Stargate SG-1 | 1x1&2 "Children of the Gods" | First Time Watching Reaction | We're in the Basement

[@sueKay]

This is the director's cut, which I would recommend over the original broadcast version. No harm to Kurt Russell, but Richard Dean Anderson's Jack O'Neill is by far the better portrayal. As is Michael Shanks as Daniel Jackson.

[@WereintheBasement]

Yeah to be honest I had forgotten they were recasted after like 10 minutes, Richard Dean Anderson/Michael Shanks were both excellent!

[@alexmckee4683]

Shanks in particular does a great job of picking up certain aspects of Spader's performance and continuing them while adding his own take on the character. Over time he blends these different takes together and takes ownership of the character fully. In my opinion in the later seasons Shanks starts to overact but his performance from season 1 to season 5 is perfect. RDA does his own thing from the beginning but it's fine, he's very likeable, and believable as a CO anyway.

[@hyzmarca2737]

So originally SG-1 was on Showtime. And Showtime insisted on boobs, which the producers didn't want, but its hard to argue with the network when making a pilot. Luckily, they were able to resist demands gratuitous nudity in subsequent episodes. Then Showtime dropped all of their sci-fi shows and focused entirely on sexy drama. Sci-Fi picked up SG-1, and Sci-fi is basic cable that couldn't show boobs, so that worked out.

[@TuneTamasha]

Its 10 sharp. Stargate sg1 is up next.

[@donaldseale2700]

This show isn't so much of a continuation but a soft reboot of the movie. They changed certain details to make the show work. Like mentioning that Abydos was the closest planet in the network and that's why it wasn't affected by stellar drift when in the movie they said that it was on the other side of the known universe. Jack makes a comment in a later episode that his name is spelled O'neill with 2 Ls. There's another Col. Jack O'neil who spells it with only 1 and he has no sense of humor. Another detail that is different from the movie that many might not have noticed unless they was watching closely it the name of Jack's son. In the movie his name is Tyler and in the show it is Charlie.

[@majbrat]

Yay! I wish more people would watch this great series, and Stargate Atlantis is a must after - so good! Look forward to this. Subbed!

[@blacktronlego]

The character played by Kurt Russel in the movie is the same as the one played by Richard Dean Anderson. He knew he couldn't play Kurt Russel so he made his own version of the character. Michael Shanks could do a fair approximation of James Spader's Daniel Jackson.

[@roepi]

It will only get better as the seasons progress. Special effects get way better too.

[@WereintheBasement]

I'm excited to get deeper into the show! I think it's going to be a fun ride!

[@NativeNewMexican]

I'm so happy to see some solid reactions to SG-1. I would recommend that you not cut to the show. Most, if not all of us, are here to see your reaction, not the show; we've already seen the show at least once. Every time you cut to just the show all we are left with is wondering what are your expressions during those cuts.

[@WereintheBasement]

Thank you for the comment and advice! Still fairly new to video editing and stuff, hoping we continue to improve overall quality of our reaction videos!

[@michaelconnor1542]

Richard Dean Anderson really make O'Neal his own.

[@WereintheBasement]

I was telling Benji that I couldn't see Kurt Russell playing O'Neil in the show after Children of the Gods, he's too serious for it I feel like. I've loved what I have seen of Richard Dean Anderson so far!

[@neutchain7838]

He did such a great job with that role, brought a lot of levity and fun to it which was much needed. I believe the USAF made him a honorary Colonel around season 7 or 8. :)

[@roepi]

It's spelled with 2 L's... there's another one with just 1 L and he has no humor (Russels version was spelled with only 1 L though anderson and russel played the same character).

[@michaelconnor1542]

@@roepi I was waiting for someone to call me on this, and quote him.

[@neutchain7838]

@@roepi not that many people will understand how funny your reply was lol :D That scene was funny and it fits this post so well :)

[@boqndimitrov8693]

the first episodes of the series were definitely darker than those that followed (as well as the first season was fundamentally different from the others). I think that if they had continued in the spirit of the first episodes, it would have been something like stargate universe, the last series, which almost no one liked.

[@paulakuljunlahti]

Wow, a legend series. I wish you a really fun marathon with this. The series only gets better season by season and its effects. You can also see the development of technology, so you still have many exciting moments ahead of you.

[@nilshallberg526]

Stargate is great, im very happy to see this upload!

[@elizabethparker4511]

I have to say that I love SGU!! Yes, the show was darker, and it was very much a show with a TON of cast. I think that show did a pretty good job for being completely different from the first two shows. The gate in SGU is not stuck on a planet. Nobody planned to be where they are. People are assholes when they're scared. SGU desevered to be on longer than two seasons.

