Always a pleasure to watch these reviews, funny and entertaining and now it’s time for an opinionated review of Stargate SG1 Children of the Gods the pilot for the series made for Showtime.
SFDebris
Apr 302013
Apr 292013
Happy birthday to Bruce Harwood who played Dr. Osbourne in the Stargate SG1 episode Frozen.
He is probably better known for playing Byers in The X-Files and then in The Lone Gunmen.
Many happy returns of the day to April Telek, she was Sallis in two episodes of Stargate SG1 (Origin & Avalon P2) and had recurring roles on Robson Arms, The Immortal and Hell On Wheels.
Happy Birthday to British actor Darren Hird a valiant victim & patient in two episodes of Stargate Atlantis.
He has also appeared in Dead Like Me and The Dead Zone.
Apr 282013
Many happy returns of the day to Kari Wuhrer who played Nancy Sheppard in the Stargate Atlantis episode “Outcast”. Kari has also appeared on General Hospital, Sliders, Swamp Thing, Lincoln Heights and Leverage.
Apr 272013
While exploring Atlantis and accessing some of the recent water damage areas of the city members of one of the teams vanish and their screams echo over the radio, rushing to their aid they find the two experiencing hallucinations and both violently convulse and die. Weir orders a lockdown and McKay reads the riot act to some of the scientist as to the limitations and restrictions when dealing with an as yet unknown contagion but John of all people seems to ignore Weir and her big picture thinking to chase down one of the scientists and that in turns starts another ball rolling. Atlantis itself engages containment protocols and with a time frame put onto the “infection” drastic measures are the only solution and even then Weir is unconvinced they are the right steps to take.
Hot Zone is a story set on Atlantis and draws from existing lore and opens up a new potential long term thread in regards to who was responsible for creating the “virus” especially given that it shows a bias towards the standard human genome. It’s interesting that we get a very definite clash between John and Elisabeth in the story, there have been occasions before which offered this potential but none have been exploited to this extent. Given the events in the finale and with plenty of hindsight you wonder if they were preparing the way for a change in John’s long term status or other more fundamental change, either way the clash of military and civilian was carried through pretty well.
Foreplay?
McKay once again has his moments and his character continues to evolve in the episode building upon the events in The Defiant One, he’s not quite upto the heroic Rodney he will become but he is getting there and we do find out about his sister, more of her to come in later seasons.
Floating in a Tin Can…
Overall an average episode, some good bits but falling short of some of the better episodes from the first season. Next week we are back to SG1 with the Harry Maybourne episode “It’s Good to Be King” we hope you can join us for that. We have some feedback from Facebook and G+ which was most welcome and again we always appreciate any comments etc on past, current and future episodes of Stargate and Gatecast.
Promo…
Links…
- Hot Zone IMDB
- Hot Zone Wiki
- Dean Marshall
- David Nykel
- Paul McGillion
- Craig Veroni
- Damon Johnson
- Linsay Collins
- Nahannu Arntzen
- Peter Grier
- Michelle Addison
- Allison Graham
- Mario Azzopardi
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Apr 252013
A very happy birthday to Tiffani Timms the “Blonde” in the Stargate SG1 episode Bounty. She also appeared in Psych, KyleXY, Human Target and WolfLake.
Apr 242013
Happy Birthday to Neil Schell who was Mr. Crandall in the Stargate SG1 episode Moebius part 1 and guest starred in Fringe, Caprica and Eureka.
Birthday best wishes to Djimon Hounsou who played the Horus in the theatrical Stargate feature. He has also appeared in ER, Constantine and Amistad.
Many happy returns to Noah Danby, he played Cha’ra in 4 episodes of Stargate SG1 and spots on Smallville, Warehouse 13, Defiance and Lost Girl.
Djimon Hounsou – Neil Schell – Noah Danby
Apr 232013
A promo image of Danielle Nicolet in her upcoming ABC sitcom Family Tools which premieres May 1st at 8.30/7.30pm. I’m sure you don’t need reminding that Dani guest starred in the SG1 episode Menace as “Reese” and before that a recurring character on 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Apr 232013
Happy Birthday to Alex Ferris who played Andy Spencer in the Stargate SG1 episode Citizen Joe as well as having guest roles on The L Word, Martha Speaks, Smallville, Terminal City and Sanctuary.
Apr 212013
A Very Happy Birthday to Rod Loomis who played Osric in the Stargate SG1 episode The Quest as well as appearing in The Next Generation, The Bold and the Beautiful, Quantum Leap and Jason of Star Command.
Many happy returns of the day to Dominic Zamprogna who was Dr Boone in two episodes of Stargate Universe. He also appeared in the movie 2012, The L Word and a long term role on General Hospital.
