Richard Dean Anderson's suggestion to change O'Neil from a serious all the time to a smart ass half the time is what help Stargate: SG-1 to its success.
Absolutely correct, the Cinema-O´Neil was nothing that could have worked for more then a few films before the character would have been just tooo raw to anchor deeper storys on him. What RDA and the people behind the camera made out of him was a human beeing and not one of the last examples of a 1980´s like super hard ass hero-figure. The original was too much John McClane (not that it don´t like Die Hard, in fact i love it, but it´s just not tv-show material). RDA´s version had options to evolve the character and he did, he learned, he made mistakes, and he was able to do something i wouldn´t think the original version would have been able to: Play safe and get the hell out when there came too many signs into existence that a situation will go downside. How many times did they stop a mission to come back at a later date with the right tools to do the job? In short: RDA gave O`Neill a soul, Kurt Russels version was nice for a film, but in retrospective it was nothing short of a deeply flawed and short lived prototype.
@@ancientearth2250 Yeah, there aren´t so many characters out there anymore that were build up like that by their actors. I really hope this comes back someday. Hopefully even with a new stargate-show. RDA is too old now, but there are a lot of known figures with the potential to become good successors to his O`Neill, damn i would even like to get Ben Browder / Mitchell back since i rewatched the whole show. Yes, he was no O`Neill, Sheppard was much closer to him, but he did a good job. He wasn´t a copy of an old Character, but his own new thing and that has to be when it has to work out in a good way.
@@joesheridan95 You could even explain it as he started using humor as a coping mechanism after being so depressed after losing his son, and it kinda stuck.
@@zeehero7280 That's a very good point. Really. That was a character changing event and that point could explain the character shift in the time between him commimg back the first time and the start of the show. He had time to think about his son, his wife was gone and he had seen how petty us humans are and that the world was to complicated for his raw handling from before. 2-3 years are enough time to have a shift in you character i think.
No see, Daniel was right to be pissed. You don't move artifacts from a dig site until WHERE, or more importantly where in relation to other artifacts, they were found has been catalogued.
No see, soldiers don't know much about the proceedings of an archeological dig or their significance. Good ol Jack was just trying to keep the poor boy from breaking down. They didn't know Daniel!
@RubiiX not to mention you don't know what kind of artifacts are the "you touchy you splodey" kind, or the kind that will warp your DNA or cause permanent random intermittent eyelid twitching...
this killed me. I laughed so hard my sister came running in because she thought I was dying or something. the best are "yes jack, I'm fast asleep", "Daniel, go to your happy place", "did I just say 'all I know'?", "clear the room. I want no witnesses", and "no more beer for you"
"Oh please, Teal'c is one of the deepest people i know. I mean he's SO deep. Go on and tell him how deep you are. You will be lucky if you UNDERSTAND this" "My depth is immaterial to this conversation" "OWWW YOU SEE" "No more beer for you" (The clip doesnt show it but right after that it shows Daniel having like this weird look on his face, like saying "no, dont take away my beer and orange")
I love Jack's facial expressions when he says "honest" and "The fact is, and this is the fun part, we actually came to save your ASS.......ses.... all your asses" wwww super hilarious XD
I genuinely loved the few scenes both characters shared. I would have *paid* to have kept Jonas even after Daniel came back. Outside of the core SG-1 cast, Jonas is one of my top favorite characters in the whole franchise. He's only beaten out by the Doctor from SGA that died due to the Tumor Bomb (as much as I love the character I can never remember his name), Michael (the half Wraith), and Eli (but only in the last couple episodes of SGU, he was just as much of a dick as everyone else before that)
I always thought that Skaara in the first Stargate Movie and Skaara in the show was so alike. I looked it up and found that it actually IS the same actor! Alexis Cruz.
i like the episodes with daniel and the unas. daniel always seems to make friends with the people or aliens who kidnap him or hold him hostage. no wonder hes hot... and totaly the best charector.
I Absoloutly LOVE IT when Jack said "No more beer for you" That just KILLS me with laughter(pretty much the whole scene does actually: except @ the really sad parts)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Theres a great convo. between Daniel and McKay in Season 5 of Atlantis where they're in Janus' secret lab: McKay: Isn't it just fun? Saving the world and stuff? Daniel: Yeah, it is. McKay: But it isn't why we joined up is it? Daniel: No! We did it for the money! McKay: Wait. You don't make more then me do you? Daniel: -eye roll- (Not sure if i got it right)
at 2:30 something. its hilariou when daniel runs to his lab for a piece of paper and the repoter and camera man follow him and theure like "well how come you were running?" "hat? oh yeah i was running to see if you would follow me." hilarious
Jack plans on beating Daniel to a pulp. If there are witnesses, he's in serious trouble. BUT if they turn away, they're not lying when they say "We saw nothing, General Hammond." Then Jack can "get away with it" so to speak. :)
It makes me picture Spock pulling the same trick. "I was attempting to ascertain whether a spontaneous display of urgent haste, even without context, would prompt you into pursuit."
Honey Weed Daniel leaves at the end of season 5 and come back at the first episode of season 7. I believe he may have taken a few episodes off later on in the series but from season 7 to the end he is regularly playing in episodes.
