So, this was the final episode of Stargate: SG-1 that went directly to a DVD release. After Ark of Truth, I was hopeful that this would be a nice ending to the series, a decent sendoff.
Instead, it sucked. I mean, it was great to see O’Neil and Hammond again, I love those guys, but seriously, time travel? To wrap up the series? I was so disappointed. And too many plot holes as well. Not that the show has ever been uber-consistent, but some of the stuff was just plain stupid.
I liked it well enough. Really the Ark of Truth was the resolution to the Ori storyline, so I wasn’t expecting more resolution here - this was more of a stand alone adventure. What kind of extra resolution were you hoping for? It was a nice contrast to the other alternate timeline with Ra, where the government was fairly cooperative with the mission whereas in this one they were fairly suspicious and non cooperative. It was also cool to see Vala as her former Go’ould self. Daniel’s amputation was a storyline that came out of actor availability issues or something, but it made the story more interesting. I think most of the sub crew were real military, and I heard two of the crew died shortly after filming. I don’t think this is the last movie, I think it sold well enough to do more, although they might concentrate on Atlantis now, or hopefully, so somekind of crossover DVD since Atlantis is on Earth now and the Wraith threat hasn’t been resolved.
I’m not sure I was looking for more resolution, just a nice sendoff that didn’t make all of the secondary characters into obstacles.
One of the main things that got me was Baal walking around without one of those hand-device things that has the shield on it. That’s pretty much standard equipment for Goa’ould, and he just walked onto the ship without it because it enabled a nice wrap-up ending.
Oh, and “Jack O’Neil, Special Forces” really got me, because Special Forces is part of the US Army, not the Navy or Air Force. Special Operations is the multi-disciplinary unit that might conceivably be in that area.
I disagree that it was a nice digression…let’s take a setting that’s completely familiar to everyone and make it completely unfamiliar for what could be the last episode of the series. It just wasn’t satisfying to me at all. Most of the secondary characters, Hammond, Landry, O’Neil, felt like they just walked on and said their lines instead of actually being part of the show.
While I like anything Stargate, I agree that this movie really didn’t make a lot of sense in the overall story line. It’s best to just think of it as a movie that happened sometime in the 9th or 10th season, rather than afterwards.
I did like the behind-the-scenes talk about how cool they all thought it was when they went to the Arctic. I thought even less of Michael Shanks for not going. While I like his character, I’m not really fond of his actions as an actor.
Still I hope to see more in the same universe mostly because I just love the characters. Although I’ve stopped watching Atlantis. I mostly just watched it after SG-1 on Friday, without that lead in, I’m not as interested.
Yes that was stupid. Even more stupid was the fact that they had the Stargate upright instead of prone. You don’t put a tall, narrow, box on it’s side were it can easily fall over and crush something. I’ll give the producers a pass since it would’ve made it impossible to SG-1 to survive showing up in the alternate timeline. Ba’al would’ve know to shoot grapling hooks through first, but SG-1 would’ve just fallen back into the event horizon and disintegrated.
They’ve done the whole “alternate timeline with no Gate program” too many times before. Something original would’ve been nice.
Especially since I think the gates were made of Naquida, which is extremely heavy. But you’re right, the alternative would be for the gate to face downward, which would imediately capsize the ship as well as have everyone coming through killed.