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DVD Stargate SG-1 Season 3 (Thinpak)
To resolve the season 2 cliffhanger, General Hammond rounds up every conceivable ally to rescue the SG-1 team from Hathor's clutches and gets a much-needed field trip in the process. "Into the Fire " is actually a weak opening for the new year, but does boast some impressive visuals as Hammond and Brat'ac pilot a shuttle through an open Stargate (euphemistically called "threading the needle"). In subsequent episodes, Daniel Jackson is intrigued by the planet Orban's scientific advances over only a few years. An exchange of knowledge is agreed and the precise "Learning Curve" of their children is revealed. Still recalling the original movie, O'Neill is concerned for the siblings because of the loss of his son. In "Demons" some serious lambasting of organized religion occurs in a storyline concerning a medieval Christian village that's being terrorized by a giant Goa'uld servant creature. This episode both brings to light and questions each of the principal characters' beliefs.
"Forever in a Day" begins an important storyline about Daniel's wife Sha're's stolen child who is a "Harcesis," an illegal breeding between Goa'uld hosts. Then an earlier thread is picked up in "Past and Present" on planet Vyus whose people all suffer amnesia. Their leader Ke'ra (played by Megan Leitch who's portrayed Mulder's missing sister in The X-Files) is a link to the earlier "Prisoners" episode and the dangerous "destroyer of worlds". In a two-part cliffhanger, Sam must attempt to rescue her father, face Satan himself on a prison moon, and resurrect "Jolinar's Memories" from the Goa'uld she was briefly possessed by, then "The Devil You Know" reveals an embarrassing secret that could allow the team to escape the clutches of Satanic Sokar. "Pretense" is one of those sci-fi series staples as a character is put on trial to prove their guilt on behalf of another. "Urgo" expands the general sardonic humor with a little pathos for the guest appearance by Dom DeLuise. Lots of slapstick ensues.
"A Hundred Days" is the three months O'Neill spends stranded on planet Edora by the fire rain of a passing asteroid belt. Then in "Shades of Grey" he appears to suffer a total personality switch when he steals technology from the Tollan and is insubordinate in the extreme. Both these are terrific concepts but are scarcely enough story to have stretched across more than one episode. --Paul Tonks
I Really Enjoy The Series (TV) & I'm Happy To Own This Season on DVD
Due to my occupation, I might catch one of the episodes on TV one Friday night-but then the next Friday night I'd be at work & didn't want to bother with taping the show... (I'm slowly working on replacing all of the VHS movies I have with DVDs).
Now, I have the entire season on DVD & can watch them when it's convenient for me. No VHS tapes to wear out & the pack takes up quite a bit less space compared to buying the series on videocassette tape.
Stargate SG-1 grows beyond just being a show.
Season three is 22 episodes of unending action, adventure, character development and lots of surprises. The return of old characters like Apophis, Thor, Bra'tac, Sha're, Shaara and the inflow of new characters like the System Lord Yu, the Earth bound Seth, the bounty hunter Aris Boch, and, Satan himself, Lord Sokar bring new life and blood to the series. If the first season was the foundation and the second was the first steps towards weaving strong, intelligent, plot lines together than the third season is the pay off. Stargate SG-1 authors and directors can now work with a realistic, many layered setting, in a universe full of wonderful people, realistic dangers and ethical questions. We get to see the end of Hathor in the first episode of the season and also we get to meet, for the first time, the Replicators. This bug-like creatures, which show up in the very last episode of this season, are the enemy of the Asgard and will make a huge impact in upcoming seasons. When it comes to being a deadly danger to the galaxy, if not the whole universe, they make the Goa'uld look like preschoolers.
Another great season for one of Sci-fi's best TV shows
Season Three of STARGATE SG-1 continued the excellent precedent established in Season Three by each week continuing the story of Stargate Command's exploration of the universe via wormholes created by an ancient system of stargates. I have for several years been especially interested in the way that post-HILL STREET BLUES television shows negotiate issues concerning narrative (that being the first non-soap to be structured around ongoing story arcs). The approach that STARGATE takes in Season Three is fairly unique. Most shows tend not to wrap up all narrative tension each week and frequently pick up in one episode what happened in the previous one. Most episodes of STARGATE in Season Three begin with a relative ignorance of what happened in the previous episode and ends by resolving most of that week's narrative tension. Contrast this with FARSCAPE or BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER or LOST where episodes frequently begin by referring to what happened in the previous week's episode. Nonetheless, STARGATE does not resemble any other shows that resolve most narrative issues each week, in that most Season Three episodes refer to previous episodes. Most shows employing the long narrative format deal with several threads in each episode. STARGATE usually deals with one thread, but loves to pick up on stories from one or two previous episodes. Season Three on the other hand featured very few episodes that were completely stand-alone. I'm not aware of another show that so consistently in any one season used such a method. Even in Season Two STARGATE tended to let episodes run over from week to week.
