As uneven as Stargate: SG-1 has been in the latter half of its run, I'm sorry to see it go. It took a more lighthearted approach than Stargate: Atlantis, and that willingness to laugh at itself made up for a lot of the show's shortcomings.
The series finale was, I thought, beautifully done. The tone of cabin fever, determination to preserve the Asgard's legacy, paying off the obvious chemistry between Vala and Daniel, and the simplicity of the direction all worked perfectly. If there was one note they missed, it was Richard Dean Anderson's absence in a story involving the final fate of the Asgard. Given the history between them, Thor's farewell scene should have been with O'Neill instead of Carter. Given the nature of the mission O'Neill would certainly have gone, so perhaps they couldn't get Anderson for the episode.
The series continues in two direct-to-video movies to be released next year. The first, The Ark of Truth, wraps up the Ori storyline, while the other is a self-contained time-travel story called Continuum in which Earth's Stargate program is erased from the timeline. I do loooooove me the time travel stories...
Posted by Peter at June 24, 2007 12:59 PMI agree the wrap-up was well done, and your point about O'Neill being missing was spot on. I do wonder about the implication of all this future-tech for Atlantis, but in a way it finally fully takes off the technology restraints required to keep the two series in sync.
I hadn't heard about the movies. That is seriously cool. I'm somewhat annoyed that they spent the last 8-10 episodes essentially ignoring the Ori storyline, so the movie explains that. I always felt they should have ended in a back-to-back marathon of episodes leading to some grand conclusion of the Ori plot. I want to see some more info on that cool celestial city-world place!
Hopefully the DVDs will be hugely popular and continue on semi-regularly for awhile.
Posted by: Jesse McGatha on June 26, 2007 03:23 PMI have actually enjoyed the entire run of SG-1 (and hope to be writing about it soon), even the more recent seasons. Upping the stakes and the level of the threat each season gets hard after a while, but I find the way the show positions fanatical followers devoted to false gods as our (earth/the U.S) enemy interesting in a show that developed in the 1990s. I totallly agree that O'Neill needed to be in on the end of the Asgard--and I think his response to the cabin fever (and perhaps dealing with his largely still unresolved tension with Sam) would have been much more interesting in the cabin fever section than Mitchell tearing his room apart and jogging. Several things left hanging (or just plot holes)--especially in relation to the Asgard technology (which they presumably have), but amazing to see the final state of the show's universe (and the human position within it) compared to where it started. Definitely looking forward to the movies. Anyone watching Amanda Tapping's online only series Sanctuary (http://www.sanctuaryforall.com/)?
Posted by: David S on July 2, 2007 07:49 AM