Synopsis:

A secret military team, SG-1, is formed to explore other planets through the recently discovered Stargates.

Intentions:

I created this edit for two reasons. First and foremost, the original pilot of this series (on DVD and BluRay releases, I am unsure of current streaming versions) featured full-frontal nudity in one scene. While I have no problem with nudity, I felt that this scene did not fit with the rest of the episode and series, and felt it devalued the series (especially when trying to get others into the show) though it is an important scene so could not be cut entirely. Luckily, in 2009 a "Final Cut" of the pilot was released to act as a self-contained entry, which included a few alternate takes, re-recorded audio, some new CGI, and removed the nudity. Unfortunately, this version also cuts some content that fans such as myself feel was important to the pilot and rest of the series, such as a few lines and references that are brought up later in the series, and redone CGI which is distracting and inconsistent with later episodes of the series. Due to this, I sought to include a couple of the Final Cut (FC) scenes which I feel add to the pilot to that of the original pilot. Special thanks to the Movie Censorship site for having a nice list of the changes between these versions.

Change List:

The change list is actually pretty minimal currently: Added a "deleted" scene which only exists in the FC: Immediately after arriving back from Abydos, there is a short debriefing scene. This also includes the FC version of the group arriving back which corrected a mistake where the team was missing as the gate's iris was closing. Replaced the Sha're nudity scene from the original with that of the FC. In the FC, this scene happens at a different point in the episode, but I have added it where it originally showed in the pilot. Towards the end of the pilot, the team gets attacked by Apophis's forces and a Death Glider. In the pilot, this glider also served to transport them to the gate, a feature the Gliders never had in any other instance. The FC wisely replaces this with a Tel'Tak (Cargo Ship), so I have included these scenes in this edit. This includes the now dual Gliders attacking SG-1 with some new snazzy CGI which I think works well. Note: Since Christopher Judge (Teal'c) re-recorded his lines for the FC, he sounds quite a bit different from his original (and other early seasons) voice. Because I wanted to keep continuity with the rest of the show, I tried my best to not include these new lines. Only one new line from him ("The boy you seek is not who he once was") was included, though it fits in enough that it not noticeably different. Things NOT changed: Everything else. Other than the notes above, everything was kept from the original pilot. I didn't want to remove anything since I wanted this to be a "complete" version of the pilot. Most of the new CGI is either distracting (CGI Abydos pyramid, Apophis' castle) and/or didn't flow as well with the physical scenes. I also didn't want to include the Season 9/10 wormhole sequences since they wouldn't flow when watching the rest of season 1. There are a few extra lines in the FC that I debated adding (literally two or three second scene additions), but I personally didn't find the additions worth the time and didn't want to risk the audio sounding weird due to re-recorded lines and mismatched soundtracks.

Additional Notes:

Due to the current availability of FC, I have been unavailable to find a version of it at higher than 720p (the DVD I have is of course even lower quality, but it was temporarily hosted on their official YouTube channel to watch for free which is where I got the 720p version from). That said, even my current BluRay versions of SG1's early seasons are not that great, so I personally didn't notice changes between scenes of the two versions. Also, again due to the restrictions of the FC, this episode only have stereo audio (that said, the 5.1 audio on the BluRay is also iffy so there's no loss there). Lastly, the height of this video has currently been trimmed slightly due to some edge effect on my source files, I may look into re-converting these files or if/when I get a hold of higher quality sources for my files (hoping one day a proper SG1 remaster happens, though it's super unlikely). Bonus I have also finished an edit of the Season 1 episode "Politics" which has large sections dedicated to being a clip show. Due to the importance of this episode, I don't like skipping it, but I also loathe clip shows, so I did an edit to this episode to remove all clip show scenes, bringing the episode down to about 28 minutes long. This is a bit rougher than the Pilot edit (mostly due to the annoying "swoosh" sound and video effect they did to change scenes around clip show elements), but I feel it works well enough. I'll include a link to this too for anyone that wants to check it out. I'm working on the rest of the clip shows as I am doing another watchthrough of the series.