Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #938 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-02-05
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: Greek, Dutch, Hindi
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 833 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Considering most television series tend to fizzle out in their first few seasons, for Stargate SG-1 to have endured so long is no small feat at all. For it to have endured, and still be able to throw up convincing new ideas and surprises even at season nine is really something special.

But that’s just what Stargate SG-1 does. And in spite of the fact that Richard Dean Anderson’s O’Neill had moved on, and despite the fact that Ben Browder’s Mitchell valiantly tries but ultimately fails to fill the gap left behind, the show still has plenty of gas in the tank. There are some very strong episodes here, and while the season as a whole does take a little time to get going, the likelihood is that, come the customary end-of-season cliffhanger, you’ll have enjoyed a very good series of a rightly long-lasting show.

Season nine, though, marks the penultimate series of Stargate SG-1, which finally ends with its tenth run. And, to be fair, there are a few signs littered throughout this ninth series boxset that there’s only so much left in the well for the show’s creators to explore. Yet this is still very good, highly enjoyable science fiction entertainment, and one that’s leaving quite a void behind it now it’s left our screens. --Jon Foster

Synopsis
The continuing adventures of the SG-1 military team, which sees them undertaking missions across the universe through the stargates, encountering various alien creatures and cultures on their journeys. Series nine finds Colonel Jack O'Neill coming out of retirement to join the SG-1 team on a secret mission. The mission involves contact with scientist Daniel Jackson who possesses a map of the galaxy signifying the presence of numerous Stargates, which may enable the SG-1 to move through the universe in time.

Customer Reviews

All change at the SGC
With the majority of the Goa'uld defeated during the previous season this ninth season sees the rise of a new threat to the galaxy in the form of the godlike Ori. This season also sees changes to the main cast with Richard Dean Anderson leaving the main cast and new faces in the shape of Ben Bowder, Claudia Black (both from the excellent Farscape) and Lexa Doig (from Andromeda) joining the show on a regular or semi-regular basis. This change in cast could have been quite terrible but thankfully Ben Bowder more than fills Anderson's shoes as Lt. Col. Mitchell, the new leader of SG-1, and all the other new additions to the cast also fit in very well.

The storyline of this season is good, with the defeat of the Goa'uld last season it was inevitable that a new galactic threat was going to be introduced and the Ori are an interesting addition to the Stargate universe, even if they are a rather thinly veiled critic of religious extremism.

There are many good episodes from this season and as a whole it has a many more good episodes than many of the previous seasons. The Ori plot arc is present to a greater or lesser degree in virtually all of the episodes and this gives the season a nice sense of continuity. My favourite episode from this season has to be the excellent `Babylon' which sees Mitchell captured by mysterious Jaffa isolationists and has a nice Last Samurai fell to it.

Despite it continuing for more than nine years by this point, this season of Stargate still feels fresh and I think that much of this has to do with the new cast that have been added this year. The writing and acting are all still above the average for a genre show and Stargate as a whole only gets better and better. I can only hope that the tenth and final series continues this trend.

Fantastic as always!
Stargate SG1 goes from strength to strength in season 9, With new characters & new enemies!
Overall season 9 is very very good, but on watching my DVD's I noticed that the running order of episodes has been messed up slightly. On the box episode 9 is 'The Forth Horseman', but in fact it should be 'Prototype' which is shown as episode 11....

Reveals "Atlantis" To Be The Pathetic Clone It Really Is!
Having sat through the ATROCITY that was the first season of "SG Atlantis" I was literally terrified of buying "SG1-9." After all, I knew enough to realise that the next series of SG-1 would (for all intents and purposes) be another spin off.

Hammond and O'Neill had both left the series, The Goauld and the Replicators had both been defeated, the Jaffa had won their freedom...

SG-1 as we knew it was done.

The writers would need to go back to the drawing board, creating new characters, a new enemy and a new story line from scratch. And oh boy did they deliver, in spades, on time, thirty minutes or less!

During the first two-part episode of course, I was more than a little thrown by the writers trying to pass off popular Arthurian Legend as being based in fact (But then again, how much mythology do most Americans actually know?) and the constant flashbacks to "Prove" that Mitchell was a hero. But in the end, these quibbles were quickly forgotten as the true storyline kicked in.

Lt. Colonel Michell (Played by Ben Browder) is such a spectacular character that you soon forget all about O'Neill. General Landry (Beau Bridges) is equally good, and the new base physician Dr Lam (Lexa Doig) does a great job of filling Dr Fraiser's boots.

Even Vala (Claudia Black), a character who I originally despised with every fibre of my being was eventually given depth and soul by great acting and wonderful writing

The new enemy, "The ORI" are terrifying and EVIL in every sense of the word. Almost every storyline is connected to every other as part of the overall plot. The cast regulars are as brilliant as ever. And so whilst every series has its flaws and its drawbacks (half a dozen episodes & storylines that are pure filler), this series of SG-1 thoroughly deserves five stars.