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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5141600" data-attributes="member: 8158">For the record, doing the "we must be watching different shows" line in the same post with a "you seem to not have read my post" chestnut is kind of redundant. When it comes to being snarky, less is more. A little is good for perfectly healthy verbal sparring. Too much makes you sound defensive about people disagreeing with you.At the risk of dislodging additional chips from shoulders, I cannot agree with theorycrafting which argues that self-contained episodes came about merely as a way to satisfy the checklist of some small faction of fanboys. The creators of the SG franchise are likely aware that no sci-fi show has ever died on the vine because they opted to jump straight into the action rather than bog down in technical minutiae. There's no onus on them to devote an entire episode to the water supply or power supply; they can just hang a few lanterns with some throwaway dialogue. The direction chosen is actually kind of risky, because if you ask a sci-fi fan whether they'd rather see a show about restoring life support or a show about alien-blasting, I'm willing to bet the latter will tend to get picked. They did these self-contained eps because they thought they'd try soemthing different this go 'round. Good for them.Not sure what you guys are talking about with regards to two shooting teams. Consider that they shoot scenes on different parts of Destiny, they shoot on earth in different locales, and they do offworld scenes, and they do so with different groups of actors. If they wanted, they can add some "alien ship" set pieces right next to those for Destiny, and that would seem easier and cheaper than finding a nightclub to shoot part of an episode in, then the next day set up for some offworld scene in a jungle or desert.My personal baseless theory is a bit simpler. After having done a bunch of establishing episodes, they are looking at where they ought to go next. This episode amounts to dipping a toe in the water to see how fans react to adding traditional alien-blasting elements. I'm also willing to bet that this placates some network execs who want the show have some obligatory evil aliens and basically play it safe by sticking to the military sci-fi playbook.</blockquote>

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