[@brx8r]

When they die after the poker game there are potato chips around the bodies. I wonder if the art department was told to put chips on the floor, from the poker game, and they misunderstood.

[@BadwolfRuin]

There is a bowl of potato chips on the table while they are playing.

[@testfire3000]

Terrific series! Richard Dean Anderson is superb in this show, as is the rest of the cast.

[@suelynch]

SG1 is one of the best Sci-fi series ever. Battlestar Galactica 2003 reboot runs a very close 2nd. The first 1/2 of season 1 of SG1 wasn't the best due to character development, but it does improve quickly. I like most Sci-fi including Star Trek (all of them) plus BSG, Farscape and many others. Hint: Try to watch the Sci-fi series Farscape before you finish season 8 of SG1. If you want to get a double/triple giggle, some of the comedy in Farscape is used in season 9 of SG1. The writers/directors of SG1 made fun of Star Trek, Starwars, Farscape, Thunderbirds, and many other TV shows including there own. Only Skaara and (Mr. Bunny Way) were the only actors to reprise their roles in SG1 from the Movie Stargate. Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe are spinoffs of SG1. You should begin to watch Atlantis around mid season 8. SGU towards at the end of season 4 of Atlantis. That way there are no spoilers.

[@fllthdcrb]

9:11 I see they replaced the wormhole effect for this release. Originally, they used the same sequence from the movie. And they _continued_ using it until almost the end of the series. Even after _Atlantis_ came along with a new sequence (which is what you see here), _SG-1_ continued using the old one for a while. 13:05 And this is one really big thing they retconned. If you recall, in the movie, Catherine says the planet at the other end of the wormhole (Abydos) is "on the other side of the known universe". But here, Abydos is said to be the _closest_ planet in the network to Earth. That network being confined to the Milky Way galaxy. No, "cartouche" is not a made-up word. It's the term (a French word meaning "cartridge", as in firearm ammo) that archaeologists use for a part of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. It is a sequence of characters enclosed in an oval with a line at one end, indicating the name of a pharaoh. If I understand right, the enclosure was meant to protect the pharaoh from evil. Given this meaning, the use for a stargate address seems questionable. But hey, we're talking about a sci-fi show that re-frames mythological figures as aliens, so I suppose they could have explained this away if they'd wanted to.

[@WereintheBasement]

The changing of the wormhole effect kind of threw us off a bit. Also, I thought that's what they said in the movie "other side of the universe" but then I had doubts and started thinking maybe they said Galaxy instead. Lol That's television for ya, we'll give them a pass this time.

[@cmlemmus494]

According to the Stargate wiki, seasons 1-8 used the wormhole effect from the film, but only "Children of the Gods" and "The Fifth Race" played the full 21-second clip. Other episodes used an edited version . Seasons 9 & 10 took the effect from Atlantis and colour-swapped it from green to blue. There are also some audio changes. I haven't found anything stating explicitly if there are different release versions, but my guess is there could be complex copyright issues between the films, TV series, and other media. The film was made by Le Studio Canal+, a French company, and distributed by MGM while the series was made by MGM in-house. It was not common in the 90s for series contracts to include DVD rights, so that release would have had to be negotiated separately. That would be a good time for MGM to strip out remnants of the film to reduce royalties.

[@KrK-EST]

This is the censored version as when it aired at the selection the woman were fully naked and all was showed. So it had R rating, later episodes had PG13 so later the pilot/first episode also was changed a bit.

[@curtrogers1715]

Good reaction it does get much better. I think they did great they got close to the action movie. They do a great job you get used to them, but did you have a great job and cartouche is an Egyptian word stone tablet with the right things important things, but in this case it a list of coordinates in the gold system different planets they explored and used drug explorer thanks for the fun until next time

[@WereintheBasement]

Thanks for watching and commenting! 😁

[@stegwise]

the only people who came over from the film were the young man Skaara and the old man who plays Jackson's father in law on Abydos

[@billmoretz8718]

You forgot Daniel's wife.

[@stegwise]

@@billmoretz8718 not the same actress, it was Mili Avital in the film and Vaitiare Bandera in the series. if you mean characters yeah then you have Jack, Daniel, Catherine, Kawalski, Ferretti, Kasuf, Skaara, Shar're, and Jack's wife Sarah.

[@Guhndoi]

Also Richard Kind in Atlantis, but different character.

[@theylied1776]

Fun fact, the television syndication rights were owned by the Studio (MGM) but the Movie rights are owned by the Production company and producers. The Production company wanted the (MGM) series to fail so that they could make a sequel. But the show didn't fail and created an entire universe and canon of its own which caused a movie sequel to be difficult. So the television series and the movie are not the same.

