Blast From the Past

[sinanju]

Wow. I just watched this week's episode of Stargate: SG-1 and it was like watching the show from years earlier. SG-1 visit a new world by walking through the stargate! It's a first contact situation--though they don't know that at first. The stargate is in a museum, not a crypt as they thought from MALP observations. Which meant that when they tried to leave (to avoid an unplanned first contact) it turns out the the DHD near the stargate* was a mock-up. It was useless.

This all led to various misunderstandings, gunfire, hostage taking, demand making, negotations and political intrigue. In short, it the sort of adventures SG-1 often had in the early years and not the tedious, never-ending quests for various superscience/mystical maguffins we get most of the time now. It was gloriously entertaining. I wish they were still doing episodes like this on a regular basis.

*Not being entirely dim, if the MALP cannot find a DHD in the area when exploring a new gate address, they don't send a team through since they can't dial home.

Comments

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

We have it recorded (we were out of town). The episode with O'Neil was also reminiscent of old SG1 episodes. I don't understand why the writers can't see what works and what doesn't.

The Ori? Doesn't work. Travelling to other planets? Does.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Yeah, I really miss old-school Stargate. Back when it was contemporary US military types exploring the universe and the only maguffin in the series was the gate itself. Now we've got starships with transporters and forcefields and all the ridiculous Trek-style antics that 40 years of Trek have taught viewers to expect (and writers to write). Gah!

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

We really miss the Goua'ould, and I'm not talking about the Bal clone. They were a great villain - each system lord had their own little idiosyncracies. Then the writers made them so easy to defeat that they needed to come up with another villain (the boring replicators).

Now we get the Ori and Arthurian legends? Please.

[fikgirl.livejournal.com]

My favorite was Daniel's line about not cooperating or doing something stupid, "And then there'll be some killin' and stuff."