Ragitsu

True. However, I wasn't fond of how our government leaned into the show as a military recruiting tool.
 
Nevertheless, Stargate SG-1 did occasionally criticize the powerful ->
 
 

Anime without subtitles -- just like old times.

That M*A*S*H portrayed the military in this fashion is hardly a surprise. It was a thinly-veiled critique of the Vietnam War.

True. However, I wasn't fond of how our government leaned into the show as a military recruiting tool.
 
Nevertheless, Stargate SG-1 did occasionally criticize the powerful ->
 
 

Mage/wizard towers are intriguing, but, unless they are capable of traveling OR a campaign is set around a single location, you often put in a great deal of effort bringing the place to life only to have it forgotten by next session.

Philistine.

Odds are good that Tom Paris located the recipe.

There hasn't been a single mention of Guinan. No matter your feelings on Goldberg, she played a damn fine bartender.

There with you. Thank you.
 

Then you were wiser than I. I stuck with it for 5 seasons, until I realized I wanted the army of zombies to win. Disappointed to hear from others that they didn't.
 
I could rant at greater length what was wrong with Game of Thrones, and why I lasted that long. I'll just say... A gilded turn is still a turd.
 
Dean Shomshak

Season 7 was supposed to have been the last season. That's why the last episode of season 7 left Colonel O'Neill's fate deliberately vague. He could have remained in stasis in Antarctica, or he could be revived and return for one more go-round. When the series was renewed, he returned for one more go-round.
 
Season 8 was definitely supposed to have been the last season of Stargate SG-1. Richard Dean Anderson wanted out in order to spend more time with his family and less time rehabbing his bum knee. The final defeat of the Replicators and Anubis, along with all the other System Lords, put a nice little bow on the series. Our characters were now free to walk contentedly off into the sunset.
 
But then the series was renewed again. RDA was already gone, Amanda Tapping was having a baby, and there were really no bad guys left to fight. (Okay, there was Baal and the Lucian Alliance, but you can hardly build a whole series around that.) But hey, you can't have a hit series without a strong lead, and Ben Browder was fresh out of Farscape, so they brought him aboard (apparently without anticipating the inevitable comparisons to Michael Shanks). And it worked. Colonel Mitchell was enough like Crichton to be familiar, but different enough to be believable as a military officer. Samantha Carter eventually came back, and the status quo was more or less preserved.
 
As an aside, you also can't have a hit series without a strong adversary. At this point, however, things became problematic. System Lord Apophis gave way to half-ascended Ancient System Lord Anubis. With him gone, where else is there to go? How about a group of actual ascended ancients who were predatory rather than simply indifferent to humanity? Thus the Ori, arguably the biggest bunch of Mary Sues ever seen in American Science Fiction television, were born. Oh, and since it wouldn't make sense to carry on the Egyptian motif beyond the death of Anubis, let's pattern the new bad guys after Arthurian Legend. 
 
And then the 10th season rolled around, and they decided to go bigger and better. A new adversary, played by Morena Baccarin, counterbalanced by a new teammate, played by Claudia Black. The season built to an impressive crescendo--and then the series was canceled, arguably two and perhaps three seasons too late. Fortunately, they were able to put together to direct to DVD movies to tie everything up.
 
I think that about covers it.

Agree with Pariah. I watched all ten seasons of SG-1, and Pariah nails it above. I didn't watch Farscape* so don't have that comparison, and wasn't aware of RDA's knee or AT's baby, but year, SG-1 should have stopped at Season 7. *Happy that Claudia Black is an Aussie.

Another thing is that as it is, with ten seasons, it made Stargate Atlantis a possibility, and then afterwards, Stargate Universe. If SG-1 stopped after season 7, these sequel series may never had been produced. 

To my mind, there is an uncanny resemblance between the overall themes between the TNG era of Star Trek and Stargate tv series. Both TNG and SG-1 have a central location-setting (Enterprise, Stargate Command), but are focused on the outward exploration of the galaxy and there is an optimism to both series. Next with DS9 and Atlantis the central setting was fixed and the universe came to them, so it was the opposite to TNG and SG-1. I haven't seen either DS0 or Atlantis, but I get the hunch that they were both darker and gritterer than their predecessor series. and then the third series Voyager and Universe share the same idea, of a crew aboard a starship a long long way from home and navigating this scenario. 

And I'm sure if you added up all the hours from SG-1, Atlantis, Universe, the tv movies, and the non-canon animated show, Stargate should qualify it a top tier sci-fi franchise along with Star Wars, and Star Trek. 

Well, it depends.  What is the OCV of a coronavirus?  Or is it an AOE attack that requires diving for cover?  Or somewhere in between, like a spread EB or an autofire attack?

I watched the first episode and never returned. I do not understand the appeal of watching despicable protagonists.
 
  
 
Maybe he's from an alternative reality where Babylon 5 was doubly popular?

I forgot that Michael York made an appearance on B5.

The scream at the end was tacked on, but the rest of this scene is more-or-less untouched.

"I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode."

The same phenomenon happens to me when I revisit television of a sufficient age; "This is part of the show?"

Various United States War And Disease Death Tolls ->
 
400: Gulf War
1,000: Indian Wars
1,900: Desert Storm, 1990-1991
2,300: War Of 1812, 1812-1815
2,400: War in Afghanistan, 2003-
2,400: Spanish-American War, 1898-1902
2,600: Persian Gulf War
3,000: 9/11/2001
4,400: Iraq War, 2003-2010
4,400: Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
13,300: Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
36,600: Korean War, 1950-1953
55,700: Flu/Pandemic, 2017
58,200: Vietnam War, 1964-1975
100,000: 1968 Pandemic
16,000: H2N2 Flu, 1957-1958
116,500: World War 1, 1917-1918
121,400: Alzheimer's, 2017
200,000 (or 67 9/11s): Coronavirus, as of 9/21/2020
405,400: World War 2, 1941-1945
618,200: Civil War, 1861-1865
675,000: Spanish Flu, 1918-1920
 
Also, to quote DL Hughley from 8/28/2020: "More Americans have died in the last 4 months then any other 4 months in American history! Trump has literally been more deadly then cancer!"

I watched the first episode and never returned. I do not understand the appeal of watching despicable protagonists.
 
  
 
Maybe he's from an alternative reality where Babylon 5 was doubly popular?