Stargate Sg-1: Season 5 (1997)
Studio MGM Entertainment
Movie Release Date 27/07/1997
Country USA
Language English
Audience Rating Suitable for 12 years and over
Running Time 800 mins
Format DVD
Color Color
Cast
Richard Dean Anderson
Amanda Tapping
Michael Shanks
Don Davis
Christopher Judge
Crew
Director Andy Mikita
Director Martin Wood
Plot
It now seems clear that year five of Stargate will be remembered as the one where something went awry with Daniel Jackson. Lots of behind-the-scenes rumours fuelled the idea of cast tension, but whatever the problem, his sudden departure from the show was obviously via a hastily contrived scenario. In retrospect, there must have been a problem for some while before the weird penultimate episode ("Meridian"). Michael Shanks looks frequently bored in his rare moments of individual screen time as he infiltrates a Goa'uld meeting and even when making friends with a creature everyone else wants dead. In fact, there's only one point when everyone really seems to be having fun, and that's in the spoof 100th episode "Wormhole X-treme!"

Most shows go through a run-around, skin-of-their-teeth period awaiting renewal and it certainly seems to have affected storylines this year. For example, a next generation of younger SG teams is introduced. Replacements? The most unfortunate aspect of things however was that not a single episode managed to stand alone on its own merits. Every single story was dependent on a part of the greater interwoven warring species threads. Some of the one-off tales were terrific in and of themselves, but it was as if the writers fell into the trap of having to refer to as much backstory as possible, perhaps to ensure loose ends could be easily wrapped up? Ultimately none of this mattered since the show went on for quite a while. --Paul Tonks

Personal Details
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Index 43
Collection Status In Collection
Purchase Price £59.99
Links Amazon UK
Edition Details
Distributor MGM Entertainment
Barcode 5050070009156
Region 2
Release Date 28/04/2003
No. of Disks/Tapes 6