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The thing I loved about O'Niell was that he had a core element of darkness to his character. His sarcasm, tendency to self-sacrifice, and his almost intentional ignorance of technobabble were all fed by it.

SG1 is my neighbour's favourite tv show. She's 96.

The show lasted so long that the "reproductive organs" line became a joke within the show itself before the end.

I'm going to partially agree with you about O'Neil. On one hand, as a former military guy, I do like his portrayal of a military guy. On the other, in the black hole episode you mentioned, their explaining to him about something about the black hole and he basically says, "Yeah, yeah the accretion disk." and when everyone looks surprised he knows what that is he says, "Did you think the telescope on my deck was just decoration?" He was smart, he just wasn't quite as smart as the two scientists on the team and he was more focused on practical matters than theoretics. In later episodes he just became Zoolander. "The files are in the computer?"

My wife is American and served in the army as a linguist, she loves SG1 and O'Neill and has told me many times how his attitude toward the more nerdy people in the armed forces is accurate. That many times she was subjected to the wit of a more front line soldier, not in a bad way, not in a put you down sort of way, but just that they were trained to think of things in one very focused field of vision. Also I think O'Neill worked so well because we all saw that underneath his flippant attitude was a very serious and emotional man which made the times that emotion broke through all the more impactful.

What I loved about SG1 is that it combined so many great elements across the best Star Trek series. It had the adventure and character chemistry of TOS, the philosophy of TNG, and the moral struggle of DS9. And it could poke fun at itself in so many ways, including hilarious jumps through the fourth wall. And the Ori are some of the darkest antagonists in all of science fiction.

I loved SG-1, but the lore consistency and generally successful humor are what truly sets it apart from most Sci-Fi of its era and put it among my favourites.

They do actually address the fact that all the planets they visit seem like Earth. In one episode, and I am paraphrasing here, O'Neill comes through the gate and sighs 'Trees, lots of trees' to which Samantha explains that because the Stargates were seeded on planets capable of supporting the human life form it makes sense they would have the same ecosystem. :)

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Nicely done. Favorite line when thor corrects kinsey who calls him commander. And thor says, "Supreme Commander." And puts his little finger up. Still makes me smile.

"All your gods are fake, here are machine guns" damn

My mother’s name is Janet Fraser….needless to say we were instant fans of Stargate SG1 😂 I was roughly 12 when SG1 first aired and it’s one of the first shows I can remember watching from beginning to end. I felt like a major part of my life had come to an end when the show finished its run. Still a great show to this day!

The very fact the O’Neill has many lacking qualities was all the more interesting to me - he’s not smart, not the best fighter etc but through his past trauma has a deep sense of loyalty - which is what makes him a great leader.

One of my favorite shows. My whole family would sit in the living room and watch it when it was on showtime. Also thought Shanks and Spader were the same until I was a teenager.

Probably the most well written sci fi show I’ve ever seen and I’m a treker

The fact that folks weren’t and still aren’t, crying “Mary Sue” at Carter shows both that Tapping is an excellent actress and the writing and direction was stellar.

Just have to say, Teryl Rothery is incredibly gorgeous and was always a favorite of mine on this show.

A little bit of trivia: General Hammond was Scully's father for exactly 1 episode where he immediately died.

@37:00 Obviously you were going to discuss Hammond, who I think hands down is the greatest general in media. He's a smart, capable leader but most importantly he listens to his people. He SUPPORTS them rather than telling them how to do what they do. Truly one of the greatest characters in all of Sci-Fi IMHO.

14:20 Based on O'Neill having killed Ra, the most feared among the Goa'oulds at that time. I think Teal'C couldn't believe his luck (he already was a rebel at that point, a sleeper agent).

I think the things I respect most about SG1 are..... 1) There is usually a status Quo, but it changes slowly over the course of the show (S9 notwithstanding) as a natural growth of the story. The development of the team from barely understanding the most basic tech, and seeing Goa'uld technology as the pinnacle, to having their own starships..... it feels earned. Piece by piece and never surprising us. 2) They stick to the rules they set up. The 38 minute window is meticulously stuck to for example, and any exceptions are a major plot point. They revisit solutions to previous issues when faced with similar ones. They reference past adventures in order to establish continuity. And they barely retcon anything. There are a handful such as with the Zats but they are so few it is barely noticed. Those are 2 things I love about Sci-Fi. Of all series we need adventure of the week, but background continuity and development, to make the show grow.

