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!

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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. 😁

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Fair, I can definitely see how there would be a point of saturation!