Perfect. Just the absolutely perfect ending to this series, and to the Stargate franchise. All through the final scene I was convinced that a command ship would suddenly appear, leaving the series on a cliffhanger, and as we saw Destiny starting to fly away from the camera I was wailing at the screen, “End it! End it now!” And when they ended it now, I wailed in total relief, and in anguish that it was over, and cried solidly for an hour afterwards before I could even start typing. Perfect ending. Just perfect. And a fantastic full circle for this particular series - Universe started with Destiny powering up, and ended with her powering down.

Because it was the final episode, I sat through the Previouslies instead of fast forwarding, which somewhat unfortunately made me realise that the stasis pods would feature in this episode and so spoilered Eli’s big idea.

I loved that exterior shot of the Bridge lowering down into the ship.

Young gives permission for Camille to arrange for everyone to stone-jump back to Earth and say their goodbyes. Eighty people in twenty-four hours?! How is that ever going to happen in the time? I would imagine that quite a lot of them would only get the chance to make a phone call because their loved ones are too far away from Washington.

Wow. It took until the last episode of the series before there was a moment that prompted me to say, “Go Chloe!” but I loved her persuasive speech to Nick.

Couldn’t the budget run to hiring an extra to stand outside Maryann Wallace’s house wearing Jeffries’ uniform for a moment so that we would see what she was seeing?

Lisa and Greer have moved quarters. We’ve seen both of their rooms, and each of their beds was on the right-hand wall but this one’s on the left. Maybe they moved Lisa to a room nearer to the Infirmary – or maybe the set builders just forgot ...

Blimey, Morrison makes himself useful for once. It really is the end of the Universe! ;-)

That’s the longest Stargate dial-out we’ve seen onscreen for ages. I wonder if the production team re-edited the episode slightly once they knew this was the last one?

When I started to type, “The Stargate kawhooshes,” in the transcript, I had to stop and cry for a couple of minutes before I could finish the words, because it was the last time I would ever write it for a new episode.

Matt says that his little boy doesn’t even know that he’s his father. I wonder whether they always ensure that he stone-swaps into Telford each time he wants to visit the boy so that at least it’s the same strange man who keep coming around to check up on him. And presumably they still haven’t told Annie the truth about who the visitor really is, either.

Why is Matt alone in the car as he watches Annie and young Matthew? We’ve never seen a host body alone and driving before – they’ve always had an escort.

All the farewell scenes tore my soul to bits, especially coming back to back the way they did, but the scene of the secondary team – Adam, Dale, Lisa etc – going into stasis was absolutely heart-wrenching, especially the bit where both Greer and Dale were watching Lisa.

Young’s description of Nick as the “slightly crazy uncle” cracked me up!

The final scene in the Stasis Chamber between Nick, Everett and Eli nearly destroyed me, both watching it and typing it up. Lord knows I love Joel Goldsmith and his music, but on occasions like this I could punch him really hard for making such scenes even harder to watch!

And how gorgeous was it that Nick called Eli “Mr. Wallace” in the greatest moment of respect that he has shown him so far?

However, why didn’t Nick think about someone going into the Chair to be absorbed into Destiny? Wouldn’t that be the best way to resolve the problem for the last person standing?

Don’t even talk to me about the final moments. I realised on the third time of viewing that the music was a re-working of the same music that opened the series in Air. I was a complete wreck. Still am. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous ending.

Wow, Callie, you actually beat me here this time!

Now Stargate fans are where Trek fans were back in 2005. Our show had ended, and the future looked bleak. Of course, Trek came back with the JJ Abrams movie in 2009. When Stargate will return, who can say. Sadly, like the Robison family and the denizens of Moonbase Alpha, this series ends without resolution.

Well, it was a good way to end things. At least they weren't staring down a command ship. They all just went to sleep, kind of. It's not hard to imagine Eli fixing the last pod and joining them.

I guess they said good-bye in case it didn't work. Also, there was a chance that some on Earth would be dead by the time they defrosted.

The stasis pods could come in handy later for TJ. They could pop her in and it would keep her alive until a cure could be found for her Lou Gehrig's Disease.

I liked the last supper scene. All the speeches. I know that, when they filmed this, they didn't know it was the end of the show, but it felt like it.

So had the show continued, we would have picked up three years later.

SyFail really dropped the ball this time. The show was working this season, the stories were growing, the characters were growing (Callie even started to like Chloe). Too bad they cancelled it to make room for wrestling. This channel no longer deserves to live.

So many storylines, TJ's illness, Ginn and Amanda still in the computer, Greer and Park's growing relationship, none will be finished now.

Perhaps Universe could continue like the Star Trek series have, in novels. I'd buy them.

Normally I took Wednesdays off to write the transcripts, but because this was the last episode, I took Tuesday off as well but didn't expect to finish until Wednesday. Considering that I didn't start typing until around midday, I was staggered when I posted the transcript at about 10 o'clock that night. It's been one of the shortest transcripts I have ever written - and I know it wasn't because I rushed it. It simply didn't have that much action, and there weren't a lot of long speeches - plus everybody spoke very clearly for this episode for some reason and I didn't need to rewind a lot as I sometimes do. But it does seem odd that a final episode in any season/series should be so quick to write.

the characters were growing (Callie even started to like Chloe)

Stop it, Tim! You're making it sound like I got the show cancelled!!

This channel no longer deserves to live.

Word.

With all the recent cancelations and such, Sci-Fi should be put out of it's misery. (What's left EUReKA, Warehouse 13, and Wrestling) It's like a cancer patient circling the drain. They should pull the plug or re-name it (The Wrestling Channel, perhaps?)

I agree, the channel has clearly lost its focus.

As I said, it's a shame Universe was cancelled now. The show was really moving in the right direction this season. The characters were developing, and the stories were better (aside from those drones, which I could have done without).

Maybe the story will continue in novels, like Star Trek has.

I finally watched it this past Thursday evening. I felt that as long as I did not watch then it was not really over, and I have been watching Jays baseball most evenings anyway. I agree though that it was a decent-enough ending; I was really afraid that it would be a cliff hanger.

And I did not delete it so can watch it again.

Beth - ;)
in Calgary

Yeah, if they wanted to start again, they easilly could.

There are exactly as many stasis pods as there are people on Destiny. What are the odds of that? Well, I won't begrudge them that little plot twist. However, the pods are more than large enough to accomodate two people each. Unless there is an actual reason why a pod can only handle one person (quite possible, but they would have to actually explain why), then Eli could have shared one with either Nick or Everett. I'm surprised none of them suggested that blindingly obvious solution to the stasis pod shortage.

I think that may have been poorly scripted. I get the feeling that there were more pods available on the ship but that they were in groups, and it was the groups of pods that needed firing up. To get a pod for the last person they would have to fire up a whole row of pods and they just didn't have the spare power. That's my take on it, anyway.

And I automatically assumed that, regardless of the pods' size, they are configured only to sustain one person.

(I originally typed that last sentence as "I automatically assumed that the pods are only configured to sustain one person regardless of their size" but then realised that that could be misinterpreted as me being rude about Eli!!)

I wonder if they'll ever continue this story in the Stargate novels.