RDA played Jack O'Neill to perfection, he was dramatic, serious, silly, funny, every emotion possible in every combination and I just love him for that!
It is really good, for me its more about the characters, values, history, etc. People just see the blood, sex, and cursing. It is alot better than you think.
This guy is so much fun, he cracks me up every time. He is indeed the key character of the series. He and Hammond. He also reminds me of someone I knew years ago. - Whatcha doing? - Probing your mind. - Kinda roomy innit?
you can see almost every time he cracks one the other characters smile / laugh, cause he just improvised those lines and actually made the actors break character for a second
I'm 90% Convinced Stargate was ad-libbed in its entirety. The cas was always saying This scene was improv, that scene was improv This actor went of script ect ect
@@razorcloud1 because they owned the characters so well haha, they had the original script they adapted the character, and after that point you know the character better than the writers, thus their job is to set up the scene and what the general gist is of what you have to say, and your job is to figure out what your character would actually say. so in a sense it is ad -libbed a little
@@xenonnati The characters' job is to figure how the other characters would react, the writer's job is the to figure out what each character would say and how the others would react, so that they could continue writing the script .....
Aw cmon, you missed the best one. Jack giving a speech to everyone "You all know im not a man of many words..." Asgaurd abruptly abducts him with teleportation
@Wenzel Massag No I just watched this episode, its the one where Carter is promoted to major and they negotiate with the Gouald to put earth in the protected planets treaty.
Yes. :) I liked that the jokes were not everything, though. One of my favorite O'Neill moments was in the episode "The Other Side" where their host makes a comment about how Teal'c is "not like us" and Richard Dean Anderson played the sudden transition to the "there's something badly wrong here" expression brilliantly.
I like the one-liners and the jokes, but at the same time, I'm annoyed that they slowly moved away from the fact that O'Neill is Spec Ops. I feel like that they moved so far away from that fact that when people saw him in Universe, they forgot this dude ran SPEC OP missions and even went as far as to compare the things he's done in those missions to what Teal'c Did as a former First Prime. Maybourne even takes potshots at him, mocking him for trying to act high and mighty when he's got a lot of blood on his ledger.
The most hilarious part of Jack O'Neill is that he's actually quite brilliant but he bases his life off of the old saying, "Don’t take life too seriously! Nobody gets out alive anyway." Impudence! No, tuna.
I'll be as succinct as possible. :D SHEPPARD: We’ve got a plan, sir... a good one. O’NEILL: Yes, Colonel, I’m sure you do. But in the unlikely event you don’t fail miserably, you’re fired. SHEPPARD: Yes, sir. ... Look forward to that.
I remember the: "hello Merlin", "oh yes mm-Merlin" lines, they cracked me up so much, that had to be ad-lib, c'mon, you can't script that the way they delivered it, classic Stargate, awesome.
One more - "What were you doing in the flooded sections of the city?" O'Neill: The backstroke....." "What are you planning....?" O'Neill: Well I was planning to retire but man is that overrated...."
I don't know how many people realize that a lot of Jack's lines where ad-libs from RDA any not in the script. That man had a way about him that's for sure.
@@NinaFelwitch That was part of the requirement for him taking the role of Jack, that they let him make Jack what he wanted him to be and they did a great job with letting him do just that.
You missed the best one. Woolsy: "He put his hand in my forehead! How can you resist that?" O'Neill: "Well, I like to close my eyes and think of England."
you can never go home again. Never capture that feeling of watching Star Gate: SG1 for the first time again. They just don't make shows like it anymore. And TV is worst off because of it.
It is still on the air --- literally. It is on the over-the-air channel called Comet. It comes on after "Battlestar Galactica." You need an antenna to see it. Comet TV is not on cable or satellite. Check your local listings if Comet is in your area.
"You're just mad because you didn't get to fly the maiden voyage."......O'Neill: "I am quite fond of both maidens and voyages." LOL....Jack was the best. RDA rocks.
I have to admit he has some of the best lines every written for a character. I loved the direction they took the character over time and the scenes they came up with. I think it all peaked with the time look episode where he an Telc were in that loop over and over and over and they realized they could do anything. LOL
Probably because most of them weren't written. RDA was notorious for his improvising on set. You can see it in how the characters react, he's constantly cracking them up. I'd love to get some of the old SG-1 scripts just to see what was actually intended of his lives.
My only sadness about that joke is it would have been an amusing call back to the time Baal held Jack captive when he said he didn't know what that word meant.
