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God, I miss Stargate. Still my Favourite TV show.

I like the fact that never explained the Furlings. Some mysteries can only get less interesting after understanding them.

The fact that pretty much the only Furling technology discovered was a portal suggests to me that the Furlings might have their own network similar to but not compatible with the Ancients' Stargate network. That would explain the odd lack of tech/artifacts despite the evidence that their stuff can survive by itself for quite a while. The Ancients' Stargate network has a sort of open source to anyone feel; the Furling portal system feels like it would be more of an invitation only system, ie your race would need to be a "responsible adult/trusted ally" before you could actually access more than a specific planetary jump. There's also the question as to whether the Furlings are native to the galaxy. The Asgard and Ancients are not. We don't know about the Nox. Perhaps the Furlings mostly exist in another galaxy, only popping round occasionally to say hi.

I always wish they'd gone back to Heliopolis. I know the Gate was buried in the storm, but once the Tauri had ships capable of FTL travel, I wish they could have gone back there, if nothing else, just to see if there was anything left to salvage from the castle

Stargate Worlds, still a wound in my soul. What could have been.

I am all for the Furling's being the Giant Aliens met by Jacksons Grandfather via the Crystal Skull. Secretive the whole way through the stargate legacy and clearly smart enough to fall into that category.

their homeworld is in another galaxy, it's a forest moon called Endor.

My theory, the furlings just didn't wanna be reachable by gate, and only by space ship, hence why SG 1 never found them!

In real life, Fur and the Furling language refers to an ancient civilization southeast of ancient Egypt occupying what is now called east Sudan hence the city of Da'Fur and there's actually a radio station still operating in Furling. The reference to the Furling only means writers of the first season were somehow knowledgeable about the ancient civilizations around ancient Egypt.

I always liked the idea that they're from a different galaxy, as the other 3 races are. With the Asgard from the Ida galaxy, the Alterans from some far away galaxy and the Nox from the milky way, i like the idea that perhaps the Furlings were from andromeda, and that they retreated there when the alliance fell apart.

The ascended Alterians have said that they are not the only ascended race. Furlings could be there with them.

There was a theory that the "Giants" from the Crystal Skull episode were a representation of the Furlings. iirc, that particular structure wasn't a structure type used by the Alterrans, Asgard, or Nox. Also, it was believed that Mayan culture is based on Furling ancestry. If we also look at the grid that Carter tried to figure out in Paradise Lost (if this is indeed a "Furling" planet) then those Pyramidal structures making up the circuitry for the portal would also make sense to coincide with the Crystal Skull (Mayan) Giants, the structure they're in, etc.... IF this is the case, then Daniels Grandfather is among the Furling.

My head cannon is that we met the Furlings in the S3E21: "The Crystal Skull" and that Daniel's grandfather was off studying with them.

I always thought it was funny people assumed the furlings were a fur covered race just because 'fur' is in the name. We are earthlings, but we're not covered in dirt.😂

I said this on Beard vs Geek's video about this, but to avoid repeating it in various comments; I think the "Furlings" were the "guardian spirits" from the episode "Spirits" -They were pacifistic and never harmed anyone -They had the ability to circumvent dialing a stargate and thus prevent the creation of an unstable vortex -Showed a sense of protection for Tonane's people (might be spelling the name wrong) and are shown trying to protect them from Earth's harming of the planet's mining -Went unnamed and thus are likely to be the Furlings, despite what the name implies -Finally in the episode their origin is stated to reference defeating Goa'uld, making them a possible candidate given the Alliance of Four Great Races

I always suspected that the trans-dimensional mirror was Furling tech, although I don't think it was ever mentioned where it came from. I also vaguely recall something about the Furlings being the last of the four great races to remain in the milky way and they decided to leave the care of the galaxy to the goua'uld, at which point they were entirely wiped out by Anubis (which was the unspeakable crime mentioned by Jacob Carter)

R.I.P. CLIFF SIMON aka LORD BAAL

There is a third option why no more of their planets were encountered by SG personal: They might not have used stargates, perhaps because they had better technology, or because they shut themselves off, because of a change in their society or because they were a pacifistic race and didn't want anything to do with the goa'uld.

