Fuzzy Thoughts

WARNING: After the double-line, I begin to summarize the series finale, so stop reading at the line if you don’t want to know.

After 10 years of saving the world an innumerable number of times, SG-1 is finally ending. There are only a handful of shows now that are one Sci-Fi that I will be watching that are airing new shows when the new season begins. Of course, I will still be watching reruns of SG-1, but it’s just not the same as watching new episodes.

Speaking of new episodes, part of what was painful about watching this finale was that I haven’t seen many of the episodes of season 10. It’s hard to watch sci-fi shows on a college campus, and since I worked on Friday’s. I hope Sci-Fi airs season 10 episodes again over the summer.

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SUMMARY STARTS HERE:

The start of the episode shows the SG-1 team travelling aboard the Odyssey to meet with the Asgard. They arrive at the Asgard base, and Thor beams aboard. He tells the team that Asgard techs area coming aboard to upgrade and install new Asgard tech on the ship. SG-1 asks why - and Thor informs them that the Asgard, as a race, are dying. The Odyssey will be the Asgard’s final legacy.

After the opening sequence, we see Thor working with Carter to help upgrade the hyperdrive. Suddenly, Ori motherships appear, and begin to attack the Asgard planet, and the ship SG-1 is on. The planet is destroyed; an Ori ship begins to attack SG-1. Using the Asgard weapons, the mothership is destroyed without much of a fight, although the Odyssey takes some damage. General Landry orders the ship to hyperspace.

Col. Carter discovers same strange readings, and they drop out of hyperspace. Then an Ori ship appears, and a small fight ensues, with the Ori ship destroyed. They go back to hyperspace, and Carter thinks that something with the hyperdrive and the Asgard tech is giving away their position. They drop out of hyperspace, and the same thing occurs.

After a quick meeting, they decide to head to a planet where they can beam the crew home. General Landry and SG-1 stay aboard the Odyssey to fight, not wanting the Asgard tech to fall into the hands of the Ori. Three Ori motherships appear, and when it looks like an Ori beam is going to hit and pierce the Odyssey’s hull, Cart engages a time dilation field, that makes it so years inside the field appear to be just split seconds outside.

The next few minutes show Carter trying to recreate some of Merlin’s tech, Col. Mitchell running, Daniel reading some of the information the Asgard left them. Teal’c is organizing the ship’s stores, while being annoyed by Vala, who is rambling on about something.

Another brief meeting, it is learned that Carter’s original plan will not work; nor is will beaming down to the planet, or using the F-302’s to escape. Colonel Mitchell is not happy with this, and General Landry tells everyone to give Carter more time.

Vala wants a relationship with Daniel…Daniel says no, and goes on a bit of a rant about why he doesn’t want to. Vala starts to cry, although she doesn’t let Daniel see it, but Daniel does when he’s done with his rant, and he realizes that Vala is serious. (Mitchell sees Vala leaving Daniel’s room, and you can tell by the expression on his facethat he is puzzled). Mitchell tells Landry that they need to take their chances with the F-302’s, and Landry tells him, flat out, that they won’t, and to not bring it up again.

Carter is sitting at a table, trying to work when Vala walks in and informs her that she wants to help. We see the team eating a meal: Mitchell suggests (jokingly, obviously) having superman fly around the Odyssey. There is a montage: Christmas dinner; Mitchell and Landry playing chess; Daniel consoling Vala; Mitchell going nuts and throwing things; Carter trying several different ideas, only to be told that it is not possible by an Asgard hologram. At the end of the montage, General Landry is an old man, and we find out that it has been 20 years since the time dilation field has been activated.

Carter asks Daniel why he still reads the Asgard information. He says that if he does, he’ll go crazy. Carter says she’s given up. We see Landry is a sickbay bed - he’s dying, and tells a crying Carter not to give up. We see SG-1 at the table, upset, so one can only assume that Landry has died.

50 years have now gone by since the field was started, and SG-1 is sitting down to eat. Carter says that she’s figured out how to reverse time in a localized field - there’s just one problem: they don’t have enough energy left to accomplish it. Mitchell shows Carter the Ori beam, and then Carter figures a way that they can absorbs the beam’s power when it hits them, so that they can reverse time. They can go back to the time when the field was created, but they will lose all memory of the past 50 years. That requires one of the team to stay old so they know what to do. Teal’c volunteers to stay outside the time field. We cut to the room Daniel and Vala share, where he tells her that he wasn’t with her all that time just because they were on the ship

The beam pierces the hull, and the ship is destroyed, but only for a few seconds until the reverse time initiates. Then it is reversed, and we are where it started. Carter goes to hit the time field button, but teal’s stops her and the ship goes to hyperspace. Back at SGC Vala tries to get Teal’c to tell her what happened. She assumes that she had to have had slept with someone.

Walking into the Operations Center, Landry orders Harriman to dial up the gate – its back to business as usual. SG-1 walks into the gate room, all set for the mission. Mitchell says he bet he went a little crazy; Teal’c smiles, but doesn’t say anything. The following exchange then takes place:

DANIEL: You know, Teal’c did tell me some things I learned from the Asgard knowledge base.
VALA: He did? Like what?
DANIEL: Oh boy, what were they…Beggars can’t be choosers. Better late than never. Look before you leap.
MITCHELL: The best things in life are free.
VALA: Let me guess: beauty is only skin deep?
DANIEL Silence is golden.(looks pointedly at Vala, who smiles back.)
MITCHELL: Jack of all trades; master of none.
CARTER: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
VALA: Life is too short. (Daniel looks at her, and Mitchell smiles at her.)
TEAL’C: Good things come to those who wait.

The seventh chevron locks, and the wormhole engages. Landry wishes them good luck, and Mitchell replies that it’s just another mission to save the world. SG-1 then says Teal’c’s signature “indeed” at once, and Landry wishes them Godspeed. SG-1 walks up the ramp, and goes through the gate. Video fades to black, and credits begin to roll.

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Could that comment by Teal’c about how good things come to those who wait be a hint about the movies? I sure hope so, because I will be buying them when they are released.