Oh, there are lot of Scifi shows that are as good... I also loved Atlantis, Frascape, Battlestar Galactica, each unique in humour and good actors. BSG is especially close to my heart, showing that human valors degradation over time, when there's no hope in the future... So depressing, yet so true... showing how much we humans need a good purpose in life.
One of my favorite comments came in the episode "Proving Ground." This is when Cadet Haley and several other young Air Force Cadets were undergoing training to get assigned to one of the SG groups to go off world. O'Neill and Carter were in the mess having something to eat and going over the new cadets. Carter was going through the cadets getting O'Neill's ideas. When she got to Cadet Haley O'Neill's comment was "A four foot-nine fighting machine." Haley is a character I think they could have done a lot more with especially after O'Neill was promoted.
I have zero problem with mitchell but promoting carter to lead and bringing in haley, Lorne or mitchell in a junior role would have been excellent too.
Jack was the shining star in the night sky of anything and everything Stargate. No character since has matched his wit and charm. I miss all 6 members of that show (Jack, Daniel, Sam and Teal'c, along with Hammond and Doc Fraiser).
@@thedashingstache5993 That's the medic from Starcraft 1 yo .... O wait yeah, it's also voyager come to think of it.... huh... Nvr put those 2 together
Though the Stargate shows ended years ago, we still watch it For the characters, stories, world building, space battles and ground fights. For the moments that were serious, heartfelt, lighthearted and of course, comedic..
His adopted Nigerian twin brother, maybe. He apparently studied professional wrestling under Marcel Marceau during his three decades with The Second City. Plus, that “Half-Season strangling chickens for “The Muppet Show””, looks great on any resume. What?... really, with a Wr? Disappointing.
Wonderful, I will watch them often, I think it is excellently done, I haven't laughed this much in years, one has to love O'Neill's kind of humor... Thank you so much :D
Like your videos. This last one is especially good because it contains a lot of the later scenes for Richard Dean Anderson/Jack O'Neill. I own and watch (over and over) seasons 1-8 of SG1 because those were RDA's main seasons. So it's good to see the parts he played in the later seasons too. Jack O'Neill = the BEST hero in all of TV Land.
Stargate SG-1 is my all time favorite Sci-Fi show, would be my all time favorite show if not for MacGyver. I have watched the whole 10 seasons at least 6 times now, and I still love watching it. The casting of all the main characters was absolute genius, because they all fit and played the parts to perfection. I love the whole Stargate universe, but SG-1 is the best overall.
Bei mir hat Alles mit MacGyver angefangen und ich habe mich anfangs garnicht getraut, RDA in einer anderen Rolle anzusehen...aber nach ein paar RU-vid-Clips war ich nicht mehr zu halten....und jetzt immer im Wechsel
The “oh yes… mErLiN” gag is so good, it’s just perfectly out of context so it looks like a army dude and some random guy with a skin condition spouting a ancient dudes name. (I know the context but I like thinking without it it’s great)
Started watching this on Showtime,long before it ever got to scy-fy..One of my most favorite series.All of the spin offs were watchable,but had a ways to go to equal sg-1.Anyway,all shows end eventually,was sorry to see this one go.
his character wasn't written like this, but he was just him, like in RL. That's why he left because his natural funny character didn't fit in to the serious part of Stargate. But actually I found him very funny and made me laugh. After he left I wasn't amused to watch SG any longer.
well, perhaps this was a good reason (for leaving), too. But I really think he kind of grew old and physically unfit for the role of a military guy. Just like Sean Connery in his last Bond movie. The only difference that Connery made that bad joke movie, and Colonel MacGyver didnt go on with SG1. He or some1 else in the team just knew it was over. It was sad but OK, and he was fit to be a general and I dont know the real life personality of him but his character is definitely the best ever.
István Sipos if you watch his interviews you can see he's 100% the same person like in Stargate. So I think he was not acting. At least he tried to, but he failed, because all this Sci-Fi wasn't his thing. That's why he always made jokes about Daniel and Sam's complicated theories. :)
shows such as StarTrek, Stargate, and early GOOD Dr. Who, set the bar for what a series should be formed and played out as. movies such as Lord of the rings, harry potter, Shrek, spy kids, super troopers, Spirited away. all set bars for series, and future developments. that are all still known today for great movies. 2001. was one hell of a year.
Don't mean to be that guy but... Missing from the two-parter where the Replicators commandeered Atlantis: "That's sounds more like a Plan F. As in we are totally..." His best line from the SGU pilot: "By 'lawyer', I assume you mean 'mother'."
Richard Dean Anderson is 68 now. Still going strong, I hope. Thing about being a bit older is all the people you loved, respected and admired for so long are quite a bit older than you. It is great having enjoyed their work all these years, though.
