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Ok, so I know I'm a little behind the times... y'know, like EIGHT YEARS behind the times... but I've just started watching Stargate SG-1 Season 1.
It's... growing on me.
It has a lot to live up to, considering how VERY VERY GOOD the sci-fi shows Julie and I love to watch are (BS:G, Firefly), and considering that the movie is in my all-time top five.
Thoughts so far:
@ The feel varies. The pilot, as well as the first episode, felt very dark. Like an extension of the movie in some places. Of course they can't keep that up for the whole series... well ok they COULD. See BS:G for a perfect example! But then in the next episode... BAM! Triteness! I expected plenty of trite episodes with simplistic solutions to problems, it HAS been on for 8.5 seasons after all, but I sort of expected them LATER. But there we are "all women should be free" "we must not interfere" "no, let's interfere and make all women FREE! HUZZAH!" *sigh*
@ I am saddened. There was swearing and titties in the pilot. Nothing since. This aired on SHOWTIME for the first few years, folks! C'mon!
@ I was highly amused by the somewhat extensive use of footage from the movie in the pilot. It was done fairly well, if a viewer hadn't seen the film about 50 times they might not notice it all that much.
@ C'mon, was it REALLY necessary to kill off Kowalski?
@ They managed to get the kid who played Skaara, but NOT the chick who played Sha'uri? What, was she TOO BUSY? ... quick perusal of IMDB says YES she WAS too busy! Damn, look at that list of credits! Ok, apparently she's one of the most popular Israeli actresses. Who knew? How about Kowalski? *sigh*
@ I didn't expect movie quality CGI, after all that WAS damn impressive stuff in 1994 (still looks good today, not too overly reliant on the CGI). But the snake suits... wow, ick! No wonder Ra always kicked Apophis' ass! He had WAY cooler suits, and HIS retracted into ear jewelry!
@ Why is Teal'c the only one who brings the way-cool Goul'd blaster? They have a bunch of 'em, and their machine guns are ALWAYS outclassed.
@ Favorite moment from Pilot:
Carter: Wow, you found the control unit! Amazing! It took us 2 years and a dozen supercomputers to MacGyver a working solution for this!
O'Neill/MacGyver: *snarky look*
@ Annoyances #2: Reference is made to other missions, despite the fact that supposedly their journey to the mongol planet (see triteness above) was their first mission... but on that trip, O'Neill mentions to Carter something about her getting drunk on some OTHER planet...
@ I'm a geek. I signed up for Netflix solely to have them send me the 39 (yes THIRTY NINE) discs I lacked. And before you ask - yes, I tried to torrent them. I found one torrent with an irritating high-pitched SQUEAL over the top of every episode... another that was in SPANISH... and a bunch that just never took off.
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I'm sure I'll have more as time goes on. At least the show is RELATIVELY linear and self-referential. I'm hoping they don't do too much "forgetting" of solutions and whatnot from previous episodes.
Of course the "gold standard" for sci-fi shows is still Star Trek: TNG. And my ONE real quibble with that show was, in fact, their selective self-referentiality. In some ways, the show progressed - the interpersonal relationships grew and evolved, and issues relating to that were remembered from episode to episode and season to season. But every time they saw a wormhole, Geordi had to try some NEW solution. Nevermind that he had a dozen OTHER solutions that all worked previously! I'm really hoping that doesn't happen here.
It's... growing on me.
It has a lot to live up to, considering how VERY VERY GOOD the sci-fi shows Julie and I love to watch are (BS:G, Firefly), and considering that the movie is in my all-time top five.
Thoughts so far:
@ The feel varies. The pilot, as well as the first episode, felt very dark. Like an extension of the movie in some places. Of course they can't keep that up for the whole series... well ok they COULD. See BS:G for a perfect example! But then in the next episode... BAM! Triteness! I expected plenty of trite episodes with simplistic solutions to problems, it HAS been on for 8.5 seasons after all, but I sort of expected them LATER. But there we are "all women should be free" "we must not interfere" "no, let's interfere and make all women FREE! HUZZAH!" *sigh*
@ I am saddened. There was swearing and titties in the pilot. Nothing since. This aired on SHOWTIME for the first few years, folks! C'mon!
@ I was highly amused by the somewhat extensive use of footage from the movie in the pilot. It was done fairly well, if a viewer hadn't seen the film about 50 times they might not notice it all that much.
@ C'mon, was it REALLY necessary to kill off Kowalski?
@ They managed to get the kid who played Skaara, but NOT the chick who played Sha'uri? What, was she TOO BUSY? ... quick perusal of IMDB says YES she WAS too busy! Damn, look at that list of credits! Ok, apparently she's one of the most popular Israeli actresses. Who knew? How about Kowalski? *sigh*
@ I didn't expect movie quality CGI, after all that WAS damn impressive stuff in 1994 (still looks good today, not too overly reliant on the CGI). But the snake suits... wow, ick! No wonder Ra always kicked Apophis' ass! He had WAY cooler suits, and HIS retracted into ear jewelry!
@ Why is Teal'c the only one who brings the way-cool Goul'd blaster? They have a bunch of 'em, and their machine guns are ALWAYS outclassed.
@ Favorite moment from Pilot:
Carter: Wow, you found the control unit! Amazing! It took us 2 years and a dozen supercomputers to MacGyver a working solution for this!
O'Neill/MacGyver: *snarky look*
@ Annoyances #2: Reference is made to other missions, despite the fact that supposedly their journey to the mongol planet (see triteness above) was their first mission... but on that trip, O'Neill mentions to Carter something about her getting drunk on some OTHER planet...
@ I'm a geek. I signed up for Netflix solely to have them send me the 39 (yes THIRTY NINE) discs I lacked. And before you ask - yes, I tried to torrent them. I found one torrent with an irritating high-pitched SQUEAL over the top of every episode... another that was in SPANISH... and a bunch that just never took off.
------------------
I'm sure I'll have more as time goes on. At least the show is RELATIVELY linear and self-referential. I'm hoping they don't do too much "forgetting" of solutions and whatnot from previous episodes.
Of course the "gold standard" for sci-fi shows is still Star Trek: TNG. And my ONE real quibble with that show was, in fact, their selective self-referentiality. In some ways, the show progressed - the interpersonal relationships grew and evolved, and issues relating to that were remembered from episode to episode and season to season. But every time they saw a wormhole, Geordi had to try some NEW solution. Nevermind that he had a dozen OTHER solutions that all worked previously! I'm really hoping that doesn't happen here.
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