Dur'id the Druid
Know what you're doing yet?
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What was the point of this demonstration? Paul should know that he can't bluff that the controlling process is beneficial to the host or kills them when they have past hosts who can contradict him. The existence of such a host was quite directly a subject of the prior chapter when he offered to resurrect Dr Jackson's wife.
Wouldn't it be far easier to claim that only the pointlessly evil Goa'uld maintain their hosts minds and the majority of hosts are lobotomized or kept in a lotus eater simulation? The advantage of this is that it couldn't be contradicted by the hosts they have rescued or briefly interacted with after the Goa'uld left as they would be characterized as the rare victims of particularly evil Goa'uld.
He could also further justify the use of hosts saying his faction takes them from death row prisoners or zealot volunteers. This is a common explanation for stories using a Good! Goa'ul.
I believe he got caught up in proving a point and knowing he can fall back to forcing his way out if necessity. As well as more building the narrative that he is an unusual ghou'ld.
Also he can still fall back on the zealot volunteer, and the host was actually fine until the centuries trapped broke him mentally.
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