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Rating: - The Weakest Season of Them All
I love Stargate SG-1. I started watching it just as season 7 ended and quickly caught up over summer hiatus and was completely educated in the way of Stargate by the time season 8 aired. Season 1 had been decent as a starter season, season 2 had kept up the momentum and then the series had taken off with season 3 and continued well through season 8.

But then, with season 9, SG-1 hit a wall. Of all ten seasons, I have to say that Season 9 was the most disappointing. I was increasingly forcing myself to watch episodes for the sake of watching them and not for any major entertainment value.

The idea of adding an entirely new antagonistic character (in the form of the Ori) so late in a long-running series was ridiculous. Even the writers/producers/directors of the show admit this. What they should have done was end SG-1 with season 8 and turned season 9 into the first season of an entirely new Stargate show as they were planning to do anyway. Instead, however, they nearly destroyed an amazing show by introducing an impossible-to-defeat villain late in the series and then found themselves scrambling to find ways to defeat said impossible-to-defeat character in only a season. The problem was that they tried to restart the show far beyond the point they could. What made seasons 3-8 so great (even season 2 so great!) was that the end of each prior season had an episode that kick-started the next season with an already high-powered momentum. However, the last episode in season 8 ENDED the series, by all definitions. So instead of having a fast-paced momentum to carry it through, season 9 had to attempt to start a high-speed season from a standstill. That is what crippled its potential. Add to that the fact that they removed one of my favorite characters (though I know that was a personal choice on his part) and replaced him with a character that later became enjoyable, but which had to first undergo a slow, ungainly and sometimes painful process of introduction and integration into a family that had already formed and solidified its bonds long ago.

SG-1 is an amazing show and season 10 did a lot to redeem the series in the end, but the extinction of the show was nearly brought upon us by season 9. Of the twenty episodes I would have to say that barely five of them were of any great quality. The rest were tolerable (and some barely that). It was a fool's errand to try and continue the show with a ninth season like the one we had instead of creating a new series as they should have done then. However, credit is due for the handful of good episodes that they did have (Ethon being the one and only episode that stands out in my mind as being truly worthy).

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