We’re all caught up since relaunching this podcast earlier this year on YouTube.

New episodes will now drop on Wednesdays, starting April 8th with "Tin Man."

So, now I’m curious: how has this experience been for you?

👉 Come join me in the YouTube community and share your thoughts. Hope to see you there!

🎵 Music credit: “Salty, Sugar, Sweet” — Jon Worthy Music

This is a short behind-the-scenes update sharing a few important changes.

From here on out, the podcast uses a new, fully licensed theme song, “Salty, Sugar, Sweet,” alongside a look at what navigating music licensing, accessibility, and sustainability has been like as a fully independent creator — without industry backing or built-in infrastructure.

A few announcements since we last spoke: Amazon has announced a new Stargate television series. Separately, a YouTube channel has been launched to accompany this podcast — not as a video-first project (yet), but as an added, accessible space for conversation. This podcast has always been about starting a conversation, and that remains the goal.

The Stargate SG-1 Season 1 rewatch continues, with new recordings on the way and a relaunch shaped by further refinement — while holding on to the tone and values that have been here from the start.

If you’ve been listening for a while, thank you for sticking around. And if this is your first episode, welcome — this one offers a glimpse into how and why this podcast is being built the way it is.

🎵 New theme music: “Salty, Sugar, Sweet” by Jon Worthy Music (used with license via Pro Tribe of Noise)

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We're taking a short break to revamp and enhance "Let's Review with Layla and You" 🌟

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👋I’m back, bitches!

It has been quite the year, for all of us.

As I’m still unsure what the future will hold, for myself and the world at large, this account will once again be the place where books, movies & shows will be reviewed by Me, Myself and I (and you!) to provide us all with some much needed educational & fun content to help us all get through the madness.

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This is one of those episodes where you can actually feel Stargate SG-1 leveling up.

Solitudes is a pivotal episode in the series, with two whoppers of a reveal that expand the Stargate universe in a way that makes this franchise so damn good: there’s apparently a second gate on Earth, and the Goa’uld are definitely not the original gate builders. Yeah, those ain’t small peanuts, peepz.

And even with two team members fighting for their survival, this one is still a true Stargate gem full of humor, wit, and the kind of character moments that remind you exactly why this team is the best.

In this review, I look at where our team shines, and where they could maybe use a little improvement — such as their bedside manners and communication skills. "Be better than: 'Oh'.” Put that on a t-shirt, right ladies?

🎵 credit goes to “Emotional Mess” by Amy Lynn & the Honey Men

This was one of the first times Stargate SG-1 made me truly think about what Earth could become if we keep destroying our own planet in the name of consumerism.

The Tollans’ planet has become uninhabitable even though they’re technologically far more advanced than us, and unlike the Nox, they don’t mind hurting our feelings by reminding us of that.

With the introduction of the NID and Colonel Maybourne, we see the kind of people who look at a crisis and immediately start thinking about how they can exploit it. Clearly, the NID need to sort out their priorities, and in doing so they force the SGC — and SG-1 in particular — to decide which path to honor.

Though Enigma first aired in 1998, its themes still hit far too close to home — climate collapse, forced displacement, and governments causing and exploiting suffering instead of easing it. Watching it now, it’s hard not to be reminded just how much still needs to change if we actually want to leave future generations a livable world.

👉 When doing the right thing means standing up to authority, would you take the risk — or follow orders?

🎵 credit goes to “Emotional Mess” by Amy Lynn & the Honey Men

In Part 2 of my Cor-ai review, we see Teal’c’s sentence handed down, and I return to the episode’s ableist framing. I unpack why the resolution frustrated me even more because the disability angle ultimately had nothing to do with it — and somehow that made it sting all the more.

This is also where the Stargate SG-1 episode undercuts its own earlier justification. Teal’c’s survival has nothing to do with Hanno’s father’s disability, Teal’c’s presumed act of mercy or him “doing someone a favor.” It has everything to do with his integrity, honor, and willingness to sacrifice his life for the Byrsa people. That contradiction matters, and this is where I dig into why.

❤️ Christopher Judge’s performance, and those final moments of forgiveness, are powerful and a big part of why this story still hits, even decades later.

🎵 credit goes to “Emotional Mess” by Amy Lynn & the Honey Men

“Cor-ai” unexpectedly hit closer to home than I remembered. This episode frustrated and moved me in almost equal measure.

In this Stargate SG-1 episode, Teal’c comes face to face with the people he harmed while serving the Goa’uld, and that alone makes it one of the more powerful early episodes. But the disability angle? That hit wrong in a way I couldn’t ignore. Once I started unraveling that thread, I couldn’t unsee what it revealed — and I had to talk about it.

This review is a heavy one. I stay with the discomfort, but rest assured, I still make plenty of space for what the episode gets very right, because “Cor-ai” is a powerhouse of cinematic performance. Kudos to Christopher Judge for sure ❤️

👉 Where do you land on Teal’c’s redemption? What does accountability look like to you here?

🎵 credit goes to “Emotional Mess” by Amy Lynn & the Honey Men

Some Stargate SG-1 episodes confront danger head-on. “Singularity” forces us to look at the damage left behind.

What begins as a seemingly quiet mission quickly raises uncomfortable questions about exploration and unintended consequences. Cassandra’s survival becomes a focal point for fears Stargate Command has already been circling: that even with good intentions, they might still leave devastation in their wake.

In this review, I spend a lot of time wrestling with what jumped out to me on rewatch — particularly the colonial echoes in how worlds are entered, renamed, and culturally appropriated. We also unpack the introduction of Nirrti, a Goa’uld who takes cruelty even further by weaponizing a child as a Trojan horse — and how the genocide was engineered rather than accidentally caused by Stargate Command. Still, the fact that these questions arise within Stargate Command matters, and I find myself oddly reassured that the show allows them to grapple, even imperfectly, with the weight of exploration.

This is one of those episodes where I’m openly critical, occasionally nitpicky, and clearly wrestling with the material — especially given how relevant its themes feel in a world still reckoning with real-world genocides and colonial violence. And yet, even here, there are moments of unmistakable Stargate magic that remind me why I keep coming back.

👉 Be honest: how did Singularity land for you on rewatch? And… was anyone else a little annoyed with Daniel in this one, or was that just me?

🎵 credit goes to "Emotional Mess" by Amy Lynn & the Honey Men

This is one of those episodes where I kept going: …what is happening right now?!

In this review, I get into why Hathor just does not work for me, as it casually brushes past repeated male assault and undercuts its own female characters right when they should be allowed to shine. Not cool. It’s messy, it’s uncomfortable, so yeah — I call it out.

And as I always do when an episode loses me a bit, I grab onto the thing I do appreciate and go on a full mythology deep dive — because if nothing else, ancient Egypt will always have my heart 🥰

And to be clear: this is not a critique of the actress playing Hathor. The discomfort of this episode doesn’t come from her performance. For me, it’s all in the writing.

And yet, there are still those moments that made me laugh. Because of course there are. It’s Stargate. Even when they derail a bit, the Stargate magic is still there underneath it all.

🎵 credit goes to “Emotional Mess” by Amy Lynn & the Honey Men