It was necessary to rewrite the popular Stargate SG-1 episode at the last minute

There is something about a plot of an alternative schedule that loves “Stargate SG-1” fans at all. The third season episode “Point of View” is a favorite boost for fans, which is currently located at the number 32 on IMDB List of episodes (unlike “liberation”, which IMDB user voice is the worst episode of “SG1”She reminds her of pride in her unique story that witnessed alternative publications by Dr. Samantha Carter from Amanda Taber and Major at Jay Akovion Charles Kualasky to the main universe to seek help from the SG-1 crew.

“Point of View” was the second time “SG-1” exploring the parallel universes (the first is the first season “there but for the grace of God”, where the quantum mirror is presented). The book will return to the concept of alternative time schedules in the fourth and fifth season of the show, with “2010” and “2001”, respectively-both of whom have also decreased as a crop of fans, though this We have never got the third Ashhen “SG-1” episode, “ Which would continue in the story of these beloved premiums. But there is a particularly impressive thing about the “point of view”, which was the sixth episode of “SG-1” Season 3 and the fifty episode in general, as the book has already created a full story in a 48-hour period.

In “Point of Point”, alternative versions of Samantha Carter and Major Charles Kawalasky are used as a quantum mirror of travel to the main SG-1 schedule after its copy of the ground became worshiped by Goa’uld. In this alternative timetable, in which Goa’uld mainly invaded the Earth, Colonel Jacques O’Neill and Dr. Samantha Carter married before killing O’Neill during an attack on SGA (the alternative version of the Stargate leadership). This is important because there is always a big question mark on the husband’s relationship since the beginning of the series. Important dialogue from “SG-1” alluded to the status of Sam and Jack RomanticAnd throughout the series, there were many suggestions that the husband was more than just colleagues. But in this episode, the book managed to explore the idea of ​​marriage, and there is an impressive scene where Sam Al -Badil cries on the main jack shoulder.

Regardless of the marriage of UNEL, Carter and the oppression of the Earth Goa’uld, the alternative reality is significantly different from the main continuity in several other ways. Neal’c nor Dr. Daniel Jackson became part of the SG-1 crew, with Teal’c remaining an enemy of the human race that led attacks to lead Stargate to this universe.

In the main timeline, the alternative version of Carter begins to suffer from what is known as the entry of the entropy chain, which will eventually kill it unless it returns to its world. The only issue is that Goa’uld is waiting for her there, as she is definitely killing. Of course, the SG-1 crew cannot leave it hanging, and thus return to the alternative schedule with it, eventually recruiting the ASGARD race, which intervenes and saves the SG-1 crew and their parallel colleagues from Jaffa and Goa’uld. O’Neill and Alternate SAM has time to kiss before the team returns to the main universe. It is an intense story and sometimes it moves completely as if it were years to make it. In fact, the episode was actually written at the last minute.

In an interview with Request the gate (via GateworldThe writer and the editor of the story, Tor Valenda, revealed that the “view” met as a result of some scheduling problems. “We had a large hole, a gap because some scenario died either from an independent, or anything else,” he said. “Maybe I didn’t like MGM. Whatever it was, it was something to be fully rewritten. We just decided,” well, we have to reach something of scratch and write something in 48 hours. “

This is exactly what the team did, with Valenza remember how every writer has been called to “Hammer out the plot”. According to the writer, who got the story credited with the episode, “The entire employees were trying to solve it (…) I remember that it was a really high pressure situation for us to reach this text’s story because no one started without the text, and we had zero, and it had to start production within two weeks, or like that.”

Regarding the popularity of the episode, Valenza speculated that at least had a relationship with the relationship of Sam Carter and Jack O’Neill that is explored. ((Sam and Jack) are married in the alternative universe, and this is definitely something that everyone wanted and everything else wanted. Thus you had that drama to it. It was an ideal way to create soap opera tension. ” Sam and Jack never met “SG-1”, “ But this made it more convincing, although it is a classic dynamic-it’s dynamic being one of the best parts of the series. With the “point of view”, the book obtained the idea without adhering to it and destroying tension in future episodes, which is a genius step, especially given that the whole thing was written in two days.