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      He is probably jealous of the Starship Troopers guy who got popular again because of Helldivers 2. The Firefly guy is probably playing a shooter arcade with his laser revolver and the Battlestar Galactica guy is piss out drunk.

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      From all of them I’m only a fan of Stargate.

      There are dozens of us.

      I should rewatch sg1 again…

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        I just feel terrible that you guys don’t have the berth of content that star wars/star trek fans have. I should give stargate a try

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          FYI -

          • You need to bear with it through the usual S1 growing pains
          • By today’s standards it’s almost unbearably 90s, especially during the first season (IMO)
          • It really does get great.
          • It made me cry at least a few times.

          SG-1 was a great mixture of comedy and drama in sci-fi IMO, and while it’s not my very favorite franchise, it’s easily top 10 for me. If you haven’t seen it before it’s worth your time for sure!

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            Personally I feel like the show really finds it’s legs in S3 but kicks it into high gear for S6.

            I’m sure every fan has a list of episodes you can skip, and while I do skip a lot of S1/2 depending on how long it’s been since I watched those particulars, personally I think they’re all important for Stargate as a whole. Necessary to watch on your second run I think, not necessarily for the first.

            Luckily since I know the people I’ve watched it with pretty well, I know what can be skipped and what they’ll need to watch to really “get it”. And I summarize the episodes we skip. Sometimes I’ll even give them the option like “next episode is pretty slow, no real action but a lot of off-world things and important conversations/drama” and let them decide if they want to watch a slow episode or not.

            Although honestly, how can you think the episodes where Daniel poses as Yu’s servant are boring? Sure no big explosions and action sequences, but it’s riveting.

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              I don’t think SG-1 started off as rough as, say, Star Trek TNG did. They were making overall good television even in the first episode of SG-1.

              The first two seasons especially had the Torchwood problem of trying to be very emphatically a show for adults, which is why there’s that infamous full frontal scene in the pilot episode. I think they realized that there’s money in syndication on basic cable so they produced most of the rest of the show to kind of a PG rating which stabilized the tone.

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              Personally I feel like the show really finds it’s legs in S3 but kicks it into high gear for S6.

              Really I have to agree with that now that you mention it. I think it had been too long since I watched it. :)

              I’m sure every fan has a list of episodes you can skip

              I skip nothing on any show! I know people commonly do this, I just don’t. If I’m watching it, I’m watching it warts and all. 😁

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                While normally I would agree that you should take it all in as-is… It really depends on how many times you’ve seen it…

                SG1 was my jam while it was still running, and I watched it every chance I got from S4 onwards.

                When my family didn’t have cable, we had the first 5 seasons of SG1 on DVD, and I watched them. A lot.

                So I definitely have seen enough of The Broca Divide and Emancipation and will happily skip them my next go around. If I’m showing them to a new person though, it’s “you should watch ALL OF THEM”

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        I’m trying to get my wife through the series.

        Daniel just died and she’s pissed. Hates Jonas already just for being “not Daniel”

        I love seeing Stargate brought up in the wild