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Stargate SG-1 Episode 604 "The Grandfather Paradox" - DVD Extras
CREDITS
CAST Colonel Jack O'Neil..........Richard Dean Anderson Major Samantha Carter..........Amanda Tapping Major Paul Davis............Colin Cunningham Teal'c.................Christopher Judge General George Hammond......Don S. Davis Doctor Janet Frasier..........Teryl Rothery Doctor Daniel Jackson (ascended)....Michael Shanks General Jacob Carter/Selmak......Carmen Argenziano Doctor Samantha Carter.........Amanda Tapping Isabel Tamberlyn Carter.........Dakota Fanning
CREW Directed, produced, and written by: me Special Consultants: Riley, Vince, Christine, and Sarah
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ALTERNATE ENDINGS
Alternate Ending #1 - "Charlie"
Carter Residence - 2010
Isabel was happy, when she and her mother had stepped through the gate her Grandpa George, Grandpa Jacob, and best of all.her dad was there. Isabel sat on the bench in her backyard just taking a break from reading. She hadn't seen or talked to Daniel since after they had left the embarkation room when they returned, which was strange. Usually he'd visit her once a day, and it had been two weeks since they had returned. Isabel thought she heard a noise by the tree in front of her and looked up to see a brown haired boy standing there. "Hello Isabel," he said as if he'd known her for a while.
"Are you Charlie?" Isabel asked innocently remembering that her father said she had had a brother.
The boy sat down on the bench next to Isabel and picked up the book she had been reading. "What's this book about?" he asked curiously.
"It's called Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It's about a boy named Harry Potter and his friends and they go to a school called Hogwarts and it's for witches and wizards."
"Will you read it to me?" Charlie asked interested.
"Do you see Daniel in heaven?" Isabel asked curiously, "he hasn't visited in two weeks."
"That's because you don't need him anymore."
"Because I have a dad now?" Isabel asked and Charlie nodded.
"Will you read now?"
Isabel smiled and nodded, "but if mom asks I'll just say I'm reading aloud so I don't scare her, okay?" Isabel said as she closed the book and opened it at chapter one as Charlie smiled and nodded.
Alternate Ending #2 - "Jack's Alive!"
SGC - 2010
When Sam and Isabel stepped through the stargate to see General Hammond, Jacob Carter, and Colonel O'Neill standing at the bottom of the ramp. Sam immediately stopped in shock when she saw Colonel O'Neill, while Isabel just smiled and ran to him. "Daddy!" Isabel screamed happily.
Jack picked Isabel up and held her tight, "how's my Izzy girl?" Jack asked.
"Excellent!" Isabel told him still smiling.
Jacob looked up at his daughter, "Sam? You okay?"
Sam shook her head and back up towards the non-active gate. "Doctor O'Neill?" Hammond questioned seeing Sam back up and the fact that she hadn't said anything.
"Ja.ack.you're.a.alive!" Sam said stuttering still in complete shock.
"It's okay, Sam," Jack said setting Isabel down and walked up towards Sam. "We changed the future, Sam." Jack pulled Sam into his arms and held her until her heard her start to cry. "What's wrong?"
"I've missed you SO much!" Sam said sobbing.
Jacob walked up the ramp with Isabel. "Is everything alright?" Jacob asked concerned.
"Now it is, right Mommy?" Isabel asked innocently obviously happy to have BOTH of her parents.
"Yeah, everything's okay now." Sam told her father.
2 Weeks Later. O'Neill Residence, Colorado Springs - 2010
Jack had explained the whole span of years, that Sam and Isabel did not remember since they had changed their future. The O'Neill family was sitting in the living room, Sam and Jack were talking while Isabel was reading. Jack looked up at Isabel then at the clock and then back at Isabel. "Bed time!"
"Can't I stay up a bit longer?" Isabel complained.
"Bed, Izzy," Jack said picking up Isabel and carrying her to her room. Jack tucked Isabel into bed and turned off the lights.
"Thank you," Isabel said as the lights went off.
"I just turned off the lights."
"That's not what I meant, thank you for changing our past and being my dad. For being here in real life for me."
"Well, thank you for letting me be your dad.night Izzy."
