SGA has on the whole good production, a cast of decent to very good actors, a fair mix of characters with which to build story lines... however, this episode demonstrates once again that SGA suffers from targeting mixed audiences and thus is unlikely to please enough people.
As has been so common throughout SGA, too much interpersonal dialogue and stories are projections of what is thought the young target audience expects and thus the adult characters too often come up a bit shallow.
Anyway, onto some specific thoughts of this episode:
"The tidal forces are ripping this planet apart" - well, if a black hole is so close to the planet that the differences in gravity from one side of the planet to the opposite are causing destruction of the crust/mantle of the planet, why is the planet still in orbit around its sun? It should have been flung into a weird path by now, something they could have easily detected while on board Destiny.
Regarding the last scene (in which, btw, it seemed appropriate that Wray would live the longest) - to think the third generation would have built that quaint little town that looks like a cross between a 20th century Swiss villa and an 18th century English estate is, well, silly. Pane glass windows, white paint - seriously? After 50 years of manual labor by around 100 or 200 people? So disconnected from reality.
Like SG-1's last episode, the time-traveled crew's survival story allows the characters' interactions to play out as one possibility. Some touching moments, and this episode probably could have served as the ending of the whole series. In some ways if the next 3 episodes never air I think s2e18 could serve as a capstone episode.
Unfortunately over the next 3 episodes I expect the stories to open up lots of unresolved issues and loose ends which, because of the cancellation, will never be solved.
As has been so common throughout SGA, too much interpersonal dialogue and stories are projections of what is thought the young target audience expects and thus the adult characters too often come up a bit shallow.
Anyway, onto some specific thoughts of this episode:
"The tidal forces are ripping this planet apart" - well, if a black hole is so close to the planet that the differences in gravity from one side of the planet to the opposite are causing destruction of the crust/mantle of the planet, why is the planet still in orbit around its sun? It should have been flung into a weird path by now, something they could have easily detected while on board Destiny.
Regarding the last scene (in which, btw, it seemed appropriate that Wray would live the longest) - to think the third generation would have built that quaint little town that looks like a cross between a 20th century Swiss villa and an 18th century English estate is, well, silly. Pane glass windows, white paint - seriously? After 50 years of manual labor by around 100 or 200 people? So disconnected from reality.
Like SG-1's last episode, the time-traveled crew's survival story allows the characters' interactions to play out as one possibility. Some touching moments, and this episode probably could have served as the ending of the whole series. In some ways if the next 3 episodes never air I think s2e18 could serve as a capstone episode.
Unfortunately over the next 3 episodes I expect the stories to open up lots of unresolved issues and loose ends which, because of the cancellation, will never be solved.
a ending we're happy with
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