Intergalactic disease among humans

[teviet]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Yeah that's one thing that always struck me about the show as it completely ignores one of the basic premises of the film (and the entire reason Jackson is even there). That bugged me almost as much as the completely bizarre changes to O'Neil; rendering him, IMO, unrecognizable as the same character. Between these two it took me forever to like the show.

Bugged me for a while too, but eventually I partitioned it away as dramatic necessity or imposition from outside the 4th wall, like rubber-suit humanoid aliens, or English-speaking movie-Nazis. That is, what "really" happens is that they're all speaking their own language, or Goa'uld, and Daniel or Teal'c is translating, but we're watching the substantially-equivalent abridged version of the story.

And, as DPC points out, they do address these things in some episodes; basically saying "We know that this is an issue, and we've thought of ways of dealing with it, we just don't want to spend every freakin' episode dealing with it".

TeV