Yesterday I watched the last episode of Stargate SG1 season 10… and season 10 was the last episode that was made of this TV series. And yes, as can be seen on the picture above I own all seasons on DvD. Sadly two seasons are from a different publication. There were long delivery times for those two seasons in the other publication and I didn’t want to wait that long. But most important is of course that the content is the same.
So what is this Stargate SG1 about anyway???? Well, Wikipedia learns us:
“Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. The television series was filmed in and around the city of Vancouver, Canada. In the United States, Showtime broadcast the first five seasons, from 1997 to 2002, and then the series moved to the Sci Fi Channel for its last five seasons, from 2002 to 2007. The final episode premiered on Sky1 in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2007, three months before its United States premiere. With ten seasons and 214 episodes, Stargate SG-1 surpassed The X-Files in 2007 as the longest-running North American science fiction series on television.”
In Stargate SG-1 a woman discovers in Egypt during a excavations a big circle made of an unknown metal with unknown symbols (chevrons) on it. By studying ancient writings she learns that this circle is some kind of gate that can be used to travel to other planets. The only thing needed is that the other planet also has a Stargate. In the beginning they known very little about the makers of these Stargate, only that they call themselves the Ancients en that there are millions of planets with a stargate.
Of course this means that humanity gets in contact with other races throughout the universe and this leads to all kinds of exciting adventures with some very good plots. And luckily there is still enough room for humor, so there is also enough to laugh about.
The Wikipedia has an astonishing article on the Stargate. I never realized there was so much information available about it.
On the picture below the original SG1 team…
Major Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping, one of my favorite actresses), Colonel Jack O’Niel (Richard Dean Anderson), Teal’c (Christopher Judge), Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) and Major General George Hammond (Don S. Davis):
And so… what now? Errmm… Continuing with Stargate Atlantis 🙂