Revisiting Stargate SG1...
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I'm pretty sure it was just Shanks wanting back on the show at the time. Whatever he tried to do in the year he was off failed miserably. There are even a couple of jokes in the third episode. One of them is where he asks if he gets paid for being an SG-1 member. 
Let's face it, after Shanks left the show the Save Daniel Jackson people made a lot of noise to the point where they had no choice but to bring him back if Shanks was willing. After that, sadly, Jonas was a fifth wheel, he was redundant.
I think people take the line about the Ori invading Langara too seriously. I think they just name dropped Langara and Hebredan as two potential allies against the Ori who had fallen. I doubt it was some jab at Jonas. I would not have been surprised, if the show had gone to an eleventh season, to see an episode or two with SG-1 helping a Langaran resistance movement against the Ori, with Jonas as its leader.
As for SG-1 being free of technobabble - wait a while longer.
Oh, and...
I think people take the line about the Ori invading Langara too seriously. I think they just name dropped Langara and Hebredan as two potential allies against the Ori who had fallen. I doubt it was some jab at Jonas. I would not have been surprised, if the show had gone to an eleventh season, to see an episode or two with SG-1 helping a Langaran resistance movement against the Ori, with Jonas as its leader.
As for SG-1 being free of technobabble - wait a while longer.
It is in this season where the SGC's ship's, first the Prometheus and then others, start to become more prominent. With more use of these ships, the technobabble increases significantly.
Oh, and...
IIRC, there's a line in Atlantis where McKay is annoyed that Daniel makes more money than him.
I'm sure this is old hat around here, but about two weeks ago I started revisiting Stargate SG1 through the season sets.
Prior to this my servings of SG-1 and then later Atlantis have been sporadic. I had probably seen most of the episodes, but not always in order and regularly. I will say that after sampling SGU I just don't care for it---much of the reason is it lacks the charm of the previous casts.
I'm nearing the end of Season 3 and I've really gotten into this. While there are plot threads and ideas running through the series I like the basically episodic format--it's easily digestible and easy for any new viewer to jump into. My only serious quibbles were with a few very early 1st season episodes that were too much "ancient civilization of the week."
Oddly in its own way I find Stargate very Star Trek TOS like in how it uses its characters, the stories it tells and overall execution. I actually think it's a more genuine spiritual successor to TOS than any of the actual Trek spinoffs.
I'm liking all the characters, but I just love O'Neill. I love his down-to-earth everyman take on things and impatience with bullshit.And he personifies the series' down-ti-earth approach to humour.
I'm really looking forward to the following seasons...
After my 'which is the best' thread, I have the whole 10 seasons boxed set sitting in my shopping trolley. I just can't decide if £120 is a good investment or not.
Which one was that?
Teal'c, after barely surviving the bombing of a Jaffa summit leaves the SGC to find the mastermind, torturing and killing those involved along the way, it's easily the darkest and most brutal episode in the series
Oh yeah, that one. The whole Teal'c snapping and going on a rampage thing had been building up due to all the crap that happened to Teal'c at the end of Season 9 and at points in season 10.
Bane (the one where Teal'c gets bitten by a space bug) and Emancipation (Carter kidnapped by Mongols) pale in comparison to Talion, yes, turning into an insect hive is....gross...especially with a good makeup team, or a Carter when she was being written as an angry lesbian episode is one thing, Talion hits on something much darker and more primal (and much kudos to Judge for his awesome delivery) it's an episode that is waaaay out of tone with the rest of the series. I WISH they had the balls to write the supposedly darker "Universe" in the same tone as this episode was written.
Just starting to go through Season 7 and I'm glad to have Daniel Jackson back. I didn't mind Jonas Quinn, but it just wasn't the same. In like manner I know Mitchell is coming down the road and while I know there will still be fun stories I recall enough that I always missed O'Neill.
I watched Season 9 a month ago (half way through Season 10 now) and I don't miss O'Neill at all, even though he's my favourite character. Aside from 2/5 of the main cast, the show feels completely different and it's hard to imagine O'Neill in Mitchell's place in any of the episodes in Season 9/10.
I started my rewatch several months ago as well. I am about midway through season 10 and really glad I found this thread. I thought I would have been bummed that RDA wasn't in the last two seasons, as a major character, but I am finding that it has been just as enjoyable. I am seeing most of season 9 and 10 for the first time, having missed them in first run.
I have a question everyone. How do you think the Ori enemy would have been had they been introduced sooner, in the series? I think they are interesting and far different from the Go'uld in earlier seasons. How much different would O'neill and Hammond been towards them? It kind of sucks knowing that I only have about 10 episodes to go and the two so so movies after that.
I have a question everyone. How do you think the Ori enemy would have been had they been introduced sooner, in the series? I think they are interesting and far different from the Go'uld in earlier seasons. How much different would O'neill and Hammond been towards them? It kind of sucks knowing that I only have about 10 episodes to go and the two so so movies after that.
They were able to keep the Go'uld threat going for so long because it wasn't the whole thing about the series. There were enough interesting and fun standalone episodes that kept things from getting stale too soon. That said they could have wrapped the Go'uld threat earlier and I'd have been okay with that I suppose. The Ori are quite different and without all the advanced tech that Earth acquired they would have been even more challenged to take on the Ori. Mind you seeing O'Neill being disdainful of Ori behaviour would have been fun to watch.
I'm presently mid way through Season 8 and loving it. I've come to love all the main characters. And I love the sense of humour. I'm still getting used to Brigadier General O'Neill and I kinda miss Hammond in command of the SGC, but even so it's all good.
One thing I'm sure about: the Zat has become one of my favourite SF weapons and I just freakin' love the sounds it makes.
I'm presently mid way through Season 8 and loving it. I've come to love all the main characters. And I love the sense of humour. I'm still getting used to Brigadier General O'Neill and I kinda miss Hammond in command of the SGC, but even so it's all good.
One thing I'm sure about: the Zat has become one of my favourite SF weapons and I just freakin' love the sounds it makes.
Agreed about the Zat, it is definitely cool. I just watched a season 10 episode, last night, that had a really cool effect with the zat gun. It was fired at a metal beam, traveled the length of it, and stunned someone on the other end. Definitely cool.
I agree but Valla is so nice to look at. Keep an eye out on season 10, Morena Baccarin makes a few guest appearances.
