The ice was very plausibly explained by them having updated their dialing protocol, because they weren’t just using the dhd they made a ton of small mistakes.
I mean, in story yes. But the behind the scenes production reasons for the changes exist. And those production reasons are why the story elements exist.
Because they found waiting for Daniel to translate everything got real boring real fast.
They also stopped with going through the gate caused you to get covered in ice. Or that it would eject you with great velocity.
My head canon with that one is after earths gate got shock absorbers (first mentioned in the Antarctic episode) it made travel more pleasant.
They are very loose with the “an object exits a wormhole the same speed it enters” several times.
The ice was very plausibly explained by them having updated their dialing protocol, because they weren’t just using the dhd they made a ton of small mistakes.
I mean, in story yes. But the behind the scenes production reasons for the changes exist. And those production reasons are why the story elements exist.