i be not great at write review and so i will just spout my opinion . i love this series at first . the adventure and the action and the comedy and the drama . i think it be all brilliant . anderson and tapping and shank and judge and davis . i love them all . davis and it seem and be the fifth most important person in the cast . not a big deal . but when his character ( general hammond ) leave at the end of the seventh season and and anderson character ( colonel oneill ) move from the field to the office and the quality of the series suddenly fell off a cliff . i do not know whether it because hammond be more important that i realize or what and but for some reason and after the seventh season and the series turn to . the first seven season and though and be awesome . the movie stargate seem mediocre the first time i saw it and but it turn out to be and even if this wasn not the original intention and a brilliant setup to the series . i recommend that you watch the movie first and then watch the first season of the tv series and then watch the movie again ( you will have a whole new appreciation of it the second time around and believe me ) and and then watch the rest of the tv series . the last three season of the series aren not nearly as good a the first seven and but that doesn not mean they aren not good . it just mean theyre a letdown if you have get spoil by the first seven season . after you have finish this series and be sure to watch the spin off series and stargate represent atlantis . it be a worthy successor to this brilliant series . edit on 7 18 08 represent i just find out that don s. davis die a few week ago . it be a great loss .