Now you're making me want to look up the timing of it, to see whether they were getting Firehouse prepped to be released as a movie right around the time that RDA would have started shooting SG-1, or not... man, at this point, I just can't remember! (I do remember that "Pandora's Clock" is, like, right before he started with SG-1 -- which makes it just criminal that they dyed his hair that awful brown, when in PC it was clearly starting to go so charmingly silver at the temples.)

Of course, just think -- if, despite its crappiness, "Firehouse" had gotten picked up as a series... then it is entirely likely that RDA would not have been available to take the role of Jack. I wonder if that would have meant they'd've gotten someone else to do it? Or if they would not have launched SG-1 at that time, at all? (Since IIRC, it was them bringing him on board that was part of getting SG-1 rolling.)

Cosmically speaking, I will trade off Michael, WTF-inducing lack of death scene and all, for the body of work that is Jack. ;-)

(am using my icon that I have listed as "Jack - oy". Every once in a while I have toyed with actually putting "oy" on it, and then I figure, nah, the expression says it all.)