Picked up the blu ray set a while back (which weirdly has the gratuitous nudity series premier but none of the finale movies but… okay) and went a bit down memory lane while identifying which episode was which for plex purposes. It really is wild what a massive range the show had. One highlight was the 70s episode where, in a show that was HEAVILY backed by the US military, they basically made it clear that draft dodgers fleeing Vietnam had to do what they felt was right.
Tangential, but I will always say the best Stargate SG-1 game is UFO Aftermath (or Aftershock. One of those). Old school xcom-like with a strong emphasis on a JA2 style selection of guns to greatly increase the time you spend using human guns. But it basically makes every mission feel like a gate that went REALLY bad and you very much get that feeling of “This is a weapon of terror. This is a weapon of war” as energy bolts are exploding all around your soldier who just takes a knee with a rifle.
The show took a lot of shots at the military, but it never dwelled on it. I feel like it took just the right amount.
The uniforms did add a USAF patch on the sleeve in season 5, which is often called the “Area 51 Apology Patch”. Might be seen as cheap brownie points with the military, but it also makes sense within the show, so not immersion breaking.
Been a minute since I did a proper rewatch (hmmm. I DO have all the stuff worth watching on my plex…), but mostly it was just Jack (and later Daniel when Michael Shanks wanted to look like a badass) being flippant and mocking protocol because he believes in what is important and not doing what pencil pushers want him to do.
Which is pretty normal for US military backed productions and is pretty much exactly what they want propaganda wise. Gibbs on NCIS, Bradley Cooper in the (shockingly okay) A-Team movie, etc.
I don’t think the show suffered for it at all, but there were definitely a few moments over the years of “Okay, if Teal’c starts saying ‘Ecrof ria eht nioj’ I am turning it off”.
Picked up the blu ray set a while back (which weirdly has the gratuitous nudity series premier but none of the finale movies but… okay) and went a bit down memory lane while identifying which episode was which for plex purposes. It really is wild what a massive range the show had. One highlight was the 70s episode where, in a show that was HEAVILY backed by the US military, they basically made it clear that draft dodgers fleeing Vietnam had to do what they felt was right.
Tangential, but I will always say the best Stargate SG-1 game is UFO Aftermath (or Aftershock. One of those). Old school xcom-like with a strong emphasis on a JA2 style selection of guns to greatly increase the time you spend using human guns. But it basically makes every mission feel like a gate that went REALLY bad and you very much get that feeling of “This is a weapon of terror. This is a weapon of war” as energy bolts are exploding all around your soldier who just takes a knee with a rifle.
The show took a lot of shots at the military, but it never dwelled on it. I feel like it took just the right amount.
The uniforms did add a USAF patch on the sleeve in season 5, which is often called the “Area 51 Apology Patch”. Might be seen as cheap brownie points with the military, but it also makes sense within the show, so not immersion breaking.
Been a minute since I did a proper rewatch (hmmm. I DO have all the stuff worth watching on my plex…), but mostly it was just Jack (and later Daniel when Michael Shanks wanted to look like a badass) being flippant and mocking protocol because he believes in what is important and not doing what pencil pushers want him to do.
Which is pretty normal for US military backed productions and is pretty much exactly what they want propaganda wise. Gibbs on NCIS, Bradley Cooper in the (shockingly okay) A-Team movie, etc.
I don’t think the show suffered for it at all, but there were definitely a few moments over the years of “Okay, if Teal’c starts saying ‘Ecrof ria eht nioj’ I am turning it off”.