The Celebrity Paradox is an implicit assumption which states that works of fiction don't exist in their own fictional universes, and neither do the actors.
We can hold it self-evident that the Stargate franchise itself doesn't exist on Stargate's Earth, given the portrayal of Wormhole X-Treme. However, what happened to the actors? Do Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, etc. exist in the Stargate universe, and if they do, how is the look-alike issue explained?
This gets even more confusing given that MacGyver exists in Stargate. Who starred in it? Richard Dean Anderson? Then why doesn't Carter notice his similarity to O'Neill? Or are we supposed to assume that O'Neill "really" doesn't look like either Kurt Russell or Richard Dean Anderson, invoking the Literary Agent Hypothesis?
We can hold it self-evident that the Stargate franchise itself doesn't exist on Stargate's Earth, given the portrayal of Wormhole X-Treme. However, what happened to the actors? Do Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, etc. exist in the Stargate universe, and if they do, how is the look-alike issue explained?
This gets even more confusing given that MacGyver exists in Stargate. Who starred in it? Richard Dean Anderson? Then why doesn't Carter notice his similarity to O'Neill? Or are we supposed to assume that O'Neill "really" doesn't look like either Kurt Russell or Richard Dean Anderson, invoking the Literary Agent Hypothesis?
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