Camelot

I really do not understand why this episode was written this way. They fought a loosing battle with the Ori, that was commonsense. They should have waited until they knew they had something to defeat them with. I just think this episode was a waste and I'm very disappointed with the writers!!!! It's like the bad people are always winning!!!!! I don't like shows like this!!!

Several reviews review this as the "9th season finale." Now that's it's on Streaming, DVD, and in syndication, the fact that it is the last episode of season 9, in my opinion, can and probably should be ignored since you can probably move on to S10E1 soon afterwards if you like.

Honestly, I love the series EXCEPT anything having to do with the Ori. This is one of the episodes I consider "Ori light" meaning it's one of the better season 9/10 episode in that it has one or more more independant plots that don't directly revolve around contact with the Ori, but rather, just going about SG-1 business while knowing that the Ori threat/thread is waiting in the wings and/or developing mostly off-camera. As such, I think it's one of the better episodes of Season 9 and 10 (most of which are much worse than pretty much everything in seasons 1-8) but again, I think it's best to just ignore the fact that it's S9:E20 without expecting it to be some kind of finale. You'll enjoy it more that way and I'm guessing that's what it was intended to be.

At least one other review was confused about what happened in the earlier finales, thinking they were setup in the last episode and finished in the following season, but if you go back and look at the early seasos, that wasn't the case... they actually tended to do be the big build up in the 2nd last episode, and then mostly finished that plot in the last one. So again, if you've decided to keep watching through the Ori arc, don't expect this to be a speciasl finale or cliff hanger, and just enjoy it for what it is.

This episode has one heck of a cliffhanger and brings season 9 to a close in spectacular fashion. Well developed storylines and a lot of climactic action. The sword fight was a highlight.