The Torment of Tantalus (110)

[ErikaMariia]

In the pilot Carter is pissed because she didn't get to go through in the first Abydos mission (the movie). She says something like it took them 15 years and 3 super computers to get the gate working.
so Carter was there, working with Stargate program but wasn't shown in the movie.
A bit odd though, she hadn't met Daniel either until the second Abydos mission.

[Brother Freyr]

A bit odd though, she hadn't met Daniel either until the second Abydos mission.

oops!

[garhkal]

Maybe she was working elsewhere, not at cheyanne?

[hedwig]

When exactly did Carter and Catherine meet? That didn't happen on screen... kinda weird moment.

Maybe during the time Sam worked at the Pentagon?

[AsgardGirl]

I like this episode. The fact that no one knew that the gate was open in past, is nice example of lost history. The meeting room of the four species was cool, but as we later discover at least Asgard and Ancients could speak English, why they needed “an elements language”, or where they all working on new way of communication for a case of meeting some other race?

[Falcon Horus]

...but as we later discover at least Asgard and Ancients could speak English, why they needed “an elements language”, or where they all working on new way of communication for a case of meeting some other race?

Technically speaking, they never spoke English at all. That's just convenient writing on TPTB part. Same as the Wraith speak English, and every other race we got to meet through SGA/SG1. The Abydonians used to speak Egyptian, but changed rather rapidly to English too.

[garhkal]

Maybe that place was set up before they could all speak english?

[Trig]

Before they built a universal translator into the gate you mean

[maneth]

Definitely a key episode. As an SGA fan, I also enjoyed seeing Paul McGillion again.

[garhkal]

I always wondered, how he felt playing the role of the scientist who went in this ep, then playing Dr Becket later on?

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Given the gap between the two, and the size of the role here, he may not have thought much of it.

Seaboe

[Anja]

Nice episode, nice thunderstorm, nice Ben Franklin thing.

Anja

[Tyrathraxus]

I always wondered, how he felt playing the role of the scientist who went in this ep, then playing Dr Becket later on?

SG-1 reused a ton of actors. Dion was one who popped up everywhere. Dan Payne too. Hell even Seth played Jacksons dad in an earlier episode. And one I only noticed recently was Heru'ur whose actor played Apophis First prime in the first 2 parter we had between 1/2

[Nirude]

SG-1 reused a ton of actors. Dion was one who popped up everywhere. Dan Payne too. Hell even Seth played Jacksons dad in an earlier episode. And one I only noticed recently was Heru'ur whose actor played Apophis First prime in the first 2 parter we had between 1/2

It was weird how they originally wanted David Hewlett to play a different character than Rodney McKay on Atlantis, thank god David just played it as Rodney over and over in the auditions

[Tyrathraxus]

When you are in Robes, or behind the bodysuit of the Mask or have your face overridden with a Stargate water effect, your options on Stargate for roles are plenty

There should be a game to see how many Jaffa were reused.