Gatecast 253 SG1 Line In The Sand

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Jan 242015
 

avatar2 Sam has been experimenting with phasing technology based on the device Merlin has left behind and with the imminent threat to the people of P9C-882 SG1 are ordered to take the new technology and use it to protect the native population from the ORI. Alas nothing really goes to plan and the assault on the settlement begins and in desperation Sam and Cameron phase a single dwelling and have to watch as the ORI take their wrath out on the locals. Meanwhile Tomin has Vala onboard the ORI mothership in orbit and has been tasked with the process of converting her to Origin, assumption being that Adria has decreed her mother is not to be killed at least not by anyone but herself but the Prior much to Tomin’s displeasure interrupts the word of Origin to support the destruction of the settlement despite some now willing to bow down to Origin.

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Line In The Sand expands upon some of the Ancient technology the SGC have discovered and given that Merlin was designing such tech to face the threat of the ORI it seems only right and proper thousands of years later it comes to the rescue but while overall the victory went to SG1 the consequences did perhaps tip the balance back to a draw, lives were saved but many lost. That said as many suspected Vala does have influence with Tomin and perhaps her calm and controlled delivery of what is right and proper or more to the point unacceptable no matter the belief system provokes Tomin to confront himself and the Prior when the locals are targeted for destruction. A small victory perhaps but the seeds have been sown and maybe if Tomin can be swayed then so can many more and the united front the ORI appear to offer may start to crumble.

A good action packed episode countered with some great acting from Claudia and Tim, their scenes with quite intense and in a way balanced out the more casual dynamic between a wounded Sam and Cameron as they all watched and waited to see the fate of the local population and an excellent guest appearance by Aisha Hinds as Thilana. This weeks promo was for The Batcave Podcast and next week we’ll be taking a look at the Atlantis episode Echoes and we’d like to thank Brad for joining us this week and sending in the voicemail, very much appreciated. We’d love to hear from you if you have some thoughts on this or other episode of Stargate and of course we are always looking for a guest to come watch and comment on an upcoming episode of SG1 or Atlantis.

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An Opinionated Review – The Fifth Race

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Jan 242015
 

The latest Opinionated Review is for the classic episode of Stargate SG1 “The Fifth Race”, thanks to SF Debris for covering the show 🙂

Stargate Birthdays for January 24th

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Jan 242015
 

Peter Woodward
Peter played Otho in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Tower. He also starred in the scifi series Crusade and appeared on Charmed, B5 and Fringe as well as having an extensive career on stage. IMDB
Mark Hildreth
Mark voiced RJ Harrison in the animated series Stargate Infinity. He has also been on Andromeda, Taken, The Tudors, V and plays Pastor Tom on Resurrection and has a large resume of voice work. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice Official
David Quinlan
David was an Ancient on two episodes of Stargate Atlantis (Echoes and The Return Part 1), he has also guest starred on Arrow, Fringe, Once Upon A Time and Supernatural. IMDB

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Stargate Birthdays for January 23rd

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Jan 232015
 

Richard Dean Anderson
RDA played yeah you know who on Stargate SG1, Atlantis and Universe as well as appearing on The Ark of Truth and Continuum. He also starred in the 80’s classic adventure series MacGyver and recently had roles on Fairly Legal and Raising Hope. IMDB Twitter Official
Claire Rankin
Claire played Dr. Kate Heightmeyer in Stargate Atlantis ( 5 episodes ) as well as appearing on Voyager, House, Saving Hope, Charmed, Monk and Nikita. IMDB
Craig Miller
Craig wrote a single episode of Stargate Infinity (The Illustrated Stacey) as well writing for Trollz, Curious George, Bionic 6, The Hunger and Flash Gordon. He’s also been a marketing consultant for over a dozen theatrical features such as Splash, Star Wars and Iron Eagle. IMDB

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Charles Correll (January 23 1944 – June 4 2004)
Charles directed two episodes of Stargate SG1 (The Nox and 1969) as well as directing episodes of MacGyver, Melrose Place, Titans, 90210 and Seven Days.
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Stargate Birthdays for January 22nd