Alternate Ending #3 - "Flashbacks from the Past"
2010 Embarkation Room - SGC
When Sam and Isabel stepped through on the other side, first Isabel disappeared and then Sam faded right after seeing Jack standing in the control room.
Jack would swear that he saw Sam and a small girl, he looked over at Lt. Graham. "Did you see anyone walk through?"
"For.for a moment.I could swear that it was Major Carter? And.there was a small child with her," Graham admitted. "Did you see them, too, General?"
"Yes, but Sam died years ago."
"Yes, General."
"I'll be in my office if you need me," Jack said walking to his office.
"Yes, General O'Neill."
Alternate Ending #4 - "Thanks"
2010 Embarkation Room - SGC
Sam walked through the stargate, back into her own time, but when she looked down at her daughter the smile on her face quickly disappeared. Isabel Tamberlyn Carter had disappeared. Sam looked around frantically, but was stopped by Jack O'Neill, who walked up the ramp quickly and pulled Sam with him and started out of the embarkation room. "Isabel." Sam said sadly and started to tear up.
Jack stopped and looked at her, "I'm sorry."
"What happened?!"
"Where's Isabel?"
"Sam, we were never close like that after I went back for you and Major Davis. You hated me."
"So, I don't have Isabel here?"
"No."
"So, what happened then?"
"You got promoted and got command of your own unit."
"What?!"
"Lt. Colonel," he said pointing to Sam.
"What unit?" she asked trying to calm down.
"SG-15, Hammond plans on putting you in command of SG-1 or SG-2 as soon as I retire, which is ahhh," looking down at his watch. "In about six hours."
"I don't want you to retire."
"I really don't have much choice, I mean Doctor Frasier isn't putting me back on active duty EVER again."
"What happened?" Sam asked upset and VERY confused at what was going on.
"My knee's real bad, I wouldn't be able to keep up with a team on the run let alone lead that team."
Sam looked down at the ground, away from Jack. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay," Jack said lifting her face so he could see her tear filled eyes. "Everything's going to be fine, Sam."
"How can you say that?"
"Because.you're alive and back, well in a way."
"I don't hate you, Jack."
"Thank you.come on," Jack said pulling her along with him as he headed down the next corridor. "We need to take you to the infirmary to get you checked out."
"Thank you," Sam told him quietly.
"For telling me everything's going to be alright."
"I only told you that cause it's the truth."
"Well, then thanks for telling me the truth."
"You're welcome."
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
About the episode in general: The reason why I started this episode well one of them is because I don't like Jonas Quinn, and that's why he died and was replaced in "Major Davis' Audition." It's titled "The Grandfather Paradox," because I was trying to think of something that would apply to the entire episode and not only one section of the episode. I was watching the very cool episode "1969," and they were talking about The Grandfather Paradox and it just clicked. So, that's how this episode got its title. Some people have asked me about a date in the episode where Sam asks the date and General Hammond says November 11th, which it isn't for less than another month from where I'm writing the ending and the reason why its there or why there might be any elevens is because eleven is my special number and that date is actually my birth date. And then there's the lines below that I thought were a good choice since it seems that Sam and Jack are together in like all the alternate realities. It's from where Sam's telling Isabel about her father.
"Why do I have a feeling it's me?" Jack mumbled.
Sam smiled and opened her eyes, "because it seems that in all other alternate universes we're together?"
"Oh yeah.that's why."
But that scene is one of my favorites because Jack is thinking about it and he's right.
"I NEVER told Izzy about Daniel.just one day she started talking to me about Daniel.things that she couldn't possibly know! God, it scared me! And Dad says that she's talked to him about Daniel too. I don't know how she knows about Daniel, and it scares me, Jack.I mean I don't have you around."
This is another favorite part, I just HAD to include Daniel into this episode. Jack seems to be able to see him, so why not Isabel?
"But.she isn't.and it seems to be the naquadah in her blood, Sam," Janet told her.
"So," Sam said starting to cry, she held Isabel closer. "It's my fault?" Sam asked as tears streamed down her face.
And of course there had to be major conflict, so that's where this comes in. And I could just see Sam as seeing it as all her fault. She was so protective and caring for Cassandra in "Singularity."
