10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Stargate
3. The Opening Credits Feature A Cross-Eyed Ra
The Stargate film in 1994 featured the distinctive opening credits of the camera panning around the Mask of Ra, slowly revealing the title music and the actors and crew's names. The final shot reveals the mask itself, complete with, as the producers felt, a cross-eyed face.
When it came to creating the opening credits for the first season, there had been every intention of creating a new into for the show. However, time ran short and so the producers were forced to reuse the title sequence from the film.
No one was particularly happy with this, feeling that every episode started with an example of how they had dropped the ball. The credits would eventually change, depicting more action and images of the main cast's faces. The credits for the early seasons were then retroactively updated, again featuring action shots of the main cast, ridding the show of the movie into for good.