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General Synopsis:
After the events of the movie, Stargate Command has mothballed the gate program and assigned a skeleton crew to guard over humanity's greatest discovery. As time lingers on the remaining personnel grow lazy in their responsibilities only to have an alien incursion spring up out of the blue. Bewildered by previous events the powers that be re-recruit a retired Colonel from the US Air Force known as Jack O'Neill(that's with two L's) to explain how in God's name aliens have breached the gate when they were reported dead by the previously mentioned O'Neill.

Determined to never allow such a threat to be once again achieved, soon to be retired, General Hammond prepares a Mark V nuclear bomb to go through the gate. O'Neill, shocked by such a turn of events, is forced to come clean and inform the General that the people of Abydos are not dead and in fact the once believed dead Dr. Daniel Jackson is very much alive. Playing to General Hammond's better nature, O'Neill convinces Hammond to make contact with Abydos. After Abydos acknowledges, O'Neill, along with his previous team(along with Captain Samantha Carter, who has reproductive organs on the inside), venture forth through "thee old orifice" and reunite with the Dr. Jackson and the people of Abydos.

Meanwhile Apophis, an ancient alien of the Goa'uld race, searches for a new host for his queen. Unable to locate a proper host, Apophis invades Abydos for a female suitable for implantation. While in search for the new host, Apophis's First Prime(most trusted and capable slave) selects a most attractive female from the people of Abydos. The female selected by Teal'C(the First Prime) happens to be the wife of Dr. Jackson.

After returning to Earth with the wounded, O'Neill and Jackson request that they be allowed to pursue the enemy Apophis in order to regain the kidnapped Sha're, who becomes the new host of Apophis's queen. After permission is granted the team embarks through the gate only to be captured by Apophis's ground forces. Taken to a holding room with people taken from other worlds the team faces death as Apophis has ordered them to be executed. As they face the execution squad, O'Neill pleads to Teal'C to help him save the innocent. Doubtful of his God, Teal'C aids the band of Humans to escape the clutches of Apophis and return to Earth.

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My views:
The first episode, in what proves to be an outstanding series(and franchise), Children of the Gods part 1&2 are an exceptional first step into an amazing Science Fiction world. The episode sets the stage for Robert C. Cooper's vision of a band of brilliant humans to face and fight the God's. I appreciate the fact that the producers didn't try to jump the shark and have the people of earth become some super SciFi superheros with special abilities magically achieving the impossible. Instead they had the team of intergalactic explores be the same as what any of us could achieve either through intelligence or training.

Over a decade ago I stumbled onto this show on Showtime and have faithfully followed it until the end of Stargate: Atlantis when the franchise left behind the storyline created for SG-1 and Atlantis and decided to embrace a different feel with Stargate: Universe. It has been an amazing ride and I'm thankful to MGM for allowing the creation of the show. Thanks for reading and I hope you'll read my following reviews of other episodes as time goes on.

ALL FEEDBACK IS APPRECIATED. THANKS.

Hands down the best series ever. I have scene them all and there is no discussion or argument that could ever dissuade me to think any other series comes close to the characters, stories and believe it or not the humour of Stargate.

So how do they reproduce. The series is inconsistent. In Children of the Gods, Skaara is taken to be host for Apophis and Aumanet's (sp)son. Later on, Hathor is 'mother' of all Goa'uld as Egeria is mother of all Tokra. So... can it both? Not for the Tokra since they are facing extinction I believe.I love the 1st ep as it sets the tone for the rest of the series. I love Shank's impression of Spader. (I prefer nerdy Jackson, to macho Jackson) Tapping's Carter is so-so with that horrific 'internal plumbing' line but gets better. Quickly. Its always a darn shame a TV series can't equal the big feel of the movie, even just extra-wise so a movie population of 5000 isn't pared down to a town of 50.

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