Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) Revisions (2003) User Reviews

It's a smaller and smaller world

[owlaurence · 9/10 · 16 June 2010]

A very good episode with a rather original plot... not that its main elements are new: actually, it's their odd combination that makes it interesting. This new world is a perfect garden set in a toxic wasteland, and it is so advanced that it has gone back to using candlelight instead of electricity.

The episode is nicely paced, taking a lot of time to introduce this world and its people while slowly revealing the main plot. And I like it that for once, the manipulative super-computer has NOT developed an evil self-awareness. It is not trying to destroy the world but, in a way, to save what it can of it --and unobtrusively at that: subtly adapting "data" to match the current situation... except that the "data" in question is actually thousands of human lives.

So, while there is nothing boring about it, "Revisions" contains a lot more reflection than action, but this makes it even more chilling when you consider the points it makes regarding the destruction (or control) of the environment, as well as our use (and abuse) of the Internet.

Finally a Great and Original Episode

[claudio_carvalho · 9/10 · 27 November 2017]

When the SGC sends the MALP to an inhospitable toxic planet, they discover a dome and inside a paradisaical environment. The intrigued SG-1 travels to the planet wearing special clothing and breathing apparatuses and when they cross the wall of the dome, they find a garden with breathable atmosphere. Soon they contact a hospitable society that welcomes them and explain that they were an industrialized society that had polluted their environment. Now a computer controls their environment in the dome and the Engineer Pallan offers to show their technology to Sam while his wife shows their library to Daniel. But soon the SG-1 finds that something is wrong with the society and their dome.

"Revisions" is finally a great and original episode of "Stargate SG-1", one of the best, in the style of "The Twilight Zone". The story is intriguing and very well-resolved. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Revisions"

An old Star Trek episode (done differently)

[fig-75275 · 9/10 · 22 August 2020]

I really enjoyed this episode. There's no action and no violence, but there's no need for them. It likely has its origins in a couple of the old Star Trek episodes (by old I mean TOS) but that's not a bad thing. Amazing science fiction!

Original

[Calicodreamin · 8/10 · 20 March 2022]

An interesting and original concept. The storyline unfolded in a clever way and was enjoyable to watch. Acting was decent and the effects worked well.

A very defective utopia

[Mobius_loop · 10/10 · 30 October 2023]

This is a very frightening episode, yet it has no violence, no real villain, and yet it plays on some very human fears. We ARE our memories. If you can't trust your memory how can you know what is real.l?

SG1 encounters a perfect community in a force field dome that survived the destruction of their world's environment. Everything seems idylic, if a rather small world. But gluing the community together is a computer AI with a mission to ensure the survival of the community...but not necessarily its parts. This is one form of an otherwise benevolent AI that experiences "peverse instantiation", i.e. Taking a perfectly rational order, and finding a way of implementing the instructions in a way that is totally against all human values.

It's a small world, after all!

[laclone · 7/10 · 31 March 2014]

I'm sorry that I had to use that annoying song from the Disney World ride as the summary title, but nothing else would fit here.

Now I can't get it out of my head.

The situation SG-1 finds here is a world who's pursuit of technology and industrial development so poisoned their atmosphere, that they had to build a protective bubble-dome around themselves to survive.

With all the surviving people inside the dome wearing a neural link to the central computer controlling the dome, as well as being the access all of their stored knowledge, they never realized that as their power source weakened, the computer shrunk the size of the dome shrunk to compensate, and erased all their memories of the people who were lost with every shrinkage.

Everything always appeared normal to them. But when SG-1 finds out the truth, the computer acts to prevent them from letting the people know they're in danger.

Yawn

[fcabanski · 6/10 · 13 September 2015]

This isn't terrible, but overall it's a yawner of an episode. It's a pretty good story about what could happen if people turn over their brains to computer interfaces.

A similar story has been done on almost every major sci fi series.

SG-1 writers throw in a message, from Canadian liberals, about what will happen to Earth if we keep polluting.

Meanwhile, the writers couldn't even keep their own story straight. Early in the episode, before the credits, the MALP enters the "bubble". Sam, General Hammond (of Texas) and others see the images. Later, Sam comments that "it's likely" the MALP entered the bubble. Likely? She knew it entered the bubble. She saw it enter the bubble.

You won't miss anything important if you skip this episode.