"Stargate SG-1" produced several great episodes before it was canceled after season 10. However, some of the episodes started out as completely different ideas only to take on new forms during the writing process. A key example is a classic "Lost City" two-part episode, which was originally conceived as a feature film. Elsewhere, Season 8's "Sacrifices" was intended as a comedy called "My Big Fat Jaffa Wedding," but later took on a darker tone.

"Sacrifices" is about the attempt of Rajac of Chulak (Neil Dennis) to marry Karin (Mercedes de la Zerda), which does not go well with their families and leads to some disagreements. That said, Christopher Judge, who played Teal'c and wrote the episode GateWorld that he realized it couldn't be a comedy because the story explores ideas like war, tyranny and Moloch's (Royston Innes) enslavement of the Jaffa people:

(As) I started writing it, it didn't turn out as funny as I thought it would, because there were serious issues that needed to be addressed as far as their freedom, their purpose, the whole Jaffa movement - and as far as the whole Jaffa movement for freedom, and how the Hacktils don't necessarily see eye to eye with the larger movement. And they will go about their release differently."

While on The writers of Stargate SG-1 sometimes pushed comic ideas to the limitthey had valid reasons to object to "Sacrifices" laugh out loud. The good news, though, is that Judge learned from the experience.

Although Christopher Judge's original plan for "Sacrifices" never came to fruition, he understands that's just the nature of writing television. During the aforementioned interview, he revealed that the episode had to fit into the larger picture of the series, and the story of Jaffa's freedom didn't exactly lend itself to comedy. That said, Judge found an empathetic ear in series producer Robert Cooper, who understood the concept of ideas becoming more serious than they were originally intended to be:

"I said, 'I don't know.' It's not funny." And he said, "You know, a lot of times they start out in our minds as kind of a lighter episode, but when there are issues that you have to deal with because of the ongoing story it doesn't end the way you envisioned because you have to resolve certain issues.''

Even though his original idea didn't work, it sounds like Judge has a lot of creative freedom on the show. Furthermore, there is experience and wisdom let Judge have some sound advice for the creators of the potential Stargate: SG-1 reboot along the line. If that project ever comes to fruition, he hopes the writers will make the show their own and not stick to what came before.