The ninth season of ''
Stargate SG-1
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'', an American-Canadian
television series
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, began airing on July 15, 2005, on
SCI FI
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. The ninth season concluded on March 10, 2006, after 20 episodes on the same channel. The series was originally developed by
Brad Wright
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and
Jonathan Glassner
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, and Brad Wright,
Robert C. Cooper,
Joseph Mallozzi
Joseph Mallozzi (born 16 October 1965) is a Canadian writer and producer.
He is most noted for his contributions to the ''Stargate SG-1'', '' Stargate: Atlantis'' and '' Stargate Universe'' television series and as showrunner of ''Dark Matter''. ...
and
Paul Mullie
Paul Mullie is a screenwriter and producer. He is credited for writing episodes of ''Stargate Atlantis'', '' Largo Winch'', and ''Stargate SG-1''. He has also worked as executive producer on ''Stargate: Atlantis'' and is the co-creator of ''Dark M ...
served as executive producers. The season arc centers on the new threat of the
Ori, a race who
Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) and
Vala Mal Doran
Vala Mal Doran is a fictional character in the American military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1'' about a military team exploring the galaxy via a network of alien transportation devices. Played by former ''Farscape'' actress Cl ...
(
Claudia Black
Claudia Lee Black (born 11 October 1972) is an Australian actress, best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in ''Farscape'', Vala Mal Doran in ''Stargate SG-1'' and Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film '' Pitch Black''. She has had promi ...
) unleash in an unknown galaxy, and who are threatening to prepare for a crusade into the
Milky Way galaxy
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to convert the beings to their religion called
Origin
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.
Season nine regular cast members included
Ben Browder
Robert Benedict Browder (born December 11, 1962) is an American actor, writer and film director, known for his roles as John Crichton in '' Farscape'' and Cameron Mitchell in '' Stargate SG-1''.
Early life
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Browder ...
,
Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965) is a British-Canadian actress and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian–American military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1,'' ''Stargate Atlantis,'' an ...
,
Christopher Judge
Christopher Judge is an American actor. He is best known for playing Teal'c in the Canadian- American military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1'' (1997-2007). He is also the second actor to portray Kratos in the ''God of War'' ...
, with
Beau Bridges
Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award, Emmy, two-time Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner, as well as a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nomine ...
, and
Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1'' and as Dr Charles Harris in the Canadian medi ...
.
Claudia Black
Claudia Lee Black (born 11 October 1972) is an Australian actress, best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in ''Farscape'', Vala Mal Doran in ''Stargate SG-1'' and Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film '' Pitch Black''. She has had promi ...
appeared in a recurring role for eight episodes. The ninth season begins with General
Hank Landry (Beau Bridges) having assumed command of
Stargate Command
Over its decade of existence, science fiction TV series ''Stargate SG-1'' developed an extensive and detailed backdrop of diverse characters. Many of the characters are members of alien species discovered while exploring the galaxy through the S ...
, and newcomer Lt. Col.
Cameron Mitchell (
Ben Browder
Robert Benedict Browder (born December 11, 1962) is an American actor, writer and film director, known for his roles as John Crichton in '' Farscape'' and Cameron Mitchell in '' Stargate SG-1''.
Early life
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Browder ...
) trying to regroup the SG-1 team after the events of the eighth season.
Production
Development
The burning of Vala in "Avalon (Part 2)" was a challenging sequence for safety reasons and for still making it believable. Stunt people stood in for the fire scenes that Claudia Black couldn't film. Locked-off cameras and different "plates" were later combined to so-called VisFX compshots.
The episode "Crusade" was
Robert C. Cooper's first time directing on the show. All of Vala's voiceovers in that episode were filmed beforehand so that the director could pick which parts would be voiceover and which parts would be shown.
Since the environment of
Vancouver
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, British Columbia, Canada, where ''SG-1'' and ''Atlantis'' were primarily filmed, was being developed, shooting locations were getting rarer for new offworld stories. The producers countered this with a new reusable village set, with almost 280 feet (85m) in length and 12000 sqfoot (1100 m
2) in area, the biggest they ever built. It was an interior and exterior practical set on an effects stage. Three weeks passed between initial conception until building began, although portions had already been built the previous year. Two further weeks passed before filming began. The inspiration for the set were medieval villages, Japanese homes, and Italian structures and buildings.
