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3 internautes sur 4 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
5.0étoiles sur 5
Very best Sci-Fi show available on DVD!, Mai 6 2007
This show had a great idea to have a stargate that let's you travel through many dimensions and galaxies. The unusual storyline and cast is excellent! Whether you like sci-fi or not, this is fun to watch since it touches a lot of issues such as dealing with different kinds of nations and their beliefs, friendships, enemies, adventures and even comedy.
You will see the characters develop over time, the quirky unexpected humor, the use of an alien who doesn't fully understand human life on earth, the struggle of the oppressed, the lengths humans go in order to survive, politics and government bureaucracy.
This show is awsome on many different levels. On top of it all, they always keep the price very affordable. Money well spent.
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3 internautes sur 5 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
4.0étoiles sur 5
Through the stargate, Jui 14 2007
Most TV shows spun off from movies are uninvolving and uninteresting ("Blade," anyone?), and hopefully die and are forgotten.
That wasn't the case with the spinoff of the 1995 movie "Stargate," an okay science fiction movie that spawned an excellent television series, "Stargate SG-1." The first season is not nearly as brilliant as the ones that followed it, but it's a welcome change from distant space operas -- excellent writing, acting, and a sense of humor about itself and its characters.
The Stargate has been inactive for a year -- until it is activated, and a bunch of Egyptian-styled warriors come through and kidnap a young officer. General Hammond (Don S. Davis) pulls Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) out of retirement to learn what really happened on the planet of Abydos, and where these mysterious aliens have come from.
O'Neill and a small team go to Abydos and find Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) who has been learning about a vast network of Stargates over the past year. But when Daniel's wife Sha're and brother-in-law Skaara are abducted by the same warriors, O'Neill, Jackson and Air Force scientist Sam Carter (Amanda Tapping) use the Stargate to venture to where they're being kept.
What they find is an alien race who inhabits human hosts, the Goa'uld, and their ruthless slave warriors, the Jaffa. Carter, O'Neill and Jackson are captured by the powerful Apophis -- but to escape, they must have the help of an unlikely ally: Teal'c (Christopher Judge), Apophis' First Prime. Since Earth has now annoyed the Goa'uld, several exploration teams are formed to go through the Stargate and find weapons and allies.
And SG-1 -- Carter, O'Neill, Jackson and Teal'c -- encounters some very strange problems: a plague that turns people into savages, a people who live only a hundred days, a Viking planet, a Stargate explorer stranded since 1945, a little girl turned into a bomb, the seductive Goa'uld queen Hathor, and coming back as robots. And when the military shuts down the SG program, Daniel reveals that the Earth is about to be destroyed by Apophis' armies...
The first season of "Stargate SG-1" isn't the most impressive, though the last three episodes hint at the series' future greatness. And thankfully, it drops the usual space opera stuff -- instead we get Stargates, real military, and a very plausible reason why everybody in the galaxy (more or less) looks just like us.
It's graced with kitschy Egyptian-styled sets, lots of shoot-em-up action from Marines and Air Force, and plenty of planets influenced by Earth cultures, like the Minoans and the Vikings. Best of all is the snappy dialogue, mostly from the tart-tongued O'Neill ("Temperature--ground 1700 degrees Fahrenheit. Air--seems to be in pockets, ranging from 1500 degrees down to 200." "Sounds like LA").
And the makers add some poignant and/or warm scenes, such as the eager Abydonian teenagers celebrating with O'Neill and his pals, Teal'c reunion with his outcast family, or Sam bonding with a doomed little girl. All the characters get these moments, which really makes them seem human.
Instead of Kurt Russell's suicidal O'Neill from the movie, Anderson does a quirky, disrespectful, pop culture-lovin' guy with a hidden tragic past -- his "Cold Lazarus"double role is one of the best of the show. Tapping and Shanks are also great, as an enthusiastic geek and a smart, capable military woman. Sadly Judge gets shortchanged as the stern, honorable Teal'c, but he's brilliant when he's spotlighted.
The first season of "Stargate SG-1" is not the best of the series, but it's still a solid, imaginative sci-fi story with some great writing and even better acting. A must-have for sci-fi buffs.
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1 internautes sur 7 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
2.0étoiles sur 5
Star lacks lustre, Déc 24 2007
I purchased Seasons 1-3 on DVD and while the show itself is fun in an exploritory space/off world way, there is but one very lacking entity in this series...Richard Dean Anderson. I don't know if this is the same character as McGyver, but what compelled me to dislike this series was him. I almost ached watching episode after episode waiting for his depraved sarcastic remarks every time the character opened his mouth. It was so annoying getting through the seasons with RDA at the helm, I found myself feeling grateful that I did not buy the entire 10 season series, even though it was a bargain on Amazon. I understand that RDA left after a certain season, please someone let me know when so I can see if the series got better once he left. Yes, sometimes it is the writing that makes some actors come across badly on the screen, in this case, I often fast forwarded through scenes with his dialogue just so I could get back to the story. If he wasn't in the series, I could see it being a lot more fun and for television, mildly fascinating with the alien races and dynamics they began to demonstrate by the end of Season 3. Richard Dean Anderson was no doubt, the weakest link, his sarcastic, negative, ill informed lines of his character made watching this otherwise very good show, a painful experience and I couldn't wait for it to be over. Further seasons I cannot speak to, but again, if there is a reprieve after RDA left the series, please let me know, until then the seasons with him will not be purchased by myself. In fact the first 3 seasons I may just donate to my local library even if just to ensure I dont pick them up again and have to endure the lame performance and character of Richard Dean Anderson. Whether his or multiple persons doing, it is truly awful. Other than that, the show stands a chance of being interesting. By Season 3 I was hoping his character was killed off, bummer, didn't happen!
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