sg1 10.06: 200
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amezriOkay, so I needed to watch SG-1 10.06 again because... the crack! And this time I'm going to try and better document all the in-jokes and parodies to the best of my ability. My brain is small, so correct me if I'm wrong.
I did this late last night and finished up this morning,
This premise of this episode is a callback to "Wormhole X-Treme," the 100th episode of SG-1. Martin Lloyd, the alien turned script writer, is back and this time he's trying to make a Wormhole X-Treme movie. He's asking SG-1 to help him review the script and it turns into a pitch session.
So let me once again say the first 40 seconds of this episode confused the hell out of me. We start, very clearly, on the recap with scenes from "100" and then it quickly shoot to the start of the episode -- RDA is still part of the team and it's a series of quick cuts like other episode recaps. Clearly we're supposed to think, "wtf, Furlings?!"
Furling: We are the Furlings.
Daniel: We thought we'd never get to meet you.
It seemed like we were never going to see the Furlings. They're mentioned a couple times, but none of the producers or writers have really indicated anything else about them. Seriously, it felt like they were just stringing us along with these four Great Races. Then finally Mallozzi said we'd get Furlings in episode 200. Yeah.... we got some low grade Ewoks in a fantasy script. *facepalm*
Cameron: Do you really think the best way to introduce the heroes of the story is showing them causing a massive catastrophe?
Daniel: That's realistic.
I just like that line. It's amusing.
Carter: You know the really unbelieveable part is that anyone would consider spending millions of dollars on this. I mean, seriously, all these writers and they couldn't come up with anything better?
Oh, totally a dig at their own writing staff ;)
Daniel: Who makes a movie out of a series that only lasted three episodes?
Teal'c: It allegedly performed well on DVD.
Firefly shoutout! :D
Cameron: Okay, for starters, I think you need a strong opening title sequence.
Martin: Are you serious? No one does that anymore. You just throw up the title and get on with it!
Okay, this has to be a reference to the opening title debacle that happened on SciFi last year where they cut the titles way down because they claimed it would add more show time.
Martin: Look, no offense, but zombies have been done to death... uh, no pun intended. Besides this is science fiction, not horror.
Cameron's own Doom/Resident Evil/zombie/action flick story? I totally love it. Although, you know, poor Walter getting eaten by zombies.
Daniel: Just out of curiosity, what was the rest of the team doing while you were fighting zombies?
If it was like most action/zombie flicks? You guys probably got eaten.
Martin: Our lead backed out. I mean, how am I supposed to tell the story without my lead character?
Cameron: Easy, just bring in a character to replace him.
Soooo a reference to RDA! And the character's pointed stares at Cameron? So perfect. Cam's little, "what?" and Sam shaking her head. Awesome.
Martin: How can I keep the main character in the story without actually having the actor who plays him?
Sam: Well, you could have the other characters refer to him all the time. Maybe get him on the phone once in a while.
Martin: Oh, yeah right.
Ha!! Totally a dig at RDA's departure and how they lamely filled in the beginning of season 9 with him making calls and people just mention him.
Martin: I need something cool like face-switching or body-swaping.
Vala: [laughs] As if anyone would believe that.
Daniel: [glares]
Ha! Reference to 9.03 ("Origin") where Daniel & Vala swap bodies with people in the Ori galaxy and 9.19 ("Crusade") were Vala swaps bodies with Daniel to communicate with SG-1.
Sam: There was that time where Colonel O'Neill was invisible... [insert lame, corny scene ripple.]
Oh, man. The clips with Jack enjoying being invisible!! Driving with a dog at the wheel, falling asleep at the meeting (Daniel: Someone just want to poke around, see if you can find him?), standing in the women's showers (answering Sam's "sir are you there?" with a "nope"!). And the scene in the hall way with Teal'c! Hah.
Jack: Not buying it, eh?
Teal'c: No. You are most transparent, O'Neill.
Jack: Oh, I get it. Good one.
Teal'c: I can see right through you.
Jack: Don't push it.
And then the attack on the Goa'uld ship! Jack takes 'em all out and the team rings in. Jack is waiting in the hallway waving them over with handsignals! Bwahahaha! Then Carter blows the power grid trying to bring him back.
Martin: Might feel like a bit of a cheat.
Cameron: Maybe it's best just not to mention the guy at all.
Which is what they totally did. Also love the line about the heores being too powerful, so you should invent some sort of side effect. Heh.
Teal'c: I believe this is far from your 200th mission, Colonel Mitchell.
Cameron: I didn't say 200th mission, I said 200th trip through the Gate. That's counting off world Gates, back and forth, pretty much any time I cross the event horizon.
I am amused at Cameron's obsession with his 200th trip through the 'Gate. Sam finds it funny that he's counting. I'm sure some fan will now be counting just to check. Heh. Poor Cameron might not get it though, as the power grid dies and no 'Gate dialing for them. I still love their worried looks at Martin in the conference room and Cameron says to Sam, "fix it," Daniel seconding with, "quickly," and Sam rushing off with, "I'm on it." Fear Martin!
Daniel: Are you serious? How did we escape?
Heh. Those sort of things on TV totally annoy me too. I mean, how exactly did you all save your asses? Stop cheating the story!
Cameron: Even if the valley wasn't filled with Jaffa, we could never have made it to the Gat eand dial out in under 10 seconds.
Martin: Good. See, that's why we're here. So what do you think, 30 seconds? Maybe not such a round number... How about 38!
Bwah! Yeah. Totally a dig at arbitrary number and figures and deadlines. Like the Gate shutting itself down after 38 minutes no matter what. Mmmhm.
Daniel: What difference does it make? I mean, it's not like you're going to have an actual ticking clock on the screen.
Martin: That's brilliant.
Daniel: That's ridiculous.
I'm sure this is a dig at any ticking time clock in any TV show or movie, but my brain goes directly to 24.
Cameron: Maybe if my character doesn't say, "this is a problem," he could say something like, "this should be easy."
