Stargate SG-1: Counter Strike

(S10E06) SG-1 is back from it's plot hiatus for 200. Morena finally makes her appearance in the show as Vala's huggable but evil genetically altered daughter. I was happy to see the editors put together a more meaningful 'previously on Stargate' showing.
SG-1 starts out on a mission to observe a planet conquered by the Ori. They're hanging out in handy concealing local garb when Adria (Played by Morena) makes an appearance. She's got some pretty spiffy powers so I kept thinking that she'd detect her mother in the crowd. Instead she heads back inside, whispering something to her minion.
Time for my first nitpick. Now, there's a planet on the ship that certainly has Ori on it. Doesn't that thing have sensors? Wouldn't it have detected the enemy ship in orbit? It was in beaming range after all. Otherwise, it was a great beginning. (I was surprised that nobody wondered if the super-powered Adria managed to survive the attack.)
SG-1 figures out pretty quickly that the Jaffa probably used the Ancient weapon and they take the opportunity to check out the Ori ship. I laughed when Carter pulled out her huge dell laptop. Those things are sweet, but they're not very light weight. (A dell XPS is mil-spec? Huh?)
I thought that Landry's visit to the Jaffa by himself was a bit surprising. (At least he didn't do a bird call this time.)
Who'd he leave in command? It sure wasn't Walter. The new Jaffa leader was a pretty major jerk. He was so arrogant that I began to wonder if he was a Goa'uld being sneaky.
The most intriguing thing in this episode was what Adria said to Daniel. "We have plans for you." I'm pretty curious to know just what they got in mind for our twice ascended Daniel. (or is it 1.5 times? The second one was more like half-way)
The ending was a bit abrupt but I really liked Daniel's final sentiment about Vala being a mother. On the whole I enjoyed tonight's episode. It flowed pretty nicely with the exception of bad commercial break editing when Mitchell was about to blow up the ship. Morena is always a treat on screen. Her character's totally weird tho. She strangles people like Darth Vader, but the emotion in her voice makes you want to hug her rather than lop off body parts with a light saber.

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