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The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1.
With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father literally joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative look-a-likes, Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. --Paul Tonks
On this DVD: the first two episodes of this volume spotlight O'Neill. "A Hundred Days" is the three months he spends stranded on planet Edora by the fire rain of a passing asteroid belt. Then in "Shades of Grey" he appears to suffer a total personality switch when he steals technology from the Tollan and is insubordinate in the extreme. Both these are terrific concepts but are scarcely enough story to have stretched across more than one episode. A little more teamwork is required to break "New Ground" on a planet fighting a war of ideology. Finally, the storyline concerning the Harcesis child from Volume 10 elicits a "Maternal Instinct" in Daniel after the discovery of mystical planet Kheb. But ultimately his agenda only brings them more trouble.
As well a trailer for the next volume, the disc includes a nine-minute interview with Michael Shanks on his character of anthropologist Dr Daniel Jackson. He reveals his acting career was inspired by Richard Dean Anderson. There's also seven minutes with production designer Richard Hudolin explaining how the on-location Stargate takes an entire day to set up. --Paul Tonks
Special Features
16:9 Wide Screen
DVD 9
German\Spanish
English\German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English\Dolby Digital Surround German Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital Surround
Designing New Worlds Featurette
Profile On Daniel Jackson
Volume 13 Episode Preview
Danish\English\Finnish\German\Norwegian\Spanish\Swedish
DVD 9
German\Spanish
English\German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English\Dolby Digital Surround German Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital Surround
Designing New Worlds Featurette
Profile On Daniel Jackson
Volume 13 Episode Preview
Danish\English\Finnish\German\Norwegian\Spanish\Swedish
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I usually feel slightly peeved at paying full price for a dvd when you get half the number of episodes, but not in this case. The 2 episodes are brilliant. The acting is superb, dealing with tragedy in one, and the aftermath of that tragedy in the second while trying to continue with the mission. These are characters fans have come to love, and their portrayal remains consistent throughout. The episodes are well paced, and they even find time to poke fun at themselves in the second one when Jack asks 'Is that it?'(if you see it, you'll understand why!). Added to this, there are some directors' viewpoint looks ahead at some of the first episodes of series 6, which tease and tantalise as well as offer an insight into the creation of the Stargate series.
Sad though I am at certain events on this disc, it only makes me look forward to the next one even more! Buy it - you'll love it!
Sad though I am at certain events on this disc, it only makes me look forward to the next one even more! Buy it - you'll love it!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Just when you think that they must soon run out of ideas, the writers of this series comes up with a few more new spins on this ever more thrilling series. The DVD contains 4 new episodes, it starts of with the episode called "The Devil You Know", the great conclusion to the episode on the previous DVD called "Jolinar's Memories". It has some great surprises, and carries on the ever expanding story of the battle between the Goa'uld and the allience of SGC and the Tok'ra. The next episode brings back a old character to the show, more exactly the kid called Skaara, this goes on to a kind of court where it is to be decided who has the right to possesion of the kids body, the Goa'uld host or the original owner Skaara himself. We now go on to the episode called "Foothold", but i don't want to reveal much about this one because it would ruin the surprises in it, i can only say that it puts up a new spin on the overall story in the whole series. And now on to one of the more different episodes in this whole series, "Urgo" is probaly the episode with the most funny oneliners in it, Dom DeLuise just brings a whole different look to the series in this episode, i hope that they will try their luck with more episodes with as many laughs as this one. All together another great DVD in this series.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
On this dvd, there are only two episodes. These episodes are also the last one of the third season.
The first episode is: Chrystal Skull. They discover a piramide and within it a huge cave with a crystal skull. Daniel recognizes this skull, because his grandfather Nick has found a simular skull in 1971 on Earth. Nick claimed that the cave was build by aliens, but nobody believed him. Daniel disappeares in front of SG1 and Jack O'Niell and his team go to Nick to ask for advice. This episode isn't full of action, but it's a good story which won't bore you.
The second episode, Nemises, is great! Jack O'Niell is kidnapped by the Asgards. Thor needs his help with the fight they have with the replicators (replicators are a kind of nasty little intelligent mechanical bugs, just think of our own bugs and then remember how hard it is to get rid of them, I think you get the point here). The special effects are great. The story is exciting, it will keep you sitting on the egde of your seat from the beginning and beyound the end of this episode.
Besides the two episode there's also a Behind the scenes called "Timeline to the future". It gives you an inside story about the characters and everbody involved in making this great series. This feature is 60 minutes long.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Best of the lot
I'm a sci-fi fan. I've seen most sci-fi shows. And Stargate stands head and shoulders above the rest. Read more
Published on 26 May 2003
Stargate SG-1
From the start DO NOT expect this series to be anything like the poorly made film. If this is what you're after don't bother buying the series. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2003 by M. Rake
Standard 'gate adventures
Now, i really like stargate. Ive been a fan since it first came out at the movies. But, i have noticed a slight lag in quality in the last season. Read more
Published on 8 Nov 2002 by David J. Rice
StarGate at its best!
I was enticed into the world of SG-1 by my sister who has 20 stargate DVDs and counting!! This, however is my favourite volume out of all them (apart from volume 1 - the return of... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2002 by blah
Half'n'half
This DVD has one excellent episode, Absolute Power, which continues the Harcesis storyline that began with Secrets in season 2. The acting from all cast members is superb. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2002
All episodes in this DVD where briliant.
These episodes where brilliant. Especially absolute power. Also i loved the light a very good episode as well. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2002
Great, but lacking something...
These four eps of SG-1, whilst very good as a whole, have things missing.
Small Victories: Good Ep, some good lines. Nemisis was better though. Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2001 by johne@html.com.au
Love the first 2, hate the last
Absolute Power & The Light are among some of Michael Shanks' best episodes as Daniel Jackson. Unfortunately, the collection falls short when it comes to Prodigy and Entity. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2001
Just Read it
With the unexpected hit of the movie 'Stargate' the series lives up to the high expectations with brilliant graphics and excellent screen story lines this 4th series is a must see,... Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2001
Absolutely fantastic
Stargate is an excellent series. The actuial movie stargate was not very impressive, however, the series has more than made up for the disappointment. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2001
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