Stargate (Page 1 of 4)

Hmm...well I come into this a massive Stargate fan, having seen every episode of both series at least twice, so keep that in mind.

But honestly after the first season sg1 really picked up and I think basically every episode is worth watching because there is so much overlap of bad guys and plot points and characters that it can be hard to follow otherwise.

But if you want just the bare bones of the Lucian Alliance...

Season 9 Episode 16: Off the Grid
Season 10 Episode 9: Company of Thieves
Season 10 Episode 15: Bounty

And that's really all the direct contact we get with them before the blow up Icarus base.

As far as Icaurus base, we get even less about that. By which I mean the only time we see it is in SGU.

But yah like I said before, if you really wanted to know who was who it's really hard to nail them down because there is so much overlap between episodes. But if you really really want I could try to narrow it down a bit.

As far as Atlantis goes, the first little it was pretty rough, but then it really picked up and I really started to like it. And then I went back and watched the first bit again and it wasn't actually so bad. But it definitely gets better as it goes along. I would definitely say watch it (If only just for Chris Heyerdahl as Todd the Wraith)

Never even bothered to watch Infinity.

So yah, go STARGATE! (Probably the closest thing I have to a Brian level Star Trek obsession)

Nah, the execs were once again being bastards. they canceled Atlantis like a bitch because they didn't want it interfering with Universe. So we're once again left wanting on another great TV show canceled before it's time.

There were talks of doing a movie to wrap it all up, but I haven't really heard anything that lends a whole lot of hope to that actually happening.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2010-06-16 15:49:34)

Yeah they did, well sort of. It was one of the last episodes of the season (Basically they found out they were cancelled, and were like, "fuck" so they just did something completely wild and out there to finish it off.), they did an entire episode in the style of a CSI episode.

It was actually a damn good impersonation and a damn good episode.

Season 5: Episode 19: Vegas, if you're interested.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2010-06-16 18:11:55)

Remind me to put "top five series or season finales in episodic television" up on the top-five thread when next it's my turn.

I've always had a soft spot for the "fuck it, everyone dies" kind of finale. Or even the "okay, no actual characters died, but fuck it, the premise of our show dies" kind.

Blake's 7 was especially fun in that regard when I watched it on the local PBS station long ago. I had no information on the show, so the constant death of the cast at the end of each season was a surprise (and as I wasn't keeping track you never knew when a season was ending). It's just not the same knowing what actors are leaving ahead of time...

Never got into Farscape for some reason. I was at the Worldcon (probably Baltimore) when Henson had preview trailers for both it and another show, iirc called "Brats in Space". We at first thought it was "Rats in Space", and I personally was so disappointed it wasn't I tended to ignore the Henson shows after that.

Just got to the episode '200.'

What the WHAT

If you only watch one episode of Stargate ever, make it "Window of Opportunity."

"In the middle of my backswing?!"

The one with the black hole is solid science fiction too. I forget the name of that one.

"A Matter of Time."

Amusingly, this apparently comes up often enough that "stargate black hole episode" is a Google suggestion.

Last year I went on a Netflix binge and, hand to god, watched the whole damn series. Took me months, one DVD after another.

The thing about Stargate SG-1 is that even when it was at its absolute worst, it was still pretty good. I don't know if I could say it was ever great, in the "Best of Both Worlds" sense, but it was solid, consistently above-average sci-fi TV for a freakin' decade, and that deserves some respect. Plus the had the stones to do the aforementioned black hole episode that used relativistic time dilation as a key plot point. Respect.

Never got into the spin-off, though. I've really been enjoying Universe — no spoilers; I'm about three weeks behind — but I could never get next to Atlantis for whatever reason.

I have "seen" SG on TV a lot, watched minutes here and there, never really got me. I will watch "Window of Opportunity" tomorrow and make a complete generalization of the series based on that. Anyone have any other suggestions?

So when Claudia Black got added to the main cast, I said that they should redo the opening titles to have her chasing after SG-1 into the stargate…

And then they did it! Awesome!