Rod Loomis & Dominic Zamprogna
Apr 202013
General Hammond takes command of the Prometheus on a mission to Pegasus to discover the fate of the Atlantis expedition who have now been out of contact far longer than they would have preferred. Hammond overrides Jack’s objections and takes Daniel and Walter on the mission and before they even leave the Milky Way galaxy they find two damaged Gouald ships. It is of course a trap and the Prometheus is taken over by a single Kull warrior with the crew stranded on the damaged ships as the Prometheus with Daniel on board flies away. The mystery is revealed when the warrior turns out to be a young woman named Vala Mal Doran who is stealing the ship to help her people but a now imprisoned Daniel soon learns that Vala says a lot of things that are not entirely true. Prometheus Unbound is a wonderful episode, it was initially designed as a bottle show to save some money using a small cast and the standing sets but the production was getting such good results extra money was provided to create the CGI which really added the icing to the story. The introduction of Vala and the casting of Claudia Black was inspired even if she had just been a one off character but we know she returns to work her wicked ways on Daniel and later to grace the SGC.
Suits you Sir
Once again it was great to see Don S. Davis return as Hammond and yes again as a guest star he seems to be getting better roles which allows him to push his character, great chemistry as always. Huge praise to Claudia who only worked on the episode for three days (flew from Australia) who grabbed the role and made it her own including adding her own little touches and while Novak ( Ellie Harvie ) seemed a strange role it all worked out ok.
The Dynamic Duo
Jeff joined us for this weeks show and I think we all had a good time with a great episode, next week we are going to be covering the Stargate Atlantis episode Hot Zone so we hope you join us for that and if possible send us some feedback. We got a little from our Facebook group this week as well as an itunes review from our friend Michael Clark the host of the Star Trek podcasts The Holodeck and Ten Forward. This weeks promo is from Pulp Audio Weekly which is a bunch of guys talking geek about games, movies, tv and many other things with a lot of humour, they recently had a 3 part Game of Thrones tv retrospective.
Promo…
Links…
- Prometheus Unbound IMDB
- Prometheus Unbound Wiki
- Don S. Davis
- Claudia Black
- Ellie Harvie
- Gary Jones
- Erik Breker
- Dan Payne
- Morris Chapdelaine
- Christopher Pearce
Mentions…
- Cliff Simon (NCIS)
- Michael Shanks (Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story)
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Apr 202013
A very happy birthday on April the 20th to William deVry who played the Tok’ra Aldwin in five episodes of Stargate SG1. He also guest starred in Nikita, Earth Final Conflict, Beauty and the Beast plus recurring roles on The Bold and the Beautiful and the new Hemlock Grove.
Apr 182013
Stargate Birthdays for April 18th
Many happy returns to David Hewlett who has graced Stargate by appearing as Dr McKay in all three live action series. He has also directed and produced television and movies including A Dog’s Breakfast and the upcoming Debug.
Happy Birthday to Laura Mennell who has appeared in both Stargate SG1
and Stargate Atlantis ( Demons & The Brotherhood ). She recently starred
in the scifi series Alphas and has appeared in Smallville, Sanctuary, Andromeda,
Fringe and Eureka.
Apr 162013
Stargate Birthdays for April 17th
It’s a popular day with 5 former Stargate actors celebrating their births.
Up first is Carlo Rota who played Carl Storm in 2 episodes of Stargate Universe and had a recurring role in 24 and the US version of Queer as Folk.
Brendan Beiser celebrates today, he was Tavius in SGA The Tower and Weaver
in SG1 Memento Mori. He has also guest starred on Eureka, Psych and Reaper.
Many happy returns to Alonso Oyarzun who was a “punk” in the SG1 episode Bane and was Socinus in the Battlestar Galactica mini-series and in 8 epsiodes of the series proper.
A happy Birthday to Mylene Dinh-Robic who was Anika in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Kindred (2) and had guest roles on BSG and Smallville with a lead in The Listener as Olivia Fawcett.
I’m a little biased so I saved the best to last, a very happy birthday to Alaina Huffman who played Lt. Tamara Johansen in Stargate Universe, Black Canary in Smallville and guest starred on Alphas, Supernatural and NCIS:LA
Apr 152013
Happy Birthday for the 15th of April to Laurie Murdoch who played Administrator Calder in the Stargate SG1 episode “Beneath The Surface”. He’s also guest starred in Psych, Warehouse 13, Covert Affairs and starred in Dan for Mayor.
Apr 142013
I’m currently rewatching the first season of Continuum in preparation for the second season which returns to Canadian screens on April 21st and the US on the 7th of June, not sure about the UK.
I was watching the sixth episode “Time’s Up” and noticed a big beefy well dressed individual and thanks to recently watching Stargate SG1 his face sprung out, Mark Gibbon formerly the Jaffa M’zel & Thor hologram was playing the head of security Frank Bolo. Mark has also had recurring roles on Smallville and guest spots on Stargate Atlantis, First Wave, Flash Gordon and Once Upon A Time.
