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I am firmly convinced people don't realise how good Stargate is, because there's so much of it, that few have the time to watch all of it and realise how good it is.
How long does it take before it gets good? This might upset fans like you, but I'm having a hard time getting into it, to the point that I have my doubts if it's worth it. Before you're asking what I'm doing here, this was randomly in my feed and I only noticed that this was a Stargate community after having written most of my comment.
I caught some of it when it aired for the first time and was thoroughly unimpressed of it compared to TNG (I'm not a Trekkie either, more of a casual viewer of Star Trek). Then I tried watching it again a few years ago. It left such a terrible impression on me that I had forgotten all about even making the attempt until I tried again recently and noticed after a few absolutely awful episodes that they seemed awfully familiar. The previous attempt had left such a bad impression that I had essentially purged all memories of it. I didn't even know this was possible.
I want to like it (I actually liked the first episode a lot), but the writing is just so bad and everything, apart from some of the CG (which holds up quite well) and the solid acting feels cheap and poorly thought out. The mystery and intrigue gets overshadowed by sexism, jingoism, characters that can be summed up on a postage stamp and plots and scenes that are contrived and clumsy. I'm sure they'll flesh the characters out more over time, but do they ever solve how the female token character is being treated? Does it ever stop feeling cheap and schlocky?
I watched SG1 as a comfort show with my partner, and I am glad I did. I am glad I know the references and have experienced the 'gems'. I am often amused at some of the bad parts, but not always.
Many of the bad parts were SO bad that I'd never watch it again, and I wouldn't recommend you spend your time on this when you already discovered that the bad parts grate this much. Life is short and there's a lot of other things to experience.
Looking at you, “Emancipation”.
I needed three days to get through this episode.