Why did Carter need a 'naquadah detector' for the bomb search? Don't we have at least 6.5 seasons of canon that a former host can sense naquadah? Isn't that the whole point of having turned her into a human goa'uld detector? I thought it was the very lack of naquadah that meant she couldn't detect the naquadah-free goa'uld in The First Ones? I admit that I haven't been following the story lines as closely as I once did but this has been bugging me since it originally aired and I haven't seen any discussion.

Besides how ludicrous was it to have Ba'al cloning himself like that**, building a naquadah-enhanced building on Earth long before he came to the planet, his sudden Australian accent, and then the ludicrous story resolution of passing off a beamed-into-space building as having exploded in a gas leak...I sometimes wonder if they set out to write the stupidest story they can and then see if anyone notices.

**I'm not really complaining about the cloned Ba'als. Cliff Simon is hot. I'll take six of him running around my screen. They've never gotten the biology/social structure of a Lemarkian-inheritance-of-memory creature right and it annoys me. A goa'uld doesn't need to clone its host - its offspring ARE clones in the truest sense since they have "genetic memory." True, the multiples make it easier to confuse our heroes and the Jaffa, but the Stargate timelines suck. Ba'al would have been cloning his host long before the Earth Stargate was even opened to have so many adult clones that had stopped aging at the exact same age he is currently. I'll stop bitching now - I was really more interested in discussion of what happened to Carter's ability than in how the writers flaunt their science ignorance. ;-)