Very happy birthday wishes to Anne Marie DeLuise nee Loder who guest starred in two Stargate SG1 episodes ( Bounty & The Other Side ). She also married into the DeLuise family via Peter which probably attests to her strength of character and understanding, the woman of the clan must have the patience of saints:)
Anne Marie has also appeared in Sanctuary and Smallville as well as a favourite of mine Due South.
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A couple of Stargate actors who have their Birthdays on August 2nd
A Happy Birthday to Matthew Del Negro who played Mike Branton in the Stargate Atlantis episode “Sunday”
Also on the 2nd Birthday Greetings to Kerry James who guest starred in the SGU episode “Earth” as Josh but is probably better known for his role as Caleb on Heartland.
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A big and inspiring birthday to Jason Momoa who graced our screens as Ronon the Runner from Sateda in 78 episodes of Stargate Atlantis. He then went onto play Conan in a movie that wasn’t as bad as critics made out but probably become better known for Drogo in the HBO series Game Of Thrones.
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In remembrance of Dom DeLuise who would have celebrated his birth this day. A comedic genuis who had a long tv and movie career and took on the role of “Urgo” in the Stargate SG1 episode of the same name, if nothing else he fathered Peter, Michael and David who to various degrees contributed to the Stargate family.
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A very happy birthday to Christina Cox who celebrates her birth today (July 31st).
She was the lead in Blood Ties the Canadian vampire series as well as the star of Defying Gravity and had roles in Combat Hospital, FX:The Series and The Crow:Stairway To Heaven.
Christina played three very different characters in the Stargate franchise..
Lieutenant Kershaw SG1 “The Sentinel”
T’akaya SG1 “Spirits”
Major Anne Teldy SGA “Whispers”
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Nice choice of music to accompany this uber space combat compilation from the franchise.
Many thanks to StargateAtlas for tweeting the link.
Many happy returns on the 30th of July to the actor William Atherton who celebrates his birth, he played Varta in the season 9 SG1 episode Collatoral Damage and you will certainly know his face from his roles in Die Hard and Ghostbusters. For “b” movie fans he recently starred as the naughty developer in Jersey Shore Shark Attack:)
A decimated Jaffa contingent is discovered and the carnage indicates an enemy new to the SGC, Tealc and Bratac are then surprised by a “super soldier” clad in energy damning armour and equipped with heavy weaponry, lucky for them it’s already been pushed during the initial battle and can not maintain it’s own life force under another round of combat. Investigation into the creature indicates a next generation approach to the technology which underpins the Sarcopheagus which in turn indicates Anubis is taking steps to free himself of the reliance on Jaffa to be his army and their increasing rebellious nature.
Clean up on aisle 3…
Evolution Part 1 is the first of a mid-season two parter in which Anubis and the super soldier play a major part occuping Sam, Jack and Teal’c while Daniel and Dr Lee have adventure south of the border dealing with the consequences of tracking down the remnants of a former Goa’uld who ruled over the long gone Mayan culture and who may have been the genesis of the foutain of youth myth. Two very good stories the first with some excellent action sequences and the second far more dramtic and tense, a good combination if done correctly and while giving nothing away it’s kept up in the next episode. It’s great to see Dr Lee getting out and about again as he provides both humour and competnence in one package, not unusual in Stargate scientists but it is reserved more for regular cast members.
Shades of Grey?
The conlusion to the episode mixes the cliffhanger styles giving us two for the price of one and again that pays off, if the assault on the homeworld of the super soldiers doesn’t get you going then Jack reverting to his earlier career and going to the rescue of Daniel should do the trick. We had some feedback this week from Colin and Michael, much appreciated as always and lots of chat on the Facebook page and some action over on G+ and Twitter. The promo this week is from the Flash Pulp Podcast and next week no surprise we will be covering Evolution II.
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Fifteen years ago tonight the US pay television broadcaster Showtime did the world a huge favour by premièring it’s new serialised scifi series Stargate SG1 to it’s pay audience. I suspect back then this was quite a significant step for the subscription service which underlines how good a product Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner put together not to mention strengthened by the work of Rob C Cooper, Peter DeLuise and many many other “heroes” of the show:)
“Sunday’s two-hour premiere episode of the MGM Worldwide TV Group series “Stargate SG-1” generated for Showtime’s highest-ever ratings for a series premiere and ranks as the highest-rated original movie to premiere on Showtime in 3-1/2 years, according to the network.
