Episode 160 SGA Thirty Eight Minutes

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Dec 152012
 

avatar2 Thirty Eighty minutes is the length of time a wormhole will remain active without serious manipulation via huge amounts of energy to sustain it so when a puddle jumper is trapped in a space gate and partially within the event horizon the clock is ticking. To make matters worse Sheppard has been bitten by some sort of giant instinct which has disturbingly similar traits to the Wraith by feeding on his life force when it is damaged and even attempts to free the ship may implode it’s power core and the energy will feed back to Atlantis with catastrophic results.

Thirty Eights minutes is a very good episode to have in the first season of any scifi show, we get plenty of character development as well as action and brings in more secondary characters who may or may not been seen again and if so only seasons later. This episode also lays a lot of the practical groundwork for the emergence of the Wraith which went hand in hand with the genetic manipulation the Ancients did in the Pegasus galaxy.

Touch it, I dare you.

Touch it, I dare you.

Sheppard doesn’t really have much to do whilst strapped to the bulkhead of the jumper but is the focal point of the events onboard and also in the events on the Wraith world they visited, it was there that they realised that the “mountain” had been a rather large space ship which had pulled up it’s roots and flew away.

Wasn't there a mountain here?

Wasn’t there a mountain here?

We also get introduced to Dr Kavanagh played by Ben Cotton, he is written as a annoying individual and played wonderfully as such and of course Dr Radek Zelenka my personal favourite character from Atlantis played to a tee by David Nykel. The only really strange piece of the story is the clash of cultures between Weir and Halling although that was probably a ham fisted attempt to strengthen the events in the following episode.

This weeks promo is from the Saturday B Movie Reel a font of B movie scifi/creatures feature and disaster reviews. Thanks once again to Brad for sending us in an audio comment and for everyone who participates via the various social media portals. Next week we are going to be releasing a special episode in which we’ll talk about MacGyver and Richard Dean Anderson/Christopher Judge fifth season episode “Live & Learn”.

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Stargate Birthday – Michael Shanks

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Dec 152012
 

A very big bunch of birthday wishes to Michael Shanks as we celebrate his birthday today (15th December). Michael took on the role of Daniel Jackson in the premiere of SG1 “Children of the Gods” and had an almost uninterrupted run via Atlantis through to Stargate Universe.
Lets not forget he’s currently starring in Saving Hope which returns next year with it’s second season and he has had notable guest roles on 24, Smallville and Burn Notice. There are also one or two scifi/creature features in the mix for which we thank him:)
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Christopher Judge – Tealc’s Revenge

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Dec 152012
 

Here we have Christopher Judge modelling his latest accessory the Teal’c’s Revenge add-on to the Stargate Command App, on a side note it was great to see him in Dark Knight Rises even if a small speaking roll:)
Thanks to Eva for tweeting the picture.

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Stargate Birthday – Martin Christopher

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Dec 142012
 

A very happy birthday to Martin Christopher this December the 14th, Martin played Major Kevin Marks in all three live action Stargate series accumulating a grand total of 18 episodes which isn’t to be sniffed out especially for the grey area of occasional character.
Martin also appeared in the Ark Of Truth and has had guest roles on Eureka, Supernatural and Fringe.  IMDB

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Stargate Command – Teal’c’s Revenge

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Dec 132012
 

The long awaited addon to the Stargate Command iOS app has finally arrived coming in at a modest 69p (UK ) and $0.99 (US) ontop of the free parent app, currently only for Apple devices.

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Teal’c’s Revenge is a simple multi-button combat game pitting Teal’s against an every increasing and competent range of Jaffa who exit the Stargate and only Teal’c is capable of defeating them. I’ve played the game for a few minutes and it looks beautiful but perhaps it’s the thin plastic cover I have on my ipad which makes the button responses a little too slow and then missing obvious defence and offence manoeuvres.

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Gatecast T-Shirt

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Dec 122012
 

As modelled by the Gatecast founder and current host is this seasons new t-shirt with design by Daniel (listener and guest). The shirt was made by Timeline Design & Print a local small business one of whose owners I work with.

A Right Said Fred ditty springs to mind:)

A Right Said Fred ditty springs to mind:)

 

Stargate Birthday – Sarah Douglas

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Dec 122012
 

A very  happy birthday (December 12th) to one of the queens of Scifi entertainment, Sarah Douglas played Ursa in the Superman series,  the evil Pamela in the original “V” mini series and Deathwalker in Babylon 5. For our purposes she was the Tok’ra leader Garshaw of Belote and host Yosuf in the Stargate SG1 double bill “Tok’ra 1&2”.

