I vaguely remember long ago seeing an interview that explained that new worlds would default speak English because otherwise they’d have to spend the majority of the episode with Daniel having to learn each new language.
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I always assume it was a plot hole/device to keep the story moving.
No way in hell everyone speaks English or anything close to it. Each SG team would need a linguist just to make contact.
For things like star trek they have translators to explain it away but for Stargate I just accept it. Otherwise the show wouldn't work.
I like to think it is a function of the Stargate. Like the Tardis does for the Doctor and his / her companions.
Yeah, my headcanon is that traveling through a gate maybe uploads some knowledge of the local language, and it just takes a couple trips to take effect so they had to do translation in the movie
I could have sworn that "magic translation field within x miles of the gate" was actually mentioned at some point on screen...
Is that the same chick from Fargate? She always funny.
Yes, and the guy from Farscape was on the show too.
Claudia Black, and Ben Browder! They had such amazing chemistry on Farscape so it was a real treat to get them both again on Stargate!
I liked the earlier seasons because of this. There was always a language barrier and Daniel had to constantly work out how to communicate with who they were visiting.
I know the movie spoke a different language, don't recall if they said it was ancient whatever.
It was an older version is Egyptian in the movie.
Then how do they understand them?
When I look at the thumbnail for this, the characters are facing one way. When I load the image, the characters are all facing the opposite way, but the text doesn't get reversed.
This is presumably related to my client, Connect ... But that doesn't make it any less confusing. At least to me.
Obviously just some quantum mirror shenanigans.
Actual explanation: The thumbnail you are seeing was the original version I posted. Then I figured it might make a little more sense if the panels on each side had the characters facing each other, so I flipped each panel and reuploaded that version. Your client probably cached the thumbnail from before I edited my post.