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… This was something bugging him for a long time!

Shanks is awesome.

Shanks is awesome.

love Shanksey

It was a weapon chest (with all their other guns, badges and so on) that O'Neill made disappear in that episode when they went back in time. But yeah, the concept was dumb to begin with, and in later seasons they didn't consistently follow through on the stun-kill-make disappear trio.

The weapon makes a lot of sense from a narrative perspective, I would like to explain it to someone one day. It is an analogy for something else.

yeah in 1969 o'neill shoots at a big metal box thrice and it just fades out sort of. He killed the box.

Damn right!!!

All I'll say is that I've been in a line for the "particle magnum" (Ronon's gun) for many years.

Let's not forget though that a weapon which gives off an audible warning beep before discharging probably acts as a good early warning to the enemy at whom it is being fired, telling them that they should probably take cover. The zat looks cool and it sounds cool but it's just so stupid.

Zat are too OP... I mean, any Tok'Ra could vaporize any Goa'Uld lord in three shots, trough infiltration, without proves of anything behind. Or you just vaporize a whole army by constantly shooting from an advantage point. The delay between shoots seems to be aleatory too. But for sure, the third shot, that was dumb.

He's so right. It's a ridiculous. The one shit stuns, two kills, three disappears thing is absurd. He's very funny here

You can’t argue with his logic

If Stargate ever gets its reboot, I'd be in full agreement with Mr. Shanks in rewriting it entirely, or dropping it altogether.

i remember this. it was whiped out of internet since the original lasts like 2 hours, and shanks ROASTS the show beyond belief. he says it was crap , he hated doing it etc. just like some star trek the next gen stars do, they let loose more than what they should do. they call themselves artists and that they love what they do and the art they do... untill they let loose its a regular job they despise. i hate him since i found out in season 4 was a total diva, that wanted out of the show, making life impossible for everyone in and out of the screen, and even a star trek the next gen actress that was in a singular bad episode, recalls having issues with him up to the point of WALKING OUT OF SET, up to the point if you watch the episode, they read lines out loud but they dont really interact. like shanks (jackson) its "talking" to this actress, looking foward to the camera, then the actress do the same, and actually they just give line after line, not like regular humans but a bad combo of google assistant and alexa exchanging words. quite messy. thats why the episode its bad itself, since shanks the diva was HATEFUL that a bigger real tv star was the show guest star and wanted MORE attention than her. she says when the episode was done she chew his ass, basically say to him "if you hate the job just quit it, but dont try to make us the artists and the show crew to actually kill ourselfs just to scape your hellish diva act" needless to say he left the show in season 5 finale... to come back in the begenning of season 7 with his tail between his legs since nobody hired him, he was for a short time on smallville but was fired because he instantly became diva from hell and he was a nobody there. i think he lasted half of a season.

Did someone figured it out that if they can go through the walls in phaseshift, then why dont they fall through the floor?

Baal 😮😮😮

Couldn't they have just made it so that flipping a switch sets it to desintegration mode

It would all make sense if this gun just had three fire modes

Stargate’s answer to the Sonic Screwdriver, but minus the giant lampshade that justifies it.

Obviously the successive shots only accumulate if the elastic-trickery is still in the targets system. Guess Jack really was the smartest :)

The highlight is definitely Ben Browder giving the numeral gestures as Shanks says "One Shot Stuns, Two Kills, Three Makes it go away".

You could ask the same questions about the Stargate itself, what dictates how long the event horizon stays open? Is it proximity to the gate or the DHD? Some episodes it stayed open for a long time with no-one really near it, other times you could have enemies around the DHD, SG1 would escape and the event horizon closed seconds after they arrived back at the SGC. Lots of things make no sense if analysed yet we go with it anyway as its just TV.

I always come back here from time to time, seeing Michael rant about the zatgun is the most hilarious thing ever related to Sg1 to me.

Spock would say that's logical I know different sci-fi world

The Zatniktel is the dumbest scifi weapon after the Needler from Halo franchise.

he's right

Shanks is a natural Dr. Jackson - a relentless nitpicker to the end.

In "1969" Teal'c also disables the Minuteman rocket with a zat blast. For a couple seasons it was basically an ion gun, then it became the gun that bad guys shot SG-1 with.

To make the mission even easier they should have added a three round burst to the zat.

Zats keep firing nonstop and seem to have unlimited energy. Assuming say 100 shots, that's like 33 Jaffa you can vaporize. Why wouldn't you pack like 3-4 per SG1 member and only use that. Why the bs P90 and other weapons. Zats were stupid

Also where does it go after it disappear? What if I zat the earth? Will it disappear? Has there been no accidents? How does a zat distinguishes between living-matter and non-living matter?

Bro also farted by the way xD

yeah im not gonna lie, in the middle of a firefight, you're not going to be keeping track of how many shots are fired especially as it can shoot rapid fire, so micheal shanks has a point there

I really liked the zat gun and never saw it as a penis... until now. Cheers Mike.

You can tell he *WANTED* someone to ask him about that. He *NEEDED* someone to ask.

They tried mentioning 3 shot disintegrates them on wormhole extreme, the director thought it was stupid

I like how normally in these situations it’s the audience angrily demanding world-building minutiae from the actors, here it’s an actor that’s upset with the fiction of the world.

The other flaw he didn't touch on here was how inconsistent the stun effect was. Sometimes it would put people out for hours. Other times they don't even lose consciousness and lie there delivering quips.

I'm ashamed to say this literally did not occur to me until I saw this clip. Seems like they could have just said there was a switch, or something. Doesn't do much for the penis problem though.

The padlock thing though 🤣I remember watching that and thinking umm wait why 🙃

Ben numbering the points implies that this is an old and well-known schpeil.

It's rapid succession. If you get hit a second time a day after the first your body is back to normal and it's just a stun. The three shots rule was always stupid though but, beyond that I always figured Zats we're a weapon they would try to replicate but, without the stupid three shots rule.

Michael Shanks is one of the most underrated actors ever

Rest in peace, Cliff. :-/

They could've fixed this stupidity by giving it three settings instead of the three-shot thing. Setting one stuns, setting two kills, setting three disintegrates. Like a weirdly shaped phaser.

man, he sounds so different than I'm used to.

Yeah, I had the same question as to what the delay between being stunned the first time before you could be shot again and still be stunned.

There's a long clip somewhere.

Sigh...and that's why the Atlantis Wraith weapons worked better. Those were only ever designed to stun. The Zat's still pretty cool, aesthetics aside haha, but I kinda wished they put more thought into how it could disintegrate stuff. (Yes I know it was done a very long time ago, before all the later seasons came up, to address a narrative issue) Like maybe let it disintegrate stuff but that takes like all the power in the Zat, so it's a one-shot deal. (But I agree. The time between hits to NOT kill someone was never discussed)