Erick Avari
Erick appeared in both the original Stargate movie and three episodes of SG1 as Kasuf. He has also guest starred on Heroes, Enterprise, The X-Files, Babylon 5, Warehouse 13 and TNG. Official Site IMDB
Apr 132014
Apr 122014
In Grace Under Pressure McKay along with Captain Griffen test fly a recently repaired puddle jumper when an engine malfunctions causing them to crash into the ocean between Atlantis and the mainland. The jumper quickly sinks and soon it’s transponder signal is lost to the scanners in the city and as they sink deeper the integrity of the ship itself is put to the test. Ultimately the damaged screen shatters and take the heroic Griffen to his death leaving McKay trapped in the rear compartment desperate to find a solution to the dilemma of limited power and life support and little chance of being located by his friends. It’s not long before the head wound and conditions have McKay hallucinating but in a twist he envisions one Samantha Carter who points out is the one person smarter than he is and coupled with his attraction to her perhaps understandable why his mind when down that path.
It’s me baby!
Meanwhile back at the city John and company are devising a rescue plan based on some grappling hardware and the belief the jumpers were always intended to double up as submersibles. However Zelenka and his people have to jump through hoops to try and calculate a approximate position for the search to focus on but eventually John and Radek fly to the rescue and do a passable Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea impersonation but with clocking shields being used as physical shields the opposite of when the city re-tasked it’s shielding systems. Mckay continues to have lively discourse with his version of Sam and soon comes to understand decisions she is making are those of his own logical mind trying to keep him alive but eventually the jumper is almost flooded and hang on is John’s voice an hallucination and if he opens the rear hatch will he drown but does he have a choice?
Grace Under Pressure is in many ways a bottle show despite money being spent on bringing in Amanda and the use of the large waters tanks to simulate ocean conditions, it is perhaps to the credit of all involved such a complex story was told and told well. Yes we’ve seen the lone survivor having to deal with a crisis before on SG1 and the threat of drowning in a downed spaceship again SG1 but this take on those core elements works very well. David is one of the few television actors who could pull off such intensity and claustrophobic story both with humour and drama as and when required.
I want to thank Philip for joining me for the show, it took some organising but the recording went by without a hitch, he has recorded with me before on the episode Trio (an experiment) which again went well and will probably be used as our take on that episode of Atlantis. Big thanks to Misa and Dan for the feedback and a nod to Brad for the recordings which will be used in later shows but for now that’s this show wrapped up and as always we want to hear from you and if you can a review/rating on itunes would be most appreciated. This weeks featured promo is for The Book Cave Podcast a show covering mainly pulp publications (books, magazines and comics) with author interviews and next week we are going to be looking at the SG1 episode Ethon.
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Links…
- Grace Under Pressure IMDB
- Grace Under Pressure Wiki
- David Nykl
- Amanda Tapping
- Nimet Kanji
- Peter Abrams
- William MacDonald
- Chuck Campbell
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Apr 122014
Ashley O’Connell
Ashley is a born and bred Irishman who played the Fruit Stand Owner in the Stargate Atlantis episode Irresponsible & appeared in the movie Watchmen as a news caster. IMDB **
Cameron K. Smith
Cameron played the Jaffa warrior Re’Lo in the Stargate SG1 episode The Changling and has also appeared on Supernatural, Fringe, Smallville, Taken and Alcatraz. IMDB **
Tom O’Brien
Tom guest starred as Brian Volger in the Stargate SG1 episode Covenant and has guest starred on Smallville, Supernatural and the Timecop the series. IMDB
**I had trouble finding confirmed photos of Cameron and Ashley
Apr 112014
Douglas H. Arthurs
Douglas appeared in four episodes of Stargate SG1, three as the system lord Heru’ur and one as Kah’l. He has also been in The X-Files, Harsh Realm, Smallville and Kingdom Hospital. IMDB
Matthew Walker
Matthew played both Roham & Merlin in five Stargate SG1 episodes as well as Moros in the Stargate Atlantis episode Before I Sleep. He’s also guest starred on Smallville, Cold Squad and Sanctuary. IMDB
Apr 102014
Haig Sutherland
Haig played the wonderful and ultimately tragic Sgt Hunter Riley in sixteen episodes of Stargate Universe, he also guest starred on Psych, Fringe, Robson Arms, Supernatural and Motive. IMDB
Apr 092014
Matthew Bennett
Matthew played Jared Kane in two episodes of Stargate SG1 ( Ethon and Icon ) and also Ted in the episode Point of No Return. He was also a recurring character of Aaron Doral in Battlestar Galactica and starred in Cold Squad and Peacemakers. IMDB
Kathleen Munroe
Kathleen was Amanda Perry in four episodes of Stargate Universe as well as playing Audrey Parker in Haven and then appearing in Alphas, CSI NY, Supernatural and Resurrection. IMDB Twitter
Apr 082014
Tom J. Astle
Tom wrote the Stargate SG1 episode Cor-ai and is the creator of the tv show So Weird. He also wrote Failure to Launch and penned episodes of Clueless and The Tracy Morgan Show. IMDB
JR Bourne
JR Bourne played the Tok’ra Martoff/Lantash on seven episodes of Stargate SG1, he also starred in Revenge, The Secret Circle and is Argent on Teen Wolf. IMDB Twitter
Apr 062014
Michael Rooker
Michael played Colonel Edwards in the SG1 episode Enemy Mine and more recently starred as Merle in The Walking Dead. He has also guest starred on Archer, Psych, Burn Notice, Chuck, Cliffhanger and Jeremiah. IMDB Twitter
Deborah Theaker
Deborah appeared once on Stargate SG1 in the episode Citizen Joe playing Charlene Spencer. She has also appeared in Joey, Reno 911!, The Burbs, Maniac Mansion and Entourage. IMDB
Apr 052014
So I’ve started the second season of Motive which is currently airing on CTV, the premiere episode of this season was Raw Deal which as usual featured a number of former Stargate actors in starring and recurring roles as well a notable guest star. So as usual Louis Ferreira stars in the show as Detective Oscar Vega and his boss Boyd Bloom is played by Roger Cross with Brendan Penny as Det. Brian Lucas. A guest star this week was the one and only Tom McBeath who played Dave Chissolm and I’m sure it’s not just me but I also look for familiar names who have worked behind the camera and in this case John G. Lenic who is the shows producer.
