Although it is never a mega hit that commanded the kind of far-reaching cultural influence of many other shows of its generation, “Stargate SG-1” has maintained a cult after its race and remains impressive simply by virtue of what ‘He represented. That is to say that the way in which the creators Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner took the film “Stargate” original by Roland Emmerich in 1994 and shot 10 complete seasons of intergalactic exploration action was a feat in itself.
Emperich’s film was sufficient for a box office success to invite to speak of an entire “Stargate” trilogy, but the history of the SG-1 crew would finally take place on the small screen, with Wright and Glassner Shepherding of the project using a whole new distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution Distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of the distribution of Cast of actors who played the same characters from the film. In the end, the SYFY channel canceled the SG -1 “in 2007, but at this stage, the series took place for a complete decade – an impressive achievement not only because of the way Wright and Glassner had succeeded to transform a big budget science fiction epic in a cult television program, but also because they had managed to tell a story of galaxy which forced its characters to visit a my world array for 10 years while firing From the same Canadian location.
The objective of the SG-1 team was to use the Stargate portal to investigate the extraterrestrial worlds, which is quite solid as a science fiction premise. In practical terms, however, this has made the production of the series a little a challenge, given its production base.
Finding new locations for Stargate SG-1 was delicate
“Stargate SG-1” begins about a year after “Stargate” by Roland Emmerich ends. In the show, the American government has instructed an American Air Force team, named SG-1, to explore extraterrestrial worlds using the eponymous portal and protect itself against attacks by forces of another world. Throughout the show, the team is visiting more and more intergalactic worlds and gets to know their inhabitants, the writers of the program using our own history as a basis for many environments and races encountered in the series. For example, in season 1, “emancipation” (which, according to IMDB, happens to be the worst episode of “Stargate SG-1”), the gang of SG-1 visits the planet Simama, which houses a nomadic race went down from Mongols called Shavadai.
But as the show continued, finding new ways to represent these various planets and people have become more and more difficult. Essentially, the producers of the series have been responsible for constantly making their Vancouver, British Columbia shot, as a completely different place. The VFX supervisor, John Gajdecki, spoke once in Companion (via Gateworld)) on the first problems he faced when the show began production in 1997. He recalled that he had access to certain accessories from Emmerich’s film, which certainly helped. However, the real problem came by trying to find suitable locations for the different scenarios. As he noted:
“Episode 1, episode 2, we are always outside. It’s always in the rain because it was time at the time. So we really started to fight to create places that were not only in the forest. “
Although beautiful in her own way, Vancouver did not necessarily offer a lot of diversity beyond highly wooded areas-something that obviously posed a major challenge for a team responsible for making a science fiction show that was fundamentally around exploration of new and various planets.
The location problems of Stargate SG-1 has won over time
In his complementary interview, John Gajdecki has provided specific examples of the difficulties that he and his team were confronted with Vancouver, pointing to season 1, episode 7, “Cold Lazarus”, which was filmed in yellow sulfur pits. As the VFX supervisor reminds us:
“There was an episode where they were on this planet and everything was yellow. It was sulfur – it was this bizarre yellow planet. And we turned into these huge sulfur pits that they poured by the quays. It was such a sunny day of the sunny day. We! “
Although the show of the program finally found ways to represent the different worlds of “Stargate SG-1”, because the series has extended this kind of problem has never really disappeared. At the end of its race, “SG-1” had caused other benefits, which makes a modest media empire that looks at the “Stargate” franchise in order a bit of a challenge today. It also made the location problems much more excruciating, Brad Wright commenting on everything in 2022 Reddit AMA:
“Yes, it has become more and more difficult and frustrating to go out in the woods of British Columbia and claim that it was another planet. Especially since Vancouver continued to grow in the open spaces that we Use. “
However, the science fiction parameters of “Stargate” have undoubtedly decreased over the series and that the other series were created, with Wright and Co. have to do your best with their budget and their Canadian framework. The fact that they managed it for 10 seasons on “SG -1” – not to mention spin -offs – is however always an undeniable feat.
