Stargate SG-1 - Season 8

The shakeup in personnel at Stargate Command may have been difficult for the crew but it was definitely an improvement for the television series. The early seasons were still trying to define what the show would be. The latter ones could be a bit stale. This one combines the excitement of the early seasons with the well developed cast of the latter seasons in a series of good plot lines. There are some changes to get used to. BG O'Neill commanding the SGC is just one. Teal'c having hair is the hardest for me to get used to.Episode synopses appear below:New Order Part 1 - Col. O'Neill managed to destroy Anubis and his fleet with the weapon of the ancients and thereby save the earth. It came at a cost. He was just barely alive and had to enter an Ancient's stasis field to keep from dying. SG1 wants to head off to procure help from the Asgard to revive O'Neill but there are political complications. The New civilian director of the SGC is more interested in placating civilian politicians than she is in helping O'Neill. Still, Maj. Carter convinces her to let herself and Teal'c go to the planet where they managed to bottle up the humanoid Replicators in hopes of finding Thor. They find him but they also encounter the replicator's breaking out and shaping a course for the new Asgard homeworld. They also manage to abduct Carter. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Ghoul system Lords have sent a message. They want to negotiate a treaty for aid against Ba'al. The fact that earth managed to destroy Anubis has caught everyone's attention. They ghouls are their typical arrogant selves, though. Worse, they are not sure if the weapon is still online or if it was a one shot deal. The episode closes with a ghoul attack fleet preparing to test the matter.New Order Part 2 - Thor revives Col. O'Neill in the hope that the knowledge of the ancients within him will help his people to find a way to combat the replicators. Basically, his job description has been changed from saving the Earth on a weekly basis to saving the Galaxy and allied civilizations of a weekly basis. He gets a brigadier's star and a better parking place out of the deal. To collect on this deal, though, he still has to save the Asgard from the replicators and convince the Ghouls that attacking earth is a bad idea. He manages to get most of the replicators but the one who gets away does so with a chilling development. Much is this episode is very pat and the timing is suspicious and strains credulity but it is a fun one and it is nice to see the promotions.Lockdown - Anubis is a very tough character to kill. We assumed that having his fleet blown up with him in at the end of last season would do the job but we were wrong. Everyone forgot that he is an "ascended being" and little things like death do not slow him down. He manages to take control of a Russian cosmonaut who is assigned to SGC. He wants access to the Stargate so he can escape. The SGC team realizes this just in the nick of time and shuts down operations and quarantines the facility under Lockdown conditions. Now it's a waiting game. Daniel bets that if they wait long enough, Anubis will use some of his ascended powers and bring the wrath of the ancients upon himself. Meanwhile, they are stuck with a spectral ghoul who cannot be killed or captured.Zero Hour - The ostensible story line in this episode is that SGC, now commanded by Brigadier General O'Neill, has reason to believe that SG1, commanded by the newly minted LTC. Carter, has been captured by Ba'al. Ba'al even makes a personal appearance offering to trade for them. He wants the ghoul defector in exchange for SG1. The problem is that ghouls can't be trusted and O'Neill must make some difficult command decisions. The real story is that O'Neill is trying to settle into the command slot. He must deal with a host of irritating little details like alien plants taking over the base, recalcitrant trade negotiators and an impending visit by the president, all of which sap his energy and return to the composition of his resignation letter. It is well done.Icon - The SG1 team is unprepared when they visit a new planet to find that the local Stargate is set up outside a museum. Until their appearance, the mythos surrounding the gate had been relegated to an outmoded religion practiced only by a few zealots. Now, the appearance of the SG1 team has destabilized the political situation and lent credence to the zealots' claims. A religious civil war ensues in which Daniel is caught on the planet. SGC has the devil of a time in trying to get him back and must ultimately take matters into their own hands.Avatar - The lab geeks come up with a virtual reality game to aide in the training of SG personnel. It is an advanced system that learns from its mistakes and gets better. Teal'c volunteers to try the system out. It works but there is a problem. Each time that Teal'c beats the system, it resets and gets harder. It will not end and let him out. It also gives his a little jolt of electricity each time he "dies" in the game. It is