Looks like Robert Patrick will get his very own spin-off series from this spin-off.
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No, he doesn't. His character is killed off by the end of the premiere, apparently leaving his second-in-command Major Sheppard in charge (and the series lead). Oh, the drama!
Still, I'm looking forward to the new series. The creators have done a bang-up job with SG-1, and I hope to see more of that kind of magic in Atlantis. Snoop around the gateworld website for many more details about the new show and story. I'm hoping that now filming has begun we'll soon have set pics and previews of what the new show LOOKS like - I have high hopes. I interviewed SG-1 producer Joe Mallozzi last summer, and he have some rather interesting hints that I hope will pan out in the new show!
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More spoilers.. . . . . . . . . Yep. The show happens in a different galaxy than our own, and has its own Stargate system that seems to be rather different than our own. Aside from a different look, the gates seem to be large enough to allow small ships through: our heroes will occasionally use Trek shuttle-sized alien ships called "puddle-jumpers" to gate around (big enough for a cockpit of two plus six passengers), while the bad guys have "Wraith Darts" which can go through gates as well. At least one of the new gates is orbital, suggesting that they're getting away from the "big stone ring" motif of SG-1.
The team is based on Atlantis itself, a high-tech city of the Ancients that SG-1 has been looking for for a while now. It seems to start off on Earth, but at some point the whole thing gets transported to the other galaxy entirely. It subsequently becomes the base of operations for the new team. Other SG-1 cast members are said to be able to guest star later on, so I don't think they'll be stranded there a la Voyager. But getting to another galaxy via the Stargate is known to be somewhat more complicated, so going home is not likely to be a common occurence.
EDIT: Lookie - a picture! The non-military jumpsuits don't sit well with me, but then again neither did DS9's at first. The uniform colors are also interesting - Weir and Sheppard are American, McKay is Canadian (something that never came up in SG-1, but implies that someone has finally bothered to tell us Canucks about the Stargate), and Ford is potentially neither. They did say that the new team, and the mission overall, will be international in nature, and it seems to be panning out. Interesting!
Mark
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I don't care much for those jumpsuits either. I'm looking forward to the show, though. I just hope it lives up to SG-1's brilliance, unlike that horrible cartoon.
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: But getting to another galaxy via the Stargate is known to be somewhat more complicated, so going home is not likely to be a common occurence.
I'm not up on the new show at all, this thread is the first I've heard of it, but...
That's not going to 'hold water' as they'd be violating the concepts established in the StarGate film. The gate from Earth to Abydos took the team to another galaxy and that seemed pretty routine for the StarGate to accomplish...why would it be a big deal now??
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SG-1 lives in a slightly different continuity than the movie. Differences in actors aside, the TV universe puts all the action in our galaxy - and Abydos as one of the closest worlds in the gate network. The other gates wouldn't work at first unless the Earth network compensated for thousands of years of stellar drift - something the gate network does automatically through the DHD dialling device that the Earth gate doesn't have.
Now, one thing both universes share is a gate with nine chevrons on it, with seven being necessary to dial up a given world. In the second season, they discovered that with a couple modifications to the gate, and a LOT of extra power, an EIGHTH chevron can be dialled in. This acts effectively as an "area code" chevron allowing access to other galaxies. This is used occasionally as the method people go to the Asgard galaxy to help out Thor and his buddies.
And no, no one knows what the ninth chevron is for.
Mark
PS - As with the Highlander cartoon, Stargate: Infinity does not exist and should be shunned by the masses. Yuck.
PPS - I've just noticed that Sheppard is wearing the same jumpsuit type as Weir and McKay - and that the jumpsuit is almost the same design as the green field outfits that SG-1 wears, with pointlessly-coloured panels. With the utility mesh, it ain't so bad after all...
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I'm a little worried by the fact that David Hewlett's character is going to be a regular. I mean, the guy's a good actor, but that character is just so obnoxious. I seem to recall that they toned him down a bit during "Redemption", but I still think he'll need a major overhaul to be bearable on a weekly basis.
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Hey - they have specific country flags on their shoulders... please don't spoil anything of Stargate Season 7 past... lesse - that 'space-race' episode.
I know there was the bottle episode where Major Davis divulged the existance of the Stargate to the UK, China and someone else apart from Russia. I'm SURE it wasn't Canada!
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I guess I don't mind the more high tech Gate system, given this is apparently the Ancients' home galaxy, but I'm going to need a good reason why the Gates look different.
Just so I'm clear (I'm not current with SG-1), there's no Gate buried on Earth under Antarctica, right? There's just a base down there. So the Gate they use initially to get to the Pegasus Galaxy is the one from the SGC. And to get back home, they'd also have to Gate back to the SGC, yes?
It'll be a little different to have this one, lone team exploring an entirely different galaxy all by themselves with no back-up or anything. I wonder if the other Gates in the Pegasus galaxy can dial back to Earth's Gate.
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Actually, season 6 and 7 have hinted that
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the Ancients evolved on Earth, millions of years before we did...
"there's no Gate buried on Earth under Antarctica, right?"
Nope, not anymore. The beta gate they found there in Solitudes was first placed in storage in, uh, Nevada (and used by Maybourne for his rogue ops) and later transported to the SGC to replace the alpha gate (which was "confiscated" by the Russians in Small Victories). Then it was destroyed in Redemption, and the Russians "loaned" their (alpha) gate back to the SGC again, in exchange for joined command of the program.
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Right, I'm familiar with the Beta Gate story line. But have they since discovered that the Beta Gate was the Gate used at this base that they've apparently uncovered?
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