Stargate SG-1 Season Four DVD boxset
01/01/2006 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
DVD MGM Home Entertainment 24317DVD MZ1. Price: £21.97 (UK) 22 episodes plus extras. time: 15 hours). Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Don S. Davis and assorted guests. Buy Stargate SG-1 Season Four in the USA - or Buy Stargate SG-1 Season Four in the UK  check out: www.mgmuuk.com
Wow! This took a long while to watch through, especially as every single episode had an audio commentary. I've come away from this DVD boxset with a lot more appreciation as to the kinds of decisions have to be made when directing that anyone who has career choices in that direction should be learning from all TV and films offering this option. It certainly demonstrates how much the actors are playing to blank screens that are added in post-production in 'Stargate SG-1'. So if you've got career leanings towards being actors, its something else you need to learn to do well. The extras offer a lot of behind the scenes things even if I'm not entirely sure if actor Richard Dean Anderson is especially vague or putting it on. The only odd point is the production crew continually mentioning season 5. If you're buying this way rather than from watching off the box first, it might spoil some surprises.
As to Season 4 of 'Stargate SG-1' itself. This is more like a coming of age season with progress of plots along several lines ranging from helping the Tok'ra against the Goa'uld or on their own, other world menaces that illustrate man brought up on other worlds can still be equally nasty and a strong element of Science Fiction. This is also the season where an amnesiac O'Neill remembers a bald man in a short-sleeved shirt to be Homer Simpson and not Hammond.
One of the strengths of 'Stargate' is the fact that there is some progression with plots on a continuous basis and things aren't forgotten. Even the '2010' episode isn't really a re-set button but rather a clever use of an alternative reality. Considering the number of planets the Stargate teams visit, you'd have thought there would be more messages from alternative futures as to which to avoid. Whether such things will appeal to someone thrown in later in the seasons is debatable but at the price you can buy these early DVD boxsets, it isn't difficult to catch up. 'Stargate' is now reaching an unprecedented record for seasons now and so if you've missed out, then going after these volumes is a good enough reason to find out its success.
GF Willmetts |
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