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16 episodes. Now we finally hunt Earth.At this point we can become absolutely merciless with titles because the audience knows the game.
Then:
| # | Title | What the audience thinks / what we're doing |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue Marble | They find an Earth-like planet. Not Earth. |
| 2 | 1969 | Everyone loses their minds. It refers to a Langaran historical event. |
| 3 | Carter | Nope. It's a completely unrelated person's surname. Fans threaten the writers. |
| 4 | The Hammond | They find wreckage bearing the name. Now the joke stops being funny. |
| 5 | Disclosure | The Langaran governments finally tell their own population about the Stargate. |
| 6 | Area 51 | An old database coordinate. They can't reach it. |
| 7 | Sol | First hard evidence that the Solar System still exists. |
| 8 | Eight Minutes | That's approximately how long light takes to reach Earth from the Sun. The entire episode takes place aboard a Langaran ship entering the Solar System. |
| 9 | Third Rock | Earth. |
| A | .Samantha | No "Carter." No explanation. The episode doesn't even begin with her.Our Langarans are investigating Earth. They're following some ancient bureaucratic trail. Someone gives them the address of an elderly woman. Door opens. Amanda Tapping. |
| B | Window of Opportunity | Never put it on the production schedule where it can leak under its real name. Give it a fake production title. The audience immediately assumes time travel. It isn't. The "window" is a brief astronomical opportunity during which the Langarans can reconnect a portion of the isolated Stargate network. Carter is there. McKay is there. Jonas is there. The new Langaran characters are running the operation.Something goes wrong. .. And from behind Carter: "How long?" She turns. We don't see him yet. Carter smiles in a way we haven't seen her smile in forty years. "About two minutes." That familiar voice: "Plenty of time." |
