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Robert Isbell
01/11/09

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it showed the estimated splashdown north of the Hawaii Islands, bub. You need to go back and re-learn your geography.
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Meredith Woerner
01/11/09

@Robert Isbell: well I couldn't go back and watch it at the time! So thanks for clearing that up!
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RRich
01/11/09

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As much fun as it could be at times, SGA was really SG-1 Lite.

Maybe an SGA movie will be a better series-ender but I'm not holding my breath.

Pick up The Ark of Truth DVD for some genuine Stargate goodness.
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Shiryu
01/11/09

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I will surely miss SGA in the comming weeks. Let us see what SGU will bring to the franchine...
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tuacker
01/11/09

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"Like a group of Austrian brothers and sisters tired from a long night, the SGA crew assembles on the balcony overlooking a world unaware of just how close it came to being Wraith slaves."

Where the hell does this reference come from? Just asking :)
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Meredith Woerner
01/11/09

@tuacker: sigh. "So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, goodbye" they were gathered on the balcony like the von Trapp Family.
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twophrasebark
01/10/09

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They should have had an epilogue:

Todd becomes a real estate broker in San Francisco.

Ronon becomes famous as a reality TV star after winning every Survivor contest for an entire season.
Rodney becomes Obama's science advisor.

Sheppard joins the Las Vegas PD.

Teyla Emmagan returned to be with the Athosians and no one cared.

Woolsey became a blogger.
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Meirelle
01/10/09

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Of course, I didn't watch this yet. I have it chilling on my computer. But I just HAD to click on the link here. :( Meh. That's okay. I wasn't expecting it to be all that great. After all, SG-1's last episode wasn't that great. But I am looking forward to the SGA movies. the Continuum movie brought back everything that was awesome in SG-1, so I'm hoping an SGA movie will have something like that.
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twophrasebark
01/10/09

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I heard they didn't have enough notice about the cancelation in order to prepare for a really big finale.

Personally, I've heard some people say Vegas should have been the finale and I think they might have been an interesting way to go. Just add a few minutes from the last episode and that could lead into a kickass movie.

I don't know where you'd go in a DVD movie now that Atlantis is Earth bound.
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Erinaceus
01/10/09

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My only disappointment is that they land in San Fran Bay, and no one notices because of the cloak. I would have loved to see Universe begin on the fallout of the public seeing a giant city flying through the sky, then landing in a very public place.
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Meredith Woerner
01/10/09

@Erinaceus: That would have been very funny!
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Harrison_Bergeron
01/10/09

@Erinaceus: Wouldn't landing such a massive object in the bay cause one heck of a storm surge?
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Erinaceus
01/10/09

@Harrison_Bergeron: They managed to cover it up somehow anyway.

It's Stargate... don't think too hard about it.
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twophrasebark
01/10/09

I think most people in San Fran would be pretty non-plussed.

Plus, do you know hard it is to get an apartment in SF Atlantis would add a lot of real estate.
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twophrasebark
01/10/09

And I think Todd would be a pretty good real estate agent.
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grime
01/10/09

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that was a lot of venom. why bag on atlantis on it's final episode??

fans understand it's flaws. it's like slagging BSG for being too dark an depressing: obvious and misguided.

the worst part for me is that i love where it left off: a giant alien city sitting, invisible off SF bay, so many good stories could spin out of that!

my favorite part: when the team over hears sheppard talking about nuking the hive they're on!
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Meredith Woerner
01/10/09

@grime: Really a lot of venon? I think I highlighted both the bad and the good and there were handfuls of it both. All in all I was truly sad to see it go, just wanted it to leave with a better bang.
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BullfightsOnAcid
01/10/09

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It's pretty much acknowledged that McKay is the best character on SGA but the second best character in my opinion is Todd the Wraith. He's got some of the best lines and he's kick ass too. The episode where he singlehandedly takes down the crew of the Daedelus when he thinks they've betrayed him was awesome. The SGA team held it against him but I think he was completely justified in his actions. The best episodes this season were ones that had Todd the Wraith. It's too bad that they add this great character to the show only to have it end.
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redbess
01/10/09

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I got the chance to watch this a couple weeks ago and have been stewing ever since. I knew the show got canceled after this episode was written and that they didn't plan on doing anything differently just because it was the series ender and not the season ender.

Ronon's death just lost its tragedy because I knew he wouldn't stay dead, though I loved the look on Shep's face when Teyla told him. All I could think was, "Chewie's dead?"

I was also disappointed in the sparing use of Todd. Best bad guy ever, seriously. Just so amusing.

I'll give it a C grade. It was what I expected, and sometimes I want more than I expected, especially when this is the last ep (I know, I know, TV movies).
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Meredith Woerner
01/10/09

@redbess: i was very sad to see Todd being used so quickly and carelessly. But it was still good to see Todd all in all.
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