Written by andy on Sunday, May 28th, 2006 in Gaming.
Please tell me that you all have the Half-Life 2: Episode 1 downloaded and ready to go for this up coming Thursday, right? Good. Otherwise, I just might have to crawl through the Internet and force the download and with my bad ankle, it will not be pretty.
Written by andy on Sunday, May 28th, 2006 in General.
Written by andy on Sunday, May 28th, 2006 in TV.
The sixth season of Stargate Sg-1 was marked by change to a new network, along with the death/ascension of a beloved character Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) whom was replaced in the lineup by Corin Nemec and a new approach to the show as a whole.
Having moved to the Sci-Fi Channel, the Stargate writers made a subtle but notable move to telling more stories about the overriding plot elements (the ongoing attempt of the Goa’uld to take over the universe, for example), more stories based back home at Stargate HQ and more entertaining one-shot shows than the lengthy, almost soap opera-ish plot lines about the characters’ interpersonal relations that had threatened to take hold.
Some of this was undoubtedly to please the ever expanding wallets of execs at their new network, but it was also simply time to shake things up — this was the show’s sixth year on the air, after all, so trying to keep things fresh was a smart notion.
This season has a good mix of episodes, probably my favorite was “The Other Guys,” which lampoons “Star Trek” with the SG-1 team getting help from some nerdy scientists. Through out this season the ascended-to-a-higher-being Daniel Jackson keeps popping in to try and help, even through he isn’t suppose to.
