It's a good question and my answer for it does change. I sort of see SG-1 in three stages.
The early seasons (1-3 or 1-4, sometimes 5 if I feel like it) were top notch for me. I especially liked 1-3 because of the team feeling, though S4 was hilarious and full of some good conflict.)
I enjoyed S5-7. Season 8 was pretty awful, but if I would have ended it, I would have ended it there. I liked how they ended on a team note.
There were aspects of Season 9 and 10 I liked, but they strayed too far from the basis of the show. The actors seemed to not really be offering their best performances. And it just didn't make much sense - so much tell and not enough show.
If you watch the series as a whole, you can see a definite decline.
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This was my fave show ever until SPN surplanted it.
I have the same feelings with this show. I found the early seasons (1-4) to be pretty solid and interesting, where the character felt real and the stories were intriguing. The mythology didn't bog down the series.
In season 5-7, they allowed themselves to experiment more and some of my fave eps of the series come from this time. (Same with SG-1, actually.) However, the characters started to loosen up too much where I started seeing more of the actors than the characters.
S8-9, not my thing. I watched S8 and I rather enjoyed Doggett but S9 was so bad (in my eyes) that I quit and only came back for the finale.
How about you? You brushed upon it in your comment.
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The early seasons (1-3 or 1-4, sometimes 5 if I feel like it) were top notch for me. I especially liked 1-3 because of the team feeling, though S4 was hilarious and full of some good conflict.)
I enjoyed S5-7. Season 8 was pretty awful, but if I would have ended it, I would have ended it there. I liked how they ended on a team note.
There were aspects of Season 9 and 10 I liked, but they strayed too far from the basis of the show. The actors seemed to not really be offering their best performances. And it just didn't make much sense - so much tell and not enough show.
If you watch the series as a whole, you can see a definite decline.
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X-Files:
This was my fave show ever until SPN surplanted it.
I have the same feelings with this show. I found the early seasons (1-4) to be pretty solid and interesting, where the character felt real and the stories were intriguing. The mythology didn't bog down the series.
In season 5-7, they allowed themselves to experiment more and some of my fave eps of the series come from this time. (Same with SG-1, actually.) However, the characters started to loosen up too much where I started seeing more of the actors than the characters.
S8-9, not my thing. I watched S8 and I rather enjoyed Doggett but S9 was so bad (in my eyes) that I quit and only came back for the finale.
How about you? You brushed upon it in your comment.