They wanted a phaser but couldn’t call it a vaporize setting.
But they didn’t completely abandon it. Disintegration gets used a handful more times when they remember it and it helps them wave away plot holes. Like in the episode where they end up in the 60s they disintegrate a box. A box!
Well, not quite. Iirc the disintegration effect came about last minute when the director decided he needed a way to remove the bodies, to explain why other jaffa wouldn’t see them and get suspicious.
It’s why in the Wormhole Xtreme episode, they mock that exact premise when O’Neill Marty suggests it.
They wanted a phaser but couldn’t call it a vaporize setting.
But they didn’t completely abandon it. Disintegration gets used a handful more times when they remember it and it helps them wave away plot holes. Like in the episode where they end up in the 60s they disintegrate a box. A box!
Well, not quite. Iirc the disintegration effect came about last minute when the director decided he needed a way to remove the bodies, to explain why other jaffa wouldn’t see them and get suspicious.
It’s why in the Wormhole Xtreme episode, they mock that exact premise when
O’NeillMarty suggests it.Edited, corrected below!
Technically Martin is the one who suggests it…
Ah you’re right! I was thinking of a little bit later when O’Neill suggests the aliens are dead because they don’t wear camouflage.
Time for a rewatch, I’m getting rusty!
Two boxes stacked against each other, in fact. Sitting in a truck.
The truck does not disintigrate.