You're fairly cruel to Robert Picardo - the lighting is dark, but I don't think they particularly tried to make Richard Woolsey look ugly. He also ended up being right. Not in the financial sense, but that the rescue mission was a bad idea. The SGC lost it's chief medical officer, and should have also lost it's second in command - Jack. Honestly, the ads at the time made it look like he got hit by a staff blast and took a dirt nap. In the past, that's all it takes. Weaponized plasma is not something people walk off.
Hell, all his arguments are correct. The SGC was an ad-hoc program that was designed to do one thing, the Abydos mission. When that mission concluded, the SGC was mothballed, and the gate was put into storage.
Hammond was essentially working off the end of his contract before retirement, when Apophis kicked the anthill over.
After that the SGC operated under reactive conditions, utilizing very much a good old boy network, both O'neill and Hammond mention being close friends with the sitting (never seen) President.
Kinsey was always a sleemo, but most of his arguments, when stripped from his naked ambition are correct, the SGC is flat out a slapped together, duct taped up and play it as it goes institution.
And the world is tired of it. The UN forms the International Oversight Committee to put the program in check. Hammond is offered the option to remain in the service, but step down from command of the program. He takes command of the Prometheus.
Dr. Elizabeth Weir is a noted diplomat, when crafting the alliance with the Tok'ra, Daniel cribbed from her notes.
They don't elaborate too much, but do state that she is responsible for a ton of the treaties currently in place on SGC Earth. She's a peacemaker.
Much like Jack and Hammond, she has a personal friendship with the NEW US President, Henry Hayes.
William Devane actually did play JFK, and the callback is him looking at a bust of JFK and comparing himself to it.
Interestingly enough, Hayes actually served with Hammond, they reminisce in the oval office.
The unstated political party forced Senator Kinsey on him as VP. In many alternate timelines, Kinsey took the office, presumably having Hayes killed at some point.
That's right, one of the SGC's most dogged enemies is now one heartbeat away from the presidency.
This clip show was necessitated because ALL OF THE MONEY went into the series finale. COUGH season finale. They weren't sure.
Lost City
poo, I jumbled up a bit.
The SGC is stood down for three months, and possibly permanently. All off-world teams are recalled. Jack is in danger, as he has once again made the sacrifice of downloading the Ancient Database into his brain.
Honestly, I wonder what the Asgard did with it the first time, since they "uninstalled" it from his brain. Either way, Jack is essentially living with a death sentence, since the Asgard aren't handily available to pull a miracle again.
Bad things happen in the galaxy as the SGC is shuttered.
Honestly, this probably saved every offworld team from a horrible death, considering how fast Anubis is gobbling up... well everything.
braetac shows up and tells earth that they are next. TBC
LOST CITY 2 ELECTRIC BUGALOO
Huh, I didn't write much about this one. The Nimitz battle group dies offscreen. In space war, it's all about the orbitals. A water navy is essentially a sitting duck.
The fight is fairly exciting, I note that Weir made a hell of a hard call allowing the mission to proclarush.
Anubis always sucked.
I don't get why they kept flirting with killing O'Neill off, it's somewhat distracting. Putting him on ice was a good plan.