Martin: How many times do I have to tell you? It's not you. Colonel Danning is based on Colonel O'Neill.
I just love this because Cameron is just so sulky after he hears that because he wants to be in the movie!
Sam: [spews some techno babble]
Martin: Wow. Say that again!
Sam: No.
....
Martin: The power is getting to the flux capacitor (!! flux capacitor!) but feedback is not feeding back into the feedback base... this is gold!
Vala: Forget about the techno talk. No one's really interested in it.
Bwaahahaha! Man, that is true so very, very often. Especially when it's coming from Sam, for some reason. When McKay does the techno babble? I don't mind so much.
Vala: Right, I was in a stolen cargo ship on my way home when a solar flare from a nearby star wreaked havoc with my navigation system and I was forced to crashland on the nearest planet. In a bizarre twist of fate, I crashed rright on top of the Goa'uld who ruled that planet [shot of gold boots under the ship], which was fortunate because my ship was too badly damaged to repair and I needed help. The local villagers [Munchkins!!] were very grateful. The introduced me to a lovely, fair-haired Tok'ra who had been hiding out on the planet. She told me the legend of a powerful ascended being who supposedly lived in some distant, far-off mountains through a treacherous forest.
Martin: Look, I don't have all day. Cut to the chase!
Vala: All right, I met up with a number of my friends along the way and after a dangerous and eventful journey, we finally come face to face with the ascended being. [Landry's floating head!!!] "What can I do for you?" Well, at first I thought I just wanted to go home, now I've decided I'd quite like to be part of something. A regular part if you catch my drift. Oh, and these guys have their own issues. Boys? [Cameron as a scarecrow, Daniel as a lion, and Teal'c as a tin man!]
Martin: That's the Wizard of Oz.
Okay, I probably didn't need to quote that whole thing, but Vala's retelling is so amusing. And I love how she inserted the bit about becoming a regular because that is totally what happened with the Vala character! She was a one shot deal and was so cool, they had to bring her back last season and now she's a regular! woohoo!
Cameron: How can something work perfectly fine for 10 years and then all of a sudden it doesn't work anymore?
Which, the Gate hasn't really because it's been touchy and there was that time Teal'c got stuck and then the 'Gate got blown up and we needed to buy one form the Russians. Aside from that, you know, it's been working perfectly....
This was another smooth transition from real show to movie script that I didn't really realize.. until the mountian blew up and it cut to commercial. I was pretty obvious then.
Siler: Why does this always happen to me?
This guy has been working on the show all ten seasons, first starting off as the stunt coordinator and RDA's stunt double and he pretty much just got his own character. The running gag with Siler is that he's either always injured or always getting injured. Dan Shea, I love you.
Teal'c: Is that not too convenient?
Martin: Not if you hang a lantern on it.
Daniel: What's that?
Martin: It's a writer's term: another character points out how convenient it is. Dr. Lavant can say, "well, that was great timing." That way, the audiance knows I intended for it to be convenient and we move on.
Hi. How often have writers done this? A lot.
Daniel: Okay, hangonhangonhangon. Okay, one, that's Star Trek and two, it's ridiculous.
Oh. My. God. The Star Trek parody kills me. Cameron as Kirk, Sam as Uhura, Daniel as Spock, Teal'c as... I have no idea, and who the hell is that as Scotty? (Edit: It was Brad Wright! Bwahaha!) The *blinkblink* noise when Sam bats her eyelashes. OMG.
Sam: "The singularity is about to explode"? Everything about that statement is wrong.
Daniel: How exactly is having weapons at maximum going to help the situation?
Bwahaha! Yes, when in doubt, spew scientific inaccuracies at us and make big explodey things happen.
Martin: The audiance isn't going to know the difference. They love weapons at maximum!
Cameron: Never underestimate your audiance. They're generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment.
Oh, Ben. You probably didn't write that line, but I know you so believe in that. Which is why I love you.
Martin: One of the new junior executives at the network has suggested that we recast the whole movie with younger, edgier versions of the team.
This is first and foremost a dig at teen dramas, right? I love the "I don't think Mitchell likes me anymore" and the "I'm so sick of being treated like an object to be worshipped; I'm a real person with real feelings!" And then it's a dig at.... I don't know. I feel like I should know what this is a reference to -- like a specific property. Young Vala looked a whole lot like the actress who played Sora in SGA...
Vala: How about this one: we were in a cloaked cargo ship on a simple 3 hour reconaissance mission--
Martin: Gilligan's Island, right?
Vala: You got that from "3 hour reconaissance mission"?
Martin: Piece of advise? If you're going to rip something off, think of something a little more obscure.
Heee! Cue the Farcape parody!! Aeryn as Vala, Daniel as Crichton, Sam as Chiana, Teal'c as D'Argo, Cameron as Stark, and Thor as Rygel!! Bweeee!
Vala/Aeryn: Call me farbot, but they're going have our mivonks on a platter if we don't starburst the drax out of here!
Daniel/Crichton: Propulsion's been damaged. we're not going anywhere!
Sam/Chiana: Oh, dren.
Teal'c/D'Argo: Hezmana!
Vala/Aeryn: Frell.
Cameron/Stark: [with fake Aussie accent!!] Aw, son of a hezmot!
Thor/Rygel: Yotz!
OMG. Seriously? Loved that they did that. I mean, they totally didn't have to but since two of their actors came form that show? So awesome.
Martin: Okay, you got me. I have no idea what that is.
T_T Oh, burn! Curse you, SG!
Martin: I just got a text message from the studio. The foreign distrubutor went bankupt - they're slashing my budget.
Erm. Wasn't this the rumor as to why Farscape was cancelled? Hm.
Cameron: What happens at the end of Act Three?
Martin: With thse cuts, not much! Act three just ends!
And that was a brilliant lead in to the commercial break. Heh.
Cameron: What do you mean you can't tell me? I have the highest security clearance known to mankind. What is 30185?
Sam: We were sworn to secrecy.
