Unusually, Stargate SG-1‘s fifth season didn’t end on a cliffhanger. That’s because Showtime had axed the show, and the Sci-Fi Channel picked it up for season six. Presumably, they didn’t want to launch their run with the second part of a story; they wanted a big new tale instead. So it’s an all-action starship runaround with lots of corridors and lots of bad guys, which is fine by our son, because that’s what he likes best and he enjoyed the blazes outta this one. Anna-Louise Plowman is back, and we finally get to meet Anubis, who is a robed and hooded figure who seems to have a black, shimmery portal instead of a face.
As to the “revelations” of the title, there’s the ugly one about Anubis having access to some far superior tech that nobody’s encountered before, and also something grim about the Asgard: they’re dying. They’re a clone race and they’ve reached the end of their genetic line. So Earth started this season with three powerful, if unreliable, allies. The Tollan have been wiped out, the Tok’ra have been decimated, and the Asgard are on borrowed time. Kind of a bad time for Anubis to show up with powers and weaponry far in advance of anything anybody else has, but a great point to end the season.
That’s all from the Stargate universe for now. We like to mix things up to keep them fresh, so this is going back on the shelf, but we’ll resume with season six in late March. Stay tuned!