Colby Johannson
Colby played Lt Kagan in the Stargate Atlantis episode Phantoms and SF Sergeant Finney in the SG1 episode Prometheus. He also guest starred on Men In Trees, Reaper, Battlestar Galactica and Fringe. IMDBTwitter Ross Hull
Ross played Dr. Corrigan in the Stargate Atlantis episode Suspicion and Gary on Are You Afraid of the Dark? He also appeared on Student Bodies, Due South, Fearless and Iron Eagle 4. He left acting in 2005 and became a weather personality on Canada’s The Weather Network and in 2011 and then an anchor for CTV Southwestern Ontario. IMDBTwitterTwitter Brad Dryborough
Brad was in Stargate SG1 “Sight Unseen” as the pickup driver and in the Atlatnis episode The Prodigal as the hybrid. He has also been in episodes of iZombie, Motive, Arctic Air, Fringe, The Killing and Falling Skies. IMDB Behind The Voice
Well I bought the Stargate off ebay and then the Iris insert, bought some LED lights and a base then put them all together and positioned my two Jaffa on guard as a type of Stargate Diorama, it didn’t turn quite right but I think I am happy with it for now.
Tony Amendola
Tony played Master Bra’tac on 26 episodes of Stargate SG1 and has recently had recurring roles on Once Upon A Time and Continuum as well as guest spots on The Mentalist, Dexter, CSI, NCIS: LA and Intelligence. IMDBTwitter Kwesi Ameyaw
Kwesi was Olokun in two episodes of SG1 (Last Stand & Summit) as well as playing a Tactical Sargent in the Atlantis episode Outcast. He’s also guest starred on Fringe, Smallville, Once Upon A Time, Psych and Sanctuary. IMDBTwitter Sonja Bennett
Sonia played Dahlia Radim in the Stargate Atlantis episode Coup D’etat. She has also been in Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Cold Squad, Godiva’s, Mistresses and Preggoland. IMDBTwitter
Aaron Douglas
Aaron played Moac in the SG1 episode Maternal Instinct and a Jaffa in Redemption Part 2 but of course he is much better known for playing Chief Tyrol in Battlestar Galactica. He’s also starred in Hemlock Grove, The Killing, The Bridge, Hellcats and The Returned. IMDBTwitterOfficial Allan Lee
Allan was the editor for 24 episodes of Stargate SG1 and also directed the season four episode Entity and has ran the second unit on the show. He’s also worked on Continuum, Highlander, The L Word, The 4400, Missing, Alice and edited five episodes of Olympus. IMDBTwitter
There is a tragic loss when an Atlantis team and the remaining population of a world are wiped out by an Asuran warship but hope is at hand as the Apollo and the Daedalus arrive in Pegasus newly equipped with the Asgard beam weapons in the hopes that combined with the intelligence provided from the tracking module taken from the Asuran breakaway group they can fight back. The plan is to inflict serious damage on the Asuran ships currently wiping out the human populations of planets within the galaxy and ultimately drive the Asurans back to their homeworld and once again to reach a stalemate. Rodney looks to pimp his own plan for an enhanced virus to nullify the Asurans but he is getting nowhere and so the secondary plan of brute force is given the green light and once the battle is joined the human ships rack up an impressive number of kills. Faced with defeat in large scale operations the Asurans regroup in their home system which forces the humans ships to knowingly enter into a killing zone but Rodney has finally had a breakthrough. He has created his own crippled replicator and once embedded into the replicator city it can trigger a subroutine in its coding which forces the bonds between the nanite building blocks to shrink drawing them ever closer together and to lose their ability to act, eventually they will be a mindless blob of material which can then be wiped out by a synchronised explosion of ZPM modules. To aid in this plan Todd offers support from the Wraith and Larrin brings some of her fleet into the battle, together they engage the Asuran fleet in their own system with the intent to buy time for FRAN (Rodney’s pet replicator) to do her thing. It’s all going to plan but then the power grid fails making the ZPM option moot, Sam correctly surmises that the planet being rich in neutronium (Material replicators use to build themselves) and being highly unstable it could also act as a catalyst and as the replicator blob compresses and sinks ever further into the planet a chain reaction is triggered and with moments to spare the fleet jump out as the planet is destroyed.
All My Sins Remember’d was a very expensive piece of television at least in terms of the budget for the Stargate live action shows and you can see where the money was spent, credit though to the producers as while they spent a lot on visual effects they also secured the return of some of the recurring actors who only bring status to Stargate. You can not really beat Mitch or Michael in command of a F304 when going into battle this time alongside seven Hives and ships from the Traveller fleet. The pretty pictures aside we got a kick ass story following on from the mid-season finale “This Mortal Coil” and it also wrapped up the Asuran arc within the Atlantis storyline, some fans of the series would not be disappointed to see them go if I was being honest.
