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At the risk of seeming out of touch with the science-fiction community, we say: Huh? The two-hour premiere is sort of fun, but the plot is nutty even by sci-fi standards.
There was an appropriately makeshift feel about most of the script: like any MacGyver device, it was a terrible mess, but in its clumsy, unconvincing way, it did the job.
It's hard to imagine who could effectively replace the complex Mr. [James] Spader in one of his best roles, but in any case, his absence tips the story's balance between thoughtfulness and violence in the wrong direction.
Hard-core fans of the movie may be impressed, but first-time visitors to the Stargate probably won't be. The TV pilot, like the theatrical film, is long on hardware and gunplay and short on logic.