My theory for the lack of Vala is she's there, she just got bounced out of the frame by Sam's boobage, and possibly suffered injury as a result. She's talking lawsuit, the SGC is talking about tossing her back through the gate if she tries calling a lawyer. ;)

Hmmm... now that I think about it, there was controversy in season 9 about whether Mitchell or Carter was in command of SG-1, with the writers coming up with that "co-command" nonsense offscreen. Now we know who's really been in charge!

I was chatting about this in someone else's LJ, and we've come up with the theory they use dartboards to come up with the words for the text on the boxes. Either that or a version of the "refrigerator poetry" magnets with Stargate related words they just move around until it sounds like it might have something to do with the show.

Even if they don't have people who watch the show doing this sort of work, it looks like they'd have someone who does watch the show proofread it.

I guess that *does* explain the co-command idiocy.

I like the dartboard theory; that nicely explains the results. I'm sure it's some bored, lowly paid copywriter who comes up with these blurbs but it seems rather damning that the company can't find anyone in their employ who actually watches their product to write/proof. :|

Maybe it's a bored, lowly paid copywriter who comes up with this stuff to see if his employers are stupid enough to publish it, and if so, if fans go ballistic when it hits the fan?

Hee! I like that Just So Story. If I worked on SG-1, I'd be tempted to throw stuff in just to see if the fandom would wank over it.