While this episode brought some pertinent information to our reality, it was a very fun episode. Is there an alternate version of me out there wistfully thinking about that One Season Wonder show called Stargate SG-1 where once they heard they weren't being renewed for a season 2 they went out with a bang by destroying the Earth. Well... I hope he's satisfied with Space: Above and Beyond. 10 Season's and a couple of spinoffs... man that show had legs.
So, later in the future, the SG team takes the Daedalus through a much larger copy of the interdimensional portal, to the then destroyed earth. They use the stargate, dial past a black hole (or however it was they did it before), and travel to the past to kick goaul'd butt and save this world as a thank you and also to establish the league of many Earths for mutual defense.
The rule of alternate universes, timelines, and dark possible futures seem to be that those versions of the main characters have to die horribly before the reset button is hit, and everything is back to normal. Fun times (for the audience, anyway). 😎👍
I mean, I would say that the System Lords and their armies have way too few people in them. Earth's populace could probably storm through a Stargate and overwhelm them by sheer force of numbers, after sending in some commandos to disable their ship engines to stop them from getting away.
Given the theoretically infinite number of parallel universes in setting, and thus the infinite number of Daniels jumping from their reality to another, we're following one who did make it, as opposed to the number whose codes were off ...
I wonder if the writers ever regretted having Sam be military and that's why nearly all of her alternate universe counterparts are civilians, because it meant they couldn't just have her and Jack get together and move past the pointless tension they created between them. Or just wished they didn't make the attraction in the first place, either way it really felt like a waste of time very quickly.
ah. this makes sense. that alternate universe, the SGC went for "use all the explosives" route. and as we all know, when you do that, you don't recover alien technology for Dr. Vahlen to reverse engineer, thus tech stagnation, thus losing. gotta use those Arc throwers to take the aliens alive for "interrogation". shit, i just realized, Hammond is only a general because without Daniel on the team, SG1 will never go back in time to give him those stock tips in the past.
Great episode of SG-1. Stakes seem so big. Its the nature of the shows stakes keep getting bigger. but by the end of SG-1 and Atlantis those final seasons just lack the impact you find in the first season of SG-1. Also the sequel and other episode in the same vain "Point of View" and "Ripple Effect" are fine with only "The Road Not Taken" being goodish but not great
You know Daniel, you could've just played the tape up front as proof you were who you said and coming from where you did and saved yourself from a lot of hassle in Acts 1 & 2. Or SGA could've played the confiscated tape out of curiosity or something. Woulas, shouldas, couldas... Oh well. Great episode nonetheless. One of the first times SG-1 zagged where other '90s sci-fi shows zigged.
