A virtual reality training scenario goes terribly wrong in the upcoming episode "Avatar," director Martin Wood told GateWorld. The episode is currently filming on the standing S.G.C. sets in Vancouver, B.C., and will air early in Season Eight -- possibly as the fourth episode of the season, following "Lockdown."
"It's a VR game," Wood explains. "They're using the chairs from 'The Gamekeeper.' And now we're back in those chairs and we've modified them, and they are allowing us to program our own VR game to check out how certain scenarios can be played out. In this case, Teal'c gets trapped in a scenario of his own making because he never gives up and the game is playing until he gives up -- and it's not going to happen. It's a very cool episode."
Teal'c and SG-1 are trapped by alien VR chairs in Season Two's "The Gamekeeper."
What is the combat scenario? Details are still sketchy, but beware of the possible infiltration of the S.G.C. by Anubis' left-over super-soldiers. When Teal'c becomes trapped in the simulation, Daniel Jackson must go into the game to try and save him.
"'Avatar' repeats and repeats and repeats and repeats, and looks a little bit like 'Groundhog Day' or 'Window of Opportunity,'" Wood said. "But it has a twist to it in that it completely resets brand new every time. So it's not like we just start again; Teal'c goes through and resets his game every time he gets killed. But there are subtle differences because the game is adapting to him."
