@felixxx999 said:

OK. Got to Season 4. Things are looking very good now. Some strong sci-fi episodes but with interesting recurring characters. Last night I watched Scorched Earth and it was an excellent one... In the grand tradition of Star Trek, this show took a few seasons to really get going.

The next episode is mostly played for comedy. If you watched 'White Collar' you will recognize the main character in this episode.

Late to this discussion, but this is one of the few series I can watch on repeat. Sure, flip phones and CRT monitors/TVs might have phased out, but it still feels like the most realistic "this could be happening today" compared to another, another "some kind of" futuristic alien entity at m episode (got nothing against Star Trek, just repetitious themes and sparce serial arcs).

While I agree with how they changed up the colonel (for the better), watching Daniel Jackson's slow but deliberate transformation from nerd to geek was smooth (wish my seasonal allergies evaporated).

I hope you enjoy it! Be sure to integrate Atlantas when you get to later seasons. Might also be fun to watch Farscape in parallel since you'll see a couple actors come in and pair up again. You can give or take on Universe...take Voyager and fill it with roudy teens and trippy Ghost abilities (this time without Whoopi Goldberg).

I'm at the point now where even the weaker episodes are fun. I agree, there is something very modern about the show simply by not pretending to be in the future. Carter's dad-- having a heavy NY accent-- being the alien expert makes me chuckle every time he shows up.

@felixxx999 said:

In the grand tradition of Star Trek, this show took a few seasons to really get going.

Except that TOS, TAS and ENT got "going" from the very start with well-written, solid first seasons, and DS9 and VOY had average to decent first seasons.

You might be confusing a single show called TNG with the entire franchise.

How embarrassing for you

OK. So now I'm at the point where they have space ships. Daniel Jackson becomes a god, leaves the show. Comes back a bunch of times then they fire his replacement and bring him back. Lol. Now he's a regular mortal but can't remember anything.

@felixxx999 said:

OK. So now I'm at the point where they have space ships. Daniel Jackson becomes a god, leaves the show. Comes back a bunch of times then they fire his replacement and bring him back. Lol. Now he's a regular mortal but can't remember anything.

Michael Shanks got a bit too big for his britches! He thought he was going to be this huge star, nope. He came crawling back.

Jackson was only 'ascended' to avoid death by radiation poisoning.

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Ascension

I really feel for the new guy that got canned. I'm assuming HE never comes back.

@felixxx999 said:

I really feel for the new guy that got canned. I'm assuming HE never comes back.

I don't remember most things by season. Which season are you on now?

7 I think. Thor and Loki was something. Also, there's an episode where Daniel uses a home depot stud finder to examine an artifact. The transfer on Netflix (I gave up on Pluto because it was just so damned clunky to watch) is pretty bad. I wonder if Amazon will reboot the show now that they own it. The show's leaving Netflix in Nov.

He appears in 3 episodes of season 7, is mentioned in 2 or 3 & mentioned once in season 8. His last episode (Fallout, episode 14) was written by Nemec.

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Jonas_Quinn