Cinescape Online Reviews Stargate SG-1's Season 9 premiere, Avalon Part 1 and finds it to its liking.
Could it be that one series has actually learned from the mistakes of another? On April 15, 2001, THE X-FILES aired an episode called "Empedocles" that seemed set to create a new mythology for the Doggett-Reyes era of the series. Abandoning the alien trappings of previous seasons, the story concerned the disappearance of Doggett's son and Reyes's expertise in demonology and the occult. The two notions combined to form a perfect engine that would have easily drive the show in new directions for a number of years to come. Sadly, Chris Carter and company seemed to consider "Empedocles" merely a monster of the week story and Doggett and Reyes were forced to trudge along in Mulder and Scully's footsteps to the detriment of the franchise. Now, STARGATE SG-1 seems poised to explore another mythology in the wake of Anubis's fall.
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