SG1 - Daniel Jackson and Cameron Mitchell interrogating an Ori prior

Daniel Jackson and Cameron Mitchell interrogating an Ori prior

[@antchi88]

-Nothing yet. You? -Drawin' a blank. A little thirsty. -That doesn't count. -No, it doesn't. LOL

[@jameselbaf]

Jack don't be an ass. Wait... that's not jack that's Daniel.

[@a-mellowtea]

"No, you're dark side intergalactic encyclopedia salesmen. Unfortunately, the home office hasn't been quite upfront with you."

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Prior: Do I still get my dental and pension plans?

[@JnEricsonx]

Come on, 4 years and a miniseries of Farscape, God knows Ben Browder would have some good one-liners and metaphors, of course he would. :)

[@dragonsword7370]

Jon Ericson and he was doing that to the cigarette smoking man!

[@ShrekWallBee]

lol

[@robstewartstewart98]

At least 1 of if not the best quips in the show.

[@AltarenGalil]

Nobody can replace O'neill, but Mitchell definitely comes close :)

[@img00]

Nah, Shepard was definitely better than Mitchell and a lot more O'Neill-like

[@aserta]

@@img00 Was Mitchell supposed to be O'Neill? This whole debate is so stupid. Each character's supposed to be a human being, there's no two humans alike and when they are, it's almost always an act. You watch too much Hollywood bullshit. Mitchell was a great character.

[@garrusvakarian9039]

Daniel and Mitchell. Also Known as the Sass Squad.

[@danielappleton153]

Garrus Vakarian Mitchell - A reasonably adequate substitute for Jack.

[@SmallWorldFilms]

Daniel Appleton If only the writers had not gotten insufferably lazy over the years. Ben Browder is highly skilled, but every actor needs writers. Especially so in a program where actors are allowed very little creative input into the scripts.

[@danielappleton153]

Joan Ixito Browder needed much better material & more of it if he was going to take Jack's place.

[@SmallWorldFilms]

Daniel Appleton Agreed. He was handicapped by writers who clearly didn't understand the role in SG-1 that he was expected to play. Jack was a great character, but Cameron was more of a real military personality. Far more realistic. Browder never met a role he couldn't master, but it was as if all the writers could do was make him stand around in the background. What a waste of talent! That said, I would have preferred Sam to have been given leadership. Cameron would have been an excellent addition to the team.

[@Thatslifebro_]

Rodney and Sheppard are the Sass Masters though.

[@yoyoducky3067]

"he didn't know..." "no, he didn't know that." lol this whole scene is hilarious!

[@KnightRaymund]

oh yeah I love this scene

[@lyianx]

I love how Ben and Michael play off each other like this :P

[@koshi6505]

Imagine if the soldiers thought that Mitchell's joke was real and opened fire.

[@Theomite]

1:17 DANIEL: Why'd they send you to this galaxy in the first place? *Prior takes out a pack, lights up cigarette, takes long drag and slowly exhales* PRIOR: That's on a strictly need-to-know basis...and you are sorely lacking in that need.

[@Aditya21420]

Just recognized the actor lol.

[@gawainethefirst]

Keys from ET, and the Smoking Man from X-Files.

[@davincent98]

@@gawainethefirst Keys was Peter Coyote

[@wramsey2656]

Thx now i remember that clown from the X-files, surprised he was not coughing.

[@ghostbirdofprey]

@@gawainethefirst holy shit it is, how did I not realize that before?

[@JoshSweetvale]

"No, you're dark side intergalactic encylopedia salesemen, unfortunately the home office hasn't been quite up front with you" That and the whedonesque/seinfeldian snark that comes before it is part of the reason I love Stargate so much.

