In Descent, Jonas Quinn risks his life to save SG-1 by swimming into a flooded section of the mothership and releasing the controls allowing our heroes access to the ship's landing bay.
“Corin Nemec is able to hold his breath for over a minute-and-a-half, which surprised the hell out of all of us,” laughs producer Peter DeLuise, who also directed the episode. “I was holding my breath while watching him and I couldn't believe how long he was able to stay under the water.”
Paul Mullie continues, “Peter shot this take that followed Corin all the way down the corridor. He swam into the room and started playing with these controls. Corin moved a bunch of discs around and then he swam around to the other side and did the same thing. It was one continuous shot and it lasted almost two minutes. We said, 'We have to use this shot. There is no way the audiences are going to believe that he did this unless we show an uninterrupted take. Unfortunately, one of the discs fell out of Corin's hand, so there's a moment in the episode where we had to cut away to do an insert. It's going to look like we tried to strech the scene out so that it would seem more heroic that his character stayed underwater for that long, but, in fact, Corin actually did.”
(TV Zone Special #46)
I was a kid when SGA was airing, and every season finale felt like the end of the world. Four months seemed like an unfathomably long time to wait, but the season premieres always hit the mark bc of cute shit like this ಥ‿ಥ
The S1 finale is still my favorite, but S4's was the cruelest. I vividly remember screaming into a pillow lmao
I started watching Stargate Atlantis shortly after it had ended. I can't imagine having to wait months to find out what happened here. And to get to this....
Okay, I see you... BUT in the interest of ignoring the man behind the curtain:
Consider the possibility that everyone knows Elizabeth can bully Jack into almost anything, to the extent that the aliens went through their memories and thought, We need someone who can say no to these people; we can't pretend to be HIM (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Although it’s not actually them, it was still nice to see Hammond & Walter in “Home”.
I love that, fundamentally, Radek is a gentle, soft man
Yet when it comes to Rodney, he yells so much. He's the only person on the science team who stands up to Rodney, calls him out on his bullshit, and regularly gets into shouting matches with him
There was also the incident with the metal pole when everyone lost their memory
I just like that while he IS a gentle, soft little man, he can and will throw down when necessary and that "when necessary" is caused by Rodney McKay like 97% of the time