SG-1 take on Deep Impact and Armageddon in Fail Safe. Written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, this episode was first broadcast on 5 April, 2002. A large asteroid is discovered in the solar system, it’s path is determined to be on a direct line for Earth which may cause an extinction level event. O’Neill…
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Stargate SG-1 (2000) – Small Victories, and The Other Side
Season four got underway on 30 June, 2000 with Small Victories, which continues the story started in the season three finale with the Replicators! Written by Robert C. Cooper, the episode picks up shortly after the end of the finale, with a Replicator. It boards a Soviet sub, and begins to wreck havoc. The only…
Stargate SG-1 (2000) – Crystal Skull, and Nemesis
The penultimate episode of season three, Crystal Skull, relies a little too much on green screen effects, which makes it a little bothersome to watch, but it’s still a fun story. Written by showrunner Brad Wright from a story by Micheal Greenburg and Jarrad Paul this episode debuted on 3 March, 2000. When a giant…
Stargate SG-1 (2000) – A Hundred Days, and Shades of Grey
O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and SG-1 are working to negotiate a treaty with a naquadah rich world on a developing planet. But things are about to go disastrously wrong in A Hundred Days. Written by one of the showrunners, Brad Wright from a story by Victoria James, this episode was first broadcast on 4 February,…
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Learning Curve, and Point of View
SG-1 is conducting overtures and studies with a peaceful planet whose children are highly intelligent. Legacy was written by Heather E. Ash this episode first debuted on 22 July, 1999. Teal’c (Christopher Judge) is paired with a young boy, Tomin (Lachlan Murdoch) to teach the society about the Goa’uld, while young Merrin (Britt Irvin) returns…
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Fair Game, and Legacy
Carter (Amanda Tapping) gets promoted to Major in this episode, a wonderfully nice moment for the character, but things get interrupted when O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) gets beamed aboard an Asgard ship, which leads to the story for the episode when he has a conversation with Thor (voiced by Michael Shanks). Written by Robert C….
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – The Fifth Race, and A Matter of Time
Poor Jack (Richard Dean Anderson). O’Neill becomes infected with an alien database when they travel to one of the possible ally worlds of the five races allied against the goa’uld system lords. Written by Robert C. Cooper, The Fifth Race first debuted on 22 January, 1999. He begins to speak in an alien tongue, and…
Stargate SG-1 (1998) – Need, and Thor’s Chariot
SG-1 does its addiction episode with Need. Written by Robert C. Cooper from a story Cooper developed with Damian Kindler. It first aired on 24 July, 1998. When the team arrives on a distant world Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) saves a young woman, Shyla (Heather Hanson) from taking her own life. The team is captured…
Erik the Viking (1989) – Terry Jones
Monty Python alum Terry Jones writes and directs (as well as making an appearance) in the next film in DK Canada’s highly enjoyable Monsters in the Movies book as I continue to explore the chapter on Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales. Tim Robbins is the titular Erik, a Viking who isn’t sure about the looting…
In Conversation with Adam Bray
Next week, DK Canada unleashes Marvel Studios: Visual Dictionary, filled with a plethora of pictures, a cornucopia of content and tons of trivia, their latest offering takes us deep into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Written by Adam Bray, who has turned in a number of standout reference books for DK Books the Visual Dictionary is…
The Mind Reels 