taking its toll and getting to the point where it is going to kill him. They cannot remove him forcibly from the game because doing so will also kill him. It seems like Teal'c is to be condemned to endlessly die in the game until he dies in reality.Affinity - Teal'c is finally being allowed to live off the base. This causes quite a stir because he is quite the model citizen. Crime drops dramatically around his apartment. He even takes up with the girl across the hall and teaches her to defend herself. The OSI doesn't like it. When the girl's former boyfriend turns up dead, Teal'c is the main suspect. SGC knows he is not to blame but it is hard to make the civil authorities see reason. They begin to take notice, though, when both the girl and Daniel Jackson turn up missing. It's those pesky, rogue NID agents running a freelance operation. Now, SGC has to shut them down, save the girl and Jackson and clear Teal'c.Covenant - It looks like the Stargate secret is out of the bag. A billionaire industrialist with lots of government contracts has managed to piece together bits of information and knows that something screwy is going on. He even has photos of the battle in space that ended last season. He also has some Asgard DNA and manages to clone one. This guy doesn't have any ulterior motives. He just believes in things like honesty and disclosure. He hold a press conference in which he announces that he has evidence that the government is keeping a big secret and threatens to reveal the secret if the governments do not come clean in 24 hours. Twenty four hours later, he produces a cloned asgard. SGC freaks and tries to get him to recant and keep the secret. Other people with lesser motive don't want him to disclose things either. Too much power and too much money argue for continued secrecy. Now the government faces a containment problem as it tries to keep everyone in the dark.Sacrifices - Ishta is the leader of the Jaffa women met last season. She is a high priestess of Moloch and leader of a resistance movement. She is eager to strike against the ghoul she is enslaved to and end his reign of terror and the practice of sacrificing female children. SGC agrees with her wishes but not her timing. They are looking at the bigger picture and an uprising of all Jaffa against all ghouls. Now, matters are coming to a head. Moloch has learned of the conspiracy and is moving against her and her people. They are evacuated to earth while LTC Carter tries to find a place to relocate them. Ishta and Teal'c are captured, though, and have no supply of the drug they depend on to replace the larval ghoul. The SGC must mount a rescue operation and contend with hotheads who want to act RIGHT NOW. Just to keep things extra tense, Teal'c's son, Rayac plans to marry one of Ishta's girls and daddy does not approve. This is one of the more action packed episodes of this season.Endgame - The rogue NID agents have shown up again. Actually, it's less a matter of them showing up than a matter of the Stargate disappearing from out of the middle of the SGC complex. The clues are few but all point to the rogues. The bad guys have found Osiris' ship and have used its transporter to steal the gate. They have also stolen a big batch of the Tok'ra nerve agent. They are sending rockets through he gate to kill as many ghouls and Jaffa as possible. Naturally, the Jaffa allied with SGC are pissed. They suspect a Tok'ra plot. SG1 must track down the rogues, capture the ship, stop the nerve attacks and stay alive while doing it. It's a normal day at work for SG1.Gemini - A few episodes back, the SG1 team defeated the humaniform replicators and their mechanical allies. At the end of that episode, we learned that the Replicator called "Fifth" had made a replica version of LTC Carter. This is the episode where everyone else finds out also. They find out when A message comes through the gate and has an out of date ID code of the Real Carter. When a drone is sent to investigate, Carter finds herself staring at an image of herself. The fake has a startling request. She wants to be killed and the SGC has the only weapon usable for the purpose. She cannot stand what Fifth is making her do. The SG personnel are suspicious but Carter points out how much intelligence they can gather and tries to convince the fake that they can protect her if they can get that intelligence. The others are suspicious of a trick. They think she might be working as an agent for Fifth. Fifth thinks the same thing. The truth is quite a bit more complex.Prometheus Unbound - Daniel Jackson is having a bad day. He wants to go on the Prometheus on the rescue mission for those sent to the Atlantis site. BG O'Neill won't let him go. He thinks he has won the day when LTG. Hammond shows up and says he is command of the mission and wants Daniel along. Daniel gets his way but is a bit put off by another member of the expedition. She is a female geek who is very bright but who gets a bad case of the hiccups when she is nervous. She spends a lot of time being nervous and she seems to have the hots for Daniel. These