Birthday wishes and many happy returns of the day to Robert Carlyle who dazzled us with his performance as Nicholas Rush on Stargate Universe & his current role as Mr Gold on Once Upon A Time. Robert has also starred in Hamish Macbeth, Trainspotting and The Last Enemy.
A very happy birthday to the wonderful Erick Avari who played Kasuf in Stargate the movie and three episodes of Stargate SG1. His resume is impressive and includes guest spots on Babylon 5, JAG, Life and Days Of Our Lives.
A jumper is crossing the Lantean solar system en route to a mysterious object detected at the lagrange point, they discover a huge weapons platform believed to have been the last line of defence for Atlantis, it seems undamaged but obviously failed to prevent the siege of the city by the Wraith.
The sensors find a weak signal being broadcast from a nearby planet so with Weir’s permission they go and investigate and find a crashed Wraith cruiser which may have been a victim of the weapon prior to it’s shutdown. The ship is around 10,000 years old and no life signs so foolishly as it turns out Mckay, Sheppard with Doctors Abram and Gall enter the wreck and find that it’s a supply ship having stored thousands of humans intended to feed the invading Wraith fleet. Disturbingly it seems some of the bodies were Wraith and had been fed upon indicating that near the end they had turned on each other but surely no one could have survived this long?
Well that looks perfectly safe
Of course we knew they did so as the team split up the two red shirts sorry scientists are attacked and the Wraith learns the whereabouts of the jumper leading to a one on one chess game between Sheppard and the sole survivor to escape from the planet.
Looks a little upset
The Defiant One is a cracking episode, we get a huge piece of the season finale puzzle with the weapons platform and some very good character growth with McKay as he struggles with his in built survival traits and the desire to not let Sheppard fight alone. The two secondary characters are excellent for the story, Abrams doesn’t last long but the discussion between the aged Gall and McKay was excellent and both actors were top notch and it’s conclusion heart breaking and quite dark for Atlantis. We also got some great interaction between the Wraith and Sheppard as they each tried to out maneuver each other, excellent costuming, prosthetics and stunt work in the desert made for compelling television and a great fireball to wrap it all up.
A huge thanks once again to Brad for joining us for this episode and next week we are going to join General Hammond on board the Prometheus and be amused as a single Kull warrior nicks it, yes it’s the awesome Prometheus Unbound and Jeff will be joining us for that show. The promo this week is from our friend Nuchtchas with her Nutty Bites podcast, great geeky fun with excellent guests and discussion, have a listen and enjoy:)
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It was great to see Alessandro Juliani back on the small screen last night in a decent guest role in “Framed” the April 4th episode of Motive. He played a gallery owner (Serge Bisson) who was neither the victim or the killer of this story but for a small role he looked good and gave a nice performance.
Alessandro is perhaps best known for playing Felix Gaeta in Battlestar Galactica but he also guest starred in the Stargate SG1 episode “Scorched Earth” and “Moebius 1&2” as well as a recurring role on Smallville.
A very happy birthday to Cameron K. Smith who played a Jaffa in the Stargate SG1 episode “The Changeling”. He’s also appeared on Fringe, V, Taken and Alcatraz.
Happy Birthday to Tom O’Brien what guest starred as Brian Volger in Stargate SG1 “Covenant” and has guest starred on Smallville, Supernatural and Timecop the series.
A very happy birthday to Matthew Walker who played Roham & Merlin in Stargate SG1 as well as Moros in Stargate Atlantis. He’s also guest starred on Smallville and Sanctuary.
Many happy returns to Douglas H. Arthurs who was Heru’ur & Kah’l in 4 episodes of Stargate SG1 and had guest spots on Highlander, Smallville and Wolf Lake.
Douglas & Matthew
Amanda was the special guest on The Rush on Shaw TV (Tuesday 9th April), her interview begins around the 18 minute mark but watch the entire live stream, it’s all entertaining and good to see Robin Dunne having a great time.
A Very Happy Birthday on the tenth of April to Haig Sutherland who played Sgt Riley in Stargate Universe, he’s also appeared in Psych, Fringe, Robson Arms and the excellent Canadian crime drama Motive.
