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Some Stargate SG-1 episodes are easy to love. “Emancipation” is not one of them. In this review, I talk about how Carter is thrown into a world where women are treated as property, their safety is negotiable, and violence against them is simply part of the social order. It also becomes very clear that some of the men on SG-1 still have their own blind spots to work through. I also take a closer lo...

Step through the gate with us as Stargate SG-1 delivers one of its earliest unsettling episodes, “The Enemy Within.” What begins as a security threat quickly becomes a deeply personal story about friendship and loyalty. This podcast episode’s deep dive explores how SG-1 starts to define itself under pressure as the team confronts a Goa’uld threat hiding in plain sight, and what it means when the e...

Once again, step through the gate with us into Stargate SG-1 's pilot episode “Children of the Gods.” What started with a single discovery now evolves into a television series of its own, revisiting familiar characters and reshaping them for a new format. This podcast episode takes a nerdy deep dive into how the Stargate movie transitions into SG-1, from Daniel Jackson’s return to Jack O’Neill (no...

Before SG-1 , there was the feature film that started it all. Where some Stargate reviews begin with the show, this one starts at the very beginning. In this first movie review, I revisit the 1994 film that launched the franchise and first drew me in through my love of Ancient Egypt, long before SG-1 became such a big part of my life. Stargate (1994) did introduce us to the characters we’d come to...