problems get put on the back burner when the Prometheus gets a distress call and goes to investigate. They find a ghoul ship damaged and with most of its inhabitants dead. An Anubis style super soldier is very much alive, though, and strands the crew of the Prometheus on the ghoul ship and steals the Prometheus with Daniel on board. Strangely, the super soldier does not kill Daniel and only zaps him. That is strange but Daniel gets really nervous when the killer makes a comment about Daniel being cute. It turns out, that his ship has been hijacked by a human woman wearing the armor of the super soldier. She gives a sob story about rescuing the last of her people and beats Daniel up on a regular basis as she is trying to be provocative. She turns out not to be a heroine but a simple pirate. Her lies get them into worse and worse trouble and Daniel has to save his ship, escape a bunch of enraged ghouls, get clear of her nefarious associates and keep from losing any sense of chivalry. It is a full day.It's Good to be King - The war between Ba'al and the system lords is not going well for most of the ghouls. They are looking around for previously abandoned planets to which they may retreat. One of these is the planet where the formal Col. Maybourne has found asylum after his misdeeds with the NID. Reluctantly, BG O'Neill agrees to send someone to rescue him. They find that he has set himself up as a king. Even stranger, his people love him. Strangest of all, he cares about his people. The basis for his power is an old monument of the ancients which is the basis for predicting the future. It was left behind as part of some ancient time travel experiments. One pf the prophecies details the current mess so the locals are expecting SG1. The key to success is an old ship of the Ancients. O'Neill must get it working before the forces of Ares take control.Full Alert - The rogue NID agents are back. The last time they were encountered was when one of their freelance plots to kill the ghouls and Jaffa was thwarted by SG1. One of their number managed to flee. Now, they are back and it is ugly. No longer are they waging an illicit campaign against the ghouls; they have been suborned by them. They want the governments of earth to destroy themselves in nuclear annihilation clearing the way for them to take the Atlantis weapon. Distrust is high and all military forces are at full alert. Everyone thinks the US government has been infiltrated by ghouls. The infiltration is elsewhere.Citizen Joe - It's budget crunch time. This episode is one of those retrospectives which features footage from previous episodes in a minimal story. The story, such as it is, involves Joe the barber. He buys a strange looking stone at a garage sale. When the stone is in his possession, he has visions of what SG1 is actually doing. This turns him from a boring guy into an interesting teller of stories. He becomes obsessed with the telling of these stories and eventually starts to write them down. He becomes so monomaniacal about doing so that his family leaves him. His life falls apart and he blames O'Neill and eventually goes after him. It is merely a cheap way to relive some action sequences from the past.Reckoning Part 1 - I suppose the last, low budget episode was a buildup to this one. Everyone gets to play. The Replicators, led by the replicate version of Samantha Carter is taking over the System Lords. It is only a matter of time before the ghouls are wiped out and the Replicators can take over the entire galaxy. The rebel Jaffa see this as an opportunity to attack their ancient temple and swing the rest of the Jaffa over to their cause. The Tok'ra believe this to be a lost cause. Ba'al turns out to be working not for himself but for Anubis. Thor and the Asgard are helping the real Carter to find a counter against the Replicators. The campaign of the rebel Jaffa starts off well enough but the replicate Carter find reason to head to their site to destroy it. Everybody thinks everybody else has been suckered into a trap.Reckoning Part 2 - Many of the loose ends of the series are tied up in this one. The rebel Jaffa have managed to take control of the temple that is central to their culture, thereby showing that the ghoul "gods" are not omnipotent. Ba'al and his fleet are closing in on the planet with the temple thinking that the Jaffa can be suppressed once and for all. Daniel Jackson is still in the hands of the replicate Carter who is trying to sift his mind for any clue to make her kind invulnerable. She knows that the only weapon which can defeat the Replicators is in that same temple so she has sent all of her forces there. The real Ltc. Carter and her father are in the Temple quickly deciphering away, trying to convert the weapon from something that will kill all life into something that will just affect the replicators. They will need Ba'al's help to get the job done but Ba'al has his own agenda. Anubis is hiding somewhere out of site but not quite out of mind. The stage is set for a truly great climax of epic proportion, one that seems like it is