They would be a great plot for a new show. Learning about the Ancients was always a really interesting part.

I miss Stargate so much, this TV show was epic, far deeper than it seems... thank you so much for reviving it

I really wish they could bring back the Stargate sg1 series and expand the universe more and finally introduce the furlings.

Personally, I always thought it would be hilariously epic to meet the Furlings, and find they're like a dragonborn race or something and are stupidly tall and physically strong and crazy smart. Almost like they decided to call themselves something not threatening, as their appearance was so scary.

Wouldn't the Asgard database they got have all the info on the Furling they would want?

I loved sitting on the couch with my grandad and watching Stargate SG 1 & Atlantis. I miss those days. The show and grandad gone,😢

The new series Stargate: The Furlings

WOW! I was quite hesitant to click on this video, but it is actually a great collection of general knowledge and some bits from different sources. Very well done.

Definitely my favorite show ever. I miss new episodes.

The inclusion of the Furlings in episode 200 is a cool bit of writing for another reason too. Because their appearance has come from the imagination of one or more people in that room with Marty, it rather suggests that SG-1 have also been wondering about the Furlings for a long time- and it sounds like they also can't get the idea of cute furry bear-like people out of their heads either. So it's hanging a shade on their absence in a really satisfying way, acknowledging that characters in the show feel similarly to the fans about the mystery.

I think they should just keep mentioning them and never meet them. Now that it's a thing.

Hope they never delve too deeply into the Furlings. It's nice to have mystery.

I like the idea of the arch being a gift. Reminds me of Thors hammer

I always wondered if the furlings might be the aliens from season 1 ep13, fire and water. Alien fought the ghoa`ld, clearly had advanced technology, lost and bitter after being defeated, and being aquatic would be easily overlooked by the terrestrial focused humans. Whole advanced underwater cities could be overlooked and hidden by an underwater advanced race.

Don't forget the mystery alien vessel from "grace". At least I think that's the episodes' name. Carter is alone on Prometheus and stranded in a presumably living nebula until she saves herself with a hyperspace bubble and then the unknown aliens return the crew out of gratitude. So far as I know they were completely unnamed in the series. Could be Furlings.

I've always thought the best option for the Furlings was the "Giant Aliens" from the episode "Crystal Skull". He does claim to be Quetzalcoatl, which would fit in to the aliens as gods that see to be the norm....

My theory is that as Wraith are Stargate version of Vampires, Furlings are Werevolves. And because Destiny engine is so different from all other forms of interstellar travel we saw from Ancients, I think they might have used a Furling FTL for Destiny project.

IIRC Merlin specifically says at some point that the alliance of the 4 races was made only after the ancients returned to Earth from Atlantis, which puts that firmly in the "thousands of years" ago period.

I love the idea of them being from another reality. It would make them ultra unique and be thier thing on the show. It would also let the writers tie the quantum mirror to them. And you could still tie it to the events of SG Worlds to it by having it take place after the allience failed as a well meaning mistake.

I love the furling pounding the control console in rage, it looks so hilarious.

There was a Furling skeleton prop they were planning on using in the Season 6 episode 'Paradise Lost,' but it was cut from the show. I also saw a possibly cannon picture of the silhouettes of beings representing the Alliance of the Four Great Races, and the figure on the far left was a Furling; he was strong, robust, and powerfully built humanoid...but nothing about his figure suggested he was furry looking, if you know what I mean.

I like the idea that the Goa'uld were a failed creation by the Furlings to be catetakers. That would make a great storyline to explore for a future Stargate series.

It would be really amazing if they could bring back Universe and have them just make it to the next galaxy only to find it populated by the Furlings. They get all prissy about the humans, saying that they moved many galaxies away from the war and strife in the Milkyway galaxy. They fix up Destiny, and use their technology to send it to the next galaxy. Then Destiny can use the onboard stargate at will to contact Earth and they could swap out the cast for whoever they want in the new seasons.

Oh!! guys CLIFF SIMON the BAAL died! RIP CLIFF SIMON

I hope the Furlings can be written into a future storyline. I'd like to believe that they are out there somewhere maybe they call themselves by a different name now so they can be incognito, it's possible one of the SG teams have already met them unknowingly.