33:09 can you imagine the accountants trying to work that one out? "Hey why does Jack have two weeks of overtime this month?" "Oh that's not over time, that's time dilation, 2 weeks passed for him last tuesday?" "So is that overtime then or just regular pay?" "Ya know what, he saved the planet. Let's call it time and a half."

Man in the early 2000’s, this show was inescapable on the sci-fi network… simpler times

I grew up on OG Trek reruns in the 70’s, moved on to TNG and generally am a massive Trek fan. But, SG-1 will always hold a special place, if I ever need to escape reality a little bit and be guaranteed a feel good show, this is it.

while a lot of what you say about O'Neil is true, I find it refreshing for a character who for all that was happening was a rock, an absolute constant you could always depend on to both do the right thing and quib about it. In my opinion it is also implied that hes light-harted attitude is largely an attempt to conceal his trauma and not let it bring down morale of his team.

I was 13 or 14 years old when SG 1 premiered. I tuned in by chance. I recalled not liking the original movie back then, being disappointed by the underutilisation of the premise of the movie: the Stargate. The TV series got my immediate enthusiasm. After the first season, I rewatched the movie and grew more fond of it. From season two onward, Stargate became part of my childhood and growing up and was an escape from my own personal traumas. The characters were fascinating and admiring to watch with each his and her own journey of development, and antagonists to overcome who ultimately at times even grew into allies. The series radiated 'hope' and 'optimism' and a sense of 'what could be one day'. Stargate since accompanied me every week for the following 13 years. I never missed any episode in those years, waiting anxiously for the next episode - or rewatch the season repeats. The intro theme would sound in full blast in my room, making sure my mother and brother knew: It's the time! I would discuss the show and characters in school. I literally grew up with it. And when SGU concluded (too early), I felt like I completed a journey. Sad but content at the same time. This show like no other has left a mark on me. Can you imagine a show being done like this and this long in today's climate? I wish they would return to weekly shows that took their time 'to explore' instead of 6-10 episode binge-watch models that are forgotten as soon as another shows of some sort drops. PS: "Lucy, I'm home!", "I'm not Lucy."

I rewatched the series recently- that 1990s tv production value really hit that nostalgia vibe for me and wasn't any sort of drawback. It really brought me back to a time when a show like this was fun and just a general week to week experience where you knew you were about to receive something entertaining. It's kind of like Highlander- you know it's not high art, but god damn it fills a hole you dont know you have until season about 5.

Huge in Canada. It aired on the CTV network, a regular national broadcast network, in addition to being on cable. CTV slotted it in on Sunday at I think 7:00 p.m., which sounds like dead time but it was actually quite successful there in what they used to call the "Sunday Dinner" time slot normally reserved for family friendly dramas (think Life Goes On, or Touched by an Angel), so this was a marked departure from that genre, but the big factor allowing it there was "no blood." The bad guys get shot in Stargate all the time but the armour covers up any gore and the Zats just render you unconscious, so it got green-lit for that time on TV instead of a later 9:00 p.m.. Also the "Can Con" factor was at play too, with it being filmed in Canada, and staring Canadian actors, it ticked enough boxes to count toward the government mandated minimum "Canadian original content" programming required by broadcast networks, though the minimum was never very much, something like 21 hours per week (the nightly news counted toward this), it still helped it sit prominently on TV across Canada for anyone even if you didn't have the sci-fi channel in your cable package. All that and the immense scale of the production in Vancouver made it an iconic show in Canada. Probably several thousand Canadians appeared as background extras in the show over its whole run, and so many more were involved in things like makeup, wardrobe, catering, location shooting services, etc. that it was hard to find someone in the industry in Vancouver who hadn't at some point done something for that show.

