Special Features: Season 1, Disc 2

Just a few words to explain the feature on disc 2 of season 1. There's a promo featurette introducing the cast and crew. You've got Richard Dean Anderson talking a little about Stargate and MacGyver. There's also Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge with a few words about why it's such an awesome show and how they all have such fun shooting it, as well as many other exciting clichés.

What was interesting was that Don S. Davis explained how he'd worked with Richard Dean Anderson before. Apparently he was a photo double for Dana Elcar, who played Pete Thornton in MacGyver.


I can see the resemblance.

The featurette then shows the creators, Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner. Glassner in particular explained how he found the show exciting because it was in a contemporary setting. I've always felt that the contemporary setting of the show was one of it's strongest assets, as it gives the plot a firm basis in reality, before it goes off exploring the great unknown.

There were also a couple of trailers, which I'm guessing were either made for the DVD or for syndication. They show various clips of the show, including some of the Replicators and Hathor, which led me to believe that they weren't trailers for season one specifially. Nothing much more to say about them.

So yeah, I'm pretty pleased with that. Four paragraphs from a four minute feature and two one minute trailers. :)