First off, really liked SG1 seasons 1-7 but it went down hill a bit in season 8 then off a cliff in season 9, there where a few good episodes to be fair. But over all, having watched the series through, including the commentaries, it's obvious Richard Dean Anderson grew tired of the show from around season 5 and wanted to go off and do other things, appearing less and less often as the producers used work arounds to cover his absences. I had started to find the very vague hints at a relationship between Carter and O'Neil just annoying and childish (hints that continued on through seasons 9-10 and even into Atlantis). Then there's the two new characters both from Farscape, first the fairly cardboard Cameron Michell, who in the SG1 universe is a fighter pilot who is suddenly offered a role as a leader of a completely different military unit that does field combat and ranger like work without any sort of training for that work. Then there's Valda, a character who is from the start annoying and dishonest, yet they keep letting her get away with that and let her join the team (perhaps the should have renamed the show FarGate or SGscape, there's even a rather silly scene where the cast of SG1 play a version of Farscape) The series 8 onwards main villains are also just to similar to the original villains the Goa'uld i.e yet another set of aliens who are all powerful and pretending to be gods, they couldn't come up with something a little more original. I'm an atheist, but even I found the religious theme's beating me over head. SG1 really should have ended at the end of season 8, in that scene where the original team all gather at O'Neils cabin to go fishing, with Goa'uld defeated and a strong hint Carter and O'Neil where together (finally)
Review of Avalon: Part 1