suitable for the end of a series, not just the end of a season and there are still a few episodes left!Threads - Daniel Jackson needs to stop getting killed so often. It's not healthy. It's not natural. It's supposed to be one per customer. He was killed at the end of the last episode in the climatic battle with the Replicators. Now, he is stuck in an other-worldly diner frequented by others who have ascended. Oma, the one who ascended him, is there as his waitress and there is a bothersome other customer who hangs around and drops hints about what is happening back in the real world. What is happening is not good. The Jaffa are consolidating their victory and striking out against what remains of Anubis' forces. They are being suckered into a trap. LTC Carter is trying to figure out her relationship with her fiancé and with BG O'Neill and the situation is complicated by the fact that her father is dying. There are plenty of weighty matters going on, both great and small, but they manage to get them fairly well sorted out by the end of the episode.Moebius Part 1 - The last few episodes did such a good job of cleaning up the galaxy that one may well wonder what is left for SGC to do. Well, it seems that the Ancient crystals that power the super weapon defenses are practically exhausted. Daniel Jackson finds a clue as to where one may be located. He thinks it is in ancient Egypt at the time of Ra, who does not know what it is. Their need is so great that the SGC decides to do what it has sworn never to do. They will use the Ancient ship found several episodes back to go back in time and steal the crystal from Ra, who does not realize what he has. They make it back and steal the crystal but their ship is discovered before they can leave for home. Now there is a great danger that they will change the course of history. They leave a video note to themselves to be found in the future to try to solve the dilemma. That concludes the first few minutes of the program. Then we are transported to the present day. In this alternate reality, the Stargate was never found and Jackson and Carter both have boring jobs. O'Neill is a drunk or the next thing too it. They are approached by the Air Force because their images appear on the ancient video tape that was recovered. It is up to them to find the gate and they are excited by the prospect of joining the adventurous but not yet extant SG1 The problem is that the USAF does not feel they are qualified to do any of the action stuff. The episode ends as it looks like the heroes are going to be cast aside.Moebius Part 2 - When the previous episode ended, the SG1 team had managed to screw up history so that Earth doesn't even know that the Stargate exists. A videotape alerts the Air Force to the possibilities and the alternate, geek versions of Jackson and Carter are recruited to find the gate and make it work. At the last minute, O'Neill is convinced to lead and expedition and he is convinced to take Carter and Jackson with him. They head for Chulak try and recruit the alternate Teal'c. Then, in a running battle with Apothis's jaffa, they too head back in time to try and repair the damage that was done. It can be a confusing pair of episodes if you don't pay attention but they are good ones.

This was a fun season for me. There are many changes for SG1. Hammand goes to Washington and Jack takes over command. Reluctantly of course "I have spent my life sticking it to the man and now I am the man.DVD 1: New Order Part 1 - In the aftermath of dealing with Anubis, there is the question of what about Jack. We last left him in the stasis field which he entered in order to prevent the complete rewrite of his brain which of course meant death. The idea is to contact Thor since he had erased Jacks prior knowledge load. The problem is the new civilian commander, Dr. Elizabeth Weir. Hammand would say go but she has other ideas as she is trying to find her way. Eventually Teal'c and Carter head out but Carter gets abducted by the replicators. Meanwhile back home the SGC gets a startling request. The system lords want to discuss a treaty with earth.New Order Part 2 - Thor does his job and again revives Jack. He also hopes Jack can come up with an ancient weapon design to deal with the replicators. Dr. Weir leaves and Jack finally becomes a General. He is not too sure as he once remarks "I have spent my life sticking it to the man and now I am the man." On his first outing, he convinces the system lords that attacking earth is a bad idea and deals with the replicators.Lockdown - Anubis is back. Being half ascended, he does not die with his fleet. He sneaks around the SGC in "cloud" form taking over people as needed. He tries to use the stargate to escape. They lock it down but he eventually does escape. However, it's not where he expected.Zero Hour - Brigadier General Jack O'Neill begins to wonder if he is really fit to command. Too much pressure as Baal captures Carter and wants to trade for a Goa'uld defector as well as a plant that is tacking over the SGC and a negotiation between two parties that hate