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@LeNaSmileyStar

Ай бұрын

Made my humble contribution, for support and gratitude for the immense work you put into this. Thank you and Greetings from Arctic Lo-Ve Islands, Norway 👋✨✨✨🌟

@subraxas

Ай бұрын

@@LeNaSmileyStar You really hail from the Lofoten Islands?

@videostoryanalyses8910

Ай бұрын

Learn to pronouce "Neumann" correctly.

@TheChronozoan

Ай бұрын

@@videostoryanalyses8910 Which correctly lol? Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's wrong.

The show lasted so long that the "reproductive organs" line became a joke within the show itself before the end.

@brianmulholland2467

Ай бұрын

It was despised internally immediately. Amanda Tapping has given interviews where she mentions hating the line immediately, but that she didn't have the confidence in her position that early to tell her bosses that this was a bad line. As time went on, Tapping reportedly would actually push back at times. Another thing from the pilot that the producers hated was that Showtime pressured them into including the gratuitous nudity scene where a woman is disrobed and implanted with a goa'uld.

@kotzpenner

Ай бұрын

@@brianmulholland2467 Now I love Tapping even more

@dalekrenegade2596

23 күн бұрын

​@@brianmulholland2467 Yeah the visible stripping of Sha'rai not in such a usually light toned show always put me off. Doesn't help that a earlier yet similar seen but we don't the full view of the stripped woman. Such a drastic tone shift.

@akrinornoname2769

6 минут бұрын

I'm pretty sure they also told Shari's actress that they weren't going to include full frontal nudity in the final product, but went behind her back about it

this is a weapon of terror ,THIS is a weapon of war

@Grivehn

Ай бұрын

One of the moments when the 'US industrial military complex' shone through a bit less subtler than in most episodes. The staff weapon is elegant, can kill in one shot, and its crystal technology hardly ever depletes. Sure, there are instances where a gun can be more advantageous, but why SG command never replaced its weaponry for goa'uld weapons, at least partially, was in my humble opinion, a continuity error. Sure they can hardly mass produce or fix them, but they could pretty much scavenge them by the wagons on certain trips. Dont tell me having a Zat in the back pocket to stun people or disintegrate anything and anyone wouldnt come in handy in just about any situation. Sure they used them sometimes, but not as much as they could have. Im pretty sure they retroactively regretted giving a stun gun a disintegrate function, so they shied away from it. I suppose one could chalk it up to the Goa'uld-Asgard treaties which would prevent Earth being technologically too advanced, but even when those treaties became null and void it hardly happened. And by that point, Earth had spaceships, too. Another matter was that guns could fight replicators, I suppose. Although why a Zet's third shot wouldnt disintegrate a replicator, is a mystery as well. Maybe we can technobabble it away with 'if the first two shots werent effective, a third wouldnt be either."

@GasparGa

Ай бұрын

@@Grivehn Look, SG is hardly a realistic show, but if you want to look at it realistically, staff weapons are not much better than a bow and arrow. You can literally dodge their blast with normal human reaction speed. You can't dodge a bullet. Also, "human weapons" have all kinds of optics allowing them to be precise and deadly to short-medium-long ranges while staff weapons are just "hip-fired" so it would be a miracle if they hit anything that's not directly in front of them. Guns are just better.

@macmcleod1188

Ай бұрын

Yup. And multiple hits on that log just made it swing around. The P90 cut it in two.

@Grimmance

Ай бұрын

Me an intellectual "well achtshually" *pushes glasses up nose "the jaffa could paint the target with a laser that imparts a charge to guide a plasma bolt at the target ignoring any slow evasive maneuvers" is what I wish they did, but yeah it's just another stick to beat slaves with, not a weapon of war.

@Grimmance

Ай бұрын

Stargate ignores the idea of cultural colonialism and whether it's right for the U.S. to impose its beliefs on every one they meet. By contrast startrek has a discussion about why they should for moral reasons take part in cultural colonization for the good of the aliens they meet. Just because you can parachute in and upend leoples cultures doesn't mean that's the right thing to do, especially given all the times we've seen indigenous tribes get wiped out by more established cultures.

I am a simple man. If I see Stargate on YT, I click on it! Thank You Rowan!

@twistedswed

11 күн бұрын

Hahaha this gave me a good laugh, I can see myself in this statement. SG1 is my favorite tv series of all time.

SG1 is my neighbour's favourite tv show. She's 96.

@subraxas

Ай бұрын

🙂 ❤

@horrorstew3577

Ай бұрын

Those old biddies love Richard Dean Anderson.... And David Boreanaz from Angel and Bones ... They must get all the dusty groupies lol 😂

@taejaskudva2543

Ай бұрын

That made my day.

My wife is American and served in the army as a linguist, she loves SG1 and O'Neill and has told me many times how his attitude toward the more nerdy people in the armed forces is accurate. That many times she was subjected to the wit of a more front line soldier, not in a bad way, not in a put you down sort of way, but just that they were trained to think of things in one very focused field of vision. Also I think O'Neill worked so well because we all saw that underneath his flippant attitude was a very serious and emotional man which made the times that emotion broke through all the more impactful.

