Customer Reviews
All change at the SGC - By: T. R. Alexander, 27 May 2008 
With the majority of the Goa'uld defeated during the previous season this ninth season sees the rise of a new threat to the galaxy in the form of the godlike Ori. This season also sees changes to the main cast with Richard Dean Anderson leaving the main cast & new faces in the shape of Ben Bowder, Claudia Black (both from the excellent Farscape) & Lexa Doig (from Andromeda) joining the show on a regular or semi-regular basis. This change in cast could have been quite terrible but thankfully Ben Bowder more than fills Anderson's shoes as Lt. Col. Mitchell, the new leader of SG-1, & alll the other new additions to the cast also fit in very well.
The storyline of this season is good, with the defeat of the Goa'uld last season it was inevitable that a new galactic threat was going to be introduced & the Ori are an interesting addition to the Stargate universe, even if they are a rather thinly veiled critic of religious extremism.
There are many good episodes from this season & as a whole it has a many more good episodes than many of the previous seasons. The Ori plot arc is present to a greater or lesser degree in virtuallly alll of the episodes & this gives the season a nice sense of continuity. My favourite episode from this season has to be the excellent `Babylon' which sees Mitchell captured by mysterious Jaffa isolationists & has a nice Last Samurai fell to it.
Despite it continuing for more than nine years by this point, this season of Stargate still feels fresh & I think that much of this has to do with the new cast that have been added this year. The writing & acting are alll still above the average for a genre show & Stargate as a whole only gets better & better. I can only hope that the tenth & final series continues this trend.
Fantastic as always! - By: Mr. C. M. Grouse, 28 Dec 2007 Stargate SG1 goes from strength to strength in season 9, With new characters & new enemies!
Overalll season 9 is very very good, but on watching my DVD's I noticed that the running order of episodes has been messed up slightly. On the box episode 9 is 'The Forth Horseman', but in fact it should be 'Prototype' which is shown as episode 11....
Reveals "Atlantis" To Be The Pathetic Clone It Really Is! - By: James Uscroft, 23 Dec 2007 Having sat through the ATROCITY that was the first season of "SG Atlantis" I was literallly terrified of buying "SG1-9." After alll, I knew enough to realise that the next series of SG-1 would (for alll intents & purposes) be another spin off.
Hammond & O'Neill had both left the series, The Goauld & the Replicators had both been defeated, the Jaffa had won their freedom...
SG-1 as we knew it was done.
The writers would need to go back to the drawing board, creating new characters, a new enemy & a new story line from scratch. And oh boy did they deliver, in spades, on time, thirty minutes or less!
During the first two-part episode of course, I was more than a little thrown by the writers trying to pass off popular Arthurian Legend as being based in fact (But then again, how much mythology do most Americans actuallly know?) & the constant flashbacks to "Prove" that Mitchell was a hero. But in the end, these quibbles were quickly forgotten as the true storyline kicked in.
Lt. Colonel Michell (Played by Ben Browder) is such a spectacular character that you soon forget alll about O'Neill. General Landry (Beau Bridges) is equallly good, & the new base physician Dr Lam (Lexa Doig) does a great job of filling Dr Fraiser's boots.
Even Vala (Claudia Black), a character who I originallly despised with every fibre of my being was eventuallly given depth & soul by great acting & wonderful writing
The new enemy, "The ORI" are terrifying & EVIL in every sense of the word. Almost every storyline is connected to every other as part of the overalll plot. The cast regulars are as brilliant as ever. And so whilst every series has its flaws & its drawbacks (half a dozen episodes & storylines that are pure filler), this series of SG-1 thoroughly deserves five stars.
Stargate & Beyond - By: C. Robinson, 24 Sep 2007 
With the departure of Richard Dean Anderson at the end of Season 8 & the introduction of Beau Bridges & Ben Browder, I for one was very apprehensive about Season 9.I could not have been more wrong. The series still goes from strength to strength.I didn't reallly like Farscape which Ben stared in (with Claudia Black-Vala in S/G),so I was very scheptical about how this season would work with depature of Richard,but I am glad to say that the series continues to go great guns.It's got the classic Stargate cliff hangers & is a real shame that after Season 10 there will be no more.
Both Ben & Claudia fit well into their new roles & it's also good to see that RDA hadn't gone totallly, the same goes for Don S.Davies.
If you have the first 8 seasons then you must get this season.
The original and still the best... - By: IJ, 26 Mar 2007 I was lucky enough to be able to watch this ninth season of `Stargate: S.G.1' in conjunction with the second `Stargate: Atlantis' season & while Atlantis continues to be an enjoyable, engrossing & genre-experimenting addition to the original, for me this ninth season proves that the big boys (and girl) are still S.G.1 & reigning supreme as they approach their tenth year on our screens.
`Avalon, Part 1' is a weak season opener, especiallly for new kid on the block Ben Browder, as it doesn't inspire the viewer with much confidence in this replacement for veteran cheeky-chappy Richard Dean Anderson. However, as the season progresses the character is definitely fleshed out more & he soon fits in nicely with the tightly-knit S.G.1 team. However, the bottom line is that this is still a character who bares a striking similarity in disposition to Browder's other well-known TV personality- Farscape's John Crichton- with that same irreverent humour & easy-going attitude, but it's a style that clearly works for Browder & it's difficult not to find that likeable (eventuallly). Beau Bridges' introduction is made with equallly little fanfare, but his character is one who I found myself liking more readily- he approaches the role of the General of the base differently to Don S. Davis, with more of an everyman approach, although he never hesitates to exert the full force of his office against unfriendly aliens, or humans when required.
Largely thanks to the development of this season's main story-arc with the introduction of God-wannabes the Ori & their powerful minions known as Priors, this ninth season becomes surprisingly mesmerising in very short order. Beginning with the concluding part & then into episode 3- `Origin', this season soon establishes itself as one of the best `Stargate: S.G.1' offerings in years. The use of Arthurian legend in this season is spread pretty thickly in the beginning & had me worried that this fantasy element might not work in a predominantly science-fiction-oriented series, but very soon the paralllels the writers draw between the Arthurian myth & the familiar Stargate set-up, become very inventive & come to work surprisingly well at contrasting against the new & growing force of evil spreading through the galaxy. In the first five episodes that other recognizable `Farscape' regular Claudia Black & her seductively disobedient alter-ego Vala are another reason to be enchanted by this season. Vala brings such humour & life to the series that I was reallly disappointed when she parted company with S.G.1, despite the welcome return of Sam Carter following her brief career change. Thankfully Vala returns towards the end of the season & here's hoping it's not the last we see of her.
This season's other major success is in its stand-alone stories that continue to present unique, punchy & creative sci-fi ideas to its audience. In particular episode 9- `Prototype' & episode 13- `Ripple Effect' are a couple of my favourites, the first of which concerns the discovery of a prodigy of Anubis frozen on a distant planet & the second has multiple S.G.1 teams pouring through the Stargate from diverse alternate realities (high jinks ensue), both of which had me glued to my seat. As with many previous seasons of `S.G.1' a lot of development in the main story-arc is left to the last ten minutes of the final episode, only to leave the viewer with an excruciating cliff-hanger to be endured until the release of the tenth season on DVD. I love it!