Love this show. @ the moment though I'm watching 'Babylon 5' :D

One of the more fun or silly or minor or whatever things I appreciate more and more about Stargate SG1 is frankly, just how stunning, like almost unnaturally handsome and beautiful Michael Shanks is. There's a few seasons there where i don't know, his haircut, his face, I don't know. But by god, one of the best looking men I've ever seen hahaha I laugh because I don't really understand it, but I'm very serious. Honestly, that man should have been painted and carved into marble or something for appreciation by following generations lol

Best 70 mins I have wasted on KZfaq in a long time. Looking forward to Part 3.

I love that the entire SG-TV series is a direct continuation of the movie. The movie fascinated me, and the TV show explored what these characters could, and would be. Brilliant!

The series casting was a continuing string of excellent choices

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Although it made them "samey", I really loved how O'Neill and Daniel rubbed off of each other to the point they had acquired parts of each other's personality. Daniel became a little more jaded and sarcastic but O'Neill comparatively did gain a better appreciation for other points of view and lost some of his military edge. Also how Teal'c as time went on losing his "alienness" as he spent more time on Earth was great.

God yes. I've been waiting for you to tackle Stargate since the Babylon 5 series. SG-1 and Atlantis are masterpieces, to me. Right up there with TNG, DS9, Babylon 5, and the early chunk of the BSG reboot.

My mother dispaired at me and my stepfather taking over the only TV in the house to watch this every week-- "...Not 'Broach Head' Again!?"

Outside of TOS, SG1 is easily the best introduction to scifi tv and one of my favorite shows of all time

The 1990s was the golden era for TV shows. SO many great and fun shows came out then. We were swimming in amazing stuff to watch. When networks took chances. Especially with sci fi and fantasy.

*stares at SG-1 boxset on my shelf* I should probably rewatch that, again. Great video Rowan.

Such perfectly brilliant timing. I’ve just finished a binge watch of Stargate SG1 after not having seen a single episode in more than 12 years on the very day this drops. lol Well, almost. I’ve just watched Ark of Truth. I haven’t got to Continuum yet. Looking forward to this. I loved this show when I was growing up. From the age of 12 - 21 I think only missed 2 episodes on first broadcast. I was quite the fan. lol

Agree completely that sokar was wasted. They tried to evoke the same mystery with Anubis in later seasons but I think sokar could have been even more menacing than Anubis had they given it a chance

God I love and miss this show so much! They don’t make weekly episodic sci-fi like they used to 😭

SG1 taught me the dangers of challenging social norms, and why it may be worth it anyways. As a secular atheist kid growing up in Christian households this ment the world to me.

These people were all in the X-Files too! I love how much crossover there is between sci fi show actors haha, Star Trek, Babylon 9, Star Gate, X-Files

This show, especially the 1-5 run, was integral to my childhood and helped me define what I want from my own writing. Specifically, the character chemistry. I have never seen another show before or after (barring Atlantis, they nailed the vibes better than most spin-offs) do character chemistry quite like Stargate SG-1, and it's wonderful. Obviously props go to the actors for bringing them to life, each with their own unique flair, but I think part of it is that each of the main four are characterized perfectly to synergize AND butt heads with the other three in pretty much equal measure. The entire show is just the main four foiling off of each other constantly, it's a difficult equilibrium to achieve, let alone maintain, but Stargate manages it beautifully. Not only that, but they manage to integrate new personalities into the dynamic without ruining it; regulars like Hammond or Frasier can slide in and out seamlessly, guests like Bra'tac or Jacob fit in well, and later on Mitchell and Vala make for (in my opinion at least) excellent replacements/additions to the crew while still maintaining that unique chemistry.

Thanks Rowan. SG1 is one of my favorite shows ever

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12:53 My wife and I went to BC Canada for our honeymoon. We both adored many different television shows that were produced in Vancouver. We would point out PX275 in Psych or the infamous Vancouver mansion 3689 Selkirk St, Vancouver, BC V6H 2Y9 that pops up in every show. Other great locations are the opera house in BSG was also a weak point between the two universes in Fringe. So many great shows are a product of BC Canada.

The thing that makes statgate SG-1 rise above many of its kind is that it never leaves the humanity of its characters behind. Most sci-fi forgets to show that its characters are fully fleshed out people with flaws that learn over time. Sci fi is at its best when it writes great characters. Star Trek Voyager could learn a thing or two.