Ultimately this episode and it’s first part of you paired them directly together are a highlight of the season, well written with lots of action, some humour and good character pieces sprinkled in within the booms which added greatly to the overall feel good factor of the episode, a credit to everyone involved.
Many thanks to first time guest Andres who joined us on fairly short notice, it was a pleasure to have yet another new voice and nationality on the show. This weeks promo is for Tuning Into SciFi TV and next week we are going to watching episode twelve of this fourth season “Spoils of War” in which the Wraith have a surprise or two for Atlantis, Todd the scamp. We hope you can join us for that and as always we’d like to know what you think about Stargate and our show and of course a rating or review on itunes or Stitcher would be most welcome.
Michael Gordin Shore
Michael played Lt. Menard in the Stargate SG1 episode Enemy Mine, he also appeared on Postal, Psych, Blood Ties, The Dead Zone, The Will, Best Christmas Party Ever and White Chicks. He has also produced and directed shows such as Glass, Treatment and Hit ‘n Strum. IMDBOfficialTwitter Joey Aresco
Joey appeared twice on Stargate SG1, he played Slaviash in Company of Thieves and then Mr Parker on Full Alert. He has also guest starred on Dallas, MacGyver, The Flash, Just Cause, Dark Skies, Kojak, Lou Grant and Taxi. IMDB
Cathy Weseluck
Cathy played a resident in the Stargate SG1 episode The Gamekeeper but is far better known for her voice work on shows such as Dragon Ball Z, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Double Dragon, RoboCop: Alpha Commando and 1001 Nights. IMDBTwitterOfficialBehind The Voice
Colin Cunningham
Colin appeared in 15 episodes of Stargate SG1 and a single episode of Atlantis as Major Paul Davis and now stars as John pope in Falling Skies. He has also guest starred on The Collector, The Dead Zone, Psych, The 4400, Eureka and Sanctuary. IMDBOfficialTwitter Jay Acovone
Jay was Major Charles Kawalsky on Stargate SG1 for five episodes, he has also been in Monk, 24, Criminal Minds and General Hospital. IMDB Jamil Walker Smith
Jamil played Master Sgt. Ronald Greer in Stargate Universe and has also appeared in Any Given Sunday, Girlfriends, Supernatural, Bones, Blind Justice and directed The American Dream. IMDBTwitterLittle PlowBehind The Voice John Noble
John only appeared once on Stargate SG1 in the episodes Camelot playing Meurik, he starred as Dr Walter Bishop in Fringe and more recently in Sleepy Hollow as Henry Parrish and lets not forget playing his part in The Lord of the Rings franchise. IMDB
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In Memory Of… Isaac Hayes (August 20th 1942 – 10th August 2008)
Singer, composer and Oscar winner.
Tolok on Stargate SG1 and voiced Chef on South Park. IMDB
Matthew Glave
Matthew played Colonel Paul Emerson commander of the “Odyssey” in six episodes of Stargate SG1, he has also guest starred on Suits, Nikita, Touch, Growing Up Fisher, Hawaii Five-0, The Wedding Singer, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Revenge. IMDB
Artine Brown
Artine appeared in Stargate SG1 (Pilot in Double Jeopardy) and Stargate Atlantis (Trader in The Kindred Part 1). He has also guest starred on Fringe, Smallville, Psych, Supernatural, Backstorm, Helix, The 100 and Arrow. IMDBTwitter Loyd Bateman
Loyd played a soldier on the Stargate Atlantis episode Duet as well as spots on Glee and Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief. He has far more screen credits via his work in the stunt field including shows such as Continuum, Stargate, Glee, Tron Legacy, Sucker Punch and Godzilla. He is married to Rachel Luttrell and they have two children. IMDBTwitter Adam Thomas
Adam played an Airman on the Stargate Universe episode Seizure and has also appeared on The L Word, Seeing Red, Fringe, Smallville and Kyle XY. IMDBOfficial
Carrie Fleming
Carrie played the Assistant in the Stargate SG1 episode The Sentinel and she has also appeared on Continuum, The Dead Zone, The 4400, The L Word, Smallville, Good Luck Chuck, Alice, Supernatural, iZombie, Motive and Package Deal. IMDBTwitter
Vaitiare Hirshon-Asars
Vaitiare played the Abyodonian woman Sha’re (as Vaitiare Bandera) who was married to Daniel and then taken by Apophis later to return as Amaunet. She only appeared in three episodes of Stargate SG1 but made an impression and her character (originally in the movie) was highly significant as the driving force for Daniel in the early seasons. She has a child (Tatiana) with Michael Shanks. Vaitiare has performed in many shows made in her native language as well as English language programming such as Pacific Blue, Heartbreakers, US Marshall’s, Murder She Wrote and has had a musical career. TwitterIMDBOfficial