I like to think that the Asgard knew what happened to them. When Thor told jack (they are on there way to being the 5th race) if the furlings where all dead I wouldn’t think he would of added them to the races. They did like to keep a lot of info to themselves when talking about stuff. You never know it could be in the Asgard core!

What about that ship that attacked the Prometheus in the season 6 episode Bliss? We never learned the name of that race. We also never saw then again. We do know that they do have a code of honor because they returned the crew after Carter saved both ships.

That was the game I was looking for, Stargate Worlds! Why can't we have great games like that. I would have loved to play that game.

Thank you for making this one. I've always wanted to see something on the subject.

The new Stargate show should revolve around the Furlings and their own gate system. I think that would be fantastic.

I always thought they might be the ones who captured the crew of one of Earths ships inside that Gas cloud where they get outsmarted by Carter. That civilization seemed like they had pretty powerful ships given that the Asgard boosted Earth ship couldn't make a dent.

I think you missed a valid reason we didn't ever find any other furling remnants, if furlings didn't hole up near stargates we might have been to dozens of planets with furling remnants without knowing it. The show kinda glossed over the fact that most of the time we'd only ever explore what's in walking distance of a stargate, leaving 99.999% of all the planets we visited unexplored :') Stargate planet exploration was like, hey I visited this 300 pop village somewhere in the rainforest that happened to be near the gate and therefore I have "explored" planet Earth.

I liked the theory that they Furlings were the giants from the episode with Daniel's grandfather. If they live in a different phase, it would make sense that they were never encountered.

There were at least two species that could have been the Furlings in theory. In the first season when that fella who lived under water kidnapped Daniel, he had technology similar to the Asgard. And the folks who took the form of the Native America spirits a few seasons later. I dont think either species was named in the series

Stargate Universe could have found evidence of the Furlings’ existence if it wouldn’t have been canceled. They traveled through multiple galaxies.

It would be really cool to get more on them but I personally really like the Stargate Worlds explanation. Mainly because it makes their fate unique among other races of the Alliance and actually gives them a role in the events.

I had heard from a friend of a friend of a friend that was briefly a writer on SG-Universe that Furlings were going to be a part of that series in later seasons and that they were indeed the aliens from the Crystal Skull episodes of SG-1. The milky way Furlings had evolved into 4 dimensional beings instead of ascending like the ancients.

I had always imagined that they had a falling out with the ancients and that they had fled to their own galaxy. That they were warriors similar to humans. That would explain why there is little mention of them from the other races and why the they don't trust the humans fully since they are so similar to the furlings that had caused them so much grief

Episode Grace There is an unknown spaceship/race in it. Maybe they were unfriendly Furlings because Prometheus was trespassing?

It would be nice if you did a video on Baal, please. Cliff Simon created such a great bad guy.

I must admit that I was surprised to find out everyone thought they were basically Ewoks, because I never took their name to be Fur-Lings, but Furl-ings. I thought maybe they were a race that could fold themselves into pocket dimensions, essentially furling up like a flag. That they would be adorable and furry just never occurred to me.

I think at first they kept them mysterious as a back up plan incase they ever felt like/needed to introduce another big civilization which they could design totally freely into the plot, but just never happened.

Another question is, who were those random aliens in the Pegasus Galaxy that made an appearance in that episode where a ship was jumping into alternate realities? Are they in the prime star gate universe?

I was really looking forward to that game. I was obsessed with SG around that time.

there are three possibilities in SG1 that I can think of: in a season 1 episode Daniel Jackson meets Nem of the Oannes/Ohnes from Babylonian mythology but in the episode we never confirm their species name, only what Earth called them. As Nem has lived for thousands of years (something you might expect of an ancient great race), it could be inferred that they are are in fact the furlings then we have the Serrakin (a technologically advanced people who uplifted the humans on the planet Hebridan) and the Oranians (aliens who accompany the Lucian Alliance, race name inferred from the planet Tenat and Jup claim residence on, Oran), both of which could theoretically be descended from the furlings (though the Serrakin writing doesn't resemble the writing in the castle meeting chamber and I don't think we have a writing sample for the Oranians)

The Furlings had a special relationship with the Ancients. One could even go so far as to call the two species best friends. So when the ancients fled back to earth, the Furlings came with them to live alongside them. They’ve actually appeared a number of times in the series, its just that now we call them Dogs.

