Title: Stargate: SG-1: Eighth Season
Premiere: “New Order”
Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda
Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge
Guest Star: Torri Higginson
Writers: Joseph Mallozzi, Paul Mullie, and
Robert Cooper
Director: Andy Mikita
Co-Executive Producers: N. John Smith,
Joseph Mallozzi, and Paul Mullie
Executive Producers: Robert C. Cooper,
Brad Wright, Richard Dean Anderson, and Michael Greenburg
Running Time: 84 minutes without
commercials
Media: SCI FI Channel Original Series (NTSC
DVD Screener)
Eighth Season Premiere Friday, July 9,
2004, at 9pm (ET/PT)/ 8pm (CT)
Network: The SCI FI Channel (Check your
local cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV Rating: Not Available At Time Of Review
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
Having used the knowledge of the Ancients to defeat Anubis and save the Earth, Colonel O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) has been placed in bio-stasis while Teal’c (Christopher Judge) and Carter (Amanda Tapping) search for Thor and the Asgard with the hope that they will be able to save O’Neill as they had once before. However when they arrive at the Asgard homeworld of Hala, they find that it has been completely overrun by the Replicators and Thor needs O’Neill’s acquired knowledge to find a way to halt their spreading infestation. This places O’Neill’s life in jeopardy since in order to tap into the knowledge he has of the Ancients requires that he be taken out of stasis. To make things worse, Carter is kidnapped by the Replicators for committing an act of betrayal upon them two years earlier. Meanwhile Dr. Jackson (Michael Shanks) and Stargate Commander Dr. Elizabeth Weir (Torri Higginson) receive a message from Goa’uld System Lords, who wish to enter into a treaty with the Earth in light of their victory against Anubis.
This is a solid eighth season premiere episode of “Stargate: SG-1” that brings together a good multi-tiered storyline with action and intrigue as well as the signature humor of Richard Dean Anderson, who makes sure that we as viewers never take it all too seriously no matter how bleak or perilous things might seem. This episode not only resolves the cliffhanger from season seven, but it is a direct prelude to the events that unfold in the series premiere episode of “Stargate: Atlantis,” which debuts the week after with a two-hour episode. Characters grow in new directions as they take on new roles and Teal’c grows some hair to boot, which takes a bit of getting used to after seven seasons of the character being bald. The conclusion opens an intriguing twist that along with other series developments in season seven should make the eighth season even more fun to watch.
“Stargate: SG-1”
will make its eighth season premiere with the two-hour episode “New Order”
on Friday, July 9, 2004, at 9pm (ET/PT)/ 8pm (CT) only on the SCI FI Channel.
Check your local cable and satellite listings for channel.
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Mark A. Rivera
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