Isabel was sitting in her bed watching a DVD with Major Ferretti and Captain Grant sitting on either side of her watching it with her when Colonel O'Neill and Doctor Carter walked in. "Ferretti what are you doing?!" Jack asked.
"Ummm watching Harry Potter with your daughter?" Ferretti answered.
"Are you okay, Isabel? You're suppose to be resting!" Sam told her daughter.
Doctor Frasier walked up behind them, "they're fine!"
"You're interrupting the movie!" Isabel scolded her parents.
OKAY! SO THIS IS ANOTHER FAVORITE PART! But I can just picture Ferretti watching Harry Potter with Isabel. And for the reason why the episode ended how it did, is because it HAD to have Isabel in it, I knew that I wanted her in the end.and Sam and Jack would have been WAY too obvious.
About Alternate Ending #1: I liked this ending, but.I just didn't like it enough to make it into the actual story.ummm one of the things I liked most about this particular ending is that when Isabel was talking about who was in the embarkation room when they returned she said her dad was there.now that could mean Jack or Paul.I just thought it left it a little more open.
About Alternate Ending #2: Okay, so no one kill me for not ending the story this way, but come on! Sam and Jack together in the end?! I know, I love the whole Sam and Jack relationship, but.I liked the more non-Stargate SG-1 ending better.but I especially like the ending in the last scene.
About Alternate Ending #3: So, it's really short, but.it shows one of the MANY possibilities.but I thought this one was WAY too sad. I mean Sam AND Isabel both aren't there.I added Lt. Graham though thinking that Sergeant Walter Davis would probably be retired or something by then.well that and I also thought that General Hammond would be gone, but all of you who live in the RPG you know that after General Hammond leaves, that General Oberon takes his place and Colonel O'Neill who is now retired is only in command when there's an emergency.like if Oberon has a heart attack.ohh that sounds strangely familiar.
About Alternate Ending #4: Okay, so Sam doesn't have Isabel in this version, which is horrible! Because I definitely wanted Isabel in the actual ending. I like this ending because it's based on how Sam's always said how important her career is to her. So, it's the version where Sam actually just totally focused on her career. So, she didn't think about a life outside of the SGC.
Stargate SG-1 Episode 604 "The Grandfather Paradox" - DVD Extras
CREDITS
CAST Colonel Jack O'Neil..........Richard Dean Anderson Major Samantha Carter..........Amanda Tapping Major Paul Davis............Colin Cunningham Teal'c.................Christopher Judge General George Hammond......Don S. Davis Doctor Janet Frasier..........Teryl Rothery Doctor Daniel Jackson (ascended)....Michael Shanks General Jacob Carter/Selmak......Carmen Argenziano Doctor Samantha Carter.........Amanda Tapping Isabel Tamberlyn Carter.........Dakota Fanning
CREW Directed, produced, and written by: me Special Consultants: Riley, Vince, Christine, and Sarah
____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________
ALTERNATE ENDINGS
Alternate Ending #1 - "Charlie"
Carter Residence - 2010
Isabel was happy, when she and her mother had stepped through the gate her Grandpa George, Grandpa Jacob, and best of all.her dad was there. Isabel sat on the bench in her backyard just taking a break from reading. She hadn't seen or talked to Daniel since after they had left the embarkation room when they returned, which was strange. Usually he'd visit her once a day, and it had been two weeks since they had returned. Isabel thought she heard a noise by the tree in front of her and looked up to see a brown haired boy standing there. "Hello Isabel," he said as if he'd known her for a while.
"Are you Charlie?" Isabel asked innocently remembering that her father said she had had a brother.
The boy sat down on the bench next to Isabel and picked up the book she had been reading. "What's this book about?" he asked curiously.
"It's called Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It's about a boy named Harry Potter and his friends and they go to a school called Hogwarts and it's for witches and wizards."
"Will you read it to me?" Charlie asked interested.
"Do you see Daniel in heaven?" Isabel asked curiously, "he hasn't visited in two weeks."
"That's because you don't need him anymore."
"Because I have a dad now?" Isabel asked and Charlie nodded.
"Will you read now?"
Isabel smiled and nodded, "but if mom asks I'll just say I'm reading aloud so I don't scare her, okay?" Isabel said as she closed the book and opened it at chapter one as Charlie smiled and nodded.
