Articles on final episode of SG-1 "Unending"

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http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=39268

Media Advisory: SPACE airs the Canadian premiere of the STARGATE SG-1 series finale


(WebWire) 6/13/2007 6:49:53 PM

Spoiler:

WHAT: After 10 seasons, the show that made television history as the longest running science fiction series in North America comes to an end. In the highly anticipated finale titled “Unending,” the Asgard, allies to the SG-1 team, find out they have developed a rapidly progressive disease leaving them only weeks to live. Fearing their knowledge might fall into the wrong hands, they plan to end their lives after handing over their entire knowledge base, technology and history to the SG-1 team. But before everything is installed on the ship the Odyssey, the Ori attack and the only way for the SG-1 team to survive is to trap themselves inside a time dilation field, slowing down the blast from the Ori. Trapped aboard the Odyssey and moving forward 50 years, the teams relationships develop and evolve in many ways, representing one possible future given a certain set of circumstances. The finale was written and directed by executive producer Robert C. Cooper. The series stars Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Claudia Black, Michael Shanks, Christopher Judge and Beau Bridges.

WHEN: Canadian Television Premiere – Thursday, June 21 at 10pm ET / 7pm PT

WHERE: Only on SPACE.

NOTES: Although the series is coming to an end, Stargate SG-1 is not completely dead. MGM has given a green light for the show’s creators to produce two direct-to-DVD movies, Stargate: Continuum and Stargate: The Ark of Truth, which are currently in production in Vancouver and will eventually air on SPACE.

SPACE will continue to air the earlier seasons of Stargate SG-1 in a strip run, Monday to Friday at 8am ET / 5am PT, 1pm ET / 10am PT and 8pm ET / 5pm PT.


Elyse

[Callista]

Wow! They don't hold back anything in that article do they? Things like surprising plot points?

(Just so you know, I'm not upset. I already knew what would happen. I'm just surprised they would say that much in a review article. Do they always spill everything like that?)

[Ugly Pig]

Stargate: Continuum and Stargate: The Ark of Truth, which are currently in production in Vancouver and will eventually air on SPACE.

The first mention of a specific network actually broadcasting the movies?

[prion]

gathering of snippets on the final episodes of SG1, etc.

Beacon Journal
Friday: After 10 years of adventures in deep space, Stargate SG-1 finally wraps up its prime-time expedition with tonight's series finale. But fans don't need to shed too many tears as a Stargate TV movie is already in the works. 8 p.m., Sci Fi.

Richmond.com
Sci-Fi's longest-running original series comes to a close after 10 space-tastic years. Fear not, sci-fi lovers; the whole crew will be back next year for a pair of direct-to-DVD movies.

Glenn Falls Post
* After 10 seasons and more than 200 episodes, "Stargate SG-1" (Sci Fi Channel) marks its series finale Friday at 8 p.m. With extinction imminent, the Asgard hand over their knowledge and technology to the SG-1 team. At 9 p.m., "Stargate: Atlantis" marks its season finale as a Replicator attack forces the team to sink back beneath the ocean.

Palmbeachpost
Stargate SG-1 (Friday, 8 p.m., Sci Fi): After 10 seasons, TV's longest-running sci-fi series blasts off for good.


Elyse

[prion]

From WWW.ZAP2IT.COM

For this Friday

Stargate SG-1 8:00 PM - SCI FI

Live long and prosper ... oops, wrong sci-fi show. But "Stargate" is saying goodbye as the series wraps up a decade on television. Original "SG-1" characters Sam, Daniel and Teal'c (Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, Christopher Judge) continue to the end, as the Asgard decides to pass on all its knowledge and technology to the SG-1 team. Ben Browder, Claudia Black and Beau Bridges also star

[prion]

Two more...

www.RedNova.com

"Stargate SG-1," 8 p.m., Sci Fi. After 10 years of adventures in deep space, this show finally wraps up its prime-time expedition with tonight's series finale. But fans don't need to shed too many tears as a "Stargate" TV movie is already in the works.


http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/20...2007-06-21.cfm

Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis
Series Finale/Season Finale: If only Studio 60 could manage to even be half as funny as Stargate SG-1—observe this brilliantly subtle jab at the Sci-Fi Channel from an episode a few weeks ago: Sam: “The Stargate program just doesn’t get the support it used to from the people in charge.” Jasec: “Why not?” Scientist working in background: “Eureka!” Ha! See, Sci-Fi has canceled the decade-old SG-1 but kept on fluffier fare like Eureka … never mind. Geek territory. Atlantis will, however, remain. No, I don’t know why, either.

[morjana]

SG1 - MultiChannel News: TV Crush: Stargate SG-1 Series Finale:

From Mary McNamara's Blog at MultiChannel News:

http://www.multichannel.com/blog/130...560010956.html

(Please follow the link for the complete article.)

TV CRUSH

Stargate SG-1 Series Finale: Poignant End to a Cable Record Breaker.

