While we're on the subject of great Joe performances ...

[tex.livejournal.com]

... how about the episode that both Joe and David think should have been the finale of the series (instead of that tripe-fest EatG)

5.19 Vegas season 5

Comments

[neevebrody.livejournal.com]

I have to say, it was great to hear their take on EatG - that they agreed was even better. That they reinforced what we already thought/said was better still.

I loved the remark, "Why would I want to go back to Earth?" Indeed.

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

I love your icon! Do you have the original, pic? I'd love to see it.

[neevebrody.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The original was taken by berlinghoff79 Here's a link to her post (http://berlinghoff79.livejournal.com/449474.html#cutid1).

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

FORBIDDEN! ;_;

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

"Vegas" was one of the best eppys ever and Vegas!John was so....no words. Joe was amazing and wow, so hot.

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

♥

No, tell me how you really feel!

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I adored Vegas for the visuals, but it was too odd and off-beat to function as a series- or season-ender.

I think that last, ghastly episode should have been a three-parter that was written PROPERLY instead of shoving 3 episodes of action and (occasionally nonsensical) plot into one rushed and rather stupid finale. The three-parter should have had the president and the generals (O'Neill and Landry) in it instead of doing it on the cheap so that it looked like Col. Carter was running an intergalactic war with the help of a few airmen.

When Atlantis landed, it should have done so without invisibility shields. What a great, game-changing ending for the entire series! The world knows... NOW WHAT? Think of the fanfic!

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

Oh, Vegas!John :happy sigh: Such a woobie! Joe was awesome and I liked this version of Rodney as well. Must see how much extra the DVD version has.

[gyri.livejournal.com]

YES!!

[soryu]

So so HOT!!! ♥

[berryann.livejournal.com]

I loved Vegas! It's my # 3 of all SGA episodes. Joe was amazing. And that scene, the last scenes in general, with John Sheppard's death so absolutely moving. As Joe once said "an ordinary guy caught up in extraordinary circumstances"... *sighs*

[mezzo-cammin.livejournal.com]

What? He died? Oh, no, no, no! I'm pretty sure Rodney came back and fixed him! *g*

[berryann.livejournal.com]

Awwww I'd always thought so too, you know! But Joe said that John was "pretty dead"...ever since I saw that GW interview I've felt so disappointed...

If you haven't seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcK6wYR9aZ8

[gyri.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes he did.

*nods firmly*

[berryann.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) If you haven't seen this pic, this way, please:
http://berryann.livejournal.com/18171.html

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of emotions when I look at this pix...........
I guess I am still deeply devastated about what happened to him in the end.
It was unconscionable.

[gyri.livejournal.com]

Nope. Absolutely not.

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

If they were going to do it, they would have scrambled a chopper directly after the hit...........but he crawled from what was left of his car
out into the desert to die..........
I cannot see anything else.........
I find it sad because there was IMO some hope
given he had called in the coordinates, so there was something left of
his former self........

[valika56.livejournal.com]

This was epic.*sigh* I always thought that Vegas!John was found in time and taken to the SGC, didn't die and finally became a member of the Atlantis expedition. In sci-fi everything is possible!

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

jhgfdsdfgjkl; that is one HIGH DEF PIC! :O *wowed*

[rubygirl29.livejournal.com]

I don't know about it being the finale, but it is in my top 3 favorite eps. Vegas!John is just amazing. You could build a whole AU around his character. Joe, as Det. Sheppard, was amazing. Flawed, wounded, cynical, yet still altruistic enough to turn around and do the job.

((sigh))

I miss Sheppard so much!

[em_kellesvig]

Oh, I do miss SGA! I loved Det. Sheppard. He was so brilliantly flawed. I want to believe they got there in time but I know it made "that producer" happy to have Sheppard dead, even if it was only in another timeline.

(I still think Joe Flanigan would have been the best choice for Rockford.)

[gyri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but look where it got them: (from berryann's LJ):

The news comes from : www.deadline.com/2010/05/primetime-pilot-panic-3rd-update-whats-on-the-hot-list-whats-not/

ROCKFORD FILES: NBC has been very high on this for obvious reasons (well-known franchise ... David Shore reinventing the old series... Steve Carell producing). But the network did not like the first cut, which was heavily reedited and there are some questions about Dermot Mulroney as the roguish private eye. Early buzz on the new cut is positive. Creator David Shore is looking for a showrunner.

Heh.

(BTW, what is a "showrunner," anyone know? They're not looking to recast, are they?).

[gyri.livejournal.com]

I just answered my own question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_runner

[mezzo-cammin.livejournal.com]

It really was a great performance. The whole episode was an example of how awesome the show *could* have been if the writers had stepped outside their comfort zones every now and then. Obviously, the actors loved it, because they had a chance to exercise their acting chops, as well. I wouldn't have minded if it had been the last episode of the series, because of the potential for another Stargate series to pick right up where this one left off.

Hmmm...

[stella-pegasi.livejournal.com]

I couldn't begin to add any additional comments to the great observations that have already been made, I agree with all of you. Det. John Sheppard was one of the most interesting, complex, and sexy characters on TV in a long time. JF did such an amazing job of of giving us the John Sheppard we love and then add that incredible bad boy twist that made Det. Sheppard so hot. I think we all feel that not only were we cheated by the producers but so were these actors who gave life to the characters and made them more than how they were written. I could watch VegasJohn for a long time...and I refuse to believe he died. Not going there! (And EaG sucked...back on Earth...how stupid did the producers think we were? How's the Universe thingy going boys????")

[vecturist.livejournal.com]

Am I shallow if I say I would let Det. Sheppard frisk me? I promise not to enjoy it too much...

[ninja007.livejournal.com]

I agree that Vegas blew the socks off the last episode. Joe kicked ass and didn't need to take names...