Alternate Ending #2 - "Jack's Alive!"
SGC - 2010
When Sam and Isabel stepped through the stargate to see General Hammond, Jacob Carter, and Colonel O'Neill standing at the bottom of the ramp. Sam immediately stopped in shock when she saw Colonel O'Neill, while Isabel just smiled and ran to him. "Daddy!" Isabel screamed happily.
Jack picked Isabel up and held her tight, "how's my Izzy girl?" Jack asked.
"Excellent!" Isabel told him still smiling.
Jacob looked up at his daughter, "Sam? You okay?"
Sam shook her head and back up towards the non-active gate. "Doctor O'Neill?" Hammond questioned seeing Sam back up and the fact that she hadn't said anything.
"Ja.ack.you're.a.alive!" Sam said stuttering still in complete shock.
"It's okay, Sam," Jack said setting Isabel down and walked up towards Sam. "We changed the future, Sam." Jack pulled Sam into his arms and held her until her heard her start to cry. "What's wrong?"
"I've missed you SO much!" Sam said sobbing.
Jacob walked up the ramp with Isabel. "Is everything alright?" Jacob asked concerned.
"Now it is, right Mommy?" Isabel asked innocently obviously happy to have BOTH of her parents.
"Yeah, everything's okay now." Sam told her father.
2 Weeks Later. O'Neill Residence, Colorado Springs - 2010
Jack had explained the whole span of years, that Sam and Isabel did not remember since they had changed their future. The O'Neill family was sitting in the living room, Sam and Jack were talking while Isabel was reading. Jack looked up at Isabel then at the clock and then back at Isabel. "Bed time!"
"Can't I stay up a bit longer?" Isabel complained.
"Bed, Izzy," Jack said picking up Isabel and carrying her to her room. Jack tucked Isabel into bed and turned off the lights.
"Thank you," Isabel said as the lights went off.
"I just turned off the lights."
"That's not what I meant, thank you for changing our past and being my dad. For being here in real life for me."
"Well, thank you for letting me be your dad.night Izzy."
Alternate Ending #3 - "Flashbacks from the Past"
2010 Embarkation Room - SGC
When Sam and Isabel stepped through on the other side, first Isabel disappeared and then Sam faded right after seeing Jack standing in the control room.
Jack would swear that he saw Sam and a small girl, he looked over at Lt. Graham. "Did you see anyone walk through?"
"For.for a moment.I could swear that it was Major Carter? And.there was a small child with her," Graham admitted. "Did you see them, too, General?"
"Yes, but Sam died years ago."
"Yes, General."
"I'll be in my office if you need me," Jack said walking to his office.
"Yes, General O'Neill."
Alternate Ending #4 - "Thanks"
2010 Embarkation Room - SGC
Sam walked through the stargate, back into her own time, but when she looked down at her daughter the smile on her face quickly disappeared. Isabel Tamberlyn Carter had disappeared. Sam looked around frantically, but was stopped by Jack O'Neill, who walked up the ramp quickly and pulled Sam with him and started out of the embarkation room. "Isabel." Sam said sadly and started to tear up.
Jack stopped and looked at her, "I'm sorry."
"What happened?!"
"Where's Isabel?"
"Sam, we were never close like that after I went back for you and Major Davis. You hated me."
"So, I don't have Isabel here?"
"No."
"So, what happened then?"
"You got promoted and got command of your own unit."
"What?!"
"Lt. Colonel," he said pointing to Sam.
"What unit?" she asked trying to calm down.
"SG-15, Hammond plans on putting you in command of SG-1 or SG-2 as soon as I retire, which is ahhh," looking down at his watch. "In about six hours."
"I don't want you to retire."
"I really don't have much choice, I mean Doctor Frasier isn't putting me back on active duty EVER again."
"What happened?" Sam asked upset and VERY confused at what was going on.
"My knee's real bad, I wouldn't be able to keep up with a team on the run let alone lead that team."
Sam looked down at the ground, away from Jack. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay," Jack said lifting her face so he could see her tear filled eyes. "Everything's going to be fine, Sam."
"How can you say that?"
"Because.you're alive and back, well in a way."
"I don't hate you, Jack."