The thing I loved about O'Niell was that he had a core element of darkness to his character. His sarcasm, tendency to self-sacrifice, and his almost intentional ignorance of technobabble were all fed by it.

@NerdRahtio

Ай бұрын

Yeap. He didn’t want to be there, he didn’t even want to live anymore, but he was, because it was his duty, and eventually because he valued his team, and his sarcasm and even playing dumb was his way of trying to enjoy the journey

@keeskoenen2956

Ай бұрын

Very true, which made it more disappointing that later seasons used his ignorance more as actual stupidity for comedic effect. I loved that in early seasons he clearly knew what he was talking about with regard to technobabble.

@Judgewrath1

Ай бұрын

@@keeskoenen2956 true, it became Flanderized over the seasons, but the best writing knew how to employ it. Some of my favorite writing for his character was the interrogation of Jackson in season 10, where he's become an Prior. It was a beautiful showcase of O'Niell's stubborn cynicism being used.

@gimmeboobes

Ай бұрын

Indeed. That dark side, his no-nonsense military guy/soldier side, was in charge in the film. In the TV series, it occasionally came out, and when it did, you can tell things really are serious.

@Blisterdude123

15 күн бұрын

@@keeskoenen2956 I do kinda get it though. Maybe it went too far, but RDR said himself he wanted the character to have a bit more comedic range than in the film. And when you're talking about a multi-season narrative rather than an hour-and-a-half or so film, you kinda need that extra scope for a character to change or grow or develop.

I'm going to partially agree with you about O'Neil. On one hand, as a former military guy, I do like his portrayal of a military guy. On the other, in the black hole episode you mentioned, their explaining to him about something about the black hole and he basically says, "Yeah, yeah the accretion disk." and when everyone looks surprised he knows what that is he says, "Did you think the telescope on my deck was just decoration?" He was smart, he just wasn't quite as smart as the two scientists on the team and he was more focused on practical matters than theoretics. In later episodes he just became Zoolander. "The files are in the computer?"

@BogeyTheBear

Ай бұрын

Jack O'Neill, the fighting man, had photos from outer space on the walls of his home. Daniel Jackson, the philosophizing social scientist, hung swords and other ancient weapons around in his place.

@marocat4749

Ай бұрын

Yeah, they should have reLly used the downplay while being comedic later. He just didnt really want to hear ot all the time i guess,bit he issmsrt, and wise, and the trauma iscore of his cjaracter. I dont mind he getsmore lightharted for real later but he could be smart just, not want to be asked about it.

@Cheesusful

Ай бұрын

But that's the thing, he deliberately acts dumb so people will underestimate him... He also doesn't have the world's greatest attention span...

@michaelguth4007

Ай бұрын

​@@Cheesusful I'm out of touch when it comes to modern hardware, I stopped actively looking into it 20 years ago. So, when I want to buy a new computer, for example, I want some real current-tech expertise to configure my system. When I go shopping, I play extra dumb. It helps to divide the honest salesperson from the scumbags, because the scumbags immediately try to take advantage of your (pretended) complete unfamiliarity. Works with all subjects where you have enough knowledge to see through obvious BS, but not enough to feel confident to make a qualified decision without external expertise.

@Derpsickle

Ай бұрын

@@michaelguth4007 just build your own

What I loved about SG1 is that it combined so many great elements across the best Star Trek series. It had the adventure and character chemistry of TOS, the philosophy of TNG, and the moral struggle of DS9. And it could poke fun at itself in so many ways, including hilarious jumps through the fourth wall. And the Ori are some of the darkest antagonists in all of science fiction.

@Grivehn

Ай бұрын

Nice to see a fellow Ori enjoyer. I get that the dissing of christianity/inquisition has been done to death, but I also thought the Ori was way more threatening than the Goa'ulds except Anubis. Much like Anubis, they were more of a cosmic threat due to their Ancient knowledge than simply a more advanced adversary. Their godhood was no joke, no cheap tricks, nor merely technology.

@dannypoo3281

Ай бұрын

Imagine being me, who for many years thought that SG-1 ended without truly resolving the Ori dilemma, only to recently discover that a post-series movie apparently does it? Guess I need to watch Ark of Truth.

@ShauriCheshire

Ай бұрын

And the worst part of the Ori threat is that it was wrapped around an IDEA, and those don't die as easily. Origin is now a thing in the universe and will remain so. How that shakes out in any (hopefully?) future series is, of course, up for grabs, I hope that it is an aspect of what came before that will play into it. Granted, without the Ori and their power and missionaries to push the darker aspects, it may become something more tame there is /always/ the lingering threat that someone might just manage to spark the old crusade back up again. Yikes. THAT is the existential dread of the Ori storyline.

@Grivehn

Ай бұрын

​@@dannypoo3281 Imagine being me, where in my country apparently the TV network stopped airing at season9. And didnt finish s10, only a dedicated scifi channel did years later. So for years I thought the Ori came through, everyone died, and that was the end of the entire show. Imagine my shock when I learnt s10 and the movies exist. I'll note I didnt have internet access at the time, it was still new.

