Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) Avalon: Part 1 (2005) User Reviews

The New Command

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 15 April 2019]

Jack O´Neal is replaced by Major General Hank Landry and the pilot Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell is assigned to command the SG-1. However, for his disappointment, the former team has left the SG-1: Sam joined Area 51; Daniel is moving to Atlantis; and Teal´c is moving to the new formed Jaffa Nation. Out of the blue, the Stargate is activated and Vala Mal Doran arrives telling that she has information for Dr. Jackson. She claims that she has a tablet written in Ancient that indicates treasures hidden on Earth, and she needs Daniel to translate it. However, she lures Daniel and wears an alien bracelet on her and his wrists and they become connected to each other. Soon they learn that they must be close to each other. Daniel loses his transportation in Daedalus to Atlantis and translates the tablet and concludes that the treasure is hidden in a cave in England. What will they find in the spot?

"Avalon: Part 1" is the first episode of Season 9 of "Stargate SG-1" with new characters. Richard Dean Anderson is a great loss to the show since he was responsible for the comic part of the show. The plot of "Avalon" is promising and to be continued. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Avalon: Part 1"

Note: On 01 Nov 2020, I saw this episode again.

The Stargate journey continues

[fig-75275 · 9/10 · 23 September 2020]

I've watched the first 5 Season 9 episodes now, and I think the writers have done a great job to keep the story going. I don't really get the negativity that some other reviewers have shown.

The story of three main characters, and one secondary character, came to an end with the end of Season 8. There's a scene in this first episode that made me think, "Hang on, Where's Janet?" and then I remembered why she isn't there anymore.

I like having Vala instead of Sam. It's not that I didn't like Sam, but Vala is different from Sam: whereas Sam had a quiet chemistry with Jack, Vala and Daniel's relationship is anything but quiet! It's more fun and less serious, and since she isn't a scientist there is much less emphasis on technological solutions.

Cam is good too and Teal'c is still Teal'c. The opening two (really three, if you include Origin) part story sets up the new season nicely. The new bad guys, the Ori, are a bit like the Goa'uld but they are a bit different too. I can't say any more about them, without spoiling it. I am very much looking forward to the rest of the season and I will definitely keep watching.

The new regime

[Calicodreamin · 7/10 · 9 April 2022]

While I'm sad to see it, it's actually an interesting shift in series dynamics and setting up for the final seasons. The new characters have good chemistry and one return that was unexpected but welcome.

Grail Quest for new bad guys.

[XweAponX · 10/10 · 25 August 2015]

First we had Ra. Ra was big, Ra was powerful, until his ship was blown up with him inside of it by Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neil (Only One "L" originally).

The one thing that was established in the Stargate Film that was passed into the series, was that Ra, while being powerful and big, and possibly even intelligent, was also fairly stupid. At least, stupid as far as Homo Sapiens are concerned- Humans who blew him to atom-sized smithereens in that film's too-easy conclusion.

Then in 1997 "Children of the Gods" debuted on Showtime, and it became known that Ra was only one of many parasitic Alien "Gods" (named "The Goa'Uld"), and from there Stargate SG-1 was a series of by-the-skin-of-the-teeth escapes from extinction, while the bad guys escalated until SG-1 and their allies faced Anubis and Replicators at the same time. Remember that The Goa'Uld were easily defeated by "The Asgard" and that The Asgard were getting their Pale Skinny Lil Arses beat by The Replicators, who in turn were susceptible to the technology of "The Ancients" (aka, The Alterrans)- Making the Alterrans (Ancients) the most powerful god-like aliens of SG-1.

The story of the Ancients had been woven in to the series since the first season, finally it appears we will get to see them. That was why I was excited about these next three episodes. And at first it seems like we are to be rewarded our 8 years of waiting by finally meeting "The Ancients".

The show had more shocks added, SG-1 had been broken up, Daniel on his way to Atlantis, Teal'c occupied with the Free Jaffa Nation on Dakara, and Carter burying herself in Technobabble.

But thanks to the cancellation of Farscape and the re-assignment of it's two principle actors Ben Browder and Claudia Black, SG-1 is saved from retirement, thanks to Colonel Cameron Mitchell (Browder) and Vala Mal Daran (Ms. Black). We remember Vala from "Prometheus Unbound" when she kind of claimed Daniel forever, here she returns to Stargate Command to enforce that claim. Mitchell's introduction is a series of "Flashbacks" which kind of insert him into the story during the last part of "Lost City".

