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Stargate: The (Re)watch Thread - SG-1 Season Three

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    The premiere was fine, but it was just awkwardly situated at just the right spot for the old team antics to start getting old, but before they decided to shake it up. On top of that, they didn't do any major arc progression that season. It was just wholly unmemorable.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote:
    azith28 wrote:
    I liked all the gates...Universe was....decent...if they would have given it another season i think it would have gotten alot more love then it started with. I think the problem was they focused more on being in the ship then the gate visits which is what made the difference between SG1 or Atlantis and BSG.

    Atlantis i think had characters on par with SG1...I didnt think i would like atlantis and shunned it for awhile, when the season dvd's were on sale i picked up one or two to give it a try and found myself surprised at how much i liked the cast, especially the ones i didnt think i would like (Rodney).

    I hope someone brings it back one day.

    The only terrible Atlantis character was Ford. And they realized this, which is why he was turned into an unresolved plotline after season 1.

    Yeah, Ford didn't really have much going for him besides being somewhat wet behind the ears and having a solid weapons knowledge. I was fine with the stuff from season 2 onwards with him, but it took me much longer to realise 'They straight up dropped his storyline back in his last appearance, didn't they?'

  • SnorkSnork word Jamaica Plain, MARegistered User regular
    yeah, i understand you have to ditch someone when the character isn't well-received and the actor isn't getting along with the rest of the cast (not sure if this is accurate, remember hearing something to that extent though), but i really wish they had more than that one episode to carry on his plotline
    not anything big, just... something.

  • GoldenSeducerGoldenSeducer AAAAAUGH!! Registered User regular
    My boyfriend maintains that between Richard Dean Anderson and Christopher Judge, the latter is the superior actor. He bases this on the episode where everyone's personalities get swapped via Machello's swapping device.

    I cannot wait until we can resume watching episodes. I need my fix.

  • Kyoka SuigetsuKyoka Suigetsu Odin gave his left eye for knowledge. I would give far more Registered User regular
    Mysst wrote:
    JAFFA
    KREE

    No no no! Don't kree!.

    Sg1 was a classic.

    Atlantis had great characters but just felt lazy to me. Next to no non-wraith aliens and shitty villains.

    Universe is better show than people give it credit for once you got past the awful backstabbing and power struggle horseshit. Infact I'd even say SGU was better than atlantis.

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    I don't know how delicious non-humans would have been to the Wraith, but it isn't too much of a stretch considering how long they have dominated the Pegasus galaxy when it was originally the Ancient's turf.

    Also I loved the Genii episodes.

  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ

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  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    TrippyJing wrote:
    I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ

    YES! THAT WAS AWESOME!

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Oh hey, this is all on Netflix. Let's see how far I can get in SG-1 in the 26 more days I still have Netflix. It will have to compete for my time with Sons of Anarchy though.

  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    My god, Children Of The Gods hasn't aged well (at least the original version, don't know about the remastering). Nearly every scene is embarrassing to watch. RDA kills it though, and, I was surprised, so does Michael Shanks. He's all in channeling-James-Spader mode in that one, but he nails it. It's a little weird to go back to him after getting used to short-haired, confident Daniel.

    Apophis is delightfully hammy. Also, a great performance we tend to forget is Alexis Cruz as Skaara/Klorel. He might be one of the most underrated actors on the series. Sha're though, ugh. Ugh. I'm actually glad she stays off-screen for most of what comes next. Gratuitous nudity notwithstanding.

    Kawalsky was also pretty good, in a mugging-grinny kind of way. He'd get real old real fast if he was a regular, but I like him here. One thing I've always wondered about was why the new Kawalsky looks more like the old Ferretti and vice-versa. Maybe the writers/casting got confused as to which was which and just hoped nobody would notice.

    Hammond of Texas gets so much better later on once he warms up to our guys. I dislike this early Hammond.

    Christopher Judge was so fucking skinny 14 years ago. Well I mean, by his own standards. He could still kill a man with one temple muscle. Also, hard to buy his sudden turn into a good guy without the massive amounts of backstory later episodes would heap on top of him.

