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• When the planet explodes, it gets a shock-wave ring around it that's very George Lucas.
• Sam objects that that never happened, and Cameron says movies have to "open big" and be "jam-packed." Vala's, "I love jam" gives us yet another instance of "alien doesn't understand English colloquialisms," which she herself points out.

• Cameron: "How often do we get to give notes on a major motion picture?" And then Teal'c: "I believe this is intended to be a television movie." When sci-fi shows get the movie treatment, that's the big (and the big budget) question: theatrical release, like Star Trek and Serenity, or TV movie, like Farscape and Alien Nation?

• Sam: "All these writers, and they couldn't come up with anything better?" The writers are making fun of themselves, here and elsewhere. There are often many writers to an SG-1 script, after all.

• Martin complains about the cell coverage. a. They are inside a top-secret military installation under a mountain.

• Martin says that zombies "have been done to death," then notes his own pun. a. This is how the whole episode is structured: a joke, then a self-conscious comment on the joke.

• Martin says this movie is to be sci-fi, not horror. Cameron says they're turned into zombies by the Telchak device -- doubtlessly the Telchak Ancient Healing Device. This makes it sci-fi, even though there are zombies. a. The lines between sci-fi and fantasy and horror and supernatural and all that can be so thin as to be meaningless. It's fantasy if you have a magic wand, sci-fi if you have a tricorder. Or is it?

• The scene cuts to what looks like just a few seconds later, but the team has totally different outfits on as they walk into the Gateroom. Teal'c says, "I have been reflecting while changing into our gear." a. The team is always changing their outfits, often with seemingly no elapsed time. They also have a lot of outfits.

http://scifi.about.com/od/stargates2/a/stargate200b.htm

• 38 seconds. a. There is a somewhat arbitrary "rule" on the show that stargates can only stay active for 38-minutes. Carter tends to throw a lot of non-round numbers around as well in her technobabble.

• Daniel says he's not going to have "an actual ticking clock on the screen," and Martin thinks that's a brilliant idea. a. The "ticking clock" is a movie-making technique brought to perfection by Hitchcock and now pretty much a standard when the show calls for tension. Having an actual clock on the screen has been done a number of times, including episodes of M*A*S*H, Starsky and Hutch, 24, Iron Chef, and who knows what the heck else.

• "A regular part, if you catch my drift." a. This is a direct reference to Valla's own desire to become a part of SG-1.

• Martin then wants to continue with his script, starting on Scene 24. a. In the funniest movie ever made, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there's talk of Scene 24, which is a lovely scene with good bits in it.

• Browder does Stark with an Australian accent, a nod to the series' location for the shoot.

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6364450.html?display=Breaking+News

making the show the first cable scripted series to reach such a milestone.

But feelings are running hot over the timing of the decision, just as the show was celebrating its finest hour. People close to the show complained that support was tepid and that a decision to cancel was made early on. The channel failed to vigorously promote the show this season, they added, giving the network the public excuse they needed to pull the plug.

Sci Fi did, however, issue black-velvet-lined Stargate press packets in June, and the network honored the 200th episode with a lavish evening bash at its Television Critics Association gathering in Pasadena, Calif., in mid-July, flying in the cast and producers and trucking in a 14-foot “stargate” prop from Vancouver.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/istargate_sg-1i_cancelled_iatlan.shtml - source for /* Cancellation */

sub: http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6364450.html?display=Breaking+News - work almost every detail into the article

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2006/08/200_laughs_in_a.html

"It did not take longer than usual thanks to some good scheduling and the fact that while it does jump all over the place, a lot of it also takes place in the briefing room.Yes, the episode cost a lot more than usual.The puppets were quite expensive."

"No, the writers do not all appear but a lot of the crew was in the wedding scene."

"and during the interviews at the end when Dr. Levant gets up and his chair says 'actor.' That was a brilliant visual ad lib by director Martin Wood."

