I would think it would suck to come to the show just as it was ending, but that's what dvd is for, eh? I used mine to get a friend hooked after season 4 and she was so sad that the new ones from season 5 where nowhere near as good as the seasons I had on dvd and tape. She figures I shouldn't have gotten her obsessed with a show on the way out, like it's my fault it took years of pesteriing to get her to watch (you'd think she'd listen the second time, but it actually took more pestering to get her to watch SG1 and SGA)