Really good Stargate episodes
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Really good Stargate episodes
Does anyone remember when Stargate used to be good?
It was that period between the end of the akward first season, and the climactic end of the seventh.
(Basically, a goood portion of the show.)
I was watching the season seven epsode Heroes, Pt 1 and 2 on DVD, and It suddenly hit me.
The writing, acting and dialogue all felt smooth and polished, the characters were real, and the drama was good.
It was light years better than anything on Atlantis or Stargate; seasons 8-10.
Can any of you remember other good episodes, maybe we can put together a "best of" list or something...
Here are a few:
In the Serpent's Lair S2
Secrets S2
1969 S2(O'Neill and the Hippies. Of course this goes in...)
The Other Side S4
Window of Opportunity S4
The Fifth Man S5
Wormhole X-treme S5
Meridian S5
Abyss S6
The Other Guys S6
Orpheus S7
Evolution Pts 1 & 2 S7
Heroes Pts 1 & 2
Lost City, Pts 1 & 2
If any of you want to add episodes (from any season,) and provide a brief summary (only if you want to,) feel free to do so.
It was that period between the end of the akward first season, and the climactic end of the seventh.
(Basically, a goood portion of the show.)
I was watching the season seven epsode Heroes, Pt 1 and 2 on DVD, and It suddenly hit me.
The writing, acting and dialogue all felt smooth and polished, the characters were real, and the drama was good.
It was light years better than anything on Atlantis or Stargate; seasons 8-10.
Can any of you remember other good episodes, maybe we can put together a "best of" list or something...
Here are a few:
In the Serpent's Lair S2
Secrets S2
1969 S2(O'Neill and the Hippies. Of course this goes in...)
The Other Side S4
Window of Opportunity S4
The Fifth Man S5
Wormhole X-treme S5
Meridian S5
Abyss S6
The Other Guys S6
Orpheus S7
Evolution Pts 1 & 2 S7
Heroes Pts 1 & 2
Lost City, Pts 1 & 2
If any of you want to add episodes (from any season,) and provide a brief summary (only if you want to,) feel free to do so.
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Hey, I liked some of first season. Sure, the first few episodes were rocky, but that's to be expected.
"Singularity" S1
"Solitudes" S1
"In the Line of Duty" S2
"The Tok'ra" 1&2 S2
"Jolinar's Memories" S3
"The Devil You Know" S3
"Foothold" S3
"Upgrades" S4
"2010" S4
"The Changeling" S6
"Grace" S7
"Chimera" S7
And for the record, I thought "Evolution" was pretty iffy. Some good stuff in it, but Kull warriors are just fucking retarded.
"Singularity" S1
"Solitudes" S1
"In the Line of Duty" S2
"The Tok'ra" 1&2 S2
"Jolinar's Memories" S3
"The Devil You Know" S3
"Foothold" S3
"Upgrades" S4
"2010" S4
"The Changeling" S6
"Grace" S7
"Chimera" S7
And for the record, I thought "Evolution" was pretty iffy. Some good stuff in it, but Kull warriors are just fucking retarded.
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I was quite fond of 'The 1st Commandment' in Season 1 for the lengths it went to to fit in a 'killing is bad!' message into a miltary show.
"There But For The Grace of God" Is also good in season one.
There's the obvious: "The Fifth Race" In season 2.
"Deadman's Switch" For season 3
It'd be cliched to go for WoO in season 4 but I also liked "The Other Side" and "Tangent"
Season 5 had "The Tomb" one of the first episodes I ever saw. And SEason 6 Had "THe Other Guys" And "Prophecy" Also "Unnatural Selection" in which I note upon rewaching Karl "Helo" Agathon plays a humanform Replicator. Ironic no?
Oh and last for Season 8: I greatly enjoyed 'Avatar'
Gais: I'm suprised to see Chimera on your list. thought it wasn't well regard as mainly being a soap operaish episode about Sam's love life. But maybe I've just heard the outcrys of J/S Shippers...
"There But For The Grace of God" Is also good in season one.
There's the obvious: "The Fifth Race" In season 2.
"Deadman's Switch" For season 3
It'd be cliched to go for WoO in season 4 but I also liked "The Other Side" and "Tangent"
Season 5 had "The Tomb" one of the first episodes I ever saw. And SEason 6 Had "THe Other Guys" And "Prophecy" Also "Unnatural Selection" in which I note upon rewaching Karl "Helo" Agathon plays a humanform Replicator. Ironic no?
Oh and last for Season 8: I greatly enjoyed 'Avatar'
Gais: I'm suprised to see Chimera on your list. thought it wasn't well regard as mainly being a soap operaish episode about Sam's love life. But maybe I've just heard the outcrys of J/S Shippers...
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<3 SamCrazedwraith wrote:Gais: I'm suprised to see Chimera on your list. thought it wasn't well regard as mainly being a soap operaish episode about Sam's love life. But maybe I've just heard the outcrys of J/S Shippers...
(which may or may not be obvious, given that most of the episodes I listed are Sam-centric)
And fuck the shippers. I thought Pete was fine, if a bit creepy (o hay sam lol just stalkin u). The other part of "Chimera"'s plot was decent too, if only to deal with the Osiris plotline.
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I thought Stargate SG-1 had a very good run of episodes between halfway through Season One up until Season Four, then it got a little too repetitive and relatively bland for my taste so I lost interest in the series for the most part (but I liked Season Seven's last episode and I thought Season Eight was suprisingly solid for a late season, even though I gather SG-1 rapidly turned to shite relatively soon after that). I've never got into Atlantis and it never caught my interest in the brief time it was on Channel Five (have they cancelled it?).
