
SG-1: Season Three
First Aired: July 30, 1999
First Aired: July 30, 1999
SG-1 must free an alternate reality Earth from a Goa’uld invasion after duplicates of Samantha Carter and Charles Kawalsky come through the quantum mirror.
“Point of View” Facts:
- As the episode opens the camera pans past the collection of alien artifacts in Area 51 storage. See if you can spot the virtual reality chairs from Season Two’s “The Gamekeeper” — which would be pulled out and retrofitted in “Avatar” in another five years.
- It’s in this episode that the common Goa’uld word “kree” is officially defined: It can mean “attention,” “listen up,” “concentrate” … or “yoo-hoo!”
- Actor Jay Acovone returns in “Point of View” for one of his guest appearances after his character — feature film original Charlie Kawalsky — was killed in the second episode of the TV series. But after this he wouldn’t return for more than five years, for his final appearance: in the eighth season finale “Moebius.”
- This is one of the only episodes co-written by series co-creators Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright.
- Unfortunately for fans of parallel universe stories, General Hammond orders the quantum mirror destroyed at the end of the episode. But it wouldn’t stop cross-dimensional travel entirely: a Stargate “malfunction” brings dozens of different versions of SG-1 to our S.G.C. in the ninth season episode “Ripple Effect.”
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Me to its one of the best of all times. THE LINE Setup the needs 3 seasons.
While Hammond ordered it destroyed, didn’t it come back later in a episode?
who picks which eps are going to be the ep of the week? and who writes up the review?
Re-watched this one the other night. I thought it was absolutely great. The latest EOTW (Episode of The Week) seem to be tracking the Sam/Jack relationship in an interesting way. We see in CHIMERA how Sam finally moves on from Jack with Pete. In GRACE She is faced with her inner-self selling her to move on from him, and here in this episode was an early look at the possibility of the two being together. The way that Sam looks so heartbroken when she looks through the mirror to see (Alt)Sam kissing Jack is so emotional. Had we seen any… Read more »
This episode was a lot more fun. I enjoyed seeing the alternates getting their asses kicked. LOL
majorsal, I pick the episodes and am always looking for suggestions! (E-mail webmaster -at- gateworld.net.)
The linked reviews were written (for the most part) after the episodes originally aired back in the day. They all have bylines — we’ve had a number of reviewers over the years. The write-ups here on the “Episode of the Week” pages are my own.