It's the final, definitive edition of the episode, with spiffy new special effects and reframed to 16:9, to boot.
And the nude scene was removed.
https://www.amazon.com/Stargate-Sg-...sr=8-2&keywords=stargate+children+of+the+gods
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It's the final, definitive edition of the episode, with spiffy new special effects and reframed to 16:9, to boot.
And the nude scene was removed.
https://www.amazon.com/Stargate-Sg-...sr=8-2&keywords=stargate+children+of+the+gods
Kor
Actually, the reproductive organs line was never removed from re-runs. What it was cut from was the direct-to-DVD "special edition" of the pilot episode released in 2009 which also removed the nude scene, added deleted scenes, updated the effects with CG and even inserted a ship which wasn't introduced in the actual show until the third season, as well as for some reason had Chris Judge re-record all his dialogue.
IMO, what bothered me about the removal of the reproductive organs line in that version was how sloppily it was done. The line is removed, but they keep in O'Neill's response to it, despite the fact he's now just saying "this has nothing to do with you being a woman" for no reason whatsoever.
I think SG-1 was always Widescreen and re-framed to 4:3 on TV.
All the DVDs from Season 1 to whenever they switched to HD are in Widescreen at least. I don't know if they were re-framed to 16:9 from 4:3, but I don't recall anything looking like it had been cut off.
I was fine with that, it is implied in later seasons that they always had those ships, plus in the original version they were ringed into a Death Glider, which made no sense.
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SG1, in it's early years, had a perfect blend of planet of the week stories and arcs. Now days, with series doing these 10 to 12 episode seasons, basically all you're ever going to get is soap operas. Which isn't bad if you're into the story line, in fact with a good story line it's wonderful, but still I miss that blend of planet of the week stories and arcs.
Not sure on that version - but I always remembered the scene. I watched SG1 in an afternoon timeslot (Sky got bored of cycling repeats of Trek and switched it up for a bit) and that scene was always in there - clothes removed, seen from shoulders up.
I'd imagine this version has that same cut as it's a pretty important scene and the nudity wasn't essential.
....in fact, not knowing it was there until I got the DVD years later I didn't even know that it happened. Bit of a surprise!
The scene is still there IIRC, they just cut around the nudity.
Michael has been used as a girl's name before. It is unusual, but not unheard of.
That aside, "Michael Burnham" is a "meh" name. It sounds like a bog standard TV cop/agent name.
"Rainsford" was a much better sounding name and isn't a name you hear a lot on TV. Why did they change it? Or was it only a rumour all along?
That aside, "Michael Burnham" is a "meh" name. It sounds like a bog standard TV cop/agent name.
"Rainsford" was a much better sounding name and isn't a name you hear a lot on TV. Why did they change it? Or was it only a rumour all along?
It was a rumour.
Seems to me like a Simpson naming device.
What do we name the main character?
Writer looks around, sees a microphone, hail outside, and burned ham on the craft table.
Mike hail burned ham.
Michael Burnham!
Just like the original name was thought up when Fuller was watching it rain on his ford.
What do we name the main character?
Writer looks around, sees a microphone, hail outside, and burned ham on the craft table.
Mike hail burned ham.
Michael Burnham!
Just like the original name was thought up when Fuller was watching it rain on his ford.
Could have been just a rumor.
Back before THE DARK KNIGHT RISES came out, pretty much every website on the internet (including IMDB and Wikipedia) was reporting as a matter of fact that Matthew Modine's character was named "Nixon." As far as I know, this was never the case. The character was always named "Foley" in the top-secret scripts I consulted to write the novelization.
It was a bit frustrating, actually. I knew the "Nixon" thing was bullshit, along with plenty of other "absolutely true!" reports about the movie, but had to keep my mouth shut because I was sworn to secrecy about what was really in the script.. And, yes, I've been in that situation often enough that nowadays I don't believe any on-line "rumors" or "spoilers" until they're officially confirmed.
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Still beats "Fred Johnson" from The Expanse.
Honestly, I don't understand how Rainsford ever got traction anyway. It was a code word being used in a studio in Vancouver (Discovery films in Toronto) and somehow someone thought this was related to Discovery and the rumour conflated to the point that it actually was listed on Sonequa Martin-Green's IMDB up until the Michael Burnham name was announced.
Interesting. Is that how it happened? That has the ring of plausibility.
Sometimes, watching a bogus rumor proliferate on the internet, you can guess what inspired the "news." A seed of truth--like a name or a single blurry spy photo--gets out and the internet builds an entire edifice of wild theories and speculation out of one tiny little scrap of misunderstood data . . . and then that theory gets passed around and repeated until people start taking for granted that it must be true.
Hell, I'm still occasionally running across people who are convinced that DISCOVERY is an anthology series set around the time of the sixth movie--because they read that on the internet a year ago or heard it secondhand from a friend.
Which just goes to show, yet again, that IMDb cannot be trusted for future projects. It boggles my mind that people still treat it as sacrosanct for anything unreleased.
Wow, that's crazy, especially since that particular rumor was shot down pretty damn quickly.Hell, I'm still occasionally running across people who are convinced that DISCOVERY is an anthology series set around the time of the sixth movie--because they read that on the internet a year ago or heard it secondhand from a friend.
That's a reference to The Fugitive, IIRC. "Fred Johnson" was an alias used by the One-Armed Man.
Captain Lorca will give her the order to fire on an alien vessel:
"Michael...burn 'em!"
