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Alternate History and Stargate: Part 2
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It's impact on the show is undeniable in introducing one of the main recurring villains of the series. So too is the novelty of a clipshow as a talky prelude into your big end of season finale. It remains, however, a very clippy clipshow despite the inclusion of a major guest star. That the entire thing is set in a bland conference room buried beneath a mountain apparently wasn't cost cutting enough.Thanks Andy (and thanks @RyanF for permission to namecheck his talking point about "Politics")
I still think the best lemonade made from the lemons that are clip shows come from the 1990s The Outer Limits. They might have had a leg up because they were an anthology show so the clips we see are from disparate plots with different characters and the frame narrative also features entirely new characters piecing everything together into a single overarching narrative.
Those, or "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" which presented the whole thing at a meta level including the very original shorts and select deleted scenes. Actually think the deleted scenes idea is an interesting one that could have worked in a series like SG-1 where you do your clips but mostly have it be alternate or cut material, sort of what was happening in between scenes. Only issue with that is you need to have enough on the cutting room floor to scrape together.
That's another point - "Politics" only had one season of material to work with (and a film, you know they're desperate when they show footage from that which looks totally different to everything else). Even TNG's notorious "Shades of Grey" had two.