Yeah Ernest, the rural, somewhat "primitive" societies could be like that (because they were relocated anyway, so maybe they just never grew and differentiated). But the advanced ones? No way. You simply don't get advanced enough without enough people around, and that's the sad truth. You could become advanced then have a population crunch, like these people supposedly suffered. But there's no way you get advanced with a small population.It's definitely one of those things where you have to look at it and say, "Eh, this is TV!"   See 3 other replies

Thats due in part because almost every planet they go to has only one (relatively small) village of people who all believe the same things and share the same society except when the storyline calls for something different. We live on a planet of mass proportions and different countries/nations. Could you really see another PLANET so uninhabited especially where the people are just as advanced (or more) as us. Think about the amount of populations they offer to relocate. They always bring people to earth first, then find and go to the relocation planet. The SGC base cannot hold a planet's worth of people. Now that I've said all of that... this is TV.   See 3 other replies

It's a small chapel, actually. Pause at 42:20, see white building in the background. Notice top of belfry. Oops, they should have used a shallower Depth of Field to blur the background.   See 2 other replies