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Jan 222015
 

Michael Kopsa
Michael played General Kerrigan in two Stargate SG1 episodes Proving Ground and Prodigy and a news anchor in the episode There But for the Grace of God. He also played Windmark in Fringe and has guest starred on Arrow, The Dead Zone, Falcon Beach, Arrow and Supernatural. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice Official
Jennifer Spence
Jennifer was Dr Lisa Park on Stargate Universe and played Betty Robertson on Continuum. She has also guest starred on Eureka, The 4400, Motive, The Killing and Supernatural. IMDB Twitter

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Stargate Birthday for January 21st

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Jan 212015
 

Paul Anthony
Paul played Jace in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Lost Boys and a slave in the SG1 episodes Last Stand and Summit. He has also appeared on Dead Like Me, Dark Angel, Psych, Fairly Legal, The Flash and the host on his own Paul Anthony’s Talent Time. IMDB Twitter Talent Time
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Stargate Birthdays for January 20th

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Jan 202015
 

Crystal Lowe
Crystal played Mardola in the Stargate Atlantis episode Harmony and Nya in the SG1 episode Emancipation. She has also appeared on Almost Human, Psych, Smallville, Almost Human, Primeval New World and Signed, Sealed, Delivered. IMDB Twitter
Rukiya Bernard
Rukiya was Airman Richmond in the Stargate Universe episode Space and appeared on Fairly Legal, Sanctuary, Primeval New World, Intruders and features such as The Cabin in the Woods and Tooth Fairy. IMDB Twitter Official
Daniel Cudmore
Daniel played a Jaffa in the Stargate SG1 episode Homecoming, he’s also appeared in Alone in the Dark, Fringe, New Moon, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, X-Men 2 Last Stand and Days of Future Past. IMDB Twitter

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Stargate Birthdays for January 19th

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Jan 192015
 

Rachel Luttrell
Rachel played Teyla Emmagan in 99 episodes of Stargate Atlantis, she also starred in Street Legal and guest starred on Charmed, NCIS, True Justice and Sleepwalkers. She is a singer and dancer and married to Loyd Bateman and the mother of two. Twitter IMDB
Benjamin Ayres
Benjamin who Muirios in the Stargate SG1 episode Space Race and is currently playing Dr. Zachary Miller in Saving Hope. He has also appeared in Bitten, Lost Girl and Less Than Kind. Official IMDB Twitter
Benita Ha
Benita played Brooks in two episodes of Stargate SG1 (Affinity and Endgame) and has appeared on Smallville, Psych, V, Reaper, Paycheck, Signed, Sealed, Delivered and White Noise. IMDB Behind The Voice

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Stargate Birthday for January 18th

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Jan 182015
 

Herbert Duncanson
Herbert appeared on four episodes of Stargate SG1 playing Douglas Anders/Grell and a SF guard as well as appearing in some archive footage, he also did some stand in work on Stargate Continuum and The Ark of Truth. He’s guest starred on The Collector, Human Target, Jake 2.0, Signed, Sealed, Delivered and Kingdom Hospital. IMDB
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Stargate TV Spot – Intelligence

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Jan 182015
 

I finally got around to watching last years US series Intelligence, the finale “Being Human” had a small but critical role for Mr Tony Amendola playing Parviz Shirazi.

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Gatecast 252 SGA The Return Parts 1 and 2

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Jan 172015
 

avatar2 The Daedalus is undertaking a mission to oversee the testing of the Intergalactic Gate Bridge that is designed to use a series of stargates to cross the huge void between the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies with a human built space station at its midpoint. They detect fast moving vessel in normal space heading towards the Milky Way and with some careful flying they make contact with the alien ship which is travelling at almost the speed of light, it slows and it turns out to an Aurora class warship called the Tria. When they arrive back at Atlantis the captain of the Tria and some of her crew beam down and after some pleasantries they take control of the city and pretty much kick the humans out but in a polite way. Woolsey is allowed to stay and act as a representative in the long term hope of allowing humans to return but in the mean time the Asurans are advancing on the city but the Lanteans are confident they will not attack due to the programming preventing action being taken against their creators but oops that was a mistake.

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When the Asurans attack General O’Neill who is currently on Atlantis negotiating alongside Woolsey is trapped and despite the standing orders not to attempt a rescue Sheppard, Weir, Carson and Rodney steal a puddle jumper and use the Bridge macro to traverse the huge distance between the galaxies but pop out at the world where Teyla and Ronon are resident. Together they plan a very risky assault on Atlantis and after the initial attack they gain the support of Jack and Woolsey from within the city and the battle is on with the replicators, will they liberate the city before the star drive can be repaired and Atlantis flown back to the Asuran homeworld.

