Title: Stargate: SG-1: Tenth Season
Premiere “Flesh And Blood” & “Morpheus”
Stars: Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping,
Michael Shanks, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, and Beau Bridges
Guest Star: Tony Amendola and Robert
Picardo
Writers: Robert C. Cooper, Joseph
Mallozzi, and Paul Mullie
Directors: Will Waring and Andy
Mikita
Executive Producers: Robert C.
Cooper, Brad Wright, Joseph Mallozzi, Paul
Running Time: 44 minutes Per Episode
Without Commercials
Media: SCI FI Channel Original
Series Premiere Episodes (NTSC DVD Screener)
Stargate: SG-1 “Flesh And Blood”
Premiere: Friday, July 14, 2006, at 9pm (ET/PT)
Stargate: SG-1 “Morpheus”
Premiere: Friday, July 21, 2006, at 9pm (ET/PT)
Network: SCI FI Channel (Check your
local cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV Rating: Not Available At The Time
Of Review
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
The gates are due to reopen on the
SCI FI Channel with the tenth season premiere of “Stargate: SG-1” and the
third season premiere of “Stargate: Atlantis” due to air on Friday, July 14,
2006, at 9pm and 10pm (ET/PT) respectively. After a slow build up last season
leading to the cliffhanger where the Ori begin their crusade to convert or kill
every sentient species in our galaxy with their sophisticated ancient
technology, which they employ to destroy much of the forces that had aligned to
prevent the galactic super gate from opening. Even the gray alien ships are no
match for the Ori super laser enabled cruisers and their shields are resistant
to anything anyone can throw at them. Even a suicide starship ramming has no
effect on the Ori ship shields. To make things all the more difficult, the Ori
have chosen Vala’s newborn daughter as a vessel from which to merge both human
and Ori knowledge and in essence, create a super being matriarch to serve as the
Ori’s personal representative above all others in our galaxy and lead their
forces to victory. Within a few hours she grows to be a teenager and with this
accelerated growth comes new powers, but not maturity in the sense of life
lessons that can only come with time. Vala (Claudia Black) instinctively knows
this and tries to persuade her daughter in subtle ways to open up to her human
side. Unfortunately there simply is not enough time to develop a strong bond and
Vala along with the rest of the SG-1 team must now focus on finding a weapon
that can halt the Ori invasion, which will send team members to other galaxies
and eventually create conflicts or interest to come. About the only caveat I had
about the tenth season premiere was the rather fast reuniting of the cast
members who seem to have easily survived the massacre at the super gate with
barely a shrug.
In it’s tenth season, “Stargate:
SG-1” seems to be reinvigorated with new cast members and returning guest
stars as well as new enemies and new angles, which could even suggest that
perhaps the Ori are not quite the villains they seem to be and there is more to
the ancients than meets the eye. Now the single longest running sci-fi show in
American television history, “Stargate SG-1” has become more than the
television stand in for the now dormant Star Trek television franchise,
SG-1 and it’s sister show Atlantis are the action adventure sci-fi space
operas of the year and while they do borrow liberally from many sources, there
is no attempt to hide it, but rather the shows embrace it and if you look at the
spectrum of new and returning genre shows on cable and broadcast television for
the 2006-2007 television season, the two Stargates serve to fulfill a certain
kind of sci-fi audience expectation that is different from the more adult
reimagined Battlestar Galactica and character drama of LOST. In
August, SG-1 will air its 200th episode on SCI FI co-written by the
entire staff with plenty of surprises for the fans.
“Stargate: SG-1” and
“Stargate: Atlantis” return to SCI FI on Friday, July 14, 2006 in their new
timeslots of 9pm & 10pm (ET/PT)/8pm and 9pm (CT) respectively.
© Copyright 2006 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.