Welcome to my great SG-1 rewatch, brought to you by my desire to recapture my enthusiasm circa 2005–2008. This rewatch will partly be me flailing about and sometimes analyzing one of my all-time favorite TV shows, but it is also for me to finish a project I started way back in 2004, which was tracking a whole bunch of recurring SG-1 tropes. This version is greatly reduced (because, ahem, I have a life), but at some point I will probably get carried away with myself (because, ahem, I am obsessed).
Each week I'll go through 3–5* episodes, announcing in advance which episodes are next.Most episodes will get their own post, made throughout the week.At the end of the week, a compilation post will link to that week's posts and announce the episodes for the next week.***schedule allowing
**some posting breaks will occur and be announcedEveryone is invited to watch along and comment on posts with the caveat that my journal is a place for gaters, not haters. There are a handful of SG-1 elements that really rub me the wrong way, but if I choose to talk about those things in this review series it will be from a standpoint of critical analysis. I have a lot of love for SG-1, no matter the team composition.
With introductions out of the way, let's jump right into the episodes for the week of July 7th:
1.01–1.02 Children of the Gods1.03 The Enemy Within1.04 EmancipationGodspeed, SG-1 rewatchers.
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I went through a time when I was absolutely obsessed with the show. I was supposed to fly to Gatecon 2001 when 9/11 happened and I had this conflict of "I have no right to go do a fun thing at a terrible time like this. I'm scared to fly. I'm scared to stay home alone obsessively watching the news. I want to go be near my friends. I don't want to get on an airplane." I didn't live near family at the time so I really was pretty isolated and was spiraling into panic mode watching too much TV news. And then a fannish acquaintance called me up and said, "I am going to the convention, but I refuse to get on the plane so I'm driving the entire way there. I'll be driving right through your town, so do you want to go?" Thus I canceled by plane tickets and we ended up road-tripping to Canada, which was so good for me because we vowed to avoid the news and just live in our little bubble of fans for the weekend.
Stargate started out where I felt like I was the only person in the world watching the show and grew to having this huge group of fans who became friends when I needed them most.
And yet now I don't even have a Stargate icon. I need to fix that.
If you need to watch at a slower pace, the posts will still be there when you get to them. I'll also have to take a few breaks for travel (and when I'm just too busy to keep up), so I'm expecting this to take at least a year to get through with writing all the reviews and such.