It was learned through Nielsen that “Stargate” on Sunday tallied a healthy 10.5 rating in Showtime’s approximately 12 million U.S. households, or just shy of 1.5 million homes in total.“
Source: Variety
Many thanks to atlantis-tv.ru for bring this to my attention and huge heaps of gratitude to #saraholle for tweeting and sharing, it’s inspired work:)
A very happy birthday to Ben Cotton who played the wonderfully annoying Dr Kavanagh in Stargate Atlantis he has also more recently appeared in Hellcats & Fringe.
Also on the 26th Aaron Craven celebrates his birth. Aaron guest starred in both SG1 and SGA.
He played Kyle Rogers and Matar in the episodes “Rules of Engagement” and “Line in the Sand” respectively then went on to play a Wraith in the Atlantis episode “Outsiders”. His recent work includes Fringe, Smallville and Continuum.
A very happy birthday to Michael Welch who played mini Jack in the Stargate SG1 episode “Fragile Balance”. Also guest starred in The Riches, Joan of Arcadia and a Twilight performer.
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Other #Stargate birthdays today (25th)..
Christopher Attadia (SG1 Affinity)
August Schellenberg (SGU Epilogue & Common Descent)
Noel Callahan (SG1 Beast of Burden)
We have a big Stargate birthday today (23rd July).
The one and only Ronny Cox celebrates his birth, while most of us will know him from his tv and movie work which includes Senator Kinsey the man we all love to hate on Stargate SG1 and starring roles in Total Recall and Robocop he also has an established presence in the music field. He is a singer and song writer of a blend of folk/country music and has a number of albums released and tours regularly.
Also on the 23rd it’s the birthday of David Kaufman who made a single guest appearance in the SG1 S8 episode “Zero Hour” as Mark Gilmour. IMDB
Hands up who wouldn’t want this on top of their wedding cake?
Yeah ok I know maybe even out of the scifi community 90% of men and 99% of women wouldn’t but there is no reason the bride and groom couldn’t be placed in the tableau as well:)
I suspect that the 10% of men wouldn’t admit it either, they are not fools!
Thanks to Kyrdece for posting and atlantis-tv for tweeting.
There are two Stargate related birthdays on the 22nd of July, two actors who have made brief appearances on Stargate SG1 in more than one role which while not unheard of is normally reserved for those under prosthetics.
Daryl Shuttleworth
Ian Robison
SG1 visit an alien world for a meeting with a Jaffa resistance leader but they come under attack from the loyal followers of the local system lord Moloc, help from a surprising source rescues SG1 and a new ally is revealed and it’s not one they expected.
An all female Jaffa community made up of the priestesses and rescued women of the system lord Moloc stage hit and run attacks to aquire symbiotes to give life to the female children as they enter puberty. Faced with such a revelation SG1 offer the drug tritonin to the women and four volunteer to test the drug in the hopes of freeing themselves from dependency on the symbiotes. Teal’c meanwhile develops an emotional bond with Ishta the leader of this community as both have lost their mates and through this bond he convinces Ishta after the death of one of the test subjects to continue with the Tritonin.
Tough Crowd
Birthright was written by Christopher Judge as as you would imagine is very Teal’c centric and of course the part of Ishta was penned for Jolene Blalock, let that be a lesson to everyone if you want something then maybe doing it yourself is the way to go:)
The episode itself looks great with a lot of location work in and around the village of the Jaffa women and this one episode has perhaps the most graphic demonstration of how well staff weapons can be used. The use of Tritonin is a logical next step to replace the symbiote but the concerns made within the episode in regards to being dependent upon the Earth and/or Tokra for the drug are valid, the Jaffa need to produce the drug themselves and even then something so basic would be ripe for exploitation.
Even tougher crowd!
It’s good to see Teal’c getting back into the game and with someone very close to his skills in terms of combat as well as shouldering the responsibilites of command something which he has to deal with when leading the “free” Jaffa.
This weeks promo is from Pulp Audio Weekly and next week we cover the first episode of the two parter “Evolution” as Anubis makes a fresh move in the war between him and well everyone. Many thanks for the feedback this week and once again still working on itunes and a few other changes, details as and when.
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