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Season 7 is done. Finito. Excellent closer. It could have been released to the theaters.

Anyway, time to gird my loins for some all-new (to me) Stargate!

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Well, the two opening episodes of season 8 were awesome. The Daniel Jackson. Ha! I love the Asgard. I was a little thrown by the recasting of Weir, but I like Torri already. She looks really good in downgraded HD (aka DVD)--the kind of face that just pops on closeups, if that makes any sense. I wish there had been some discussion of the switch on the commentary, but they had Gary Jones sitting in and it sounded like they were going to crack jokes the whole time rather than discuss the behind-the-scenes stuff.

I wanted to jump into Atlantis, but I had watched four episodes in a row and knew I'd be too tired to make it through. I'll watch it later today. Then, it's time to start swapping discs. I've got my jewel case standing by, since that's the way I do it when I'm watching different discs at one time.

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Chee whiz! I started this thread in early September, so it's taken me at least four months to get as far as I have (about halfway through SG1 S8/SGA S1). I just wish I knew how far into it I was when I first posted.

S8 has been pretty good. The only episode I really didn't like was Icon, which seemed like a rehash of the Eurondans and Kalowonans. Like Star Trek, the Stargate people seem to have trouble coming up with realistic multinational planets. The problem I have with this season, though, is that we've seen very little of SG-1 so far. It seems like it's mainly from the general's perspective on the base, which is interesting. But, I think when there is a change, they ought to spend a little more time defining it. Namely,

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Atlantis has been pretty good all the way through, but the first three episodes after the pilot were a little ho-hum. It picked up after that, though. The last one I watched--The Eye--was awesome. I haven't minded Sheppard throughout, but here he became pretty kick ass. Die Hard With a Zat'nik'tel.

Bought S2. Now I just have two more to buy and two and a half seasons of SG1 and three and a half seasons of SGA to go. I just hope season 5 comes out before the Universe pilot. Otherwise, I'll have to keep it on my DVR for a while. I also hope my cable company will get SciFiHD before it premieres. Unlikely.

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Forgot to mention that it's weird that they cast that Tollan dude as Weir's left-behind boyfriend. He was a little too prominent on SG1 to make sense in another role, but I guess they liked the actor and wanted to use him again. So far, it's so minor a role that it doesn't seem like it was worth it. Then again, I just read that they originally wanted Hewlett in a brand new role, which would have really been a big mistake.

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Watched the Defiant One. So awesome. If this show can keep the level of quality of the last several episodes. . . .

I just wish someone had wondered if these were the same species of bugs from Prodigy. Sheppard would likely not know about them, but McKay might. It's not unrealistic that no one on the planet would have read that particlar mission report, but it had me curious. Maybe it's mentioned on the commentary.

Edit: P. DeLuise directed both. He would have obviously remembered the little glowing guys. Now I really want to hear the commentary.

BTW, is the cartoon worth buying at all?

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So, what are you saying? It's usually just average?

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Well, I think Stargate and Battlestar are trying to accomplish two different things. I think Stargate more wants to be like Star Wars than Star Trek--fun and action-packed. Personally, though I watch it, I don't get any enjoyment from Battlestar. It's bleak, joyless and cynical. I think it's self-important as well. I'm not sure why I even watch it, but you don't see me posting in the thread because I'm not interested in going against the grain.

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Arild, I'm glad I took your advice and am watching the show simultaneously, as I instantly recognized the Jumper when SG-1 found it during It's Good To Be the King. One of the best episodes of the entire run, by the way.

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Jack's 59 today.

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Arild, don't want to give you a swelled head, but your method paid off again! First, since I watched Citizen Joe and Before I Sleep on the same night, I was able to note how interesting it was that they originally aired two clips shows on the same night, and in both, they were really playing with the formula (though, really, Before I Sleep just incorporated a single major flashback). More importantly, the Atlantis gang discovered a jumper with a strange device in it and didn't know what it was. I was yelling, "It's a time ship!" The evidence is pretty clear that this Janus guy went back to earth 10,000 years ago, built a new time ship, and he was the same one using time travel to study Maybourne's planet. Cool. I probably would have missed all of that if I was holding one series or the other back until I was done.

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That's on the agenda for tonight, so I'll take a look. I caught the reference in Letters from Pegasus when Walter and Sam showed up for two seconds. Also, SG-1 has started using things from Atlantis more and more. The screen for the Ancient weapon in Reckoning Pt 2 was from the Atlantis sets, and there's the jumper on the cover of disc 5.

It ran for a long time, but I still happened to miss Best Buy's $19.99 sale on the last two available seasons. I figured I'd buy them as I finished previous seasons to spread out the cost, but that was a mistake. At least DDD has them for just a little more.

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It was good, but I preferred Threads. Then again, they basically work as one big story. I like the Jack and Sam stuff, and the Jacob stuff that was foreshadowed in Reckoning.

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Somehow, I had gotten it in my mind that the long version of Threads was an hour and a half, and I thought Amazon had sent me the wrong one. Doing a little research, I see that it was just an hour and four minutes and I got the whole thing.

Edit: Atlantis reference in Threads. "Wraiths on the way to Atlantis." I saw it with a second run through.

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I had to deshrinkwrap Atlantis S2 and S9 because I'm done with the previous seasons! I think both Atlantis S1 and S8 were curiously strong. A couple of weak episodes, yeah, but that could be said about any season of either show. The last five episodes of S8 were ridiculously good. I'm glad I watched as God intended because

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Well, right now, I'm thinking, "Moebius would have been a hell of a series finale." Hmmm. I really didn't like Avalon Pt. 1 at all. They introduced Browder in the worst possible way, with SG-1 all visiting his bedside to tell them how much they owed him. Having him be an anonymous hero of Antarctica would have been much better. But, I really hate Claudia Black's character. The little bit of her in S8 went a long way. I'm already tired of her schtick. It's like if Vash had become a regular on Star Trek TNG. Maybe Carter's return will soften her horndog persona, but that's the last thing Stargate needed IMO. I hope it gets better, but it's the worst season premiere episode they ever did.

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I guess I should break the routine and watch the three episodes all at once. I stopped after the first with the plan to go on to the Atlantis premiere, but I was too tired at the time. I hope I like it better as it goes, because I own both seasons and plan to plow through. I hope it isn't a case where appreciation of the characters depends on goodwill from Farscape, because I never liked what I saw of that show.


I didn't catch that as I was watching, though I did watch a little of Dead Like Me. I've always planned to buy the box sets, but have yet to get around to it.