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=35208 (already used as source)

The 200th, ... as we've all put our heads together on that one, is based on a great idea [executive producer] Robert [C. Cooper] had, and we've all written bits and put them all together, and Robert went through it, and then I went through it," Wright said in an interview on SG-1's Vancouver, Canada, set earlier this month.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=35204

Production on the bicentennial episode begins April 5 in Vancouver, Canada.

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C102245%7C1%7C,00.html

"I did cut the 'Gilligan's Island' skit from the script," says executive producer Robert C. Cooper

which include spoofs of "The Wizard of Oz," "Star Trek," "Team America: World Police" (with puppets created by the movie's Chiodo brothers)

Just in case Anderson didn't want the gig in "200," Cooper had alternate plans, including O'Neill being invisible. That's when things get really odd. Director Martin Wood suggested that the invisible O'Neill come down a hall, carrying a visible coffee cup. That would require an actor to don a special green suit that would allow him to be removed later using special effects.

Cooper recalls "Martin said, 'Well, Rick's going to be there to do the dialogue anyway, so why don't we just put him in the green suit?'

"So where we have a scene that was originally conceived because we weren't sure we were going to get Richard Dean Anderson in the show, but we wanted his character there. And he's putting on a green suit so he can not be in the scene. There's a whole level of comedy there that I guess maybe those of us close to the show can appreciate."

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/200_ratings_give_istargatei_need.shtml

SG-1's highly publicized two-hundredth episode earned a 1.9 average household rating, according to a GateWorld source -- a 36 percent jump from the previous week's episode, and by far the highest of the summer season.

TV Zone Special #71, Preview Season 10:

"very loosely based on the Ewok village in Star Wars."

[edit] Reception

http://tv.ign.com/articles/726/726165p1.html

this episode will not be remembered whatsoever when it comes to the scope of this season, because there is not a single thing that ties into anything that is currently going on. However, all the fans will fondly recall this episode, because it is simply one of the smartest and funniest hours of television to grace the small screen yet this season. It doesn't take much to poke fun at someone else, but it means a lot to be able to laugh at yourself.

First off, if you are a sci-fi fan at all (especially one of Stargate SG-1) then you are really going to enjoy all the sly and not so subtle references about current and past sci-fi shows.

The whole cast is amazingly on point this episode,

Simply put, "200" is easily the best episode yet this season, and it is one of the top ten best episodes of the show…period.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24196

As it happens, the writers of "SG1" are really a bunch of frustrated Trey Parker-loving sitcom scribes who maybe think their TV show is as screwy as I think it is.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2006/08/200_laughs_in_a.html

I can honestly say the episode, which is full of in-jokes and light-hearted fantasy sequences, made me laugh until I cried.

But you don’t need to be a longtime fan of the long-running program to enjoy its jibes at sci-fi clichés

That’s not to say the episode itself isn’t great fun: It’s a riot.

For fans of the show, there are obscure shoutouts and comic asides aplenty.

The show’s writers make fun of themselves too, though; in fact much of the episode revolves around the Stargate team punching holes in the script Lloyd wrote.

All in all, it’s a very enjoyable hour of television, especially if you’ve been watching “Stargate SG-1” for a while.

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|102245|1|,00.html

the episode could have been a lot wackier than it is.

http://blogs.ohio.com/beacon_tv/2006/08/alien_territori.html

Stargate SG-1 was a better experience, although also a somewhat foreign one for me.

Still, I got a fair number of the jokes

Did I then go, Oh, my goodness! I have obviously been missing a splendid bit of television!? Um, no.

The pacing wasn't great. The dialogue could be a tad slow. (...) Some of the jokes either didn't work (...) or were pounded too hard (...). And, if I haven't developed enough affection for the characters to have paid more attention during the first 199 episodes, I'm not going to fall in love now.

In the end, I felt like the new guy at a party, hearing shorthand references to past incidents that he doesn't know, or being told stories that are all of the you-had-to-be-there variety. But that's fine.