[@Howyaduing]

"Nice work with the metaphor" "Thank you"

[@michellesemradova1840]

Cam: "Blablablablabla...I'm gonna get some to eat." I can't stop laughing :DDD

[@lyianx]

Funny thing is, When RDA stopped being a main character, I was afraid this show would die out. But Ben (even tho it took some time) found footing and it seemed to work out, especially Cam and Danel's relationship, like this :P

[@Hyperion5182]

Anderson was awesome it annoys me that it ended like it did. I mean it was a cool ending, this was just after Farscape had finished and Ben was only on for two seasons.

[@2wings1bird31]

Ben plays a good space cowboy!

[@Eva_H]

Christopher & Ben (Ben: BULLETS BOUNCE! Chris: *Smirks*) 😂 I really like this story arc overall aside from Ark of Truth feeling a little underwhelming, I mean it’s not like it became Farscape version 2.0 anything (Not a bad thing). I remember Ben saying in interviews at least I’m not trying to get into Claudia’s characters pants every five minutes (or words to the effect).

[@lyianx]

@@Eva_H Lol. Which was wrong because it was Vala always trying to get into Daniels pants :D

[@Pellkot]

In my opinion it could have moved on to a new SG1 sequel. The new cast is great and the story but it feels so off that this could have been a new SG team with its own show now that the Goa'Uld are more or less dead.

[@gallifreyantauri]

The actor who played the Ori Prior was the Cigarette Smoking Man from the X Files. Always found that hilarious.

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

. . . And a condition known as: *hot dog fingers* Lmao they had fun writing this scene.

[@PaiSAMSEN]

This is more of a deliberate trolling than interrogation. :D

[@QuantumAscension1]

This scene always makes me grin like an idiot. It's just so satisfying seeing the Ori and their followers finally get owned by the good guys

[@JoshSweetvale]

U-huh. Later seasons of Stargate basically had to split the party once in a while, because in D&D terms, they were approaching level 20. But yeah, everyone on Stargate's a smartass, and seeing the two experts on faith totally break a Prior is a delight.

[@ericevans9186]

The Snark factor sure is a levl 20. :D

[@patrciaclemons8183]

Two experts?

[@seand.g423]

​@Patrcia Clemons yeah, I mean... Daniel's Ascended like... 3 times, was it? But... yeah, not sure wtf OP is on about with a Flyover frakwit like Cam...

[@RepublicanGuardMan]

​@@seand.g423 read alot of bible maybe idfk

[@EmrysMerlin8807]

​@@seand.g423 Cam is arguably the most overly religious of the SG1 team. Dude quotes the Bible word for word and has referenced his family also being superior religious as well. I'm guessing that's what he's referring to.

[@kosilveriarn]

I was so sceptical of Mitchell in whatever season he joined, but he became my favourite character.

[@Revkor]

he showed up in 9 and a very good actor to repalce RDA

[@danielk5780]

Introducing Mitchell, and later Vala, is how you make your cast "younger", without handing guns out to preschoolers.

[@rekrn12345]

@@danielk5780 I don't know if I could call Ben and Claudia younger lol.

[@rekrn12345]

Watching farscape I already knew he would be fine.

[@teufeldritch]

I kept expecting him to light up a cigarette.

[@akumayoxiruma]

That would be a boner killer.

[@geonerd]

They should have offered him one!

[@kawika850]

the smoking man from x files.

[@kereminde]

david giles Only made this better.

[@KrGsMrNKusinagi0]

david giles Speaking of you know they are rebooting the Xfiles starting it over with the OG cast next year

[@Brswing]

+david giles Too bad Colonel Caldwell couldn't drop in and say hi.

[@jameswatsonatheistgamer]

And continuum, Older Alec sadler.

[@JayMaverick]

Wait .. the "cancer man", no?

[@candaceparker7283]

Daniel and Cameron were the saving grace of seasons 9 and 10!

[@VestedUTuber]

Should have mentioned that Daniel had ascended before. Maybe the prior would have taken him seriously.

[@danielappleton153]

The guy was too self - assured. Even that little factoid wouldn't have impressed him much, I think.

[@davidkelly4210]

He was directly challenged by a fucking Ancient and just shrugged. That wouldn't have worked.

