The 5th Race A Stargate Podcast Episode 013 Hathor
In episode 13 Tim and I talk about the 13th episode of Stargate SG1 Hathor.
The banished Goa’uld Hathor is found in an ancient sarcophagus Earth, and takes over the S.G.C. with hopes of raising a new army against the System Lords.
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After only a couple of weeks of registration opened, Stargate Worlds devs announced that they have surpassed the 100,000 registration mark.
Holy Hannah! In only half a month the closed beta registration list for Stargate Worlds has exceeded 100,000 applications!
“This is a huge milestone for our game,” said Community Manager David Read, “but as a big Stargate fan myself this comes as no surprise. In the words of Executive Producer Brad Wright, this franchise has ‘got legs,’ no matter what medium it reaches. Stargate Worlds is sure to excel.”
If you haven’t gotten around to registering for closed beta, now is the time!
Fans have reason to be proud today. Thank you, community, for helping to spread the word.
The SciFi Channel schedule is showing the premiere of Stargate Atlantis’s Season 5 on Friday, July 11, at 10 pm EDT/PDT. The premiere episode will complete the cliffhanger of Season 4 and is called “Search and Rescue”. Be advised th SciFi Channel has been known to change schedules before, but this is the best info we have available so far.
The upcoming straight-to-DVD movie Stargate: Continuum, based on SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate SG-1, gave producers a chance to wreak havoc on a main character to serve the exigencies of the film’s location shooting. (Major spoilers ahead!)
Writer and executive producer Brad Wright told SCI FI Wire that the script called for Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) to lose a leg–but not simply to serve the writer’s whim.
Rather, Jackson had to become disabled to meet the needs of the production, which shot several scenes in the Arctic when Shanks was unavailable.
“I had to finish the Arctic scenes first, before we started to shoot [Stargate: The] Ark of Truth,” Wright said in an interview in Vancouver, Canada, last week. “It was kind of weird. We shot all the Arctic scenes, and then took a long, long break, shot another movie and then did Continuum.”
The plot required Col. Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder), Col. Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Shanks’ Jackson to be together on a wrecked ship in the Arctic. But because of a scheduling conflict, “Michael wasn’t available to do the Arctic shoot,” Wright said. As a result, Jackson isn’t in any of the early footage of Mitchell and Carter struggling to survive on the ice.
You can read the full article at SciFi Wire
Rachel Luttrell, who plays Teyla in SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate Atlantis, told SCI FI Wire that she’s a new mother in real life, as is her character in the coming fifth season, and that presents its own challenges.
Speaking in an interview on the show’s set in Vancouver, Canada, last week, Luttrell said, “Hats off to every single mom and every mother who’s working, because it’s not easy. Everyone’s like, ‘How did you lose the weight?’ Oh, brother! There’s no stop. I run from my trailer to the set. I do the scenes, and then I race back, and I’m bouncing my little guy, and I’m back on set. It’s a lot.”
Luttrell became pregnant last season, and the producers chose to write her pregnancy into the show. As season five opens, both Luttrell and Teyla have new babies and must balance motherhood with demanding jobs. (Spoilers ahead!)
It’s not surprising that Luttrell’s two worlds are starting to overlap. Preparing for an episode in which Teyla physically transforms into a Wraith, Luttrell realized that she would have to nurse her baby while wearing full Wraith prosthetic makeup. She was extremely nervous about it. “I was going to look like a monster,” she said.
Luttrell’s castmates weren’t much help. “I thought it was hilarious,” admitted Joe Flanigan, who plays John Sheppard. “I was giving her a hard time. I was saying, ‘No, your child’s going to be permanently scarred.’”
You can read the full article at SciFi Wire
Robert Picardo, who joins the regular cast of SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate Atlantis in the coming fifth season, told SCI FI Wire that he initially had doubts about playing the new base commander. (Spoilers ahead!)
“When I got the phone call, there was a little voice going, ‘Wait a minute,’” Picardo said in an interview on the show’s set in Vancouver, Canada, last week. “You’ve set this guy up as kind of an annoyance, a bit of a prig. And now suddenly he’s the guy in charge?”