The theme tune is awesome, a great mix of the original wonder-of-space-exploration opera movie score with martial band instruments to signify the military aspect of the show. I never saw these early series when they were first aired in the UK as they were on the relatively new Sky satellite broadcasting channel, only when they began to air on terrestrial TV (Channel 4 i believe) did i start to see from the later series and then went back and caught-up. Now watching the re-runs ironically on 'Sky Mix' digital TV channel.

This was an excellent look back, i even teared up a bit at Daniel ascending. Looking forward to the next part.

Your perspective on O'Neill (two L's) is very interesting. I do agree that the character doesnt get a lot of character development compared to the rest, but thats because he's such a great character to begin with and you definitely notice something missing when he's not there in later seasons (Though i do think the show suffers when trying to force him into episodes in later seasons too). I definitely prefer O'Neill's character staying the same to the way that Jackson "evolved" into an action hero in later seasons as you mentioned One thing i definiately do agree with though is the weird pacing of certain storylines. Particularly in the case of Dr Jackson's wife, the way that storyline is wrapped up is very strange. I can only assume there are behind the scenes reasons that it went down that way (actor availability maybe, she also did have Shanks's baby during production). The Skara storyline was definitely due to the actor being unavailable.

One of my favourite shows of all times watch them all through regularly

The time loop episode and Wormhole Extreme are two of my favorites!

This show REALLY prepped Christopher Judge for when he got casted as Kratos.

Such a good show.

I disagree with your take on O’Neill but you said yourself it was a controversial opinion. I do agree that they lean too heavily on his (seemingly feigned ) lack of understanding and specifically related to window of opportunity it always bothered me that they spent part of their loop learning to read and speak Ancient but never use that again. Both tealc and O’Neill should be able to read and understand ancient going forward but they defer to Daniel as if they never learned a word

This was very interesting to watch. I'm a huge SG-1 fan, but I actually started watching the show without realizing that there even was a movie, and to this day I kinda regard the movie as an afterthought. It's just not an important part of my relationship with the show. The movie-centric perspective on the shows early days is a new take for me.

Oh man, that brought back memories. I used to love that show. Fell of with season 6 or 7 though. It is a little bit to pulpy for my liking nowadays but thats what they where going for and I have to respect these really strong early seasons. Well thought out storylines and charakters. There was a clear vision behind that project thats for sure. And there was a good mix out of stand alone and Main plot episodes. Something I miss sometimes in modern series. There is no stand alone anymore just cliffhangers it seems like.

Love this show really enjoyed my rewatch last year when it's good it's great and Captain Carter 😍

"A Matter of Time" was the first episode of SG1 I saw on TV, and it certainly left quite the impression.

I was just watching The Tomb episode, and here I find Rowan has a new video!

Personally I never got the feeling O’Neill looked down on Sam and Daniel because of them being nerds rather I just thought he got annoyed by them because of his inability to understand their technobabble

I started watching SG1 before I saw the movie. I didn’t feel lost as I hadn’t seen the movie and I enjoyed the way it set up the characters and the story going forward. Once I saw the movie a lot of the things that the pilot referred to made more sense. I loved the series and how the movies relate to the series.

I think you misunderstood O'Neill: he knows he is just an ordinary soldier, he knows how important and smart Samantha Carter and Daniel Jackson are. He is just like an ordinary American would be among smart people. He knows his own value as a soldier and officer, but also really appreciates the knowledge of Samantha and Daniel. He tries to be a leader who will help smart members of his team to shine. In The Lost City, it's clearly seen - O'Neill decides to sacrifice himself because others are more important. His character is also better standing on the ground, thus we have sometimes these discussions on what to do with Daniel and Samantha.

The exchange: "Basically he was the original Satan" "Well isn't that special?" is a reference to Dana Carvey's character The Church Lady on Saturday Night Live. The second line is a direct quote, and she often said "Could it be.... SATAN?!" whose name would echo.

This series was the greatest thing on television through my teenage years. So many great moments. I´ll never forget the first time we get to see that asgaard mothership simply making the goauld dissapear I suppose by teleporting. But still it was my first holy shit moment. Also when they change time and all of the sudden there is trout in that small lake Jack is fishing in at his cabin fully aware of the fact there is no fish there. Such a funny moment.

Just finished watching season 5... Perfect timing, Rowan!