@dannypoo3281

Ай бұрын

@@Grivehn lol. Crazy!

"All your gods are fake, here are machine guns" damn

Undomesticated Equines could not drag me away from your YT channel.

@cheese1ak

24 күн бұрын

❤

They do actually address the fact that all the planets they visit seem like Earth. In one episode, and I am paraphrasing here, O'Neill comes through the gate and sighs 'Trees, lots of trees' to which Samantha explains that because the Stargates were seeded on planets capable of supporting the human life form it makes sense they would have the same ecosystem. :)

@subraxas

Ай бұрын

Yeah, but even so it's still quite lame, because on the show it's almost always the same species of coniferous evergreen trees. AND, y'know, the planet Earth herself contains a whackload of diverse biomes that often look very dissimilar to one another. When SG1 began airing, I was only 13 years old and this already bugged me immensely. When the creators decided to make foliage on one of the visited planets purple instead of green, I almost experienced orgasm, because it was FINALLY 'alien'-looking.

@Martin-xd4jl

Ай бұрын

​@@subraxas To be fair, the only way they could realistically have represented more alien biomes than they did on the budget they had available would have been more soundstage work and ropey 1990s VFX. 'Every planet is a Canadian forest' is a little lame in terms of worldbuilding, but I think the fact they shot so much on location means the series as a whole has aged way better visually than a lot of its contemporaries.

I loved SG-1, but the lore consistency and generally successful humor are what truly sets it apart from most Sci-Fi of its era and put it among my favourites.

@ShishakliAus

Ай бұрын

Upon recent rewatch, the writing became leaps and bounds better than comparable shows. Really compelling stuff

@ukaniko

Ай бұрын

Whenever I watch other shows in the midst of an SG-1 binge, I find myself expecting them to be written like Stargate eps and being frustrated when they aren’t. "Wait, so they just solved the problem in one episode? They just….succeeded and didn’t continue the conflict into the next episode so their failure and uncertainty can be used as the basis for character development, introducing new technologies/species/recurring characters, and expanding the lore??? Well that sucks. 😐"

A little bit of trivia: General Hammond was Scully's father for exactly 1 episode where he immediately died.

@zamlat8118

Ай бұрын

And in "Twin Peaks" he was an alien-listening Air Force Major!

@CM-wv8ns

Ай бұрын

Well, he did one other episode as a kinda ghost when Scully was near death

Nicely done. Favorite line when thor corrects kinsey who calls him commander. And thor says, "Supreme Commander." And puts his little finger up. Still makes me smile.

@ukaniko

Ай бұрын

☝️ *SUPREME* Commander

@mildlyangryjohnny

Ай бұрын

That was kind of meta. I enjoyed that on many levels.

Man in the early 2000’s, this show was inescapable on the sci-fi network… simpler times

@ANTIStraussian

Ай бұрын

And then one day sg1 would end and start would start on the same night. Mind blown.

One of my favorite shows. My whole family would sit in the living room and watch it when it was on showtime. Also thought Shanks and Spader were the same until I was a teenager.

Probably the most well written sci fi show I’ve ever seen and I’m a treker

@Manta665

Ай бұрын

then maybe give B5 or Cowboy Bebop (not the Netflix version) a watch ;)

@marocat4749

Ай бұрын

Steins gate. Ok honestly alot of anime are really good scifi.

Got the notification of ur new video ... In The Middle Of My Backswing ?!!!

@jamesrepass442

Ай бұрын

Legitimately one of the best sci fi time travel episodes ever

Just have to say, Teryl Rothery is incredibly gorgeous and was always a favorite of mine on this show.

@anthonyhiggins7409

Ай бұрын

She is such a good actor and has great presence. She very quietly steels every scene she is in in Stargate.

@ukmediawarrior

Ай бұрын

I had the honor of being her security for three Stargate sci-fi conventions in the UK, she is a wonderfully warm and charming lady.

@anthonyhiggins7409

Ай бұрын

@@ukmediawarrior how very cool

@CM-wv8ns

Ай бұрын

As an anime geek, she has also played the 'english dub' version of several characters--she can play no-nonsense soldiers to japanese schoolgirls.

14:20 Based on O'Neill having killed Ra, the most feared among the Goa'oulds at that time. I think Teal'C couldn't believe his luck (he already was a rebel at that point, a sleeper agent).

@awesomedayz3465

Ай бұрын

Yeah. His mentor was Master Bra'tac. The seeds of doubt and rebellion were already in his head.

@ANTIStraussian

Ай бұрын

​@@awesomedayz3465 the first primes knew they weren't gods, but thought rebellion was too risky, so better to save as many jaffa as they could by giving good counsel. Also without the Gou'ld their race would die out.

Love this show. @ the moment though I'm watching 'Babylon 5' :D

@mojonojo3

Ай бұрын

The two greats of the genre

@Haggy836

Ай бұрын

i watch both yearly.

@37:00 Obviously you were going to discuss Hammond, who I think hands down is the greatest general in media. He's a smart, capable leader but most importantly he listens to his people. He SUPPORTS them rather than telling them how to do what they do. Truly one of the greatest characters in all of Sci-Fi IMHO.