What makes STARGATE so satisfying to watch is the way they keep picking up on previous episodes and bringing characters and races back for expansion of their story. My lone complaint with the show is that it is not a character driven show. By this I mean that the show does not primarily emphasize the way characters change over time, but the plot and story. In this way it more closely resembles THE X-FILES than FARSCAPE or BUFFY. Another way of putting it is that on STARGATE the characters exist more for the stories than the stories exist for the purpose of telling you about the characters. My preference is for character development over plot, but that doesn't mean that I can't love both. Sometimes you just need a good yarn, and STARGATE certainly provides that.
The show does so many things well, but I wanted to mention just one. One of the things I have been working on for a couple of writing projects is the way women have been portrayed on TV in the past two decades. Maj. Samantha Carter has to be one of the most positive portrayals of a female character on all of television. No matter what else female characters in ensemble casts are used far, they usually are used as eye candy or sex appeal. Without implying that Amanda Tapping is unattractive, her presentation on the show is always as an enormously competent professional and the show avoids sexualizing her. She is an attractive woman, but her physical assets are never emphasized on the show. Even better, the show never stresses her gender. We take so completely for granted Carter's competence that issues of her gender never emerge on the show. And by having none of the characters on the show--except in a few patriarchal cultures they visit in their travels--treat her as anything other than a fellow professional of the highest competence, the show helps in patterning the thinking of countless fans. I wonder how many 12-year-old boys and girls have had their thinking about gender subtly molded by this show. In conjunction with a host of other shows that have emerged since the early 1990s, I can't help but hope and believe that in an age when there has been little political advancement of women, much progress has been made in thinking positively about women in all kinds of situations as a result of shows like this.
Season Two may have had slightly stronger ongoing story arcs than Season Three, but this season was blessed with some truly excellent individual story arcs. One in particular pleased me in that it starred an actor who I have often disliked in the past: Dom DeLuise. I had often wondered if Peter DeLuise, who has directed a huge number of episodes of STARGATE, was related to Dom and it turns out that he is his son. Together father and son make this one of the funnier episodes on the show, and Peter even steps in briefly to portray his father when Dom, playing, Urgo, turned himself into a much younger man dressed in a uniform, asking if they prefer him looking like that.
DARK ANGEL fans should take note of episode "Pretense," in which there is a trial to determine whether the Goa'uld Klorel will be removed from Skaara's body. Klorel is defended by the Goa'uld Zipacna, who is played by Kevin Durand. DARK ANGEL fans may recognize the name but not the face, since Durand in heavy make up played Joshua, Max's dog boy friend, in Season Two of the series.
All in all, this was another great season of one of TV's finest Sci-fi series.
It wasn't until the beginning of Stargate SG-1's fourth season that fans knew to take the Replicator threat seriously. The spidery nasties had only seemed like one of many new enemies introduced in previous years. But when the one seemingly omnipotent backbone of the galaxy was asking Earth for help, clearly we were in real trouble! In fact, the team's list of enemies expanded and got far more complicated this year. Proving without a shadow of a doubt that this is science fiction, the Russians reveal they have their own Stargate program and ask the Americans for help. This twist allows for exploration of all the political machinations occurring behind the scenes of the SG-C, all of which appear to stem from the embittered Senator Kinsey (Ronny Cox).
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It now seems clear that season 5 of Stargate SG-1 will be remembered as the one in which something went awry with Daniel Jackson. Lots of behind-the-scenes rumors fueled the idea of cast tension, but whatever the problem, his sudden departure from the show was obviously through a quickly contrived scenario. In retrospect, there must have been a problem for some while before the weird penultimate episode ("Meridian"). Michael Shanks looks frequently bored in his rare moments of individual screen time as he infiltrates a Goa'uld meeting and even when making friends with a creature everyone else wants dead. In fact, there's only one point when everyone really seems to be having fun, and that's in the spoof 100th episode "Wormhole X-treme!"
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The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted with Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. Replacing the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill (Kurt Russell) and Dr. Daniel Jackson (James Spader) are, respectively, Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the primary unit SG-1. With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" pharaonic Goa'uld--the ancient... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 13 June 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The biggest change for Stargate SG-1's sixth season was its move to the Sci-Fi Channel. Financial rescue or genre haven from cancellation? Whatever the behind-the-scenes politics, the departure of Daniel Jackson (actor Michael Shanks) the previous year most certainly contributed to the need to run a tighter ship somewhere. With the addition of his replacement, Jonas Quinn, the new show dynamic (hinted at by the new title theme) meant far more convolutedly involved story arcs and less individual focus. One of very few solo spotlights came from Christopher Judge writing his own show, when "The Changeling" saw Teal'c act out a life as a fireman. One reason for its being a fan favorite was the cameo from still-alive-after-all Daniel Jackson. There'd be several more through the year,... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 13 June 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A gradual shift in overall style, character homecomings and departures, and evolving on- and off-screen roles for the major players are among the attractions of the seventh season of Stargate SG-1. Spread out over five discs, these 21 episodes are ample indication that changes notwithstanding--and admittedly, not all of them are for the better--the series remains arguably the best-made, most compelling sci-fi program on television.
Perhaps most noticeable is the reduced role of star Richard Dean Anderson, who opted to limit his number of trips to Vancouver, where Stargate SG-1 is filmed. But that's not a bad thing. The show's ability to poke fun at itself has always been a strong suit, and while Anderson still brings a welcome sense of humor to his portrayal of... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 13 June 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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