At the end of Season 8 all of the bad guys had been beaten. Hooray, the show could have ended when Richard Dean Andersen semi-retired. But what we have here is Richard's role reduced to special guest appearances, a slight change in production, and of course they had to create a brand new Wormhole Effect. And, least but not Last, they had to come up with Bad Guys that were worse than Replicators + Goa'Uld combined. But this first part merely hints at such things, yea verily: In a way, this first part is Arthurian Misdirection, to get us off balance when the new bad guys are revealed. "And then there's cake".

This is why the last 2 seasons sucked

[dafrench63 · 7/10 · 28 November 2021]

Putting Mirchell in charge of SG-1 over Carter was and insult to Carter and the show. Who cares how he helped protect the Antarctic mission to defeat Annubis. SG-1 saved Earth and the Galaxy numerous times.

It was bad enough without O'Neill at all, but this, and the oh so boring Ori, made it pretty much unwatchable. I even refused to buy seasons 9 & 10 when I bought the others.

For Everything There is a Season

[fcabanski · 5/10 · 26 September 2015]

SG-1 should have ended at the end of Season 8. In the final episode, a scene from an earlier episode repeated with a slight change. O'Neill and Carter were finally together, the Replicators were defeated, the Goa'uld were mostly defeated: all was wrapped.

But the series went on. Now for the shift to Stargate Farscape, with the annoying but hot Vala, the not bad Col. Mitchell, the blustery General Landry, "Chevron 7 locked" now some kind of Radar (from MASH) because his name is Walter too, and a new major threat.

Avalon starts out strong. It has good character development. It has flashbacks that work well to reveal Mitchell's part in Earth's defense against Anubis and O'Neill's promise to let Mitchell have whatever he wanted in his career. It has Mitchell trying to get SG-1 back together with little success, but he won't give up.

Than Vala shows up.

She slaps a bracelet on Daniel that forces she and Daniel to remain near each other, and she brings a tablet that reveals an Ancient treasure.

The rest of the episode is Mitchell saying "golly, isn't it good to be back in action" to Daniel and Teal'c, and Daniel explaining the show's hijacking of Arthurian legend for the Ancients.

It isn't terrible. But there's little real action. And it isn't really Stargate SG-1. It's Stargate Farscape.

Claudia Black is annoying

[jcollins-458-415387 · 1/10 · 22 December 2021]

Claudia Black's character is annoying, unnecessary and uninteresting. The lack of Jack is bad enough, but this lady has ruined the show entirely. Loud, obnoxious and a fake dynamic with Daniel Jackson. She is in most of the episodes going forward. I'm done watching.

I liked Claudia Black better in Pitch Black when the alien creatures carried her off for nutritional value

[DragonFireBreather · 5/10 · 10 April 2023]

What a terrible character. Claudia Black's Vala is a cross between Nellie from The Office and Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars. Vala Nellie Binks. You just want to scratch your eyeballs out and drive nails through your ears. Whose idea was it to bring one of the most annoying character to this show? Please don't tell me it was Peter DeLuise (I love that guy). Maybe it was Wood or Mallozzi. Could have been Glassner or Wright. Regardless it was boneheaded... Vala is annoying AF!!!

I know some people think the show should have ended after season 8 but I love the show and I love the main characters. Farscape guy is okay with me, it's not his fault Richard Dean Anderson decided to leave so he could spend time with his daughter. I think Ben Browder is a good addition considering he has gigantic massive shoes to fill. But if I had it my way I would of made Samantha Carter the leader of the team and brought back Jonas Quinn, I really missed and liked Corin Nemec. I am a forever SG-1 fan so I give them kudos for keeping it going though.

It's Vala that was the big mistake here. She's not cute, sexy, funny or entertaining in anyway. And there is ZeRo chemistry with Daniel Jackson. The constant bickering between them is very hard to watch, it's not attractive although the show tries to push that. Again... ZeRoOoo chemistry here. And what's with the s/m outfit... it's atrocious.

I also like Beau Bridges, what a nice addition to the show. But my gosh... it's going to be hard to stomach Vala for the next 40 episodes, bleh. I would of easily given this episode an 8 or 9 if it weren't for the overload screen presence of the insufferable Vala character.

The Last 2 Seasons (finally)

[Easygoer10 · 2/10 · 7 August 2020]

Enter the 3 "B's": Ben Browder, Beau Bridges and Claudia Black. Exit everything interesting. Sadly, thus show should have ended at the last episode of Season 7. Even the 8th was bad. These last 2 are pitiful. It is like an athlete who plays long after all talent is gone. This is why running simultaneously with Stargate Atlantis is dumb. Skip these and go straight there (SGA). Later fans.

Should have ended on a high in season 8

[Drat1964 · 3/10 · 8 January 2024]

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)