10.20 "Unending" Episode Guide

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Précis

Trapped in a time dilation field, SG-1 experience 50 years onboard the Odyssey and see what their possible futures may hold.

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SciFi.com Official Summary

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Storyline

SG-1 members travel into the future 20 and 40 years and see what their possible futures may hold.

Production Notes

  • Gateworld reports that the final two episodes of Season Ten are "Dominion" and "Unending". — Gateworld, September 29, 2006.
  • "In a strange scheduling shuffle I will be shooting my last day this Thursday, not on SGA but on SG1! This means that I may have the dubious honor of being in on the last shooting day of SG1 the series. At least it's with Amanda… always a great way to end a season… or begin or middle one, for that matter! I'm still convinced that somebody is going to realize that we’re about to lose the greatest Sci Fi series ever and snap it up for a season 11, but I’m a suck! Still, I’m dying to see what they have planned for the movies, if that’s the way it ends up going." — David Hewlett (Dr. Rodney McKay), His Blog, October 2, 2006. [NOTE: Hewlett's presence for the last day of filming does not necessarily mean that McKay will appear in this episode.]
  • Ivon Bartok, DVD Special Features Producer, was present on the last day of shooting for both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis on Thursday, October 5, 2006. He wrote in his blog about some of the events and provided a few hints as to the type of action taking place in the episode:
    • "I came in this morning and headed right to stage 1 where Chris Judge and Ben Browder were engaged in a fight... on camera that is. It involves some great staff work. You'll have to wait a year to see the misses, and accidental hits that happened."
    • "I'm still running back and forth between the two shows, and SG-1 has been a little cooler today with fights, and green screen work, but Atlantis is sure to pick up this afternoon. The truth is that Atlantis has moved into the same set that SG-1 has been in for the last 5 days and I was looking forward to getting out of the "Ship" [ Daedalus-Class Ship most likely ], but it's the last day, so no complaining."
    • "I have to shoot Ben Browder jogging in front of a green screen."
    • "Well we just oficially wrapped season 3 of Stargate Atlantis at 7:00pm Pacific Standard time... with hugs, and high fives all around the crew were all smile as Martin Wood called out 'that's a wrap on season 3.'"
    • "Well... one more to go. I am heading over to see Robert Cooper and the cast and crew of Stargate SG-1. I will keep the last shot of the show a secret, but I can tell you that everyone will be together for the last shot before wrap, and that is the way it should be."
    • "So there is one more scene left for the season and maybe forever in the show's current incarnation... and the feeling around set is getting quite sentimental." [9:36pm Pacific]
  • "My character [Adria] is really trying her hardest to convert the entire galaxy to her religion, sort of like a Nazi. But, she's got a fight ahead of her. It's interesting, the turn it takes at the very end is not what I expected when I was reading it, and I had to ask them 'what does this mean?' It'll be interesting." — Morena Baccarin, Underground Online (UGO) Interview, October 2006.
  • "We filmed the final episode the other day. Rob Cooper was directing and arranged for the final shot to be a "team shot". They wrapped at about 1:30 a.m. and it was a very emotional time. Apparently, a number of people involved in the production had their own impromptu wrap party." — Joseph Mallozzi, Eclipse Magazine interview, October 16, 2006.
  • "The last episode, appropriately enough titled Unending, was written and directed by Robert Cooper. Rob saw to it that the last scene to be shot would be one in which [our] team went through the gate. The episode was running late and the estimated time of shooting this scene was pushed from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. In the end, production ended up wrapping at about 1:30 a.m. and after a few speeches, the bittersweet party commenced. I missed the festivities but when I came in the next morning, I learned that two individuals were still sleeping on the set." — Joseph Mallozzi, Solutions Forum, October 19, 2006.
  • "Robert Cooper (Executive Producer) has written and is also directing the last SG-1 script and it's a cool story. I can't tell you too much about it other than we travel into the future and then back again into the past. Probably the biggest challenge for us is putting our regular cast in period make-up. First we age their characters 20 years and then 40 years. It's very interesting to look in Photoshop and see that 40-year transition. It's going to be quite an eye-opener for the fans." — N. John Smith, producer, Starburst #343, October 2006.
  • "It's very much a bottle episode in itself, and you get to see how the characters evolve over the course of the rest of the show— without necessarily seeing. You get to see how they will be in the future. It doesn't resolve the Ori storyline, since that will be left to the DVD movies. He [Michael Shanks] later added that they explore a bit of Daniel and Vala at the end of the season in the sense that you see how they might end up." — Solutions Features: Burbank Con Report by Michelle, November 2006.
  • Thor will be in the series finale. — Solutions Features: Burbank Con Report by Michelle, November 2006.
  • IGN Interviews Michael Shanks, published December 18, 2006:
IGN TV: Before the movies happen, we've still got the rest of season 10 to look forward to. What can we expect for the rest of the season, in particular with Daniel's involvement?
Shanks: [...] There is obviously more Ori and stand alone stuff, and at the very end of the season you kind of expect some sort of finale episode, but we did an episode that is more like a "bottle show" and it has nothing to really do with the tying up of any loose ends and is actually one of these strange episodes were you get to see these characters and how they might age and grow in the future and whether or not that is how they stay is the big question mark.

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--DeeKayP 15:21, 29 September 2006 (PDT)

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