Stargate SG-1: The Complete Second Season
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Actor: Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, Richard Dean AndersonBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 973 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM Domestic Television Distribution
Movie Reviews of Stargate SG-1: The Complete Second Season
Movie Review: Good first season is followed by a superb second season
Summary: 5 Stars
There have over the years been a number of great shows that followed a good first season with a great second one, including THE X-FILES, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, and FARSCAPE. There are a variety of reasons for this in each case. With STARGATE, it is the increasingly complex storyline about the relations between various races and cultures with access to stargates. Season One was basically your stargate-of-the-week format, each week an individual adventure with no real connections with any other episode. This is the format usually preferred by network executives, since it allows new viewers to join a show without much background. Serious fans, on the other hand, vastly prefer the complex storylines, where each week's episode does not stand on its own, but is embedded in an ongoing saga, almost like a chapter in a huge novel. This has been and probably will continue to be an ongoing struggle between the creative talent and the network bureaucracy, though my own hope is that the success of shows like LOST will pave the way for more complex formats.
Season Two does not tell a single unified story the way that FARSCAPE or BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER did, but it does start spinning out a largely political struggle about the five races (only a few that we have met by the end of the season) aligned against the Goa'uld. The STARGATE story by the end of Season One was still a relatively simple affair; by the end of Season Two it was already sufficiently complex as to make following the details difficult for a newcomer. But it was not only the season long arc; the individual episodes improved in quality as well as the writers came to know the characters better. All in all, the improvement in the show from Season One was not unexpected, but it was delightful nonetheless.
The only sour note in Season Two was the season finale. Most shows try to build up to a dramatic season-ending episode that both sums up everything that happened in that season and propels the show into the next one. The season finale for Season Two of STARGATE has to be one of the lamest ever devised. Most of the problem is that most of the episode was constructed of segments of previous episodes that were simply replayed. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION used this method a few times. My guess is that the latter show used it as a cheap way of creating a new episode. If 20 minutes of your air time consisted of clips from old shows, then you had dramatically lowered your operating budget. I do not know why STARGATE employed this method in the season finale, though perhaps they were over budget and had no choice but to go cheap. Nonetheless, it was a surprisingly false note in an otherwise marvelous season.
As with Season One, the story largely focused on the four members of the Stargate SG-1 team, with all other character functioning as supporting characters. We are introduced to a number of characters who reappear in subsequent seasons, the most important being General Jacob Carter, Samantha's father. His importance to the show is cemented in the two-part episode that introduces the Tok'ra, a group rebel Goa'uld opposed to the regular Goa'uld, only entering as symbiotes in willing hosts. Since Sam's father is dying of cancer and the Tok'ra Selmak's host is dying, he is approached to become a host, since Selmak can cure the cancer. This is also a wonderful resolution to one of my favorite moments of the season, when Sam's father pulls strings to get her admitted to the NASA space program as a potential astronaut. Not knowing about her work with the Stargate program, he can't understand why she has no interest in going into outer space.
All in all, this is a remarkable season for one of the finest Sci-fi series that television has seen. Although I've never forgiven the Sci-fi channel for failing to renew FARSCAPE, keeping this fine show alive has at least partially redeemed them in my eyes.
Summary of Stargate SG-1: The Complete Second Season
Synopsis:Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 06/13/06
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
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