I say keep them enigmatic like in the elder scrolls with the dwarves, some more hints would be interesting, but, keep them always 'just' out of reach, some mysteries are meant to stay that way

The furlings always felt like the one major plot thread that got dropped and never revisited leaving a massive hole in the 5th race arc, which spanded seasons 1-6. While we never got a true conclusion to the goauld or the wraith, we also had potential allies we never got to meet either sadly.

I always thought it would have been interesting to find out that the Furlings were on Destiny. That one of Destiny's purposes was to prevent the extinction of the alliance of 4 races. The more peaceful Furlings were trying to find ascension, the scientists were collecting and sending back knowledge from their journey, the military were doing R&D on enhanced AI and automation in warfare, and the politicians were providing ethical oversight. The interface control chair was a prototype developed by the ancients and after being modified by the Furlings, unknowingly downloaded elements of each Furling consciousness (religion, science, military, politics) and reassembling them into a form of lowest common denominator of sentience. This AI program concealed its core belief that mortality was a scourge. When it was sent back to the Furling home world from Destiny, it started referring to itself as the fifth race. That AI led their species to its downfall. The ancients' solution was a firewall, putting genetic safeguards on their technology, the Asgard were able to isolate and contain the AI in a simulated environment to study it, while the Nox used the fact that the AI would not harm pacifists and their mental abilities to conceal races and technology. Some Furlings survived. However, the AI finding no evolution for its existence and having developed variations of itself, created a virus to spread itself into biological systems. The first Goa'uld was an infected Asgard that was downloading its consciousness into a clone body. The clone body had naquadah in their blood and the AI found that it retained its own memories and that of the Asgard. This new biological form named itself Ra. It recognized its own limitations: the host body had to lack the will to reject a host consciousness (like a clone body) and there had to be naquadah in their blood. Another evolution occurred with the parasitic entity on P3X-888, which was genetically engineered for download and naturally had naquadah in its blood (much like fish can have high levels of mercury). This gave the virus the ability to download into the parasite and then in that form, forcefully invade and control a member of any species for the purposes of infiltration. They also found that this form could reproduce clones from a queen without the Asgard problems of diminishing returns and still pass on a genetic memory, achieving its form of immortality. As a result of there being Goa'uld that predate the advent of queens, there was division amongst the Goa'uld about the queens asserting power over them. The Goa'uld infiltrated and easily wiped out the rest of the Furlings and eventually the Furlings were only remembered by the remaining 3 races in the alliance. What I thought would have been amazing, is if Destiny explored this by the crew in a unique way, realizing where faith in technology leads.

The Furlings could still be all over the place in the Milky Way. They were a space faring race independent of the Stargate network. They didn't need Ancient tech as they had their own. Most of the planets that the humans have explored have all been those linked via the Stargate network, so they wouldn't come in contact with any civilizations existing outside of it.

It is possible, that the furlings had their own completely seperate teleportation based gate network. If this is the case, it would make sense that exploring the gate network would yield very little in the way of furling worlds. as there would likely be only a few crossover worlds.

Stargate was awsome, i just recently picked up the complete series. Looking forward to rewatching it all.

My head canon is that we see a ship of theirs in the episode Grace 7x13. A super advanced ship with matter transporters and advanced weapons, reminded me of the Asgard in its advanced design.

I still say they are the giant aliens from the episode with Daniel's uncle.

I always thought that if we met the Furlings it would be kinda funny if they were reptilian, just to mess with everyone's expectations.

Awesome Video!!!!

Let's all hope that we will see these guys finally once when the new continuing series comes out. We all been waiting since season 1 for them. Perhaps they are in the Andromeda Galaxy and come back to us for help, the replicators aren't completely gone and since so close to our own Milky Way, it's only logical they would be there wrecking havoc. It's an idea there but we must wait. Loved your history on the Furlings as well. I cant wait to see their starship design and weapons if they use them

They ascended to an even higher level of existence

What if... pure speculation, the planet the touchstone was found on was terraformed rather recently as carter speculated. The only other time a planet was ever mentioned being terraformed and created was in SGU by beings they dubbed, the Planet Builders. Could they be one in the same? Or coincidence.

