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Six episodes into the first season. This is pretty bad. I'm sort of suffering through while trying to get stuff done around the house, but it's still painful.

You are right indeed sir. I felt like the show finally found its foothold in those last few episodes. I can't believe season two is only three months away.

EDIT: Just watched 107, 'The Nox.' I think it's the first actually good episode of SG-1. Brian Finifter would be pleased.

Last edited by Gregory Harbin (2010-06-21 03:17:01)

Watching 'Torture of Tantalus,' 110—SG-1 gets stuck on the UN planet with Catherine's old boyfriend—and I'm annoyed.

Why is SGC painted as being so incredibly incompetent? They have a drone that goes through the gate to check for a DHD, but it doesn't make sure it isn't broken? They have nine teams, including the Marines in SG-3, but the first team sent through has the most important people, including a 65-year-old woman?

They don't have a back-up plan in place for in case a DHD is damaged? They could bring batteries with them to charge a gate. Don't they even have a protocol for checking in? How about: every mission, dial back immediately, and radio in a status report. If SGC doesn't get a dial in ten minutes, THEY dial YOU, and send what supplies you need.

I mean this is just basic, basic stuff.

I'm not sure that does make me feel any better. It's like if the first five seasons of TNG were about them starting intergalactic wars because of crappy diplomacy.

No. It's more like the premise of the show revolves around a bunch of complete amateurs who've never done anything like this before, so they're making some mistakes, but they're pulling through, and learning from it all.

Not for nothing, but whenever somebody sits on his couch and declares that some piece of fiction is frustrating because such-and-such character was not omniscient and that he — the viewer — with the full benefits of genre savviness, hindsight and the luxury of having, like, zero adrenaline at the time totally saw it coming from a mile away, I kinda wanna punch him a little bit. Because seriously, like you've never lost your keys.

Last edited by Jeffery Harrell (2010-06-21 23:10:05)

Greg, what do you do if you loose your keys?

I don't loose my keys, I hold onto their leash pretty tightly.

But if I lose them, I have a freaking spare key. It's what I'm talking about. A simple plan, in case the simplest problem occurs.

Season 1 update: just watched 115, The Cor-Ai, and was quite impressed. It did a better job exploring Teal'c's humanity (man, those apostrophes don't work well together) than, say, Measure of a Man did.

Of course, I'm not sure if you prick Teal'c, if he does bleed. Guy seems pretty invincible. Do they ever find a plague that his larva can't protect him from?

Which begs the question: what happens if a Goa'uld chooses a Trill host as his new body?

Last edited by Gregory Harbin (2010-06-23 00:25:15)

Well you're just obviously not enough of a nerd.

A clip show? Seriously? They did a clip show?

Season two has been impressing me. 'Message In A Bottle' was a great episode.

It amuses me how many SG-1 episodes share titles with Star Trek, especially Voyager.