[utahcon]

My mother got me to listen to the directors commentary of SG-1 and there are real gems in there.

For example, how the early seasons had a 1,2,3 use of the phasers. Zap 'em once, and they are incapacitated, twice and they are dead, and 3... cleans up the mess... They abandoned it later because it was "too convenient".

Also, take notice of the giant wrench that appears from time to time in the background scenes in the base.

Also, there are so many callbacks and references in every episode, you really can spend hours or days drawing lines through story elements to see how long running some jokes are in the later parts of the series.

[iso1210]

And then in "Wormhole Extreme" with the 'fake sg1 program' they had a problem that the stun guns lefts loads of badguys on the ground for a romantic scene

Director: We've already established that one shot stuns, and two shots kills. Nick just shot everybody twice.

Martin: So, three shots disintegrates them!

Director: OK, you know what? I'm going to pretend you didn't say that, because that is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say.

They dropped the third shot feature after the second season

[walterbell]

Recaps of DVD commentaries, http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/DVD_Extras_Index

One (of many) lists of best episodes, https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/25-best-stargate-sg-1-episodes/

[terafo]

> For example, how the early seasons had a 1,2,3 use of the phasers. Zap 'em once, and they are incapacitated, twice and they are dead, and 3... cleans up the mess... They abandoned it later because it was "too convenient".

Not only because of that. Actors didn't like the design since the prop for Zats looked like penis.

[hericium]

> Not only because of that. Actors didn't like the design since the prop for Zats looked like penis.

The goa'uld looked similarly[1] though.

[1] https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/b/b9/Ima...

[colechristensen]

I always found how they make fun of some of the early bonehead decisions in the show to be hilarious. Also just how Richard Dean Anderson was just having fun and not necessarily taking anything seriously especially towards the end

[naasking]

I think RDA took that a little too far at the end actually. I remember it coming across as disappointing or lazy, like he was just phoning it for the cheque.