June 20, 2007

Stargate SG-1 is cable television’s longest-running scripted series. For ten seasons, the ensemble team has gated to new worlds to battle an assortment of villains and protect planet earth from invasion. But after more than 200 episodes, the stargate shuts down on this MGM-owned series for the last time.

Leading up to the series finale (Friday at 8p.m. on Sci Fi Channel) we're celebrating this record breaking show with exclusive interviews with showrunner Robert C. Cooper and Richard Dean Anderson, who for eight seasons starred as the crusty General Jack O'Neill. (The Cooper chat was conducted on set during the 200th episode shoot; Anderson's was by phone shortly after.) The interviews will be posted tomorrow and Friday.

**snippage**

The series finale, Unending, is unheralded for the most part and Sci Fi appears to be letting go quietly. After the excessive hype surrounding The Sopranos end, which ultimately left the audience holding the bag and starving for closure, the producers of Stargate instead honor their audience and reward their ten-year loyalty with a poignant and satisfying conclusion.

**major snippage**

[prion]

http://www.multichannel.com/blog/130...560010956.html


Stargate SG-1 Series Finale: Poignant End to a Cable Record Breaker.
June 20, 2007

Don't forget:

Leading up to the series finale (Friday at 8p.m. on Sci Fi Channel) we're celebrating this record breaking show with exclusive interviews with showrunner Robert C. Cooper and Richard Dean Anderson, who for eight seasons starred as the crusty General Jack O'Neill. (Simpsons clips here and here!) The Cooper chat was conducted on set during the 200th episode shoot; Anderson's was by phone shortly after. The interviews will be posted tomorrow and Friday.

OOPS. WARNING! The article does contain spoilers, so read after the episode airs if you don't want to know the whole plot.

[morjana]

SG1 - Chicago Tribune: Stargate SG-1 signs off:

From the Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL):

http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...,7372545.story

(Please follow the link for the complete article.)

'Stargate SG-1' signs off

Published June 22, 2007

Time's up for "Stargate SG-1" (7 p.m. Friday, Sci Fi).

Or is it? The outer-space staple, which has had 10 seasons on two networks and has its series finale Friday, will keep the wormhole adventures going via two DVD movies that will come out later this year. And the spinoff series "Stargate Atlantis" will employ some "SG-1" cast members, including Amanda Tapping, whose character, Lt. Col. Samantha Carter, will be a series regular on the fourth season of "Atlantis," which also arrives in a few months.

**snippage**

And here's hoping the solid "Stargate Atlantis" will fill the Friday night space-adventure gap nicely. I'm also hoping that having only one show to write will lead the "Stargate Atlantis" creative team to employ fewer recycled plots and story lines. Anyway, it's not goodbye for "Stargate SG-1," but just "see you later" to the wormholes, the aliens, Walter the Gate Tech, the zat gun and the staff weapons and the mysterious hieroglyphs and the goofball wit. We'll meet again soon.

**snippage**

Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune

[morjana]

SG1 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Article & Audio Downloads - Brad Wright:

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA):

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07172/795812-237.stm

(There's a photo of Sam and...Thor (?) at the site. Also, some audio clips of Brad Wright. Please follow the link for the complete article.)

TV

'Stargate: SG-1' signs off, but we haven't seen the last of it

Thursday, June 21, 2007

By Sharon Eberson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Brad Wright left the 1994 feature film "Stargate" and knew he had seen his future -- in television.

"That was my first feeling as I walked out of the theater: That was a pretty good movie, but it will make an excellent television series," Wright said by phone from Vancouver, home of Sci Fi Channel's "Stargate SG-1" and its spin-off, "Stargate: Atlantis."

Wright is an executive producer of both series and was there from Day One, 10 years ago, when "SG-1" made its debut on Showtime, the paid-cable channel where it spent its first five TV years.

On Friday, "SG-1" exits as, by most accounts, the longest-running sci-fi series in television history ("X-Files" ran nine years). But that doesn't mean we've seen the last of it. The series that could also be called "Stargate: Survivor" defied its pink slip and is now in production on two straight-to-DVD movies, one written by Wright.

The title of the TV finale, appropriately, is "Unending."

**general snippage**

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Since Canada is airing it tonight...


TORONTO STAR

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/227758

Hard to believe Stargate SG-1 lasted 10 seasons. Nobody seemed to like it but the fans; it somehow always slipped under the radar of most TV critics. The very last episode, "Unending," is a model of tight writing. It has tension and drama but doesn't play like the last of the series. And MGM has since announced the movies Stargate: The Arc of Truth and Stargate: Continuum to continue the profitable franchise (Space at 10).

