Gatecast 245 SGA Common Ground

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Oct 252014
 

avatar The team are ambushed when following up on some information provided by a Genii contact and John is captured by Koyla who then calls Atlantis and offers to trade John for Ladon Radim the current leader of the Genii who he believes betrayed him. Koyla proceeds to torture John by allowing a capture Wraith to feed upon him but what he doesn’t expect is that the two prisoners will form a bond and when the opportunity appears together they fight their way to freedom. Meanwhile Ladon has been investigating the leak of the Atlantis codes and uncovered Koyla’s supporters in his military and provides the location of John and a rescue mission is launched which arrives just in time to reveal an unknown ability of the Wraith.

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Common Ground is a very important episode in the third season as it once again brings back Koyla played by Robert Davi but also introduces us to a Wraith who will become a recurring character and a major player in shaping the Pegasus galaxy both with and against Atlantis, Christopher Heyerdahl returns to the franchise once again playing the new character “Todd” as the Wraith. There is a quite a bit of drama and suspense in this story, not knowing of the Wraith ability to give life energy has you wondering exactly where John’s torture will eventually lead and while death is not always a final thing in scifi neither is killing off main characters for both story and behind the scenes reasons. Ladon (Ryan Robbins) made a welcome return to the show and as we mentioned it was beginning to feel a little like a Sanctuary episode and no question that the casting department and producers went to town to make sure this episode had top notch guest stars which paid off.

We got plenty of tweets and retweets for this episodes and quite a few likes and plus ones but as always we would love to hear comments and feedback in a more direct fashion, emails and voicemails but we are always grateful for any support of the show and more importantly Stargate which despite the reservations of the studios continues to have huge fan support. This weeks promo is for Pulp Audio Weekly and next week we are going to be covering the Stargate SG1 episode Memento Mori so we hope you join us for that and if you do want to get in touch then click on any of the links on this site, we know each method has it’s appeal in this social media world.

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Stargate Birthdays for October 25th

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Oct 252014
 

Michael Soltis
Michael played a Medic in the Stargate SG1 episode Redemption and appeared on Battlestar Galactica, Alcatraz, Once Upon A Time, Fringe and Smallville. IMDB Twitter Official
Jacqueline Samuda
Jacqueline played Nirrti in three episodes of Stargate SG1 (Fair Game, Rite of Passage & Metamorphosis) and also created the story for the episode Metamorphosis. She has also guest starred on Wolf Lake, Smallville, Bionic Woman, Spooksville and Arrow. IMDB Behind The Voice Twitter

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Stargate Birthdays for October 24th

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Oct 242014
 

Rick Ravanello
Rick played a Guard in the Stargate pilot Children of the Gods and he has also appeared in True Justice, Weeds, Lincoln Heights, Hollywood Heights and Defying Gravity. IMDB Twitter
Doug Abrahams
Doug was Commander Hale (Homecoming) and later an Ori Prior in Stargate SG1 for a total of six episodes. He has also appeared in TinMan, Psych, The X-Files, Man Of Steel, Once Upon A Time and The Killing. IMDB Behind The Voice

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Stargate Birthdays for October 22nd

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Oct 222014
 

Derek Versteeg
Derek played a Jaffa in the Stargate SG1 episode Dominion and has also appeared on The X-Files, 7 Days, Quest for Samurai , Psych and the movie 2012.  IMDB 
Darcy Cadman
Darcy appeared as a Russian Officer in Stargate Continuum and has had guest spots on Supernatural, The 4400, Haunted and features in the upcoming Ghost Light. IMDB Twitter

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Stargate Birthdays for October 21st

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Oct 212014
 

Alana Husband
Alana played Ennea in the Stargate Atlantis episode Childhoods End & Dr. McCormack in the Stargate Universe episode Earth. She has also been in The Dead Zone, The L Word, Psych, Caitlin’s Way, BSG and Intelligence. IMDB Twitter
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Jeffrey had a recurring role on Stargate Universe as Darren Becker and an uncredited role in the SG1 episode “Memento Mori”. He has also appeared on The L Word, On The Bus, Fairly Legal, Warehouse 13 and Un-Real as well providing voice talent on Iron Man: Armored Adventures. IMDB Twitter Official

