Because Cameron, Sam, Daniel managed to jump into the Stargate, before they were erased. Look at this scene.

I get that, but it simply doesn't make sense that either of them would be able to alter time like in this movie, if time was already changed in the past, time wouldn't slow down in the present to the changing the future.

If the past was already changed, the changes in the present would be instantaneous instead of gradual like it showed up in the movie.

It's an interesting concept to see it from this point of view, but it wouldn't work that way if time travel was real.

I understand why they did it like this for the movie's narrative sake, but it wouldn't work like this if he really changed reality in the past.

No. That's not for the sake of the movie. That worked for Elizabeth in the episode.

I think out of most Goa'ulds, deep down Ba'al has certain respect for the Tau'ri.

They did it for Elizabeth because it was for the sake of the show, The narrative of the show is first priority so that the audience sees what's happening.

I'm just saying it's unnecessary.

And you're right, ba'al liked living with the people of earth.

He probably never got to witness what human society could potentially look like because his species always kept them at a lower level of technology, and when he spent time with us he ended up envying some of the things that we do on our planet when it comes to celebrity, essentially he could be a god but he could be a famous person which was just as good, because nobody really needed to fight him in that case.

where in all other cultures and societies that were human that he had to deal with within the Galaxy, he needed to assert his dominance which means he had to do his God thing.

And he found out that to be a God on Earth is to have a lot of money and influence, and he liked that aspect.

Plus he didn't have any of his kind on Earth judging what he was doing on Earth.

That may have been his intentions all along, except for he was trying to convince the others that Earth was worth saving, he was probably trying to help them see why Earth was so special to him, unfortunately his species constantly overthrow and dominate each other and tend to be too Petty to see what he saw for himself and what he wanted to share with them.

No. It's not like that. I mean, the resourcefulness, creatively of the Tau'ri. Each time, someone or something beat them down, the Tau'ri still stood up and fought back.

Maybe that was part of his reason, but I don't think that's all of it, he clearly loved being on earth when it came to being a celebrity, I remember the episodes quite clearly.

But there were other species within the Galaxy who fought the Goa'uld with just as much resistance who ended up being pretty damn close to what Earth was.

I can't remember the one dude the SG-1 met who was invulnerable to the zat gun and his species was also in invulnerable to implantation of symbiotes.

The Man became a mercenary within the Galaxy, but his people were fighters if I remember correctly.

Damn I wonder what it would be like to discover these people again, I hope that bounty Hunter is still out there and I hope his people are free and safe from the Goa'uld.

His people would make perfect allies with earth, and maybe we could figure out what makes their body so immune to implantation of symbiotes, perhaps it can be synthesized for other races within the Galaxy so that the Goa'uld can never take over a human's body was in the milky way ever again.

The tollen were especially resilient against the Goa'uld, perhaps he was a low level Goa'uld when they were taken out, although he probably wouldn't have liked them as much because they could tell who he was from within.

Because on Earth they didn't know the difference, unless they worked for the SGC and they have seen what ball looks like.

So this was said by Oma in the episode Threads from Season 8x18.

*Oma: They warned him. He wasn't allowed to use any knowledge or power, unless he otherwise would have gained it as a Goa'uld.

What had me confused was? Shouldn't Anubis have known about the Solar Observation Outpost. He did know how to create Khalek.

Well he didn't build that, that was ba'al who built this Outpost.

Although I still wonder were Anubis was within that timeline of the Continuum movie.

I mean did ball take care of him somehow, did he prevent Anubis from ascending?

Obviously these are questions that won't likely be answered, and I just came back to this post at random didn't even get a notification, so you're lucky I came back as I haven't come back here in months.