• bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I actually liked the premise of the Ori because basically up to that point they were fighting people who claimed to be gods but were really just aliens with advanced technology, whereas with the Ori they were fighting beings that basically were gods so it was a whole lot harder to convince anyone to side with them. The biggest problem I had with it was that the show seemed to run out of money before they could properly tie everything up, a bit reminiscent of the final season of the Expanse (over which I am still very bitter, though at least it motivated me to read the books, which do satisfyingly tie everything up). In particular, in the episode

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      where they kill all of the Ori by sending the bomb thing through the portal

      they have basically a huge dramatic victory that merited some kind of visually impressive spectacle and instead all that happened was basically that they just turned to each other and said, “Well, so I guess that means we succeeded. Yay.”

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        1 year ago

        I didn’t like the Ori arc at first and found those seasons hard to watch. On my rewatch though I found 9 and 10 much better than I remembered.

        HALLOWED ARE THE ORI

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          1 year ago

          They are much better than they should be. Black and Browder are good and the writers seem to have had done very excellence job basically writing a spin off.