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Stargate: The (Re)watch Thread - SG-1 Season Three
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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?'
not anything big, just... something.
I cannot wait until we can resume watching episodes. I need my fix.
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.
Also I loved the Genii episodes.
YES! THAT WAS AWESOME!
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)
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Also, slight spoiler regarding Replicators in that if you're just starting out. Not that you'd even know what a Replicator is yet.
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}
Which reminds me that John DeLancie was soooo good every time he aappeared.
"Supreme Commander."
God, it was so easy to hate Senator Kinsey.
Simmons also, but mostly because John DeLancie is so fun to watch acting.
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?"
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.
I know, right? I never understood why
Edit: And Maybourne is my favorite antagonist in the whole series, I think. He's just such an asshole.
Dude is radtacular.
I wish Michael Shanks was in more stuff.
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