Jay Brazeau
Jay played Harlan in two episodes of Stargate SG1 ( Double Jeopardy and Tinman) and was the Lord Protector in the Atlantis episode The Tower. He has also guest starred on Whistler, Supernatural, Reaper, Cold Squad, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Cedar Cove and Psych as well providing the voice for many animated series and performing on the stage. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice
Rachel inherits the belongings including a house after the death of her aunt Rebecca. She decides to take her daughter Katherine along to allow the youngster to learn more about her family’s history. On arrival they met the local sheriff and the attorney handling the inheritance. Both seem a little disturbed that Rachel will be staying in the family home especially after a man named Simon had been dragged kicking and screaming from the house when Rebecca was found dead in her bed alongside a skeleton.
Of course it’s not going to be all wine and roses as Rachel begins to explore the mystery that was Rebecca’s life and discovers that the skeleton was around 40 years old and shows evidence of dark magic engraving on it’s bones but maybe it’s too late. Rachel having found a brooch drew blood and we see her personality change as her dreams show a young Rebecca engaged in satanic like sexual activities with we assume the man whose skeleton shared her bed for decades. The Legacy sends help in the form of Nick and back by their resources the secrets are revealed leading to a confrontation between a fully possessed Rachel who is totally off her rocker but her daughter is the rock which draws her back.
The Inheritance is a dark and very atmospheric episode of Poltergeist The Legacy, the music and cinematography at times goes far beyond what you would expect from a weekly hour long show. The funding from Showtime no doubt made the show better than it could have been if created for another channel as perhaps shown by the fourth season when Scifi took over the show. That said the episode was nicely paced, lots of mystery and suspense, great guest stars especially for Stargate fans in the form of Don S. Davis and Garry Chalk and a dark element which certainly makes the programme not for kids.
Our thanks to Thomas for joining Mike to discuss The Inheritance as Alan was overseas when the show was recorded. We’ve decided next week we are going to be releasing the discussion between Mike, Brad and Andrew on the 1994 theatrical feature and then perhaps the week after our look at the premiere of Travelers and to wrap up the bonus season our look back at Stargate Atlantis. Comments etc are most welcome and while we are having website issues hopefully they will be resolved shortly but until then merry christmas and a happy new year.
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Sarah Mutch
Sarah played Celina in the Stargate Universe episode Earth and has appeared on Smallville, Jake 2.0, Funkytown, Chillerama and Supernatural, she is also a fashion model having
graced the cover of Maxim and Cosmo. IMDB
John Prowse
John appeared on three episodes of Stargate SG1 playing Colonel Pearson ( The Scourge and Lost City parts 1 and 2). He has also been on Cold Squad, The 4400, Saved, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Skyquake. IMDB Official
Nicole de Boer
Nicole appeared just the once on Stargate Atlantis as Dr Alison Porter in the excellent episode Whispers. She is better known for her time on Deep Space Nine (Ezri Dax), The Dead Zone tv series (Sarah) and the movie The Cube as well as recent guest spots on Haven, Private Eyes and Reign. IMDB Twitter
Reg Tupper
Reg played a doctor in the Stargate SG1 episode In The Line of Duty and has also guest starred on shows such as Smallville, Dead Zone, Tru Calling, Dead Like Me, Motive, Intelligence and R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour. IMDB
Jason McKinnon
Jason played Airman Walker in the SG1 episode The Scourge and has also appeared on The Flash, Motive, Falling Skies, Tru Calling, Smallville, Supernatural, Fringe, The Man in the High Castle and A Wish for Christmas. IMDB Twitter
Well here we are again once more taking a look at Stargate Infinity and it’s premiere episode Decision. This time around Alan and Shayne sat down earlier this year to record a commentary intended for a april fools joke but it was better used for a christmas bonus show so sit back and enjoy.
In Stargate Infinity “Decision” we are introduced to the world which is set around 30 years after the SGC was created and became operational. The characters are totally new and the SGC seems to have expanded significantly as more vehicles are used thus the gateroom and ramp are designed for such a purpose. The story begins with the court martial of Major Gus Bonner who supposedly disobeyed orders which led to his team being killed by an alien threat. An age old sarcophagus is discovered believed to house the remains of an ancient (which turns out to be still alive) and once again Bonner is seen to be allowing the aliens to invade the SGC. The young SG team still under training battle the invading aliens and when cut off they escape through the gate and find themselves far from home, Bonner now in their eyes exonerated leads them onwards on the journey to find their way home and to solve the puzzle of the ancient creature.