each other and the pending visit by the President. During the show you see O'Neill writing his resignation letter while things are going on. I liked his approach to dealing with the negotiation reps; he locks them in a room together until they can sort things out. In the end he changes his mind and writes that on his letter. Overall, it is a good "warm" story.DVD 2: Icon - SG1 visits a planet to find the stargate is in a museum. Religion and myth surround the gate and their appearance destabilizes a nation in a world that is basically in a cold war. Missiles are launched and the religious zealots take over. Jackson is caught in the middle and decides he has to help to make up for what they did.Avatar - I thought this episode was a sales pitch for a new computer game but it was still interesting. The scientists use alien technology to introduce virtual reality training for SG teams. Teal'c is the tester and easily beats it. He says so and they decide to use him to toughen up the game. The game responded by making each round harder and gives Teal'c a shock each time he dies. They can't unplug him as the device would kill him by the way it works. They have to find a solution. There is kind of a Groundhog Day feel to this but it was still interesting.Affinity - At first I thought this was a dream sequence when you see Teal'c in town stopping an assault (he beats the snot out of a group of hoods). It seems he has been allowed to live off base and in his zealous desire to fit in he begins helping people and defends them if need be. His neighbor has an abusive boyfriend and he visits to check her out which of course she was hit. The BF mouths off and Teal'c tells him if he touches her again he will kill him where he stands and then walks off. The BF basically wets himself! The girl walks up to him while he is in a park doing his Kata. He decides to teach self-defense in order to boost her self-image. The boyfriend later ends up dead and it looks like Teal'c did it. Carter brings in her boyfriend to examine the case and his findings and the later disappearance of Jackson and Teal'cs neighbor tells the SGC he didn't do it.Covenant - A genius billionaire industrialist knows about SGC and wants the governments to confess what they are up to. He thinks the world has a right to know they were almost wiped out. He decides to prove it by producing an Azgard on TV. Carter tries to convert him to the cause since he helped out in the past. Even though he is excited by the alpha site and flying in a 302, he still plans to go on with his plans.DVD 3: Sacrifices - This one was fun. Teal'c returns from a mission and Jack asks how it went. Teal'c has a foul expression and announces that "those he loves and trusts the most have betrayed him." Jack of course looks at him and says "Oh that good." It is later explained that Rayac is planning to get married. Ishta leader of the women warriors is back and leading a resistance against their former leader Moloch. She wants to strike but the SGC doesn't want to help as they have plans for all Jaffa to rise up. But when it's learned that Moloch is going to annihilate the women, Jack decides to give them sanctuary to the SGC and then does double takes as he sees horses walking around in the facility. Teal'c and Ishta are later captured in a surprise attack. Problems mount as they realize they don't have enough tritonan. Overall a nice action episode!Endgame - It's the late shift and a new guy rambles about things which is broken up by the fact the stargate is teleported out. The NID is back. They have the gate, a modified Tok'ra nerve agent and rockets to deliver the agent. They use the agent to start wiping out the Goa'uld. Never mind the fact that 10's of 1000's Jaffa also die in their strikes. SG1 must stop the plot before the Jaffa allies get pissed at what they perceive is a Tok'ra plot.Gemini - The SGC gets a strange message with Carters old ID code. They send a MALP and see Carter? They quickly figure out she is a Replicator and are surprised by her request to die. It turns out that she can't stand Fifth and reports he is planning to invade the galaxy. Carter bonds with her for some reason and the rest of the SGC thinks the replicator is up to something. Fifth for some reason thinks the same. The ending is a little surprising.Prometheus Unbound - Prometheus is going to look for Atlantis and Daniel Jackson wants to go. O'Neill won't let him. Hammand shows up and announces he is in command of the mission and is taking him. He also takes Jacks office chair which he tells Jack to send it to Washington. While on route they get a distress call and find a Hattak attack ship with all dead on board. So they think. A super soldier is there but what is strange is that it's not killing anybody. In this episode we get to meet Vala played by Claudia Black. She is a great character and she and Daniel have a great love/hate relationship.DVD 4: It's Good to be King - The System Lords are getting beaten soundly by Baal. They start looking at abandoned planets to hide and rebuild. One targeted planet became a home