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* The beginning of season 7, when Daniel returns from the dead and doesn't remember his team. There's this moment where he just sort of shrugs, says they don't look familiar, and walks past them. The look on Jack's face is plainly heartbreaking.
** Later in the same episode, Daniels jubilation at being able to remember Sha're's name is abruptly bought to an end when he relearns that she is dead. He looks down at the photo of her he's carrying and says, voice breaking slightly, 'I loved her very much'. He then places the photo face down next to him and changes the subject.



* Poor little Keenan in 'Lifeboats' telling Janet about his Mum.



* Poor little Keenan in 'Lifeboats' telling Janet about his Mum.



* The beginning of season 7, when Daniel returns from the dead and doesn't remember his team. There's this moment where he just sort of shrugs, says they don't look familiar, and walks past them. The look on Jack's face is plainly heartbreaking.
** Later in the same episode, Daniels jubilation at being able to remember Sha're's name is abruptly bought to an end when he relearns that she is dead. He looks down at the photo of her he's carrying and says, voice breaking slightly, 'I loved her very much'. He then places the photo face down next to him and changes the subject.
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* [[spoiler: The first, [[CurbStompBattle disastrous]] battle against the Ori motherships. The entire combined forces of the Tau'ri, Free Jaffa, Asgard, and Lucian Alliance can't even damage ''one'' enemy ship. We're treated to slow-motion, somber scenes of destruction and death as the main characters struggle in vain... [[DownerEnding but the new RFS Korolev is destroyed, the handful of surviving ships are disabled, and the Ori crusade has free reign on the galaxy.]] ]]

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* The look on Daniels face in "Children of the Gods", when he realizes that Sha're has been taken as a host.

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* The look on Daniels face in "Children of the Gods", Gods":
** The look on Daniel's face
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* Subverted in the third episode -- Charles Kawalsky, who the viewer would have thought was going to be [[DecoyProtagonist a major character]], is in great pain in a hospital bed. The music takes a distinctly mournful tone. Jack, with the saddest, most genuine look of sorrow on his face asks him, "If you don't make it... [[spoiler: can I have your stereo?]]" Kawalsky, and the viewer, choke out laughter.
** Then the actual death of Kawalsky, a character who ''survived'' the film dies in such a heart-wrenchingly senseless way.

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* "The Enemy Within":
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Subverted in the third episode -- initially - Charles Kawalsky, who the viewer would have thought was going to be seems like [[DecoyProtagonist a major character]], is in great pain in a hospital bed. The music takes a distinctly mournful tone. Jack, with the saddest, most genuine look of sorrow on his face asks him, "If you don't make it... [[spoiler: can I have your stereo?]]" Kawalsky, and the viewer, choke out laughter.
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laughter. Then, he actually dies in a heartwrenching, senseless way, one of the actual death of Kawalsky, a character three characters who ''survived'' the film dies in such a heart-wrenchingly senseless way.film.



* The ending of "Fire and Water", where Nem uses his memory machine on Daniel Jackson to find out the fate of Omoroca (his mate) from ancient Babylonian texts.
-->'''Daniel:''' And in that place there was Omoroca, a woman who came forth from the heavenly egg, who walked among men by day. But at night she would retreat to the sea to sleep -- one of the beings called [[FishPeople Ohnes]]. The [[AbusivePrecursors god]] [[PuppeteerParasite Belus]] came down onto Babylon unto the place of Omoroca... [[spoiler:and cut the woman asunder!]]"
** Finding out that a loved one has died is never easy, but finding out after waiting [[TimeAbyss four thousand years hoping for their return]]...
** This scene is one of the rare moments where a BigNo ''works''.

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* The ending of "Fire and Water", Water":
** The ending,
where Nem uses his memory machine on Daniel Jackson to find out the fate of Omoroca (his mate) from ancient Babylonian texts.
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texts. Finding out that a loved one has died is never easy, but finding out after waiting [[TimeAbyss four thousand years hoping for their return]]:
--->'''Daniel:'''
And in that place there was Omoroca, a woman who came forth from the heavenly egg, who walked among men by day. But at night she would retreat to the sea to sleep -- one of the beings called [[FishPeople Ohnes]]. The [[AbusivePrecursors god]] [[PuppeteerParasite Belus]] came down onto Babylon unto the place of Omoroca... [[spoiler:and cut the woman asunder!]]"
** Finding out that a loved one has died is never easy, but finding out after waiting [[TimeAbyss four thousand years hoping for their return]]...
** This scene is one of the rare moments where a BigNo ''works''.
asunder!]]"