[@TuneTamasha]

it starts a bit random and slow, but builds up overtime to an overarching arch you'll pick up on eventually, kinda similar to xfiles with monsters of the week and mythological episodes, but here it's not so clear which are which and sometimes there are detailed or niche callbacks, the picture/vfx slowly improves too

[@WereintheBasement]

@@TuneTamasha totally got the X-File vibes from it! We're just happy to be watching some sci-fi that is completely new to us, you can only watch the Star Trek series so many time. lol

[@TuneTamasha]

​@@WereintheBasementhaha yeah... Fortunately this was filmed in widescreen... Sg1 is good in the sense it explores various cultures and various genres so it keeps things fresh... Compared to xfiles i would say it has more layers stacking on each other as the seasons go and dropping older ones that arent relevant anymore. Its definitely a more lightweight approach than the film, but it has serious dark moments too. Its a fairly smart and accurate show with the military involved in its production too. Ive seen it over 20 times by now so feel free to ask stuff xD

[@stegwise]

without spoilers they do a really good job of building on the initial ideas from the film into their own complete science fiction universe. the first season has some awkward episodes, don't give up on it. i would say they really start to be great at episode 10 season one Thor's Hammer. overall they have good long term plotlines and solid filler episodes, and they cover a pretty wide range of character based episodes, different kinds of action plots, medical dramas, i mean like they do a Die Hard at some point on SG: Atlantis, and SG: Universe does some pretty ok Soap Opera stuff that would even get your girlfriends on board. SG-1 is consistently awesome for 10 seasons and even managed to absorb cast members from other shows that got cancelled such as Farscape and FIrefly.

[@WereintheBasement]

I'm really excited for the journey. I spent years watching and rewatching the Star Trek series and I loved the BSG remake. I've been warned about the slow start of this show and I don't have an issue with it, I remember I struggled a bit with DS9 when I first started it, but it grows on ya when you begin to embrace it for what it is. We recorded episode 3 yesterday and I thought it was a really enjoyable watch.

[@stegwise]

@@WereintheBasement can't wait!

[@exploreohio1735]

Fun fact: Star Trek TNG and Stargate SG1 season 1episode 4 are both widely considered the worst in each series and they are very similar because it's by the same writer. Don't worry tho, she gets better in season 1 of sg1 by writing a few amazing canon episodes in s1.

[@stegwise]

@@exploreohio1735 i had to look this up, she wrote Thor's Hammer haha

[@asherlevin1762]

Awesome - another SG1 reaction. I cannot hear you guys very well though.

[@WereintheBasement]

We are working on improving our audio quality, that's our top priority at the moment. Thanks for the watch!

[@DaveH82]

13:45 What Daniel was saying is that there's no reason to read it. It would be like reading a list of phone numbers.

[@WereintheBasement]

That makes sense

[@garethdavies8004]

You watched the "Final Cut" Version of The Pilot Children of the Gods which was re-edited and released after the series had ended as a stand-alone movie. They cut out a few scenes and altered the ship that Apophis uses at the end before he goes through the gate, which to the most part does not change the story much, if at all. However they did alter the ending that leads directly into the next episode "The Enemy Within". After Episode 3 "The Enemy Within" the show flounders and is kind of slow until Episode 10 "Thor's Hammer" & Episode 11 "The Torment of Tantalus" and many people drop the show before they get there. Please stick with it the show is a very enjoyable ride once it gets going, Enjoy!

[@franohmsford7548]

It's really episodes 4-6 that are particularly bad and really to be fair Emancipation and The First Commandment are probably the worst two episodes of the entire show, Broca Divide's not good but at least it's watchable. Episode 7 - Cold Lazarus is probably the first truly good episode of SG-1 {and yes I include the pilot in that statement. Episode 8 and 9 are great - The Nox and Brief Candle. In the second half of Season 1 Cor-Ai is clearly the weakest episode and I'd likely place that ahead of Broca Divide as the third worst episode of the season. - Still compare to TNG Season 1 or DS9 Season 1 and SG-1's four bad episodes {I mean below a 5/10} is a pretty strong start comparatively. I'm not sure TNG or DS9 Season 1 have even four good {7/10 or better} episodes :)

[@alexmckee4683]

Nice! Glad you enjoyed the first episode, just so you know there's a few episodes in early season 1 that are the weakest in the entire show but towards the back half of the season it picks up in quality and from there on goes from strength to strength. Even though season 1 has some noticeably weak episodes fans are divided on which ones are the worst. There's one I always skip but it has its defenders. There's another that I really like that most fans seem not to, and reactors have been split on. For obvious reasons I won't say which episodes are which. But just be forewarned that there are some episodes that aren't representative of the overall quality of the whole show.

[@WereintheBasement]

@@alexmckee4683 I had a feeling it would be like that. Star Trek for the most part is the same way, stuff doesn't really get amazing until a few seasons in, but I'm looking forward to the journey!

