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Hub Issue 51
April 24, 2008
# Reviews: Kethani, Stargate SG1 - Gift from the Gods, Dr Who s4, Ep3: Planet of the Ood
REVIEWS
SG1 – Gift from the Gods reviewed by Alasdair Stuart
Big Finish, £9.99 – http://www.bigfinish.com
Launching Big Finish's range of Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis audios, this slots neatly into established continuity and still manages to tell a story in its own right. It also manages to sidestep both Big Finish's traditional full cast audio dramas and also the slightly dry readings that a solo performance can normally be.
Instead, this is a story recounted in flashback by Daniel, a means of him coping with the events he's lived through and as a result, what we hear seems far more immediate, far tighter focussed than normal.
Opening with Daniel waking up in his lab with no memory of what happened, it soon becomes clear that something has gone very badly wrong. Everyone in the SGC blacked out at the same time, no one knows why and to make matters worse, the Gate is jammed open and on the other side of it is...the SGC. As Daniel and his team mates watch the other SGC come under sustained attack from the Goa'uld, they must try and figure out what's real, what's constructed and what role an object SG1 returned from their last mission with plays in events. But not everyone will make it out of this puzzle alive...
**snippage**
That being said, this is still a consistently impressive and coherent piece of storytelling with some moments of real emotional impact. Consistent with the original series, frequently funny and with enough big ideas to keep even the jaded listener interested, Big Finish couldn't have hoped for a better opening to their series.
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