When even a species known for its over-the-top god complex belief of superiority, regards another party as being a power-mad lunatic, you *know* it's bad.
This scene puts into perspective why Anubis kept his First Prime, Her'ak, around even when he messed up a little when he tolerated failure from no one else. Good help, loyalty and absolute faith are difficult qualities to find in henchmen 😅
I've never liked that Cliff Simmons used the Tauri-American pronunciation of "Jaffa". As a Goa'uld system lord, he should speak with a Goa'uld accent, not an Earth one.
Anubis's speech here was kind of meh. Basically telling Baal that he is going to destroy everyone including him but still needed his loyalty and then this whole grand design thing.
hhmmm there is some theory, lets say anubis destroys all life in the galaxy, then he repopulates it with genetically modified humans thats only worshiping him, fueled from the worshipers psionic energy(just like the ori done) anubis makes his move againts the ascended ancients, by destroying them anubis becomes god in every definition in our galaxy.
Baal was terrified and surprised at this scene Anubis wanted to destroy the galaxy and this is a great crime, Baal understood it and did not want to let it happen, he did not kill for no reason, he would rather rule the galaxy than destroy it Baal did nothing without sense and had emotions (we remember the episode 'Abyss' where a certain woman named Shanann performed, many Goauld would torture her /escape case/ and then ask, Baal locked her in order but didn't torture her, he preferred to do it to Jack and find out from him, this female slave was a sex slave /concubine of Baal , so he probably didn't want to spoil the relationship, the episode confirms that everything he did was thought out) he also always worked only for himself he was independent, even as it was said he supervised the work himself, he also made inventions himself, he was a scientist and a very good strategist in this scene, after talking, Baal realizes that Anubis is insane that's probably why he started working with Tauri or humans Anubis is a monster, and Baal realized it by the way- I dont know why they deleted this scene from episode, its very important,and great acting too
Ba'al would have no issues with wiping out all life either - as long as he can survive. The only reason he doesn't go along with any of this is because he'd be dead as he cannot ascend. If he had Anubis' powers he'd have done it himself.
The Goa'uld just destroyed his Asgard ship, why was he acting surprised they had some technology like the ability to download knowledge? Maybe it was to assault the Goa'uld's Ego to reveal information!
"The extent of his power cannot be put into words... and his perceptions have grown as well. To him... you are dust motes in a storm... a grain upon the beach... and as insignificant as a body that orbits the graveyard of Abydos. He sees planets, stars... not people. To him, the plane below, the galaxy with its teeming life, only that is massive enough to demand his attention."
Two of the best Stargate villains ever written in one scene. Ba'al was Intelligent ruthless and charming, for a Goa'uld. And Anubis was brilliant powerful and mad!
