So here’s #7…..
Stargate SG-1
So, this is the only science fiction show I have on my top 10 list… This is really interesting to me when I think of it. The Sci-Fi, or now Syfy, channel used to be my favorite channel that I grew up watching…
But now that I think of it, there are only two other (relatively recent) shows on Syfy that I used to watch back then. So, I guess the reason why I loved that station so much was because of Stargate SG-1. Similar to Monk, I used to watch Stargate SG-1 every Saturday night when a new episode came on, plus, every day there were reruns played after I got home from school.
…I watched it a few days a week it seems like!
As for the show, Stargate SG-1 follows the lives of the several people that make up the unit named “SG-1”, getting its name as the first team to have been formed in the Stargate (SG) program. The stargate is a portal that was found on Earth that links our world with hundreds of thousands of other worlds outside of our solar system. These planets are, of course, sometimes occupied by allies or “alien” enemies of Earth. So, the team explores these different planets and always falls into conflict. That’s where the action comes in.
I think not knowing what they would encounter on the other side, the unknown aspect of the show, made it really intriguing to me. Plus, being a kid, the show attracted me with the humor it incorporated, as always. One of my favorite episodes has the characters stuck repeating a day over and over, where they begin to realize that until they get things fixed, they can do whatever they want without fear of punishment. You can imagine they did some funny things!
I’ve always been into action shows and movies, so the combination of humor, science, the unknown, and actors like Richard Dean Anderson (who starred in MacGyver, another show I like) with all the military-style action seemed to get me hooked for all 10 seasons!
Stargate SG-1 seems to be an oddball in my list of favorite shows. Are there any shows that you can think of that don’t quite fit in with your list of favorites?