Apr 052014
Cameron is visiting an old friend who has a terminal condition, his friend Major Bryce Ferguson has been digging into the exploits of Cameron since their careers diverged and is very close to realising what Cameron has been up to since the battle over the Antarctic. The Jaffa high council is close to ratifying the move to a democratic system of government but some last minute changes of opinion by key pro-democracy supporters throws the plans of Bra’tac and Teal’c into chaos. They know that something is wrong and along with Daniel investigate those that have altered their votes and then Teal’c goes missing but Jaffa honour and integrity can not be as easily overcome as a simple change of opinion. Cameron racked with guilt over the accident which led to Bryce’s condition swings it so he can let Bryce live his memories of recent events thanks to the memory technology recently acquired from Galaran and bidding a goodbye Cameron joins the mission to rescue Teal’c from an old adversary.
A quiet moment.
Stronghold has two very definite story lines which in the best tradition overlap more and more as the episode moves on, it was interesting to see that Cameron while getting the reward of being assigned to the SGC believes his friend would be in his place if things had gone differently. The ongoing political games going on at the sharp point of Jaffa government is something you would think they would not be prepared for but the seem to have picked up the back stabbing and power plays in the manner of the best of human politicians. Of course this particular turn of events is the doing of an outside force using Tok’ra technology and as always Ba’al does a bang up job of setting things into motion but thankfully for the Jaffa and the SGC the endgame fails in spectacular fashion. I have to say that the fire fight is an excellent example of a television budget battle sequence and again Stargate benefits from using practical effects where ever possible, CGI bullets and muzzle flashes still ruin scenes, you can’t be real blanks and pyrotechnics. When all is said and done it’s perhaps the simple discussion between Teal’c and Cameron that the episode will be remembered for, despite Cameron feeling he deserves nothing and that the job is the job we see that integrity and the desire to do the right thing no matter the consequences is the only way to live a life.
We got some nice feedback via Facebook and Google+ along with the usual ongoing chatter on Twitter, many thanks for all of that and continued support via retweets and other postings. This weeks promo is for the Star Trek podcast Two To Beam Up and next week we return to Atlantis for the episode Grace Under Pressure and the first appearance of a new guest host. We’d love to hear from you about anything to do with Gatecast and more importantly Stargate and we’d appreciate any reviews/ratings you care to give us so keep watching the show and listening to us blabber on about it:)
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- Stronghold IMDB
- Stronghold Wiki
- Reed Diamond
- Tony Amendola
- Cliff Simon
- Dakin Matthews
- Eric Breker
- Veena Sood
- Simone Bailly
- Yan Feldman
- Peter DeLuise
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Apr 052014
Mitch Pileggi
Mitch played Colonel Caldwell on twenty two episodes of Stargate Atlantis and Walter Skinner on The X-Files. He’s also been in both versions of Dallas, Supernatural, Sons of Anarchy, Medium and Grey’s Anatomy. IMDB Twitter
Greg Anderson
Greg played an Ori and Prior in six episodes of Stargate SG1 & The Ark of Truth, he’s also been in The 4400, Traffic and House Of Lies. IMDB
Apr 032014
I saw this Stargate Steelbook Blu-ray advertised a month or so back and thought I had missed the chance to get a copy, it seems limited release is a genuine piece of marketing with some steelbooks but as luck would have it Zavvi opened up the pre-order a few hours later so click I placed an order. I arrived home yesterday and was a little puzzled at the package waiting for me but that turned to delight when this pretty little thing revealed itself:)
Apr 032014
Lawrence Dane
Lawrence appeared just the once on Stargate SG1 as Major General Bauer in the episode Chain Reaction. He has also appeared on Queer As Folk, The Hunger, Flashpoint, Airwolf and Street Legal. IMDB
Robin Mossley
Robin has been in two episodes of Stargate SG1, Dr. Reimer in the episode Morpheus and Malikai in Window of Opportunity. He has also guest starred on Andromeda, Reaper, Psych and Sanctuary. IMDB
Alessandro Juliani
Alessandro played Katep in the SG1 episode Moebius (1&2) and Eliam in Scorched Earth. He also starred on Battlestar Galactica as Felix Gaeta and also appeared on Smallville, Fringe, Cedar Cove and Almost Human. IMDB Behind The Voice
Apr 022014
Bob Frazer
Bob appeared just the once on Stargate SG1 playing an Airman in the episode Hathor. He has also been on Cold Squad, The X-Files, First Wave and Supernatural. IMDB
Jaime Ray Newman
Jaime played Lt. Laura Cadman in two episodes of Stargate Atlantis ( Duet and Critical Mass ) and also guest starred on Eureka, Grimm, Veronica Mars, NCIS and starred on Eastwick, Drop Dead Diva and Red Widow. IMDB Twitter Official Site
Apr 012014
Tobias Mehler
Tobias played Lt. Graham Simmons in five episodes of Stargate SG1. He also played Zak Adama on Battlestar Galactica and appeared on Jeremiah, Robson Arms and Young Blades. IMDB