@BogeyTheBear

Ай бұрын

He led among his troops, not removed from them. If you think about it, his office desk is just one floor away from the edge of the world and into the dangers of the galaxy.

@NerdRahtio

Ай бұрын

Hammond always struck me as firm but fatherly and as inspiring as an historical general.

My mother’s name is Janet Fraser….needless to say we were instant fans of Stargate SG1 😂 I was roughly 12 when SG1 first aired and it’s one of the first shows I can remember watching from beginning to end. I felt like a major part of my life had come to an end when the show finished its run. Still a great show to this day!

The fact that folks weren’t and still aren’t, crying “Mary Sue” at Carter shows both that Tapping is an excellent actress and the writing and direction was stellar.

@marocat4749

Ай бұрын

That hasmore to do with that ots a recent thing to outrage. Theones that usually are cowards in the way that they dont want to mess with preexisting fanbases already existing. See sarah connor, xena , people outragibg are kinda cowards to not want to fight established fanbases. ok i dont wownplay tapping, but old enoughsucessful franchisaes never ger accused

@phenom568

Ай бұрын

Mary Sues are characters who have no weaknesses or faults. This is not true of Carter.

@agilemind6241

Ай бұрын

@@phenom568 What are Carter's weaknesses or faults?

@BogeyTheBear

Ай бұрын

Mary Sues are the center of the attention whom the other characters depend on to do anything meaningful, plot-wise or not. Being perfect is just a side-effect of that stage-hogging presence.

@NerdRahtio

Ай бұрын

@@phenom568 she has a few weaknesses in relationships, but especially in that pilot movie she is darn near perfect

I grew up on OG Trek reruns in the 70’s, moved on to TNG and generally am a massive Trek fan. But, SG-1 will always hold a special place, if I ever need to escape reality a little bit and be guaranteed a feel good show, this is it.

My mother dispaired at me and my stepfather taking over the only TV in the house to watch this every week-- "...Not 'Broach Head' Again!?"

@subraxas

Ай бұрын

😀

@ukaniko

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@manjackson2772

27 күн бұрын

She sounds very supportive. Hope you got similar digs in about her favourite shows.

The series casting was a continuing string of excellent choices

33:09 can you imagine the accountants trying to work that one out? "Hey why does Jack have two weeks of overtime this month?" "Oh that's not over time, that's time dilation, 2 weeks passed for him last tuesday?" "So is that overtime then or just regular pay?" "Ya know what, he saved the planet. Let's call it time and a half."

@BogeyTheBear

Ай бұрын

He spent two weeks' time doing one day of work. I didn't know Cheyenne Mountain was a union shop.

@jacobturnerart

Ай бұрын

How did they quantify pay and overtime when he was stuck in a time loop for 3 months?

@agilemind6241

Ай бұрын

@@jacobturnerart No overtime for that or they'd have to interview him about all the "things" he got up to during those 3 months which I'm sure he'd rather avoid.

I love this. I love this show just a bit less than Trek. I hope a decent revival is in the works. Not a reboot, but revival.

@AWMJoeyjoejoe

Ай бұрын

I'd be happy if they just gave SGU a finale.

@mojonojo3

Ай бұрын

I love SG1 a whole lot more than trek, it doesn't take itself seriously.

@Imbatmn57

Ай бұрын

I like both but i grew up on stargate because it was one of the only series we had on dvd.

@mahatmarandy5977

Ай бұрын

I am with you. I want a revival, though I am a little bit afraid, given the realities of the TV industry at the moment, that a revival will only entail six episodes every 18 months or so, And will delve into the grim dark a little too much. As far as I can tell, nothing is in the works. Brad Wright was contacted a few years ago about the possibility of doing a revival, and he submitted all of his plans and notes on what he’d like to do, which MGM seemed interested in at the time, But that died on the line over the course of the next two years, and at present, there does not appear to be any real discussion of a revival or a reboot going on at MGM.

@marocat4749

Ай бұрын

An old man oneil led one,? that has cameos. . Also love it to indeed ig star trek hasmore meat to nerd into

Personally I never got the feeling O’Neill looked down on Sam and Daniel because of them being nerds rather I just thought he got annoyed by them because of his inability to understand their technobabble

@BogeyTheBear

Ай бұрын

Warrick: "Here is the ship's operating manual. I had it translated for you." Jack: _(looking over Sam's shoulder)_ "That's not our language!" Sam: "It's-- mine. Sir."

Outside of TOS, SG1 is easily the best introduction to scifi tv and one of my favorite shows of all time

@Quicksilver1936

Ай бұрын

TOS was a campy piece of trash

@macmcleod1188

Ай бұрын

I'm a fan of both shows but t o s had a much worse batting ratio. It had some really good shows but about a third of it shows were bad to very bad. I don't remember Stargate SG-1 ever making me cringe.

Best 70 mins I have wasted on KZread in a long time. Looking forward to Part 3.

@JobeStroud

Ай бұрын

If it was enjoyable. Was it truly a wasted 70 minutes?

