Ok, you have a point about the sarcophagus. It did affect Daniel significantly. And the Goa’uld use the sarcophagus far more than just when their host is badly injured. I don’t know if the sarcophagus actually helps meld the two minds, (though I suppose it is possible) but we do know it can ‘drain the good from their hearts’ as Martouf said.
Your theory that the Goa’uld forms some kind of deeper physical bond with the host in order to more fully control the host is probably correct. Otherwise, why can’t a host take control temporarily while the goa’uld is asleep? All creatures need to sleep sometime, and the symbiote would be no exception. Does that make it more difficult to change hosts? Maybe.
Still, I tend to think that the main reason they stay in the same hosts whenever possible is to continue the illusion of being a god. You may have an exception with Bynar. Though he was Sokar’s servant, and his disfigurement was a punishment from Sokar for letting Jolinar escape. How would Sokar have reacted if he had punished Bynar and then the next day Bynar shows up in a new, perfectly healthy host? The result would probably be worse than living with only one eye.
Do Tok’ra truly blend? As Jacob said, “It’s complicated, symbiote and host.” He also says that a true blending never occurred with Jack and Kanan. Kanan just took over, and that’s not blending.
Some neurological blending at the very least would have to take place to give the Tok’ra symbiote the ability to control the body. They do remain two separate entities, with different personalities. Yet they ‘love as one and mourn as one’. I’m not sure the answer to that one, other than it is…complicated. It’s a fun one to explore though.
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Date: 2005-08-29 02:33 am (UTC)Your theory that the Goa’uld forms some kind of deeper physical bond with the host in order to more fully control the host is probably correct. Otherwise, why can’t a host take control temporarily while the goa’uld is asleep? All creatures need to sleep sometime, and the symbiote would be no exception. Does that make it more difficult to change hosts? Maybe.
Still, I tend to think that the main reason they stay in the same hosts whenever possible is to continue the illusion of being a god. You may have an exception with Bynar. Though he was Sokar’s servant, and his disfigurement was a punishment from Sokar for letting Jolinar escape. How would Sokar have reacted if he had punished Bynar and then the next day Bynar shows up in a new, perfectly healthy host? The result would probably be worse than living with only one eye.
Do Tok’ra truly blend? As Jacob said, “It’s complicated, symbiote and host.” He also says that a true blending never occurred with Jack and Kanan. Kanan just took over, and that’s not blending.
Some neurological blending at the very least would have to take place to give the Tok’ra symbiote the ability to control the body. They do remain two separate entities, with different personalities. Yet they ‘love as one and mourn as one’. I’m not sure the answer to that one, other than it is…complicated. It’s a fun one to explore though.