[Omega_Prime]

Ruatha

I respect your opinion, but let me take a snip from the show.

Te'alc: I have read of female warriors doing battle in an arena of Jello.

O'Niel: (Cocks his head, taken a little aback, then nods) I'll call Daniel.

If there is another sci-fi show written at the maturity level of Boston Public, or even a scifi show with that kind of warm humor and chemistry between the cast members, I am just missing it.

At best, I have seen scifi have one, or the other. B5 certainly had the maturity of good drama, but no warm humor. STNG tried to have the warm humor (Q puts the crew in the role of Robinhood type bandits and Worf spits out, "I am not a merry man!") but never had mature writing.

Case in point, the crew:
Worf, the only Klingon in the Federation, on the bridge, an empath...on the bridge, an android...also on the bridge, a guy so "blind" he can see more than we can....started on the bridge, akido master Tasha Yarr...yep...bridge, Wesly the boy-god...16..on the bridge...DRIVING, and the tactical genius that came up with the "Picard Manuever" as the captain, and in the bar...a bartender that makes Q nervous. It was the X-Men in space! One "special person" is enough for good scifi. Deep Space..same thing. Shapechanger, simbiotic crewperson, a messiah, a being of pure data in the computer core...

Most of today's interplanetary scifi goes that rout. A crew of SuperBeings in space, with super toys, and a mysterious member "from parts unknown". It is so over-done, it has a set format. You can plug almost everyone of the above into Andromeda and find the counterpart.

Not so with SG1. It is people that bleed, love, and laugh. The closest they have to a cliche is Te'alk. (That one special person)

Also, I think the Jack O'Neil character is the complete reverse of McGyver.

1. McGyver would never pick up a gun. O'Neil will never put his down.

2. McGyver was brains. O'Neil is brawn.

3. McGyver was the problem solver. O'Neil has never been the one to figure something out.

4. McGyver - Hippy. O'Neil - Military.

I will say that Richard Dean Anderson has political views that border on socialist, and the better actor on the show by FAR is Christopher Judge.