@classic.cameras

Ай бұрын

Only on Earth. On Abbydos I think it was more like 33 minutes @@JobeStroud

I rewatched the series recently- that 1990s tv production value really hit that nostalgia vibe for me and wasn't any sort of drawback. It really brought me back to a time when a show like this was fun and just a general week to week experience where you knew you were about to receive something entertaining. It's kind of like Highlander- you know it's not high art, but god damn it fills a hole you dont know you have until season about 5.

Huge in Canada. It aired on the CTV network, a regular national broadcast network, in addition to being on cable. CTV slotted it in on Sunday at I think 7:00 p.m., which sounds like dead time but it was actually quite successful there in what they used to call the "Sunday Dinner" time slot normally reserved for family friendly dramas (think Life Goes On, or Touched by an Angel), so this was a marked departure from that genre, but the big factor allowing it there was "no blood." The bad guys get shot in Stargate all the time but the armour covers up any gore and the Zats just render you unconscious, so it got green-lit for that time on TV instead of a later 9:00 p.m.. Also the "Can Con" factor was at play too, with it being filmed in Canada, and staring Canadian actors, it ticked enough boxes to count toward the government mandated minimum "Canadian original content" programming required by broadcast networks, though the minimum was never very much, something like 21 hours per week (the nightly news counted toward this), it still helped it sit prominently on TV across Canada for anyone even if you didn't have the sci-fi channel in your cable package. All that and the immense scale of the production in Vancouver made it an iconic show in Canada. Probably several thousand Canadians appeared as background extras in the show over its whole run, and so many more were involved in things like makeup, wardrobe, catering, location shooting services, etc. that it was hard to find someone in the industry in Vancouver who hadn't at some point done something for that show.

Agree completely that sokar was wasted. They tried to evoke the same mystery with Anubis in later seasons but I think sokar could have been even more menacing than Anubis had they given it a chance

@RabbitShirak

Ай бұрын

Indeed. Sokar left quite an impression.

@BattlestarZenobia

Ай бұрын

I’d agree Sokar was wasted but he’s not more menacing than Anubis

I was 13 or 14 years old when SG 1 premiered. I tuned in by chance. I recalled not liking the original movie back then, being disappointed by the underutilisation of the premise of the movie: the Stargate. The TV series got my immediate enthusiasm. After the first season, I rewatched the movie and grew more fond of it. From season two onward, Stargate became part of my childhood and growing up and was an escape from my own personal traumas. The characters were fascinating and admiring to watch with each his and her own journey of development, and antagonists to overcome who ultimately at times even grew into allies. The series radiated 'hope' and 'optimism' and a sense of 'what could be one day'. Stargate since accompanied me every week for the following 13 years. I never missed any episode in those years, waiting anxiously for the next episode - or rewatch the season repeats. The intro theme would sound in full blast in my room, making sure my mother and brother knew: It's the time! I would discuss the show and characters in school. I literally grew up with it. And when SGU concluded (too early), I felt like I completed a journey. Sad but content at the same time. This show like no other has left a mark on me. Can you imagine a show being done like this and this long in today's climate? I wish they would return to weekly shows that took their time 'to explore' instead of 6-10 episode binge-watch models that are forgotten as soon as another shows of some sort drops. PS: "Lucy, I'm home!", "I'm not Lucy."

@kotzpenner

Ай бұрын

I'm envious. I recently watched the entire main corpus (3 series and the movies) for the first time. SG1 truly is a gem in Sci-Fi and I also liked Atlantis (Universe not so much tbh)

@chrisdealemania

Ай бұрын

Glad you have discovered it

@kotzpenner

Ай бұрын

@@chrisdealemania me too

The 1990s was the golden era for TV shows. SO many great and fun shows came out then. We were swimming in amazing stuff to watch. When networks took chances. Especially with sci fi and fantasy.

Such a good show.

The thing that makes statgate SG-1 rise above many of its kind is that it never leaves the humanity of its characters behind. Most sci-fi forgets to show that its characters are fully fleshed out people with flaws that learn over time. Sci fi is at its best when it writes great characters. Star Trek Voyager could learn a thing or two.

I love that the entire SG-TV series is a direct continuation of the movie. The movie fascinated me, and the TV show explored what these characters could, and would be. Brilliant!

God I love and miss this show so much! They don’t make weekly episodic sci-fi like they used to 😭

@ANTIStraussian

Ай бұрын

Did you watch all 3 shows?

@krixpop

Ай бұрын

@@ANTIStraussian I did , over and over ...

@ANTIStraussian

Ай бұрын

@@krixpop okay how about dark matter?

@agilemind6241

Ай бұрын

@@ANTIStraussian Dark Matter was decent but Killjoys was more fun.

@ANTIStraussian

Ай бұрын

@@agilemind6241 the expanse, Counterpart, Colony?

"All your Gods are fake, here are some machine guns." Iconic

Yes !!!!! You just cured my boredom from work thank you again!!!

God yes. I've been waiting for you to tackle Stargate since the Babylon 5 series. SG-1 and Atlantis are masterpieces, to me. Right up there with TNG, DS9, Babylon 5, and the early chunk of the BSG reboot.