[@akumayoxiruma]

For normal people who aren't involved in one of the parties but have a bit knowledge about the universe, yes. However, this prior wouldn't know, and some arguments don't work because the Ori share power - to the priors so that they can spread propaganda and looking powerful. The priors are used, yes, but they are like employees because they are granted a staff, a robe, a make-over and limited gravitational powers.

[@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer]

He would've scoffed at Daniel and said "impossible" the only way he'd take them seriously is if Oma arrives beside them, but she either destroyed herself to kill Anubis or is still fighting him

[@jamesbizs]

watashi as far as the Pryor was concerned, Orlin was a little who just a little kid who happened to have some weird knowledge. That’s it. No powers. No nothing

[@GarrisonHat]

Dark Side Intergalactic Encyclopedia Salesmen. That sounds like a metaphor John Crichton would use, although his alien colleagues wouldn't get it.

[@bsgtrekfan88]

nice work on the mentioning of the other show ;)

[@garrusvakarian9039]

Their character types aren't all that different, which makes that link all the better.

[@SmallWorldFilms]

One of the few instances that the writers actually wrote clever dialog. I think the SG-1 writers more or less gave up trying around season 7.

[@Shiirow]

Cameron Mitchell is an alternate version of John Crichton, they both get thrown through wormholes but only one did it on purpose.

[@SGManiac1255]

that's probably why Daniel acknowledged the metaphor... vala/aren would have just given him the "you're special" look :P

[@martinwyke]

It is a good scene, despite the Prior's bluster his bubble has been well and truly burst.

[@ArwenLune]

Love the airquotes. These guys play off each other so nicely :-)

[@JoschiChr]

There is only one true Lord of the Rings and he does not share power... Ooops, wrong universe

[@geoffwilliams4478]

But the same mentality. They really don't like to share

[@BlackDiamond2718]

You mean Anubis? Oh yeah.

[@ArgonTheAware]

The megalomania of some villains is inter universal because they share the same traits tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AGodAmI

[@douglashenry6996]

This scene is prophetic on so many levels.

[@SpanishAvenger]

Something I have noticed just by seing a few clips of these series, is how much the cast enjoyed shootings and their roles

[@LadyOfTheElements]

You know, I'm really fond of those two, especially when their together and double teaming another enemy.

[@borgduck]

Face it, The Ori's greatest weapon is yapping their traps!

[@danielappleton153]

borgduck That's the way fanatics & the overly self - righteous operate. " blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ". :) Except for the types who like to blow up things / shoot people.

[@borgduck]

Daniel Appleton I think the Ori were both!

[@danielappleton153]

borgduck They were just like most, not all, but ** most ** terrestrial Abrahamic religions. A perfect fictional case study of everything wrong with organized religion. Take it from someone stuck in the U.S. Bible Belt who would be happier in NYC, Chicago, LA......

[@borgduck]

Daniel Appleton LOL! You have my sympathies, friend. I'm English, but lived in Louisiana when I was young.

[@danielappleton153]

borgduck A - ha ! I surmised that you were British. The Elizabeth Sladen icon sticks out like a neon sign surrounded by zirconium. I often feel like I'd be happier in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, even Toronto, where there's not a church on nearly every freakin' corner. :)

[@Cyphrel]

So after apparently dying at the end of the X-Files, the Ori took the cigarette smoking man and made him a prior. :P

[@danowolf]

Legend has it this prior moved to Lynchburg VA and started a college....

[@KnightRaymund]

I love this scene. So much fun.

[@phantasmo9998]

This confirms Mulder's suspicion about him.

[@NamelessBody]

If I were a writer on this, the moment Mitchell acted as if the staff was being pulled by the Prior, I'd have the background SG team members all open fire on the prior and Mitchell having to justify that joke to Landry.

[@AssjVegeta68]

😂

[@johncunningham4820]

Explain what ? We know the Device works . And , umm , Oops .

