Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) Affinity (2004) User Reviews

Private Lives

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 23 June 2018]

Teal´c is living outside the SGC and he helps his neighbors from troublemakers and pickpockets. His next door neighbor Krista believes he is from Mozambique and he helps her with her boyfriend Doug, who beats her, telling that he would kill him if he beats her again. Meanwhile Sam is proposed by her boyfriend Pete Shanahan and she asks some time to respond whether she accepts to marry him or not. When Doug is found dead in Krista´s apartment, the police hunt Teal´c down. Out of the blue, Daniel Jackson receives a phone call of someone asking him to translate a Goaul´d text otherwise Krista will die.

"Affinity" is an episode of "Stargate SG-1" with problems in the private lives of Teal´c and Sam. The episode is engaging and the conclusion is intriguing with the mysterious rogue agents' attitude. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Affinity"

New digs

[Calicodreamin · 7/10 · 1 April 2022]

I appreciated the new dynamic for this episode however short lived it may have been. The focus on Teal'c on earth was interesting and the storyline well developed. Decent acting.

sexy, believable, and long overdue

[robrosenberger · 27 September 2012]

Hold on to your hats. Is this the first time in eight seasons that romantically-involved characters on SG1 have displayed a fair amount of...what's that word...oh yes, chemistry? These are banner times for Christopher Judge. He's gotten as much character development in the past two episodes as he had in the previous seven seasons combined. In this one, he moves into an apartment in the "real world", much to the concern of the pencil-pushers at the top. After playing "good samaritan" in his new neighborhood a little too Charles-Bronsonly, a shadow agency sets him up for murder, in order to get some ancient translations from Jackson. His neighbor (Erica Durance - SMALLVILLE) is having trouble with an abusive boyfriend. Teal'c teaches her martial arts, and they fall for each other. Sizzle. The B plot with Carter accepting her boyfriend's (Peter DeLuise) marriage proposal, is...um, not awful.

Back to back Teal'c!

[fig-75275 · 9/10 · 7 September 2020]

I really enjoyed an episode a couple of seasons ago that was all about Teal'c. I remember it especially, not just because it was very good, but because I noticed the credits said it was written by Christopher Judge!

Since then I hadn't really noticed any Teal'c specific episodes, but now we've had two of them, back to back. The first one (Avatar) is based on a very clever idea, but while watching it I did start to think that it was "really just a remake of Groundhog Day". Fortunately, Avatar does eventually change direction and the episode picks up again.

Affinity is similar, in that it starts brightly, slows down a bit, and then picks up again towards the end. Both episodes were great and they have re-energised my enthusiam for SG-1!

The Trust is Here

[fcabanski · 4/10 · 19 September 2015]

Teal'c acts like a superhero. He's bringing too much attention to himself. He meets a midriff exposing hottie, his neighbor, who has a bad boyfriend. Teal'c teaches her some Jaffa martial arts. She kills her boyfriend. The NID, now the bad elements have become "THE TRUST", uses the opportunity to make it look like Teal'c killed the boyfriend. Now they can use that to blackmail Daniel Jackson into translating some ancient text into Goa'uld.

The TRUST ultimately kidnaps Daniel after they shoot a coffee cup to prove they mean business. The use the hottie neighbor, who Daniel has met once, as leverage to force Daniel to translate the text. Two seconds after he translates it, they upload it somewhere to confirm the translation.

If they can confirm it why couldn't they translate it? Who knows? Who cares? There's too much Pete. He asks Sam to marry him. She accepts. I wish I were a Goa'uld symbiote. Then I could kill my host rather than see so much Pete. He also helps track down THE TRUST and Daniel Jackson, and the midriff hottie.

When everything is resolved, Teal'c moves out of his apartment. The generic neighborhood kid shows Teal'c that the kid's skateboard is now adorned with Apophis' Jaffa symbol, just like Teal'c's head. COOL.

When Jack became a general, I was worried that missions without him wouldn't be the same. But since that episode and until this one, there hasn't been much off world activity without Jack.

SG-1 was trapped in an off camera base.

SG-1 briefly went to a planet to talk to some people. Daniel was stuck there after a nuclear exchange. But half the action was at SGC.

SG-1 has turned into a show that doesn't involve much off world activity.

Someone better kill off Pete.

Stargate CSI

[tonycat-1 · 5/10 · 3 November 2021]

This is the second episode in a row that deviates significantly from the normal SG-1 script. It's more of a murder mystery than sci-fi or adventure and doesn't work well.