* Basically half of the entire episode "Cold Lazarus" would qualify, where we see how much the lives of Jack and his ex-wife were impacted by their son's death.
** There's a really powerful moment where the crystal-energy doppelganger visit's Charlie's room and relives Jack's memory of his son's death, and comes out the other end a sobbing, shaking wreck. Especially potent when later on, the crystal Jack says that [[StarfishAliens physical death doesn't have the same meaning to its kind]], so it's experiencing a grief that it never even comprehended before.

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* Basically half of the entire episode "Cold Lazarus" would qualify, where we see Lazarus":
** Half of the episode is devoted to showing
how much the lives of Jack and his ex-wife were impacted by their son's death.
** There's a really powerful moment where At one point the crystal-energy doppelganger visit's visits Charlie's room and relives Jack's memory of his son's death, and comes out the other end a sobbing, shaking wreck. Especially It becomes more potent when when, later on, the crystal Jack says that [[StarfishAliens physical death doesn't have the same meaning to its kind]], so it's experiencing a grief that it never even comprehended before.



* The season 1 episode, "Torment of Tantalus". Earnest, having been alone on a world for 50 years with no human contact, hugs Daniel and says, tearfully, "About time."
* Teal'c accepting that he should be executed in ''Cor-Ai.''
** During his conversation with Jack about his guilt, he spends the entire time looking down, lip quivering, near tears. This is a man who rarely, if ever, shows any form of emotion.
* Sam gets one in "Singularity", when she is ordered to leave Cassandra in the reactor silo, since the Goa'uld bomb in her chest is about to go off.
-->'''Cassandra:''' You promised you wouldn't leave me. You promised.\\

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* The season 1 episode, "Torment of Tantalus". Tantalus": Earnest, having been alone on a world for 50 years with no human contact, hugs Daniel and says, tearfully, "About time."
* "Cor-Ai": Teal'c accepting accepts that he should be executed in ''Cor-Ai.''
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for his former life as the First Prime of Apophis. During his conversation with Jack about his guilt, he spends the entire time looking down, lip quivering, near tears. This is a man who rarely, if ever, shows any form of emotion.
* "Singularity":
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Sam gets one in "Singularity", when she is ordered to leave Cassandra in the reactor silo, since the Goa'uld bomb in her chest is about to go off.
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--->'''Cassandra:'''
You promised you wouldn't leave me. You promised.\\



** Earlier in that same episode Cassandra sees the team tagging the dead and takes one, and is later shown putting the tag on herself essentially marking herself as dead.

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** Earlier in that same episode Earlier, Cassandra sees the team tagging the dead and takes one, and is later shown putting the tag on herself herself, essentially marking herself as dead.
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* All of Jonas dealing with his old professor friend, Dr. Kieran in "Shadow Play". The poor man is firmly in the grip of his hallucinations (a result of long-term exposure to radiation from naquadria), and Jonas just doesn't have the heart to tell him the truth.
* The moment in "Full Circle" when Skaara manages to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence while dying from a staff blast thanks to Oma.
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* All of Daniels interactions with [[spoiler: Sha're in secrets.]] He spends a good amount of time being upset and confused by the whole situation and its hard to see [[spoiler: him and Sha're dancing around each other, unsure of what to do]]. Then of course he realises he may only have a few days[[spoiler: with her,]] and every moment between them becomes this as they try and find a way to [[spoiler: protect her and get her back to earth]].

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* All of Daniels interactions with [[spoiler: Sha're in secrets."Secrets".]] He spends a good amount of time being upset and confused by the whole situation and its hard to see [[spoiler: him and Sha're dancing around each other, unsure of what to do]]. Then of course he realises he may only have a few days[[spoiler: with her,]] and every moment between them becomes this as they try and find a way to [[spoiler: protect her and get her back to earth]].
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* The Tok'ra aren't always entirely sympathetic, but the events of "Cure" not only bring home their plight (they are in a very real way a dying race), but with their reaction to Egeria and what has happened to her, plus the fact that she's dying, all over a stupid, impossible to foresee mistake, also remind us that they aren't just arrogant, unfeeling dicks. Malak, for one, looks near to tears when Egeria tells him that she's dying and gives her SoProudOfYou line. Because after all, Egeria is his mother, the mother of ''all'' the Tok'ra and they found her again just in time for her to die, despite all they tried to save her.

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-->'''O'Neill:''' I lost my '''son!''' Believe me, '''I know!''' And as much as I... I could never live through that again.