"The Ties That Bind" marks the first appearance of the ''
Atlantis
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''-style
wormhole effect on the actual series, rather than in just the opening credits.
Cast
Ben Browder
Robert Benedict Browder (born December 11, 1962) is an American actor, writer and film director, known for his roles as John Crichton in '' Farscape'' and Cameron Mitchell in '' Stargate SG-1''.
Early life
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Browder ...
and
Beau Bridges
Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award, Emmy, two-time Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner, as well as a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nomine ...
joined the main cast in Season 9, as
Cameron Mitchell and
Hank Landry, respectively.
Richard Dean Anderson
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had left the main cast after Season 8 to spend more time with his young daughter in Los Angeles. Despite being listed in the cast credits for the whole season and short scenes in ''Avalon (Part 1)'',
Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965) is a British-Canadian actress and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian–American military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1,'' ''Stargate Atlantis,'' an ...
as
Samantha Carter
Dr. Samantha "Sam" Carter, USAF, is a fictional character in the Canadian–American military science fiction ''Stargate'' franchise. Played by Amanda Tapping, she appears in all three shows in the franchise: ''Stargate SG-1'', ''Stargate Atlant ...
is absent during the first five episodes as she was in the last stages of pregnancy at that time. Her empty spot was filled by guest star
Claudia Black
Claudia Lee Black (born 11 October 1972) is an Australian actress, best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in ''Farscape'', Vala Mal Doran in ''Stargate SG-1'' and Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film '' Pitch Black''. She has had promi ...
, who would leave in "Beachhead" and return for the last two episodes of Season 9, which involved her real-life pregnancy. Another new recurring actor was
Lexa Doig as
Carolyn Lam
Over its decade of existence, science fiction TV series ''Stargate SG-1'' developed an extensive and detailed backdrop of diverse characters. Many of the characters are members of alien species discovered while exploring the galaxy through the S ...
, Landry's daughter and the new doctor at
Stargate Command
Over its decade of existence, science fiction TV series ''Stargate SG-1'' developed an extensive and detailed backdrop of diverse characters. Many of the characters are members of alien species discovered while exploring the galaxy through the S ...
.
Writing
After writing the end of Season 8 as the third series finale in a row and having a positive creative experience with the first season of ''
Stargate Atlantis
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'', the producers considered starting a new spin-off show called ''Stargate Command'', but the
Sci Fi Channel chose to renew the series into a ninth season.
TV Zone
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History
''TV Zone ...
Special #64. July 2005. With the departure of
Richard Dean Anderson
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, the producers then decided to start a new chapter and introduced new elements into the series. A major change was the departure from
Egyptian mythology
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and the
Goa'uld Empire which had found its climax in the season 8 episode "
Threads", and the introduction of
Arthurian mythology.
[SG-1: Directors Series – ep 901 & 902 "Avalon" feat. Andy Mikita] "Avalon" was treated like a pilot film, consisting of originally two episodes, but a long script resulted in the extension of the story into the episode "Origin", in which the
Ori make their first appearance as new antagonistic race.
[Audio Commentary 901]
The title of the episode "Ex Deus Machina" is a
hyperbaton
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of "
deus ex machina
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" (literally "God out of a Machine", meaning "God appearing on a crane", a literary device for a kind of turn of events) after he jokingly suggested to his writing partners a plot about Ba'al working undercover as a mechanic on Earth. The title also makes a reference to Ba'al as an ex-deus (a former god).
The episode "Ripple Effect" was overly long and had many scenes edited and cut for time. Writer
Joseph Mallozzi
Joseph Mallozzi (born 16 October 1965) is a Canadian writer and producer.
He is most noted for his contributions to the ''Stargate SG-1'', '' Stargate: Atlantis'' and '' Stargate Universe'' television series and as showrunner of ''Dark Matter''. ...
later posted script sections of all cut scenes online. Asked what the cryptic remark by Black Mitchell meant when he left through the gate at the end of the episode, Mallozzi answered the meaning of this remark will not be revealed in the series but might come up in the ''
Stargate SG-1
''Stargate SG-1'' (often stylized in all caps, or abbreviated ''SG-1'') is a military science fiction Adventure fiction, adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate, ''Stargate'' franchise. The show, created by Brad Wrig ...
