Unending (1020)

[Major_Griff]

I hope you guys realize that Machello was played by Michael Shanks in that episode.

Yeah it was a joke, chief.

[the fifth man]

I can't help but appreciate this episode more and more every time I watch it. I'm really glad that TPTB chose to end the show (just the series, not SG-1 itself) like this.

[petemoretti]

I can't help but appreciate this episode more and more every time I watch it. I'm really glad that TPTB chose to end the show (just the series, not SG-1 itself) like this.

It's the second episode of S10 I've brought myself to watch and I regret it a lot. Still can't figure out why Jack wasn't even mentioned () and why Coop still calls it an "emotional tribute to the 10 years" (surely he means it was a tribute to the 2 crappy years of "Stargate Command")

[suse]

It's the second episode of S10 I've brought myself to watch and I regret it a lot. Still can't figure out why Jack wasn't even mentioned () and why Coop still calls it an "emotional tribute to the 10 years" (surely he means it was a tribute to the 2 crappy years of "Stargate Command")

I don't know about that. I was pretty emotional. Of course I didn't think it was particularly *good*. More of a final... gesture... for not appreciating the "perfection" of the last two years.

We were about 10 minutes from the end of the ep and the brother-in-law commented that it was vying with The Sopranos for worst season finale.

suse

[Selena]

.....
But those lovely legs..!

There were legs??? I was fixated on the Browder "buns"

[Carter1994]

They didn't age well. Why didn't they cut their hair, for instance? They did it for at least 20, considering it looked exactly the same. Oh, yes, and, I Can't Get That Song Outa My Head!!!

"I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain,
and I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain,
coming down, a summer day."

Ahh! There I go again! Help!

[Krisz]

They didn't age well. Why didn't they cut their hair, for instance? They did it for at least 20, considering it looked exactly the same. Oh, yes, and, I Can't Get That Song Outa My Head!!!

"I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain,
and I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain,
coming down, a summer day."

Ahh! There I go again! Help!

I agree with you about the ageing thing. If Sam was about 70 or so when she was playing the cello, her hands looked remarkably supple and young!

Then, just as you get the song out of your head you buy the season 10 box set, watch the episode again and the song is back!!!! Aaaarrgghhh!

[petemoretti]

I agree with you about the ageing thing. If Sam was about 70 or so when she was playing the cello, her hands looked remarkably supple and young!

Then, just as you get the song out of your head you buy the season 10 box set, watch the episode again and the song is back!!!! Aaaarrgghhh!

The solution is simple: Don't buy the season 10 box set, don't watch the episode ever again and you get rid of the song...

[scarimor]

As far as Daniel's behavior towards Vala in the scene in his quarters, initially I too thought it was very mean and not very Daniel-like at all. Then I read Michael's TV Guide blog where he explained his thought process behind that scene, how Daniel really believed that Vala just didn't really care about him even a bit. That Daniel was acting out of a need to hurt before he was hurt himself and that when Vala started crying and actually showing some honest emotion he was shocked into lowering his emotional barriers...

The change in Daniel is alarming. The Daniel of the early seasons would not have been so clueless about another person's feelings. Back then he observed people, worked out what they thought and needed. He cared enough to do it as well as having a natural talent for it.

Having a "need to hurt" someone is something I would never had attributed to early Daniel

This coming from the man I mean Shanks who sees Daniel as a "mini-RDA". Far be it from me to ascribe motivations.

suse

[PG15]

Back then he observed people, worked out what they thought and needed. He cared enough to do it as well as having a natural talent for it.

And he did that with Vala for more than 2 years, only to come to the conclusion that which he let out in Unending.

Danny may be good with people, but when he's dealing with a con-artist like Vala, who's talents include fooling people, then perhaps even Danny can't see her true thoughts and feelings, simply because she's so good at hiding them.

[General David Niemi]

And he did that with Vala for more than 2 years, only to come to the conclusion that which he let out in Unending.

Danny may be good with people, but when he's dealing with a con-artist like Vala, who's talents include fooling people, then perhaps even Danny can't see her true thoughts and feelings, simply because she's so good at hiding them.

But it looked like "Danny" exploded. It was so different. I was like what the heck happened to Daniel? But it was all a test, a very mean test, if I do say so myself.

[donna]

Timeline technicallity question....when T'ealc reverses the timeline, if he's outside of time and has to remain 'old T'ealc', where's the contemporary T'ealc from before the time dilation field was created....?

[scarimor]

Timeline technicallity question....when T'ealc reverses the timeline, if he's outside of time and has to remain 'old T'ealc', where's the contemporary T'ealc from before the time dilation field was created....?

This has been answered here before. He stayed old because he stayed outside the field, but there is no original young one to add to the mix -

We didn't end up with two Sams, two Camerons, etc. (i.e. a new young one that used to be old and an original young one), did we? We just ended up with the young ones who used to be old. And with Teal'c, we end up with one as well - only he's still old.

[suse]

And he did that with Vala for more than 2 years, only to come to the conclusion that which he let out in Unending.

Danny may be good with people, but when he's dealing with a con-artist like Vala, who's talents include fooling people, then perhaps even Danny can't see her true thoughts and feelings, simply because she's so good at hiding them.

Yet they let her on the team??!!?? If they know she's so good at hiding her true feelings, what's to say she isn't scamming them? Yes, I know she's not written that way, but the characters don't know that!

I don't buy that they can trust her professionally but not personally. She is, as you say, a con-artist.

Geez I wish something closer to this Vala had been introduced in S9. Her inclusion *might* made a *modicum* of sense.

suse

[PG15]

Well, I think that trusting someone professionally and liking them or being attracted to them are very different things.