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-->'''O'Neill:''' I lost my '''son!''' Believe me, '''I know!''' And as much as I... I could never live through that again.again.
** That this caps off arguably the most comedic entry in the series' entire history makes it all the more heartwrenching. There's a reason why Window of Opportunity tops almost every fan-favorite episode list.

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He was left behind in the first episode of S2, not the end of S1


* Daniel being left behind at the end of season one (although Jack's face just made it worse; Daniel seemed pretty calm about the whole thing), etc.


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* Daniel being left behind in the season 2 premiere (although Jack's face just made it worse; Daniel seemed pretty calm about the whole thing), etc.
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* Gerak, also in The Fourth Horseman. Gerak is made a Prior, Teal'c talks some sense into him and has him agree to help on Earth with the plague, but the Ori put a failsafe in their Priors that causes them to self destruct if they betray the Ori. "If I help you, I will die. But I WILL DIE FREE!"
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** And the end of the episode when [[spoiler: Simon Wells, the airman that Dr Frazier died saving, is revealed to have named his newborn daughter Janet after her.]]
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** The death of [[spoiler:Doctor Janet Fraiser]], that is all.

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** * The death of [[spoiler:Doctor Janet Fraiser]], that is all.
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** When the doppelganger reveals that its entire mission was to help Jack, and explains that it deemed his emotional pain of loosing Charlie to be greater than any physical injury he had. It explains that its goal was to go and get Charlie and bring him back to Jack to make him better, which is heartbreakingly childlike logic. That revelation in an of itself is awful, but then the doppelganger [[spoiler: turns into Charlie to at least try and fulfil its mission and give Jack one last moment with him. The look on his face says it all]].

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** When the doppelganger reveals that its entire mission was to help Jack, and explains that it deemed his emotional pain of loosing losing Charlie to be greater than any physical injury he had. It explains that its goal was to go and get Charlie and bring him back to Jack to make him better, which is heartbreakingly childlike logic. That revelation in an of itself is awful, but then the doppelganger [[spoiler: turns into Charlie to at least try and fulfil its mission and give Jack one last moment with him. The look on his face says it all]].



** What about Jack walking in on Daniel about to [[spoiler: jump of his balcony]], complete with him tearfully saying that it 'doesn't mean anything'. Its revealed in the next scene of course that this is due to some weekly alien shenanigans, but because of all the awful stuff thats happened to him, it is genuinely believable for a moment [[spoiler: that Daniel might actually jump.]]

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** What about Jack walking in on Daniel about to [[spoiler: jump of off his balcony]], complete with him tearfully saying that it 'doesn't mean anything'. Its revealed in the next scene of course that this is due to some weekly alien shenanigans, but because of all the awful stuff thats happened to him, it is genuinely believable for a moment [[spoiler: that Daniel might actually jump.]]
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* Teal'c comforting Sam in the locker room when Jack is MIA.
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* Daniel yelling at Jack for killing Reese. Its sad as Daniel really did seem to care for Reese and is mourning her, and it's also sad seeing Daniel and Jack so angry at each other. Specifically Daniel calling Jack a stupid son of a bitch. He has only shown that much contempt for a Goa'ould.
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** Special mention goes to Jack yelling at Daniel that if their positions were reversed he would break Daniel out in a heartbeat. And then he would make Ba'al suffer. When Daniel says he wouldn't because he's a better man than that, Jack immediately screams at him 'That's where your wrong!", Once again hammering home the point that when it comes to his little adopted family, there isn't much he wouldn't do. Even if they are already gone.

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** Special mention goes to Jack yelling at Daniel that if their positions were reversed he would break Daniel out in a heartbeat. And then he would make Ba'al suffer. When Daniel says he wouldn't because he's a better man than that, Jack immediately screams at him 'That's where your you're wrong!", Once again hammering home the point that when it comes to his little adopted family, there isn't much he wouldn't do. Even if they are already gone.

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** Special mention goes to Jack yelling at Daniel that if their positions were reversed he would break Daniel out in a heartbeat. And then he would make Ba'al suffer. When Daniel says he wouldn't because he's a better man than that, Jack immediately screams at him;
--> '''Jack''': That's where you're wrong!
** At one point while being tortured, Jack reduced to simply whispering Daniels name, begging him to end it.
** After the scene mentioned above, when Jack is back in the prison, he very quietly asks for Daniel, and then says so sadly 'you were gone'.