    Up next, a great episode and then like 12 middling ones until it gets awesome again at the end of the season.

    (also a couple really, really terrible ones)

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    I love Michael Shanks.

    He was really good in the episode where he had a lot of personalities all up in his head.

    Or at least I thought so when I saw it forever ago.

    Either way he is a total dreamboat.

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  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    I used to have a crush on Sam Carter.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Artreus wrote:
    I love Michael Shanks.

    He was really good in the episode where he had a lot of personalities all up in his head.

    Or at least I thought so when I saw it forever ago.

    Either way he is a total dreamboat.

    Yeah, I believe the title of that episode was 'Lifeboat', he was pretty good in that (and I loved him in Burn Notice).

  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    Random episode musing:

    In S10/Talion - it always bothered me that the thing that triggered Teal'c's roaring rampage of revenge, in which he went completely rogue and just murdered everything in sight, nearly derailed a pan-galactic peace process, and single-handedly took down all the rest of SG-1, was a bunch of nameless Jaffa getting blown up. Here's a guy who's spent the last ten years trying to free his people, witnessing them die by the thousands - that that's the thing that sets him off? Really?

    Basically what I'm saying is it should have been Rya'c getting blowd up. I would have absolutely bought that. It's not like they needed the kid for any dangling plots at that point.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Man.

    The hard truth is that, in retrospect, they totally should've gone with Colonel Kennedy's plan in The Enemy Within and kept Kawalsky in a cell for a year or two.
    It wouldn't be that long before a Goa'uld extraction became a somewhat casual thing.

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    I liked that episode where Teal'c is getting slowly broken down when he's trapped inside the combat simulator.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    TrippyJing wrote:
    I liked that episode where Teal'c is getting slowly broken down when he's trapped inside the combat simulator.

    Love how that was basically a holodeck-goes-haywire episode but without any safety-off bullshit. If you were stuck in a VR videogame forever, even if it wasn't physically threatening, you would eventually die from exhaustion, a heart attack or a stroke anyway.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    SimBen wrote:
    TrippyJing wrote:
    I liked that episode where Teal'c is getting slowly broken down when he's trapped inside the combat simulator.

    Love how that was basically a holodeck-goes-haywire episode but without any safety-off bullshit. If you were stuck in a VR videogame forever, even if it wasn't physically threatening, you would eventually die from exhaustion, a heart attack or a stroke anyway.

    I like how Teal'c says he plays Def Jam Vendetta instead of just generic Blood Guy game or DOOM or something.

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    I enjoyed that episode just for the fact that it did not go with the now-standard "If you die in the game/dream/VRthingie you die FOR REEEEAAAAAL" drama angle and instead focused on the fact that Teal'c was killing himself by repeatedly launching himself at an enemy that he subconsciously believed he could never defeat.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I like the one where Thor just grabs the team and a bunch of food from the base for a big long trip and it ends up with Jack and Teal'c sitting around eating all the ice cream before it melts because Thor doesn't have a freezer.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    The Geek wrote:
    SimBen wrote:
    TrippyJing wrote:
    I liked that episode where Teal'c is getting slowly broken down when he's trapped inside the combat simulator.

    Love how that was basically a holodeck-goes-haywire episode but without any safety-off bullshit. If you were stuck in a VR videogame forever, even if it wasn't physically threatening, you would eventually die from exhaustion, a heart attack or a stroke anyway.

    I like how Teal'c says he plays Def Jam Vendetta instead of just generic Blood Guy game or DOOM or something.

    I think Christopher Judge was in that game or something. That was some cross-promotion product placement right there.
    The Geek wrote:
    I like the one where Thor just grabs the team and a bunch of food from the base for a big long trip and it ends up with Jack and Teal'c sitting around eating all the ice cream before it melts because Thor doesn't have a freezer.

    And then I think it was... Jonas? Just walks in and asks them what the hell they're doing and Teal'c just plucks a pint from the box and a spoon and tosses them at him.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Oh there we go, I got it backwards but this is even better.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcc0dbwfMRg

    Also, slight spoiler regarding Replicators in that if you're just starting out. Not that you'd even know what a Replicator is yet.

