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jarrak

A fan of the show since it premiered on SKY1 in the UK so many years ago. Single and likely to remain so, I'm hard to live with:)

Gatecast 309 SGA Vegas

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Apr 162016

Vegas

Picture this, the desert just outside of Las Vegas and a police cordon surrounding a desiccated body, a car roars up and Detective John Sheppard arrives to continue the investigation into a string of murders. A number of bodies have been turning up and it looks like the life has been drained from them, a strange radiation residue is on each and a hand print on their chests, for the viewers the alarm bells are ringing but there is a twist. Vegas is the first Stargate episode which takes place fully in an alternate reality (similar to the Enterprise episode Through a Mirror Darkly) and for a brief amount of time the viewer could be convinced John is back on Earth in an undercover roles but no this is another Earth and all our favourite characters (minus the Pegasus derived Teyla and Ronon) are here but not quite the same. In many ways the episode sticks out like a sore thumb and certainly polarises the audience thanks to the production style and music choices but it does still fit into the season/series with direct links to plot elements explored previously. I’m not going into to much detail plot wise because this is an episode if you haven’t seen then you should and if you haven’t seen it since it aired it’s well worth going back too, trust me:)

Vegas also allowed the producers to get many of the crew and familiar former cast members into the show, again a pity Jason and Rachel didn’t appear but we did get Gary Jones, Neil Jackson, Jody Thompson, Christopher Heyerdahl, Paul Jarrett and Carmen Moore on screen. Cameos included Joel Goldsmith, Charles Cohen, Roy Winston, Todd Brunson and of course Brad Wright.

Many thanks to Matthew for joining Alan on this episode, audio issues appeared late in the day meaning they couldn’t be addressed so apologies for the quality but we’re sure we can solve that before Matthew returns for an episode of Universe sometime in the future. This weeks podcast promo is for Tuning Into Sci-Fi TV and next week we are going to be discussing the series finale “Enemy at the Gate” and didn’t that come around fast?

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Stargate Birthday – April 16th

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Apr 162016

Ilan Srulovicz
Ilan appeared twice on Stargate Universe as a Lucian Alliance soldier in the episodes Incursion 1 & 2. He’s also been in Undressed, NCIS New Orleans, Secrets And Lies, Shattered, Smallville and The Walking Dead. Ilan has also directed and produced a couple of shorts. IMDB

Stargate Birthday – April 15th

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Apr 152016

Laurie Murdoch
Laurie played Calder the Administrator in the Stargate SG1 episode Beneath The Surface a scifi cliche plot but not a bad episode. He has also guest starred on Cold Squad, Rookie Blue, Copper, Psych, Warehouse 13, Covert Affairs, Reign, Dan for Mayor and Saving Hope. IMDB

Stargate Birthday – April 14th

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Apr 142016

Robert Carlyle
Robert starred in all forty episodes of Stargate Universe playing the highly opinionated Dr Nicholas Rush and is currently starring in Once Upon A Time as Mr Gold and his alter ego. He has also appeared on The Full Monty, 24, The World Is Not Enough , Hamish Macbeath, Cracker, Ravenous, The Last Enemy, The Legend of Barney Thomson and Trainspotting. IMDB Twitter

Stargate Birthdays – April 13th

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Apr 132016

Erick Avari
Erick appeared in both the original Stargate theatrical movie and three episodes of SG1 as Kasuf (Absolute Power, Forever in a Day and Secrets). He has also guest starred on Heroes, Enterprise, The X-Files, Babylon 5, Warehouse 13, Grimm and TNG. IMDB Official
Michael Cassutt
Michael wrote the Stargate SG1 episode Tangent and has also written for Andromeda, Seven Days, Z-Nation, Odyssey 5 and The Dead Zone. He is also a published author. IMDB Twitter

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Stargate Birthdays – April 12th

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Apr 122016

Tom O’Brien
Tom guest starred as Brian Volger in the Stargate SG1 episode Covenant and has guest starred on Smallville, Supernatural, The Dead Zone and Timecop the series. IMDB
Ashley O’Connell
Ashley played the Fruit Stand Owner in the Stargate Atlantis episode Irresponsible & appeared in the movie Watchmen but spends more time on the stage than on television. IMDB
Cameron K. Smith
Cameron played the Jaffa warrior Re’Lo in the Stargate SG1 episode The Changling and has also appeared on Supernatural, Fringe, Smallville, Taken and Alcatraz. IMDB

Stargate Birthdays – April 11th

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Apr 112016

Douglas H. Arthurs
Douglas appeared in four episodes of Stargate SG1, three as the system lord Heru’ur (The Serpent’s Venom, Secrets, Thor’s Chariot) and one as Kah’l (The Serpent’s Lair). He has also been in The X-Files, Harsh Realm, Smallville, Masters of Horror, Arrow and Kingdom Hospital. IMDB
Matthew Walker
Matthew played both Roham & Merlin in five Stargate SG1 episodes as well as Moros in the Stargate Atlantis episode Before I Sleep. He’s also guest starred on Blood Ties, Smallville, Cold Squad, Mr Young and Sanctuary. IMDB

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Stargate TV Spot – Venus Terzo

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Apr 102016

Venus Terzo guest starred as Dr. Schwartz on the latest episode of Arrow S4E18 “Eleven-Fifty-Nine”, it may indeed be the same character she played on an earlier episode of the series.

Gatecast 308 SGA Identity

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Apr 092016

Identity

Identity opens up with a young woman we haven’t seen before but that’s not unusual on Atlantis. A we knew lots of expedition members are only revealed when the story requires but something still seems a little off. Well we were right, she stabs Zelenka after he was calling her Jennifer and her refection also indicated it was Jennifer so we have an alien or maybe someone in control of the good doctors body, it won’t be the first time. The woman is detained after she attempts to steal a jumper and then pulling a gun on Rodney and she reveals she and her friends were “thieves” seeking out Ancient tech and she had seen a strange device which we learn was the communication stone controller. So Jennifer is in the body of Neeva Casol and Neeva is now in Jennifer’s body and the condition of that is yet to be determined. It turns out that she has been captured and has been sentenced to death, lucky for Jennifer just before the axe falls Neeva’s associates (Bordal and Jannick) rescue her and then the fun begins.

The team gate to the planet where Neeva was before swapping bodies and in the chaos of the attack on the locales Neeva escapes but when she meets up with her guys they are suspicious which you can understand. Another clash with the local authorities leaves Bordal dead and Neeva seriously wounded, she is taken by the Atlanteans back to the village awhile Jannick confronts Jennifer. He draws his gun and aims it at her head, he is annoyed and confused and moments before we hear a gunshot the two women return to their own bodies…

Identity again like Infection seems a little out of place given how close we are to the series finale but obviously episodes were planned before the official cancellation notice was given. It is however a very standalone episode unless you take the use of the communication stones as a primer for Stargate Universe where they are kinda of a focal point of the show. Many thanks to Ian for joining me for this episode and he’ll be back have no fear. This weeks promo is for The Sci-Fi Movie podcast a very entertaining discussion based movie review show which looks at some of our favourite genre movies and has spun off with more specialised shows.