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I expected him to be a 'guest star' in season 8, as the commander of Earth Defenses or whatever the post title is.
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Davis said he'd stay if there was enough money, making it sound voluntary. Whether it WAS or not, who can say?
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From the photos, it looks like the actor who played the Tollan that had a thing for Carter is in this ep. I wonder if it's the same character. If not... they need to stop using actors in Atlantis that are easily recognized from their roles in SG-1.
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Yes, it was the same actor. Which probably also serves as confirmation that the Tollan are indeed dead as doorknobs now and won't be brought back again.
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Yep. I'm still a little surprised that they'd use a fairly recognizable character from a related series like this. Mind you, Nerim has been dead for four years...
As for Hammond, he'll also be back in a the SG-1 episode "Prometheus Unbound" the annual show centering on that ship (though not in command, apparently). Reports indicate that Davis wanted to move on, which is probably true - they hadn't been doing much with him lately (until the seventh season finale). I'm okay with his departure, if it means that when he DOES show up he'll have a substantial part in how things go. This seems to be true, given his parts in "Home" and "Prometheus Unbound".
"...the long-lost heroes are debriefed at Stargate Command and eventually settle back into their normal lives.
"But clues begin to turn up that cause the team to suspect that all is not as it seems."
That sounds like it will be one of those stories where it turns out that they're actually in some kind of simulation and they never really made it back at all.
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Yeah.. But I have hopes that this won't be another of the hackneyed Voyager-esque plot twists. Stargate has done a pretty good job at bucking the trend of most cliches. I though time loop stories had been done, then I saw "Window of Opportunity". I thogh I'd be sick of the X-Files conspiracy crap, but the NID arc continues to engage me...
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"And?"
"Sir... We can't call our ship the Enterprise."
"Why not?"
[silence]
"Sir, why don't we just call it Prometheus? That was the project's code name."
"But Prometheus is a Greek tragedy! Who'd want to name their ship after that?"
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Yes, I'm ressurecting this thread on purpose. No, it wasn't to tick off people who thought Stargate was dead for the summer.
When they rebroadcast the first half of the premiere this Friday, I noticed a couple of new things. First, that Ancient woman who was left behind was the same one SG-1 found frozen in the ice, played by Ona Grauer. So apparently *something* happened to the Antarctic base just after Atlantis left. Whatever it was, it was probably the reason it left.
The music is done by Joel Goldsmith, who has done SG-1 since the beginning. He also happens to be one of 6 children of Jerry Goldsmith.
Finally, I found a good map showing exactly where the Pegasus galaxy is. Others have pointed out where it is in our sky, but that doesn't mean that much to me. The October 1999 National Geographic magazine had a good map of our galaxy, and had several views zooming out to show the Local Group and more. I've scanned in the view of the local group here: http://bj.o.home.mindspring.com/BJ_art/pegasus_galaxy.jpg It's still in the Local Group, but fairly isolated from both the Milky Way and Andromeda. I'm guessing the producers chose this galaxy for exactly that reason.
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Well, except, Pegasus is supposedly 300 million lightyears away, if you can take what McKay says in, erh, Some Episode Whose Name I Knew Once But No Longer at face value.
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Interesting McKay quote. You sure about that number?
OTOH, several sources (in other forums) say that they said on the show that Pegasus was part of the local group. Unfortunately, I didn't hear that myself, so I can't confirm it.
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It could be one of the galaxies visible in the Pegasus constellation, as suggested before. This Pegasus galaxy just seems really close, galactically-speaking. Wherever the Ida galaxy is (it's not the name of a real galaxy, FYI BTW, AFAIK), it's probably further out than Pegasus or Andromeda.
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Question: (And this will no doubt be a dumb one) How is it that there are maps of the milky way galaxy when no man made object has ever left our galaxy to photograph it? Is it a model based on observation of the density and placement of other stars?
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