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Prisoners Episode- SG-1 and Hammond act Naive


I just bought Season 2. I missed a lot of the series on its origal run.

Today I watched 'Prisoners" and I noticed how uncharacteristically naive and just plain foolish the team and later, General Hammond behaved towards Linea, the leader of the prisoners.

Sure she helped SG-1 escape, but she got to escape too! Not one of them could conceive of the possibility that she might be lying so they'd take her along?

They immediately took her word since they themselves were falsely imprisoned. But sometimes people DO go to prison for real reasons!

General Hammond said that "for security purposes", he wasn't going to give her her own quarters there. Huh? He proceeeded to give her everything else! Carter, usually smarter than that, gives her full access to everything in their computers. She couldn't wait to tell her everything.
They knew nothing about the woman except that her own people saw fit to imprison her. When she gave that one prisoner his eyesight, he ran screaming from the room when he saw her. Ya think that might've been a hint!

And when he starts to tell his long story about her being " the destroyer of worlds", they stand there patiently while he spins his long tale instead of immediately calling for security and finding Linea's whereabouts on the base. What dumb behavior.
It's a good thing they weren't always this foolish and naive.

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