for Col. Maybourne. It's decided it's a bad idea to let the Goa'uld get a hold of him since his knowledge would be a disaster for earth if he was ever mind probed. A retrieval team is sent to get him. They find he has set himself up as king and seer for the people. What is shocking is the fact he cares for his people and they him. It later comes out there is an ancient ruin and he taught himself to read inscriptions that is a timeline of events that happen and will happen. An ancient time traveled and left a log of what he saw. One message speaks of the saviors that will come. O'Neill needs to find a ship and get it working to deal with the Goa'uld arrival.Full Alert - The agents that escaped in Osiris' ship have returned. This time they are Goa'uld. They have a plan to annihilate the earth and it's effective. The US government has been infiltrated by the Goa'uld.Citizen Joe - This was one of those OK? type of episodes. A man played by Dan Castalenta (homer simpson) starts having visions of SG1. His life falls apart as he finds himself compelled to write everything down. After loosing his home, he decides Jack has to pay.There is humor in the episode but as I mentioned why did they do it? Probably the funniest part is when they realize there are two stones and both owners will share visions. It appears Jack has had visions of a barber in Indiana for 7 years. Daniel asks him didn't he find it strange and Jack tells them he found it soothing. They all look at him like he is nuts.Reckoning Part 1 - Replicator Carter appears at the to the system lords as Baals representative is trying to get them to give up the fight. She brings Carter out and makes an accusation of duplicity. The replicator shows her intent by running Lord Yu through and then proceeds to kill them all(not shown). This was a rather strange way to eliminate most of the Goa'uld.We also discover there is a world were the Jaffa first become servant warriors to the Goa'uld. Teal'c decides if they can take it from Baal who is busy fighting and loosing to the replicators, they can swing the Jaffa to the cause as a God could not hold a sacred world.The Jaffa take the planet and repliacator Carter takes Daniel Jackson. Anubis appears and orders Baal to retake the planet.Reckoning Part 2 - When I saw this episode I saw what appears to be the end of the series in play. The Jaffa have taken the temple which shows all Jaffa the Goa'uld are not Gods. The system lords were wiped out. Baal is about to attack and wipe out the rebels and the replicators are about to attack after Replicator Carter learns about the weapon from Daniel. The weapon is found and Carter, Jacob and Selmac are trying to figure out how to make it work. They have to enlist the help of Baal who gladly helps when he sees his fleeting getting annihilated by the Replicator fleet. Daniel eventually starts taking control of Replicator Carter and she kills him. The weapon is fired and the replicators are gone.Threads - Daniel Jackson appears in a supernatural dinner and finds Oma is his waitress. He thinks he has ascended but learns he has not and he must choose as there will not be a third time. There is also this annoying customer that seems to piss off Oma every chance he can get. There are side stories where Carter is trying to figure out whom she wants and it appears the Jaffa are about to get suckered into a trap. On top of that Carter learns that her father is dying. I always wondered about the bit were Daniel tried to fight Anubis while ascended and lost. You get to see why here and take a good look at the fight scene that they show. Oma is there.More wrap up for the series?Moebius Part 1 - This 2 part was a strange episode. The ancient weapon on earth is low on power and Daniel discovers they probably could get another if they time travel back to the time of Ra. You would think after Star Trek they would understand that messing with the time line is a bad thing. Problems happen and they decide to hide out and hope they don't mess up the timeline. Of course things change. Daniel Jackson is a nerd who teaches English classes to get buy. Carter has a sexy librarian action going as an unrecognized genius in a male dominated job. Jack is a retired drunk boat operator and Teal'c is still with Apothis. Jackson and Carter are approached by the air force who show them a tape made by SG1 that is discovered on a dig. They decide they need to find that gate and find the original was taken by RA when he left the planet. However, there is one more. After locating it, the air force says they are going to discharge the services of Carter and Jackson.Moebius Part 2 - O'Neill appears and it's decided to head to Chulak and get Teal'c. He decided that Carter and Jackson must come. They pick up Teal'c and head back to ancient Egypt hopeful to correct the time line.This was a strange episode especially when there was no cliff hanger. Somebody later told me they do this because they think the series is going to be cancelled. Don't know if it is true. Overall, I really liked season 8 and can't wait for Season 9 to come out.