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** Special mention goes to Jack yelling at Daniel that if their positions were reversed he would break Daniel out in a heartbeat. And then he would make Ba'al suffer. When Daniel says he wouldn't because he's a better man than that, Jack immediately screams at him;
--> '''Jack''': That's
him 'That's where you're wrong!
your wrong!", Once again hammering home the point that when it comes to his little adopted family, there isn't much he wouldn't do. Even if they are already gone.
** At one point while being tortured, Jack Jack's reduced to simply whispering Daniels name, begging him to end it.
** After the scene mentioned above, when Jack is back in the prison, he very quietly asks for Daniel, and then says so sadly 'you were gone'. It almost feels like he's talking about life in general, rather than this specific situation, with his little brother figure Daniel having gone, and Jack being a bit lost without him.
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** Special mention goes to Jack yelling at Daniel that if their positions were reversed he would break Daniel out in a heartbeat. And then he would make Ba'al suffer. When Daniel says he wouldn't because he's a better man than that, Jack immediately screams at him;
--> '''Jack''': That's where you're wrong!
** At one point while being tortured, Jack reduced to simply whispering Daniels name, begging him to end it.
** After the scene mentioned above, when Jack is back in the prison, he very quietly asks for Daniel, and then says so sadly 'you were gone'.
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* Calling the first hyper space capable earth fighter jet 'Abydos 1'.
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* Poor little Keenan in 'Lifeboats' telling Janet about his Mum.
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* Sam wondering around Daniels empty office in Revelations.
** Hammond trying to console Sam about Daniels uncertain fate by telling her about his friend who got shot down in Vietnam, managed to pull his shoot, but was never found.
** In sort of a happy way, that last breeze going past the gang as they all leave for the night. [[spoiler: Daniel's subtle way of telling them he may be dead, but he's not gone]].


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* Daniel promising Teal'c that when he wakes up everything will be fine.
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** Daniel saying goodbye to the people of Abydos, and telling them to bury the gate forever. He's crying the entire time and you realise that these people and this community have become his family, and he would rather be alone again than let something happen to them.


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* General Hammond's conversation with Jack about Teal'c's fate in 'Threshold'. Due to his involvement with the Stargate program, he would have to be put in a maximum security prison in solitary confinement for the remainder of his life, which, given his reliance on the infant Goa'ould, will likely only be another 4 or 5 years. After that, he will die in agonising pain. Hammond keeps up his stoic exterior while explaining this, but he admits that he can't do that to Teal'c.
--> '''Hammond''': I won't do that to him Jack
** Hammond's reluctance to enter the room while Teal'c is being deprogrammed. It clearly really hurts him to see a man that he trusts so much and has so much faith in reduced to such a state. And once its over, he immediately runs into the room, on the edge of crying.
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** Sam's general emotional state in part 2 is pretty hard to watch. Teal'c coming to her nearly crying, having written a eulogy also qualifies, and Daniels protectiveness over the tape that shows the event are all big hits emotionally.
** Also Daniel recounting the story of how he died, and how dedicated Janet was.
** General Hammond's protectiveness during this whole time period, but especially him telling Sam that although you're supposed to care for all your officers equally, you can't help but care for some of them more. Its clear that he means SG-1 and [[spoiler: Janet]] are officers he's come to care for more like family, and that [[spoiler: the loss of Janet is hitting him particularly hard]].


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*** It really is the manner in which we find out, in the very brutal and realistic lens of a battlefield camera, without the gloss of tv and hollywood.
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* Daniel having to make the decision to [[spoiler: leave Sha're's son in the hands of Oma]]. It meant having to come to terms with the fact that he wasn't able to completely fulfil [[spoiler: Sha're's dying wish for him to protect 'the boy']]. It's also him having to say goodbye to that last piece of his wife, and a child who was, in a way, his son too.


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* Loren's story from 'The Light' is pretty awful. Poor kid.
** What about Jack walking in on Daniel about to [[spoiler: jump of his balcony]], complete with him tearfully saying that it 'doesn't mean anything'. Its revealed in the next scene of course that this is due to some weekly alien shenanigans, but because of all the awful stuff thats happened to him, it is genuinely believable for a moment [[spoiler: that Daniel might actually jump.]]
*** When he 'wakes up' from his little trance and realises where he is, he sounds so scared.
* Daniel being unable to talk about what happened to Sha're in 'Absolute Power'.
** His held gaze with [[spoiler: Shifu]] at the end. The kid was [[spoiler: sort of his son, and protecting him was Sha're's dying wish]], so its understandably hard on Daniel.

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** Even though [[spoiler: his team members are only creations, figments of his imagination, they still behave according to how Daniel would reasonably expect them to. So seeing both how they react, and how Daniel knows they would treat him is both heartwarming and terribly sad]].