'' sequels, ''
Stargate: The Ark of Truth'' and ''
Stargate: Continuum''. "Camelot" was the first ''Stargate SG-1'' season finale since "
Revelations" that was not intended to be the ''SG-1'' series finale, and the first one since "
Exodus" that was a cliffhanger. The episode was written without the knowledge that ''Stargate SG-1'' would be picked up for a tenth season.
Release and reception
The
Sci Fi Channel cut the opening sequences of the first ten episodes of the season from sixty to ten seconds for the original broadcast. The sequence only displayed the "Stargate SG-1" logo and a "Created by" credit, main cast credits were displayed during the teaser. Fans had been very negative about this move. British
Sky One
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only aired the first part of "Avalon" with the short opening sequence.
The highest rated Season 9 episode was the season premier two-parter "Avalon" with a household rating of 2.1 each,
[Stargate SG-1 Season Two: Ratings]
and held steady between 1.8 and 2.0 until the midseason finale "The Fourth Horseman", which finished with 1.8.
The second part of the season oscillated between 1.6 and 1.9 and finished with a household rating of 1.9.
The season rating average was 1.8. A review in ''
TV Guide
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Special #67'' considered Mitchell's introduction in "Avalon" still too reminiscent of the production team's own efforts to turn around the Season Eight finale. Although the review embraced Black's "sparky, sarky characterization of Vala" during Amanda Tapping's absence, the renewed encounter between former ''
Farscape
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'' cast members
Ben Browder
Robert Benedict Browder (born December 11, 1962) is an American actor, writer and film director, known for his roles as John Crichton in '' Farscape'' and Cameron Mitchell in '' Stargate SG-1''.
Early life
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Browder ...
and
Claudia Black
Claudia Lee Black (born 11 October 1972) is an Australian actress, best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in ''Farscape'', Vala Mal Doran in ''Stargate SG-1'' and Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film '' Pitch Black''. She has had promi ...
was "oddly ... underplayed". The review found a strong similarity of the last ten minutes of "Avalon" (Part 1) to ''
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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'', and the set of the beginning of Part 2 as a "god-awful Merrie Olde England pastiche straight out of ''
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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''." Plotting and technobabble were mentioned as other detrimental facets of Part 2.
The ninth season of ''Stargate SG-1'' was nominated for several awards in 2006, but won none. "Origin" was nomininated for a
Gemini Award
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in the category "Best Achievement in Make-Up", while both "Beachhead" and "Camelot" were nominated for "Best Visual Effects". "Camelot" was also nominated for a Gemini for "Best Sound in a Dramatic Series". Director of Photography Jim Menard was nominated for a
Leo Award
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in the category "Best Cinematography in a Dramatic Series".
Ben Browder
Robert Benedict Browder (born December 11, 1962) is an American actor, writer and film director, known for his roles as John Crichton in '' Farscape'' and Cameron Mitchell in '' Stargate SG-1''.
Early life
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Browder ...
and
Claudia Black
Claudia Lee Black (born 11 October 1972) is an Australian actress, best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in ''Farscape'', Vala Mal Doran in ''Stargate SG-1'' and Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film '' Pitch Black''. She has had promi ...
were nominated for a
Saturn Award
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in the categories "Best Actor on Television" and "Best Supporting Actress on Television", respectively. ''Stargate SG-1'' was also nominated in the Saturn category "Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series", but lost to
''Battlestar Galactica'', then in its second season.
Main cast
* Starring
Ben Browder
Robert Benedict Browder (born December 11, 1962) is an American actor, writer and film director, known for his roles as John Crichton in '' Farscape'' and Cameron Mitchell in '' Stargate SG-1''.
Early life
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Browder ...
as
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell
*
Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965) is a British-Canadian actress and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian–American military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1,'' ''Stargate Atlantis,'' an ...
as
Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter
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*
Christopher Judge
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as
Teal'c
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* With
Beau Bridges
Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award, Emmy, two-time Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner, as well as a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nomine ...
as
Major General Hank Landry
* And
Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1'' and as Dr Charles Harris in the Canadian medi ...
as
Dr. Daniel Jackson
Episodes
Episodes in bold are continuous episodes, where the story spans over 2 or more episodes.
Home releases
References
External links
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