Cameron: Well, why even mention it to me if you're not going to tell me what it is?
Sam: [shrugs] Sorry.
Vala: Can you tell me?
Daniel: Oh yeah, we can tell you.
Sam: Well it has to do with the time the 'gate send us back to 1969.
Cameron: Well, it can't have anything to do with me. I wasn't born 'til a year later.
Daniel: Actually, it was 9 months before you were born.
Cameron: What?
Sam: You have to remember, it was the 60s.
Daniel: Come on, you have to have known Jack's always taken an interest in your life.
Cameron: Jack. O'Neill?
Teal'c: Indeed.
Sam: Remember when you were chosen for the 302 program even though you didn't think you should get in? How about when you were chosen for SG-1?
Vala: [laughs] Wait, are you saying that Jack O'Neill is his--
Cameron: My daddy?
Daniel: All starting to make sense now, isn't it?
Cameron: Aw, I'm being punked aren't I?
Sam: We honestly can't tell you about 30185.
Bwaaaah! Sam and Daniel are so annoyed with Cameron's SGC stats that they punk him. XD I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the fact that Ben Browder sat and watch every episode of SG-1 after he got the role. And that, because he's Ben Browder, he likes to be super accurate and his brain as absorbed all this Stargate trivia which he always bringing up.
Oh man, I can't even... the mention of doing a movie without the actors and then Cameron mentioning parallel universes and then the Thunderbird-like puppets! Oh. Em. Gee. With the Carter intro? I think those were bits of things she's said over the years, I know about that one line from the pilot for sure! XD And the smeary puppet drawing on the board with Daniel's recap from the beginning. I wasn't going to transcribe, but holy crap, I need to record snippets.
PuppetHammond: We need to put together a team, starting with the most beautiful, battle-ready scientific genius I know. Captain Doctor Samantha Carter.
...
PuppetHammond: Next, we need a bookworm adventurer who can say brain and guts in 27 languages. Doctor Daniel Jackson.
...
PuppetJackson: I was right. The pyramids really were landing sites for interplanetary starships that enslaved primitive human populations by posing as their gods.
PuppetHammond: Well... we found the ring in the sand...
...
PuppetHammond: And now what this team needs is a leader. Someone who will laugh in the face of his enemy even when it's inappropriate. Colonel Jack O'Neill.
PuppetO'Neill: I thought I told you I retired.
PuppetHammond: Oh. I thought you said you were tired.
...
PuppetHammond: Sargent, make it spin.
PuppetWalter: Spin? Sir, it doesn't spin.
PuppetHammond: What? It has to spin, it's round! Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning. I'm the General, I want it to spin. Now!
...
PuppetCarter: Aren't you the least bit curious about what's out there?
PuppetO'Neill: Well, I'm just hoping we find some new meat for the team. Preferably something bald, mysterious, the warrior type with lots of, you know [flexes arms], muscles.
PuppetCarter: Sir, the odds against any alien lifeforms we encounter looking remotely human are astronomical.
PuppetO'Neill: Yeah, well, we'll see.
And then they step through the ring and their strings get cut! Bwahahaaa! And PuppetTeal'c on the other side cackles! Hah!!
Martin: Yeah, that'll work. A whole movie made of puppets. Maybe we can have Puppet!O'Neill jump over a puppet shark on a 1/3 scale motorcycle.
Oh, my. Is that whole thing a Team America reference because I refused to see that movie so I have no idea.
Martin: I have to give them something that costs me nothing, but no actor can refuse.
Cameron: And what's that?
Martin: A good ego stroking. I have to make them think that I rewrote the script just for them. In this draft there has to be something that makes them want to do this movie even if it's for scale.
I almost want to say this is in reference to Michael Shanks leaving the show for a season and then coming back, but it probably isn't.... because he's getting paid way more than scale.
Vala: Wow. I don't think anyone will see that coming.
Daniel: Nope, there'll be spoilers.
Sam: Are you kidding? It'll be in the commercial.
Bwah! Spoilers! And spoilers in the commercial! XD Oh, Stargate PTBs, I love you.
Oh man, Teal'c pitch as the slick PI? Hehehehe. So great that Teal'c sees himself that way XD
Jack: Truth be known, lately I've been feeling a little... what.. how do I say this...
Sam: It's okay to say that you missed us, sir.
Jack: No, not that.
Daniel: Like you have unfinished business?
Jack: Okay.
Cameron: You need closure. And I have the perfect thing: we're about to go on a mission to commemorate my 200th trip through the 'gate.
Jack: Reeeallly? 200 you say?
Oh, RDA. Just say that you missed your show!
Jack: To be honest? I wouldn't mind one last jaunt through the orifice.
Jaunt... though the orifice? Uh.... yeah, they all have the same reaction.
Martin: So what's the twist, no fish? I need something with more impact.
Hah! The whole fishing thing -- and then O'Neill pointing out that Cameron and Vala weren't there -- and the dig at the ending of Moebius, because come on, everything is the same except there is a fish in his pond? Meh.
The wedding! With the the Stargate theme playing the background!! Hahahaha!
Daniel: You know, if she doesn't show, people are going to think that you and I are... [Jack glares] What?
Heh. Thank you for acknowledging the slashers. Even as you kick us in the head with a Sam/Jack wedding. Thor presiding over the ceremony! And Vala as the maid of honor! Ha! And don't think I see you directors and writers and DPs in that guest crowd!
Martin: Yeah, right, if I want to torture the audiance on purpose.
*gleee* Right there with you, buddy.
Awww! They're all in the black gear and Jack is all geared up with them!
Landry: You keep those kids out of trouble, Jack.
Jack: Here's an idea, Hank, why don't you come along with us?
Landry: Nah...
Jack: Yeah, seriously. Yeah, come on!
Landry: Yeah?
Jack: It'll be kinda like a special occassion deal.
Landry: Well, what the hell.
Jack: Yeah, that's it!
Landry: Hey, Walter, come on, we're all going!