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** Even though [[spoiler: his team members are only creations, figments of his imagination, they still behave according to how Daniel would reasonably expect them to. So seeing both how they react, and how Daniel knows they would treat him in this very real scenario is both heartwarming and terribly sad]]. sad]].
** Despite the fact [[spoiler: its all in his head]] this is still Daniels process of moving through his grief.
** Seeing what he would have done [[spoiler: without Sha're's intervention- quitting the SGC, refusing to forgive Teal'c, cutting of communication with his team- is awful when you realise that that would have been his fate without her sending her last message]].

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** Him explaining his reasons for leaving to Jack as he packs his office. Specifically when he says that every time he stepped through the gate, he always wondered if this world would be the one he found Sha're on, and now that part of him won't exist anymore, that hope. It will just be another place, and he can't do it anymore. And then he starts to cry. He manages to get it under control, but my god its one of the most painful moments to watch.

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** Him explaining his reasons for leaving to Jack as he packs his office. Specifically when he says that every time he stepped through the gate, he always wondered if this world would be the one he found Sha're on, and now that part of him won't exist anymore, that hope. It will just be another place, and he can't do it anymore. And then he starts to cry. He manages to get it under control, but my god its one of the most painful moments to watch.watch.
** Even though [[spoiler: his team members are only creations, figments of his imagination, they still behave according to how Daniel would reasonably expect them to. So seeing both how they react, and how Daniel knows they would treat him is both heartwarming and terribly sad]].

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* Sha're's death at the hands of Teal'c is uber heart-wrenching to watch.

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* Quite a lot of 'Forever in a Day"
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Sha're's death at the hands of Teal'c is uber heart-wrenching to watch.watch.
** Daniel recounting how Sha're was fascinated by his pen when he first arrived on Abydos has Carter in tears. Its clear just how much he loved her.
** Him explaining his reasons for leaving to Jack as he packs his office. Specifically when he says that every time he stepped through the gate, he always wondered if this world would be the one he found Sha're on, and now that part of him won't exist anymore, that hope. It will just be another place, and he can't do it anymore. And then he starts to cry. He manages to get it under control, but my god its one of the most painful moments to watch.
** His anger at Teal'c, while justified, is horrible to see. Its clear just how betrayed he feels
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* Seeing the result of Merrin's 'averium' on the population of Orban is a good version of this. She went through with her sacrifice, and as a result, when SG-1 returns, they find corridors full of children laughing and playing, finally having learned fun. Even the adults are now seen enjoying their lives, the previously stoic Kalan having drawn a 'representation of himself' for the team. And all because one one little girl.
** But of course because of this, the previously articulate and intelligent Merrin has been reduced to a mute, infant like state, scribbling on the walls.
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** Him asking to be called Charlie in the first place.
** In fact that entire initial meeting from the moment the kid first mentions him having a son looks almost physically painful for Jack.
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* All of Daniels interactions with [[spoiler: Sha're in secrets.]] He spends a good amount of time being upset and confused by the whole situation and its hard to see [[spoiler: him and Sha're dancing around each other, unsure of what to do]]. Then of course he realises he may only have a few days,[[spoiler: or less, with her,]] and every moment between them becomes this as they desperately try and find a way to [[spoiler: save her]].
** And then they fail, and Daniel has to watch [[spoiler: as Sha're is overtaken by Ammonet again]].
** Its also heavily implied by the end of the episode that [[spoiler: Sha're is still in there, fighting against Ammonet, as she makes eye contact with Daniel hiding behind a pillar, but doesn't give his position away, protecting him from Apopholis]]. And from what we've seen of hosts who manage to regain their selves, thats a pretty brutal fate.

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* All of Daniels interactions with [[spoiler: Sha're in secrets.]] He spends a good amount of time being upset and confused by the whole situation and its hard to see [[spoiler: him and Sha're dancing around each other, unsure of what to do]]. Then of course he realises he may only have a few days,[[spoiler: or less, days[[spoiler: with her,]] and every moment between them becomes this as they desperately try and find a way to [[spoiler: save her]].
protect her and get her back to earth]].
** And then they fail, and Daniel has to watch [[spoiler: as Sha're is overtaken by Ammonet Amaunet again]].
** Its also heavily implied by the end of the episode that [[spoiler: Sha're is still in there, fighting against Ammonet, Amaunet, as she makes eye contact with Daniel hiding behind a pillar, but doesn't give his position away, protecting him from Apopholis]]. Apophis]]. And from what we've seen of hosts who manage to regain their selves, thats a pretty brutal fate.fate worse than death.

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