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[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

FYI, you can now find us over on Bluesky as well: https://t.co/pUmzUqQECh

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio Maybe we'll find out if you #SaveStargate!

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio Is it because you're going to finally tell us you're going to #SaveStargate?

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio Spider Noir was great and something you took a chance on. Now take a chance and #SaveStargate! Fans will help, we're here, just take the plunge!

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio You took a chance on Spider Noir, it was great! You know what you need to do next #SaveStargate! It can be your next hit, if you listen to your audience!

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@GameChangerSam @samreich Play along with Samgo: https://t.co/oCSs9vB6lD

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio The Sheep Detectives was great! But the ending would hurt less if you #SaveStargate!

[Jilted Valkyrie @JiltedValkyrie]

Good morning, Gaters!

Have you bullied @AmazonMGMStudio today yet to #SaveStargate? I'm looking forward to the day we can change the hashtag to #WeSavedStargate. But until that day, we will do what must be done.

This is a Stargate X account first and foremost until then!

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio @PrimeVideo It'll be the last sunrise indeed if you don't #SaveStargate! Don't let our days be dark, bring us back to the light! You can do it @JeffBezos, bring Gero and crew back!

[IBREC @IBREC]

Plot twist: it's not one screen... it's TWO! 🤯
The #SaveStargate campaign is lighting up two Times Square displays, including one animated visual at 1619 Broadway ✨
Catch it every hour at :16 and :49
Keep your eyes on New York City! 🗽 @AmazonMGMStudio

[Christy Stevens ᐰ @kchiki]

All we want is what @AmazonMGMStudio @PrimeVideo had already green-lit: a new Stargate series from the original creative team, including @martingero @BaronDestructo @bradtravelers etc. Give the fans what they want! #SaveStargate

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio It's like we're stuck in a loop, and it's your fault we have to #SaveStargate. It's not too late, you can fix this, you know what to do. We'll understand, you made a mistake, it's ok to admit that. We can forgive you if you do the right thing...

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio @PrimeVideo the time is now to #SaveStargate. We need to bring back the energy the show has to bring people together, as you're seeing now. @JeffBezos get on the phone, make it happen, bring Gero back, and make it right. You had kicked things off right last fall.

[ᐰ_user07 @_user07]

What can you do to let Amazon know you want to #SaveStargate? Every time @AmazonMGMStudio posts on X, reply with a request to #SaveStargate.

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio @PrimeVideo The secret we want is that you will #SaveStargate!

[Nina Infinity @Nina7Infinity]

🚨ATTENTION STARGATE FANS 🚨

Join the #savestargate tweetstorm this Wednesday June 24th at 1-2PM EST
7PM France/6PM UK time.

If you can't join in live, you can schedule your posts on Desktop site (not mobile)

Moving forward tweetstorms will be happening every Wednesday!

Make your own posts & share/like everyone. Be sure to hashtag #savestargate @AmazonMGMStudio @PrimeVideo

Let's #savestargate 🔥🔥🔥

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

Have we not been here before? @AmazonMGMStudio #SaveStargate and give us another window of opportunity! It will be worth it!

[Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️ @BaronDestructo]

Stargate Trivia: Window of Opportunity

We had no idea this episode would become so beloved by fandom and yet, looking back, it’s easy to see why it has. It’s one of those "fun" episodes with a fairly straightforward premise that allows our characters to shine in ways unexpected. Specifically, Jack and Teal’c who, in the past, have relied on Carter and Daniel to handle the science and Ancient translations, and suddenly find themselves having to step into their team members’ shoes.

Yes, it’s our version of Groundhog Day. And yet, in its earliest form, the pitch for this story was very different, much darker in tone. Originally titled Ad Infinitum, it involved the team gating to a planet and becoming trapped in a seemingly endless time loop orchestrated by a dying race seeking to buy more time to come up with a solution to an impending armageddon (which became the backstory of the device’s genesis mentioned in the episode by Malakai). Exec Producer Robert Cooper suggested another spin on the time loop angle and, while I was dubious at first (“Isn’t this Groundhog Day?”I remember asking. “Yeah,”was Rob’s counter.), I was proven wrong. Now, the “Groundhog Day” episode has become a staple of most every genre show.

While there’s a lot to like about this episode, it was the “time off” montage that stands out. And it almost didn’t happen. The episode was timing short, it was clear we would need to come up with some extra scenes, and that gave Exec Producer Brad Wright (@bradtravelers) the opportunity to do something he had always wanted to do: see our characters golfing through the stargate. And so, several scenes were added (they were all scripted, not improvised as some fans assumed): the juggling, Teal’c’s repeated door run-in, Jack riding his bike through the corridors of the SGC, Jack trying his hand at pottery, the golfing through the gate and, oh yes, THE KISS. The latter was my former writing partner Paul Mullie's idea - in his pitch, an opportunity we could not pass up. Note: We made sure to have Jack tender his official resignation before dipping Carter and planting one on her, just to make sure we didn’t catch any flak from our Air Force tech advisors.

One of the first pieces of Stargate-related artwork I put up on my office wall was some concept art from this episode - the stargate itself. As the seasons wore on, so did that original sketch, gradually fading away. My then writing partner mused that once the sketch vanished, it would signal the show's end. It took well over six years but , in the end, he was right.

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio You mean to #SaveStargate?

