“Stargate SG-1” produced a number of nice episodes earlier than it acquired canceled after season 10. Nonetheless, a number of the episodes began out as utterly totally different concepts solely to tackle new types in the course of the writing course of. A key instance is the basic “Misplaced Metropolis” two-part episode, which was initially envisioned as a function movie. Elsewhere, season 8’s “Sacrifices” was imagined as a comedy referred to as “My Huge Fats Jaffa Wedding ceremony,” nevertheless it took on a extra somber tone afterward.
“Sacrifices” is about Rya’c of Chulak’s (Neil Denis) try to marry Kar’yn (Mercedes de la Zerda), which does not go down properly with their households and results in some disagreements. That stated, Christopher Choose, who performed Teal’c and wrote the episode, instructed GateWorld that he realized it could not be a comedy because the story explores concepts like struggle, tyranny, and Moloc’s (Royston Innes) enslavement of the Jaffa folks:
[As] I began writing it, it did not end up as humorous as I believed it was going to be, as a result of there have been severe points that wanted to be addressed so far as their freedom, their purpose, the entire Jaffa motion — and so far as the entire Jaffa motion of freedom, and the way the Hak’tyl do not essentially see eye to eye with the larger motion. And they will go about their liberation otherwise.”
Whereas the “Stargate SG-1” writers typically pushed comedic concepts to the restrict, that they had legitimate causes to withstand making “Sacrifices” a laugh-out-loud caper. The excellent news, although, is that Choose realized from the expertise.
Stargate: SG1’s Sacrifices episode was a studying expertise for Christopher Choose
Whereas Christopher Choose’s unique plan for “Sacrifices” by no means got here to fruition, he understands that it is simply the character of writing tv. In the course of the aforementioned interview, he revealed that the episode needed to match into the sequence’ larger image, and the Jaffa freedom storyline did not precisely lend itself to comedy. That stated, Choose discovered an empathetic ear in sequence producer Robert Cooper, who understood the idea of concepts turning into extra severe than they had been initially meant to be:
“I stated, ‘I do not know. It is not humorous.’ And he stated, ‘You recognize, plenty of occasions these begin out in our minds as what is going on to be form of a lighter episode. However when there are points that it’s a must to take care of due to an ongoing storyline, plenty of occasions it would not find yourself the way in which you envisioned it as a result of it’s a must to handle sure points.'”
Regardless of his unique concept not understanding, it appears like Choose had plenty of artistic freedom on the sequence. Moreover, expertise and knowledge has allowed Choose to give you some sound recommendation for the creators of a possible “Stargate: SG-1” reboot down the road. If that mission ever involves fruition, he hopes that the writers make the present their very own and are not beholden to what got here earlier than.
