The Stargate Finale

Well, that's that, at least until the movies come out.

It was an interesting finale episode. It ranks fairly high on my list, which is good. We watched it with El Burrito crying in the background - he was very tired, but absolutely refused to go to sleep.

So. Spending most of the episode in a time dilation bubble was an interesting way to go. However, the suspense of "will they get out of the predicament" was spoiled by SciFi's promo for the next season of Atlantis, which told us that Major Carter was moving over to Atlantis. Which means, therefore, that she can't be stuck in a time dilation bubble while decades pass in "real" time. So, the only real suspense left was how they got out of the bubble.

I am very sad that the Asgard are gone, and that we weren't allowed to witness their ending. (It reeks of the Enterprise finale, where too much time was spent yammering about a speech that we only got to hear the first sentence of.) I loved the Asgard, and the Stargate universe without Thor is just a sad thought. Another sad thing is the complete lack of Jack O'Neill in the finale.

The Daniel/Vala relationship was not a surprise, after their past interactions. Daniel's remarks to Vala, though, were a bit harsh. Mitchell's double-take was priceless. I missed the reason for the extra-small crew on the ship; it would have been nice to have more people, but then the focus wouldn't have been on the main cast. Sam playing the cello, Landry having a green thumb. I must have missed what Teal'c did in his spare time.

Makes sense that Teal'c would be the one to stay outside the time-reversal bubble. His longer life span makes it more logical; we knew it couldn't be Carter (the Atlantis move) or Landry (already dead). That just left Mitchell, Vala, Teal'c, and Daniel. The other logical part is that, given the movies, Teal'c was the only one that could age without dooming an actor to extensive time in the makeup chair.

Nothing on the Atlantis finale; we missed parts of it and haven't rewatched the tape yet. Only thought so far: it's nice to see Jewel Staite working again.