Stargate: SG-1 Season 8 DVD Box Set
Warning: Heavy Spoilers and plot details for Season 8 of Stargate SG-1.
With twenty episodes on the five DVD’s, the Stargate: SG-1 season eight box set is much like the other box sets. The special features include “SG-1 Director Series”, “SG-1 Beyond the Gate” Series, Featurettes and Photos, as well as audio commentaries on selected episodes, so really nothing too fancy. I wish it came with more extras, but that’s because I am greedy.
Season eight is the last season where Richard Dean Anderson, or Jack O’neill leads the SG-1 team, and that is the reason I bought it. It helps that it has a few decent episodes during the season including one of my favourites, Citizen Joe.
In season eight, they deal with the replicator threat, as well as Anubis in his half ascended form. We also watch as Daniel Jackson dies again.
Being a big Stargate fan, I would suggest getting every DVD box set, but if you have to skip one, I’d say this is one of the ones you could probably skip. The later seasons of Stargate have not been able to get back that feeling of exploration and struggling against a more advanced enemy, as humans start building their own spaceships able to take on the Goa’uld. Even with the Ori threat which comes into play starting in season nine, it is never the same. Season eight is that transition period, and it felt almost like they expected the show to end at this point.
The character development is limited, other than Teal’c, who changes by leaps and bounds, as he grows in his hair and tries living off base. My friends loved him better as the sexy bald guy, but I can understand why Christopher Judge got sick of shaving his head.
Tidbit:
In the season 8 episode, “Avatar”, Teal’c informs SG-1 that he plays Def Jam Vendetta, alluding to the fact that Chris Judge was a voice actor in that game.
via Wikipedia
Season 8 Episode List:
- New Order (Part 1)
- New Order (Part 2)
- Lockdown
- Zero Hour
- Icon
- Avatar
- Affinity
- Covenant
- Sacrifices
- Endgame
- Gemini
- Prometheus Unbound
- It’s Good to Be King
- Full Alert
- Citizen Joe
- Reckoning (Part 1)
- Reckoning (Part 2)
- Threads
- Moebius (Part 1)
- Moebius (Part 2)
You can pick up the box set at some movie rental stores, as well as most places that sell DVD movies.