Such perfectly brilliant timing. I’ve just finished a binge watch of Stargate SG1 after not having seen a single episode in more than 12 years on the very day this drops. lol Well, almost. I’ve just watched Ark of Truth. I haven’t got to Continuum yet. Looking forward to this. I loved this show when I was growing up. From the age of 12 - 21 I think only missed 2 episodes on first broadcast. I was quite the fan. lol

One of the more fun or silly or minor or whatever things I appreciate more and more about Stargate SG1 is frankly, just how stunning, like almost unnaturally handsome and beautiful Michael Shanks is. There's a few seasons there where i don't know, his haircut, his face, I don't know. But by god, one of the best looking men I've ever seen hahaha I laugh because I don't really understand it, but I'm very serious. Honestly, that man should have been painted and carved into marble or something for appreciation by following generations lol

*stares at SG-1 boxset on my shelf* I should probably rewatch that, again. Great video Rowan.

@subraxas

Ай бұрын

VHS? 🙂

@refitdan

Ай бұрын

@@subraxas It's a bootleg one I got years ago. Got a really fancy case and then all the DVDs are just in slip-covers inside.

That Don Lafontaine ad for the premiere episode really got me 🥺❤️

This was an excellent look back, i even teared up a bit at Daniel ascending. Looking forward to the next part.

This show, especially the 1-5 run, was integral to my childhood and helped me define what I want from my own writing. Specifically, the character chemistry. I have never seen another show before or after (barring Atlantis, they nailed the vibes better than most spin-offs) do character chemistry quite like Stargate SG-1, and it's wonderful. Obviously props go to the actors for bringing them to life, each with their own unique flair, but I think part of it is that each of the main four are characterized perfectly to synergize AND butt heads with the other three in pretty much equal measure. The entire show is just the main four foiling off of each other constantly, it's a difficult equilibrium to achieve, let alone maintain, but Stargate manages it beautifully. Not only that, but they manage to integrate new personalities into the dynamic without ruining it; regulars like Hammond or Frasier can slide in and out seamlessly, guests like Bra'tac or Jacob fit in well, and later on Mitchell and Vala make for (in my opinion at least) excellent replacements/additions to the crew while still maintaining that unique chemistry.

Stargate is the OG of science fiction!

Thanks Rowan. SG1 is one of my favorite shows ever

12:53 My wife and I went to BC Canada for our honeymoon. We both adored many different television shows that were produced in Vancouver. We would point out PX275 in Psych or the infamous Vancouver mansion 3689 Selkirk St, Vancouver, BC V6H 2Y9 that pops up in every show. Other great locations are the opera house in BSG was also a weak point between the two universes in Fringe. So many great shows are a product of BC Canada.

The medical I mean surgical attack of Season 1 finally & Season 2 opener are still some of my favourite episodes of the whole 10 seasons

The fan based Military history for O'Neil and his reason for not understanding the Science stuff Carter and Jackson love is to hide the fact he's hyper intelligent due to spending time under his cover identity as MacGyver. Something that the show did lean into in the two episodes I remember when his head was full of Ancient knowledge. Particularly the one in where he builds a Ring Transport to get to the Ancient Weapons Chair in antarctic.

Love this show really enjoyed my rewatch last year when it's good it's great and Captain Carter 😍

"A Matter of Time" was the first episode of SG1 I saw on TV, and it certainly left quite the impression.

These people were all in the X-Files too! I love how much crossover there is between sci fi show actors haha, Star Trek, Babylon 9, Star Gate, X-Files

@marocat4749

Ай бұрын

Still is,ok iz might be just the canadian scifi fantasy scene, but they work in a lot there.

@ukaniko

Ай бұрын

I just rewatched the Outer Limits and didn’t need to be told it was by the same people. The music sounds the same, so many overlapping SG1 actors, and of course, the same section of the British Columbia forest 🤣

This series was the greatest thing on television through my teenage years. So many great moments. I´ll never forget the first time we get to see that asgaard mothership simply making the goauld dissapear I suppose by teleporting. But still it was my first holy shit moment. Also when they change time and all of the sudden there is trout in that small lake Jack is fishing in at his cabin fully aware of the fact there is no fish there. Such a funny moment.

My favorite part of Stargate is the red thread of Humanity's progression. From basically just having MP5's to fielding intergalactic battlecruisers at the end. No other serie has this.

The very fact the O’Neill has many lacking qualities was all the more interesting to me - he’s not smart, not the best fighter etc but through his past trauma has a deep sense of loyalty - which is what makes him a great leader.

This is purely my head cannon but the goa’uld are the bourgeoisie and the working class are their Jaffa, who also fight one another in their wars of conquest.

i think there was a mention of 'every planet looks like a Canadian forest' in the show being explained by the fact that some alien seeded all the habitable planets in the galaxy with trees from Canada.

I was just watching The Tomb episode, and here I find Rowan has a new video!

