Just saw 1×04 of SGU.
Rush is the sexiest man I’ve even laid my eyes upon.
My precious Scottish life-ruiner.
“I’m the only qualified person.”
“Yes Colonel I know many, many things for a fact!”
“You think that just because you give the order that it’s possible! There is no more power!”
One of the best scenes in the entire show. Rush owned it! This always tears me into pieces because I want more Rush, but if SGU hadn’t been cancelled then there would be no Rumple/Gold and that’s just unthinkable.
Am I the last to know that Nicholas was originally David? Personally I’m glad for the name change! Nick fits Rush much better than Dave.
I love that the article asks if it’s possible to have two leaders, since that turned out to be one of the core themes of the series (actually three, including Wray).
Well David became “David Telford” I’m guessing. They did a name shuffle with a few people.
Wray was unfortunately never the leader contender that I wished she was and Young was an awful leader. I wish someone on the show would have suggested a leadership council like the Atlantis Expedition. A civilian leader, a military commander, the lead scientist, the chief medical officer etc.
That would have erased a lot of the conflict I suppose but it would have made more sense. I rewatched ‘Divided’ recently and I was appalled (again) at how heavy-handed the military was. All the civilians wanted was their voice to be heard, to feel like they had some control over their situation. It was a very fair request but Young didn’t do fair and everyone accepted it and called him a hero. He was no hero. I could rant about Young all day.
I think Rush would have been a much better leader of Destiny but then I have always been #TeamRush. The man wasn’t perfect and he kept secrets when he shouldn’t have. However, considering no matter what he did nobody trusted him, I can’t really blame him. He just should have remembered the golden rule “what can go wrong, will go wrong and at the worst possible time.” aka they will find out the truth, right when you really don’t want them too.
Photoshop or not, this Stargate pool is glorious! Now it just needs a DHD to control the pool lighting!
It needs to have jets at the bottom too, so that one powerful flick of a switch and the water arcs out of the pool in a whoosh like the gate activating.
My only problem is though, if I was a gazillionaire and could have a pool like this, would I have a Milky Way gate, a Pegasus gate or a Destiny gate? I suppose if I was a gazillionaire I could have all three.
Although the flashbacks to that season one episode ‘The First Commandment’ where they tipped the gate over, to send people through and kill them against the iris would be like .. do I want to jump through the gate like that? Where will I land? Carter went through the gate at that angle in the season 5 episode ‘2001′ and she landed pretty hard.
I know I’m being silly now. I’ll stop.
#so funny#stargate pool#wouldn’t it be awesome
It was the 5th anniversary yesterday of the last ever episode of Stargate – SGU’s Gauntlet – and with all the Once Upon a Time madness I kind of forgot.
I am always late to the party. I didn’t discover Once Upon a Time until last summer when I got netflix. I watched all four seasons (ok I binged all four seasons) and I got really obsessive, as I always do when I really love a show. Then season five started and I’ve watched that on a weekly basis as it aired.
This is a Stargate post but I have a point and my point is this – I didn’t start watching Stargate until February 23rd 2013 – almost two years after the very last episode aired! In all honesty I suppose part of it, is that I was just too young. I was seven when SG1 started airing and Sci-Fi wasn’t really allowed in my house, my mum didn’t like anything that wasn’t reality based so I grew up on crime shows instead.
Yeah I’m getting to my real point I promise. When I reached the Season Seven finale – The Lost City – where Hammond gets replaced by Dr Elizabeth Weir, I really wanted to hate her. I love Hammond, he is like the worlds best boss and it’s his principles that made the SGC what it was. He literally created the foundation for how our world treated the rest of the galaxy. His contribution was every bit as important as SG1′s heroics but I digress – he got replaced! Dr Weir came in and I just could not hate her. I respected her, I liked her even and this was thoroughly in despite of myself. She had replaced Hammond, she should be the devil but nope she was awesome.
Now despite the show having been out ages I was pretty much spoiler free. I didn’t know what was going to happen, each episode was a surprise. I followed the recommended viewing order for SG1, interleaving with Atlantis and when I got to New Order and Torri Higginson appeared on screen – as Dr Elizabeth Weir – I hit the roof! Literally I thought I was going to blow a blood vessel, we’re talking major ranting and then a ton of googling as to why Jessica Steen hadn’t got the part for the spin-off (I still don’t know, I don’t think we’ll ever know) and while I came to accept the new Weir, I remain bitter to this day about the casting change. Jessica Steen had done the impossible, in getting me to instantly like a character that I wanted to hate. I’m sorry that I didn’t get to see what she would have done with the part moving forward.
My point? I did promise I had one. I got mad, ranted on twitter etc. about a casting change that had been made for a show, which had been cancelled over four years earlier. Cancelled! four years earlier. That casting change had been made probably close to a decade earlier.
Some shows live on and they still have ripple effects years later. In just over a year SG1 will have it’s 20th anniversary since it’s first episode aired. All these years on and the show still has the capability to amaze, entertain and indeed infuriate. Just because the show ended a long time ago, doesn’t mean that it’s not still new to somebody. It was new to me when I discovered it and I reacted to each episode, as anyone else would have when watching it for the first time. The show lives on.
Watching season five of Once Upon a Time at the moment, it makes me think about people in the future, perhaps doing what I did and binging on netflix. The choices the writers are making affect more than just the current crop of fans, they affect everyone forever, they affect the shows immortality.
It’s all cause and effect I guess because we’ll never know what the road not traveled would have looked like. I have no idea how it would have changed Stargate Atlantis if Jessica Steen had played Dr Weir, or what knock on effects that would have had elsewhere. I was a big Flashpoint fan, and Steen had a recurring role in that as Donna Sabine, which she might not have had if she’d been a regular on Atlantis.
That’s the same truth that says that Stargate Universe had to be cancelled, otherwise Robert Carlyle couldn’t have given us the gift of Rumplestiltskin/Mr Gold, Ming-Na Wen couldn’t have gone on to play the kick-ass Agent May in Agents of Shield, Jennifer Spence wouldn’t have been Betty on Continuum etc.
That doesn’t stop me from wondering though, about what might have been.