I was rewatching Jeremiah’s “Firewall” the other day (a fave episode) and a few things hit familiar with other media of the same flavour. 

The Jeremiah episode flashes back to when the Big Death had killed over 50% of the world’s adult population (and wouldn’t stop till it killed most of them) and no one has been able to stop it.

The final newscast feels similar to Stargate SG-1’s “There but for the Grace of God”, where in a parallel universe, the Goa’uld have launched an all out assault on Earth and are wiping out the population systematically.

Both feel very similar for a slew of reasons (in part because it’s filmed in BC, and happens to have Peter DeLuise filming the Jeremiah ep) but if we take just the framing:

Both have the same vibe. One’s not as dishevelled but no less in an existential crisis. Also in a weird confluence, the Stargate newscaster in the second pic appears in the same Jeremiah episode as an Air Force Colonel:

(I’d never picked it up before)

Now I’d leave it at that but Major Quantrell, the Jeremiah episode’s antagonist (played by Michael Rooker, who also shows up in an SG-1 episode a year later) is taken tot Thunder Mountain - what the survivors now call Cheyenne Mountain (which again, SG-1′s main setting) -  and displays his tracker from Valhalla Sector:

Which, where have I seen this before. Oh right, another BC production, 1999′s Harsh Realm, another dystopian series:

Granted, not an original idea there either but all these bits happen  in fairly rapid succession (between 1998 for SG-1, 1999 for Harsh Realm and 2002 for Jeremiah).

Anyway thank you for coming to trope talk & BC Production parallels.