Posted on 08/18/2006 10:39:16 AM PDT by Panerai
What do Star Trek, The Wizard of Oz, Team America, detective shows, teenage dramas, and furry aliens all have in common?
But wait, there's more.
What about Farscape, weddings, zombie horror flicks, and the guy from Sex and the City?
All of this, and more, is packed into tonight's milestone two-hundredth episode of Stargate SG-1, for which the show's writers, cast, and crew pulled out all the stops, opened the flood gates ... and show fans just how crazy things get when everyone gets what they ask for. A mostly spoiler-free review is now online at the Chicago Tribune's "The Watcher" column, along with photos.
"200" (9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific on SCI FI Channel) is an event not to be missed by any TV fan. When TV-writer turned film-producer Martin Lloyd (Willie Garson, Sex and the City) seeks SG-1's help with his script for a "Wormhole X-Treme!" movie (based on his failed TV show based on the real -- and very top secret -- Stargate program), everyone has something to say about what a great sci-fi movie ought to have.
The episode proceeds to a series of vignettes, each from a different Stargate writer, placing SG-1 in the worlds of Trek, Farscape (with former Farscape lead Ben Browder recast as Stark, and his "look-alike" Michael Shanks playing John Crichton), The Wizard of Oz (beware the Tin Man's codpiece!), and even as Team America and Thunderbirds style marionettes.
In the hilariously underplayed puppet sequence, the writers riff on their own show's origins -- with help from guest star Don S. Davis ("General George Hammond") -- and answer the burning question: "How can marionettes walk through a Stargate?"
(Excerpt) Read more at gateworld.net ...
The 100th episode "Wormhole X-Treme" was bad enough. This might be worse. I wish they'd just try and do a really, really good episode for the 200th milestone instead of an incredibly goofy one.
.... Amanda Tapping.
yay! more pictures of Sam Carter! :) Amanda Tapping. :D hehe
Gate ping!
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