I start this post in a foul mood. It seems there is now no option but to upgrade to the new Google account Blogger if you want to continue blogging. Call me backwards, but I was perfectly happy with the old one.
I suppose I have no major gripe with the new service – it looks pretty much the same – but I have countless abandonned ID’s littered around the web i’m sure, and having to create another one is a pain. Not to mention how long it took me to switch – the blogger site seems to be slower, in the end I logged in with FireFox. I haven’t bothered with any of the new features, though from what I can see Blogger is going the same way as MySpace with all the clutter. Geez…
**Stargate SG-1 – Spoiler Warning**
So I’ve finished watching Stargate SG-1 season 8. I have to say it felt like a bit of an anti-climax. There are still seasons 9 and 10 to go (season 10 being the last season I beleive) but, although it’s not clearly stated at the end of season 8, ‘Jack O’Neill’ (Richard Dean Anderson) has left the series. I understand he comes back for a couple of episodes in seasons 9 and 10 but it’s not the same.
The real ending to Season 8 should have been episodes 16, 17 (Reckoning parts 1 and 2) and 18 (Threads), in which the Replicators and the Goa’uld are both defeated. Anubis appears to have been defeated, and the Jaffa finally have their freedom. Again, it’s not clearly stated, but it appears that Jack and Carter finally get together (they are fishing beside his log cabin at the end, lol).
But that’s not the end of the season – Episodes 19 and 20 (Moebius parts 1 and 2) sees SG-1 and O’Neill travelling back in time to Egypt 3000 BC to steal a Zero-Point Module (a power source for the Ancient defence system in Antarctica). This is also the period where Ra is still on Earth (Remember O’Neill kills him on Abydos in the feature film).
SG-1 manage to steal the ZPM but Ra’s forces find the time travel ship. Unable to take it back for fear of changing history, the team leave the ZPM and a camcorder recording in a canopic jar in a tomb they know will be excavated about a month prior to their mission to go back in time – still with me?lol
The recording describes events as they should happen, however the timeline has been changed – the Stargate was never discovered (as Ra took the gate when he abandoned Earth), Daniel is teaching English as a second language, Carter never joined the airforce, O’Neill is still retired from the military, and Teal’c is still first prime of Apophis. Following the recording found on the tape, the Airforce brings them all in – O’Neill rather reluctantly – and they eventually track down the second Stargate buried in Antarctica.
They travel to Chulak where they are captured by Apophis – as happened to the original SG-1. They manage to convince Teal’c to join them, however Daniel Jackson is implanted with a Goa’uld forcing them to kill him (Just like Kawalsky was in ‘Children of The Gods’). Unable to escape back through the Stargate (they do not realise that the ship can cloak), they travel back in time to 3000 BC and then back to Egypt on Earth via the Stargate.
They meet up with the original Daniel Jackson, only to discover that the original O’Neill, Carter and Teal’c were killed when they led a previous uprising against Ra. To fix the timeline (so that the Stargate is discovered and the SGC and SG-1 are formed) the original Daniel Jackson and the Alternate members of SG-1 plan to instigate a further rebellion and bury the Stargate where it will later be found.
The plan succeeds, prior to which alternate O’Neill and Carter express their feelings for each other. They live out the rest of their lives in Egypt. Present day SG-1 find the ZPM and tape as buried before however the descriptions on the tape are now true, meaning that the timeline has been restored and since they have the ZPM they do not need to go back in time. Confusing huh?lol
The final scene is that of Carter and O’Neill fishing outside his log cabin, with Daniel and Teal’c arriving to join them – identical to the scene from ‘Threads’. However, in a twist, O’Neill from the tape had said “There are no fish in my pond”, whereas the present day SG-1 witness a fish leaping out of the water. O’Neill comments “Close enough”.
It’s a bit of a mind-bender! I still wonder why the alternate SG-1 attempted to fix the timeline, since it’s not their future and surely there are lots of alternate realities? What about the present day SGC that SG-1 left to go back in time? Would that timeline continue or has it been scrubbed because they changed the past? The episode implies the SGC never happened because of the changes, but surely that means it just didn’t happen in one reality? My mind is melting down trying to work it all out!lol
Anyway, it was a good conclusion, if a little backwards – I think the last two episodes should have come before Reckoning and Threads, although I suppose these two episodes didn’t really happen since after ‘Threads’ the team didn’t need to go back in time anyway…aargh!
So there are still seasons 9 and 10 to come but I think season 8 is the end of Stargate for me. SG-1 would not be the same without Jack O’Neill and Season 9 intoduces a new enemy – the Wraith – but i’ve seen some of the episodes and it’s too much like Stargate: Atlantis, the spin off series. It just seems like it’s moving away from it’s Egyptian roots. The Goa’uld have been defeated and the Jaffa are free, that is enough for me.
End of an era.
February 26th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Ah, yes I agree, new blogger isn’t much different really. I put it off for as long as I could.
Incidentally, there’s nothing wrong with myspace (unless you’re addicted..) – its like a social networking thing. Its more about music and stuff really – basically almost every major band and a lot of new stuff is signed up with myspace and you get the benefits of finding out when their next gigs are and stuff.
Also they have countless organizations – like London Feminist Network, Fawcett Society, Riot grrl stuff etc. I’m not addicted to it (unlike sarabee who seems to be on it every moment she has spare…) – and yes it does seem to be addictive for a lot of people :-S
But I tend to just use it as a social tool when I want to find out the latest from LFN and other women I know from feminist blogging etc. Anyway, yes to many people it seems like just the new latest fad thingy but then a lot of people would say blogging is the new latest fad thingy!
Aww about Stargate. Seems like it’s perhaps dragged on a bit too much – sometimes I wonder if Charmed had gone on for longer if I would still want to watch it. Inevitably with series, things do drag on and aren’t always as fresh as they used to be. Like at the end of the X-Files, it changed people and it didn’t seem the same any more really!
xxx