"Thank you.come on," Jack said pulling her along with him as he headed down the next corridor. "We need to take you to the infirmary to get you checked out."
"Thank you," Sam told him quietly.
"For telling me everything's going to be alright."
"I only told you that cause it's the truth."
"Well, then thanks for telling me the truth."
"You're welcome."
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
About the episode in general: The reason why I started this episode well one of them is because I don't like Jonas Quinn, and that's why he died and was replaced in "Major Davis' Audition." It's titled "The Grandfather Paradox," because I was trying to think of something that would apply to the entire episode and not only one section of the episode. I was watching the very cool episode "1969," and they were talking about The Grandfather Paradox and it just clicked. So, that's how this episode got its title. Some people have asked me about a date in the episode where Sam asks the date and General Hammond says November 11th, which it isn't for less than another month from where I'm writing the ending and the reason why its there or why there might be any elevens is because eleven is my special number and that date is actually my birth date. And then there's the lines below that I thought were a good choice since it seems that Sam and Jack are together in like all the alternate realities. It's from where Sam's telling Isabel about her father.
"Why do I have a feeling it's me?" Jack mumbled.
Sam smiled and opened her eyes, "because it seems that in all other alternate universes we're together?"
"Oh yeah.that's why."
But that scene is one of my favorites because Jack is thinking about it and he's right.
"I NEVER told Izzy about Daniel.just one day she started talking to me about Daniel.things that she couldn't possibly know! God, it scared me! And Dad says that she's talked to him about Daniel too. I don't know how she knows about Daniel, and it scares me, Jack.I mean I don't have you around."
This is another favorite part, I just HAD to include Daniel into this episode. Jack seems to be able to see him, so why not Isabel?
"But.she isn't.and it seems to be the naquadah in her blood, Sam," Janet told her.
"So," Sam said starting to cry, she held Isabel closer. "It's my fault?" Sam asked as tears streamed down her face.
And of course there had to be major conflict, so that's where this comes in. And I could just see Sam as seeing it as all her fault. She was so protective and caring for Cassandra in "Singularity."
Isabel was sitting in her bed watching a DVD with Major Ferretti and Captain Grant sitting on either side of her watching it with her when Colonel O'Neill and Doctor Carter walked in. "Ferretti what are you doing?!" Jack asked.
"Ummm watching Harry Potter with your daughter?" Ferretti answered.
"Are you okay, Isabel? You're suppose to be resting!" Sam told her daughter.
Doctor Frasier walked up behind them, "they're fine!"
"You're interrupting the movie!" Isabel scolded her parents.
OKAY! SO THIS IS ANOTHER FAVORITE PART! But I can just picture Ferretti watching Harry Potter with Isabel. And for the reason why the episode ended how it did, is because it HAD to have Isabel in it, I knew that I wanted her in the end.and Sam and Jack would have been WAY too obvious.
About Alternate Ending #1: I liked this ending, but.I just didn't like it enough to make it into the actual story.ummm one of the things I liked most about this particular ending is that when Isabel was talking about who was in the embarkation room when they returned she said her dad was there.now that could mean Jack or Paul.I just thought it left it a little more open.
About Alternate Ending #2: Okay, so no one kill me for not ending the story this way, but come on! Sam and Jack together in the end?! I know, I love the whole Sam and Jack relationship, but.I liked the more non-Stargate SG-1 ending better.but I especially like the ending in the last scene.
About Alternate Ending #3: So, it's really short, but.it shows one of the MANY possibilities.but I thought this one was WAY too sad. I mean Sam AND Isabel both aren't there.I added Lt. Graham though thinking that Sergeant Walter Davis would probably be retired or something by then.well that and I also thought that General Hammond would be gone, but all of you who live in the RPG you know that after General Hammond leaves, that General Oberon takes his place and Colonel O'Neill who is now retired is only in command when there's an emergency.like if Oberon has a heart attack.ohh that sounds strangely familiar.
About Alternate Ending #4: Okay, so Sam doesn't have Isabel in this version, which is horrible! Because I definitely wanted Isabel in the actual ending. I like this ending because it's based on how Sam's always said how important her career is to her. So, it's the version where Sam actually just totally focused on her career. So, she didn't think about a life outside of the SGC.