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Author: gabsimom    Time: 11-13-2007 10:50     Subject: Stargate SG-1 Season 1-10 General Discussion Thread (Spoilers)



Discuss Anything SG1 Here, favorite moments, things you hated, Bloopers, whatever you want within forum rules.

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Author: meljones_83    Time: 11-14-2007 16:04

Hmm, what can I say about SG-1 season 1? I think I'm going to go with a very general discussion on my thoughts of it. (Sorry, am really just typing exactly what I'm thinking!)
I am a fan of Stargate - it is what I would probably call 'typical' sci-fi. I love the fact they took the idea from a movie and really developed it into a great long-running series.

Season 1 is by no means the best but it is a very solid start to the show, it does it's job of introducing all the characters, starting to develop them and getting you to understand them and become emotionally attached to them. I think that is down to some great writing and really good actors that seem to have connected with their characters. I can't say that there was anything I hated about season 1 but there are definitely some moments that don't live up to the otherwise high Stargate standard.

My favourite episode is 'There but for the grace of God' because I like shows that explore a different reality and what could have been, sci-fi is one of the few genres that can explore this without it seeming ridiculous! (Plus the fact it's a well written episode!)
I also like the fact that it was left on a cliffhanger at the end of the series. (I probably wouldn't have thought that if I'd watched it when it first aired and had to wait for season 2 though!)

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Author: gabsimom    Time: 11-14-2007 22:06

What I love most about SG-1 is that it is set now and not some far off future. Also how it plays off our world mythologies and cultures. Look at Omaroca could she have been our mermaid myth. It does leave you wondering if Humans are the cockroaches of the Milkyway and Pegasus Galaxies. Because we seem to be everywhere.
Author: peace.freeborn    Time: 11-16-2007 19:39

The change from movie to series was well done too.

Could they have chosen a better actor than Michael Shanks to play the James Spader character of Doctor Daniel Jackson?

Not in my casting book they couldn't.

The reality of the show, perhaps more so the contemporary setting certainly gives the characters straight from our own history a sense of life they would otherwise be lacking.
Author: mamaeyeore    Time: 11-27-2007 10:32

hmmm...where to start

imo  alot of movie to series dont live up to the movie for me...but this one does

i love the fact that it could happen...lol

some of my fav moments are.....when we first meet Teal'c  he had that sad puppy dog face saying...but i have no where to go...aweeeeeeee....jack always being a smarta**...that never gets old...and carter giving "the boys" what for when she first came on...lol a shocking moment for me was when they showed full frontal nudey....i couldnt believe they did that...dont know if it was on tv or just on the dvd, i had to hurry up and cover the 6 yr old eyes...lol...but i really could go on forever with this so i have to say my all time fav of the 1st season would be.......Solitudes  in the bloopers they mess with RDA about his yrs on Macgyver....heehee was very funny and he didnt have a clue they were gonna do it...lmao



i'm in the race
Author: meljones_83    Time: 11-27-2007 12:13

I'm not sure what else to add to this discussion!
I agree with gabsimom that it's more interesting because it isn't set in the future and it always makes me wonder what other races might be out there that we haven't discovered, and whether we are capable of producing the technology to go and visit them.
I loved the opening double episode of SG-1 (despite the nudity! I do not object to nudity but it did seem a little odd to me here!), it was definitely one that made me want to keep watching the show - I hadn't actually seen the film until after the TV show so it wasn't that making me watch it.
I think that's all I can add to my original thoughts!

(I'm in the race!)
Author: cockyone    Time: 11-27-2007 12:31

not really watched much of the stargate series but after watchin the episode i needed to for the amazing race i think im gonna start again....was great,

i am in the race

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Author: bms102581    Time: 11-27-2007 12:51

I agree with the transition from movie to television series was very well done.  Linking and expanding the story line at the same time. Also continuing with the Egyptian gods allowed them to eventually expand and explore other cultures mythologies.

Well done in deed.

I am in the race.

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Author: yizzal    Time: 11-27-2007 13:02

not so sure this is something i could watch on a regular basis , odd episodes here n there but find alot of the sci-fi have very similar story lines and get a little repetitive

i am in the race

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Author: kwargalla    Time: 11-27-2007 13:11

Like Cockyone I have not really gotten into Stargate SG1 the series.  I liked the movie and found it was really well done.  I loved the egypt themed myths mixed with the aliens.  I thing about the series is I find the character very whiny.  I just watched episode 15 from season one and maybe it wasn't the best to re-interduce myself to the series but I just find that the characters are stuck into a mold and very rarely break out of it.  I would be willing to try another episode before I make my final decision on the series if anyone can tell me which episode may change my outlook.
thanks

i am in the race!
Author: gabsimom    Time: 11-27-2007 13:17     Subject: Reply 10#10 kwargalla's post

