Alexis Cruz: Skaara's Stargate Journey Remains Incomplete (Clip)

[@HunterThinker]

Skaara is the undisputed double OG of the franchise in that he was one of only two actors who were in the original movie and the series along with his father Kasuf as played by Erick Avari. He will forever hold a special place in Stargate legacy and maybe Skaara could make a cameo and drop down from his higher plane! or maybe Alexis should have a seat at the writers table if that is what he wants. Thank you for your performance, it was one for the ages!

[@daelanberevan4055]

Skaara/Klorel, Martouf, and others were such good characters not simply because of the great acting but also because of the limited number of appearances. When we saw them appear in an episode we knew we were in for a fantastic hour of television. Much like other shows before and since, this mirrors what made every Andrew Robinson appearance as Garak in DS9 so memorable. We always wanted more.

[@HemisphereCinema]

skara was goated full circle made me cry so hard. but yeah he as a char deserves so much more screen time. I kinda wish him as ascended would be him helping Daniel through hard times kinda like how Daniel was too Jack.

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

the tragedy of TV is that its TV. Its made on the go most of the time and IRL things affect all manner of production issues and writing etc. You just can't materialise a full vision, a real plan, a long term goal, a proper well constructed, fully satisfying story. Its a shame. It really is. But at the same time its a miracle we got what we did and it was as good as it was.

[@CT-9994]

5:50 best part! so dang true! and tbh, I'm always had both of those type of feelings for the Full Circle episode. In otherwords, I've literally always considered that episode as "wrapped up" shall i say BUT i also felt the way as Alexis Cruz felt

[@brx8r]

You have to understand that Skaara, along with many secondary characters in fiction, serve to show an aspect of a main character's story through a different lens, and for various other reasons. While there's no single right perspective, an easy way to look at it is that half the characters are Jack and half of them are Daniel. I could go on and on about that, but Jack's relationship with Skaara is really about Jack's relationship with Daniel, or his relationship with Ra, or his relationship with his own son. So if you want more closure on Skaara, just look at the other characters who Jack has a relationship with (other than when Jack is battling himself, which is the other side to all of this).

[@brx8r]

If you're interested in this it's constantly alluded to throughout the show and the movie. They meet Kasuf who represents Jack's fatherhood - a theme that keeps reappearing throughout the franchise. Jack fights the Anubis warrior who has a Jack-al head. Daniel has the name "Jack's son", which immediately suggests the sort of relationship they're intended to have. But it's not a pretty relationship initially so we see that played out with Ra the "son god" (Daniel even wears Ra's symbol, and Ra's line about there being only "one ra" is also indicative of them actually being the same character in a sense). When Daniel befriends the beast Chaka he initially mishears his name as "Jacka". There are constant reminders that there is one central relationship which swings between animosity and friendship. On the other hand all of Jack's romantic relationships are mostly about coming to accept himself, whereas Daniel's relationships are an exploration of Jack's vulnerabilities (we can't have RDA be a somewhat-scary damsel-in-distress, but we can substitute someone else into that role). So further on the Ra point, because he was initially so intricately woven into Daniel's character it is entirely appropriate that the show always started with a closeup of Ra's mask, as it could be argued that Daniel (and various other mirror characters of Daniel) are just a mask over the same person. The Goa'uld always represent something within the characters that we as an audience don't want to see in our heroes, as SG-1 struggle to be the benevolent gods that the Goa'uld are not.

[@brx8r]

Oh and whenever they encounter a world where the are two opposing sides in a civil war or political debate or something like that; it's team Jack v team Daniel every time. This was spelled out more clearly on Atlantis when there was a planet with Sheppard wannabes and McKay wannabes, that was a very funny way of demonstrating how story writers think. So once you see all this, it's possible to pick a random one-episode character or culture, and think about what traits they display that have shown up in a main character and start to build out a fuller picture of our main characters' psyche where those aspects were never played out as an obvious part of their own story. Sometimes there's just a throw-away line about Jack or Daniel's past before the show - but we later see something similar happen to an alien character in another episode, and go "oh yeah, that's what that's about". So the circle back to Skaara; he embodies Daniel's inner demons (his "Ra" side), his qualities as a student or child archetype, his adventurous nature that allows him to cross into otherworldly scenarios, his ability to learn and grow from those experiences and defeat certain parts of himself, and eventually him succeeding to "rise above it" spiritually. We have that same ark in Daniel, which recurs during the Ori plotline too. There's obviously more to Daniel's character than what Skaara represents, but if we wanted to see more Skaara stories I think we'd be re-treading a lot of the milestones that we saw with Daniel.

[@tyrannicpuppy]

"Everyone's ascended..." Currently just watched Shades of Grey on our most recent rebinge of the series, so am dwelling on a lot of S3 plot threads atm. And I had an awful thought about Skaara and his family when watching Forever in a Day and Pretense this time around. There was a day when Amunet and Klorel walked away from one another in one of Apophis's palaces and then those two hosts never saw one another ever again. It could have been as early as the palace on Chulak (or the Teltak to the Gate after they were both first taken host) or later before she goes to Abydos to have the child, or later on before kidnapping the Abydonians. But Sha're dies and is buried according to Abydonian custom. And then a couple of years later, Skaara and Kasuf (I assume he was on Abydos during Full Circle but the mentioned scheduling conflicts prevent us from actually seeing him in person) are both Ascended by Oma. So that family is now forever separated from one another. Kasuf and Skaara in the Ascended plane, subject to all of the rules and restrictions of the Lanteans that first populated that plane. And they will never get to pass on and see their daughter / sister ever again. We can take a modicum of comfort in knowing Skarra and his betrothed are there together with his dad, so that some of that family is together, but it's somewhat tragic that if there is some afterlife that Sha're has passed onto, she is there alone. We can't be sure that Daniel won't choose to ascend a third time if offered it by the Ascended once he grows older and has less tying him down to the lower plane. Once he's no longer Very Young and can be trusted to follow the rules. So there isn't even a guarantee she might one day have her husband returned to her. And if he does pass on and goes to the same afterlife as her, it could possibly be after a full and happy life lived with Vala, and he may not be as inclined to spend that afterlife with Sha're after spending 60-80 years with someone else. Was their love the kind that transcended death like that? After only a year from her being gifted to him by Kasuf in the movie? Her passing is truly tragic. If only Oma had been watching then, willing to bring her into the fold. Instead, she is forever alone, kept from her family for eternity.

[@jamesevans3492]

He Still Looks Prety Much The Same, As He Did In The 1994 Stargate Movie, And Through The Stargate SG-1 Series . . .'-)

[@briang9581]

I guess business at "the diner" will be booming.

[@WorshipShed]

He's right though. It was incomplete

[@MobileRaidr]

sorry but after Anubis killed his entire people.....that kinda finished skarras story lol....i still hope for an SG-1 or Atlantis type of reboot or continuation....not universe tho.