Walter: I don't have the right outfit!
Jack: You look fine!
Seriously, I have never liked Landry, but I love him in this scene. I wish his was jovial and cool like this all the time. Also? I love that you see Walter walk out of the control room and two seconds later he's in proper gear as he heads into the Gate room.
Landry: Everything ready?
Walter: SG-3 through 18 are waiting, sir.
Landry: The cake?
Walter: It's all set. Balloons, streamers, the works.
I missed that the first time around. That is so awesome! A giant party for the SGC... on another planet! :D Okay, but where's SG-2?!
And that shot of them all going up the walkway! Man. The original four in front and the new people in the back. Dawwww! Huh. Walter's last. LOL.
Ten year's later on Wormehole X-Treme set, Nick Marlowe (Michael DeLuise!) has been replaced with (Peter DeLuise!) in the show. Hee! And Martin Wood is the director!
Director (Martin Wood): Did you ever think a show like this would be on for 200?
Martin: Well, sure-- What do you mean a show like this?!
*snort*
Martin: Hey everybody, guess what? The movies back on!
I mean, I can't believe this is a reference to the new Stargate movies that are in the planning stages... can I? Probably not.
Martin: 10 seasons, 7 Saturn awards for best cable or syndication science fiction show. Who woulda guessed?
Hm. That's not an accurate count of actual SG-1 Saturn awards or nominations. Weird. But I am amused that they mentioned the Saturn awards.
Martin: I think first and foremost it has to do with the writing. I mean [laughs] obviously we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Yeah, don't we know it! The super-dramatic episodes occassionally fall flat and the best ones are usually off the wall and cracktastic. It seems to me that they know they are doing stuff wrong, but can't be bothered to do it better as lng as they're able to get that joke in. Hrm.
Yolanda Reese/Maj. Stacy Moore: Oh, the writers are really great guys. All of them. [laughs] Men, you know. Yeah, it's a bit of a boy's club.
Bwah! Indeed. Nearly all -- if not all -- of the writing have been male since day one. I think they are just now starting to get a woman or two in the SGA writing team, I'm not sure about SG1.
(Peter DeLuise): The real challenge was coming up with a good catch phrase. "It's... what I do. It's what *I* do." That was so... you know... good. It defined Colonel Danning.
I love you, Peter. I don't know the name of the character he's playing, but it's totally one based on Mitchell.
Yolanda Reese/Maj. Stacy Moore: I just don't think they kow what they want to do with my character. I probably should have taken up golf. A loooong time ago.... Just kidding.
Bwah!! Yeah, a lot of times we were thinking the same thing about what the writers were doing with Sam. I mean, I wanted to like her, I really did, but most of the time I found her bland, boring, and a little too good at everything.
(Peter Deluise): And I needed something even better to make you forget about the guy that fans loved to watch for the first 7 years of the show. I kow he was here for 8, but you know, a lot of people say he just phoned it in that last season.
HAAAAAA!!! Yeah, we wee all feeling the same way when RDA started to cut back his appearances and kept it to a minimum in season 8.
Raymond Gunne/Dr. Lavant: Well, that's ancient history, we don't talk about that around here. The fact of the matter is, I don't really even know what happened there. You know, I... to me, it never felt like I was leaving the show, I just needed a little space, a little time, you know? I wanted to get back to my roots -- theater. I just wanted to go to New York -- Broadway. Off-off-Broadway, either way, it doesn't really matter, it was acting, you know? Acting with out having people hurling papier-mache boulder at you all fucking day. It was great -- I like 'em both! I like boulders, I'm fine with that.
Oh. Man. How much do I like that dig at Shanks and his lameass reasons for leaving the show and then coming back? A whole lot.
Martin: This production runs like a well oiled machine. Sure, that starts from the top, but we all love the show. The gaffers, the lighting guy, the, uh, medic, make-up, and the caterers! It's like a family.
Which, I think, is actually true on this show and they mention it so much that we're going to start finding it unbelieveable ;)
(Peter DeLuise): The writers were trying to come up with a catch phrase, uh. "I can get behind *that*!" was something we tried for a while.
Yeah, that sort of eager puppy thing started to wear thin on Ben Browder, too. Don't worry.
Yolanda Reese/Maj. Stacy Moore: Anyway, I'd actually like to do some writing. Maybe even have a baby.
Heee! Yay for Amanda and script-writing and having a baby!
Oh. My. God. Peter DeLuise letting loose a lon string of swear words as his character's catch phrase! And then he says, "we can get away with it to, because it's cable." Bwah!
Raymond Gunne/Dr. Lavant: You can't get there without the fans, right? I have to thank them. Gotta thank specifically the ones... the, the... what's it called? The SaveDrLavant.com -- have you seen the site? I mean, it's insane. Apparently they get like dozens of hits a month, whatever, I think that's a lot, but between them and the ad in Variety that they put out, I'm pretty sure that went a long way towards convincing the producers to take me back-- have me-- to invite me back. It wasn't their decision... they called and said hey do you wana-- an I was ready.
*snort* Yeah, that's pretty much how Michael Shanks came back to the show :-P He didn't want to come back or was too stubborn or whatever, but then the fans demanded it and SciFi paid for it.
Heeee! I love that long string of curses Peter DeLuise just throws out in that scene. And you know he's totally saying it so that have to block out his mouth as well as extensive bleeping. *is so amused*
Doug Anderson/Grell: Science fiction is an existential metaphore that aloows us to tell stories about the human condition. Issac Asimov once said, "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today-but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Daw. What a nice way to end the episode.
Apologies for typos and stuff. I can't really go back and spellcheck all this babble :-P
I have a crappy version of the SciFi Inside: Stargate 200 special and... it's better than nothing, but I hope the torrent sites put out a proper copy soon. Ugh. Nevermind.
I did this late last night and finished up this morning,
This premise of this episode is a callback to "Wormhole X-Treme," the 100th episode of SG-1. Martin Lloyd, the alien turned script writer, is back and this time he's trying to make a Wormhole X-Treme movie. He's asking SG-1 to help him review the script and it turns into a pitch session.
