Despite this episode was, for lack of a better term, a clip show. I thought it was pretty good. I love how SG-1 gets has a lot of political drama. I think the new president as well. Mainly because he put Kinsey in his place. That alone was worth watching the whole episode for.
Any thoughts?
Of course it was a clip show! Am I mistaken, or didn’t all of the leads (Daniel, Jack, Sam, Teal’c) not even show in this episode, except for the clips? I guess they had the week off.
I think that they did a pretty good job, considering it was, after all, a clip show. Pretty interesting. They pushed along the plot pretty well.
And this episode leads up well for next week’s show. That’s pretty a good one. Wow. Things really get all shook up, cliffhanger ending and everything.
I think that next week’s episode used the storyline that was supposed to be the feature film (but instead they decided to do an 8th season). It has touches of a “feature film” feel to it.
The guy playing the new president (William Devane? Or am I totally off?) was very good, had some good lines.
I usually watch religiously, but I missed yesterday’s episode. The fact that it was a clip-show makes me regret it less. I figure, “ah, well.”
What I heard was that it makes you hate Kinsey even more but that the Woolsey turns out to be a nice dude.
yosemitebabe - Yep the plot of the finale was supposed to be for a feature film. This is what I read on Gateworld atleast.
RikWriter - Yep, William Devane is the president.
I like the way SG-1 (the show, that is, not the team) manages to use clip shows to advance the arc plots. Well done.
What is a “clip show”?
Recycling a lot of material. Usually involves people sitting around and saying things like “Remember when [xxx] happened?” and then showing a clip of the show in which that event happened. In this case, it was an NID study into the (mis)management of the Stargate program.
Possible spoilers for 7X21:
Which, ironically, was practically identical to the one towards the back end of S6 but had precisely the opposite effect. In S6, the consensus is to rework the program but Thor intervenes and stops it; in S7, the consensus is to leave matters as they are but they wind up getting altered anyway.