# Stargate SG1 - Inauguration (Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909 "2004-03-07T00:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909/1 "2004-03-07T00:13:20Z")
Despite this episode was, for lack of a better term, a clip show. I thought it was pretty good. I love how SG-1 gets has a lot of political drama. I think the new president as well. Mainly because he put Kinsey in his place. That alone was worth watching the whole episode for. Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909/2 "2004-03-07T01:50:07Z")
Of course it was a clip show! Am I mistaken, or didn’t all of the leads (Daniel, Jack, Sam, Teal’c) not even show in this episode, except for the clips? I guess they had the week off. I think that they did a pretty good job, considering it was, after all, a clip show. Pretty interesting. They pushed along the plot pretty well. And this episode leads up well for next week’s show. That’s pretty a good one. Wow. Things really get all shook up, cliffhanger ending and everything. I think that next week’s episode used the storyline that was _supposed_ to be the feature film (but instead they decided to do an 8th season). It has touches of a “feature film” feel to it. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909/3 "2004-03-07T02:07:11Z")
The guy playing the new president (William Devane? Or am I totally off?) was very good, had some good lines. ---
**Author:** ![\_ceQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9bd4f/32.png) [@\_ceQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_ceQueen)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909/4 "2004-03-07T02:24:42Z")
I usually watch religiously, but I missed yesterday’s episode. The fact that it was a clip-show makes me regret it less. I figure, “ah, well.” What I heard was that it makes you hate Kinsey even more but that the Woolsey turns out to be a nice dude. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909/5 "2004-03-07T03:11:49Z")
**yosemitebabe** - Yep the plot of the finale was _supposed_ to be for a feature film. This is what I read on [Gateworld](http://www.gateworld.com) atleast. **RikWriter** - Yep, William Devane is the president. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909/6 "2004-03-07T05:30:17Z")
I like the way SG-1 (the show, that is, not the team) manages to use clip shows to advance the arc plots. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![herwono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9f8e36/32.png) [@herwono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herwono)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909/7 "2004-03-07T06:57:17Z")
What is a “clip show”? ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909/8 "2004-03-07T07:31:25Z")
> [@herwono](#): > > What is a “clip show”? Recycling a lot of material. Usually involves people sitting around and saying things like “Remember when [xxx] happened?” and then showing a clip of the show in which that event happened. In this case, it was an NID study into the (mis)management of the Stargate program. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg1-inauguration-spoilers/232909/9 "2004-03-07T11:15:16Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#): > > Recycling a lot of material. Usually involves people sitting around and saying things like “Remember when [xxx] happened?” and then showing a clip of the show in which that event happened. In this case, it was an NID study into the (mis)management of the Stargate program. Possible spoilers for 7X21: Which, ironically, was practically identical to the one towards the back end of S6 but had precisely the opposite effect. In S6, the consensus is to rework the program but Thor intervenes and stops it; in S7, the consensus is to leave matters as they are but they wind up getting altered anyway.