The season starts out with the Ori invasion in “Flesh and Blood”, where Vala and Daniel must deal with their leader, Vala's young daughter, who is rapidly aged by the Ori to serve their purposes. Funny thing, Vala’s daughter Adria at age 7, is played by Jodelle Ferland, we later come to know as Five in Dark Matter! Ferland also played a role the Atlantis episode “Harmony”. The combines forces of the Lucien Alliance and Earth ships are no match for the huge Ori ships. They move to Chulak. Daniel, who was presumed missing, had ringed himself to one of the Ori ships, the one where Vala also is. They all manage to escape, including Daniel and Vala but our heroes realize that it will be very difficult to defeat these Ori.

Ouote: Major General Hank Landry to Woolsey: You know, if I had salaries they pay those idiot blowhard politicians to put into my budget... I'm sorry, did I say that out loud?

In “Morpheus” SG-1 must fight an unseen enemy which strikes when you fall asleep. Meanwhile at the SGC Vala is going through an evaluation to determine if she is fit to be a member of SG-1. Note – This in fact was the best bit of the episode, Claudia Black as Vala is such a joy to watch!

Episode 3 is perhaps my favorite episode of the season, “The Pegasus Project”. It’s a cross-over episode where Daniel and Vala visit Atlantis and where Samantha Carter, Cam Mitchell and McKay join up on the Odyssey. Plan is to open the super gate indefinitely via a black hole so that no more Ori ships can come through. Daniel learns that the ancients won’t interfere, won’t help against the Ori. I always love this cross-over episodes, I wish they’d done this a few times more. There essentially was only one weak episode in my opinion and that was “Insiders”. Multiple Ba’al’s in the SGC and the worst part is, he planned this because he knew he had a way out. Again the SGC personnel let themselves be fooled. “Uninvited” where Landry has planned a getaway for him and SG-1 was an okay episode but nothing more than that.

Not many shows get to do it, airing a 200th episode called “200”! SG-1 did, and what a fun romp it was! It was a follow-up from the 100th episode, some great referrals to Farscape, Star Trek and even Firefly also, martin Lloyd is back as the producer. Sam looks particular stunning in this episode! 😊 In “Counter strike” (episode 7) we see Vala’s daughter Adria as a grown-up woman, played by the gorgeous Morena Baccarin (Firefly, Serenity, Deadpool). The Jaffa can no longer be considered as an trusted alley and Dakara is lost to the Jaffa as the Ori destroyed the planet and thus also the weapon. The enemy seems invincible.

The Vala centered episode, “Memento Mori”, I really like this one also, Vala is kidnapped by agents of the Trust who are trying to find an ancient treasure when an accident causes Vala to forget who she is. We see another side of her, Claudia really shines in this episode.

Episode 9, “Company of Thieves” – better than I remembered. Lucien Alliance takes over the Odyssey, kill the captain of the ship, colonel Emerson. Mitchell goes undercover with the same device Jackson used in season 5 episode “Summit”.

The 2-parter “The Quest” is a great adventures story, a little bit like Indiana Jones. Adria is there and also Ba’al is there. Ba’al’s last episode “Insiders” was fairly dull but this episode he is there more for the comedic part and that’s been handled very well. Adria has kidnapped Daniel. “Lines in the Sand” is the next episode and I liked this episode more than I previously remembered. Some awkward moments when the Ori soldiers killed the villagers before Vala’s very eyes and Sam Carter who gets critically injured and cannot save the day as we have been used to. Tobin’s faith begins to crack.

“The Road not taken” - During a failed experiment, Samantha is transported into a parallel universe where she cloaks Earth to save it from an Ori Attack. Getting back to her own universe is not met with sympathy. An okay episode, centered around Sam is always a good thing. “The Shroud” is one of my favorites, where Daniel Jackson has been turned into an Ori Prior. Jack O’Neill is in it too and the humor between them, is just wonderful. They really play of off each other. One of my favorite episodes of the season.
Then two okay episodes, filler episodes, “Bounty” and “Bad Guys”, last one especially was a fun episode, before we reach episode 17, “Talion” which I really enjoyed. A Jaffa, Arkad, is planning on attacking earth. Teal’c, who knows him, goes after him against the wishes of the IOA. Next episode, “Family Ties”, Vala meets her father again after a long period of time. This was nothing more than a filler episode. Few funny moments, with guest star Fred Willard, who passed away a few years ago.

We are almost at the end of this fantastic TV series, 10 seasons, it’s something that not happens very often, certainly not with a sci-fi series. According to this video, 14 years ago, they were very close to renew it for an 11th season! If you already dislike Syfy for cancelling a number of good shows, that will even grow worse when you’ve seen this video.

The penultimate episode, “Dominion”, it’s a great one, a lot of things happen inside 40 minutes. When the episode starts it looks like Vala has been banished from the team, from Stargate Command. Ba’al is killed…but is he? Adria seems to die but isn’t, she gets ascended, which will give a whole lot of more problems. One more episode to go, “Unending”, but we were so close to another 10 or 20 or so episodes, would have been great!

The series finale is a solid episode, perhaps even a strong episode but not fantastic episode. Perhaps in part because of the fact that it’s the series finale. It’s not like the finale of Star Trek: Enterprise thank god! In “Unending” we see the Odyssey go to the Asgard home world. The Asgard are dying and they decide to give everything to the humans because they don’t want it fall in the wrong hands and because we are the fifth race. They destroy themselves while the Odyssey must escape three Ori vessels. The new Asgard technology on the Odyssey can be traced by the Ori and after a number of skirmishes Sam uses the time dilation technique to stop that final beam that would destroy them. For another 50-60 years they remain on the ship till Carter figures out how to escape from this hazardous situation.

Now there are only 2 more movies to go and then SG-1 is closed and finished for several years! Although the new Blu-ray release may tempt me in watching it again a bit sooner! I find it unbelievable that in 9 years after Stargate Universe , Stargate hasn’t returned yet as a TV show (or streaming of course). If you see what is being produced over the years, the garbage that is out there, it’s simply mind boggling there hasn’t been a new show with the name Stargate! But on the other hand, seeing how shows like Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who are being f*cked up, perhaps we should let it rest, rewatch our 3 shows as often as we can.

Blu-ray:

I’ve read terrible reviews about VEI’s complete set on Blu-ray, because of this, I really was in doubt if I should purchase this set. I am so glad I decided to make up my own mind and purchased the set because yes, it wasn’t true HD for the first 7 seasons, but it still was a lot better than the DVD counterpart. I for one am really happy to own the Blu-ray set from VEI. The last 3 seasons where shot in HD and you can really also see an uptick there. Downside of the set is that for most of the 10 seasons the English Subtitles where in CAPITAL letters! This really annoyed the hell out of me. You’d think that they have hired professionals for this…. The last 2-3 seasons this was solved.

Final Word:

This was it for Stargate SG-1, except for the movies, which I will watch very soon. After 8 seasons I didn’t mind the shake-up in the cast line-up. Ben Browder, Claudia Back and Beau Bridges were a great addition to the cast. It was almost as if it was, sort of, a new show, which I didn’t mind. Season 10 actually was a fairly strong season, certainly the 2nd part of the season. As I said, it will take at least 5-7 years before I will begin another rewatch.

Screencaps taken from: GateWorld