In the late 90's the series Stargate SG-1 aired its first pilot on Showtime and the show is still going strong in its 9nth season on the Sci-Fi chanel and has spawned a decent spinoff called Stargate Atlantis also on the Sci-Fi chanel. I think that series has long since surpassed the original movie.

The premise is that a parasitic alien species called the G'ould control the human bodies that they occupy. They also kidnapped humans from Earth and used them as slaves all across the galaxy to mine a material called naqueda. Once the they extracted the naqueda that they needed, the G'ould abandoned many of the humans on other planets.

The alien transportation system is a series of stargates that create temporary wormholes between planets. One of these gates was discovered by humans on Earth.

The TV show is starting to develop new plot lines and new characters which is a good thing, but the television pilot is too heavily tied to the movie. I get the impression that they tried to save money by recycling sets and special effects from the movie. It takes a while for the show to differentiate itself from the movie and eventually surpass it.

I really didn't care for that much for part 1 wich was heavy on explation. Some of the scenes drag out kind of long. The second half is much better with more action and more interesting characters.

I have many minor quibbles: They could have left out the whole Daniel Jackson sneezing bit. It is just there to be a tie into the movie and we never see it again. Richard Dean Anderson is not very believable as Kurt Russel, although Michael Shanks is the spitting image of the Daniel Jackson created by James Spader. The whole sexist argument between Samantha Carter and the other soldiers is annoying. We never find out what happened to the female soldier who was kidnapped but we are lead to believe that she is dead.

Part II contains a full frontal striptease that is not only daring but quite nice to watch.

I have a problem with any science fiction show where the aliens speak english, but in this case the aliens are humans who were kidnapped from Earth and more often than not they are speaking alien tounge. This is not completely plausible but it is more plausible than Star Trek.

One of the soldiers is infected with a G'ould parasite which takes control of his body.

My initial reaction was that this was a rather predictable premise, but I was pleasantly surprised at how this turned into a very well done drama.

The major conflict of this show is that a tribal leader kidnaps Major Carter with intentions of marriage. This ends up being resolved with far less force than I would have liked. I think that a normal reaction would have been to call for backup forces and go in with guns blazing.

Having very reluctantly accepted the notion that most of the galaxy can speak English, I can say that this is a good episode but not a great one. Our intrepid explorers bring back a nasty plague that turns them into proto-neanderthals. The notion of bringing back a plague from another planet is a recuring theme in Stargate SG-1, even in season 9. You would think that after 9 years they would figure out a way to stop doing that.

They discover a cure to the plague but it seemed a little implausible to me.

One of the coolest things about Stargate SG-1 is they spend about 7 years aquiring technology from other planets. They start out with 20nth century technology and by the time they get to season 8 they have reached the level of Star Trek technology including interstellar space ships and transporters. Seeing that transition slowly evolve adds to the show. What makes this better than Star Trek is that these are 21st century characters living with 24th century technology. There is no "Star Fleet" but a fragmented coalition trying to fight off alien invaders.

Broca, by the way, was a french anthropologist who studied primitive human skulls.

You would expect that if you took a mediocre movie and made it into a television show that most of the first season would be pretty rough. Instead I was blown away by Richard Dean Anderson's performance. This episode may be the best of the first season and solidifies the show as one worth watching.

What would happen to you if you were left alone on a planet for 50 years? Would you go crazy? This show attempts to answer this question and does it very well. It is a "Castaway" kind of theme.

If it weren't for this episode you could skip disk 3 and not miss anything important.

There is a sub plot where Daniel Jackson is caught up in what they find on this planet, but this seemed overdone to me. I think that it was filler.

My first problem with this is that the SG1 team completely failed to accomplish any of their objectives. Daniel Jackson takes an unnecesary risk that puts their mission at risk and their escape from Chulac was far too easy.

A fair rating for this would have been about 2.9. It is a borderline episode. It could have been a better episode but the pacing is a bit slow and it is heavy on dialoge and light on action. On the plus side show introduces the very important characters of Riac and Bratek.

I can't say that this a bad episode but it is by no means a good episode. It is somewhere inbetween. I kept wanting it to just be a little better than it was. The plot and the alien have a 1950's B movie quality to them. Generally speaking, humanoid fish creatures are a bad idea. Buffy The Vampire Slayer tried to do a knock off of "Creature from The Black Lagoon" or "Swamp Thing" and it just didn't work.

If you skip this episode you miss nothing. I had complete forgotten it by the time I saw it a second time. The last 30 seconds was a nice comic relief.

Alfred Hitchcock once gave an example of a way to make a show suspensful. He said to imagine a scene where two men are sitting at a table talking. This by itself is not very interesting, but then the camera switches to show that there is a bomb under the table. The men are unaware of it so they continue talking, but now the audience is very involved in this conservatation because they are aware of the danger that exists. Hitchcock added that the writer/director should never actually allow the bomb to go off.

In this episode the bomb is in a little girl, and it can't be removed and the characters are aware of it. What they

choose to do about it is what makes this episode great. I am beginning to see what this series is about, which is how people relate to each other not only from different societies but as individuals.

Great role for Jonas Quin.

Very cerebral episode. I liked it.

Daniel Jackson makes his first appearance since he "ascended".

There are some nifty special effects in this one.   Ba'al is a cool villian.

Definately a borderline episode for me.

Every once in a while SG-1 just gets silly.   The premise reminded me of "Lower Decks" on "Startrek The Next Generation."

I was little bothered by the premise, but by the end the show delivers.

It is an interesting premise, but the show is all talk and little action.

There is much here to like.

Part II is really a different story but takes us in new interesting directions.

Liked the ending.

Heavy on talk, but by the end it delivers just enough.

My problem with the episode is that there is not a lot for the characters to do on the planet except get paranoid of each other. I liked the way it ended.

It failed to hold my attention.

I simply hate clip shows. The ending was actually a nice payoff but hardly justifies the rest.

There is a certain uncomfortable tension here that continues throughout the episode. The issue is that we suspect, as does O'niel, that the crew of the ship are up to no good. However, nobody else seems to realize this, and we as the audience feel a sense of danger while wondering why SG-1 is being so obtuse.

Great, great show.

I must have missed the first two minutes when I taped it, which is mostly just talk, but the next five minutes is crammed full of stuff: The ship begins its interstellar voyage, breaks down, makes an emergency jump, whereupon the engine core overloads, forcing the crew to eject it whereupon it explodes over a planet, whose occupants interpret this as an act of war and fire nuclear missils at the now helpless ship.....

Are the two nuclear warheads shades of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"?

The second half reminds me too much of "First Contact" from "Star Trek The Next Generation"

Borderline for me.   Jonus Quinn seems more limited than Daniel Jackson.

The final stand off pays off.

Whose idea was it to say "Well, spank me rosy"?

The second half however is a Star Wars rip off even with refences to that movie.   The special effect were great but it all had a deja vu of the first Star Wars movie.

I like how the title refers to both Daniel Jackson and Annubis

The plot where Annubis is looking for something seems too close the season 6 ender.

The ship hanging over the city seems like a rip-off of (homage to ?) Independence Day.

Great acting by the teenage actor.   Brilliant premise.

Didn't like the final shot.   Shouldn't O'neil adopt this kid?  Why is he dropping him off at a school?   Who is his guardian?

At first it seemed like Varla's story was going to drag on a bit but I found it quite compelling. The actor who plays Varla's husband reminds me of Nathan Fillon but it isn't him.