«Awesome series end»
With the team fully back together to fight the Ori in the last season, there was no loss of action and suspense. Although it's nice to see Claudia Black be elevated to a regular cast member this season, there is some lack of depth in the finale episode.
[Sunday, August 15, 2010]
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«A Decent Final Season, but Not the End...»
When "Stargate SG-1" premiered in 1997, it faced a difficult task. As a spin-off of the successful 1994 blockbuster "Stargate", the show had to continue the storyline, premise, and themes of the film. Yet, television and cinema are two completely different mediums and while SG-1 followed its parent, it also had to establish its own identity and spin-off series. But all good things must come to an end, and as SG-1's final season dawned
The final season opens seconds after the Season 9 cliffhanger. The Ori fleet has come through the Supergate and the combined fleet of Jaffa, Lucian Alliance, Asgard, and Earth ships were not able to halt their advance. Now the Ori Crusade marches unimpeded, conquering and converting the Milky Way's worlds one at a time. Outmanned and outgunned once again, SG-1's only hope is to locate the Sangraal, the weapon developed by the Ancient Merlin and which is capable of wiping out the ascended Ori. But the quest for the device is fraught with mysteries and threats both old and new.
The final episodes are generally good, though the Ori arc is rushed as it was meant to continue on into an 11th Season. The highlight of the entire season is "The Pegasus Project", a crossover that sees SG-1 and the "Stargate: Atlantis" team join forces to deal a crucial blow to the Ori. Other highlights include "200", "The Quest", "The Shroud", "Dominion", and others.
[Wednesday, August 11, 2010]
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«Throw Away the Last Episode»
The Stargate series have always been some of my favorite television, and Stargate SG-1 still stands as one of the finest forms of television entertainment today, despite the fact that most of the Milky Way Galaxy and much of outlaying galaxies happen to speak English and be of Anglo-Saxon stock. But to get back to Season 10, this is the final season -- it is the one for whom the bell tolls, so to speak. And though Ben Browder is a royal pain in the patut (obnoxious is the word I was searching for) the writing redeems all but the last episode, which is lame and pointless. To use it to off the entire Asgard race and to kind of wrap up the Oris (kind of) just made it to much.
In fact, what was the purpose in offing the Asgards, anyway. They were a great addition and no one really believes we're ready to be on our own yet, right?
It's a good series, but the good episodes were really great and the bad ones were really awful.
Hallowed be the Ori!
[Friday, June 11, 2010]
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