For all the time that’s passed, nothing has changed. Cory, Lisa, and Victor discuss Jack O’Neil’s conundrum of either accepting his fate of living in a bucolic simplicity or never giving up on going home. There still are some lines cannot be crossed, no matter how many days have passed, no matter how much she needs to prove to herself he’s really home at long, long last. He doesn’t ask her to come inside, though he stands with his hand on the door for a long time before telling her goodnight. She doesn’t ask about Laira, however close they may have seemed when they were finally able to return to Edora. She wrote the initial calculations on the back of an envelope at his kitchen table and spent the night curled up in his bed, trying to catch his fading scent. Sam went in months ago and threw out everything that was in the fridge, then went through all the cabinets and threw out half of it as well, cleaning for hours until the breakthrough about the particle accelerator came. Daniel’s picked up the mail twice a week and made sure all the bills were paid. Cassie’s shoveled the walk more times than she can remember. Sam turns down his block, stopping in front of the house they’ve all taken turns checking in on. “I missed you too, Carter,” the Colonel says softly, reaching across the divide and putting his hand on her shoulder for just a moment. She loves them and is making us all read them too, just so you know-“ Daniel, Teal’c, and I pitched in to get her the first three books of this series that’s become really popular at her school and told her they were from you. She understands I think, even if she doesn’t like it. The fireworks were kind of amazing, though. The world didn’t end, obviously, but I still had to help the system administrator update every computer on base. “I lost almost two weeks on your rescue dealing with Y2K. “You also missed New Years,” she says, because now that she’s started Sam can’t stop talking, because the alternative is silence and it’s been fifty-five days since she’s heard his voice. It’s too harsh, too bright, and Sam would give anything for night to fall in truth so it can just be her and the road, everything else disappearing into the darkness. As the rest of the team frantically searches for a way to bring him home, ONeill adjusts to a simpler way of life and begins a relationship with a local woman named Laira. Half the drivers aren’t bothering with headlights, half have flicked on their brights, and every storefront is lit up in neon and fluorescent. ONeill is stranded on the planet Edora after the Stargate is buried by a meteor strike. The city is in that strange hour between day and night, when the sun has dipped below the horizon but it’s not yet dark enough for the streetlights to flicker on. Fifty-five days missing in action or not, he’s still her commanding officer. If she doesn’t remind him of all that he missed, Sam will be forced to admit how much she missed him, and that won’t do at all. “You missed Christmas,” she says, because what else is she supposed to say? The Colonel’s been gone half-a-hundred days and she’s spent every waking moment since trying to get him back. AWALK ON THE WILD SIDE OF ASTROPHYSICS Many Stargate episodes feature alien skies with oversized planets or moons (e.g., Into the Fire, A Hundred Days. Vicious Cycle: The meteor shower happens every year and reaches apocalyptic proportions every 150 years.12 February 2000 – Colorado Springs, Earth, Milky Way.Ungrateful Bastard: One of the Edorans blames O'Neill for their population being decimated, despite the fact that evacuating the others most likely saved their lives.Also, the time span of the episode is a little more than three months. Title Drop: Laira mentions that she mourned her husband's death for a hundred days.Time Skip: The episode's time frame skips ahead from a few days after O'Neill is first stranded on Edora to three months later, when he has gone fully native.It's a ruse, and as far as we know he never does see her again. Although in Shades of Grey, O'Neill, after temporarily retiring from the military, asks General Hammond for one last favor, to retire to Edora in order to be with Laira. He does promise to visit again sometime in the future, but he never does, at least not that we see. While Daniel, Sam, and Tealc make it back to the SGC, Jack is. Temporary Love Interest: O'Neill forms a relationship with Laira during his time on her planet, which naturally comes to an end by the episode's climax. In Stargate SG-1: A Hundred Days, the team is negotiating with a new ally when disaster occurs.
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