[@TheShrek68]

2:28 Blah Blah BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH LOL

[@danieljohannbutcher9927]

I've watched this over and over

[@CRocketSlim]

I forgot Tony Todd had shown up in SG-1, damn he's in everything.

[@LordTalax]

Badass in everything

[@jonathancampbell5231]

Say "Candyman" in the mirror five times and he'll even show up in your house

[@callepro]

thanks for uploading :D

[@Daehawk]

I wouldn't be telling him how I was damping his powers.

[@windumace4096]

This is amazing

[@Zamolxes77]

I think this is one of my favorite scenes of all tv history, it has so much epic win in it. A religious fanatic comes face to face with hard facts that disprove his "gods" and you can see it in his face, the realization that he was manipulated by them. On top of it, he loses all his mystical powers due to science, so much win.

[@danielappleton153]

Zamolxes77 They blinded him with SCIENCE ! :)

[@Domihork]

Yeah... That's kind of why the Ark of Truth was kind of underwhelming for me... All it did was show the Priors the truth... But people and Jaffa from the Milky Way have been telling them the same truth! And backing it with proper real arguments. Don't tell me that none of the Priors ever stopped to at least think about if it's good to slaughter whole planets just because they disagree with their opinion...

[@davidkelly4210]

@@Domihork It don't 'tell them the truth', it brainwashed them into blind belief that the Ori were evil. That's why it wasn't used in the 1st place.

[@zionistmangler6458]

#Zamolxes77 You're subhuman garbage.

[@Qaeta]

The Ark doesn't just show people the truth, it FORCES them to believe it too. That's why the Alterrans didn't use it in the first place, because of the moral issues with forcing people to believe something against their will.

[@ExanRev]

1:12 is how I feel about the plot of Battlestar Galactica.

[@bsgtrekfan88]

indeed ;)

[@RenegadeShepTheSpacer]

I don't understand why, since survival is the only real plot of BSG. Why do so many Stargate fans try to shit over an infinitely superior show?

[@bsgtrekfan88]

lol idk but Im a huge fan of both ;)

[@ExanRev]

Old Man From Scene 24 Actually, BSG is one of my favorite sci-fi shows of all time. I just can't help but make fun of "And they have a plan" when that was just nonsense and the writers were making it up entirely as they went along.

[@RenegadeShepTheSpacer]

Robert Bowler I don't agree with that; the creators outlined a 4-5 year plan before the show completed its first season, so I believe most of the plot elements were already in their heads and simply waiting to fall into place. If you ask me, the "And they have a plan" line is a metaphor for the people at the top.

[@MikMoen]

Trying to reason with a religious zealot or cultist. Exactly like this.

[@outdoorsguy]

As an atheist who was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, I agree.

[@Crankerization]

@@outdoorsguy Family reunions gotta be funny

[@shyone968]

Lord Admiral Spire I agree. if I have to listen to one more atheist tell me I am stupid because I pray to an imaginary being I may scream. It is freedom of religion not freedom FROM religion. You should hear them on the main stream British TV shows. The comedians just rip in to anyone with faith.

[@Blue_Monkey]

@dan p Where does he say he has become anti religion? Anti religion is far from as bad as religious extremism. Blind faith is one of the worst things in our society! Logic & facts & science, so basically the truth is the only way against lies and blind faith. Atheists just don't believe in god(s), but they don't exclude the possibility - on the contrary to "believers" which blame their faults onto their (unproven) god(s), which justify their cruelty onto words allegedly written by god(s), etc. - for all we know, the bible is a fictional work. Witnesses are terrible, they forbid members contact with other non members and see non members as lesser. You wanna leave, everyone shames you and breaks up contact, even your own mother. Such sects or religious fanatics should be banned. Religion should not be a human right, for your belief in a god, we already have the freedom of speech, that covers it enough.

