**Spoiler alert if you haven't seen the final episode of Stargate Atlantis and don't want to know what happened!**
Sigh, well, it's over. I will miss you Atlantis. I will say I was actually pretty pleasantly surprised with the final episode. They did a good job of giving us a big finish without actually closing off that many chapters. It was satisfying enough to serve as a series finale but there are still enough plot lines left dangling that can easily be picked up for the future television movies. Of course, I am sure that is exactly what they were going for, so, well done there.
Also, my sinking suspicion that they would kill off Lorne (or, well, anyone really, but for some reason I thought it would be Lorne) proved to be unfounded. In fact, Lorne even got to play a pretty significant part in the episode. Gotta love that. Plus a lot of the recurring characters from throughout SG-1 and SGA popped up. Walter was of course present. I don't think the SGC could continue to function if he wasn't. I also enjoyed that Major Davis popped in. There was even a nice little tribute moment to the late great Don S. Davis.
I was a little worried about the whole Atlantis landing on Earth thing at the end of the episode, but I forgot about their trusty cloak. I loved the fact that they landed the city in the San Francisco Bay, right in view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Good stuff. Plus, Ronon and Amelia!
So, while I am definitely sad to see it go at least they gave us a final episode worthy of the series, and my fingers are crossed that the television movies will come quickly and frequently.
I have hopes for Stargate Universe. So far we've only gotten one casting announcement on top of several character descriptions, some conceptual summaries, and a few episode names. I know based on that a lot of people are freaking out that this will be Stargate 90210 or something, but I don't know, I think that probably character descriptions can only tell you so much. For one thing, there's no way to know how the character is going to even actually turn out until he/she is cast and we see the actor make the roll his/her own. Plus, there's that lovely thing called character development. I mean, did anyone seriously think Rodney McKay would end up becoming one of Stargate's most beloved characters when they were first reading his character description back in the day? I think not. So you never know. But I am definitely curious to find out.
Meanwhile, I am already on to my next burst of obsession. Battlestar Galactica returns with new episodes on Friday and I've gotten it in my head to rewatch the whole series before then. I've already got the miniseries on now. It's only three and a half seasons to watch, and I'll be doing these on DVD, so on my own schedule, rather than the insanity of trying to watch all of the SGA marathons on SciFi last week.
Aren't you all so glad to see I'm not wasting my "retirement" by something silly like cleaning my house? I still totally think Gaeta's the last Cylon, though I saw someone online make an argument for Hoshi, which might work out. He's my new favorite after the current spout of webisodes. I really just want to hug him.
Anyhoo, so that's me at the moment.
Peace,
C
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