The Nox! I love the Nox.
If the Stargate was for real, that would be the world I would love to visit myself. I so like those guys.
They are so much more evolved than us and part of their wisdom is that they live in perfect harmony with nature and in peace. They chose to live that way although they are so technically evolved that they can make their cities fly and mentally evolved that they can appear or disappear at will and can make other things disappear, too.
Also they can revive their dead.
They have a much longer lifespan than humans and maybe this is what makes them wise, too.
As one of them said: Knowledge takes time. We teach the young to be wise.
This is my favourite line of the episode:
"Maybe one day you will learn that your way is not the only way."
In other words: Be tolerant!
This is what I want to shout to all the intolerant and dumb people around the world who have nothing in their minds than to force their way of life, their believes and cultures on other people and have no problem with killing others who don't want to adopt their point of view. Why can't we just live in peace and harmony? Life is too short to make it to hell for others.
Second favourite line:
"The very young do not always do what they are told."
Sometimes, when my kids drive me crazy, I try to think of that line instead of hitting the roof. But sometimes I just fail. After all I am not a Nox, just a mother....not always wise.
Although the Nox are tolerant with each other they are not with the human visitors. They want them to go back to their world. But SG1 had a chance to get knowledge from them, but Daniel screwed it in my opinion, when he refused the first attempt from the old Nox he was walking with (when he offered him some of the tree juice). Maybe if he had gone along with it a first connection could have been built. But that is just speculation.....
Interesting is also the very beginning of the episode. That is the part one maybe forgets too quickly; the Stargate program is a military program and costs billions of dollars. So the politicians and military leadership who know of the program want it to benefit....which means superiour technology, not getting to know older earth based cultures (as Daniel explains).
Other interesting point we tend to forget is that Daniel is (at least in the beginning) only part of SG1 because he wants to search for Share and Skaara. How desperate he is we see when SG1 discusses the possibily of attacking and abducting Apophis after they have discovered him.
So, all in all a very intersting and well shot episode. One of my favourites of the first season.
Anja
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