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SGU insults the French

Whoa, weird! I checked back on my recording of it, and it's too dark for me to have seen in passing when watching it first time, but it's definitely there if you know to look out for it. Seems like a bit of a random and unnecessary thing to put in there.
 
I think this was some set dresser's idea of a joke. I wouldn't read any kind of conspiracy into it. Exactly why would MGM purposely allow "F*CK THE FRENCH"? There's no reason for it and it would be nothing but bad for business. Reading some kind of conspiracy into this is a bit much.
 
This is nothing compared to what South Park does on a weekly basis.

Looks like someone is trying to make this into another internet uproar when one isn't warranted like Ricky Gervais's Golden Globes speech.
 
MGM probably didn't even notice the insult. Why should they read the scribble on the wall? I am sure they didn't think, that the producers would include something like this in an episode! I wonder, why the Stargate producers did it? Were the SGU ratings not good enough in France? :lol:
 
I doubt "the producers" did this. Like I said, some grunt from the set department probably did it to be slick and no one noticed. They don't exactly watch dailies on a big screen, and it would be easy to miss. I sure didn't notice it.
 
It was probably Peter Kelamis. He's done stand-up about the French before I think. Would be funny if this turned into a meme.
 
Eh...In story explanation, maybe Rush was using a new fandangled Math formula created by a French Guy, and kept tripping over a part of the formula and got frustrated. Then he wrote the slur, and went back to calculating it long hand ;)
 
From Mallozzi:

MG writes: “It’s said that a picture speaks a thousand words.. I am hoping you have something with which to counter to the following…”

Answer: I put your comment in moderation because I suspected this was faked. Unfortunately, I don’t have an HD copy of the episode with me in Toronto and the versions I accessed online are too dark. I sent word back West for what I believed would be proof discrediting the still. After all, I figured, would someone be so stupid/ignorant to do something like this and think no one would eventually notice? Well, it pains me to report that it isn’t a fake. And so, as one of the show’s Exec. Producers and the one on the front lines of the internet, it falls on me to offer an apology to all of our French fans who have been nothing short of fantastic in their support of the franchise. I am, and you’ll excuse me as I go off here, mighty pissed-off as, not only someone who has appreciated the French support our show and this blog have enjoyed over the years, but someone who grew up in Montreal, a multicultural and bilingual city, speaking French from fourth grade on.
How the hell did we miss it? No excuses. I don’t know. In the past, certain things have gotten past us. There was the infamous Snickers bar in SGA’s The Ark. There was the boom mike in SGU’s Space. And, most memorable of all, was the camera operator in the SGA season four premiere that we only noticed during the Day 2 mix – and only because eagle-eyed Martin Gero was the one to suddenly notice – in the opening scene, a bunch of medical equipment sweeps by followed by Weir on the gurney and, finally the camera operator bringing up the rear! In the case of this incident, we missed it and I’m sorry. Paul suspects that the reason it got by everyone is that the shot is actually a visual effect and that, whenever we watched it, rather than taking in other aspects of the room, we were focusing on the set extension behind the approaching Chloe to make sure it worked – thereby missing what was right in front of us.
Yes, I’m pissed-off and also extremely disappointed that: a) fans were offended and b) this taints an otherwise noteworthy episode. At present, I have no idea who was responsible but, in the event the guilty party frequents this blog (or someone who knows the guilty party frequents this blog and would be kind enough to pass this along), I’d like to say: “Seriously? The fucking series finale? Thanks a lot, douchebag.”
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http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com...niverse-beyond-season-2-what-might-have-been/
 
So how do we explain this in continuity? Does the French representative on the IOA piss Rush off or something?
 
The Wormhole said:
So how do we explain this in continuity? Does the French representative on the IOA piss Rush off or something?
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Maybe they refused to let him have some up and coming scientists for Icarus, so he got stuck with the sadsacks we got in the series.
 
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