So I totally agree on the loveliness aspect of the episode. It was slow, it was simple, it was wonderful. But I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak. I mean, with me taping it, I knew I had one hour of video to watch before it was over since it was all commercials, but I couldn't remember at what time on the VCR display I started watching it, so I wasn't exactly sure when things were going to end.
Remembering nothing else about the preview other than old man Rodney and the kiss, I wasn't expecting much after John goes into the stasis pod. I figured, there's enough "What ifs" left about him surviving, since they said he'd need at least 700 years and they might be able to push it to 600 with the extra solar panel power, so I'm thinking, "Good place to leave off... leave John's life hanging by a thread and now fans have to wait until next season to see if he makes it." I also thought, considering the conversations we've had regarding the SAGgies possibly striking over the summer, that the writers took this into account, but *shrug* I think I think too much.
Anyway, so after he came through the gate, I was waiting for a big ol TO BE CONTINUED when they're getting ready to go through the gate, a la "The Return Part 1". Nope. Not there either. So at this point I'm thinking that this is gonna go on forever and maybe it was a two hour episode and I had failed to notice so. Nope. Not that either. Building collapses. Fin. That just sort of made me go "WHAT?!" in a pissed off "of all the times you could have chosen to TBC the episode for next season, you pick this one??" So yeah, no real animosity or anything, but I thought the choice for ending it was a little strange and just sort of "Uh oh, we hit the 42 minute mark, JUST CUT IT!"
Anyway, that's the way I feel about the ending. Totally loved the rest of it though. Except now I'm not so "omg can't wait 'til next season" as I would have been elsewhere.
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Date: 2008-03-11 08:31 pm (UTC)Remembering nothing else about the preview other than old man Rodney and the kiss, I wasn't expecting much after John goes into the stasis pod. I figured, there's enough "What ifs" left about him surviving, since they said he'd need at least 700 years and they might be able to push it to 600 with the extra solar panel power, so I'm thinking, "Good place to leave off... leave John's life hanging by a thread and now fans have to wait until next season to see if he makes it." I also thought, considering the conversations we've had regarding the SAGgies possibly striking over the summer, that the writers took this into account, but *shrug* I think I think too much.
Anyway, so after he came through the gate, I was waiting for a big ol TO BE CONTINUED when they're getting ready to go through the gate, a la "The Return Part 1". Nope. Not there either. So at this point I'm thinking that this is gonna go on forever and maybe it was a two hour episode and I had failed to notice so. Nope. Not that either. Building collapses. Fin. That just sort of made me go "WHAT?!" in a pissed off "of all the times you could have chosen to TBC the episode for next season, you pick this one??" So yeah, no real animosity or anything, but I thought the choice for ending it was a little strange and just sort of "Uh oh, we hit the 42 minute mark, JUST CUT IT!"
Anyway, that's the way I feel about the ending. Totally loved the rest of it though. Except now I'm not so "omg can't wait 'til next season" as I would have been elsewhere.
Like I said, I think too much. It spoils things.