Re: Stargate SG-1 Review - 1969
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 10:16 am
Yeah, the episode fells more like a high concept bottle episode to be honest. It's not bad, it's just not as good as it could have been.
As for the whole early installment weirdness with they arriving back to the Cheyenne mountain instead of the warehouse where the Gate was in 1969, I think it's because the Gate was sealed in that box so the wormhole couldn't have activated there (unlike in Continuum where it was only placed and not sealed, evident by the fact that it opened in 1939 without a problem), and as it's revealed in "Red Sky", wormholes can be forced to open without a Stargate in other places and rematerialize the travelers there. So maybe some fragment of present temporarily rematerialized in 1969 before the timeline corrected itself. Which I think could also explain the whole stable time loop thing that doesn't appear later: in fact there were multiple incursions of possible futures that were erased after the timeline corrected itself, where the SG1 tool the long way to learn the about the next solar flares, which is how young Hammond got the original date, only those events were erased so they don't appear anymore. This would give the appearance of a stable time loop, when in reality it was just the outcome of multiple past events that were eventually erased when the timeline was restored.
As for the whole early installment weirdness with they arriving back to the Cheyenne mountain instead of the warehouse where the Gate was in 1969, I think it's because the Gate was sealed in that box so the wormhole couldn't have activated there (unlike in Continuum where it was only placed and not sealed, evident by the fact that it opened in 1939 without a problem), and as it's revealed in "Red Sky", wormholes can be forced to open without a Stargate in other places and rematerialize the travelers there. So maybe some fragment of present temporarily rematerialized in 1969 before the timeline corrected itself. Which I think could also explain the whole stable time loop thing that doesn't appear later: in fact there were multiple incursions of possible futures that were erased after the timeline corrected itself, where the SG1 tool the long way to learn the about the next solar flares, which is how young Hammond got the original date, only those events were erased so they don't appear anymore. This would give the appearance of a stable time loop, when in reality it was just the outcome of multiple past events that were eventually erased when the timeline was restored.