A very happy birthday on the 9th of April to Kathleen Munroe who played Amanda Perry in Stargate Universe. She also has recurring roles in Haven, Alphas, Call Me Fitz and CSI New York with guest roles on Nikita, NCIS LA, Supernatural and Republic of Doyle.
Many happy returns of the day to Matthew Bennett who was in three episodes of Stargate SG1 (Ethon, Icon and Point of no Return) playing two separate characters (Jared and Ted).
He also had a recurring role as Aaron Doral in Battlestar Galactica and a lead role in Cold Squad.
Kathleen & Matthew
A Very Happy Birthday on the 8th of April to JR Bourne who played the Tok’ra Martouf/Lantash in seven episodes of Stargate SG1. He’s also had lead roles in Teen Wolf, Revenge and guest spots on The Secret Circle, Cold Squad, Smallville and Andromeda.
Many happy returns of the day to Tom J. Astle the writer of the Stargate SG1 episode Cor-ai & creator of So Weird.
JR Bourne & Tom J. Astle
The Stargate activates and an old and void IDC code is received, it used to belong to Sam Carter who is obviously mystified but things become a little clearer when the MALP reveals a human form replicator at the other end of the wormhole and she was created in Sam’s image. She requests death at the hands of the SGC using the Asgard/Ancient created weapon but with such a valuable resource within reach Jack with a lot of prompting from Sam agrees to let her interrogate the replicator in the hopes of ultimately defeating this menace to the galaxy.
Damn, always wanted to be a Ginger.
Gemini is from a production point of view a highlight of the season, some excellent camera and post-production work to get Amanda looking right when there are two of her on screen using a variety of techniques to make it work. Her own performance is outstanding as well providing two sides to the Sam Carter personality as is the subtle makeup which certainly sets the two women apart. Teal’c has a strong role in this story as well being the counter to Sam’s headlong rush and total belief in repli-carters word, of course knowing oneself makes it easier to deceive by providing all the right answers even to questions not directly asked.
It all goes pear shaped of course more so for the put upon Fifth whose only really two “relationships” both turn around a bite him, few men or man like beings get shafted twice by Sam Carter.
Wireless Samantha.
We were joined by Brad for this episode, he was up in the wee hours to record with us in our late afternoon, huge appreciation and once again we are always looking for a guest on the show, it works better with three voices at least I think it does.
This weeks promo is from The Saturday B Movie Reel a podcast which reviews and chats about the scifi/creature and disaster features which turn up so often on the Syfy channel, lots of fun if like me you love these sorts of movies:)
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We have a birthday for a very well respected actor in and out of genre tv and movies today with Michael Rooker, he’s recently made a huge impact on AMC’s The Walking Dead and has a resume which is truly impressive. He guest starred in the Stargate SG1 episode Enemy Mine as the SG team commander Colonel Edwards.
Birthday wishes also to Deborah Theaker who was Charlene in the SG1 episode Citizen Joe and has a resume split between television and movie roles. She has guest starred in Bones, starred in Maniac Mansion and voiced Madame Pokipsi in ALF the animated series.
Deborah & Michael
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Corin is still dealing with the long term effects of his boat accident on the set of his last feature, it looks like the road to recovery is going to be a little longer than hoped for but he retains his humour and warmth as you can see via his twitter conversations. We all hope to see Corin up and around on his own two feet but for now he has our best wishes and hopes for better news in the coming months.
A king of genre television has a birthday today so lets wish a very happy birthday to Mitch Pileggi who played Colonel Steven Caldwell in Stargate Atlantis and Walter Skinner on The X-Files. He’s also been in both versions of Dallas, Supernatural, Sons of Anarchy, Grey’s Anatomy and the short but quite good Daybreak.
Sharing the fifth and thus a Happy Birthday to Greg Anderson who appeared as an Ori and Prior in Stargate SG1 & Atlantis, he’s also been in The 4400 and House Of Lies.
Greg & Mitch
A Stargate treat from Nerdy Nummies, not only a fantastic looking piece of cookieness but what a wonderful presentation, seriously infectious humour and no one and I mean no one wouldn’t enjoy watching Rosanna bake:)
Stargate SG1 Cookies