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Placeholder for the final TV episode of the longest regularly-running American Sci-Fi series. Tonight, SG-1 and company attempt to paralyze the entire Ori fleet with the help of an Asgard time dilation device.
The episode is not a cliffhanger, but has ened up being the de facto ender. We'll see how it pans out!
Whatever SG-1 is doing, one wonders why Landry has centre seat on the Odyssey. Did they leave in a hurry? usually they put the CO in a jumpsuit... Shouldn't he at least be wearing his bomber jacket?
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I'm having trouble too. For an unplanned series ender, it's perhaps the most appropriate, well-done series ender I can think of since "All Good Things...". Wonderful character piece, with tons of arc developments and giant space battles to boot.
I *will* get around to it... It'll just take a while for the emotional impact to settle in.
And Mark, you're dead right, it's up there with AGT.
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Did we really like it that much? I don't think I did. The season-ender where Vala sacrifices herself to blow up the super-gate was cooler and in my opinion, had higher emotional stakes. Was this sprung on them out of the blue that the season could be over? Did they have a couple more eps planned and then plugs pulled to make the movies?
I was looking for some sort of punctuation for the series end. This wasn't even a comma. There were some things I liked, but it didn't end the series for me. It was, I felt a good mid-series episode with a corn-ball ending tacked on replete with a parade of (ironic?) clich�s.
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I wouldn't call it mindblowing or anything. There's no great apocolyptic showdown or galaxy wide conflagration, as some might wish for. However given the relative short notice I imagine they had to make this a show ender and the fact they had to cram it into a single episode instead of the traditional two parter, I think they did very well and it was a very nice character piece. Shanks especially got to stretch his acting legs with an outburst that I don't think we've ever seen coming from Daniel in 10 years!
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I guess maybe I never got the full scoop on what happened at the end here. I mean with the cancellation and now there will be movie(s). Anyone care to summarize?
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The show had just finished airing the first half of the season. It was the mid-season break and they were filming the second half. The word came down from on high that an eleventh season wasn't ordered and SG-1 was cancelled. There was a search by the producers of the show to get either an eleventh season with another network, big screen movie(s), or TV movies. No other network seemed to want to take on SG-1; either that or Sci-Fi stepped in first and said that it would greenlight two direct to DVD movies with the potential to be aired sometime.
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I heard that sci-fi actually stepped in and PREVENTED them from going to any other network.
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Well after 3 months sitting on my harddrive - I finally watched "Unending".
Wonderful.
I was a bit upset to see bx not liking it - I don't know why - it's his opinion - but I just would think - who could not like this as an ending to a series. It was character driven not explosion-based. It was brilliant. They all had their acting moments. It was subtle, yet devastating. It does Indeed rank up there with All Good Things... and it's not a SAD (for the fans) ending - because as much as I stopped myself from watching it cause it was the last SG1 ever - I'm glad I finally watched it - it was just another episode, y'know - but it summed things up nicely - maybe not plot lines etc but it showed SG-1 as a family. I loved the scenes around the table.
I *ADORED* the look on Sam's face when she replicated the Cello - brilliant. I was generally shocked that it took them so long to accomplish the task. When we saw them all old - I mean firstly General Landry but then all of them.
I really loved the effect seeing Carter play the cellow through the window outside of the ship.
I wonder what Daniel DID find in the Asgard databanks - could he not have given a piece of paper to Teal'c to take back with some of the more important points?
One thing they sort of did away with the Asgard pretty quickly - we know they were on the way out - but it was like "see-ya" BOOM! Couldn't they have at least attacked the Ori Vessels before self-destructing? Does ANYONE think there is ANY chance that they haven't REALLY gone - maybe hiding like the Nox? POSSIBLY the Ancients help them to Ascend?? They did say that they didn't have the physiology to Ascend and that they preferred to extend their life through artificial means - but I presume that the Ancients did that themselves with all their medical technology?
Will Teal'c be affected in combat now - I mean Bra'tac can still fight with the best of them.
I really was touched by this episode. It ended nicely - I rather liked the 'sayings'. The full cast 'indeed' was a touch corny - but really great. I find myself saying that sometimes anyway!
I also liked it because it was a sense of "off into the sunset" on another mission at the end... like it's not really an END per se, and we all know there will be the movies.
Thankyou Stargate SG-1 I've loved every minute of your show. Wow - 10 years went by so quickly!
Andrew
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Does ANYONE think there is ANY chance that they haven't REALLY gone - maybe hiding like the Nox?
I'm hoping that somewhere hidden in all that data the Asgard left behind are at least a few Asgard minds, sort of an insurance policy should the Tauri ever work out an answer (we can, after all, think outside the box in a way the Asgard simply can't). I'd hope the Asgard would have had the sense to leave the minds of a few of themselves there so that sometime in the future they could be reborn...they never struck me as a species that would simply give up.
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