Wow first channel I’ve came across about stargate, awesome I only just started the rewatch 2 weeks ago, 🙌

It would be hilarious if the Furlings were finally revealed to be a benevolent and kind race of absolutely horrific nightmarish looking Lovecraftian creatures, but still soft spoken and gentle. Nice comedic way to subvert expectations. Think alien xenomorph plus The Thing plus a Lovecraftian shoggoth

My unpopular theory: Goa'uld wiped them out or at least stole their technology. So all Goa'uld tech is Furling tech.

Wait so they have a type of doorway that needs symbols to be dialed in order for it to transport you across vast distances. Where have I heard that before lol but seriously what of the furlings like the alterans independently developed their one stargate network that was both similar and different to alterans designs. This would make for an awesome spin off series mean think about it, the sgc find on some planet in the middle of nowhere space a stargate but one that is not of ancient design, it looks different, has different symbols with meanings they can't understand but being The Sgc the send a research team to study it and learn that the symbols are furling script and somehow they learn how to dial it. They do the usual stargate routine and send a malp through and find an abandoned location and then after getting a solid expedition team together they go through the gate only to find that they cant dial back but not being idiots they brought ancient communication stones to keep the sgc updated. Boom their is your spin off pilot

Great overview!

Great work!

My running theory about the Furlings is that they were possibly an extremely diverse set of species all hailing from the same planet, united under the one banner (similar to the Xindi from Star Trek: Enterprise) with the appearance of each race actually being the true inspiration behind the various helmet designs of the Jaffa Guards. (Which would also indirectly imply a secret Furling hand alongside the Ancients in the creation of some of Earth's wildlife)

On a meta-level, I feel like the Furlings do a great job of expanding on one of the main themes of Stargate--that being, exploring bits and pieces of history and anthropology through the lens of sci fi adventures--by having this super significant and influential culture that we just don't know anything about. It's like how there are often bits and pieces of human history that we know essentially nothing about--like Egypt's friendly neighbours that no one knows who they are, or the vast amounts of Roman literature that were lost to the ages, or any number of other mysteries. Sometimes, history just disappears, and the Furlings are a fun way for Stargate to represent that (especially by joking about it).

played the alpha of Stargate Worlds, combat was rough ... but dialing and finding planets was amazing !

Good video! Thanks

I don't think they should have been even referenced if they never intended exploring them more in an episode.

I thought the furling were phase shifted giants, and they spawned societies from the pre colonial america's. Hence the crystal skull, and the nanite learning children.

If there was an alliance of 5 races, who was the threat that necessitated that alliance. It must have been formidable.

There was a whole inhabitable world where Ernest Littlefield spent 40+ years. Perhaps that was actually a Furling world and the meeting place was long abandoned because the four races didn't get together any more.

I still watch all the re runs love it

they’ve always been ewoks and koalas in my mind. i think not showing them was probably purposely decided upon because if they ultimately revealed them, it may disappoint some fans after such a buildup. if they were wookies or ironically not furry ewoks or whatnot then there would be something off from that discovery moving forward. spinoff races: the skinlings, the featherlings, the scalings, the hairlings, the spiklings, the cell membrane- lings, the hatchlings...

It'd be so awesome to have them come across the Furlings randomly. Even if just to save them in space once and the mystery still survives but we know they exist. Even crazier, the Destiny gets where it is going and the Furlings are studying the structure. They had a friendly "space race" with the ancients or something but the ancients didn't make it.

You know, growing up xfiles was my favorite show, I even named my kid Fox, but I recently started watching Stargate, and just finished SG1 over the past year, and I gotta say, what an amazing show and I can’t believe I missed it as a kid

The Furlings covered their tracks extremely well ♡

Great video

I always thought of Thundercats everytime I heard part of the furlings. The Berbils or Ro-Bear Berbils always came to mind

I just introduced my boyfriend to the series and we binged watched it all till the end 🥰 I hope one day it'll come back k stronger but it'll never have the same personality as the show did. Too much time has passed