The Flash is the latest hit tv series that has transitioned from comic books and you’ll see plenty of familiar faces from similar genre shows appearing in guest spots and recurring roles, on the latest episode “The Nuclear Man” episode 13 of the first season we had Chase Masterson, Clancy Brown, Victor Garber and Michelle Harrison (SG1 & SGU) as Nora Allen. However lets concentrate on the all too brief appearance of the Stargate fan favourite Bill Dow playing Dr. Quentin Quale.
Tales of a mighty hero and defender of a community reach Atlantis and the team go to investigate but it turns out to be not quite as advertised and they are greeted by a previous acquaintance who once again proves to be a bit of a handful until another old friend turns up and the stakes escalate to a life and death scenario. Yes folks the return of Lucius played by Richard Kind is greeted with dismay by John and the rest of the team but it seems at least on the surface he has earned his reputation and the support of the people of the community he protects but a little digging reveals while it may have initially been above board Lucius is manipulating events to maintain his position. Things start to go badly wrong when the Genii mercenaries Lucius is paying off turn on him and call in Kolya who with Atlantis in plan is only to happy to stir things up and after expertly negating the Ancient shielding technology used by Lucius he engineers a trap and captures everyone except John and once again the duel between the two men plays out but this time to the long awaited conclusion, blood has to be spilt.
Irresponsible is an episode which relies on the audiences attraction to a guest star and in this case two guest stars with Richard Kind bringing the comedy with Lucius and Robert Davi the threat with Commander Kolya. While the episode goes for the western feeling the loss of the primary shooting locations meant that the scope of the episode was reduced with much of the action focused on a very small piece of real estate. I think a lot of shots would have benefitted from a more open plan location in which to emulate the good guy versus bad guy showdown which was used to put the episode to bed. That aside it looked great and was most satisfying but this more than many episodes will live or die on your own view of Lucius and/or Kolya.
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Enrico Colantoni
Enrico played Burke the CIA operative Burke who alas only appeared on SG1 once in the episode Evolution Part 2. He is better known for Just Shoot Me, Flashpoint,Veronica Mars and more recently Person of Interest. Twitter IMDB
Kristen Dalton
Kristen played the doomed Anna in the SG1 episode Resurrection and Dana Bright in The Dead Zone. She has also appeared on Sliders, Profit, Last Day on Earth, CSI:NY and Jack Reacher. IMDB
Graham Kosakoski
Graham played a guard on the ancient starship Aurora in the Atlantis episode of the same name. He has also been in in Intelligence, Grizzly Rage and Smallville. IMDB
Frank Collison
Frank was Keturah in the Atlantis episode Sateda and has also guest starred on Carnivale, My Name is Earl, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, Mr Pickles and Deep Space Nine. Official IMDB Twitter
Garry Chalk talks about and performs his music.
The latest animated feature to hit the big time seems to have drawn inspiration from a certain Scifi series we are familiar in terms of 🙂
Michael Ironside
Michael appeared in a single episode of Stargate as Seevis in SG1 Crusade. His resume is filled with genre work including the V, Seaquest, Smallville as well as features such as Total Recall and Starship Trooper plus voice work. IMDB Behind The Voice Official
Heather Doerksen
Heather played Captain Pat Meyers in six episodes of Stargate Atlantis. She has also guest starred on The L Word, Battlestar Galactica, Fringe, Pacific Rim, Eternals and Once Upon A Time in Wonderland. Official IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice
Michael Lenic
Michael made brief appearances in the Stargate SG1 episode Family Ties and Stargate Universe episode Air Part 1, he has also been in the movie Paradox and A Dog’s Breakfast and has produced his own work. IMDB
Raoul Ganeev
Raoul appeared in two episodes of Stargate SG1 the first as a Russian Soldier in Desperate Measures and then as Lt. Colonel Sergei Evanov in Metamorphosis. He has also guest starred on Touching Evil, Cold Squad and has appeared in Underworld Evolution, The X-Files, The Dead Zone, Highlander and productions in his native language. IMDB
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Jason George
Jason appeared as Jolan in two episodes of Stargate SG1 (Babylon and The Fourth Horseman part 2). He recently starred in Eli Stone, Witches of East End, Mistresses and Greys Anatomy and made his name on Sunset Beach. IMDB Twitter
Charles Shaughnessy
Charles played Alec Coulson in the SG1 episode Covenant. He also starred in 147 episodes of The Nanny and has been on Days Of Our Lives, Mad Men and The Mentalist. IMDB Twitter Official
Simon Longmore
Simon played Tathal in the Stargate Atlantis episode the Brotherhood and also guest starred on Psych, Dead Like Me, Special Unit 2, Hell On Wheels and Red Widow. IMDB Twitter Vada Studios
Dawn Olivieri
Dawn appeared as Neeva Casol in the Stargate Atlantis episode Identity. She’s also had recurring roles on Heroes and The Vampire Diaries and is now guest starring as Monica Talbot in House Of Lies. IMDB Twitter Official
Alex Diakun
Alex played Tarek Solamon in the Stargate SG1 episode Memento and has appeared on The Outer Limits, Sanctuary, Motive, Andromeda, Supernatural and Reaper. IMDB
Elizabeth Hoffman
Elizabeth played Catherine Langford in two episodes of Stargate SG1 (There But for the Grace of God and The Torment of Tantalus). She has also appeared in the movie Dante’s Peak and starred in Sisters. IMDB
While Sam is doing an experiment in phasing technology as derived from the technology Merlin left behind and unexpected event occurs and she wakes in an empty lab only to find that things are not as they were, Major Lorne is the leader of SG1 and General Hammond is back in command of the SGC. After interrogation she convinces the General she is there by mistake and while their Sam has been lost they agree to help our Sam return if she in turn helps to prevent an imminent attack on Earth by the ORI by solving the energy generation problem they were working on. Alas that proved impossible so Sam expanded the phasing device to blanket the entire planet and fed with the energy output of the entire United States the planet vanishes and survives the ORI attack but now as a media darling and political pawn Sam is going nowhere.