I definitely disagree on your opinion of o'niell. His characterization as the humanistic POV juxtaposed with the alien teal'c and the star trek-ian sam and daniel is a perfect balance between the main 4

@agilemind6241

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He is when used appropriately, but by series 5 he's become quite a tired repetitive joke, also likely because Daniel starts mimicking him so O'Neil becomes even more extremely sarcastic until it's immersion-breaking. But in the earlier series I agree, particularly in episodes like The Other Side, where he takes the plot more seriously.

I think you misunderstood O'Neill: he knows he is just an ordinary soldier, he knows how important and smart Samantha Carter and Daniel Jackson are. He is just like an ordinary American would be among smart people. He knows his own value as a soldier and officer, but also really appreciates the knowledge of Samantha and Daniel. He tries to be a leader who will help smart members of his team to shine. In The Lost City, it's clearly seen - O'Neill decides to sacrifice himself because others are more important. His character is also better standing on the ground, thus we have sometimes these discussions on what to do with Daniel and Samantha.

lol I love the replicators

@anthonyhiggins7409

Ай бұрын

They are a very cool concept. Obviously a take on the Borg but their spider-like form always gave me the heebie jeebies! 😂

The exchange: "Basically he was the original Satan" "Well isn't that special?" is a reference to Dana Carvey's character The Church Lady on Saturday Night Live. The second line is a direct quote, and she often said "Could it be.... SATAN?!" whose name would echo.

Your perspective on O'Neill (two L's) is very interesting. I do agree that the character doesnt get a lot of character development compared to the rest, but thats because he's such a great character to begin with and you definitely notice something missing when he's not there in later seasons (Though i do think the show suffers when trying to force him into episodes in later seasons too). I definitely prefer O'Neill's character staying the same to the way that Jackson "evolved" into an action hero in later seasons as you mentioned One thing i definiately do agree with though is the weird pacing of certain storylines. Particularly in the case of Dr Jackson's wife, the way that storyline is wrapped up is very strange. I can only assume there are behind the scenes reasons that it went down that way (actor availability maybe, she also did have Shanks's baby during production). The Skara storyline was definitely due to the actor being unavailable.

Much like DS9, I saw SG1 in a limited and fractured form on UK TV (channel 4 on Sunday afternoons in the early 2000s). It's really cool to see a video covering the more overarching plot.

Great review and retrospective on this entertaining show....I also hope you do a review/retrospective on the spin-off series 'Stargate Atlantis' as well (because I really enjoyed that series too)...

"...James Spader is outside the series budget." And then a few years later James Spader would be on television co-starring on Boston Legal.

@Redrally

Ай бұрын

EVERY actor on Boston Legal was paid SHIT LOADS and multi award-winners. I swear the talent agents got their payday from one episode per season on its own! They even had triple the average TV budget for the wardrobe alone! Did you see those clothes???

Given how "Asgard" like Ra's true appearance seemed to be they could of easily just said that Ra was a rogue Asgard who created the Go'auld and it would have tied things up nice for the show

Just finished watching season 5... Perfect timing, Rowan!

@anthonyhiggins7409

Ай бұрын

I’ve just finished season 10 and Ark of Truth. Feels very serendipitous.

Only just finding out now (at 32) that Daniel is not played by the same actor in the film and series.

@anthonyhiggins7409

Ай бұрын

Don’t feel bad! I didn’t realise at 1st either. Mind you I did I figured it out at about 13yrs old after a couple of episodes. HOWEVER! We are in good company. Apparently Christopher Judge himself didn’t realise right away either. He genuinely thought they had got the original actor from the movie at first. I think that’s a testament to the acting chops of Shanks.

@SunnyMorningPancakes

Ай бұрын

@@anthonyhiggins7409 i think some of it comes from having seen the first few series of SG1 before I saw Stargate - I would have been between 7 and 11 at the time (my Dad is a big sci-fi person). Then going back as an adult and having the idea fixed in my head and not questioning it. I will also give the actor the credit he deserves 🙂

Great Video as always been a member for two and a half years.

I’m surprised a retrospective on season 1 of Stargate doesn’t address the elephant in the room: Children of the Gods and Share’s beewwwbs.

@CantankerousDave

Ай бұрын

Is the Showtime version of the episode with the full frontal even available anymore? He might not have seen it.

This was very interesting to watch. I'm a huge SG-1 fan, but I actually started watching the show without realizing that there even was a movie, and to this day I kinda regard the movie as an afterthought. It's just not an important part of my relationship with the show. The movie-centric perspective on the shows early days is a new take for me.

@Dystopianutopiabuilds

Ай бұрын

I know a few people who love the shows but never saw the film. If anything I think it's better for them as the series outshine the movie by a factor of many lots.

3:55 So did I, I only saw the movie once many years before the TV show.

I think the things I respect most about SG1 are..... 1) There is usually a status Quo, but it changes slowly over the course of the show (S9 notwithstanding) as a natural growth of the story. The development of the team from barely understanding the most basic tech, and seeing Goa'uld technology as the pinnacle, to having their own starships..... it feels earned. Piece by piece and never surprising us. 2) They stick to the rules they set up. The 38 minute window is meticulously stuck to for example, and any exceptions are a major plot point. They revisit solutions to previous issues when faced with similar ones. They reference past adventures in order to establish continuity. And they barely retcon anything. There are a handful such as with the Zats but they are so few it is barely noticed. Those are 2 things I love about Sci-Fi. Of all series we need adventure of the week, but background continuity and development, to make the show grow.