Its much like Farscape - Seasons One & Two were excellent and I saw 95% of those seasons, Season Three was decent but Farscape was starting to drift away from being compulsive viewing, while much of Season Four was fairly meh, even though there was a killer last episode with a wonderfully sticky ending.
Its much like Farscape - Seasons One & Two were excellent and I saw 95% of those seasons, Season Three was decent but Farscape was starting to drift away from being compulsive viewing, while much of Season Four was fairly meh, even though there was a killer last episode with a wonderfully sticky ending.
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As I recall, my favorite episode was also voted fan-favorite; Groundhog Day.
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That's the one where they were playing golf with the wormhole wasn't it? Also, I kind of liked Citizen Joe. (I think that's the right name).CaptainChewbacca wrote:As I recall, my favorite episode was also voted fan-favorite; Groundhog Day.
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No, that's "Window of Opporunity", where O'Neil and Teal'c are trapped in a temporal loop, and eventually start doing crazy shit to keep from going insane.
[size=0]As bad as it was for O'Neil, Teal'c had it worse, because his loop happened to come at the exact moment that day when a soldier opens a door right into his face[/size]
[size=0]As bad as it was for O'Neil, Teal'c had it worse, because his loop happened to come at the exact moment that day when a soldier opens a door right into his face[/size]
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A clip show? Granted, Dan Castellaneta was pretty good, and it was a pretty good humor/nostalgia episode.General Zod wrote:Also, I kind of liked Citizen Joe. (I think that's the right name).
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I tend to like the humor episodes. They make SG-1 take itself less seriously. (I'm also probably alone in liking The Other Guys as well. )Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:A clip show? Granted, Dan Castellaneta was pretty good, and it was a pretty good humor/nostalgia episode.General Zod wrote:Also, I kind of liked Citizen Joe. (I think that's the right name).
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I love the humor episodes too (especially "The Other Guys" and "Avenger 2.0"), I just don't think they quite qualify amongst the best, with the possible exception of "Window of Opportunity" of course.
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And for a while, as it starts out, we get a whole "WTF is going on?!" thinggy.
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One that I haven't seen mentioned yet is Full Circle. And Threads. How has that not been mentioned?
Wormhole Extreme, however, doesn't make my list. WoO and The Other Guys are my preferred comedic episodes. "Why, look everybody, he's got Coombs with him!"
Wormhole Extreme, however, doesn't make my list. WoO and The Other Guys are my preferred comedic episodes. "Why, look everybody, he's got Coombs with him!"
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Whay've you got against the Kull Warriors?Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:And for the record, I thought "Evolution" was pretty iffy. Some good stuff in it, but Kull warriors are just fucking retarded.
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They just struck me as a blatant contrivance to up the ante against SG-1, since even elite Jaffa weren't a threat anymore (remember in the pilot when close-range M4 fire barely took one or two down? ). That and Carter's line in one of the episodes to the effect of "But they still can't ignore physics," despite that obviously being the case.NecronLord wrote:Whay've you got against the Kull Warriors?
The main thing going through my head whenever they were a plot device (every episode they were in, really. Except maybe "Avatar") was "lawl kull warriorzz army of one am i rite".
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Against horrified and unequiped guards, taken by surprise.Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:They just struck me as a blatant contrivance to up the ante against SG-1, since even elite Jaffa weren't a threat anymore (remember in the pilot when close-range M4 fire barely took one or two down? ).
Rodney McKay had a similar device. Ultimately, it's the same kind of technology.That and Carter's line in one of the episodes to the effect of "But they still can't ignore physics," despite that obviously being the case.
I liked them; they're what a goa'uld would think of when designing a super soldier. And they had a sand disadvantage (reduced lifespan) and so on. The only thing about them that didn't really make sense was the way they fought them.
Dart guns with botulinum toxin concentrate would have done fine, and made more sense than the dinky little Kull Disruptors in Lost City
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Well, not to be overly pedantic, but they did have M4s (something I lament the continued lack of in all but SG-3). Whereas SG-1 plows through Serpent Guards with dinky little MP5s and P90s, and on more than one occasion brings them down with two or three rounds from an M9, for cryin' out loud.NecronLord wrote:Against horrified and unequiped guards, taken by surprise.
Anyways, at the end of the day my main complaint with Kull warriors is they just kill my suspension of disbelief. It's too damn obvious to me that they exist merely as plot devices to "challenge" SG-1, nothing more.
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SG1 aren't a combat team, they're meant to err, not be armed to the teeth. SG3 and the other marine units routinely use rifles and SAWs. More importantly, as a rule, Jaffa wear chainmail over their torsos. Ra's guys were almost nude but for their helmets...Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:Well, not to be overly pedantic, but they did have M4s (something I lament the continued lack of in all but SG-3). Whereas SG-1 plows through Serpent Guards with dinky little MP5s and P90s, and on more than one occasion brings them down with two or three rounds from an M9, for cryin' out loud.
I was thinking they existed because Anubis was clever, and wanted a decisive advantage, to replace his pocket-death star, against the other System Lords.Anyways, at the end of the day my main complaint with Kull warriors is they just kill my suspension of disbelief. It's too damn obvious to me that they exist merely as plot devices to "challenge" SG-1, nothing more.
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SG1 aren't a combat team, they're meant to err, not be armed to the teeth. SG3 and the other marine units routinely use rifles and SAWs. More importantly, as a rule, Jaffa wear chainmail over their torsos. Ra's guys were almost nude but for their helmets...[/quote]NecronLord wrote:
For not being a combat team, they sure seem to get in combat a lot.
Though again, I point to the pilot. It can't just be normal chainmail - rounds were literally bouncing off the Serpent Guards in "Children of the Gods". Assault rifle rounds specifically designed for armor penetration, mind.
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