The new guy in charge–taking over from the beloved previous commander, Col. Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping)–is Picardo’s Richard Woolsey, the craven bureaucrat well known to fans of Atlantis and its predecessor series, Stargate SG-1.
Woolsey’s role up until now has been to butt heads with the other characters and to second-guess their decisions. “He knows the military rule book,” Picardo said. “He knows all the rules about protocol and eliminating collateral damage and acceptable losses and all that. But he doesn’t make decisions. He just comes in and tells you how you screwed up.”
To date, Woolsey has been played largely to comic effect. It makes him an odd choice for command in a genre in which the leader is typically someone like Capt. Kirk. “I thought, if the writers are choosing to do this, it’s for the exact reason to put someone in charge who’s not a born leader and to see how he develops and how he’s accepted,” Picardo said.
You can read the full article at SciFi Wire
The upcoming fifth season of SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate Atlantis will focus heavily on the Wraith–with a side trip to Las Vegas to commemorate the show’s 100th episode, producers told SCI FI Wire during a visit to the show’s sets in Vancouver, Canada, on May 16. (Spoilers ahead!)
Other key developments: Teyla (Rachel Luttrell) will have her baby in the fifth season. The character became pregnant last season to accommodate Luttrell’s real-life pregnancy. Luttrell has given birth, so her character can follow suit. The baby is delivered on camera by Dr. McKay (David Hewlett). (Inside word is it’s a boy!)
Teyla also sees her abilities get out of hand in an episode in which she touches the mind of a Wraith Queen, which activates her Wraith DNA. According to Luttrell, Teyla “embodies” the Wraith Queen–the actress will appear in full Wraith makeup–and becomes “the leader of an alliance of Wraith.”
Also look for the return of the Wraith-worshipping Satedan Tyre (Mark Dacascos) in an episode in which he captures Ronon (Jason Momoa) and attempts to sacrifice him to the Wraith. Ronon is given so much Wraith enzyme in the episode that he gives in completely to his dark side and apparently does some serious damage to Sheppard (Joe Flanigan).
You can read the full article at SciFi Wire
We’ve got five copies of Stargate: Infinity – The Complete Series on DVD for five lucky, random commenters. The DVD is available in already available in stores.
To enter, simply leave a comment below before 5:00PM Eastern, Friday, May 23 telling us why you’d like to own this DVD set. As always, we’ll randomly choose five winners amongst the eligible entries. Some other details:
To enter, leave a confirmed comment below stating why you’d like to own the Stargate: Infinity – The Complete Series.
The comment must be left before May 23, 2008 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
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The 5th Race A Stargate Podcast Episode 012 The Nox
In episode 12 Tim and I talk about the 12th episode of Stargate SG1 The Nox.
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Brad Wright, writer and executive producer of Stargate: Continuum, told SCI FI Wire that making a Stargate feature film is very different from making series episodes. “We’ve done so many two-parters, you’d think it would be easy to just make it longer,” said Wright, who spoke to SCI FI Wire following a press screening of the direct-to-DVD film in Vancouver, B.C., on May 14.
But a feature, Wright explained, has a very different structure.
“It’s much more fun in some ways to do a movie, because the story can evolve the way it’s supposed to. It doesn’t have to owe anything to the episode before or the episode after. That was the fun part, to actually write a movie and not just a long episode.”
Wright took that opportunity to have some fun and ran with it. Stargate: Continuum features the return of beloved series actors such as Richard Dean Anderson and Don S. Davis, as well as fan-favorite villain Ba’al, played by Cliff Simon. Fans of Claudia Black’s Vala will see a whole new side of her character as well.
But perhaps the biggest difference is the chance to take a deeper look into the personalities of the main characters, made possible by the more luxurious running time. Even amid all the action, one of the film’s highlights is a sequence in which Mitchell (Ben Browder), Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Jackson (Michael Shanks) return to an Earth where the entire Stargate project never happened.
You can read the full article at SciFi Wire.