Check out the tournament. The best episodes in our opinions have the highest points. Personally I love the 1st eppy - the nudity. But some of the others might disagree.
Author: sddvasquez    Time: 11-27-2007 13:39

well, we really loved the movie so it was good that the new cast did not "interrupt" the flow of the idea. plus michael shanks is a bit more believable than james spader (really, who would mistake him for an academic! ) and mcgyver is great anywhere (ok, we won't go all selma and patty on you but you've got to admit he's the can-do guy).

what we really love about sg-1, however, is teal'c! strong and silent, strict moral code... ok, we like him a little better with hair but he totally rocks with that bald noggin

our major gripe with the series is the constant need to make sure there are only 3 seconds left that the team can get out through the stargate. really, would the situation be any less tense if they actually had a minute or two leeway?

we're in the race!
Author: mamaeyeore    Time: 11-27-2007 15:56

i wish it were a daniel frontal...heehee
Author: luimni    Time: 11-27-2007 17:22

I saw the film years ago and thought it was ok but im not the biggest kurt russel fan anyway. The series was a huge improvment on the film. Even without the big budget effect the first series had compared to the later series.
RDA is supurb as o'Neill, no one can use sarcasim like Jack.
I love they way the show pokes fun at itself from time to time and it often refers to other shows which is not usually done (bar cartoons).  Like the way Jack occasionally mentions his love for the simpsons or the episode Jack and Teal'c get stuck in a tme loop ala groundhog day, and Jack blatently refers to being stuck in groundhog day. Even when Sam says to jack that she Macguyvered something together in one episode. (To be honest i cant remember which episode it was but i know i saw it and im certain it wasnt some out-take)
That reminds me have you seen this  SG1 out take on youtube - you may have seen it before but its class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdY3L-JYzk&feature=related

Oh yeah I AM IN THE RACE.....
Author: gabsimom    Time: 11-27-2007 17:34     Subject: Reply 14#14 luimni's post

Too Funny. lmao.
Author: dem479    Time: 11-27-2007 17:37

Hmm...I never got into the Stargate shows. I don't really know what it is, but I just couldn't seem to get into it. I've watched a few of the episodes including #115. There are ones that I like, though. I might have to watch a few more to see if I can get into it. I haven't tried in a long time. It won't hurt to try.

I am in the Race
Author: Myaers    Time: 11-27-2007 22:20

never watched any of the shows before...but i gotta say...i like the idea of it.
maybe i can use some of the points i earn to start watching em

i am in the race

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Author: penny3760    Time: 11-27-2007 23:56     Subject: I AM IN THE RACE

The Stargate movie was one of my favorite movies. Daniel was my favorite character.  I started watching the episodes hoping that they were as good as the movie but I just couldn't get into watching them.  A couple of the episodes I really enjoyed.  I still like Daniel and I am starting to like Teal'c.
Author: slade01    Time: 11-28-2007 01:47     Subject: First series is the best

The episode ides in the first series are so much better than the later series as they seem to run out of ideas and just stretch the premice too far and the show started really good but I'm sorry to say that i feel tha it has declined as time has gone by.

Sorry if people don't agree with me but just my opinion.

I am in the race
Author: ms.smith    Time: 11-28-2007 10:07

I never got into stargate and listening to people talking about it is just like listening to Trekkies - they may as well speak chinese. All those planets and cultures and languages and weird names --- whoee. and how many different stargate spinoffs are there?

I am in the race. I guess. ??
Author: ms.smith    Time: 11-28-2007 10:18

WEll, since I know absolutely nothing, I may as well ask a question.

SG 1 = Stargate. And that's kind of the mother. Stargate Atlantis then was a spin-off, right? Where there other spin-offs? Like with Star Trek, didn't that also have STar Trek Voyager and whatnot, which I guess was also a spin-off - or a continuation - of some sort?

I know as much about Star Trek as I know about Star Gate.   That feels absolutely weird.

I'm in the race, gate or not.l
Author: luimni    Time: 11-28-2007 10:50

Quote:
Originally posted by ms.smith at 11-28-2007 18:18  
WEll, since I know absolutely nothing, I may as well ask a question.

SG 1 = Stargate. And that's kind of the mother. Stargate Atlantis then was a spin-off, right? Where there other spin-offs? Like wi ...
Right so i will see if i can explain, firstly i am not an expert on this so i will bow to another more educated reply.
Stargate the series was brought out after the success of Stargate- The movie, so i suppose the series was a spin off from the movie. The series follows the events after where the movie left off.
After a few years and because of the popularity of the Stargate series, Stargate Atlantis was brought out as a spin off series from Stargate (SG1). The time lines of both SG1 and Atlantis ran parallel and sometimes ientertwined.

Star Trek is somewhat similar but different in ways. As far as i know, the original Star Trek was a stand alone show which ran in its own timeline. Star Trek- The next generation also began as a stand alone show which i wouldnt consider a spin off as it is based something like 200 years after the original Star Trek. It was a continuation of a theme but a new story.
Now Star Trek - The next generation series became popular and inspired two other spin off shows. Star Trek - Deep Space 9 & Star Trek - Voyager where all three ran more or less in the same timeline and often intertwined. Then came Star Trek - Enterprise which is based on a timeline before the original Star Trek So therefore wasnt a spin off IMHO.
But this all comes down to what a spin off is, i think its a story that runs parallel with the timeline of the original show. New shows are often created on the popularity of the original but i wouldnt deem them direct spin off shows.

