This is great to know! Though if you do a little research it’s pretty to easy to watch Stargate chronologically without screwing up too badly.

The only problem is that this news story will disappear off the main page after a few weeks and then newbies will start ask in the forums again.

@TwiceBorn I agree and the viewing order is not that hard to figure out. I would say to save 2010 and watch it just before 2001.

Shouldn’t they include the new Stargate:Atlantis movie in there?

How To Get Started Watching Stargate…

My answer is at:

http://www.compuvision.info/stargate.html

Here’s why I came up with it and what it’s main focus is:

Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson were talking about Stargate on Security Now! Episode 156 (and Leo and Colleen were also talking about Stargate on the August 8th Ultimate Gaming Machine program on TwitLive.tv) and I was shocked to discover that Leo was a Stargate newbie. I wanted to offer up the attached page, which I have sent to many other people over the past few years, as a way to help Leo and anyone else get to the good parts of Stargate, with as few painful early episodes as possible.

You could watch Stargate from any point, but it really is worth watching from the beginning. While their mythology is not perfect, often times it does appear that they are setting up concepts and storylines five years in advance. Especially with Stargate SG-1, they tried to not let any story go to waste – it built on what came before it and would be referenced again at a later point.

Stargate SG-1 suffered from the miracle of being picked up as a series, then thrown into production. As such, many of the early episodes were just crap. I wanted to like it, but I really couldn’t stand it and stopped watching during season one. (I did see the season one finale, but even that wasn’t enough to draw me back in, because I had already missed almost all of the few good episodes of season one.) It wasn’t until I saw enough really good episodes five or six years later, as reruns, that I wanted to go back and really understand the whole thing. The purpose of this guide is to spare you from most of that early crap.

The golden era for Stargate was from the end of Season 7 of Stargate SG-1, with episodes Inauguration and The Lost City, parts I and II, until the end of Season 8. This included all of Season 1 of Stargate Atlantis.

When people would ask me when this show takes place, I’d say “today”, as in the day it was aired. For those three years that we had both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis on the air, the storylines where not only continuous within each series, but critical elements would jump back and forth between the two series. It wasn’t required that one watch both series, but there certainly was extra value and deeper understanding when one did. When you get to the overlapped years, I’d recommend interlacing the episodes to match the original airing dates and times.

For more information, see http://www.GateWorld.net.

Okay… I am getting a little tired of everyone saying that the first few seasons of SG-1 were so bad. SG was the best show I’ve seen that showed the evolution of where we are and the process of getting the cool space tech. However, as I know there are some eps that are hard to watch with not much reward, I will give a brief listing of the first few seasons as a guide…

-Season 2-
THE SERPENT’S LAIR – Good!- Second half of the finalle
IN THE LINE OF DUTY – okay – introduces the Tok’ra
PRISONERS – eh… SG1 locked up and escapes
THE GAMEKEEPER – Funny! – the A-Team’s Murdock as the Keeper is good
NEED – okay – Daniel drunk on the sarcophagus
THOR’S CHARIOT – Good – meet the asgard!
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE – ehh, has some more carter/oneil warmth
FAMILY – eh, save Teal’s son, not much else
SECRETS – eh, honey, I’m home!
BANE – eh – Teal’c becomes the fly
THE TOK’RA 1 + 2 – good, Jacob Carter, intro of Sam’s first byfnd to die
SPIRITS – funny – Indians in space!
TOUCHSTONE – eh, the first rogue NID
THE FIFTH RACE – Great! – asgard, Anciet revealed, super O’neil, 8th chevron, … If you skip the others catch this one
A MATTER OF TIME – what do you get when you cross a black hole with a wormhole… A damn good ep!
HOLIDAY – not bad – Daniel being funny…
SERPENT’S SONG – eh, Aphophis is dying… let’s move on
ONE FALSE STEP – crap, stargate’s ode to the enviroment
SHOW AND TELL – crap, “I see scarry monsters.”
1969 – Good – the first Stargate timetravel
OUT OF MIND – eh, the first future ep, sorta

-Season 4-
SMALL VICTORIES – Good! – Carter’s dumb idea is to destroy the Oneal, funny!
THE OTHER SIDE – eh – send in the clones
UPGRADES – good and funny – Super SG1
CROSSROADS – eh – Teal’c gets a girl… briefly
DIVIDE AND CONQUER – eh – Carter/oneal, and Carter’s Black widow effect begins
WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY – Funny! – and the winner of the comedy category for SG1 goes to… seriously if not the funniest, one of the top 5!
WATERGATE – okay, Russians have the beta gate and screw it up
THE FIRST ONES – okay – hey there are aliens that don’t speak english!
SCORCHED EARTH – eh – nothing major
BENEATH THE SURFACE – eh – everyone has their memory’s erased, Carter/ONeil
POINT OF NO RETURN – eh – What happens when your paranoia is right?
TANGENT – good – shows we really had a learning curve with alien tech… another example of the kind of story they couldn’t do after we build ships.
THE CURSE – okay – Daniel’s school reunion – at least Sarah/Osiris is good looking
THE SERPENT’S VENOM – eh – Teal’c is tortured, again.
CHAIN REACTION – eh – there’s a new boss in town… the first naqudah bomb
2010 – GOOD! – one of the best Future Eps
ABSOLUTE POWER – good – what could go wrong if we get what we want, future ep
THE LIGHT – eh – Whoa! trippy… Stargate’s “Drugs are bad” ep
PRODIGY – eh – Carter, the next generation
ENTITY – eh – AI is bad
DOUBLE JEOPARDY – eh – fun with doubles ep
EXODUS – Good – Fun with black holes and blowing up a sun