Can't go wrong with Stargate! Good Sci Fi

Good shows where SG1 finishes old enemies: the go'uld, replicators and Anubis. Season 9 starts the Ori.

After season 7 I thought I would stop but the cliff hanger ending prompted me to go to season 8. It is better than I expected since McNeill is not a General and not in the field. They brought back Dr. Jackson and the field came to Jack. Maybe I will go for season 9, haven't decided yet.

This is for Stargate fans. This series came out after the movie Stargate around 20 years ago – and it ties to the movie, so you’d want to watch the movie first. Now, the CGI and the recordings are kind of "meh", especially on Hi def TVs. But, we enjoyed it so much that we decided to revisit the entire series - not for binge watching but for "we're traveling and there's no cable or Netflix" or "It been a long day and let's just decompress watching something we know is fun and light and slightly dramatic but has no relationship to reality whatsoever". You know a “comfort” show. Its 10 seasons and a few spinoff mini-movies so we have a long enjoyable time ahead of us. And it will be easy to throw a DVD into our bag if we’re heading to a cabin in the mountains or out on our boat. Now, if you want something more current (so better quality recordings) IMO “Once Upon A Time” or “Marvel’s Agents of Shield” are about the same kind of program. Maybe even “Grimm” if you want something a little edgier. This is NOT a “True Blood” or “Dexter” or “Breaking Bad” or “Walking Dead” series. (I’ve watched them all.) This is a “watch a show or two and immediately hit your pillow with no lingering effects” series.

When a series has gone on for as long as Stargate SG-1 has it generally starts to loose its way and devolve into mediocrity but thankfully it appears that this series has bucked this trend. The twenty-one episodes in this eighth series of the Stargate are, if anything, better than the vast majority of the episodes from the previous seasons. Season eight sees the return of the Replicators, O'Neill's promotion, the continuing search for Ancient technology, the Jaffa rebellion reaches its climax and much more.This season of Stargate SG-1 has been one of my favourite to date with the only real bad episode being the clip-show `Citizen Joe' but even that is a cut above some other clip-shows I have seen. The writing is competent throughout and the performances by the cast are good and you do feel that they are comfortable with their characters now. My favourite episode from this season has to be `Prometheus Unbound' a truly entertaining and funny episode guest staring Claudia Black from the cult show Farscape.One thing that I am worried about with this season is that it does appear to tie up many of the ongoing plotlines that have been ongoing throughout the shows run and introducing new plotlines this late in the day rarely works well. Despite this I am still looking forward to watching the continued adventures of SG-1 in the future.

Even after 7 seasons, SG1 is still going strong throughout season 8 with plenty of great story lines & the familiar humour that shows this series doesn't take itself too seriously. I really enjoyed watching all episodes, awesome stuff! However, the last 2 part offering was a little weak by comparison, starting on the premise of obtaining a ZPM at great risk that wasn't really needed & that no one from SG1 would actually attempt in their right minds. It was a bit out of character for them in my opinion, with too much comedy throughout, but watchable nonetheless. I would definitely recommend this to any Science Fiction fans out there in need of some quality content.

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After finishing season 7 ,both my husband and I couldn't wait for No. 8,and we were not disappointed. It just gets better and better. The characters are so easy to identify with,not the cool, lifeless characters you sometimes get in US series. We are both like little kids ,watching the adventures of the SG 1 team in excitement. Very highly recommendable ,and a Must for Science fiction fans.

I was expecting the full box size set rather than the slim one so it matched all my previous 1 to 7 sets. Also the advertising on them is really not required as any collector of Stargate would already know about Atlantis and so on and only distracts from watching the episodes, real pain.