Stargate

[DanMcS]

Anybody watching the new season on SciFi? I never really watched the show before, but between all the reruns of old seasons on the same channel, I'm getting caught up.

SciFi has been accused of mismanaging their original material in the past, but Stargate seems to be holding up pretty well. The one on friday was a rerun, but I hadn't seen it before, where O'Neil gets turned into a teenager. The kid they had playing the role was great, had all the mannerisms, tone of voice, down cold. And the ending was quality.

Spoiler

"You're sure you want to go back to high school?" (Camera shot over shoulder of teenaged girl checking out teenaged O'Neil...) "Ah. Yes. Go forth, young man."

Anybody that's been following the show for a while have a better opinion of how SciFi is handling it?

 

[Dagger75]

I have been following it and am suprised that Sci FI has been able to keep it up as well as they have. Granted its probably there number 1 show. The reruns on Mondays has helped a lot getting people caught up (read: ME).

So far my favorite episode of the new season has been Spce Race.

 

[Viking Bastard]

The kid they had playing the role was great, had all the mannerisms, tone of voice, down cold

Not surprising. It's RDA's son.

 

[LrdApoc]

Not surprising. It's RDA's son.

Really.. they credit him the following way..

Michael Welch . . . . . . Young Jack

Besides i thought RDA only had a young Daughter.

 

[LrdApoc]

However i was amazed at the performance. The kid did have Jack down.

 

[LrdApoc]

Damned double posting gremlins.. sorry..

 

[jdavis]

The one on friday was a rerun, but I hadn't seen it before, where O'Neil gets turned into a teenager. The kid they had playing the role was great, had all the mannerisms, tone of voice, down cold. And the ending was quality.

Spoiler

"You're sure you want to go back to high school?" (Camera shot over shoulder of teenaged girl checking out teenaged O'Neil...) "Ah. Yes. Go forth, young man."

Anybody that's been following the show for a while have a better opinion of how SciFi is handling it?

The clone O'Neil will probably end up taking Cassandra the adopted daughter of Dr. Fraiser to prom Beyond how silly that would be it is things like that that got me to like the show, they will grab characters from previous seasons and run new stories with them, you never know when a old character will pop back up to continue a old storyline form 4 seasons ago. When I first watched the show I hated it, but due to some discussions here I gave it a second chance. They do a good job of creating a continous storyline throughout all the seasons and there are more good episodes than there are crappy ones.

As far as Sci Fi messing things up, well they rarely mess with the writing of things (I don't think they are involved with the writing of the Stargate episodes) but they sure can mess up the scheduling and they don't have very good judgement in what they pick up. Stargate is cheap and it had lots of reruns for them to fill the airwaves with (they have it on 10 to 11 times every week) it gets good ratings (for a Sci Fi channel show) and they are working real hard to get another season out of it, but what other good Sci Fi channel shows are there? Tremors is already dead (a well deserved death)and....well other than Scare Tactics and Bryant Gumbal UFO specials what other new original programming do they have (yes and Galactica in a few weeks)? Sci Fi got lucky to pick up Stargate, a prexisting show with some decent writing already in place.

 

[trancejeremy]

I wish the Sci-fi channel would run re-runs of it sometime other than Monday from 6 to 9, so I could actually watch them.

 

[jdavis]

I wish the Sci-fi channel would run re-runs of it sometime other than Monday from 6 to 9, so I could actually watch them.

It's on every weekday at 5 eastern too.

 

[Femerus the Gnecro]

I have been following it and am suprised that Sci FI has been able to keep it up as well as they have. Granted its probably there number 1 show. The reruns on Mondays has helped a lot getting people caught up (read: ME).

So far my favorite episode of the new season has been Spce Race.

I think I've seen every episode except for one, which was an Unas episode and so I counted myself lucky.

The show is one of my all time favorites. It's really, really well done, even in the first seasons, where some of the effects were kind of cheesy (sock-puppet go'ould anyone?)

But about 'Space Race' er... I *hated* that episode. It was like they made a bad knockoff of an even worse Voyager episode. It's not the first time that happened either. Remember "Workforce?"

-F