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Stargate SG1 Series Finale

posted June 28 2007, 4:06 am by Timeshredder

Category: TV Series

Jethro writes, The Stargate: SG1 era comes to a close in what, to me, was a fairly weak and disappointing episode. What did you all think?

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I was upset

posted by Eldhrin on June 28 2007, 5:07 am

Not because it was ending, but because the Asgard are now extinct and they barely mentioned it. I think they deserved at least four or five episodes. I really hope they talk more about this on Atlantis next season, because it's changed things significantly. Or it should have, anyway. Especially with all the Asgard knowledge they now have.

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Re: I was upset

posted by IronHelix on June 28 2007, 9:03 am

Not because it was ending, but because the Asgard are now extinct and they barely mentioned it. I think they deserved at least four or five episodes. I really hope they talk more about this on Atlantis next season, because it's changed things significantly. Or it should have, anyway. Especially with all the Asgard knowledge they now have.

I agree. They wasted a good 5-7 episodes this season with filler episodes, which I can't understand given that they knew it was their final season (why not do a nice 5-6ep arc and close all the loose ends?).
So now the Asgard are all gone, presumably Earth managed to get their database back safely, and what else? I remember reading there will be a miniseries to wrap things up farscape-style, but this was still brought about way too fast. This should have at least been a double episode.

Ah well,

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Re: I was upset

posted by Damien on June 28 2007, 10:12 am

They wasted a good 5-7 episodes this season with filler episodes,

That has always been my main complaint with SG1, too many fluff episodes. Compare SG1's history of a good 5-10 fluffers per season vs BSG's 1 or 2 maybe - uh, I want compelling stories, not ST:TNG junk in another guise.

Damien

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Re: I was upset

posted by quantaman on June 28 2007, 10:52 am

They wasted a good 5-7 episodes this season with filler episodes,

That has always been my main complaint with SG1, too many fluff episodes. Compare SG1's history of a good 5-10 fluffers per season vs BSG's 1 or 2 maybe - uh, I want compelling stories, not ST:TNG junk in another guise.

Damien

Well that was part of the reason for Stargate's success. Episodes that don't really push the overall plot make the show a lot more attractive to casual viewers and are probably why it was able to last a gazillion seasons.

However for the finale itself I think the main problem was they had already eliminated all the big threats, the Ori were dead and their army isn't nearly as threatening without godlike beings behind it, the daughter was dead or ascended, and the gauld were long gone as a credible threat. The episode had an interesting literary slant (contrasting their response dealing with a seemingly inevitable death to the Asgard's) though it didn't have the intensity, nor the resolution, that one normally expects from a finale.

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Re: I was upset

posted by Damien on June 29 2007, 2:06 pm

However for the finale itself I think the main problem was they had already eliminated all the big threats, the Ori were dead and their army isn't nearly as threatening without godlike beings behind it,

But if they Ori have lost their main power structure (i've not seen the ep yet), is the proposed TV movie just going to be a battle against somewhat equal forces?

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Why post this now?

posted by crow on June 28 2007, 5:50 am

Didn't the series end months ago?

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Re: Why post this now?

posted by jesusX on June 28 2007, 8:15 am

Didn't the series end months ago?

Nope, the Series finale aired June 22, not quite a week ago.

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Re: Why post this now?

posted by grundil on June 28 2007, 8:20 am

Didn't the series end months ago?

Not in the US, but they're a little behind the times ;)

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Weak

posted by pdavis on June 28 2007, 11:13 am

I agree, it was very weak. Had it been in the middle of the season, I would have thought it was a very weak filler episode.

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If I understand this correctly

posted by y42 on June 28 2007, 11:41 am

The US Airforce gets a stargate, and within ten years they have exterminated two ancient, powerfull races, and brought another to it's knees?

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Re: If I understand this correctly

posted by Jethro on June 28 2007, 12:12 pm

The US Airforce gets a stargate, and within ten years they have exterminated two ancient, powerfull races, and brought another to it's knees?

"We" were instrumental in defeating the Goa'uld. Ra knew that humans from earth were a threat way back in the movie. It was more the appearance of humans with high tech equipment that was not made by the Goa'uld that helped spark the Jaffa rebellion, and the fact that humans managed to contact the Asgard, and the fact that humans were able to bridge the gap between the Jaffa and the Tok'ra. All of that, combined with the new insight and strategies brought into the fight by the humans of the Tau'ri, are what tipped the balance.

That said... the Goa'uld System Lords may have been defeated, and Anubis may be occupied indefinitely, but there are still Goa'uld out there!

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Meh

posted by Jethro on June 28 2007, 1:20 pm

I'd have liked the last ever episode of Stargat:SG1 to deal with something OTHER than everyone's attempts to stave off BOREDOM.

Course, I realised later on that night that all the SFX budget went to Atlantis.

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Not good

posted by TwistyHat on June 30 2007, 6:26 am

"weak and disappointing" sums it up perfectly. But then that generally goes for the series as whole, it was never clever scifi just superficial fluff.

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