Stargate Universe "Gauntlet" 5-9-11

I thought it was actually quite a nice ending, and worked very well as a series finale without needing additional modifications.

I got properly weepy (but then I cry at movie trailers too)

This was supposed to be a 2nd season cliff hanger as it was filmed before the cancelation. My guess is they changed the music to make it more "finale sounding". There were also plans to continue the story in a planned SGU Movie, which was scrapped a few weeks ago. As such it sucked as a series finale.

I think someone should tell Syfy the series is over since they kept putting up a "season finale" overlay. Though they were advertising the Stargate Universe DVD set which is suppose to "complete" the series, whatever that means.

I think because it's been anounced that there will be no more new any Stargate anything. The franchise has been retired for good. No movies, direct to video, series, everything has been shelved.

Ugh.

Wake me when the show runner leaks the season 3 plans. And if they never got that far, he better make something up quick.

I liked it. I was getting tired of all of the drone crap, and I think ready for the series to end anyway, though I would have liked answers about what the ultimate destination of Destiny was. Though I don't think that was the point... the Journey itself was the destination.

Anyway, SP ready for deletion.

After this week, there won't be too many more season finales to wait for. At least we'll have Eureka to look forward to.

Those pods looked big enough for 2 people!

I'll really miss this show. No it wasn't the best Scifi, or even great scifi, but it was decent enough, and sometimes there were bright spots in the story/show.

After that ending I SO would have liked to have seen season 2.

I'm going to assume that Eli lives, but probably with some twist, maybe by storing himself in a transporter buffer, oh wait, wrong show, but whatever, you get my point.

SeanC said:

After that ending I SO would have liked to have seen season 2.

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Since you can't even remember having just watched season 2...

Barmat said:

I think because it's been anounced that there will be no more new any Stargate anything. The franchise has been retired for good. No movies, direct to video, series, everything has been shelved.

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Not for good, just for now.

You know it will be back at some point. Years from now, but some day.

What the heck were you people expecting when this was NOT designed as a series finale? I thought it was quite satisfying. The look on Eli's face as he gazed at the stars was quite moving, and I thought it was more than appropriate that he be the one there at the end...

They knew six episodes ago it was canceled so I just thought an ending would have been shot.

GameGuru said:

They knew six episodes ago it was canceled so I just thought an ending would have been shot.

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I believe those 6 episodes were already shot and in the can. They could not make any changes.

Yeah, too bad this got canceled, I could see a lot of ways the story could play out with Eli. My guess is that the crew wakes up in a new galaxy, but Eli and the shuttle are nowhere to be found. But we'll never know.

What year was the original SG:U episode set in? I thought it was a few years back. This trick might have been a good way to bring it back "in sync".

Of course it was unsatisfying as a series finale (we all knew the stasis pods were going to figure in somehow), but like others have said at least this leaves it open to a re-visit if SyFy or the powers-that-be ever want to do that.

If I were Eli, I'd be so tempted to wake up Rush right away and be like "it's been 3 years, we're here! ... just kidding! Back into cryo-sleep, jerk."

Heh: http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/110510.html

I thought it was a good end. Very nice and tidy, yet lots of potential left if they happened to get picked up (not likely now, but an option earlier).

Much better than a cliff hanger that would never get resolved.

For the episode itself - no Treknobabble on why the two systems they stopped in were good for supplies, but bad for refueling Destiny itself. No research on what the ship did in similar situations in the past (though Eli's solution would be consistent with such solutions, I would guess). No mention that someone could stay in the shuttle for weeks w/o impacting Destiny's power levels.

Down to a single show on SyFy that I watch now. Eureka.

Maybe they should use some of the money they waste on those SyFy original movies and keep this series going. I can't imagine many watch those.

I thought it worked well as a series finale, even if that wasn't intended -- it was open, but not really a cliffhanger. Plus all the characters saying goodbye... hmm, very finale-like. I have to figure they knew this might be the last ep when they made it.

P.S. Eureka sucks. But Sanctuary really sucks.

I agree - it worked well as a series finale given the fact that it was filmed before they "knew" it would be a series finale.

I will miss this show.

I think it worked OK. It was as if they were going to reboot the series by having them start over in another part of the galaxy for a possible third season.