Sarah has appeared in 51 episodes of Falcon Crest (US glossy soap) and is currently busy in the tv world and providing voice over for animated projects. IMDB Official Site

Stargate Birthdays – December 11th

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Dec 112012
 

A Very Happy Birthday to Ben Browder who played John Crichton on Farscape and Cameron Mitchell on Stargate SG1 as well guest spots on DrWho, CSI Miami and is due to appear in this seasons Arrow. IMDB

Many Happy returns to Peter Kelamis a comedian and actor who played Adam Brody on Stargate Universe and guest starred on Eureka, Riese, Smallville and Psych.  IMDB

In memoriam, Katherine Lawrence (1954 – 2004) who wrote two episodes of Stargate Infinity and worked on Muppet Babies.

Scifi Valley Con Stargate

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Dec 102012
 

A life sized hand made Stargate for the May 2012 Scifi Vally Convention.

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Stargate Birthdays – December 9th

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Dec 092012
 

A very happy birthday to Beau Bridges who played General Landry in Stargate SG1 and SGA, he’s also bee in The Agency, WhiteCollar and movies such as The Fabulous Baker Boys and Signs of Life. IMDB

Sharing the 9th as a birthday is Sebastian Spence who played the Tok’ra Delek in the Stargate SG1 episode Death Knell, he’s also been in Battlestar Galactica, Dark Angel and starred in First Wave. IMDB

Last but not least happy birthday to George Touliatos who guest starred twice in Stargate SG1 first as Pyrus in Need and then Shamda in Fallen. He recently appeared in the movie This Means War so he’s still going strong. IMDB 

Episode 159 SG1 Zero Hour

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Dec 082012
 

 Zero Hour offers up two pretty good story lines, we have the loss of SG1 on an alien world and those consequences as well technology taken from Anubis being used by other System Lords in this case the one and only Ba’al who makes an appearance and pretty much proves he is a bit of a peacock or simply an excellent example of a system lord.

Meanwhile an alien plant has run riot and over a few days has spread like wildfire causing power issues which prevents the use of the gate even if Jack was willing to deal with Ba’al there and then. The use of Camulus as the focus of Ba’al’s desires works well allowing the SGC to explore an Ancient facility (offscreen) and while it proves troublesome in the short terms pays off in the long term and allows his story to wrap up nice and neat even though we don’t see the consequences.

Gaze upon my awesomeness!

The adventures in horticulture by Dr Lee provides the humour and twists around the presidential story quite nicely along with the character of Gilmor who is in a way our eyes on Jack and the SGC and lets not forget the two ambassadors who are there purely to get a laugh.

I like the red bunting.

When you come to think about it there is a lot going on in Zero Hour and it all fits together perfectly, perhaps one the best episode of this season even though not that much happens and in this respect I got echoes of some of the more classic episodes of M*A*S*H that every now and again did something a little different.

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This weeks guest promo is from Scott and Miles over on the Scifi Diner podcast, a proverbial never ending well of genre interviews from various conventions with news, competitions and listener interaction at a level we can only dream about, check them out:)
Next week we are going to cover the Stargate Atlantis episode “38 Minutes” so get that feedback in and many thanks to those especially Brad who commented on last weeks episode, always appreciated. As a bonus along with news, birthdays and feedback we have a review of the movie 6 Bullets which features Joe Flanigan and Anna-Louise Plowman.

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Stargate Birthdays – December 8th

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Dec 082012
 

Stargate Birthdays – December 8th
A Very Happy birthday to Kevin McNulty who played both Chancellor Lycus in Stargate Atlantis and Dr Warner in Stargate SG1, he is currently starring in Arctic Air as Mel Ivarson.  IMDB

Happy birthday to Doron Bell who played a Security Officer (SF) in the Stargate Atlantis episode Millers Crossing as well as guest spots on Fringe, Psych, 2012 and voice work on Voltron Force.  IMDB

Many happy returns to Jarvis W. George who was Volnek in two episodes of Stargate SG1 (Babylon & Arthur’s Mantle) and guest roles on NCIS, The Shield and Heroes.  IMDB

Gatecast Mousemat

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Dec 072012
 

Here is our new Gatecast  mousemat based on a design by Daniel a listener and former guest host who may well be back to do an episode with us next year.

 

I had it made up by Timeline a small business run by Sharon and Phil ( I work with Phil) and they also made up a t-shirt with the same design which is currently on it’s way to Alan:)

It’s only an intermediate design, I think we need to experiment with the colours and maybe some sort of background that I need to learn to take a better picture but you know it’s all about the lighting:)

 

 

Teal’c’s Revenge – Trailer

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Dec 062012
 

Here is a brief trailer with some game footage from the DLC for the Stargate Command app.

Fools For Hire

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Dec 062012
 

The first episode of the web series “Fools For Hire” has just been released.

It has an interest to us as it features an ongoing overview from Gary Jones (Walter in SG1) and an appearance by Eric Breker (Reynolds in SG1) besides that it’s quite a funny short, this week the guys chase the corporate dollar wearing pirate costumes:)

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