[@outdoorsguy]

@dan p Since you don't agree with the JWs, then openly disagree with your JW family. Talk about how JWs hide child abuse. Google "JW 1006", and discuss with your JW family. You'll find out first hand how fanatical they are when they shun you. Or perhaps you got lucky like me and never got baptized. Then you'll get labeled as a "bad association" and then soft shunned. Don't pretend to be a free thinker by saying you chose your path. As long as you defend them, you are complicit in their crimes of concealing child abuse, the martyrdom of children dying by being withheld life saving blood transfusions, and supporting a shunning policy that drives many Ex-JWs to depression and suicide. I've seen firsthand the ugly nature of this religion. Until you likewise have as well, you are in no position to judge.

[@user-pj3ch8ou2h]

I just like how Daniel and Cam roast the Ori royally with their counter arguments

[@Kafj302]

Why does this scene feel like it was totally adlibbed. Well i guess when you play a character for long enough you learn how to be them just naturally.

[@paulrasmussen8953]

Knkwing those two it probably was

[@shawnonhoskinson6842]

I believe Michael said they actually took the original script for this scene and reworked it to split the dialogue between them.

[@Kafj302]

​@@shawnonhoskinson6842goes to show when you know your characters, sometimes you just have to take it into your own hands

[@shawnonhoskinson6842]

Exactly. Sometimes when you trust your actors they will create magic.

[@morgosus]

lol "rather pity yourself |Background:*bla bla bla bla bla bla bla*"

[@DCdabest]

"Behold! Feel the wrath of the Ori! You will experience a thirst mild, and eternal! muhaha!"

[@cyankeemn1]

Can't wait to see that episode. Started watching again. Currently at Season 1, Ep 2

[@JonCombo]

Did you get there yet?

[@cyankeemn1]

@@JonCombo No, due to health issues and other issues...I have just finished season 2.

[@JonCombo]

@@cyankeemn1 Hope you get better and find time buddy. Great show over all.

[@clarascats1365]

@@cyankeemn1 what are you up to now?

[@johncwinchell]

damn, cancer man gets around - now he's recruiting for the syndicate on other worlds...

[@adinsarikei6814]

"The Ori are all-seeing." Looks at the sky to check if something happens. 😂

[@theeuropeanman]

Love this Episode

[@Nessainthebuilding]

Does anyone else besides myself think that Michael Shanks and Ben Browder could play brothers, or is it just me?

[@JonThomas92]

Damn Smoking did a number on this guys complexion

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

He got super powers in return though.

[@nostromo_]

I always wondered, why telling him at all, why his abilites are gone... ? Why providing him a reason on which he can try to overcome? let him asking himself and searching for the answer...

[@2Good2BeTrue45]

i feel Mitchell & Daniel would have even bigger chemistry and better team up moments if SG-1 had an 11th season or another movie

[@LudvigIndestrucable]

Hello Damaris, the moment you stepped into this galaxy, your life was an open book to me

[@K.D.Meyers]

This is my favorite scene

[@effreyjeppstein4673]

I liked this episode

[@LyingTube]

Can we appreciate the narrative closed-circle that is SG1 starting out fighting false gods and ending up fighting actual ones?

[@dwarvengamesmith9726]

I didn't know the smoking man was an Orai. The conspiracy keeps going

[@LordTalax]

He's not an Ori he's a prior serving the Ori.

[@et3inuyasha]

Mitchell will never replace the Great and Powerful O'niell, but I still loved him.

[@paulrasmussen8953]

He os the closest you can get

[@hariseldon3786]

These two are so funny together...

[@poslednisoud]

And then they started with the most henious of interogation techniques...recipes exchange.

[@ottEST]

“Blaa bla blablabla, I’m gonna get something to eat” 😅

[@verdtre4573]

Shouldve brought up that Daniel ascended at least once until this point.

[@InMooseWeTrust]

Season 9, episode 11 "The Fourth Horseman part 2"

[@bradycryer3276]

Well, you know what they say "No man is so blind as he who refuses to see." But, uh, Prior? Buddy? Got some bad news for you: YOU are the one refusing to see. At least, that's what I'd say if I thought there was a chance he'd open his eyes.

