5 Minutes of Premiere up on YouTube

[Kelso]

I think I've seen this one.

 

[David cgc]

That whole 'explosive energy will make it through the gate and trash the SGC/Earth' seems like bullshit considering stuff that has happened in other episodes...but maybe that's true to the character of Rush.

No, they've mentioned that that's possible before. They usually close the iris (or raise the shield) before it happens. Just once, I'd like to see a big explosion (or flood of lava, or whatever) pour out of the gate...

 

[Samurai8472]

How can Sam be in the premiere?

I thought the pilots of any spin off were strictly bound to just Jack and Daniel being in them? Movie rights and all.

After that it's okay to show Teal'c and Carter

I seem to remember that with Rising they weren't allowed to use characters introduced in Children of the Gods, which is why we didn't see Carter, Teal'c or even Walter there. However, they could use Jack and Daniel since they were introduced in the movie and Siler given he was introduced later on in SG-1's first season. However, that rule didn't apply for episodes after the pilot, which allowed Carter, Teal'c, Walter and even Hammond to make appearances in Atlantis.

But as for Carter being in this pilot, that is odd. I seem to remember reading somewhere (possibly Gateworld) that the same rule was still in effect. Though, clearly not.

Apparently they were able to get the legal stuff cleared for this appearance.

 

[Corran Horn]

That whole 'explosive energy will make it through the gate and trash the SGC/Earth' seems like bullshit considering stuff that has happened in other episodes...but maybe that's true to the character of Rush.

No, they've mentioned that that's possible before. They usually close the iris (or raise the shield) before it happens. Just once, I'd like to see a big explosion (or flood of lava, or whatever) pour out of the gate...

Yeah, I was wondering why they wouldn't just close the iris then.

 

[JB2005]

How can Sam be in the premiere?

I thought the pilots of any spin off were strictly bound to just Jack and Daniel being in them? Movie rights and all.

After that it's okay to show Teal'c and Carter

What if they class it as a spin-off of SG1?

You mean a spinoff of Atlantis.

What's the difference?

 

[archeryguy1701]

^The restrictions that effect a spinoff of the original might not effect something that's classified a spinoff of a spinoff. Seems a little wierd, but silly technicalities like that are one way to get around contractual restrictions.

 

[bigdaddy]

^The restrictions that effect a spinoff of the original might not effect something that's classified a spinoff of a spinoff. Seems a little wierd, but silly technicalities like that are one way to get around contractual restrictions.

Exactly, never underestimate the stupidity of laws.

Sam was on Atlantis as a series regular (supposedly), so that might let her be in the pilot of a spinoff now.

The whole thing is stupid to begin with, they can't be in the pilot, but they can be in the other 100+ episodes that follow?

 

[David cgc]

That whole 'explosive energy will make it through the gate and trash the SGC/Earth' seems like bullshit considering stuff that has happened in other episodes...but maybe that's true to the character of Rush.

No, they've mentioned that that's possible before. They usually close the iris (or raise the shield) before it happens. Just once, I'd like to see a big explosion (or flood of lava, or whatever) pour out of the gate...

Yeah, I was wondering why they wouldn't just close the iris then.

I guess Rush figured they wouldn't have enough warning to tell them to lock it up.

Okay, let's be honest, he obviously really wanted to go to the 9-symbol address, and was bullshitting up a plausible excuse. As military-guy-whose-name-I'll-learn-in-the-fullness-of-time points out, he could've just as easily dialed the Alpha Site, or one of the many uninhabited but safe planets that the SGC keeps track of as alternate escape routes for off-world teams (I think they specifically mentioned those in "Zero Hour" when O'Neill was concerned SG-1 might've been goa'ulded). But Rush's reasoning for not dialing Earth was sound, even if dialing the new address was incredibly foolhardy.

