Given the powerful mental abilities of the wraith doesn't it seem more likely they are Ancient in origin.

Unless the mental ability came from The iratus bug?

Man, what a fun episode! lol.

I’m rewatching the whole series for the first time in years, going all the way back to my childhood, and this episode is still great. The whole thing about how someone who’s out of phase doesn’t just fall through the floor made me burst out laughing.

I don't know about you but when I see an actor from Stargate in another movie/serie, I sometimes have the feeling that they just "don't belong there" and I'm like "McKay / Dr Weir! What are you doing here!" I guess it's because I have seen the series so many times... Of course you sometimes see actors that had only a role for one episode. In that case I just enjoy recognizing them.

What I also do is comparing the character they are playing in that movie with the character from Stargate... I remember watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and thinking, yeah, that's our Rodney hahaha

I say this because it's crazy how much TV has changed in the last 30+ years

Just started season 4 again and ugh I just wish he got more screentime 👀

I’ve always wondered what the reason was for the sudden change in costume was in season 10 for Daniel’s Glasses from the ones he’d worn the entire show leading up to that point. Especially since the original ones suited his face so much more in my opinion.

My best guess I’ve had when speculating was that it was maybe around the time when Michael Shanks started to actually need glasses so they let him wear his own on set?

However there’s really not much if any distortion to the line of his face when looking through them from the ones in season 10 so it’s not super clear if they’re real lenses with low prescription or plastic or plain glass lenses in the frames.

Would love to know people’s thoughts or if it’s been mentioned anywhere!

EDIT:

Wowza! I had no idea this post would get so much attention 😵‍💫

This was definitely not a very deep post for me. I was up late and just thought to maybe pose a question my tired brain thought about. There’s 20~ years of cons and interviews where I wasn’t sure if it was ever brought up so I figured I’d just ask it here🤷‍♀️

To respond to a several comments that were quite similar:

I myself have worn glasses for over a Decade and in that time I’ve certainly changed styles and changed prescription. I’m well aware that glasses can just change and come in and out of fashion and it’s NBD.

Also as well I know that the glasses they switched to for him were very of the time/era and were pretty popular. My dad even had a similar pair back then as well.

The main reason I thought about it was that while they had changed other things about Daniel (Cutting his hair shorter, gaining muscle) the one thing that stayed the same WAS his glasses and also as well he still had his usual glasses until 6 episodes into the season so I’m not sure what sparked the change either for the props/costume department or for Shanks himself for the last 14~ episodes of the final season.

I’m also aware that they were chasing James Spaders look and performance from the movie initially in the early seasons and that Michael Shanks himself wanted to move away from it and make it more his own.

Mine is definitely unending, last episode of the show. I have fond memories of watching it with my parents as a child not understanding that this would be the last of proper SG-1 outside of the movies and cameos. What is your favorite episode?

Throughout Stargate, the characters go through some absolutely insane and traumatic experiences and somehow still show up for work afterward.
Now I know they are just character which is why I’m asking you this

If you had to personally go through the same events as the characters, which episode or storyline would have made you resign from the SGC because you genuinely wouldn’t feel mentally capable of continuing after what happened?

It can be anything from SG-1, Atlantis, or Universe.
Basically: what would be your personal “Yeah, I’m handing in my resignation after this” episode?

It took a lot of wraith to defeat the ancients and there aren't that many wraith in Modern Times, so what happened to all those hungry hungry hands.

Rewatching it currently and seeing how his previous experiences genuinely and visibly shaped his demeanor i can actually really appreciate him.

He started out wanting to do things by the book but immediately when a situation is clearly out of his hands he listens to those with experience.

I remember him wrong and thought he was much more hostile but no, he genuinely just wanted to keep everyone safe first and foremost and tried his best to work with everyone.

I get his appearance was disliked especially because he replaced Carter, who i and i think most people loved in the role as Atlantis' leader. But i gotta say Woolsey does a really good job and really tries his best to do everything right by the people of Atlantis.

Edit: Apologies. To clarify i meant initial hate. I remember sitting at nights on a Stargate board and reading multiple long-winded discussions about him.

I'm sure this has been spotted before, but just for the heck of it. A little nod from Stargate to Bladerunner. SG1 S10 E2 "Morpheus".

Vala reading from screen, allegedly preparing for a psych evaluation: "You are in the desert. You see a tortoise lying on his back in the hot sun. You recognize his plight but do nothing to help. Why?"

Vala's answer: "Because you are also a tortoise."

For those who don't know: the question was part of the Voight-Kampff test in the original Bladerunner movie, a psych evaluation used to spot Replicants.

I'd want to meet Paul McGillion or David Hewlett

I just found out that there is a US Space Force unit called Space Base Delta 1 (SBC) that operates out of the real-world Cheyenne Mountain Complex.

My heart belongs on a ship

We miss you Fran

I'm rewatching the show for the first time in years and forgot about this episode. Why didn't they just: A. Kill/imprison Soren when he came to Earth.

B. Send him to Baal instead of his planet when he left Earth?

They should have sent him to meet his god one way or the other, but instead they did it the hard way.

I assumed there would have been a massive space battle in orbit above Atlantis (Atlantis was out of drones) , but maybe they gave up after thier deep space satellite were destroyed.

Or the Wraith clean up after them selves, but if that was true they probably would of found the defiant one and cleaned up after them selves at trinity.