Merkuri
Explorer
So, over the past few months I've had the opportunity to watch all ten seasons of SG-1 in order through Hulu, and absolutely loved it. (For anyone else who wants to do the same, I believe all ten seasons will be available until April.) I had seen bits and pieces of this show in the past but for various reasons was never able to see any episodes during their first airing, so while I had a good feel for what the show as about I never had the chance to fully appreciate the overarching plots the way somebody can who sees all of the episodes in order.
(Spoilers for the last season ahead. If you haven't seen the last episode of SG-1 and don't want to be spoiled, read no further.)
Just last night I watched the finale, "Unending", and I have to say that this was an awesome way to end the series. Even though the Ori plot is still left somewhat hanging (I heard they finished it up with a movie, but haven't seen it yet) there was a sense that they could overcome what was left without much effort. The hard part had been done.
I just loved the name of the episode, too. It had a double meaning of referring to the unending quality of spending 50 years on a ship stuck in a time bubble and the fact that the Stargate program still goes on, even after the series is done.
The fact that the Asgard just up and died within ten years of meeting Stargate Command felt a little rushed, but it did set up some very nice tension. When Landry suggested they evacuate the ship and self-destruct it I actually gasped out loud. The fact that they would even consider destroying all that was left of an extremely old and advanced race shocked me. Not in the "all that advanced technology gone to waste!" sort of thing but the "the Asgard would have lived for nothing!" sort of thing.
And the very last part of the episode where they walked through the gate for the last time (for us, but not for them) actually made me tear up a little. That could have had something to do with the fact that I spent all that day stressed out because I was packing to spend a week at my parents' house three hours away, I had to pick up my sister from the airport on the way at quarter to 11 at night, and we had just had a big snowstorm and I had no idea what the roads would be like (and in the end it turned out I didn't have to go that night and am leaving later today), but I'm going to say it had more to do with the fact that I had been enjoying watching ten seasons of this show over the last few months, and while I knew there were movies and spinoffs I had not yet seen (and more to come, I'm sure) there would never be another SG-1.
Kudos to the whole SG-1 team. You guys did good!
Edit: I forgot to put this part in when I first posted, which is silly because it was the whole reason I wanted to post here, and now there doesn't seem to be a good place to insert it anywhere in my original post, but I kept wondering through the whole episode why they didn't just take the time to repair the shields. I got the picture that the only reason that frozen beam outside was deadly to them was because their shields were gone. The most obvious course of action to me seemed like it should be to use the time bubble to repair the shields and any structural damage to the ship so that they could withstand that blast and keep fighting. Heck, you could probably even freeze time again and do it a second time if they kept finding themselves on the losing end of the fight.
I'm sure there was a reason why this couldn't be done, but I wish they had just mentioned it. Like Mitchel saying, "Why don't we just repair the shields?" and Carter shooting it down with some techno babble the way she did to Vala's "Why don't we just go back in time?" suggestion (though, yes, that turned out to be the solution). Heck, you could even say that the beam is too close, and it's already past the range of the shields. See how easy that would've been to explain away?
(Spoilers for the last season ahead. If you haven't seen the last episode of SG-1 and don't want to be spoiled, read no further.)
Just last night I watched the finale, "Unending", and I have to say that this was an awesome way to end the series. Even though the Ori plot is still left somewhat hanging (I heard they finished it up with a movie, but haven't seen it yet) there was a sense that they could overcome what was left without much effort. The hard part had been done.
I just loved the name of the episode, too. It had a double meaning of referring to the unending quality of spending 50 years on a ship stuck in a time bubble and the fact that the Stargate program still goes on, even after the series is done.
The fact that the Asgard just up and died within ten years of meeting Stargate Command felt a little rushed, but it did set up some very nice tension. When Landry suggested they evacuate the ship and self-destruct it I actually gasped out loud. The fact that they would even consider destroying all that was left of an extremely old and advanced race shocked me. Not in the "all that advanced technology gone to waste!" sort of thing but the "the Asgard would have lived for nothing!" sort of thing.
And the very last part of the episode where they walked through the gate for the last time (for us, but not for them) actually made me tear up a little. That could have had something to do with the fact that I spent all that day stressed out because I was packing to spend a week at my parents' house three hours away, I had to pick up my sister from the airport on the way at quarter to 11 at night, and we had just had a big snowstorm and I had no idea what the roads would be like (and in the end it turned out I didn't have to go that night and am leaving later today), but I'm going to say it had more to do with the fact that I had been enjoying watching ten seasons of this show over the last few months, and while I knew there were movies and spinoffs I had not yet seen (and more to come, I'm sure) there would never be another SG-1.
Kudos to the whole SG-1 team. You guys did good!
Edit: I forgot to put this part in when I first posted, which is silly because it was the whole reason I wanted to post here, and now there doesn't seem to be a good place to insert it anywhere in my original post, but I kept wondering through the whole episode why they didn't just take the time to repair the shields. I got the picture that the only reason that frozen beam outside was deadly to them was because their shields were gone. The most obvious course of action to me seemed like it should be to use the time bubble to repair the shields and any structural damage to the ship so that they could withstand that blast and keep fighting. Heck, you could probably even freeze time again and do it a second time if they kept finding themselves on the losing end of the fight.
I'm sure there was a reason why this couldn't be done, but I wish they had just mentioned it. Like Mitchel saying, "Why don't we just repair the shields?" and Carter shooting it down with some techno babble the way she did to Vala's "Why don't we just go back in time?" suggestion (though, yes, that turned out to be the solution). Heck, you could even say that the beam is too close, and it's already past the range of the shields. See how easy that would've been to explain away?
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