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Stargate SG-1: Season 8 [2004]
from MGM Entertainment
starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, Christopher Judge, Steve Bacic

Features:

• Box set
• PAL

Editorial Review:

For a science-fiction show in its eight season, Stargate SG-1 clearly still has a lot of gas left in the tank. It’s especially surprising, considering that this is a season that effectively was never meant to be, as spin-off series Stargate: Atlantis was due to take the reigns. Yet someone in power relented, and the further adventures of Jack O’Neill and his team are the result.

Accepting that there are one or two bumps across the season, the standard though remains steadfastly high for the bulk of the episodes here. You’ll find no spoilers here, short of to say that some of Stargate SG-1’s long-running narratives are developed satisfyingly well.

What’s also pleasing is that there’s a nice cocktail going on here. A gentle, welcome sprinkling of laugh-out loud moments compete with a good mystery or two, and some terrific action. Granted, sometimes you feel you’ve seen bits before, and it’s a shame that the series ends on arguably some of its weaker episodes. But this is countered nonetheless by some terrific individual programmes, with plenty you’ll find yourself rewinding back to once you’ve reach the end.

What’s most pleasing though is that for a mature show of any genre, it’s tricky to keep producing good quality TV. In the sci-fi genre in particular, there’s a veritable graveyard of shows that never made it this far. Thus, to see Stargate SG-1 is such confident form is much to its credit. --Jon Foster

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• SG-1 gets better and better
  When a series has gone on for as long as Stargate SG-1 has it generally starts to loose its way and devolve into mediocrity but thankfully it appears that this series has bucked this trend. The twenty-one episodes in this eighth series of the Stargate are, if anything, better than the vast majority of the episodes from the previous seasons. Season eight sees the return of the Replicators, O'Neill's promotion, the continuing search for Ancient technology, the Jaffa rebellion reaches its climax and much... more info

• Stargate-SG 1 Season 8
  I love Stargate but have to say this is the weakest of all the series so far - it is still good - but it seems to have lost the plot a little. Maybe there was a cutback in the budget so we have episodes taking place in just one or two locations. It is the 8 series and still delivers but not quite with the same sparkle - if you have the other 7 series well buy it, and the storyline will be important for series 9. Wish they had left "Jack" in the field - running the base does not suit this character -

• A shaky start but all in all quality stuff!
  I love Stargate and was so excited when season 8 arrived as a Christmas present. the feature length opener was great but after that it all seemed to go downhill a little. The plots were shaky, predictable and the dialogue hackneyed, (with the odd exception, Avatar was a great episode!) I was VERY UPSET and quite disappointed.
  HOWEVER!!!!
  Do not fear! For the episode "Promethius Unbound" came to my rescue. After the formulaic blandness of some of the other episodes this was just an absolute gust of... more info

• The Milky Way goes into conflict...
  SG1 was set to end the year before, and move over to Stargate Atlantis, however (And thankfully) the show got an eigth series which is just so damn cool.
  Last time we saw the team Jack was in a box under Antartica, and the first eps "New Order" deal with that problem, as well as consolidating the fact that the Ancient weapons caught the attention of the dominant powers in the Galaxy. These eps also geust star Torri Higginson as Dr. Weir, who would move onto Atlantis. From this episode onwards a growing... more info

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