Season 4, to me, is the best season of "Stargate SG-1". It is firmly entrenched in the golden years of the show and features great team dynamics and character episodes along with an unbeatable aura of classicness (which isn't a word but it works!).
This season, like every other season of "SG-1", expands on the mythology and story arcs while simultaneously creating new ones and producing episodes that are largely stand-alone.
"Small Victories", "Upgrades", "Divide and Conquer", "The Serpent's Venom", "Chain Reaction", "Absolute Power", "Double Jeopardy", and "Exodus" all continued existing story threads and wrapped up a big one: the Harcesis.
"Crossroads", "Watergate", "The First Ones", "Point of No Return", "The Curse", "2010", and "Prodigy" all started new threads and mini-threads by drawing on established ideas. Of these, the biggest one is the Russian presence began in "Watergate". "The First Ones" begins two stories: that of Chaka and that of the P90!
"The Other Side", "Window of Opportunity", "Scorched Earth", "Beneath the Surface", "The Light", and "Entity" were all largely stand-alone episodes.
Overall, a brilliant season with only a few sore thumbs (every season has a few). Long live SG-1 - the show, the team, the legend.
So, here's a question: Interestingly enough your favorite season is also the season that focused most heavily on Carter/O'Neill's possibly romantic relationship. Are you ignoring the whole ship-thing or are you just not interested? :-)
ReplyDeleteThe closest I ever came to being a shipper was for Simon and Kaylee in Firefly.
ReplyDeleteI am largely uninterested in the J/S phenomenon. I also couldn't agree more with what you said in your "Divide and Conquer" post about the team dynamics remaining unchanged.
So... what's the closest you've ever come to being a shipper? Or have you never come anywhere near that? : )
I guess the closest I got to being a shipper was during some of the more 'shippier' episodes of season 4 - but when nothing more happened, I just assumed the whole thing died down for both characters. Like we talked about earlier - it just never god mentioned again. The whole "reset button" of SG-1 becomes just annoying - and every time Carter and O'Neill ever kissed it had something to do with mind-altering viruses/ alternate dimensions/ alternate timelines/alternate versions/dream sequences etc. It's just not possible to take it seriously, you know?
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