By Jonathan Klotz
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A decade before the MCU redefined Thor and the Asgardes, Stargate SG-1 Ran with the idea of Thor and the Nordic gods as extraterrestrials, and in the context of the science fiction franchise, it worked. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” was a quote from Arthur C. Clarke, but it was the basis of the introduction of Thor into the MCU, letting “magic” be introduced years later by Dr. Strange. The series did not waste time to broaden the mythology of its universe beyond the Egyptians, and in season 1, presented the Asgardes as the good counterpart of Goa’uld, even after Daniel broke the Hammer of Thor.
The Thor hammer
Broadcast as episode 10 in Stargate SG-1 Season 1, “Thors’ Hammer” begins with Teal’c (Christopher Judge) Mention a planet to which the Goa’uld would never go, represented by the symbol of a hammer, which apparently confirms the theory of Daniel (Michael Shanks) on the Nordic gods being extraterrestrials. Called Cimmeria, the crew mission on the planet is immediately bad when the large stone hammer, apparently adored by the inhabitants, unleashes a beam that zero on Teal’c, injuring it and then carrying it and colonel Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) to a dark labyrinth. Daniel and Sam (Amanda Tapping), left outside, learn that the labyrinth is a trap designed to kill Goa’uld, which normally would not be a problem, except that Teal’c hosts one of the stranger symbiotes.
Stargate did not waste time showing how dangerous the Asgardians would end up at the power of the Hammer of Thor, who was able to keep an unas, revealed to be the host of Ruax, a goa’ulld sublocked, one of the oldest beings in the galaxy. The power of the Asgardian weapon maintained the unus trapped for a very long time until Teal’c and O’Neill, working together, managed to kill him. But to save Teal’c, Daniel, in one of the best moments of season 1, receives the weapon of Jaffa staff to destroy the Hammer of Thor, which saves his friend but condemns Cimmeria to Goa’uld if they ever learned the weapon were destroyed.
Asgardians inspired another myth
It is an amusing autonomous episode, considered one of the best of the first seasons, written by Katharyn Powers, the same woman behind “Emancipation“The worst episode of the franchise, and has planted the seeds for subsequent seasons. In a torsion, Stargate SG-1 Perhaps shown a version of Thor in the Viking costume in the labyrinth, but when the stranger is finally seen, it becomes clear that they have inspired another legend on earth: the gray. Asgardians look like the famous gray alien And were even part of Roswell’s incident.
Stargate SG-1 It is clear that Thor, the supreme commander of the Asgard fleet, was a gifted tactician, up to one point, because he was constantly caught by the “primitive” tactics of the Stargate command. It is far from the version of the MCU, played by Chris Hemsworth, although the reimagination of the Asgardians when the extraterrestrials have proven to be a success, it is difficult to imagine a hyperintelligent gray extraterrestrial which drags with the Avengers. The first mention of the Asgardians is also just a little taste for the importance they would become in the next galactic war, and as with so many other parts of the franchise, Stargate knew how to play long game.
