Howdy folks and welcome to Stargate
SG-1 Revisited for Day 1. Our episode revolves around a geomagnetic
storm caused by solar wind shock wave or a magnetic field with the
Earth's magnetic field creating a temporal loop. Can the SG-1 team
get back on track? This is Window of Opportunity.
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| Why Fruit Loops?? |
On a mission on, SG-1 works with an
alien archaeologist Malikai (Robin Mossley of The Sports Pages,
Elf, Two for the Money, Connors' War, Painkiller Jane and R.L.
Stine's The Haunting Hour) and a series of ruins and a large
altar device left by the Ancients and is working with Daniel Jackson
to study the ruins and the device as well. Carter is measuring the
solar radiation when the stargate opens up from the planet and Earth
while a beam emits from the device and then... O'Neill is in the mess
hall with Daniel being poignant and passionate but Jack was spacing
off and eating.
They proceed to General Hammond are set
to go to planet P4X-639 and both O'Neill and Teal'c claim to have
previous knowledge of the mission. Dr. Fraiser does a check-up on
both fellows and all is well. Before the Scooby gang can go to their
mission an unscheduled off-world activation happens and... Jack is
back to his breakfast and Daniel is waiting for Jack's response...
Yes we looped again and again.
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| No, I do not want a rectal thermometer! |
Daniel suggests that Jack and Teal'c
loop again they need to go with him to his lab and help him translate
it. After what clearly was a few weeks they are making headway but
both Jack and Teal'c have lost track of the days. At some point it
looks like madness is about to ensue but the guys take a few loops
off. Get some games in, take a few pottery lessons, some juggling and
even a few golf swings.
So with shenanigans galore plus the
ongoing concern of will they ever get out of the loop, stop Malikai
from activating it and God only knows how much damage this device is
causing around the universe linked to an existing wormhole. What
Daniel deciphers with Jack and Teal'cs help they find out the device
in question is actually supposed to be a time machine... that is not
a blue box or a DeLorean. Shame shame Ancients. Always go for
something with a little style. According to the translation, the
device was made and tested but found it could not prevent the
outgoing plague it was meant to be overted so they gave up on it.
Malikai insists he is close to perfecting it but there is a tiresome
and exhausted expression on his face that says even he doesn't
believe in his work anymore.
Will the SG-1 crew be able to stop
Malikai? Are they doomed to rinse, lather and repeat? Is there no
end to Jake's horrible jokes??
Some points of trivia now.
The fruit loops on Jack's spoon were
glued in place to ensure continuity between time loops, hence not
eating that spoonful of cereal. At almost every sci-fi and/or
Stargate convention, Christopher Judge (Teal'c) claims
that he hit the golf ball through the Stargate, Richard Dean Anderson
could not, even after multiple takes and attempts. Finally a CGI
ball was made to complete the scene.
This episode deals in good humor and
dark seriousness. It is light and pithy one minute and grounded in
drama the next and makes for what most SG fans as a great episode to
start people on the series as it is one of the best episodes and I
have to concur.
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| Still not sure why they keep calling me "Pretty Boy". |