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Stargate Birthdays for October 20th

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Oct 202014
 

Niall Matter
Niall is well known for his lead roles in Primeval New World and his recurring role on Eureka but he also appeared twice on Stargate Atlantis as Lt Kemp, played Tag Cummins on Arctic Air and guest starred on Motive. IMDB Twitter Official
William Russ
William played the rogue SG1 captain Jonas Hanson in the Stargate first season episode The First Commandment and also had a long running lead role in Boy Meets world and guest starred on Boston Legal, Vegas and Wildfire. IMDB
George Wyner
George guest starred as Al Martell in the SG1 episode Prometheus and has had guest spots on House, The Mentalist, ER, Melissa & Joey and Desperate Housewives. IMDB

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Stargate TV Spots – Arrow and Supernatural

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Oct 192014
 

I’m finally getting started with the new season of US television so I got to watch the latest episodes of Arrow and Supernatural both of which had former Stargate actors in guest spots. The first was Patrick Gilmore playing Erlich Kelso in the second episode of the third season of Arrow called “Sara” and then it was David Nykl playing Lester Morris in the season ten episode “Reichenbach”. Surprisingly neither actor was playing a particularly nice guy:)

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Stargate Birthdays for October 19th

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Oct 192014
 

Roger R. Cross
Roger played Lt. Conner and Captain Conner in two episodes of Stargate SG1 (Spirits, The First Commandment), he’s recently been seen in Motive, Continuum, Arrow and The Strain and made his tv name on shows such as 24 and First Wave. IMDB Twitter
Anna Galvin
Anna appeared in all three live action series, she was Mrs Armstrong in four episodes of Stargate Universe, Dr. Reya Varrick in SG1 Collateral Damage and Vanessa Conrad in the Atlantis episode Remnants. She has also guest starred on Motive, Smallville, Supernatural, Mr Young and Witches of East End. IMDB

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System Lords Unite

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Oct 192014
 

Gatecast 244 SG1 Counterstrike

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Oct 182014
 

avatar2 SG1 are undercover on an alien world recently taken by the ORI and a now fully grown Adria makes an appearance, after a rousing speech which has the locals aka survivors cheering an energy wave is detected by the Odyssey in orbit, they beam SG1 onboard and watch helplessly as every living thing on the planet is vaporised. Meanwhile back at the SGC Bra’tac arrives to bring news of a new offensive against ORI held planets using the Ancient weapon at Dakara, the current Jaffa council have decided that sacrificing whole worlds to kill the ORI armies is a worthy trade off and with an ORI starship now abandoned the race is on to take control of it. As SG1 investigate the ship they find the bridge and the robes of a Prior which indicates they control the ship which negates the whole premise of the Jaffa believing they can take the ship and use it to fight the ORI but there is no trust and the two groups spend more time fighting each other. The surprise for both of them is that Adria thanks to her connection with Celestis is still very much alive and is perhaps the most advanced being in the galaxy at this time and she takes control of the ship and with the information gained from the “dead” Jaffa she sets course for Dakara to destroy the weapon. Bra’tac and Landry are being held by the Council and their leader Se’tak who is a little paranoid holds up in the bunker and activates the weapon when the ORI ship is in orbit, it kills his men but Adria is again untouched and she fires on the planet ripping apart the ancient technology while Landry and Bra’tac flee through the Stargate.

