By Jonathan Klotz | Published
Stargate SG-1 was an original series Syfy which means that the budget has never approached the cost of an average episode of Blue BloodsAnd the most expensive part of the series was the massive stargate and life-size itself with a total cost, in 1995, of $ 100,000. This is why when Colonel Jack O’Neill Golfais through an open door in the episode “Windows of Opportunity”, everyone on the set retained his breath and had to trust Richard Dean Anderson. Anderson was holding with real golf balls, directly in the dear propeller, but as with everything that involves the episode of the time loop, he met perfectly.
Opportunity windows
The temporal loop is a common trope for any long -term series, and when Stargate SG-1 Season 4 arrived, it was finally time for the show to put his own fun touch to the concept. O’Neill and Teal’c (Christopher Judge) are found in a time loop after exploring a living planet a solid solar event. The extraterrestrial archaeologist Malaki (Robin Mossley) triggers a strange device, trapping O’Neill and Teal’c, these are the only two to achieve what is happening, which presents a problem since the solution is hidden behind the translation of Runes Anciennes.
Every day, Jackson (Michael Shanks) tries to decipher the meaning of the runes they have photographed on the surface of the planet, but with only 10 hours of each, there is not enough time. O’Neill and Teal’c try to help Jackson, but end up abandoning and decide to take advantage of each loop remaining self-configuration so that everything they do in an impact on the next. What comes then is one of the best sequences of Stargate SG-1 And cemented “Windows of Opportunity” as a favorite of fans.
This is why the pair begins to play golf with the active stargate, the chagrin of other SG-1 officers, in one of the best images of all the franchise. Teal’c begins to slam the door in the aviator instead of being hit by the start of each loop, and the most impressive, O’Neill takes pottery (with its improvement each loop a brilliant visual gap) and juggling. It turns out that Richard Dean Anderson is a qualified juggler and “Windows of Opportunity” was his only chance to show his hidden talent on the screen.
A favorite episode of fans
The temporal curls culminate with O’Neill leaving Stargate SG-1, and immediately kissing Carter (Amanda Tapant), the memory he wins with him once they finally resolved the puzzle behind the curls. It’s a fun moment in an episode filled with them, so it is not surprising that the talented writing team of Paul Mullie and Joseph Mallozzi continues to write the beloved episodes “Wormhole X-Treme” and “200”. In a quick moment of intelligent narrative, they even included a line at the end of the duration of the Tok’RA to obtain them, three months, which means with a rapid return of the napkin mathematics, if each loop was 10 hours, and they spent three months trapped, O’Neill and Teal’c completed a total of 216 loops (90 days of time 24 hours is 2,160 hours, divided by 10).
“Windows of Opportunity” exceeds all the other episodes of all the franchise, such as the effective method of filming the time loop in which it has passed under the required execution time, forcing Anderson and judges to fill the time with improvised scenes. In doing so, surprisingly, it’s the only episode of Stargate SG-1 In which each filmed scene was broadcast, nothing was left on the floor of the cut room. The end result is a comic episode of all time that still holds today and a testimony of everyone’s luck that Ricard Dean Anderson did not end up breaking the most expensive duct on the board.
