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Why are the Jaffa so stupid?
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I just watched SG-1 season 7 episode 9 (Avenger 2.0) and there is a scene where Major Carter fights alone against a whole Jaffa patrol. She is even able to kill three or four. I know the Jaffa tactics were never really advanced but this episode took the cake. I was asking myself: how is it possible they are so bad at aiming and fighting if they dedicate their whole life to war training?
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My take has always been that most of them are not battle hardened. Training is good and all, but actual battle is what makes great soldiers. They are not used to being challenged. What experience they do have is against other Jaffa. SG-1 uses different tactics. The Jaffa do not know how to respond to it.
Also not all soldiers are trained to the same level. You have a remote planet that has never seen trouble. you are not going to put your best warriors there to run patrols. Those are going to be reserved for the royal guard if you will.
U.K. Redditors, what the hell are Jaffa Cakes, and are they worth an American ordering them off Amazon to try?
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My husband listens to gaming podcasts, one of which has British hosts. After the guys on the podcast joked about Jaffa Cakes, he became obsessed after googling it, and for some reason ordered some off of Amazon. Is it going to be worth it for him to wait for these cakes to come in the mail?
Top Comment: My husband listens to gaming podcasts, one of which has British hosts. After the guys on the podcast joked about Jaffa Cakes, he became obsessed...
Why Haven't They Sold Jaffa Cakes In America?
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I love McVities and I am confused why Jaffa Cakes aren't sold here. I mean they sell Digestives and Hobnobs but not Jaffa Cakes. Why is this?
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Probably not sweet enough to appeal to the American palate. They'd consider a jaffa cake to be "just bread."
A question about Jaffa
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So ok the Jaffa are now free from the oppression of the Goa'uld. So my question is do the new jaffa, just become basically humans. I don't know the exact episode, but Teal'c tried his best to make sure that ryak didn't get a symbiot.
Do the future generations of Jaffa lose the long life span, do they lose the sac if it is not used? or did I miss something about their Genealogical make up., and they lose their immune system no mater what, so they will just all be put on Tretonin
Edit: Did some episode rewatching, and seems to be they will need the medicine no mater what. Also Gateworld says they will need it, but still fun debate. Prim'tah
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I thought the "pouch" was made by a special Goa'uld tool, Didn't Daniel or Jack have one at one point? I think it was the Hathor episode? Also I don't think they lose their natural immune system till the parasite replaces it.
[Stargate SG-1] Why are the Jaffa such terrible shots?
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Seriously, these guys make Stormtroopers look like elite snipers.
In several cases you have a dozen or so of these guys standing around shooting their staff weapons at SG-1 which is trying to pathetically take cover near the stargate, and they seem to be hitting everywhere except the team.
The Death Gliders and Ha'tak Bombers are even worse. Whenever they show up they seem to just shoot up completely random bits of the landscape (which could in no way be concealing more people) with seemingly no other purpose than to cause dramatic-looking explosions in the distance behind whichever SG team is hanging around. Sometimes they literally just do a strafing run at a barren hill hundreds of meters away from anyone.
Are many Jaffa just longing to be free from Goa'uld oppression and are only making half-hearted gestures of intimidation without any desire to harm? Do the Jaffa training camps regularly forget to teach how to aim? Do the larval goa'uld symbiotes mess up the eyesight of all Jaffa? What's going on here?
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Jaffa and their weapons are instruments of fear. Their purpose is to break their enemies by appearing superior and overwhelming, not to kill them. Dead slaves cannot worship a Goa'uld.
Does anyone know what Jaffa Cakes taste like?
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I was recently re-watching Spaced, and in one episodes they make a reference to Jaffa Cakes and I really want to know what one tastes like. Oh and here is a link to the clip if you like Spaced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZnsOZsA7_4
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How to describe the indescribable. Let me try. The Jaffa cake is as sublime as it is ridiculous. It is the feeling of joy one has when viewing a sunrise, and it is the feeling of post-masturbatory shame.
It is an enigma, wrapped in a sponge cake, wrapped in chocolate. (Enigma being the main filling - mainly dextrose with a bit of citrus flavouring)
Many a man have succumbed to its charms. He's Jaffed off his tits, concerned friends and relatives will shriek as the victim of Jaffa abuse stumbles in, vomiting ferociously, a crazed look in their eyes. If they are lucky enough to still have eyes, or fingers or a functioning neck.
Respect the Jaffa, and it will reveal the deepest mysteries of nature before your very eyes. If you use them flippantly, my god be warned, you might feel slightly sick.
Why the Jaffa became weak
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I've seen people write the Jaffa became weak and stupid as the show progressed, and attribute it to bad writing. This never made sense to me. I always saw it as a natural part of the plot.
My in-universe explanation:
Not all Jaffa were ever top warriors. The goa'uld had a few well trained Jaffa, and a whole lot of armor wearing farmers. In the beginning we see mostly Apophis personal gaurd. He walks around freely, because nothing can really threaten him.
Then came SG-1. Killing Ra, and then hurting Apophis. There was blood in the water, and the sharks came. The Ta'uri triggered unprecedented in-fighting, and pretty soon most of the well trained Jaffa were dead.
By the later seasons, the Jaffa farmers were conscripted, the armor was made in a rush by unskilled workers, the Jaffa became unorganized untrained canon fodder. A far cry from the training Bra'tac gave Teal'c.
Back when Apophis was gathering forces for his invasion, Daniel explicitly mentioned the goa'uld may be advanced, but they are still a fuedal society. Their industry is lacking, and their workforce uneducated. For thousands of years they fought against either unarmed humans, or rival goa'uld, who want to take the ships and Jaffa over to their side.
The Ta'uri managed to bring down the goa'uld, not by killing them all, but by making them break the rules that kept them unified and in power, thus depleting their resources.
I actually think the Jaffa becoming idiots is delightful world building, as we are explicitly told the goa'uld are loosing power. This is just what it looks like.
tl;dr - Jaffa died and replaced by other weaker Jaffa.
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Not to mention the huge propaganda hit that is Apophis’ first prime ditching him for the Tau’ri that probably had all the smart Jaffa faking their own death and deserting.
I mean, if Apophis was a god, surely he’d smite Teal’c for his insolence, right?
Are the Jaffa children human?
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I remember there was an ep where Drey'auc was going to be given his first symbiote but he didn’t have a stomach pouch. We also see O’Neill be turned into a Jaffa by Hathor and then regressed by the sarcophagus. Are we to assume Jaffa children are human until they reach their teens and undergo a ritual to change them?
If that’s the situation, will there be Jaffa after the current generation passes? I assume they would keep their culture but wouldn’t they essentially be humans?
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I don't think so. In "Birthright" where we meet the Jaffa women of Hak'tyl, one of the main points was that the pubescent girls would need symbiotes to live.
It's impossible to "just eat a couple" of Jaffa Cakes.
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Entire box of 24. Plundered. In fifteen minutes. I regret nothing.
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My wife actually said to me last night "If you want to eat a whole packet you can, you're a grown man". I don't know if it's a trap :S