Isso foi discutido na conversa DVD comentário entre atriz Amanda Tapping (Major Carter) e Produtor Executivo Robert C. Cooper .
RH: Why would we kill them [the Asgard]? Well, to be honest with you, I think we wanted this episode to have an element of tragedy in it that would reflect how we were feeling. Some people might say "Isn't it enough that the show is ending, we're all sad about that...?"
AT: What did the Asgard do wrong!? It's too much!!
RH: I think that to us, it was important that there be something of tremendous resonance that got the episode started, that would make the characters feel the weight of what this episode was going to mean.
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