[Stargate Offworld @SGOffworld]

Martin Gero's project existed. Written, planned, ready. Amazon buried it. We want to dig it back up. @AmazonMgmStudio @Primevideo #SaveStargate

[Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️ @BaronDestructo]

Stargate Trivia: The Top 10 Running Gags in Stargate: SG-1
#SaveStargate

10. Blue Jello

The blue jello predates my involvement with the show. By the time Paul and I joined SG-1 in its fourth season, the gelatin was already de rigueur in most every mess scene, eventually, finding its way to Atlantis as well. So what’s the deal? Search me. I seem to remember someone saying it was simply something the prop department whipped up one day that stood out, both for its neon properties and sheer ridiculousness, quickly becoming a comically beloved visual staple.

9. O’Neill’s obsession with The Simpsons

O’Neill was full of Simpsons references and an admitted fan. Why? Well, because most of the show’s writers were fans as well, although nowhere near as huge a fan as Richard Dean Anderson. How big a fan was he? So big that he attended the table reading of a Simpsons episode and was totally blown away by the experience. Occasionally, he would even bring his daughter by my office to check out the various Simpsons-related dioramas and action figures that bedecked my shelf. Eventually, actor Dan Castellanetta guested on the show (Citizen Joe) and he and Rick hit it off. They had a great time working together and, months later, Dan showed his appreciation by writing a Stargate/RDA-themed Simpsons episode to which Rick lent his voice talents.

8. Pineapples

If you’re watching Stargate and ever happen to catch sight of a pineapple, there’s a good chance the episode you’re viewing was directed by long-time Stargate director Will Waring. The pineapples were his signature visual. More often than not, however, the fruit were so carefully camouflaged, most viewers would be hard-pressed to notice them. Still, there’s plenty of fun to be had in trying. I once asked Will “Why pineapples?” and he told me that on one of his first productions, he was camera operator on a scene involving a high speed chase. For some reason, he put a pineapple in the car’s back window as a gag – and then forgot to remove it for the actual shoot. As a result, for the entire high-octane chase sequence, there’s a pineapple clearly rattling around in the back window of our protagonist’s car. Nobody noticed – until the dailies. The director was livid and was prepared to fire Will – but the producer LOVED the pineapple gag. Will got to keep his job – and the signature pineapple was born.

7. The Big Wrench

Where Will Waring had his pineapples, director Martin Wood had his big wrench. You’ll often spot it in the background, in the hands of longtime Stargate SG-1 Fight Coordinator Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler), as he makes adjustments to equipment or simply walks around with this huge, oversized calling card. Every once in a while, Martin would get into the big wrench background action as well, donning the persona of his onscreen alter-ego, Major Wood.

6. Peter DeLuise’s Hitchcockian touch

Whereas Will had the pineapples and Martin had the big wrench, director Peter DeLuise had…Peter DeLuise. Before he was a director, Peter was an actor, and so it was only natural that he’d take a page out of Hitchcock’s book and make himself his own visual signature. He appeared as a host of background characters and played the part of the young Urgo opposite his father Dom. Even in the most challenging of episodes, Peter found a way to make his trademark appearance. Once, we thought he’d missed his cameo – only to discover he’d found an ingenious way to make a subtle appearance. In one scene, as Teal’c sits in his darkened room, deep in meditation, we pull back to reveal he is surrounded by candles – several of which are assembled to spell out the initial “PD”.

5. Jonas Quinn’s voracious appetite

Actors have their trademark “bits” as well and, for Jonas, it was food. Whether it was buttered toast in Night Walkers or the infamous banana scene in Descent (which, incidentally, ran about three minutes long in the director’s cut), he was always snacking. But he crossed the line in one episode where he showed up in the gate room sipping tea from a mug and had to be reminded – the tea mug was another actor’s trademark “bit” (see below).

4. Magnets

Every once in a while, whenever Carter tried to explain some scientific or technological wonder, Jack would try to tie it back to magnets. What was the deal with O’Neill and magnets? Well, this one was compliments of Creator/Executive Producer Brad Wright who once had someone pitch him some ridiculous scientific theory. When a dubious Brad asked him to clarify the faulty science, the other individual shrugged and offered: “Magnets?”. It eventually became the stock response to every befuddling question of logic.

3. The Wizard of Oz

This was another running joke that predated my involvement in the production but SG-1 was peppered with references throughout its ten-year run, culminating in the Wizard of Oz sight gag in the show’s 200th episode (200). Of course, by that point in the series run, the line-up had changed, offering a slightly altered version of the originals: Carter as Dorothy, Daniel as the cowardly lion, Teal’c as the tin man, and, of course, Jack as the scarecrow.

2. Indeed

If there is one word that perhaps appears in more episodes of Stargate than any other (beside, maybe, “stargate”), it’s “Indeed”, Teal’c’s short and sweet one-word response to most anything he is asked – and sometimes not. Actor Chris Judge even took to inserting the odd “Indeed” on occasions where it hadn’t even been scripted. I knew we’d reached the point of no return when, while watching dailies one day, we watched as someone asked Teal’c: “Have you seen him?” to which Teal’c replied: “Indeed – I have not.”

1. What the hell is in O’Neill’s cup?

Seriously. This one is fairly subtle but after noticing it for the first time, you'll always see it. Whenever Jack has a cup or mug in his hand there will come a point in the scene where he’ll glance down, frown, and then attempt to pluck some mysterious foreign object out of his drink.

[Mikeware @MikewareXGR]

@AmazonMGMStudio Isn't it obvious? #SaveStargate