Atlantis is in a bit of a pickle thanks to McKay and some work on the Stargate which has left them without it’s use for a week now, it gets worse when some sort of probe/device smashes into the city in a smouldering ruin. Scans of the object are inconclusive but as Mckay and Zelenka investigate Rodney is sure he saw evidence of Replicator coding but Zelenka claims he saw nothing. Not long after the object destroys itself and with the laptop also destroyed their is no evidence of anything. John while training with Ronon gets injured and goes to the infirmary where Kellar proclaims there is no damage to his face and the blood must have been on the towel in the first place, John is suspicious and gets a full body scan which is negative and then requests a blood test just in case, Keller reluctantly agrees. This test is also clear but John knows something is wrong and Teyla and Ronon begin to share his feelings, the corner McKay in a lab and cut his hand, it heals itself and his amazement and shock is enough to convince them that whatever is going on they are not part of it and therefore can trust each other. They discover the main computer has no records for John’s scans and tests so they devise a plan to get John and Teyla to the infirmary to do another scan and while they are revealing that John is full of nanites Ronon and Rodney track down another lifeform which turns out to be Elizabeth Weir. At that point Keller and Lorne appear armed and reveal that Atlantis and everyone in it are a construct albeit John, Rodney, Ronon, Elizabeth and Teyla are biologic replications of their alternate selves created by nanites. It turns out that this faction of Asurans are still eager to ascend like their creators and have broken away from the main body of the replicator society but the experiment has failed and the forces of Oberoth have found them and warships begin firing on the city and the five human forms barely escape in a cloaked jumper.
They arrive on a world where an SG team have a base and ring home, the “original” team visit the world and meet their counterparts, McKay is absolutely delighted even more so when he learns of a piece of tech which can be used to track Asuran warships throughout the Pegasus galaxy but time is short and the two Asuran warships begin to fire on the location of the camp, one team flee via the jumper acting as a distraction while the other gates to Atlantis and learns exactly how many ships the Asurans have rampaging around the galaxy.
This Mortal Coil is the mid-season finale for the fourth season and in the grand tradition has a pretty solid cliffhanger which had the audience on the edge of their seat for the month or so between this and the second part of the two parter “Be All My Sins Remembered”. The twist that is hinted at pretty quickly is very satisfying and has ties to story arcs which began when the expedition first met the Asurans and maybe even further if you factor in the appeal to so many of ascension. Truth be told Keller played by Jewel Staite came across very strange, stunted delivery of lines which made sense when it was revealed she wasn’t the real Keller and the Asuran mimicking her only had limited information on her patterns of behaviour whereas other people in the city were more filled out and acted more like their other selves. It’s never going to get old to see Rodney get all excited about meeting someone as good as himself and well only a copy could ever measure up but this counterpart was even better than Rod from the other universe, happy as clams until the whole question of their futures were addressed by killing these copies off in a valiant and successful diversion. In many ways it was a very good episode and story for Elizabeth to make another appearance, some good scenes especially with John but alas only one more guest spot for Torri in the series.
Overall This Mortal Coil was an excellent episode of Stargate Atlantis and if anything the second part is even better which we’ll be covering next week so we hope you join us for that and feel free to let us know what you think of this episode and the show. You can find us on Facebook and Google + as well as Twitter (links upper right hand side of this website) and we are also carried on itunes and Stitcher Internet Radio, reviews and ratings are most welcome. This weeks promo is for Nutty Bites podcast, Nuchtchas is releasing a new show for each day of the month:)
Ben Bass
Ben appeared just once on Stargate SG1 as Dr. Steven Rayner in the episode The Curse, he currently stars as Detective Sam Swarek on Rookie Blue and has guest starred on Beggars and Choosers, Flashpoint, Would Be Kings, Strange Frequency, Jeremiah and Forever Knight. IMDBTwitter Gerard Plunkett
Gerard appeared in three episodes of Stargate SG1 ( Tuplo in Enigma and The Broca Divide and Nem in Fire and Water). He has also been in The X-Files, Kingdom Hospital, Andromeda, Smallville, Fringe and Intelligence. IMDBTwitterBehind The Voice
Jody Rae Thompson
Jody guest starred in “Bounty” (Stargate SG1) and Vegas (Atlantis) and also had a recurring role in Sanctuary and The 4400 with guest spots on Fringe, Blood Ties, Reaper, Motive, Signed Sealed Delivered and Smallville. IMDBTwitter Tony Alcantar
Tony played Dr. Myers in the Stargate SG1 episode The Scourge and also appeared on Arrow, Once Upon A Time, Motive, Alice, The Actress Diaries, Continuum and Supernatural. IMDBOfficialBehind The Voice Amy Griswold
Amy has written six Stargate Atlantis novels and the recent SG1 novel Murder at the SGC. She has also penned Death by Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club part of the Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey series. Live JournalTwitter
