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Stargate SG-1 Season 4 Boxed Set

Stargate SG-1 Season 4 Boxed Set

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: stargat en francais
Review: j aimerais s avoir quand il vous sortir les stargat (sg1)en francais pour le canada. ses bien plat il sorte la premiere saison et apres il nous l aisse sur notre appetie...
il sont sortie pour l europe mes les dvd ne sont pas compatible pour l amerique du nord.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Outstanding again
Review: Just like the three seasons before it, the season 4 box set is great.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Colors washed out
Review: Just one disappointment - although the picture quality is excellent, the color reproduction is not. The colors are all somewhat washed out compared to the broadcast signal. Light yellows become white, for example. I don't know if this is true for the other seasons, but the difference here between the DVD and recorded episodes is dramatic.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Some problems, but...
Review: overall, a good season.

Some great team episodes, some good spotlight episodes for characters, some interesting ongoing storylines. A few episodes where heavy-handed preaching makes you look for Aesop or your local minister trying to hammer the lesson in.

The loss of executive producer Jonathan Glassner and the addition of several new writers really shows, however they did seem to try (unlike later seasons).

Despite a few bobbles, a solid effort.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Crossroads
Review: Overall, I think Stargate SG-1 is some of the best TV ever made. Having said that, the season 4 dvd also has many of its own merits...

I think season 4 is a crossroads between where Stargate SG-1 is coming from (original team, Apophis is the major bad guy, etc.) and where it is going to (different bad guys, metaphysical themes, etc.). As such, it is highly recommended for fans and longtime viewers. I don't want to give away material in this review, in case you haven't seen the series, but I think you'll enjoy a few of the surprises and the season finale which will require you to get the season 5 dvd also.

I like a few of the featuretttes on the DVD box-set, esp. the special effects and "legacy of the gate" featurettes. Every disc also features an audio commentary option as part of the "Special Features" menu, which is also good for committed fans.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Season 5 Info.
Review: Season 4 has been the best yet. For those of you who are interested in knowing when season 5 will be out, read on. Word on the street in Suisun City, California, is that season 5 will be out on or around Jan. 20th, 2004. Enough said!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing
Review: Season 4 is my personal favorite season and the DVD is amazing. This is the first season where they included audio commentary which they did for every episode. This season includes amazing episodes such as Divide and Conquer, Window of Oppertunity,and Chain Reaction. I reccomend this season to any old fan and any newcomer.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fires on all cylinders
Review: Season Four, as many will agree, brings many elements of the series into focus, also introducing some new "long term" baddies into the mix (I suppose for "continuity" into future shows and seasons). The overall quality of the transfer to digital is great with good colour and imaging. The expanded features including the commentary (long overdue) are nice to have, but not all that impressive.

My concern, as has been expressed by others, lies more in the "future" of the series. Seven years seems to be the limit for most sci-fi series, beyond which it just gets played for the sake of the playing, not the stories. While now in the seventh season, it doesn't seem that the Stargate will be shutting down any time soon. I've heard that Anderson is exiting the show as a regular. When a primary player bows out (except it is a purposeful plot device), this generally indicates that it's time to wrap things up. The point, I suppose, is that if the story, the primary arc of the series, doesn't move forward more agressively to a meaningful and satisfying conclusion, we risk a complete meltdown of purpose. B5 was smart storytelling -- they created a whole story and then shot it, ending it when it was time, without continuing because of ratings or any other profit motivation. The old adage: "Leave 'em wanting more" is a good rule to follow. Let us pray the producers see the wisdom of a complete story as opposed to milking a good idea beyond the point it ceases being worth the time, effort and expense, which it is now in danger of becoming.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best
Review: Season two was the best season ever, Season five is the second best, Season four is third. Season three and six are the weakest of the lot but lets be honest this is the best show of televison bar none. I would never tarnish a show for a couple of weak episodes, when there is a bigger picture to look at. This is the first series since X-Files where i wanted to see how things turn out (I just hope it doesnt take the road that the X-files took, though it kinda does with season six(bar the finale which is probably one of the greatest SG-1 episodes of all time). I am just glad to see MGM getting on the ball with releasing the series quickly.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: just that much better than the first three
Review: So many good and entertaining things about the entire Stargate series make it my favorite television show I have ever seen. This season continues and expands on all these things through some truly amazing, humorous, in some cases powerfully emotional episodes, while at the same time adding something new to the mix: the annual super-whimsical episode. Season 4's is Window Of Opportunity.

While the episode's overall plot is serious, and stellar even by Stargate standards, the episode goes beyond even the great humor of O'Neill's constant wisecracks when it explores the possibilities of what crazy things a person could do if they knew they could do anything they wanted for a day and soon afterwards everyone around them would not remember what they had done. Dang that General Hammond for yelling during O'Neill's backswing! (while driving a golf ball through the Stargate without permission...)


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