So let me once again say the first 40 seconds of this episode confused the hell out of me. We start, very clearly, on the recap with scenes from "100" and then it quickly shoot to the start of the episode -- RDA is still part of the team and it's a series of quick cuts like other episode recaps. Clearly we're supposed to think, "wtf, Furlings?!"
Furling: We are the Furlings.
Daniel: We thought we'd never get to meet you.
It seemed like we were never going to see the Furlings. They're mentioned a couple times, but none of the producers or writers have really indicated anything else about them. Seriously, it felt like they were just stringing us along with these four Great Races. Then finally Mallozzi said we'd get Furlings in episode 200. Yeah.... we got some low grade Ewoks in a fantasy script. *facepalm*
Cameron: Do you really think the best way to introduce the heroes of the story is showing them causing a massive catastrophe?
Daniel: That's realistic.
I just like that line. It's amusing.
Carter: You know the really unbelieveable part is that anyone would consider spending millions of dollars on this. I mean, seriously, all these writers and they couldn't come up with anything better?
Oh, totally a dig at their own writing staff ;)
Daniel: Who makes a movie out of a series that only lasted three episodes?
Teal'c: It allegedly performed well on DVD.
Firefly shoutout! :D
Cameron: Okay, for starters, I think you need a strong opening title sequence.
Martin: Are you serious? No one does that anymore. You just throw up the title and get on with it!
Okay, this has to be a reference to the opening title debacle that happened on SciFi last year where they cut the titles way down because they claimed it would add more show time.
Martin: Look, no offense, but zombies have been done to death... uh, no pun intended. Besides this is science fiction, not horror.
Cameron's own Doom/Resident Evil/zombie/action flick story? I totally love it. Although, you know, poor Walter getting eaten by zombies.
Daniel: Just out of curiosity, what was the rest of the team doing while you were fighting zombies?
If it was like most action/zombie flicks? You guys probably got eaten.
Martin: Our lead backed out. I mean, how am I supposed to tell the story without my lead character?
Cameron: Easy, just bring in a character to replace him.
Soooo a reference to RDA! And the character's pointed stares at Cameron? So perfect. Cam's little, "what?" and Sam shaking her head. Awesome.
Martin: How can I keep the main character in the story without actually having the actor who plays him?
Sam: Well, you could have the other characters refer to him all the time. Maybe get him on the phone once in a while.
Martin: Oh, yeah right.
Ha!! Totally a dig at RDA's departure and how they lamely filled in the beginning of season 9 with him making calls and people just mention him.
Martin: I need something cool like face-switching or body-swaping.
Vala: [laughs] As if anyone would believe that.
Daniel: [glares]
Ha! Reference to 9.03 ("Origin") where Daniel & Vala swap bodies with people in the Ori galaxy and 9.19 ("Crusade") were Vala swaps bodies with Daniel to communicate with SG-1.
Sam: There was that time where Colonel O'Neill was invisible... [insert lame, corny scene ripple.]
Oh, man. The clips with Jack enjoying being invisible!! Driving with a dog at the wheel, falling asleep at the meeting (Daniel: Someone just want to poke around, see if you can find him?), standing in the women's showers (answering Sam's "sir are you there?" with a "nope"!). And the scene in the hall way with Teal'c! Hah.
Jack: Not buying it, eh?
Teal'c: No. You are most transparent, O'Neill.
Jack: Oh, I get it. Good one.
Teal'c: I can see right through you.
Jack: Don't push it.
And then the attack on the Goa'uld ship! Jack takes 'em all out and the team rings in. Jack is waiting in the hallway waving them over with handsignals! Bwahahaha! Then Carter blows the power grid trying to bring him back.
Martin: Might feel like a bit of a cheat.
Cameron: Maybe it's best just not to mention the guy at all.
Which is what they totally did. Also love the line about the heores being too powerful, so you should invent some sort of side effect. Heh.
Teal'c: I believe this is far from your 200th mission, Colonel Mitchell.
Cameron: I didn't say 200th mission, I said 200th trip through the Gate. That's counting off world Gates, back and forth, pretty much any time I cross the event horizon.
I am amused at Cameron's obsession with his 200th trip through the 'Gate. Sam finds it funny that he's counting. I'm sure some fan will now be counting just to check. Heh. Poor Cameron might not get it though, as the power grid dies and no 'Gate dialing for them. I still love their worried looks at Martin in the conference room and Cameron says to Sam, "fix it," Daniel seconding with, "quickly," and Sam rushing off with, "I'm on it." Fear Martin!
Daniel: Are you serious? How did we escape?
Heh. Those sort of things on TV totally annoy me too. I mean, how exactly did you all save your asses? Stop cheating the story!
Cameron: Even if the valley wasn't filled with Jaffa, we could never have made it to the Gat eand dial out in under 10 seconds.
Martin: Good. See, that's why we're here. So what do you think, 30 seconds? Maybe not such a round number... How about 38!
Bwah! Yeah. Totally a dig at arbitrary number and figures and deadlines. Like the Gate shutting itself down after 38 minutes no matter what. Mmmhm.
Daniel: What difference does it make? I mean, it's not like you're going to have an actual ticking clock on the screen.
Martin: That's brilliant.
Daniel: That's ridiculous.
I'm sure this is a dig at any ticking time clock in any TV show or movie, but my brain goes directly to 24.
Cameron: Maybe if my character doesn't say, "this is a problem," he could say something like, "this should be easy."
Martin: How many times do I have to tell you? It's not you. Colonel Danning is based on Colonel O'Neill.
I just love this because Cameron is just so sulky after he hears that because he wants to be in the movie!
Sam: [spews some techno babble]
Martin: Wow. Say that again!
Sam: No.
....
Martin: The power is getting to the flux capacitor (!! flux capacitor!) but feedback is not feeding back into the feedback base... this is gold!
Vala: Forget about the techno talk. No one's really interested in it.