Stargate Infinity lasted just a season (26 episodes) but did get a DVD release. While the voice talent for the show is impressive the show can not be considered canon and overall suffers due to poor animation and the simple fact they chose not to make the most of the existing TV series as basis for their stories. As we’ve seen with Star Wars if you allocate a reasonable budget and use the establish source material to the max you can create an entertaining show for new and existing fans, Infinity failed to do either.
Our thanks to Shayne for joining Alan for their look at SGI S1E1 “Decision” and shame on them for not doing episode two like they planned but I guess who can blame them:)
Next week we are going to be taking a look at Poltergeist The Legacy S1E18 “Inheritance” which features Stargate cast and crew in front and behind the camera, Thomas joined Mike for that show so tune in and let us know what you think. We still have the Atlantis retrospective, Travelers premiere and Stargate (movie) to look at before we return to Stargate Universe so if you have time on your hands over the holidays we’re here to help you fill it. Oh also worth noting that Travelers will be appearing on Netflix from December the 23rd.
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Kate Hewlett
Kate played Jeannie Miller in four episodes of Stargate Atlantis and she has also appeared on Psych, Degrassi:TNG, The LA Complex and A Dog’s Breakfast with her brother David. She also stars on The Stanley Dynamic, played Sarah om The Girlfriend Experience and was the story editor on The LA Complex. IMDB Twitter
Ernie Hudson
Ernie was Pernaux in the Stargate SG1 episode Ethon but is best known for his role on Ghostbusters or maybe as Warden Glynn on Oz. He has also appeared on ER, Wild Palms, Bones, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order and Heaven Sent. IMDB Twitter Official
David MacInnis
David played Talus on Stargate Atlantis The Return 1&2 and Agent Williams on Stargate SG1 Ex Deus Machina, he has also appeared on Dead Like Me, The 4400, A Louder Silence, Saving Hope and Smallville. IMDB
Matthew Harrison
Matthew played Darien in the Stargate SG1 episode Double Jeopardy and a Scientist on the Atlantis episode Conversion. He has also appeared on Chaos, Reaper and Smallville. IMDB
Dan Pelchat
Dan has been a Stunt Performer and Actor on shows such as Stargate Universe, Intelligence, Arrow, Continuum, Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From the Heart, Sanctuary, Andromeda and Tasmanian Devils. IMDB
Shelene Yung
Shelene was an uncredited stunt performer on two episodes of Stargate Universe (Incursion: Part 1 & Sabotage). She has also worked on Smallville, Down River, Supernatural, Witches of East End, The Flash, Arrow and The 100 and acted on shows such as Lucifer, Fireball and Fear Itself. IMDB
It’s the time of the year again when I am indulging in christmas themed movies a lot of which are churned out by one or two US channels. I watched “Dashing Through The Snow” the other day which was actually released last year but the trailer looked fun and there were a few actors who had previously worked on Stargate so I tuned in. The movie is a feel good holiday comedy with some romance centered around two people (Meghan Ory and Andrew W. Walker) on a road trip towards Seattle, the twist is that the FBI believes one of them is a terrorist (yeah I know) but still fun.
Michael Shanks
Michael took on the television role of Daniel Jackson for the premiere of Stargate SG1 Children of the Gods through to Stargate Universe (minus 1 season of SG1 of course). He’s currently starring in Saving Hope as Dr Charlie Harris which returns in the new year and has had notable guest roles on 24, Smallville, Flashpoint, Andromeda and Burn Notice as well as starring in one or two of my favoured scifi/creature features. IMDB Official Twitter
When Paul McGillion’s mother gazed down upon her newborn child – her sixth of an eventual seven, all born in the family home in Paisley, Scotland – and considered his full head of hair, she was. . .
