Let's Review Stargate SG-1 Hathor

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Some Stargate SG-1 episodes push the story forward. “Hathor” mostly trips over itself — and in doing so, reveals just how early the show still was in figuring out what it wanted to be.

Often labeled one of Season 1’s weaker episodes, “Hathor” introduces the first Goa’uld queen in a way that raises more questions than it answers. Sexual coercion is treated as a plot device, male assault is ignored outright, and the women who ultimately save the day are repeatedly sidelined or diminished. Female competence is present — and even essential — but then softened, contained, or overshadowed, as if the story isn’t quite comfortable letting it stand on its own. What’s meant to feel provocative or playful instead highlights how shaky the show’s early instincts were — especially in what it chooses to dwell on, and what it rush ...