Bwaahahaha! Man, that is true so very, very often. Especially when it's coming from Sam, for some reason. When McKay does the techno babble? I don't mind so much.
Vala: Right, I was in a stolen cargo ship on my way home when a solar flare from a nearby star wreaked havoc with my navigation system and I was forced to crashland on the nearest planet. In a bizarre twist of fate, I crashed rright on top of the Goa'uld who ruled that planet [shot of gold boots under the ship], which was fortunate because my ship was too badly damaged to repair and I needed help. The local villagers [Munchkins!!] were very grateful. The introduced me to a lovely, fair-haired Tok'ra who had been hiding out on the planet. She told me the legend of a powerful ascended being who supposedly lived in some distant, far-off mountains through a treacherous forest.
Martin: Look, I don't have all day. Cut to the chase!
Vala: All right, I met up with a number of my friends along the way and after a dangerous and eventful journey, we finally come face to face with the ascended being. [Landry's floating head!!!] "What can I do for you?" Well, at first I thought I just wanted to go home, now I've decided I'd quite like to be part of something. A regular part if you catch my drift. Oh, and these guys have their own issues. Boys? [Cameron as a scarecrow, Daniel as a lion, and Teal'c as a tin man!]
Martin: That's the Wizard of Oz.
Okay, I probably didn't need to quote that whole thing, but Vala's retelling is so amusing. And I love how she inserted the bit about becoming a regular because that is totally what happened with the Vala character! She was a one shot deal and was so cool, they had to bring her back last season and now she's a regular! woohoo!
Cameron: How can something work perfectly fine for 10 years and then all of a sudden it doesn't work anymore?
Which, the Gate hasn't really because it's been touchy and there was that time Teal'c got stuck and then the 'Gate got blown up and we needed to buy one form the Russians. Aside from that, you know, it's been working perfectly....
This was another smooth transition from real show to movie script that I didn't really realize.. until the mountian blew up and it cut to commercial. I was pretty obvious then.
Siler: Why does this always happen to me?
This guy has been working on the show all ten seasons, first starting off as the stunt coordinator and RDA's stunt double and he pretty much just got his own character. The running gag with Siler is that he's either always injured or always getting injured. Dan Shea, I love you.
Teal'c: Is that not too convenient?
Martin: Not if you hang a lantern on it.
Daniel: What's that?
Martin: It's a writer's term: another character points out how convenient it is. Dr. Lavant can say, "well, that was great timing." That way, the audiance knows I intended for it to be convenient and we move on.
Hi. How often have writers done this? A lot.
Daniel: Okay, hangonhangonhangon. Okay, one, that's Star Trek and two, it's ridiculous.
Oh. My. God. The Star Trek parody kills me. Cameron as Kirk, Sam as Uhura, Daniel as Spock, Teal'c as... I have no idea, and who the hell is that as Scotty? (Edit: It was Brad Wright! Bwahaha!) The *blinkblink* noise when Sam bats her eyelashes. OMG.
Sam: "The singularity is about to explode"? Everything about that statement is wrong.
Daniel: How exactly is having weapons at maximum going to help the situation?
Bwahaha! Yes, when in doubt, spew scientific inaccuracies at us and make big explodey things happen.
Martin: The audiance isn't going to know the difference. They love weapons at maximum!
Cameron: Never underestimate your audiance. They're generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment.
Oh, Ben. You probably didn't write that line, but I know you so believe in that. Which is why I love you.
Martin: One of the new junior executives at the network has suggested that we recast the whole movie with younger, edgier versions of the team.
This is first and foremost a dig at teen dramas, right? I love the "I don't think Mitchell likes me anymore" and the "I'm so sick of being treated like an object to be worshipped; I'm a real person with real feelings!" And then it's a dig at.... I don't know. I feel like I should know what this is a reference to -- like a specific property. Young Vala looked a whole lot like the actress who played Sora in SGA...
Vala: How about this one: we were in a cloaked cargo ship on a simple 3 hour reconaissance mission--
Martin: Gilligan's Island, right?
Vala: You got that from "3 hour reconaissance mission"?
Martin: Piece of advise? If you're going to rip something off, think of something a little more obscure.
Heee! Cue the Farcape parody!! Aeryn as Vala, Daniel as Crichton, Sam as Chiana, Teal'c as D'Argo, Cameron as Stark, and Thor as Rygel!! Bweeee!
Vala/Aeryn: Call me farbot, but they're going have our mivonks on a platter if we don't starburst the drax out of here!
Daniel/Crichton: Propulsion's been damaged. we're not going anywhere!
Sam/Chiana: Oh, dren.
Teal'c/D'Argo: Hezmana!
Vala/Aeryn: Frell.
Cameron/Stark: [with fake Aussie accent!!] Aw, son of a hezmot!
Thor/Rygel: Yotz!
OMG. Seriously? Loved that they did that. I mean, they totally didn't have to but since two of their actors came form that show? So awesome.
Martin: Okay, you got me. I have no idea what that is.
T_T Oh, burn! Curse you, SG!
Martin: I just got a text message from the studio. The foreign distrubutor went bankupt - they're slashing my budget.
Erm. Wasn't this the rumor as to why Farscape was cancelled? Hm.
Cameron: What happens at the end of Act Three?
Martin: With thse cuts, not much! Act three just ends!
And that was a brilliant lead in to the commercial break. Heh.
Cameron: What do you mean you can't tell me? I have the highest security clearance known to mankind. What is 30185?
Sam: We were sworn to secrecy.
Cameron: Well, why even mention it to me if you're not going to tell me what it is?
Sam: [shrugs] Sorry.
Vala: Can you tell me?
Daniel: Oh yeah, we can tell you.
Sam: Well it has to do with the time the 'gate send us back to 1969.
Cameron: Well, it can't have anything to do with me. I wasn't born 'til a year later.
Daniel: Actually, it was 9 months before you were born.
Cameron: What?
Sam: You have to remember, it was the 60s.