I definitely disagree on your opinion of o'niell. His characterization as the humanistic POV juxtaposed with the alien teal'c and the star trek-ian sam and daniel is a perfect balance between the main 4

Great Video as always been a member for two and a half years.

Much like DS9, I saw SG1 in a limited and fractured form on UK TV (channel 4 on Sunday afternoons in the early 2000s). It's really cool to see a video covering the more overarching plot.

That Don Lafontaine ad for the premiere episode really got me 🥺❤️

I love this. I love this show just a bit less than Trek. I hope a decent revival is in the works. Not a reboot, but revival.

Stargate is the OG of science fiction!

Given how "Asgard" like Ra's true appearance seemed to be they could of easily just said that Ra was a rogue Asgard who created the Go'auld and it would have tied things up nice for the show

i think there was a mention of 'every planet looks like a Canadian forest' in the show being explained by the fact that some alien seeded all the habitable planets in the galaxy with trees from Canada.

The fan based Military history for O'Neil and his reason for not understanding the Science stuff Carter and Jackson love is to hide the fact he's hyper intelligent due to spending time under his cover identity as MacGyver. Something that the show did lean into in the two episodes I remember when his head was full of Ancient knowledge. Particularly the one in where he builds a Ring Transport to get to the Ancient Weapons Chair in antarctic.

Only halfway thrugh the video & just having finished rewatching all of sg-1, sga & sgu a couple mos. ago. I now find myself irresistibly drawn towards another rewatch. A true testament to Rowan's ability as a content creator! Ty Rowan for always rekindling the fires of sci-fi fandom.

Great review and retrospective on this entertaining show....I also hope you do a review/retrospective on the spin-off series 'Stargate Atlantis' as well (because I really enjoyed that series too)...

Thank you! One of the best Sci-fi channels out there finally covers my favorite show! And done so just as tactfully and skillfully as the show was done. I wish humanity can return to creating more awesome shows like this in the future sometimes... instead of current year's corporate sewage. Respect to the (far and few between) exceptions.

This is purely my head cannon but the goa’uld are the bourgeoisie and the working class are their Jaffa, who also fight one another in their wars of conquest.

StarGate SG1 filled my Start Trek cravings. Now that it is long played out, I wish The Orville would renew a 4th season.

I always felt like this show stood out quite distinctly from its sci-fi counterparts largely because of its emphasis on human history. I loved how much the show runners were willing & able to explore just off the premise of Egyptian & Scandinavian mythos. It got me so much more interested in history than any class curriculum ever could.

You posted this 23 hours ago, and it's already got 35k views. Rowan, you are the MAN! Absolutely love your content and have been wanting a Stargate series retrospective for a while now. Thanks, man!

Absolute favourite favourite show! I know it wasn't perfect, but it was so self-aware that the minor things made it all the more endearing. I truly feel it is the most underrated sci-fi show ever!!!

Loved the movie since I was a kid, but the series is my favourite series of all time

Just brilliant Rowan, absolutely brilliant. What a Trojan amount of work to bring to your fans, thank you. “O’Neill stands off to the side, looking like he’s been waiting for a bus for too long”….great line.

Love your channel ! Love your videos . I miss this show very much I’m glad it’s still on the brain for people .

For me this show hit the ground running I loved the premiere and there are so many set pieces and world building in these early seasons Among my friend group this was running circles around Star Trek at the time, I felt I was too young to appreciate DS9 and Voyager was just not hitting and the CG was so impressive for television. The dynamic of leads was the glue that held it together ,great chemistry, any combination of them worked and it also felt like an inversion to Trek which felt refreshing at time

To my understanding, they originally intended to do more with Daniel’s wife, but Michael, Shanks and her got involved in an actual real life relationship, resulting in her getting pregnant for real, which meant that she wasn’t available for, as much as they had intended to use her, and then she and shanks had an acrimonious break up, making them working together very awkward. And as for Skarra, I think they just felt that was kind of belabored and wasn’t going anywhere, so they wrote it out. Has his purpose in the movie was to function as a sort of us surrogate son for Jack, and that just wouldn’t work in the series. As for Tanith, they had intended a bunch bigger final showdown episode, but it just kept getting postponed because of the actors unavailability, so, as the season was ending anyway, they decided to just wrap it up quick. Nobody was particularly happy with that.

