As a whole this show is rather mediocre, especially the first season is rather dry most of the time. Still enjoyable, but there are a few particular reasons why I watch this in the first place: Several (minor) Stargate Alumni have guest appearances. Well, it's shot in Canada, what's to expect? Amanda Tapping even directs some episodes and Brad Wright writes some of them. The quality improved in S2 as well since they got more involved in this. The lead-in in the first episode, MacKenzie Porter, was a clever choice, she's acting the brain damaged girl very well (not sure if accurate, though), a character that is very complex as it turns out and is gorgeous. The character David, played by the very likable Patrick Gilmore, the most selfless and caring dude you can imagine. The chemistry between Gilmore and Porter acting together in scenes.
Getting a backstory centric episode for Marcy was something I longed for ever since I watched the first episode. And here it was, with almost all those reasons mixed in one episode. We now know that Marcy basically fell for David the moment she walked scared, alone and confused into him (David complimenting her name and her smiling was so freakishly cute). We got to know that there's soo much more to her character and why she was who she was at the beginning of the show. That she wasn't born with that condition but made. Whereas that was entirely unexpected. All while David was by her side helping her. Makes those characters even cooler. Best episode in this series and one of my most favourite of all shows this year. Even after all those years, Brad Wright knows how to deliver a damn great episode.
Review by ds1BlockedParentSpoilers2017-12-13T16:47:03Z
As a whole this show is rather mediocre, especially the first season is rather dry most of the time.
Still enjoyable, but there are a few particular reasons why I watch this in the first place:
Several (minor) Stargate Alumni have guest appearances. Well, it's shot in Canada, what's to expect?
Amanda Tapping even directs some episodes and Brad Wright writes some of them. The quality improved in S2 as well since they got more involved in this.
The lead-in in the first episode, MacKenzie Porter, was a clever choice, she's acting the brain damaged girl very well (not sure if accurate, though), a character that is very complex as it turns out and is gorgeous.
The character David, played by the very likable Patrick Gilmore, the most selfless and caring dude you can imagine.
The chemistry between Gilmore and Porter acting together in scenes.
Getting a backstory centric episode for Marcy was something I longed for ever since I watched the first episode.
And here it was, with almost all those reasons mixed in one episode.
We now know that Marcy basically fell for David the moment she walked scared, alone and confused into him (David complimenting her name and her smiling was so freakishly cute). We got to know that there's soo much more to her character and why she was who she was at the beginning of the show. That she wasn't born with that condition but made. Whereas that was entirely unexpected.
All while David was by her side helping her. Makes those characters even cooler.
Best episode in this series and one of my most favourite of all shows this year.
Even after all those years, Brad Wright knows how to deliver a damn great episode.