Board 8 > Thinking about watching through Stargate SG-1 again.

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Good idea, or most fantastic idea ever?

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Only if there's a watch through topic.

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From: CybrMonkey | #002

Only if there's a watch through topic.

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It's an excellent idea. One of the ten best sci-fi shows out there for sure.

Just be advised in case you've forgotten, the first season has a lot of duds. It has a few standouts already, though, and by the third season at latest you'll feel right at home.

I'll definitely engage in lots of discussion with ya if you turn this into a watchthrough, to make up for all the folks who will not discuss this with you. :D

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Yesss, Sir Chris needs to be part of this as well. And CybrMonkey, as I've only just recently discovered (at least, consciously; maybe I forgot) that he's into this stuff as well.

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I would follow a watch through topic if one were to happen.

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ya go my gaters

get into the gate yesyesyesyes

somebody call o'neill mama

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Might be tempted to do a watch through...yes

And yeah, most of season one through six are a massive blur of continuity awesomeness. My sister had collected/borrowed dvds up to the then current season when my initial run happened and I averaged...8-12 episodes a day because it was summer vacation at the time, and this show gave me hour after hour of scifi goodness. So all kinds of plots are long forgotten except for the general premise and major occurrences.

Should be nice to take things at a slower pace and catch things I missed the first time around.

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I really like every season, really, and I don't feel like seasons seven and eight dropped the ball where continuity was concerned. Maybe in some other areas, sure, but those might just be my favorite years despite that. (Kind of a bold statement, I know.)

I caught up on SG-1 as it aired its first season on Sci-Fi here in the States, which means its sixth because it was on Fox syndication for its first five. Sci-Fi used to air four-hour blocks of Seasons 1-5 on Monday nights in an effort to get people caught-up and interested, and it worked on my grandmother and I!

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What I mean by continuity blur is that since I watched them so fast, the early showtime seasons run together for me a bit, whereas around season 6-7, I started watching on scifi and had to like...wait.

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Yeah, a couple years ago I went to watch through all of SG-1 again when it was uploaded on Hulu along with seeing seasons 9 and 10 for the first time, but I somehow stalled around season 5 (which doesn't make any sense because that's probably the best season of the series) and haven't gotten back to it.

I probably should!

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Jeff Zero posted...

It's an excellent idea. One of the ten best sci-fi shows out there for sure.

Name the others?

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SovietOmega posted...

What I mean by continuity blur is that since I watched them so fast, the early showtime seasons run together for me a bit, whereas around season 6-7, I started watching on scifi and had to like...wait.

Oh yeah, I get you.

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Anagram,

I wasn't really being all that specific on the number ten when I said that. But Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5 and Farscape are all as good or better than Stargate SG-1, at least. Firefly factors in there somewhere, but while it's good, it's not as good as any of those series. It could have been, but alas. Doctor Who isn't really my cup of tea so much from what I've seen, but I absolutely respect its storytelling capabilities. Star Trek: The Next Generation at its finest also gives its competitors a run for their money, but it's held back frequently by lesser episodes.

So basically, nothing you didn't already know.

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Gonna give a rewatch to DS9 some time down the line too...already did the same recently for B5, TNG, and Farscape. Galactica I watched as it aired mostly, so still pretty recent...

And Doctor Who is the bestest :D

Raises the camp bar to 11 and beyond, and british as hell, but it makes up for it by the doctor being the doctor. If you end up not liking the doctor (all 11 of them), then yeah...that would diminish the enjoyment of the show a bit.

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The doctors I've seen are great, but there's only so much camp I can take. It makes early TNG seasons and a couple of early Farscape episodes all the more painful for me. (Farscape never escapes camp, but what it does with the word is unquestionably badass.)

I do like it enough to list it up there, though, even if it's going to be a while before I really get into it!

Anyway, DS9 is my favorite show. Like... ever. Above things like The Wire and Breaking Bad, and Farscape and SG-1 and Galactica. It's at the top. Love it to hell and back, all the way through, except for like ten really awful episodes.

...which is still a much better track record than the other Trek shows. Hey, yeah, I love Star Trek. Grew up with it. But the shows are pretty uneven for the most part, I will admit!

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My first star trek series I watched regularly was Voyager as it aired at an age when I was getting into such shows. Later on I was able to give TNG and DS9 the attention they deserved. I definitely admit Voyager has more flaws than you can shake a deflector dish at, but it holds a soft spot for me and the doctor was <3. TNG and DS9 blow it away certainly. TNG for not shying away from intelligence, and DS9 for dat continuity (and intelligence and really most everything...I probably would rank it at the top these days as well)

I miss quality scifi ;_;

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I was lucky enough to live in an area where UPN acquired the rights to DS9 and aired new episodes on Saturday nights. Voyager was on Wednesdays, I think, but that show was theirs, so whatever it was, it was universal.

Watching those two shows throughout the week was really nifty. They were so different, but as a kid I loved them both. I also watched TNG before that, but it ended at a point in which I was still too young to really grasp its significance. Thankfully, it has lived on in reruns ever since, so it wasn't long before I could understand it.

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Yeah, I remember as a kid falling asleep during some TNG shows. Not of them being boring or anything, just didn't really understand them and was watching them with some family around bedtime >_>;;

Looking back, I should probably consider myself lucky that my family was as open to scifi and such things as they were. Like, the first time I was able to watch Babylon 5 was because my sister loved the show and had it on vhs. My mom recorded a lot of voyager and tng too. It was up to me and my local libraries to get me scifi books though...your asimovs and clarkes and all sorts of goodness that tv has a hard time converting into something they think audiences will watch....

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Yep, sounds about right. My grandmother raised me, though, and not only was she into science fiction television, she also had a huge array of bookcases, and at least 30-40% of those books were sci-fi classics. I had the pleasure of reading Foundation at the age of nine! Good stuff.

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Haha, this is awesome. I'm such a nerd. Nio IMed me asking for the name of a sci-fi show, gave me one clue and I got it.

Ah, Earth 2.

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Yesss SG1


I need to rewatch this.

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Ah foundation...read the first book and while I loved the concept it felt dry...later on I picked up the others and went through the book again and lulzed when the author himself admitted to such in a preface to a trilogy collection.

Also sliders. Your Earth 2 post there made me think of that. There needs to be more parallel worlds in shows...next to time travel, alternate realities are some of the most fun in scifi. Shame most time travel stories in tv scifi have issues coping with some of the more bizarre and plot destroying implications it can lead to and as a result tend to limit it to a reset button or handwave the issue entirely as 'you wouldn't understand how it works, lets go stop the badguys now.'.

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