I can sorta make sense of it -- Sam was overidentifying with another 'victim' of Fifth, she's had a habit of letting people into her head in the past (Ascension), and in a particularly stupid frame of mind in any case (I really have issues with the whole 'pining after someone while being engaged to someone else').
But it's still stupid and shows, along with the way that she hasn't had a successful mission yet, that she wasn't ready to be promoted.
And all that makes Jack look bad, too. He promoted her when she wasn't ready and then he coddles her after she fails. He trusts his people too much (we've seen it with Daniel, too). SG-1 are still his team. Militarily-speaking, the teams should have been rotated at some point, on the other hand, I can understand wanting to keep a team like SG-1 together, especially considering that it's a secret operation.
But they've gotten too close. In The Fifth Man, we saw Sam, Daniel, and Teal'c strongly display that their loyalty is not to the military or the SGC, but to Jack (which is not a shock in the case of Daniel or Teal'c, but more troublesome when a military officer feels that way). They dropped into a 'SG-1 against the world' mode really fast.
Several times this season, Jack has trusted in SG-1. Now, Hammond did as well, but Hammond said 'no' a lot more. And Hammond didn't have anyone on base who regularly called him by his first name. Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c don't treat Jack any differently and he doesn't want them too. And both sides of that are problems.
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But it's still stupid and shows, along with the way that she hasn't had a successful mission yet, that she wasn't ready to be promoted.
And all that makes Jack look bad, too. He promoted her when she wasn't ready and then he coddles her after she fails. He trusts his people too much (we've seen it with Daniel, too). SG-1 are still his team. Militarily-speaking, the teams should have been rotated at some point, on the other hand, I can understand wanting to keep a team like SG-1 together, especially considering that it's a secret operation.
But they've gotten too close. In The Fifth Man, we saw Sam, Daniel, and Teal'c strongly display that their loyalty is not to the military or the SGC, but to Jack (which is not a shock in the case of Daniel or Teal'c, but more troublesome when a military officer feels that way). They dropped into a 'SG-1 against the world' mode really fast.
Several times this season, Jack has trusted in SG-1. Now, Hammond did as well, but Hammond said 'no' a lot more. And Hammond didn't have anyone on base who regularly called him by his first name. Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c don't treat Jack any differently and he doesn't want them too. And both sides of that are problems.