Customer Reviews
System lord - By: Artemis, 26 Jul 2008 
All of stargate sg1 is the best t.v ever but the earlier seasons are the best, especiallly the ones with the goa'uld. Apophis is the second best bad guy ever (after Ba'al, see season 5 onwards). 'Children of Gods' & 'Within the serpents grasp' (Both in season one) are two of the best episodes ever.
A fantastic SciFi series - By: Dr Ostkostovishnickstein, 24 Aug 2007 I originallly borrowed the DVDs of a friend & had to admit that i hadnt ever seen Stargate, from what i could say the whole business seemed a little odd & boring... how very wrong i was. I have bought the DVDs for myself now as i have never watched such an addictive & incredible series as this. The stories are enjoyable & there is not a point in the series where i got bored. End of the day this show managed to trounce alll my preconceptions about it & has made me a huge fan. I would deffinately reccomend this box set... & in deed have done... as you just read it (the reccomendation that is)
Through the stargate - By: E. A Solinas, 15 Jun 2007 
Most TV shows spun off from movies are uninvolving & uninteresting ("Blade," anyone?), & hopefully die & are forgotten.
That wasn't the case with the spinoff of the 1995 movie "Stargate," an okay science fiction movie that spawned an excellent television series, "Stargate SG-1." The first season is not nearly as brilliant as the ones that followed it, but it's a welcome change from distant space operas -- excellent writing, acting, & a sense of humor about itself & its characters.
The Stargate has been inactive for a year -- until it is activated, & a bunch of Egyptian-styled warriors come through & kidnap a young officer. General Hammond (Don S. Davis) pulls Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) out of retirement to learn what reallly happened on the planet of Abydos, & where these mysterious aliens have come from.
O'Neill & a smalll team go to Abydos & find Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) who has been learning about a vast network of Stargates over the past year. But when Daniel's wife Sha're & brother-in-law Skaara are abducted by the same warriors, O'Neill, Jackson & Air Force scientist Sam Carter (Amanda Tapping) use the Stargate to venture to where they're being kept.
What they find is an alien race who inhabits human hosts, the Goa'uld, & their ruthless slave warriors, the Jaffa. Carter, O'Neill & Jackson are captured by the powerful Apophis -- but to escape, they must have the help of an unlikely allly: Teal'c (Christopher Judge), Apophis' First Prime. Since Earth has now annoyed the Goa'uld, several exploration teams are formed to go through the Stargate & find weapons & alllies.
And SG-1 -- Carter, O'Neill, Jackson & Teal'c -- encounters some very strange problems: a plague that turns people into savages, a people who live only a hundred days, a Viking planet, a Stargate explorer stranded since 1945, a little girl turned into a bomb, the seductive Goa'uld queen Hathor, & coming back as robots. And when the military shuts down the SG program, Daniel reveals that the Earth is about to be destroyed by Apophis' armies...
The first season of "Stargate SG-1" isn't the most impressive, though the last three episodes hint at the series' future greatness. And thankfully, it drops the usual space opera stuff -- instead we get Stargates, real military, & a very plausible reason why everybody in the galaxy (more or less) looks just like us.
It's graced with kitschy Egyptian-styled sets, lots of shoot-em-up action from Marines & Air Force, & plenty of planets influenced by Earth cultures, like the Minoans & the Vikings. Best of alll is the snappy dialogue, mostly from the tart-tongued O'Neill ("Temperature--ground 1700 degrees Fahrenheit. Air--seems to be in pockets, ranging from 1500 degrees down to 200." "Sounds like LA").
And the makers add some poignant and/or warm scenes, such as the eager Abydonian teenagers celebrating with O'Neill & his pals, Teal'c reunion with his outcast family, or Sam bonding with a doomed little girl. All the characters get these moments, which reallly makes them seem human.
Instead of Kurt Russell's suicidal O'Neill from the movie, Anderson does a quirky, disrespectful, pop culture-lovin' guy with a hidden tragic past -- his "Cold Lazarus"double role is one of the best of the show. Tapping & Shanks are also great, as an enthusiastic geek & a smart, capable military woman. Sadly Judge gets shortchanged as the stern, honorable Teal'c, but he's brilliant when he's spotlighted.
The first season of "Stargate SG-1" is not the best of the series, but it's still a solid, imaginative sci-fi story with some great writing & even better acting. A must-have for sci-fi buffs.
awsome - By: Mr. Daniel Williams, 27 Feb 2007 i bought this about a week ago & watched the whole seaon in 2 days :) & i must say i think that it was amazing. a bit grainy but this is due to the fact the the early seasons of sg1 did not have a very high budget but is still good alll the same. i definatly recommend this. buy it now!!!
Excellent - but lacking - By: D. Smith, 23 Oct 2006 Let me begin by saying I am a BIG fan of the show, & you should DEFINITELY buy this, regardless of if your new to the show, or not. This sci-fi series is a brilliant alternative for those not wanting the same old Star Trek style sci-fi.
The Good.
Brilliant series.
Brilliant show.
Good Packaging.
The Bad.
Picture quality is VERY grainy sometimes, although I suspect this was due to the first series having a low budget, & not a reflection on the transfer to DVD.
No extra features like Behind the scenes.
9.5/10