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    e: so beat'd.

    That episode did have one of my favorite SG1 moments ever, when they first meet the human-form Replicators.

    "We are the Replicators."
    Jack: Oh.
    {a beat}
    {SG1 sprays everything on full-auto}

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    What season was that again

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    season 6: Unnatural Selection, the mid-season premiere.

    Which reminds me that John DeLancie was soooo good every time he aappeared.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    The Geek wrote:
    I like the one where Thor just grabs the team and a bunch of food from the base for a big long trip and it ends up with Jack and Teal'c sitting around eating all the ice cream before it melts because Thor doesn't have a freezer.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Hahaha, yes.

    God, it was so easy to hate Senator Kinsey.

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    He will forever be Dick Jones to me.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    All the human adversaries in the series (excluding Universe because in that one they're the main characters) are always so slimy and obviously evil. You can tell within one second they're bad guys. The only one that really becomes likable is Maybourne, mostly because he comes back so often and always one-ups his own douchebagginess in an increasingly adorable way.

    Simmons also, but mostly because John DeLancie is so fun to watch acting.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Christopher Judge is gonna be in The Dark Knight Rises

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    It was so weird seeing Wayne Brady in Stargate.

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    Maybourne is fantastic. Great as a foil in the early seasons, and even better once he turns into a comic sidekick for The Buddy-Cop Adventures of Jack and Harry.

    Oh god what was Sam's Maybourne burn in Foothold again?

    "Maybourne, you are an idiot every day of the week, why couldn't you just take one day off?"

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    I love that one time Jack just runs into Maybourne at the gas station and yells "Ya RAT BASTARD!!!" at him and just goes up to deck him.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    SimBen wrote:
    All the human adversaries in the series (excluding Universe because in that one they're the main characters) are always so slimy and obviously evil. You can tell within one second they're bad guys. The only one that really becomes likable is Maybourne, mostly because he comes back so often and always one-ups his own douchebagginess in an increasingly adorable way.

    Simmons also, but mostly because John DeLancie is so fun to watch acting.

    Ha, I loved how blatantly slimey the human adversaries were. And of course we can't forget the IOA, who were basically an organization of slimy, genre-blind human adversaries.

    e: bah, forgot about a saved draft I never deleted.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Alright, I am watching "Emancipation" right now on Netflix and this "Mongols think Sam is the hottest piece of white ass ever" plot is just laughable, and not in a good way.

  • MadEddyMadEddy Creepy house watching youRegistered User regular
    edited August 2011
    SimBen wrote:
    Man.

    The hard truth is that, in retrospect, they totally should've gone with Colonel Kennedy's plan in The Enemy Within and kept Kawalsky in a cell for a year or two.
    It wouldn't be that long before a Goa'uld extraction became a somewhat casual thing.

    I know, right? I never understood why
    no one else who had a Goa'uld removed had the Goa'ul personality take over like Kawalsky did.

    Edit: And Maybourne is my favorite antagonist in the whole series, I think. He's just such an asshole.

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    I liked Jonas but man, I just love Daniel Jackson so much more.

    Dude is radtacular.

    I wish Michael Shanks was in more stuff.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    His brief stint on Burn Notice was pretty good. Don't know if I can remember seeing him in anything since though.

  • SnorkSnork word Jamaica Plain, MARegistered User regular
    The Geek wrote:
    Christopher Judge is gonna be in The Dark Knight Rises

    holy fuck really? this makes me really excited. i really miss seeing all of these actors on screen
    michael shanks was so enjoyable in the random one-offs of other shows he did. wasn't there some pilot he and chris judge did where shanks played satan than never materialized? i feel like that would have rocked

  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    More commentary on "Emancipation": given everything else you've seen about this culture, why does it surprise anybody in the least that the way the "spirits decide" is through combat to the death? Wouldn't you just basically assume? And shouldn't you clarify points like this before you agree to the whole thing?

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