As much as I loathed Season 5's Wormhole XTreme! I loved Season 10's meta tribute 200.  This celebratory episode felt more inclusive than the last, it was funny and light-hearted, poking fun at the history of Stargate SG-1, the vagaries of television production, the cast, the plot holes, the fan fiction and the fans. 

The parody and humour here had an easier, wryer, more fan-friendly edge that worked on many levels while the effort, imagination and creativity going into the varied humorous vignettes has to be applauded.  There was even room for some cute team moments and commentary on characters old and new, a lot of it *very* familiar to the denizens of lists, forums, blogs and LJs. 

Who knew the writers were paying so much attention!

Daniel

I did find Daniel's horror and impatience at this unutterable waste of his time to be very funny, especially his openly telegraphed willingness to leave the teammates he loves and would die for to suffer the ordeal alone.  Very, very bad of him, and very, very funny.  He *so* deserved Jack asking specifically for him to feel the pain. 

The 'real' Daniel moments kept me chuckling; his pointed observation that Cameron finds *everything* fun was perhaps a nod to the fans who've so enjoyed that character's fanboy enthusiasm for all things SG-1 and gate-related.  His equally pointed question about what the rest of the team were doing while Cameron single-handedly despatched zombies was equally a fan commentary.

Of the 'vignette' Daniels, I would happily single out the coffee-drinking Cowardly Lion, the edgier teen Daniel angsting over Mitchell not liking him any more and puppet Daniel's accelerated opening of the Stargate, where he amply demonstrated he can be just as Super as Sam.  I could only wish we'd gotten to see the wedding take where Jack takes Daniel's hand instead of Sam's, and everyone in the wedding chapel applauds.

The shout out at the end to the Save Daniel Jackson campaign had me in stitches.  As a former Steerer of the SDJ campaign and the webmaster of Solutions when it was SDJ campaign headquarters at its old url of savedanieljackson.com, I loved the references to the site with its "dozens" of hits a month and to some of the zeitgeist achievements of the campaign in reaching out from fandom into the mainstream television industry and the public consciousness and becoming an international news phenomenon in its own right.  That was wicked cool :)

Oh, and on a shallow note, Daniel's new glasses are cool.

Vala

My favourite Vala moment was the Wizard of Oz vignette where she was describing wanting to be a part of something, a "regular part," if we caught her drift.  I liked the knowing quality of the joke.  Generally, I enjoyed Vala's attempts to hijack the movie as a personal star vehicle for the sexy female alien, her attempts to 'homage' movie and TV icons and her good-natured tolerance, even enjoyment, of always being a beat behind everyone else in getting the jokes.  This all must seem so innocent to her after the life she's led and the experiences she's had.  I can't blame her for being so attracted to being a part of it.  A regular part ;)

Cameron

There were a lot of laughs at Cameron's expense.  As referenced above, his hero action schtick was promptly called by Daniel, while his pouting was priceless when Marty so unkindly reminded him that 'his' so-called character, Danning, was actually based on Colonel O'Neill. 

There were lots of shout outs to fans over the difficulties of replacing a much loved character in a long running show and lots of fun, contrasting in-character moments for the rest of SG-1to react to Cameron's replacing O'Neill on the team.  I thought these moments worked on all the levels intended but were never mean spirited in execution.  Even when Daniel and Sam were punking him on the issue of who's his daddy, it was funny.  That's such a classic clichéd fan fiction staple, you know someone out there *has* to have written it

Cameron's whole big deal 2-0-0 thing was funny and a little pathetic; that level of enthusiasm is almost - frightening.  200 times he's stepped through the gate, and he's *counting*.  The man couldn't be less like Jack if he tried.

Sam

Puppet Sam was tremendous fun, in full - and fully acknowledged - Super Sam Technobabble mode.  We even got a nod back to the sex organs debacle of her introduction in Children Of The Gods.  Very, very funny stuff.  Wedding Sam was very funny too, calling Jack 'Sir.'  I always find it strange that Fantasy Sam, like Alternate Reality Sam, inevitably has long hair.  The hair seems to be a metaphor for Sam's Air Force career.  I chuckled at her snippy response to Invisible Jack sneaking off on her sciencey stuff more than once, and her suspiciousness in the supposedly empty shower room.

Real Sam was playful and funny too, pouting when her ideas were shot down in flames by Marty and sharing a lot of the in-jokes with Daniel about Cameron and Vala, but again, without ever being mean spirited.  I like light-hearted, fun Sam, and she was here in spades.  It really is great to see her involved in an emotional level with stories and other characters, instead of the notorious exposition she's too often saddled with.

Teal'c

Teal'c PI.  They SO have to make this show!  I loved Teal'c keeping it real.  I also loved him beaming smugly when Marty praised his pitch and looming menacingly when the little guy tried to weasel out of taking it to the network.  Also loved the deadpan delivery of his commentary on the movie script: why must everything inevitably explode?  The knowingness of his conversation with Invisible O'Neill was a hoot; I chuckled over the references to his 'stoic stare' and other expression staples that are so cool to watch and so darned hard to write.  Teal'c's deadpan sense of humour is coming along swimmingly.

Jack

It wouldn't have been right to celebrate the show without bringing back old favourites: while General Hammond and Dr. Janet Fraiser only surfaced as puppets in the 'Team America' skit, Jack was back as himself and as a participant in several of the vignettes.  Invisible Jack was the most successful of these; the evil that Jack did was perfectly in character, from snoozing through yet another of Daniel's endless, impassioned lecture, to owning up to his surveillance of a naked Samantha Carter, to having a dog drive his big honkin' truck.  I do miss Jack, particularly Jack with Daniel, but I was with puppet Hammond when he called Hero Jack on laughing in the face of their enemy, even when it was inappropriate.

Plot, pacing and that other stuff

Plot?  What plot?  This was a light-hearted romp, a wicked tease and a fitting tribute to a show that's reached out and touched its fanbase for years.  It was nice to see that we in turn have touched the show in ways we might not have expected to.

I will say that as funny as the Wormhole XTreme actors were in their pointed parallels with their SG-1 actor counterparts' real life shenanigans, I wanted to stay with the SG-1 team, in character, go through the gate and get the cake.  What came after made me laugh, but was anticlimactic after seeing Jack, Daniel, Sam, Teal'c, Cameron, Vala, Landry and Walter go through the Stargate together.

All in all, I think we're going to be laughing at this one for years to come.  Very nicely done.