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Counterstrike is a well written episode and delves into the use of a device the Ancients meant as a tool for creation (think the Genesis device from Star Trek 2) but to create it has to manipulate raw material so when used as a weapon the need to create is a by product and the destruction of in this case life forms becomes it’s sole purpose. Of course the moral and ethical dilemma is exposed when every the decision to sacrifice innocents and non-combatants to strike at actual military targets and we get plenty of opportunity to explore that. That said we don’t get a lot of insight into the limitations of the Jaffa decision, piece meal strikes will simply be giving the ORI enough time to eventually discover the technology and source of the weapon and the foolish belief the Jaffa could make use of an ORI ship given that we know the Prior are the key to their technology beyond hand weapons etc. Ultimately the strike against this planet was misguided and achieved little and does kinda indicate that conventional means will not defeat the ORI and even some out of the blue almost mystical technology may not even be a total solution, I guess even Daniel may be wishing on a star in his hope for Merlin’s weapon.

Thanks for the feedback for last weeks episode The Real World and thanks to those that voted in the poll, the results seems to indicate a very pro Elizabeth (Torri) camp within the Stargate Atlantis fanbase and like the character or not she really should have been given more to do or sidelined even more in the way of General Hammond, this middle ground didn’t seem to work for anyone. This weeks promo is for The BatCave Podcast and next week we are going to be covering the Atlantis episode Common Ground where John has a close encounter with an old enemy and gets even closer to a potential friend or at least respected enemy, should be fun. Thanks to Brad for joining us on this episode and given the hoops we were jumping through it didn’t turn out to bad but overall came in a few minutes shorter than normally, could have done with a bit of extra content (reviews, comments etc) yep that’s a hint:)

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Stargate Birthdays for October 17th

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Oct 172014
 

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Tiffany was Evalla in the SG1 episode Revisions and La Moor in Stargate SG1, she was also The Hybrid in Battlestar Galactica (with added goo) and has guest starred on Supernatural, Smallville, Danger 5, Flash Gordon and Dead Like Me. IMDB Official Site
Thomas Kopache
Thomas was Ellori in the SG1 episode Prophecy and has appeared in Enterprise, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, The Blacklist, Person Of Interest and The West Wing. IMDB Agent Site
Venus Terzo
Venus played Dr Michaels in the Stargate SG1 episode Frozen. She has also guest starred on Shattered, Andromeda, Whistler, Blackstone and Continuum as well as provided the voice for numerous animated productions. IMDB

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Stargate Birthday for October 16th

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Oct 162014
 

Joseph Mallozzi
Producer and Writer of far too many episodes of Stargate to mention as well as penning episodes with his writing partner for Transporter The Series, Delete and Student Bodies. It was announced recently that the graphic novel he wrote with Paul is being produced as a 13 part series for Syfy, he also maintains an entertaining blog which is well worth checking out. IMDB Official Blog Twitter
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Dark Matter

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Oct 152014
 

Syfy Acquires Dark Matter Graphic Novel Adaptation From Stargate Team | TVLine

Dark Matter the graphic novel created by Paul Mullie and Joseph Mallozzi is going into production as a 13 part series produced by Prodigy Pictures.

Syfy have secured some broadcast rights with global distribution being handled by Endemol.

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Stargate Birthday for October 15th

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Oct 152014
 

Don Ackerman
Don played Doran in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Storm and has also appeared on Fringe, The Dead Zone, Human Cargo, Wolf Lake, The X-Files and Glitter. Twitter IMDB Official Site
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Stargate Birthdays for October 14th

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Oct 142014
 

Robert C Cooper
Robert was a Producer, Writer, Director & Story Editor on the Stargate TV franchise and responsible for some of the key episodes in the series. He has also written for Flash Forward, PSI Factor, Blown Away and was a technical advisor on Da Vinci’s Inquest. IMDB
David Kaye
David was an interviewer on Stargate Continuum and is a voice performer on a number of animated shows such as Toon Wolf, Ben 10, Marvel’s Avengers and Xiaolin Chronicles and video game voice performer. IMDB Behind The Voice Official Site Twitter
Nels Lennarson
Nels played Major Green in the SG1 episode Death Knell and Captain Holland in the Atlantis episode Phantoms. He’s also guest starred on Psych, Sanctuary, Once Upon A Time in Wonderland and Smallville. IMDB Twitter

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