Friday, June 22, 2007

Series Finale

Tonight is the final episode of Stargate SG-1.

The show has been running for 10 years. It was never on a network channel, so a lot of people missed it.

This was a great show. The premise was that there were tons of Stargates all around our galaxy, that were put into place by a race of Ancient people. Humans are their descendents.

The show took off from the movie, which starred James Spader and Kurt Russel. Ex-McGyver, Richard Dean Anderson took Kurt Russel's role, and Michael Shanks took James Spader's. The movie was a lot more drama & action. The series had a LOT of comedy in it. That's what made it so endearing to me.

The photo below shows the current cast, since Richard Dean Anderson retired to be able to spend more time with his family. Looks like he does a cameo for the finale however.

I think Michael Shanks gets some kind of award for being "dead" and then coming back to life more than anyone else on TV Daniel Jackson on Wikipedia. For a while there, he was out of the series, because his character had (like the Ancients) ascended to a higher plane of existence. But he came back (yay!). Daniel was my favorite character.

Apparently Amanda Tapping (with the series from beginning to end) will continue in the spin off Stargate-Atlantis, which is starting its 4th year next season, I think.

I'm going to miss this one, however. This was one of those shows the whole family would watch together with popcorn. Since SG-Atlantis was right after SG-1, we'd kind of have a little double-feature going.

A little trivia - Christopher Judge (Teal'c) with the golden seal thing on his forehead was also on the show for all 10 years. Before that, he played football for Diana's future college - University of Oregon :)

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