So in surmizing.... Atlantis is a spin off show off Stargate which is a spin off series from the movie Stargate....ehhh crystal clear??

I could be wrong about the Star Trek thing cos im not a big fan of Star Trek but i think thats right.
Stargate would kick Star Treks ass anyway... so there.... fight fight fight..
Author: nye87    Time: 11-28-2007 13:26

Hmm, from the 9 episodes that I have watched; I think that my favorite moments were in Singularity when Cassandra runs and hugs Sam and asks her not to go, in Brief Candle when Jack and his young bride take a walk along the beach at night and how she loves him despite how he has aged, in The Torment of Tantalus how Dr. Ernest Littlefield's love for Catherine kept him alive all those years, and finally in Thor's Hammer how the team refused to leave without Teal'c. I think its a really good show and little moments like those really touch. I know that I haven't really even "scraped the surface" of the show, but I really appreciate those little moments that I have experienced in that little amount of episodes and I welcome the great moments to come with future episode. I have never seen any bloopers or anything but as for humor, I really enjoy Jack's little comments. I think that they come at the best times.   I am in the race.
Author: sddvasquez    Time: 11-28-2007 14:55     Subject: Reply #22 luimni's post

oh, it is so on. don't be disrespecting the star treks, man star trek could kick any other sci-fi series's butt with its little toe (alright, with the admitted exception of dsn where they really have to stretch to get the "trek" in). the star trek series can beat anything in any other sci-fi show hands down:

jean luc (tng) is more noble and inspiring than commander adama (bsg)
q's powers (tng) beat peter petrelli's abilities (heroes)
data's deadpan efficiency (tng) beats holly's deadpan efficiency (red dwarf)
spock's powers of deductive reasoning (original star trek) beat mulder's hunches (x-files)
     ok, maybe that one we'll give you but it's close
the campy theme of the original series beats the campy theme of farscape
kirk's overacting (original star trek) beats holographic al's overacting (quantum leap)
the temporal cold war (st enterprise) beats the butterfly effect of journeyman and a time lord's technology (dr. who)
the lostness of voyager beats the lostness of lost in space......

believe us, we could go on this way for a good while. maybe now you understand why ms.smith thinks we all speak chinese! perhaps we do watch a little too much sci-fi
Author: sddvasquez    Time: 11-28-2007 15:04

oh, and instead of spin-offs we call them sequels (or prequel in the case of enterprise which supposedly took place before the time frame of the original series). they all exist within the same universe and characters can move from one show to another with their entire past storyline intact (i.e. vulcan's are very long-lived so spock showed up in tng, as did scotty who was caught in a temporal loop and thus hadn't aged since the original series and both worf and o'brien moved from tng to dsn, etc).

alright, alright. we see your eyes have glazed over already but we feel it is our duty to inform and educate you all for when star trek finally gets here!
Author: luimni    Time: 11-28-2007 16:05

Oh Oh its so so so on......
Teal'c would kick the living daylights out of Worf
Sam would outsmart Data with her ingenious outside the box thinking

Ok Ok lets not get into this it could all end in tears (more than likely me doing the crying)
My knowledge of  Trek is not the best so i dont have many specific examples so i would probably loose this argument.
I still stand by me calling them spin offs, sequels & prequels are different parts of the same story while a spin off is a different story in the context of the others e.g. DS9 & Voyager. I aint budging on this one and i dont care if im wrong, ignorance is bliss and im happy with it.
I aint going to comment on timetravel and especially paradoxes, i am taking the Janeway/O'Neill attitude on that one and not going to reply...
Nah i wasnt and still aint respecting Star Trek. Its a good show but I never really got into it.
Oh and yes, you do watch too much TV...... (cant keep a straight face typing that, there is no such thing as too much TV)
I declare a truce between SG and ST (for now)
Author: waterlilybarb    Time: 11-28-2007 16:36     Subject: Reply 26#26 luimni's post

As a fan of both Stargate AND Star Trek (in all their incarnations) I have to say the little battle you and sddvasquez have going on has proven rather amusing.  I'll refrain from adding my 2 cents, but thanks for the laugh.
Author: gyki9    Time: 11-28-2007 23:13

stargate isnt my think but i like atlantis a bit

i am in the race
Author: philryk    Time: 11-29-2007 10:16

Mmmh may have to revist my love for Stargate :-)

Used to watch it religiously almost up till the end ...... and then I kind of tailed off (seriously cannot remember why)
Watched a few episodes of Atlantis but it didnt really click with me at the time - maybe in the New Year I should try that again!

OK - off to rekindle my love of SG1 by watching 115 for the SG1 quiz
Author: magic4u    Time: 12-6-2010 06:25

i miss this show



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