That show went on for f**king AGES. Even though it wasn't my cup of tea and a far cry from the movie, they did a great job! 10 seasons strong. That's a great run!

I loved all the earth episodes. A lot of people don’t but they keep forgetting like let’s say this was real I feel like this is exactly how it would go down.

I will admit. It took me way longer than it should have for me to realize O’Neill and Daniel were played by different actors as well. Nice to know I wasn’t the only one.

My wife and I are watching SG-1 now. She has never seen it and I watched it when it was new. Such a fun series and great video about this first half

Coincidentally I just started rewatching the series a couple weeks ago, and have bingewatched myself up to the Wormhole X-Treme episode today, so this video was way more entertaining and engaging than it would have been for me otherwise. I haven’t watched it in several years, so I decided to rewatch everything, even the episodes I generally skip (some of which I haven’t seen in a decade) and am pleasantly surprised at how even the sub-par episodes generally introduce at least one element that will be touched on again later on in the series. One element of the show that is completely unique is that it is able to play off of (then)contemporary society and make use of our real world understanding of how the world works. For instance, I just watched the episode where Carter gets kidnapped by a dying tech billionaire that wants to use a Go’a’uld to heal himself. We are treated to an untrustworthy element of the US government, a rogue spy, government interference, and a genuinely harrowing rush to rescue Carter before she’s dissected. It struck me that there is no other space based planet of the week science-fiction TV show that could possibly have done a story like that. Star Trek could never have a corrupt and trenched agency Starfleet because it is utopian. Nor could there be government figures pulling strings for self-aggrandizing purposes because, again, the federation is utopian. Now it might be possible to do something like that in Star Trek but you would need an insane amount of set up and info dumps to explain how these agencies are not the norm, and the federation is still heaven, blah blah blah, blah blah. And it wouldn’t work. Stargate, on the other hand, can get away with this because it is set right here, right now, in something very close to the real world. Our government is not perfect and it is not 100% trustworthy, and stories about government agencies working across purposes with each other and doing occasional despicable. Things are in the newspaper all the time. The episode is able to leverage our view of the real world to make use of all of these factors without really having to explain them. After all this time, we still really don’t know how the Federation works, but we do know how early 21st century America works, and that just streamline the storytelling. I think it also helps that Stargate command is set within an actual real military. The SGC is fictional, but those establishing shots it always shows of Cheyenne mountain? Those are real. And there is a base built into that mountain, the SGC is just a fictional one underneath the real one. That’s cool, right? And the US has a huge military. It can be taken for granted than many of the people watching the show were either in the military, or had personal experience with it. The characters in Stargate never act exactly the correct way they would in the actual USAF, it is close enough and taken seriously enough that we do understand what they’re doing and why, and it is pretty consistent. As opposed to Starfleet, which is a sensibly a military organization, but which frequently appears to be less consistent and disciplined down the Boy Scouts. (Seriously: if you’re American, and you ever watched Star Trek with somebody who was in the service, particularly the Navy, you will have at least one memory of that person, throwing up their hands and frustration and saying, ‘what the hell are they doing? This makes no sense whatsoever!’ Because that’s just not the way anybody’s military does things. So Stargate is able to make use of an actual real organization that many in the audience would already be familiar with an understand, and maintain consistent uniforms And decorum. Hell, if you’re a big enough military geek (which I am not, but I come from an Air Force family) you can even learn a lot about the characters back stories simply by the service ribbons they are wearing on their uniforms. They actually mean stuff - what they’re trained for, what they’ve done, etc. Hammond wears pilot wings, and has a Vietnam service ribbon, ergo he was a fighter pilot in Vietnam. Jack wears master paratrooper wings, which means his specialty is paratroop/covert operations, and that he’s done well over 50 jumps on missions. Yeah, just can’t do that on Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica or whatever .

I love this revisit. I hopped into Stargate SG-1 by season 5. Always missed the showings as VOD really wasn’t a thing at the time but saw the commercials and was captivated by the premise of SciFi but in the present day. When it came to the ScuFi channel in the states it became so accessible to me and a generation of audiences.