Kurt Russel was a Elvis impersonating casino robber who may or may not had been an illegitimate son of Elvis in 3000 Miles to Graceland, not Elvis him self.

@user-zp4ge3yp2o

Ай бұрын

And ice t rotated from the ceiling firing two machine guns in the greatest moment in cinematic history.

The time loop episode and Wormhole Extreme are two of my favorites!

To my understanding, they originally intended to do more with Daniel’s wife, but Michael, Shanks and her got involved in an actual real life relationship, resulting in her getting pregnant for real, which meant that she wasn’t available for, as much as they had intended to use her, and then she and shanks had an acrimonious break up, making them working together very awkward. And as for Skarra, I think they just felt that was kind of belabored and wasn’t going anywhere, so they wrote it out. Has his purpose in the movie was to function as a sort of us surrogate son for Jack, and that just wouldn’t work in the series. As for Tanith, they had intended a bunch bigger final showdown episode, but it just kept getting postponed because of the actors unavailability, so, as the season was ending anyway, they decided to just wrap it up quick. Nobody was particularly happy with that.

I was still in highschool, when SG1 came out. By the time I finished college, I was working on its last season in VFX. Then moved onto Atlantis. Did work on many sci-fi shows of the day. Hung around Bridge Studios / MGM lot. The sets had a lot of verticality. Normally, cheap sets have everything at the ground level. Think Farscape. Ground is always flat. But with Stargate, there are floors and everything is functional, accessible. You could film the gate from any angle. There wasn't an unpainted side with wires sticking out. You could put your nose to the surface anywhere, and it would stand up in the shot, as if it was a real thing. The show oozed quality. I am currently working on a project with 2 SG1 actors, but until it air, can't disclose any information. Michael Shanks is married to Andromeda's Lexa Doig, who was on Continuum, where I was a technical director. Even though I'm glad to have become a part of this sci-fi production environment, I wish I was born a decade earlier. I miss the old format shows. I miss the relative simplicity. I miss having to do more with less. And I miss the practical aspects. I miss props that ran. Guns that fired blanks. As you can see, even the staves worked. I only got onto SG1, because I asked. Because it was one of the things that inspired me to go into VFX. I knew the show was on its last legs, and told them to give me anything at all. Just so I could then say, that I've been on the show. And they gave me some Teal'c shootout sequences. And that was it. She show was finished. Atlantis was fun also, but to me it wasn't the original Stargate. It was just a spinoff, with an unfamiliar cast. They had Jason Momoa, but he wasn't a big star yet. He didn't even stand out on set, considering how many tall stuntmen were used at evil henchmen. I wish I knew more, but Atlantis didn't last. Stargate has run its course. I still work on sci-fi to this day, but with streaming, it's a different world. Plus, everything's digital. Cost-cutting is more aggressive. Schedules are shorter. Expectations higher, but the end product is often inferior. Money doesn't make a show good. The story does, and the cast chemistry. You can tell, when the actors are having fun entertaining their audience.

"Cut the red wire" "Carter... they're all yellow"

StarGate SG1 filled my Start Trek cravings. Now that it is long played out, I wish The Orville would renew a 4th season.

I haven't finished the video yet, but Stargate SG1 -hands down- is my FAV tv show! For me, it was/is a great combo of smart writing, good characters, cool stories and cooler technology. I always thought it was funny and smart and just all-around fun! Granted... I was a kid when I watched it, and mostly rewatched it, but I still love to rewatch episodes as an adult. It's not perfect, but its my fav!! (Followed by Babylon 5 - lol) It is, indeed. : P Thanks for this extensive video, Rowan! Cheers everyone!

O'Neil's watch is what convinced Teal'c to support the escape. No other human Teal'c had met had more advanced technology than the Goa'uld.

The theme tune is awesome, a great mix of the original wonder-of-space-exploration opera movie score with martial band instruments to signify the military aspect of the show. I never saw these early series when they were first aired in the UK as they were on the relatively new Sky satellite broadcasting channel, only when they began to air on terrestrial TV (Channel 4 i believe) did i start to see from the later series and then went back and caught-up. Now watching the re-runs ironically on 'Sky Mix' digital TV channel.

That show went on for f**king AGES. Even though it wasn't my cup of tea and a far cry from the movie, they did a great job! 10 seasons strong. That's a great run!

the answer to the age old question Star wars or Star Trek is stargate

Another brilliant video from you, thanks!

While all the other kids were watching StarWars growing up...I was watching Stargate

Really enjoy these retrospective great work

Just finished - once again FANTASTIC! Can't wait for the next part

I was looking forward to this so much and it delivered! I love your insight on the logical consistency of the storytelling across the TV versions of the Stargate universe.

I was sorry to miss the live, but absolutely loved this trip down memory lane. Such a great show! Thanks for the hard work!

Such a fascinating retrospective- thank you

Absolutely amazing video and great information and insights!