From Jonathan Klotz
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Stargate SG-1 Was a syfy original series, which means that the budget came close to the costs of an average sequence of never Blue bloodAnd the most expensive part of the series was the massive, life-size handmade star gate even with total costs in 1995 of $ 100,000. When Colonel Jack O’Neill subsequently went through an open goal through an open goal, everyone held their breath away and had to trust their trust in Richard Dean Anderson. Anderson held up the expensive requisite with real golf balls, but as with everything the time loops contained, it came together perfectly.
Windows of opportunities
The time loop is a common trope for every long -term series, and when Stargate SG-1 Season 4 came by, it was finally time for the show to give the concept of its own fun turn. O’Neill and Teal’c (Christopher Richter) Find yourself in a time loop after you have researched a planet and have experienced a massive solar event. Foreigner The archaeologist Malaki (Robin Mossley) triggers a strange device and captures O’Neill and Teal’c. They are the only ones who recognize what happens, which is a problem, since the solution behind the translation of old runes is hidden.
Every day, Jackson (Michael Shanks) tries to decipher the importance of runes that they photographed on the surface of the planet, but with only 10 hours there is not enough time. O’Neill and Teal’c try to help Jackson, but finally give up and decide to use every loop that is related to itself so that everything they do has no influence on the next. What comes next is one of the best sequences in Stargate SG-1 And has consolidated “Windows of Opportunity” as fan favorites.
That is why the couple plays in one of the best pictures of the entire franchise golf with the active star gate, much to the annoyance of the other SG 1 officers. Teal’c begins to hit the door back into the plane instead of being hit at the beginning of every loop, and the most impressive takes O’Neill pottery (with its improvement of every loop a brilliant visual gag) and juggles. It turned out that Richard Dean Anderson is an experienced juggler and “Windows of chances” was his only chance to show his hidden talent on the screen.
A fan favorite episode
The time loops peaks with O’Neill, who leaves Stargate SG-1 and kissed Carter immediately (Amanda taps), the memory he carries with him as soon as you loosen the puzzle behind the loops. It is a fun moment in an episode that is filled with them. So it is no surprise that the talented writer from Paul Mullie and Joseph Mallozzi would write the loved ones “Wormhole X-Treme” and “200”. In a short moment of intelligent storytelling, they even contained a line about how long the Tok’ra had tried to get it, three months, which means that with some short back of the napkin mathematics, every loop lasted 10 hours, and they spent three months included, o’nill and teal’c loops, a total of 216 loops.
“Windows of Opportunity” is found out of all other episodes of the entire franchise, since the efficient method of filming the time loop was rotated under the required term and Anderson and Richter have to fill out the time with improvised scenes. Surprisingly, this is the only episode of Stargate SG-1 In which every scene that was rotated, it made it into the air, nothing stayed on the bottom of the cutting room. The end result is a comedic episode of all time that is still able to today, and proof of how happy everyone was that Ricard Dean Anderson did not break the most expensive prop on the set.
