ESPN Notes SG-1's Cancellation

In one of the more unlikely confluences of modern media, in his column about (American) football, ESPN columnist Greg Easterbrook wrote a long and entertaining “essay” about Stargate and the cancellation of SG-1. He pilloried the show quite severely, but his knowledge of the races and ships of the Stargate universe could not have been gained by a “casual” viewer. For example:

If these shows are winding down, I’d better get in my Stargate complaints in while I still can. Here is generic Stargate dialogue that could be inserted into any episode, at any point:

ANY CHARACTER: We’ve got to tell the Asgard what the Gou’ald said to the Tokra about the Ori.

ANY OTHER CHARACTER: But the Jaffa don’t want the Tau’ri to know what the Athosians found out about the Genii.

COLONEL CARTER: The gate-room plasma generator has gone into neutron overload! It’s causing a baryonic antidecompensation feedback loop that will release 100,000 terrajoules of dark energy and fold the entire Earth into a single wave packet! (She pushes a bunch of buttons really fast.) OK, everything’s fine now.

Read the entire piece here at ESPN. Scroll down a bit more than half way to get to the Stargate portions. Enjoy!