[@alexmckee4683]

@@WereintheBasement I am also a Trek fan so I know what you mean. SG-1's first season is more comparable to DS9 in that it has missteps but only one or two poor episodes, unlike TNG for example. Well, sounds like you are well prepared so good luck and I will be interested to see what you guys think of the rest of season 1.

[@alexmckee4683]

@@WereintheBasement I am also a Trek fan so I know what you mean. SG-1's first season is more comparable to DS9 in that it has missteps but only one or two poor episodes, unlike TNG for example. Well, sounds like you are well prepared so good luck and I will be interested to see what you guys think of the rest of season 1.

[@tricitymorte1]

​@@WereintheBasement despite all the warnings that season 1 is slow, keep in mind, this show ran for 10 seasons, spawned one successful spinoff, started another before MGM pulled the plug, and inspired additional movies to tie up loose ends. Stick with the adventure. You're in for a hell of a ride.

[@alexmckee4683]

@@tricitymorte1 Oh yeah absolutely, I think it's a fantastic series and I'm one of the minority of fans that liked SGU as well. I just wanted to give them a heads up that there is a bit of a rough patch in early season 1 as I've seen other reactors struggle with those episodes.

[@DaDunge]

Richard Dean Anderson replacomg Kurt Russel is the best replacement of all time

[@TheKonkaman]

Awesome new sg1 reactors, season 1 is a little rough but its a real gem, anyway new sub here

[@WereintheBasement]

Thank you, we're excited for the journey!

[@TheKonkaman]

@@WereintheBasement 100th sub too :)

[@WereintheBasement]

@@TheKonkaman YOU DA BEST! 😍

[@chayarivka9903]

Have you considered watching Farscape (4 seasons) or Firefly (1/2 season)?

[@WereintheBasement]

Firefly I'm considering doing solo reactions to, I've never seen it and only hear good things. Farscape I know absolutely nothing about, definitely worth considering.

[@blacktronlego]

The planet is never named Abydos in the original film and far from being 'the closest planer on the network to Earth' it was on the far side of the observable Universe in another Galaxy. The film Ra is basically humanoid whereas these Goa'uld are snake-like. The film Jaffa did not have pouches carrying larval Gou'uld. Cartouche is a real word, it's like a box in which people's names were written, it differentiated names from the rest of the heirogylphic script.

[@darkwolf1202]

you don't know who MacGyver is? man i'm old.

[@WereintheBasement]

I knew of MacGyver, but had no clue Richard Dean Anderson was the actor who played him. 😅😅😅🤣

[@c1ph3rpunk]

The 90’s, the stigma of television against film was still strong. Come on, REAL film actors don’t do that play toy thing called television. I also doubt they had that sort of Hollywood budget, Kurt Russell money. If you’re going to want the movie, SG-1 isn’t it, it’s campy budget Canadian sci-fi. Don’t get me wrong, it’s one of my favs of all time, it’s just not the movie. Personally, I prefer the show anyways. Invest in microphones, anything really, even the low cost USB lapel ones work.

[@WereintheBasement]

@@c1ph3rpunk YES! Our audio issue is our top priority right now! Trying to step up our quality overall!

[@stegwise]

they're pretty up front about it they have to hose off the back of the iris from time to time

[@WereintheBasement]

😂

[@stegwise]

@@WereintheBasement i am joking around but i think O'neill says "bug on a windshield" and Carter says like "actually the matter stream is unable to fully reintegrate" but i mean they do talk about it xD

[@PuffyCloud_aka_puffeclaude]

101 Ftw.

[@WereintheBasement]

😘

[@brianhophead]

i'm disappointed you're watching the edited version of the episode

[@WereintheBasement]

I bought season one of SG-1 on KZbin, so whatever version they use is the one we watched.

[@nutella5193]

I'm only 5-6 minutes in, but i have to give some feedback to your editing: You show way too many scenes without your faces / reactions. I'm not here to watch the episode. I'm here to watch your reactions. So why show scenes without your faces? I hate it when some reactors do that. Why? It makes no sense. I don't want your reactions AFTER the scenes, i want your reactions DURING the scenes. Edit: 9 minutes in and i'm quitting, sorry. The editing style drives me crazy. So many scenes without your reactions. Maybe i'll check in some future reactions if the editing style changed.

[@WereintheBasement]

Thanks for the feedback! I want to improve the overall quality of my edits, so hopefully they just keep getting better. We're working on our audio issues right now, and I've definitely toned down the full screen clips of the show in the next reaction video.

[@RickAcklin]

Can peewee yawn more plz... 😴 hard pass

[@WereintheBasement]

😂

[@WereintheBasement]

We don't shame people for being tired on this channel bucko. 😴