darkness, or possibly just grab you through walls. And let's not forget that for some reason all the equipment starts malfunctioning. And the cast! Now, I personally cheer for an all-girl SG team. But someone obviously felt it would be less fun if the unfortunate explorers caught in that mess were burly guys. So it had to be a team of cute chicks with a really bad tendency to wander off on their own even though they know monsters are out there. Oh, and they are fundamentally unable to take a head count correctly.
So in case sarcasm isn't your cup of tea: it's not that the episode doesn't try. Rather, it tries too hard and ends up piling up *every* overdone cliché of the horror genre. And it doesn't help that out of the usual cast, only Sheppard makes an appearance (okay, I should probably include Carson, but seriously: where are the others?). Apart from those two major problems, this is a decent episode. The plot is credible and will actually lead to an interesting development, the characters interact rather well (apart from that incredibly stupid guy who literally has got "kill me" written on his face), and there is some amusing byplay. It's not really boring either. It's just... I guess, it's a normal episode which gives itself airs.
So in case sarcasm isn't your cup of tea: it's not that the episode doesn't try. Rather, it tries too hard and ends up piling up *every* overdone cliché of the horror genre. And it doesn't help that out of the usual cast, only Sheppard makes an appearance (okay, I should probably include Carson, but seriously: where are the others?). Apart from those two major problems, this is a decent episode. The plot is credible and will actually lead to an interesting development, the characters interact rather well (apart from that incredibly stupid guy who literally has got "kill me" written on his face), and there is some amusing byplay. It's not really boring either. It's just... I guess, it's a normal episode which gives itself airs.