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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 22
Runtime: 42 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2000

Format:

Series

Genres:

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Created By:

Brad Wright, Jonathan Glassner

Actors:

Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Don S. Davis, Michael Shanks, Richard Dean Anderson

Made In:

Canada, USA

Premiered at:

Showtime

Since I have watched com­plete Star­gate at least sev­eral times, I always there was always some­thing wrong about this sea­son and that some­thing is miss­ing. But, I watched it again recently and I must admit that this is an excel­lent sea­son, with sev­eral key story plots, res­o­lu­tions of some older plots and some very funny episodes. Show­time also invested more money, and visu­ally this is so far the best look­ing sea­son of Stargate.

As the main cast goes, there are no changes this sea­son, but we will see few more recur­ring char­ac­ters emerg­ing and we will meet few more Goa’ulds. Most impor­tant is the Osiris who was trapped for thou­sands of years with his wife Isis, and was dis­cov­ered by the old Daniel Jackson’s pro­fes­sor. Inter­est­ing is that there will be no repli­ca­tors this sea­son except in the first episode that ends the cliffhanger of sea­son 3.

Sto­ries

Once again, there are few episodes that are earth based with a lot of pol­i­tics and involve­ment of NID, and this still remains one of the aspects of Star­gate I sim­ply don’t like. Involve­ment of Rus­sians and polit­i­cal games are not some­thing I like in the sci-​fi show.

Win­dow Of Opportunity

But on the other hand we have some clas­sic episodes like: Upgrades (arm devices that increase strength of SG-​1 members), Window of Oppor­tu­nity (very funny episode with the time loop), The First Ones (about Unas, once first hosts to the Goa’uld), Tangent (first flight of exper­i­men­tal X-​301), 2010 (another time para­dox episode, really great), Absolute Power (Daniel goes mad with power, Harcesis story) and Exo­dus, last cliffhanger of the series (until sea­son 9).

Con­clu­sion

Over­all, great sea­son of Star­gate. Main story lines are still strong, and in the sea­son more than before, with few filler episodes. Grab the box set and start watching.