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Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis Renewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the maybe-they'll-be-better-this-year dept.

scifi451 writes "Both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis have been renewed for another season, 9th and 2nd respectively. All of the key cast members are coming back for Atlantis, where as SG-1 stars are in negotiations, with Amanda Tapping expecting a baby in March right as filming begins. Also Richard Dean Anderson might look for an even further reduced role in the show. More news can be found here: Gateworld & Scifi-Wire"

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  1. To quote Teal'c by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indeed. This is a cause for much celebration.

  2. Richard Dean Anderson has a reduced role? by Xpilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will he disappear for most of the season? You know, be stranded on some strange world without a stargate, until he builds one out of bamboo, chewing gum and duct tape with his trusty Swiss Army knife...oh, wrong series.

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    1. Re:Richard Dean Anderson has a reduced role? by metlin · · Score: 5, Funny



      Nah, Daniel would just get himself killed. Just like the old times.

  3. Smart decision by YetAnotherName · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I only watch either show occasionally (my wife's quite the fanatic), but what I've seen is pretty good, as far as science fiction goes. Acting is definitely above average, Richard Dean Anderson's portrayals as an everyman facing aliens brings a wry grin now and then. Oh, and Amanda Tapping is quite cute, no doubt about that. It's nice that SciFi can make the right decision sometimes. (And sad that they can make the horribly wrong decision other times, c.f. canceling Farscape not so long ago.)

  4. Re:Slashdot ruined this for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's an outtake from the first season where O'Neill and Carter are trapped in the Antarctic with a broken Stargate which features Carter going into a rant about being trapped with MacGyver and how he should be able to make a working gate.

    In the pilot, Carter also describes how they made their own dialing device and says they "MacGyvered it."

  5. Re:Hooray!!! by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    My wife and I are excited, who's the other guy?

    I don't know, but he might be the reason your wife's so excited

  6. Re:Atlantis is terrible by CoolCash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Go back and dust off your season one DVD set of Stargate SG-1. Compare those characters to the characters of today's episodes, completely different. Back then they were the stereotypical, cookie cutter, typecasts. It took a couple of seasons before the actors found their nitch. Also, if you looked back when The Next Generation aired, many of the same people said the same things about that show.