Source: ‘Stargate: Atlantis’ actor dishes on challenging new film role
Martin Christopher
Martin has appeared in all three live action Stargate series as well as Ark Of Truth, he played Kevin Marks who rose through the ranks during the run of the franchise. He has also appeared in Fringe, Supernatural, Eureka and Sanctuary. IMDB Unofficial
Leah Ehman
Leah was a makeup artist and department head on Stargate Atlantis between 2004 and 2007. She has also worked on Sucker Punch, I Robot, First Wave, TRON Legacy, In the Name of the King: Two Worlds, The Secret Circle and The Dead Zone. IMDB
Sarah Douglas
Sarah played the Tok’ra Yosuuf / Garshaw of Belote in two episodes of Stargate SG1 (The Tok’ra Parts 1 and 2) but she is certainly better known for playing Ursa in the Superman movies as well as the evil Pamela in the original V, Emmerdale Farm, Deathwalker on Babylon 5 and starring in the US soap Falcon Crest. IMDB Twitter Official Behind The Voice
Ben Browder
Ben played Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell in the ninth and tenth seasons of Stargate SG1 & John Crichton in the scifi series Farscape. He has also guest starred on Doctor Who, Arrow, Dead Still, Chuck and CSI Miami. Director of the upcoming feature Bad Kids of Crestview Academy. IMDB Unofficial
Peter Kelamis
Peter played Dr Adam Brody on Stargate Universe and has appeared on Motive, Fringe, Eureka, Smallville, Beat Bugs and Psych. He also voices animated features and performs stand up comedy. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice
In Memory Of
Katherine Lawrence (December 11 1954 – March 25 2004)
Katherine was a writer on Stargate Infinity as well as writing for other animated shows such as Conan: The Adventurer, Hypernauts,Dungeons & Dragons and Biker Mice from Mars.
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On this weeks bonus episode we are joined by Ian to take a look at the series premiere of Dark Matter. The show was created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie who in their time wrote and produced episodes of Stargate SG1, Atlantis and Universe. This Syfy funded show tells the story of the crew of a spaceship who awoke from stasis with no memory of who they are, they do retain their intelligence and muscle memory skills but the details of their identity remains clouded. The ship’s android perceives them as a threat and attacks but is shut down and security protocols purged thus allowing her to serve this crew and to freely delve into the mystery of who they are. As the crew (numbered from the order they awoke) explore the ship they learn a few things and discover some puzzling aspects of what the ship had been doing but still nothing to identify themselves. They do come across an impregnable security door and a weapons cache, advanced heavy weapons and then the first clue as the android identifies the destination the ship was initially set for. They travel to the planet and find an independent mining colony who are expecting an assault by a corporation’s alien mercenaries, they tell the crew they sent for weapons to aid in their defence and boxes begin to get ticked. The crew return to the ship and decide to provide the miners with some of the weapons but once again the android makes a break through and reveals some personnel files stored in the computer, the crew are all wanted for extreme crimes and are not here to help the miners but are the mercenaries sent to kill them!
Dark Matter premiered on June 12 2015 on both the Space channel and the Syfy channel with a thirteen episode first season, the episodes in an amusing decision had no name just numbers. The second season premiered July 1 2016 with a third season currently under production. The premiere episode is technically a two parter but aired as two separate episodes and stands alone without any issues, the cliffhanger actually works very well with the revelation of who these people are, well all apart from Five who remains a mystery. The show has an excellent ensemble cast, two familiar faces (Jodelle Ferland and Roger Cross) who had appeared in Stargate along with Melissa O’Neil, Anthony Lemke, Alex Mallari Jr. Alex Mallari Jr, Marc Bendavid and Zoie Palmer fresh from her role on Lost Girl. The series also evolved from a limited run comic book series of the same name written by Joseph and Paul and published by Dark Horse in 2012.
The premiere episode was entertaining and made the most of the mystery of the ship and the crew, the viewers were allowed to learn at the same rate as the principle characters and thus each revelation paid off to it’s fullest. The cast seem to have quickly embraced their roles although there is an awful lot of experience on screen and certainly behind the camera, these days a show needs to find traction quickly and Dark Matter certainly did that. The first season has a DVD and Blu-ray release in the stated but alas only DVD in the majority of markets and it fails to live up to the incredible standards in terms of extras we Stargate fans are used to receiving.
Our thanks to Ian who joined us to watch Dark Matter, this was his first exposure to the series and it certainly sounded like he enjoyed the show and would continue to watch. As always we are grateful to everyone that continues to listen and interact to our Stargate coverage and we know this holiday season means a drop in listeners (we too have more important things to do) but hopefully these bonus episodes will tide is all over until we return with Universe in the new year. Next week we are going to be releasing the Shayne and Alan discussion of Stargate Infinity, yes it’s not all fun and games but then again when Brad and Mike talked about Infinity it was a fun time despite the quality of the show being discussed so tune in next week, share and enjoy.
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