An Act of Whimsy

Major/Lieutenant Colonel Sam being the brains WITH brawn (and a crack shot to boot) of SG-1, saving our Galaxy a dozen times over while getting the respect she deserves from her peers. Doesn't let something like a little crush on her Commanding Officer slow her down. Literally her ONLY drawback is the occasional bout of poor writing.

Goes through hell over and over without hesitation and always manages to pull her team out of the fire, kicking many asses along the way.

im talking the events of the tok'ra/jolinar's memories 2 parters but More. missing people that she's never met and places that she's never been to. people she already knew reminding her of people she never did. speaking words of a language she knows instinctually, but can't really translate into english. using tok'ra sayings by accident, transliterating them and being perplexed when people ask her what she means. humming tunes she's never heard with her own ears, children's songs from someone else's culture. having skills she didn't have before - mundane as well as practical. maybe she's better at sketching, now.

and physical things! super cool that she can use goa'uld tech and sense symbiotes but there's more you could do with that as well! talking to teal'c without turning round because she just knows he's there. she has a new favourite food now, influenced by jolinar's preferences. she has slightly-too-good reflexes, strength, endurance from the lingering proteins left by the symbiote: she forgets to sleep because she was used to late nights anyway and she's stopped noticing when one all-nighter blends into two or three or four at a time. jack swears up and down that he's seen her eyes glow a little before - sam wouldn't believe him, but daniel says he's seen it too. she's wary of mirrors now, uneasy at the thought of seeing her eyes glow like that.

"I [Amanda Tapping] still get very emotional when I talk about this episode, because it kind of mirrored my real life experience. I lost my stepdad the previous October, and was devastated... So there I am in the Stargate observation room, watching Carmen [Jacob Carter] lying in this bed, and they call me down and I'm running down the stairs into this room, and as I lean down towards Carmen it strikes me: not only the enormity of the moment in Stargate, but I'm reminded of my stepdad, which is just filling my heart up. I looked at Carmen and realized that he was not going to be on the show any more. My beautiful Carmen, whom I adore. All of a sudden I started to cry and couldn't stop. I wasn't even on camera at the time, but I couldn't stop. Peter Deluise looked at me and asked, 'Are you all right?' and I sobbed, 'But it's Carmen." Tapping says she eventually pulled it all together, and went to the observation room to shoot a scene with Richard Dean Anderson: "We're sitting getting ready for this little scene between Carter and O'neill, which is quite wonderful, and some interesting things are brought to bear. Rick turned to me and said, 'You're not crying, are you?' and I went, 'Yes, I am.' And he replied, 'I hate it when you cry. I hate it.' And it was just the perfect prelude to that little scene between us.