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[Black Deatha]

I ask because I have seen so many people on this board say it's such a great SciFi show, butI just dont get it, I mean, dont get me wrong I have nothing really aganst it, in face I have tried to watch it on occassion, but I just dont completaly understand the whole premis.

Admittedly I have never seen the movie, though I do kinda want to, but I just when watching the show can't seem to get in to it. To be honest I kinda find the many of the alien races generaly unintresting. But if someone could write a bit of a summary of the show's seasons and also explain what happend with the one guy, I forget his name, with the glasses, I remember seeing an eppisode where he like moved on to a new plane of existance or something, but than he was just back in a later eppisode I saw.

SG1 fans, educate me!

~Black Deatha

 

[mrklaw]

archeologists find a circle buried in Egypt. They find out later its a stargate. Some teams are set up to explore new worlds, the lead one being SG-1.

On their travels, they discover that there are a bunch of bad guys called the goauld. These guys pretend to be gods to enslave and emancipate worlds, keeping them at pre-industrialised levels of development (so they aren't a threat)

- note: The goaulds are actually little snake like things that live inside human hosts.

the goauld are actually responsible for many of the myths on Earth. Eg the egyptian gods were really Goaulds.

Once the Goulds find out about Earth's stargate, we become a threat, so they attack us.

Lots of fun and japes ensue.

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Early seasons were mostly about fighting the main bad Goaulds. Later ones broadened the horizons and included the asgard, replicators (SG-1's version of the borg, for want of a better description). They also spent some time building up the goaul'd mythos and the in-fighting between them.



I mostly got into it through the relationships within the SG-1 team, especially Jack'o'neill - a fantastic character, played to perfection.