The Return was the mid season two parter and worked very well indeed, lots of drama, tension and action and thankfully we didn’t have to wait months between the two parts. It was great to have Richard Dean Anderson fully involved in Stargate and it was fun to see him work alongside Robert Picardo, the two of them were excellent together with the bickering and dry humour which only Jack really delivers well. It was a little surprising how quickly we once again lost access to Ancients (aka Lanteans) but once again their arrogance was their downfall but as we see throughout the franchise it’s a trait that hampers humans as well.

Many thanks to Miles for joining us for these two episodes, we had some technical issues which affected the recording but it didn’t turn out to bad. Miles is one of the hosts of the Scifi Diner Podcast which we’ve sourced quite a few interviews from, check the show out you’ll enjoy it:) Since this is rather long episode of Gatecast I’ve saved a bit of feedback from Brad for next week but we’d love to hear what you thought of our recent bonus shows and our look at The Return. Next week we’ll be back with SG1 and the episode Line In The Sand, hope you join us.

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Stargate Birthdays for January 17th

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Jan 172015
 

James Earl Jones
James provided the voice for the first Unas we ever see in the SG1 episode Thor’s Hammer. Aside from that well he voiced a rather well known character in a certain scifi franchise as well as appearing in The Hunt For Red October, The Simpsons, House and Paris. IMDB
David Blue
David made his name on mainstream television as a recurring character on Ugly Betty before taking the leading role of Eli Wallace in Stargate Universe, he has also appeared on Moonlight, Scrubs and now has his own podcast Out of the Blue. IMDB Official Twitter
Joshua Malina
Joshua starred in The West Wing and was a regular on Sports Night, Scandal and In Plain Sight. He played Cicero in the Stargate SG1 episode Bad Guys and has been on Scandal and Extant. IMDB Twitter
Neil Maffin
Neil played Merell in the Stargate Atlantis episode Poisoning The Well. He has also appeared on Andromeda, Dead Like Me, The Collector, Peacemakers and on Law & Order (original and Special Victims). IMDB
Daren A. Herbert
Daren played a Captain on the Stargate Universe episode Seizure as well as appearing on Fringe, Smallville, Human Target. Fringe, Delete plus theatrical features This Means War and 2012. IMDB Twitter

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Stargate Birthdays for January 14th

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Jan 142015
 

Sage Brocklebank
Sage played a tech in the Stargate SG1 episode Ethon but is better known for his role as Buzz on Psych. He has also appeared on Smallville, Supernatural, Fringe, OUAT and Arrow. IMDB Twitter
Kevin Durand
Kevin played the Goa’uld minion Zipacna in three Stargate SG1 episodes (Last Stand, Summit and Pretense). He also had recurring roles on LOST, Dark Angel and Touching Evil and starred in The Strain. IMDB Twitter
Kristina Copeland
Kristina played “second” one of the human form replicators in the SG1 episode Unnatural Selection and then a waitress on SG1 Upgrades, she has also appeared on Andromeda, Cold Squad & The 4400. IMDB

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Stargate Birthdays for January 13th

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Jan 132015
 

Jill Wagner
Jill played Larrin in two episodes of Atlantis as well as appearing as the lead actress in Blade The Series and a regular in the first season of Teen Wolf. She is currently hosting Total Wipeout USA and has also appeared on Bones and Dr Vegas. IMDB Twitter
Link Baker
Link appeared twice on Stargate SG1, first as Lt Barber in the episode The Light and then as Artok in Allegiance. He has also appeared on Smallville, Special Unit 2, Castle and Arrow. IMDB
Michael Robinson
Michael played a councilman in the Stargate SG1 episode Revisions and also appeared on Lost, Dead Like Me, Hiccups, Reaper and Endgame. IMDB
William B. Davis
William made his name for me anyway playing the cigarette smoking man in 37 episodes of The X-Files. He also played the Prior Damaris in two episodes of SG1 (The Fourth Horseman: Part 2 & Babylon) and guest starred on Smallville, Andromeda, Caprica and Continuum. Official IMDB Twitter

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Stargate TV Spot – The Wedding Singer

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Jan 112015
 

Watched The Wedding Singer over the holidays and now I can’t take Matthew Glave playing the slimeball seriously after he was kicking ass as Colonel Emmerson.

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