YMMV / Stargate: Continuum

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Was it merely coincidence that the alternate Apophis was the last of the opposing System Lords to fall? Or did Ba'al intentionally save him for last? After all, it was Apophis going host hunting in the original timeline that set off the chain of events which brought down the Goa'uld Empire. The execution of Apophis is a symbolic and necessary death cementing Ba'al's final victory over his rivals. But knowing Ba'al's personality, killing Apophis last could also easily have been for his own amusement — a private joke that only he would understand.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The little heartwarming moment when Sam and Daniel see General Hammond in the new timeline is made a little sadder with the knowledge that Don S. Davis died between filming his scenes and the release of the movie.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: By the time Continuum came out, the Time Travel and Alternate Universe plot archetypes had been well and truly tapped out and Continuum rehashes the same "solar flare" and "fix the future" plots used multiple times on SG-1 and Atlantis, not to mention in science fiction in general, considering popular shows like Star Trek had also done a lot of these types of episodes with a far bigger audience a decade earlier. It doesn't really do anything new apart from it involving a Goa'uld instead of a random flare or Ancient technology.
• Rooting for the Empire: Many fans seem to love the idea of Ba'al ruling Earth and secretly wished he'd won, probably because he promised a benevolent governance. It's open for debate how sincere he was. While he certainly didn't want to destroy Earth like all the other Goa'uld, there's a very real possibility he just wanted to covertly take over Earth without having to fight humanity forever, and he'd make them all slaves in the long run anyway. He does promise the rest of the System Lords new slaves and host bodies from Earth's population; apparently he wanted to arrange for some sort of tributary system.
• Stock Footage Failure: Even though there are a lot of CGI scenes including an aerial battle, some of the scenes involving the F15's are comprised of stock footage that obviously doesn't match. Even though the dialogue suggests the planes are loaded with minimal weapons and with multiple fuel tanks, the stock footage scenes show them with various loadouts ranging from minimal weapons but no fuel tanks, to nothing at all. The stock footage scenes are also varied in terms of quality, some look particularly low resolution or zoomed in.
• Strawman Has a Point: Alternate-Timeline General Landry at first seems like a typical Obstructive Bureaucrat determined to stop SG-1 from restoring their timeline. But then he calls them out on their arrogance in assuming that theirs is the "proper" timeline, especially since the Earth of this reality is actually better in a lot of ways. Of course that's all made moot when Ba'al's fleet shows up in orbit. That said, his argument falls apart when you consider that in the new timeline the Asgard may very likely be extinct and the Replicators still a threat somewhere out in the wider universe without the SGC to help stop them; even if this Earth could restart the Stargate Program, they'd be going out into a more hostile universe without most of their existing allies to help them get on their feet.

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