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http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpo...b-4c3dda5a282a

The end is near for 'Stargate SG-1'
Alex Strachan, CanWest News Service
Published: Thursday, June 21, 2007

Stargate SG-1 calls it a night after 10 years -- a whole decade -- of sci-fi hijinks and jumping through space portals. The finale, wryly titled "Unending," won't mean much to the uninitiated, but longtime fans of the made-in-Vancouver saga will be apt to shed a tear or two, even though it's been two seasons since Stargate's original heart and soul, Richard Dean Anderson, bailed ship.
Stargate devotees familiar with such sci-fi references as Sodan cloak devices and lemniscates -- the symbol for infinity, don't you know -- will likely be clinging to every word of the finale, which airs in Canada a night before it ends on the U.S. Sci Fi Channel.

Click on link for full article
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http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune....up-forsta.html
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Originally posted: June 21, 2007

Time's not on the side of "Stargate SG-1," which ends Friday

[link posted yesterday but article now up with photos, etc.]

[prion]

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/n...6-38f0ebc08a5b

One last trip through the star portal
Stargate SG-1 had what it took to be a real sci-fiseries
Rob McKenzie, National Post
Published: Thursday, June 21, 2007

Dear Stargate SG-1, We didn't meet you until the final hour of your life, and that is to our unending regret. But as you embark on your journey into the hereafter, let us eulogize you both as we knew you and as others did.
You had a rich life. You were born and raised in Vancouver, which explains all the Starbucks in outer space, and by the time of your ascension to a higher plane, you were the longest-living sci-fishow in the annals of North American television.

Regrettably, we had chances during the early years to make your acquaintance-- yet foolishly, we passed. We hung around with Star Trek: Voyager because she came from a good family, though she would squander her inheritance. More recently, we were sucked in by the flashy charms of Studio 60, which, though born nine years later than you, would suffer its sunset a mere fortnight after yours.

FULL ARTICLE AT LINKS ABOVE

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

At least it's getting some press in the US now. But how high will the ratings be?

[prion]

http://www.multichannel.com/blog/130...470011047.html

Stargate SG-1 Finale Focus: Robert C. Cooper, showrunner
June 21, 2007

These never published grafs are lifted from the rough draft of story written April 2006 from the set of Stargate SG-1 during the filming of the 200th episode. Also, following is the raw transcript of the Rob Cooper interview which contains insights into the series and the background of Robert C. Cooper, long-time Stargate executive producer, writer and showrunner.

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Robert (Rob) C. Cooper, executive producer and Stargate SG1’s showrunner, says the series is a “feather in the cap” for [MGM] international distribution. According to reports he was privy to at the time of the sale, the Stargate franchise was touted “as one of MGM’s single biggest assets.”

From his second floor office overlooking the studios, Cooper has seen Stargate through many iterations. Only 37 years old, he started as a story editor and sat in on the read through of the pilot 10 years ago. But he had his eye on the ball. “I measured the office,” he quips.

By season seven he ascended to showrunner, taking the reigns from Brad Wright, who shifted to Stagate Atlantis. (Wright shared SG-1 showrunner duties with Jonathan Glassner until season four.) Cooper has written 40 to 50 of Stargate SG-1’s 200 episodes and an additional 50 drafts with other writers’ names on them.

FULL TEXT AT LINK ABOVE

[morjana]

SG1 - MultiChannel News: Stargate SG-1 Finale Focus: Robert C. Cooper, showrunner:


From MultiChannel News:

http://www.multichannel.com/blog/130...70011047.html?

(Please follow the link for the complete interview at MultiChannel News.)

Stargate SG-1 Finale Focus: Robert C. Cooper, showrunner

June 21, 2007

by Mary McNamara

These never published grafs are lifted from the rough draft of story written last April from the set of Stargate SG-1 during the filming of the 200th episode. Also, following is the raw transcript of the Rob Cooper interview which contains insights into the series and the background of Robert C. Cooper, long-time Stargate executive producer, writer and showrunner.

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**colonel snippage**

[Q: When did you feel that you’d finally hit more of the big time?]

We had our first cover on the TV Guide in season seven. It felt like our coming out party. On the other hand, Showtime and the business plan put in place initially helped us to find our legs creatively and to develop an international fans base.

The fans have always responded to the interpersonal aspects of the team. There’s almost a soap-opera way in which people cling to the camaraderie, the team/family dynamic among the four leads and their chemistry. [Tapping, Shanks, Judge and Anderson] It just feels there’s a magical quality that regardless of the story is that week that makes you want to spend an hour with those people. We work very hard coming up with interesting stories, moral dilemmas, metaphors for important issues. Then it comes down to ‘did you see the way Teal’c looked at Carter in this scene?’ or ‘Did you see how O’Neill patted Daniel on the back?’ That’s something that makes you a fan of the show. I think people will tune out eventually to plot-driven shows that reset to zero at the end of every episode. But when you have a show with characters that you love, that you want to spend time with that evolve and change, that makes you fan. Not every fan has been happy with the changes over the years. But the creative people do pay attention to what came before.

**major snippage**