Stargate SG-1: Thor's Chariot Rewatch
February 5, 2025 7:20 PM - Season 2, Episode 6 - Subscribe
O'Neill and his team return to Cimmeria after learning that the Goa'Uld have occupied the planet. SG-1 feels responsible for having destroyed the world's most important defence system on an earlier visit.
The Goa'uld Heru'ur has discovered that Cimmeria is no longer protected by Thor's Hammer, which SG-1 destroyed to save Teal'c, and is enslaving the natives. Their only hope is to somehow contact the mythical Thor and his people.
The Goa'uld Heru'ur has discovered that Cimmeria is no longer protected by Thor's Hammer, which SG-1 destroyed to save Teal'c, and is enslaving the natives. Their only hope is to somehow contact the mythical Thor and his people.
I really like that there is continuity-of-relationships as the SGC explores. It highlights that our folks’ actions have consequences.
posted by janell at 7:27 PM on February 5 [1 favorite]
posted by janell at 7:27 PM on February 5 [1 favorite]
iirc, I loved this episode revealing the 'Asgardians' as a net positive member of the galactic society.
posted by porpoise at 9:00 PM on February 5 [1 favorite]
posted by porpoise at 9:00 PM on February 5 [1 favorite]
I've always loved the Asgard, and Thor being one of the best.
I agree with janell, the continuity and cause and affect of SG-1 going out into the wider universe is great. It's also a fun way to have a sense of serialization while the show can still be a planet of the week type of format. For sure, SG-1, along with the SG format, is one that builds upon itself as it keeps going forward.
Perhaps one of the funniest parts is when Carter stops to explain that Thor is likely a self-generating holographic recording to someone who still uses a broadsword and rides a horse.
"The Asgard race are at war with the Goa'uld," I dunno, I love that line.
posted by Atreides at 1:51 PM on February 6
I agree with janell, the continuity and cause and affect of SG-1 going out into the wider universe is great. It's also a fun way to have a sense of serialization while the show can still be a planet of the week type of format. For sure, SG-1, along with the SG format, is one that builds upon itself as it keeps going forward.
Perhaps one of the funniest parts is when Carter stops to explain that Thor is likely a self-generating holographic recording to someone who still uses a broadsword and rides a horse.
"The Asgard race are at war with the Goa'uld," I dunno, I love that line.
posted by Atreides at 1:51 PM on February 6
Yeah, I really loved the mostly soft serialization in SG-1. I mean eventually they get bogged down with certain system lords and I'm not sure you could make a lick of sense out of any individual season 9 or 10 episode without knowing the bulk of the backstory, but the universe always sort of respected the changes that were happening to it.
(tiptoeing around the lack of rewatch tagging)
posted by Kyol at 9:58 AM on February 7
(tiptoeing around the lack of rewatch tagging)
posted by Kyol at 9:58 AM on February 7
I think that's accidental: most of the episodes over the past few months have been tagged rewatch?
posted by thecaddy at 10:59 AM on February 7
posted by thecaddy at 10:59 AM on February 7
yes! that's on me, the rewatch tag is hidden behind a clickable menu so I forget sometimes.
posted by Carillon at 10:59 AM on February 7 [1 favorite]
posted by Carillon at 10:59 AM on February 7 [1 favorite]
Oh, you know it and I know it, but without it someone is justified / bound to grumble if they come in and get spoiled about a 28 year old TV show. I don't make the rules. :D
Anyway, I do wonder how people find the later episodes with Apophis and Ba'al if they're coming in cold, or if the show had developed and depends too much on its own lore by that point to be comprehensible to new watchers, and by time the Ori come around it's just the diehard fans sticking it out, and all hope for newcomers has been shelved.
posted by Kyol at 11:38 AM on February 7
Anyway, I do wonder how people find the later episodes with Apophis and Ba'al if they're coming in cold, or if the show had developed and depends too much on its own lore by that point to be comprehensible to new watchers, and by time the Ori come around it's just the diehard fans sticking it out, and all hope for newcomers has been shelved.
posted by Kyol at 11:38 AM on February 7
As someone who enjoys but never got deeply into Stargate and would only catch the occasional episode—this rewatch is probably the most I've ever really followed along—the serialization never got so deep that a random viewer would be too lost. I think the most confusing part was keeping various other tech-level-equivalent human cultures straight, but "these aliens are the bad guys, and these ones are our allies" were generally readable in any given episode.
The last two seasons were kind of a soft reboot, right? They brought in Ben Browder and Claudia Black via a different kind of wormhole, swapped in the Ori as the new main bad guys, and kept on exploring. If anything I think it was seasons 7 & 8 that were getting really bogged down with the history—I remember watching a lot of Ori episodes, but I don't have too much recollection of the end of the System Lords arcs.
posted by thecaddy at 12:27 PM on February 7
The last two seasons were kind of a soft reboot, right? They brought in Ben Browder and Claudia Black via a different kind of wormhole, swapped in the Ori as the new main bad guys, and kept on exploring. If anything I think it was seasons 7 & 8 that were getting really bogged down with the history—I remember watching a lot of Ori episodes, but I don't have too much recollection of the end of the System Lords arcs.
posted by thecaddy at 12:27 PM on February 7
(I'm noting that rewatch tag is now prominently displayed, btw)
posted by thecaddy at 12:27 PM on February 7
posted by thecaddy at 12:27 PM on February 7
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posted by Carillon at 7:25 PM on February 5 [1 favorite]