Daniel: Come on, you have to have known Jack's always taken an interest in your life.
Cameron: Jack. O'Neill?
Teal'c: Indeed.
Sam: Remember when you were chosen for the 302 program even though you didn't think you should get in? How about when you were chosen for SG-1?
Vala: [laughs] Wait, are you saying that Jack O'Neill is his--
Cameron: My daddy?
Daniel: All starting to make sense now, isn't it?
Cameron: Aw, I'm being punked aren't I?
Sam: We honestly can't tell you about 30185.
Bwaaaah! Sam and Daniel are so annoyed with Cameron's SGC stats that they punk him. XD I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the fact that Ben Browder sat and watch every episode of SG-1 after he got the role. And that, because he's Ben Browder, he likes to be super accurate and his brain as absorbed all this Stargate trivia which he always bringing up.
Oh man, I can't even... the mention of doing a movie without the actors and then Cameron mentioning parallel universes and then the Thunderbird-like puppets! Oh. Em. Gee. With the Carter intro? I think those were bits of things she's said over the years, I know about that one line from the pilot for sure! XD And the smeary puppet drawing on the board with Daniel's recap from the beginning. I wasn't going to transcribe, but holy crap, I need to record snippets.
PuppetHammond: We need to put together a team, starting with the most beautiful, battle-ready scientific genius I know. Captain Doctor Samantha Carter.
...
PuppetHammond: Next, we need a bookworm adventurer who can say brain and guts in 27 languages. Doctor Daniel Jackson.
...
PuppetJackson: I was right. The pyramids really were landing sites for interplanetary starships that enslaved primitive human populations by posing as their gods.
PuppetHammond: Well... we found the ring in the sand...
...
PuppetHammond: And now what this team needs is a leader. Someone who will laugh in the face of his enemy even when it's inappropriate. Colonel Jack O'Neill.
PuppetO'Neill: I thought I told you I retired.
PuppetHammond: Oh. I thought you said you were tired.
...
PuppetHammond: Sargent, make it spin.
PuppetWalter: Spin? Sir, it doesn't spin.
PuppetHammond: What? It has to spin, it's round! Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning. I'm the General, I want it to spin. Now!
...
PuppetCarter: Aren't you the least bit curious about what's out there?
PuppetO'Neill: Well, I'm just hoping we find some new meat for the team. Preferably something bald, mysterious, the warrior type with lots of, you know [flexes arms], muscles.
PuppetCarter: Sir, the odds against any alien lifeforms we encounter looking remotely human are astronomical.
PuppetO'Neill: Yeah, well, we'll see.
And then they step through the ring and their strings get cut! Bwahahaaa! And PuppetTeal'c on the other side cackles! Hah!!
Martin: Yeah, that'll work. A whole movie made of puppets. Maybe we can have Puppet!O'Neill jump over a puppet shark on a 1/3 scale motorcycle.
Oh, my. Is that whole thing a Team America reference because I refused to see that movie so I have no idea.
Martin: I have to give them something that costs me nothing, but no actor can refuse.
Cameron: And what's that?
Martin: A good ego stroking. I have to make them think that I rewrote the script just for them. In this draft there has to be something that makes them want to do this movie even if it's for scale.
I almost want to say this is in reference to Michael Shanks leaving the show for a season and then coming back, but it probably isn't.... because he's getting paid way more than scale.
Vala: Wow. I don't think anyone will see that coming.
Daniel: Nope, there'll be spoilers.
Sam: Are you kidding? It'll be in the commercial.
Bwah! Spoilers! And spoilers in the commercial! XD Oh, Stargate PTBs, I love you.
Oh man, Teal'c pitch as the slick PI? Hehehehe. So great that Teal'c sees himself that way XD
Jack: Truth be known, lately I've been feeling a little... what.. how do I say this...
Sam: It's okay to say that you missed us, sir.
Jack: No, not that.
Daniel: Like you have unfinished business?
Jack: Okay.
Cameron: You need closure. And I have the perfect thing: we're about to go on a mission to commemorate my 200th trip through the 'gate.
Jack: Reeeallly? 200 you say?
Oh, RDA. Just say that you missed your show!
Jack: To be honest? I wouldn't mind one last jaunt through the orifice.
Jaunt... though the orifice? Uh.... yeah, they all have the same reaction.
Martin: So what's the twist, no fish? I need something with more impact.
Hah! The whole fishing thing -- and then O'Neill pointing out that Cameron and Vala weren't there -- and the dig at the ending of Moebius, because come on, everything is the same except there is a fish in his pond? Meh.
The wedding! With the the Stargate theme playing the background!! Hahahaha!
Daniel: You know, if she doesn't show, people are going to think that you and I are... [Jack glares] What?
Heh. Thank you for acknowledging the slashers. Even as you kick us in the head with a Sam/Jack wedding. Thor presiding over the ceremony! And Vala as the maid of honor! Ha! And don't think I see you directors and writers and DPs in that guest crowd!
Martin: Yeah, right, if I want to torture the audiance on purpose.
*gleee* Right there with you, buddy.
Awww! They're all in the black gear and Jack is all geared up with them!
Landry: You keep those kids out of trouble, Jack.
Jack: Here's an idea, Hank, why don't you come along with us?
Landry: Nah...
Jack: Yeah, seriously. Yeah, come on!
Landry: Yeah?
Jack: It'll be kinda like a special occassion deal.
Landry: Well, what the hell.
Jack: Yeah, that's it!
Landry: Hey, Walter, come on, we're all going!
Walter: I don't have the right outfit!
Jack: You look fine!
Seriously, I have never liked Landry, but I love him in this scene. I wish his was jovial and cool like this all the time. Also? I love that you see Walter walk out of the control room and two seconds later he's in proper gear as he heads into the Gate room.
Landry: Everything ready?
Walter: SG-3 through 18 are waiting, sir.
Landry: The cake?
Walter: It's all set. Balloons, streamers, the works.
