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| Stargate SG-1 - The Complete Series Collection | 
 enlarge | Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping
Studio: MGM Domestic Television Distribution
Category: DVD
List Price: $329.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  193 reviews
Sales Rank: 522
Format: Full Screen, Surround Sound, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 54
Running Time: 9900
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 8 x 6.7
MPN: 027616092472
UPC: 027616092472
EAN: 0027616092472
ASIN: B000TJBNHQ
Theatrical Release Date: July 27, 2007
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW !! NEVER OPENED !! FACTORY SEALED !!
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Product Description
All 214 episodes of all 10 seasons and all special features in a compact DVD case with commemorative booklet and metal outercase! System Requirements:TRT: 513 Mins. Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: NR UPC: 027616092472
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 Enter the Stargate July 17, 2007
201 out of 220 found this review helpful
Most TV shows spun off from movies are uninvolving and uninteresting ("Blade," anyone?), but such wasn't the case with "Stargate SG-1." Starting as a simple exploration series, the series expanded into a brilliant tangle of politics, aliens, and Earth's spirit and guts -- excellent writing, acting, and a sense of humor about itself and its characters.
The Stargate has been inactive for a year. Then a bunch of Egyptian-styled warriors come through and kidnap an officer. General Hammond (Don S. Davis) pulls Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) out of retirement, and sends him to Abydos to find out what happened. O'Neill is reunited with Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) -- only to have Daniel's wife and brother-in-law abducted by the evil Apophis. A rescue attempt sparks off a war with the Goa'uld -- aliens who have been impersonating human gods for many centuries.
So the team SG-1 -- made up of O'Neill, Jackson, scientist/pilot Sam Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Apophis' ex-slave Teal'c (Christopher Judge) -- explore through the Stargate, finding plenty of hostile aliens, strange allies (the Unas, the Asgard), and humans scattered all over. Not to mention the gate-builders, who have ascended to another plane.
Frst they battle the arrogant Apophis, then the devil-imitating So'kar, and the malignant half-energy Anubis and his army of undead warriors. The Goa'uld power structure starts to splinter, and new secret organizations make power plays on Earth, as SG-1 uncovers the hidden legacies of humanity's ancestors.
Even after the Goa'uld storyline ends, things haven't ended for SG-1. Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder) is given command of SG-1, and manages to gather the disbanded team back together, with the help of a quirky alien mercenary, Vala Mal Doran (Claudia Black). Together, they find that the Milky Way faces its most deadly threat ever -- the Ori, evil ascended beings who demand that everyone worship them... or else.
Previously all "exploration" sci-fi focused on people on ships. "Stargate" avoids the usual space opera approach -- even when ships are introduced, the main focus is on walking through a big stone ring. It's also full of real military, political battles (both on and off Earth), and a very plausible reason why everybody in the galaxy (more or less) looks just like us.
It's graced with elaborate, opulant sets, solid special effects, shoot-'em-up action from Marines and Air Force, and some truly kinetic space battles (including one that resembles the climax of "Star Wars IV"). The storyline stumbles somewhat in the last two seasons, with the sudden switch in villains and cast. But all ten seasons are sprinkled with very warm human moments -- Daniel's farewell to his wife, Sam bonding with a doomed little girl, and Teal'c's struggle for freedom.
Best of all is the snappy script. Some of it comes from Teal'c ("Undomesticated equines could not remove me"), but mostly from the tart-tongued O'Neill ("Well, I guess we all start shooting. There's blood, death, hard feelings... it'd suck"). Other characters get great lines too (" I think the circle means 'the place of our legacy'...or it could be 'a piece of our leg', but the first seems to make more sense").
The cast is nothing short of brilliant -- Anderson does a quirky, disrespectful, pop culture-lovin' guy with a hidden tragic past, while Tapping and Shanks are great as an enthusiastic geek and a smart, capable military woman. And Judge is absolutely astounding as Teal'c, who slowly turns from a stoic, tragic warrior to a warm legendary hero.
Corin Nemec had a one-season stint as Daniel's "replacement," and he makes a nice, eager young newbie, and Ben Browder channels much of O'Neill's quirkiness when Anderson left. Black is kind of annoying at times, but she's admittedly quite funny and quirky, with a tragic past of her own.
"Stargate SG-1" is undeniably the best TV spinoff, and one of the best "exploration" shows to make it onto the air... and stay there for a whole decade. Definitely worth seeing, from beginning to end.
 Poor packaging leaves discs badly scratched October 12, 2007
131 out of 145 found this review helpful
I hope this was a one-time error (and I'm certainly going to be returning my copy of this set), but almost every single disc in the collection came through dirty, scratched, or both. Not all of them are unplayable, but I was "lucky" enough to discover that the very first one of them I attempted to play was indeed unplayable. Maybe it's because of the packaging, which is a bunch of cardboard sleeves that don't provide any safety to the disc whatever.
The set itself is exciting -- but no DVD is exciting if you can't play it. (And I tried four different DVD players, computer and standalone.)
ETA: My replacement copy is much, much better. Every disc I've looked at has been in perfect condition, and the unplayable disc from the first time around is just fine this time. Thanks to Amazon for a swift and painless replacement!
 Poor Quality Control from Factory - Inspect your Disc!! October 21, 2007
104 out of 111 found this review helpful
I have watched only 3 of 10 seasons so far & have 5 disc that skip/freeze during playback. After problems with first couple of discs, I inspected the entire set & found at least 15 discs that are dirty, scratched over entire surface or deeply pitted. This did not happen during shipping- they came from the Factory like this. Definitely not something you expect to find in NEW DVDs. So please inspect your set ASAP before time runs out to request a replacement/refund from Amazon. I have requested a replacement today and hopefully this set will be in good condition.
 Great Series, TERRIBLE PACKAGING WILL DESTROY DISKS - WON'T BUY TILL THEY FIX THIS PROBLEM November 20, 2007
63 out of 65 found this review helpful
I am a big fan of this series - it rates 10 stars!
I am NOT a fan of the packaging. It is COMPLETELY UNNACEPTABLE.
Even though I am DESPERATE to have this series, I will NEVER buy this box set.
I have 3 series on DVD. Buffy, Angel and MASH. Buffy and Angel have fantastic box sets, with decent packaging that protects the disks. Both arrived in perfect conditon.
I also purchased MASH which is UNFORTUNATELY packaged in slide in sleeves like SG 1. The first thing I did was to buy a 50 pack of DVD sleeves, and remove the disks from the package. Even pre-use the disks had lots of tiny scratches, but fortunately they played. NO DISK SHOULD BE PACKAGED THIS WAY. For hundreds of dollars, you'd think they could put together a package that wasn't going to DESTROY the disks.
Well, guess what, I am not playing.
Manufacturers get a clue: take a look at the Buffy and Angel sets, and come up with something like that. Even after a couple of years of non stop play, my Buffy disks are in perfect condition.
Slide in sleeves destroy disks. DO NOT WANT.
poor packaging October 27, 2007
54 out of 59 found this review helpful
I was shocked to find the discs in this set dirty, scratched, and defective the very first episode on disc one froze and skipped after attempting to watch other discs I found the same problems amazon sent another set and again I found the same thing and have sent the second set back..I give up MGM did a bad job with this set its like they scrapped up all their returned discs and shoved them in a big box not caring what conditon they were in..I would not order this set its a complete gamble as to if you will find all discs working and there are a lot of discs
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