Lazy Television 101

Ostensibly, this post is about Stargate Season 6. But more than that, it is about the scourge of episodic television, the Clip Show. Surely whatever executive or producer or writer first invented this will be condemned to eternities of watching family ties reruns. While tiny diseased rats nibble on their extremities with habenero-dipped teeth. But I digress.

The only thing worse than the Clip Show itself is the dreaded first-season clip show. (Hint: with only one season, you haven't earned the right to even think about this degree of laziness. If your season is a short, pay-cable 13-episodes long, may you be struck dead if it even begins to cross your minds. And yes, this means you, Dead Like Me.

Anyhow, Stargate went to the Clip Show well in this otherwise good season, and actually did a decent job at it, as the new content outweighed the clips by a large amount and it managed to advance not one but three seperate plot threads between the clips. Not quite as good as a good Fake Clip Show (see South Park or Fraiser), but head and shoulders over the one they did on Star Trek (The Next Generation).