This story reminds me in no small part of the Jidaigeki genre or its western derivatives. An honorable warrior of a group of legendary warriors living in solidarity for thousands of years teaches a foreign (western?) warrior how to fight properly to be in a ritual fight to the death. The fighting techniques and philosophy are very similar to (stereotype) martial arts. As is the fact that the training is very hard and Cameron Mitchell slowly gains the respect of Jolan. But these Ronin (Samurai with no lord), pardon, Sodan have lost their path because they begin to worship the Ori now. And this is what makes this episode interesting. If even Jaffa who abandoned their believes in false gods thousands of years ago can be converted the Ori might be unstoppable. And they gain some pretty good fighters on this planet. I wonder if we will see more of the Sodan in the future. By the way, I don't think these Jaffa are morons. They attack SG-1 because they were told they are the enemy and Haikon listens very calm and even with some interest to Cameron, he just doesn't abandon his new believe because of this conversations.
Review of Babylon
