The worst thing was that the promo I had in mind was not misleading but ruins the whole episode. Ba'al, on Earth, makes a threat. SG-1 has to find the bomb, and they have no idea where to look--except that the preview clearly had Sam announcing, "The building is the bomb!", so everyone sat around waiting to find out which building was the bomb, and that wasn't very exciting. It was a poor episode start to finish, including the title: apparently Mallozzi and Mullie thought word order determines meaning in Latin, because they said that whereas "Deus ex machina" meant "God from the machine," "Ex deus machina" meant "the machine from the god." Wrong! Case, not word order, determines the meaning; their title had an unusual order, but it clearly still meant "God from the machine." To get "the machine from the god," you need "Machina ex deo" (or, if you want to be funny, "Deo ex machina").

Knowing the solution to the puzzle from the preview turned a very weak episode into a terrible one, at least for me and BH.

You may have seen that I did leave a little comment about Mallozzi's saying Carson would be in both episodes: technically correct, but misleading and disappointing. He didn't pick me for Mailbag. Gee, wonder why?