[@Nachtfee80]

Daniel

[@Rih23]

Wow, CSM is back!

[@dorotheav.l.1763]

Lovely Mitchell 💞😂💐

[@johncunningham4820]

Bad Cop , Worse Cop routine . GOLD .

[@Unnatural09]

Someone should have this exact same talk with chaos followers in 40k.

[@okramoffacebook1381]

Multi Level Worshipping In the good ol dark ages

[@MrVasher]

- Я ничего не чувствую, а ты? - Я тоже нет! - Пить хочется! - Это не считается! - Да, не считается!

[@thetrueparadisecity]

you can really hear Michael Shank's Canadian accent when he says "borrowing" lol

[@VinlandAlchemist]

LOVE this! LOL

[@Fixxate]

Cameron and Daniel go together like vanilla and chocolate in this scene

[@chocolateydevil70]

Love this scene ahah

[@vguyver2]

Oh Hey! Tony Todd in the background. One of my favorite actors.

[@JnEricsonx]

Yeah, nice guy. I remember talking with him in a hotel lobby for about 10 minutes for a convention he was going to be at.

[@SlideRulePirate]

" Nothin' yet."

[@sorrowangel47]

funny, the actor who play the ori priest is also the one that play "the man with the cigarette" in X-files.

[@Bobcatflyfish]

I’m convinced they are the same universe since Scully’s father is General Hammond

[@jakeg3733]

And Daniel Jackson later became an Iterator for the Emperor of Mankind during the Great Crusade

[@anom7227]

Mitchel did ‘Imma Head Out’!!!

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Somehow i'm not surprised that the X-File's Cancer-man appeared as a prior.

[@Tattletale97]

I wonder how Cenobite would think of the Ori and Prior

[@aqua3418]

They shouldn't have revealed what that did to him. Bad idea. Don't give him any clue

[@shawnmccori]

Ori certainly love words. They say allot of them through out the show. Plus sometimes he priors remind me of prison guards that made for only that purpose and to get more prison guards. The ori appear to love wood and natural things Daniel using the device stirred up the hornets nest and what do you know more guards are needed.

[@FudForLife]

What episode is this? I don't remember seeing it.

[@turbopokey]

Well, he really did seem like he needed a Morley's while he was quoting that Ori scripture...

[@LiliaArmoury]

i love how michell and jack pretty much are jack o'niell

[@fubaralakbar6800]

I always knew Cancer Man had a God complex.

[@2Fangirl]

What episode is this?

[@jackychang9148]

Surprised Daniel never pulled the "I have ascended before" card. At least, not a lot. I may have forgotten if he did

[@Nessainthebuilding]

To your first question, yeah that's the "smoking guy" from X Files.

[@faa788]

"they have a plan" I wonder if that was a shot at Battlestar Galactica....

[@MDP1702]

Should have read the bible to him, see how he reacts.

[@MDP1702]

@Daniel Appleton Yeah, just a holy book of earth will suffice I guess.

[@vexxama]

You can see how uncomfortable this makes him. He’d rather not think and fall back to rhetoric rather than look at his situation objectively. The ori say the will ascend their believers, but they don’t. If he questions him on this he knows they’d turn on him for his lack of loyalty. He knows he might be being tricked, but he won’t risk what he could lose if changes what he’s doing. It’s almost sad, he thinks he’ll gain so much serving the ori to the point that just finding out about them scares him, the idea that he has to walk away because he’ll never be rewarded how he imagined

[@xwing2417]

In which Ol’ Smoky delivers a monologue.

[@KlingonBabe96]

HAHAHA!!! BEST SHOW EVER!!!

[@Josh-oj9mm]

Me trying to argue with my creationist mum how 20 ton dinosaurs can't fit on a wooden boat made in 5000BC