 

[BenRoethig]

Concept looks good, but surplus Goa'uld stuff from the Lucian alliance somehow becoming more powerful than Waith or Ori wares? Come one. It better be a very large fleet.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I think the better question why the f*** they're attacking Icarus in the first place, and whether we'll see the repercussions of that attack in due time or not.

As for the legal stuff, if what we saw is in Air pt2, then does that still count as the pilot episode?

And are they going to show all three in one day or split it over two like 24 did?

 

[bigdaddy]

Oct 2 has the two hour premiere, the third hour of that story will be shown Oct 9th.

 

[kdalton_69]

That whole 'explosive energy will make it through the gate and trash the SGC/Earth' seems like bullshit considering stuff that has happened in other episodes...but maybe that's true to the character of Rush.

No, they've mentioned that that's possible before. They usually close the iris (or raise the shield) before it happens. Just once, I'd like to see a big explosion (or flood of lava, or whatever) pour out of the gate...

Yeah, I was wondering why they wouldn't just close the iris then.

Because then we would have a TV movie instead of a series.

 

[bigdaddy]

No, they've mentioned that that's possible before. They usually close the iris (or raise the shield) before it happens. Just once, I'd like to see a big explosion (or flood of lava, or whatever) pour out of the gate...

Yeah, I was wondering why they wouldn't just close the iris then.

Because then we would have a TV movie instead of a series.

Which actually was the original plan.

 

[DWF]

Yeah, I was wondering why they wouldn't just close the iris then.

Because then we would have a TV movie instead of a series.

Which actually was the original plan.

When was ever the original plan that Universe only a mere TV movie?

 

[bigdaddy]

DVD movie. Over a year ago there was an interview that the idea of using the 9th chevron would come up in a DVD movie. MGM liked the idea so much and it became the new show.

 

[DWF]

DVD movie. Over a year ago there was an interview that the idea of using the 9th chevron would come up in a DVD movie. MGM liked the idea so much and it became the new show.

Do you have some of link to this interview? Because all the talk of Universe is that it was to become a third series and that news started two years ago.

 

[The Wormhole]

DVD movie. Over a year ago there was an interview that the idea of using the 9th chevron would come up in a DVD movie. MGM liked the idea so much and it became the new show.

Do you have some of link to this interview? Because all the talk of Universe is that it was to become a third series and that news started two years ago.

The original idea of the ninth chevron connecting to an Ancient starship on the other side of the universe was indeed a proposed plot for an SG-1 DVD movie. It wasn't until after the idea began developing that TPTB realized they had story material for a potential series.

 

[DWF]

DVD movie. Over a year ago there was an interview that the idea of using the 9th chevron would come up in a DVD movie. MGM liked the idea so much and it became the new show.

Do you have some of link to this interview? Because all the talk of Universe is that it was to become a third series and that news started two years ago.

The original idea of the ninth chevron connecting to an Ancient starship on the other side of the universe was indeed a proposed plot for an SG-1 DVD movie. It wasn't until after the idea began developing that TPTB realized they had story material for a potential series.

All I'm asking for is some kind of confirmation of this.

 

[Broccoli]

A quick search at GateWorld and we have an answer.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2007/03/third-series-is-stargate-universe/

Like many of the producers ideas, Cooper said, the idea for Stargate Universe was originally conceived as a stand-alone movie. “When we originally were sitting around talking about this we were trying to come up with ideas for a Stargate feature — not an SG-1 feature or an Atlantis feature, but a feature that would fit into the Stargate franchise that we feel we have created,” Cooper said. “We were thinking, ‘How do we create a third arm to the franchise that is very connective and that fans will feel is born out of the material that has come before, but at the same time is very much something that stands alone?’

“When it became clear that a third series was a more realistic possibility at this point from the studio’s standpoint, we figured out how to tweak that idea and give it a little more legs than it would have had as a one-off story. We always, in the back of our minds even in coming up with that concept, felt that it could launch a third series. … But now that idea has become the core idea for the new show.”

 

[BenRoethig]

Atlantis came about in pretty much the same way.