The Road Not Taken is another example of the alternate timeline/reality plot often used in Stargate and it has to be said it’s used a lot because it tends to work very well given the technology and characters we know and love in the series. It’s no surprise that the ORI like the System Lords are front and center for a divergent story line and in this one the Earth has pulled back from the galaxy as a whole and stands alone having missed the opportunities for exploring Pegasus and other revelations that came from ongoing galaxy wide exploration. Of course the reveal of the Stargate during their conflict with Anubis certainly shook things up and that perhaps shows while the disclosure has to be done sooner or later it also has to be handled in a controlled and delicate matter to avoid the panic and civil unrest. Of course the twisting of democracy to give the US president almost limitless power has corrupted things and the use of alien derived tech to crush opposition only shows how broken this Earth is. On the upside we did find out that McKay married Sam and he does seem to be a far more balanced and straight forward individual and of course Hammond remains the military man with his feet firmly in the camp of serving the people not controlling them. Overall a good solid episode if you can ignore how some of the events came to pass, the explanation for the transfer of Sam to the other Earth is a little sketchy and they totally gloss over how she returned but hey still fun and Amanda got to play dress up and boy did she look good.
Thanks to Brad for joining us for the show and this weeks promo is for Nutty Bites, next week we are going to be looking at the Stargate Atlantis episode Irresponsible which sees the return of two fan favourite (or maybe not) characters for their final appearances in the franchise, hope you join us for that. In the meantime we would love to hear what you think about the show and maybe if you have the time a review/rating over on itunes or stitcher would be very welcome, Stargate Forever.
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James Spader
James was the original Daniel Jackson in the theatrical Stargate movie. He made his name in features but has had huge success on television with The Practice, Boston Legal and now the hit show The Blacklist. IMDB
David Nykl
David played Radek Zelenka on Stargate Atlantis and appeared once on SG1 in the episode The Pegasus Project. He has also appeared on Arrow, Seven Days, Cold Squad, Psych, Sanctuary and recently Supernatural. IMDB Twitter
Frank Cassini
Frank played Colonel Sean Grieves in the Stargate SG1 episode The Sentinel and has also appeared on Wolf Lake, Dead Like Me, The Bridge, Blackstone and Supernatural. IMDB Twitter
In the latest Gotham “The Fearsome Dr. Crane“ while we’ve already met Morena Baccarin playing Dr. Leslie Thompkins we also got Julian Sands guest starring as Gerald Crane so we have in terms of Stargate the Doci and Orici in the same episode 🙂
Brandy Ledford
Brandy made her name in the modelling and the glamour side of the business before going mainstream with acting roles on Andromeda, Baywatch, NCIS: Los Angeles and Whistler. She guest starred as Norina in the Stargate Atlantis episode Inferno and Zaren in the Stargate SG1 episode Endgame. IMDB Official
John P. Jumper
John is a former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as a General in the US Air Force played himself in the Stargate SG1 episode Lost City. Wiki
Mitchell Kosterman
Mitchell played Colonel Tom Rundell in the Stargate SG1 episodes Heroes Part 1 and 2 and Special Agent James Hamner in the episode Seth. He has also guest starred on Smallville, John Doe, MacGyver and Millennium. IMDB
Terry Chen
Terry played the Monk in the SG1 episode Maternal Instinct and has also appeared in The 4400, V, Riverworld, Combat Hospital, Continuum, Arrow, The 100, Strange Empire and a number of features films such as Elysium and War. Twitter IMDB
Michele Green
Michele played Laira in the Stargate SG1 episode A Hundred Days and also starred in the huge US hit LA Law. She has also appeared on The Unit, Big Love, CSI Miami, The Defenders, Captive and Brothers & Sisters. Michele has also published a number of novels. Official IMDB
Barry Campbell
Barry was the commander of the Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station in 2009 (APLIS 2009) and a huge fan of Stargate SG1, he was instrumental in the Stargate movie Continuum filming in the Arctic and had a small role in the movie as a crewman. IMDB