In yesterday’s post I described why I felt like the iris, while a sensible idea, is implemented in a goofy way on the show with CGI and that I don’t understand where it goes when it retracts. sirandrw reblogged that part of my post and added his thoughts:
The iris retracts slightly behind the Stargate.
I don’t think so. They’ve said on the show that when closed it sits just in front of the event horizon of the incoming wormhole so that any matter in route to Earth doesn’t have time to re-materialize in the SGC gate room. It has to be in front of it. Lady Jessica believes it retracts into a little area they built along the inner rim of the stargate. That makes the most sense, but it just looks like it totally disappears on the show. I think we can just chalk it up to bad CGI and a concept that wasn’t fully thought out. How was that for nerdy? Here’s a video of the iris in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MpGVeDxlK8
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