Jul 25, 2007 08:42
- Did the Air Force want the riddle of the Stargate to be solved? Why did they hamper Daniel instead by restricting his knowledge?
- If Jack had shown up before Catherine had a chance to recruit Daniel, would he have prevented it? Is that what caused the fork in the road in the two canon AUs where Daniel isn't part of the Stargate program?
- How did they possibly design the computer that ran the Stargate before they even got it to work? Even if we ignore the incredulous impossibility of tracking something to a different galaxy, how could they design such integrated software before they even knew what the Gate could do in the first place? How could they have the cute little graphics to show human beings demolecularizing before they even knew such a thing would happen? How did they know they needed seven chevrons locked, rather than eight or nine - the actual number of chevrons on the Stargate? If they actually did know they needed only seven chevrons, why didn't they just play ring-around-the-chevrons and try each of the others in turn until they hit the right one?
- Does the kawoosh in the series act like the one in the movie - first surging forward, then retracting behind the Gate before finally settling into a stable event horizon? It doesn't seem to do so, but the pattern in the ice in Solitudes suggests otherwise.
- How long did it take to put the mission together? How much time passed between the first opening of the Gate and the moment they opened it the second time for Jack to lead the rest of his team through to Abydos?
- Who tampered with the bomb so that the countdown couldn't be stopped? Was it General West, making sure that Jack didn't have a last-minute change of heart? Was it Ra, who didn't want the people of Earth (not yet the Tau'ri!) to have the chance to stop the explosion? Or was it accidental, caused by a combination of wormhole reintegration and Ra's meddling with Earth's relatively crude technology?
- Who, in your opinion, is the real hero of the story? Jack? Daniel? Sha’uri? Kasuf? Skaara and his boys? Kawalsky and Ferretti?
- When Sam is introduced to us in the pilot episode, we are told that she "was studying the Gate technology for two years before Daniel Jackson made it work." Obviously, she's not in the movie because she didn't exist at the time, but what rational, in-canon theories can we offer for her absence? Why didn't Sam meet Daniel until that second trip to Abydos in the pilot? Where was she during those two weeks that Daniel was working on the project? The Pentagon? Area 51? Somewhere else entirely?
- And here's an outside-canon question: Why do you think so many names were changed from the movie to the pilot episode of the series? There have been jokes about "Sha'uri" being changed to "Sha're" because the latter is easier to pronounce, but the inclusion of terms like "Goa'uld" and "Tau'ri" and "zatnikatel" seem to contradict that, just a little. (Then again, considering the many many ways "Goa'uld" ended up being pronounced on the show...) Why make the changes at all? Why was the Stargate moved from Creek Mountain to Cheyenne Mountain? Why did Tyler O'Neill become Charlie, and why did Jack suddenly start spelling his name with two Ls?
- Did you see the movie first, or the show? One mod saw the movie after multiple seasons of SG-1 and thought that Spader did an excellent job of portraying Daniel Jackson just as Michael Shanks did... and then realized, belatedly, that it didn't really work that way. :)
- Do you have trouble reconciling the movie Jack with the series Jack, as one mod does, or do you see it as a natural progression of the character?
- And most importantly... Why was MS!Daniel stuck with those floppy boonies, instead of the nice hoodies that Spader!Daniel got?
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