Stargate: Inanities

August 10, 2005

Inanities

I logged onto gateworld today and was completely transfixed by one simple post: “Can a Wraith eat an Ori?” And this is really where my job gets ridiculously fun, because being me, I can just walk two steps to where Joe, Paul and Damian are sitting in Joe’s office and be like… “um… so… hey… Can a Wraith eat an Ori?”

So I did. And they were really cool about it. Joe said, “yes, of course” but he was actually lying. Paul was more kind. He told me the truth. He said, no, a Wraith couldn’t eat an Ori, because the Ori have no corporeal body. So how would they find them? I suggested perhaps the Wraith could come up with some kind of vacuum device for life-sucking, with a sensor on it. Or, I offered, the Wraith could be always ready for life-sucking and then maybe get lucky and happen upon an Ori. Then they all looked at each other and made me feel a little uncomfortable.

So I asked if a Wraith could eat a Prior and they all agreed that Priors would make good eatin’ for a Wraith. Paul clarified that the Priors are simply humans imbued with special powers. But as to who would win in a battle, for example, in an arena episode, we all thought the Prior would be much more powerful, but it would depend on the circumstances.

Then Joe said that would make an awesome episode and encouraged me to go pitch it to Rob and Brad.

Rob and Brad told me this would be my last season on the show. They thanked me for my efforts.

Just kidding. I didn’t do that.

Here’s a little bit of info about this week’s episodes:

· The Powers That Be is Martin Gero’s first SG-1 script. Until that script, he had only written Stargate: Atlantis. I asked him what it was like and he rubbed his head like he had a headache and then said, “Hard!” He said he wouldn’t have felt qualified writing an SG-1 script last year, but after having been surrounded by all things Stargate for a year he was ready to cross over to the other side of the franchise. He particularly liked writing the Vala character, and mentioned how pleased he was with Will Waring’s direction and Peter Woeste’s cinematography.

· Condemned has some great fight scenes with Ronon, Teyla and Sheppard. Also some great comedic moments in this one. This was Carl Binder’s first Atlantis script as a staff writer (he was a freelancer last year). You probably don’t know that Carl was formerly the executive producer of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

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Posted by Alex Levine at August 10, 2005 12:45 AM