I missed that the first time around. That is so awesome! A giant party for the SGC... on another planet! :D Okay, but where's SG-2?!
And that shot of them all going up the walkway! Man. The original four in front and the new people in the back. Dawwww! Huh. Walter's last. LOL.
Ten year's later on Wormehole X-Treme set, Nick Marlowe (Michael DeLuise!) has been replaced with (Peter DeLuise!) in the show. Hee! And Martin Wood is the director!
Director (Martin Wood): Did you ever think a show like this would be on for 200?
Martin: Well, sure-- What do you mean a show like this?!
*snort*
Martin: Hey everybody, guess what? The movies back on!
I mean, I can't believe this is a reference to the new Stargate movies that are in the planning stages... can I? Probably not.
Martin: 10 seasons, 7 Saturn awards for best cable or syndication science fiction show. Who woulda guessed?
Hm. That's not an accurate count of actual SG-1 Saturn awards or nominations. Weird. But I am amused that they mentioned the Saturn awards.
Martin: I think first and foremost it has to do with the writing. I mean [laughs] obviously we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Yeah, don't we know it! The super-dramatic episodes occassionally fall flat and the best ones are usually off the wall and cracktastic. It seems to me that they know they are doing stuff wrong, but can't be bothered to do it better as lng as they're able to get that joke in. Hrm.
Yolanda Reese/Maj. Stacy Moore: Oh, the writers are really great guys. All of them. [laughs] Men, you know. Yeah, it's a bit of a boy's club.
Bwah! Indeed. Nearly all -- if not all -- of the writing have been male since day one. I think they are just now starting to get a woman or two in the SGA writing team, I'm not sure about SG1.
(Peter DeLuise): The real challenge was coming up with a good catch phrase. "It's... what I do. It's what *I* do." That was so... you know... good. It defined Colonel Danning.
I love you, Peter. I don't know the name of the character he's playing, but it's totally one based on Mitchell.
Yolanda Reese/Maj. Stacy Moore: I just don't think they kow what they want to do with my character. I probably should have taken up golf. A loooong time ago.... Just kidding.
Bwah!! Yeah, a lot of times we were thinking the same thing about what the writers were doing with Sam. I mean, I wanted to like her, I really did, but most of the time I found her bland, boring, and a little too good at everything.
(Peter Deluise): And I needed something even better to make you forget about the guy that fans loved to watch for the first 7 years of the show. I kow he was here for 8, but you know, a lot of people say he just phoned it in that last season.
HAAAAAA!!! Yeah, we wee all feeling the same way when RDA started to cut back his appearances and kept it to a minimum in season 8.
Raymond Gunne/Dr. Lavant: Well, that's ancient history, we don't talk about that around here. The fact of the matter is, I don't really even know what happened there. You know, I... to me, it never felt like I was leaving the show, I just needed a little space, a little time, you know? I wanted to get back to my roots -- theater. I just wanted to go to New York -- Broadway. Off-off-Broadway, either way, it doesn't really matter, it was acting, you know? Acting with out having people hurling papier-mache boulder at you all fucking day. It was great -- I like 'em both! I like boulders, I'm fine with that.
Oh. Man. How much do I like that dig at Shanks and his lameass reasons for leaving the show and then coming back? A whole lot.
Martin: This production runs like a well oiled machine. Sure, that starts from the top, but we all love the show. The gaffers, the lighting guy, the, uh, medic, make-up, and the caterers! It's like a family.
Which, I think, is actually true on this show and they mention it so much that we're going to start finding it unbelieveable ;)
(Peter DeLuise): The writers were trying to come up with a catch phrase, uh. "I can get behind *that*!" was something we tried for a while.
Yeah, that sort of eager puppy thing started to wear thin on Ben Browder, too. Don't worry.
Yolanda Reese/Maj. Stacy Moore: Anyway, I'd actually like to do some writing. Maybe even have a baby.
Heee! Yay for Amanda and script-writing and having a baby!
Oh. My. God. Peter DeLuise letting loose a lon string of swear words as his character's catch phrase! And then he says, "we can get away with it to, because it's cable." Bwah!
Raymond Gunne/Dr. Lavant: You can't get there without the fans, right? I have to thank them. Gotta thank specifically the ones... the, the... what's it called? The SaveDrLavant.com -- have you seen the site? I mean, it's insane. Apparently they get like dozens of hits a month, whatever, I think that's a lot, but between them and the ad in Variety that they put out, I'm pretty sure that went a long way towards convincing the producers to take me back-- have me-- to invite me back. It wasn't their decision... they called and said hey do you wana-- an I was ready.
*snort* Yeah, that's pretty much how Michael Shanks came back to the show :-P He didn't want to come back or was too stubborn or whatever, but then the fans demanded it and SciFi paid for it.
Heeee! I love that long string of curses Peter DeLuise just throws out in that scene. And you know he's totally saying it so that have to block out his mouth as well as extensive bleeping. *is so amused*
Doug Anderson/Grell: Science fiction is an existential metaphore that aloows us to tell stories about the human condition. Issac Asimov once said, "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today-but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Daw. What a nice way to end the episode.
Apologies for typos and stuff. I can't really go back and spellcheck all this babble :-P
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Date: 2006-08-20 03:46 pm (UTC)Season 6, episode 8, "The Other Guys".
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Gotta run. I'll check the rest of this later. :)
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Date: 2006-08-22 02:09 am (UTC)*points below* It was Brad Wright! :D
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Date: 2006-08-21 04:09 am (UTC)But, puppets! Maybe a shout out to Angel also?
Nah. Considering the style of the puppets, it's definitely a shout out to the old 1960's show, Thunderbirds. ;)
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Date: 2006-08-22 01:53 am (UTC)That's Brad Wright, co-creator and producer of the show, as Scotty. I personally think they should have gotten Paul McGillion, but hey... he's the boss.
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Date: 2006-08-22 02:08 am (UTC)Paul would have been great, but you know, Brad's bad accent was more fun. Hehe.