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Ben Browder Joining Stargate SG-1 Cast
Ananamous Coward writes "Ben Browder, best known as Farscape's John Crichton, will become a SG-1 regular starting from season 9 (yes, there are already rumors about a 10th season), joining the SG-1 team although is role is quite unclear. He will fill the gap left by Anderson who's unlikely to return except for small appearances.
Claudia Black, Farscape's Aeryn Sun, is also going to play in a fair number of episodes"
They leave the Farscape puppets on the shelf, they'll be okay.
My heart is one again!
How will this affect the rumoured Stargate movie that is apparently in planning stages? I don't know about any other fans of the show, but a big budget Stargate film without Anderson in the main role somehow doesn't seem as appealing. Oh well, back to watching old McGyver episodes, I guess...
I'm not stressed. I'm just terribly, terribly alert.
First they replace my favorite show of all time with a crappy series that's been on the verge of dying for years...then they take its cast. Viva la Farscape!
Given that in one of the first couple episodes, they mentioned "MacGuyvering" the Stargate's control system and had Anderson glance at Tapping when that line was used, how long do you figure before there's the first Farscape reference in an episode?
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
It's been on that long! I didn't know that. My girlfriend was a real fan (yes /.'ers, they're out there some where). She got me hooked on the show.
Episode 8-12 has already been circulating in the TV-Torrent sites for a while. Not to spoil anything, but Claudia's character in it is a rather cliched, yet entertaining character because of it.
For some reason, the episode had odd the feeling of a Bioware RPG scenario, with all the strange choices and snarky replies flying around.
Ryan Fenton
They were going to have to add someone eventually. Of course, SG-1 has probably already jumped the shark, largely due to Richard Dean Anderson's unwillingness to either poop or get off the pot, so to speak.
What I don't get is that they write Don Davis - who has said that he really enjoyed being a part of SG-1 and wanted to keep doing it as long as the fans kept the show alive - out of the show, so that they can promote RDA to the SGC's commanding officer, when they know good and well that RDA is fading fast from the show. Hell, they *froze him* at the end of Season 7, so why didn't they just keep him frozen and let Don Davis continue being the great performer he is?
they should have named it babylon 6 if they wanted 6 episodes. It would only have spread out the inspiration of the screenwriters 20% more.
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B5 wasn't designed to go past 5. It was designed to be 5 seasons total. Read the 5 season DVD booklet sometime. It explains what they had to go through to get someone to approve a 5 season series.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
... a cross-dressing transexual pilot named Starbuck.
The first episode will have Teal'c giving Browder eyeshadow tips.
I find it confusing when people start popping up in other shows. I mean, when the holographic doctor from Voyager appears as a government lawyer in SG-1, one kind of expects him to have his emitter fail every minute.
For movie actors or minor characters, that's not so much of a problem, but for regular cast members, it's weird.
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I couldn't help myself! The voices inside made me say it.
HGTTG: "I knew that there was something fundementally wrong with the Universe."
An ultra military hard-ass. A cocky SOB. Almost sanitized. More like a cross between the marines of "Aliens" and "Master Chief" of Halo.
More mission centric. Military brat. Academy graduate....give him a father who is a naval admiral. Not a seemingly soft edge. A cut to the chase character.
I like where they say they are still trying to clear the character name through legal channels... if you read between the lines kinda thing (or then again, maybe not)
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I couldn't get used to all the characters from the sitcom Benson appearing in Star Trek as lead characters.
I was certain that Gretchen Kraus was going to show up as the Borg Queen.
The movie was pretty lame, and I was surprised when they picked it to be the basis of a series.
I was even more surprised when the series turned out to be good.
A warning though, there's a lot of changes that take place during the run, and if you don't start at the beginning, then there's a lot to catch up on, and it's easy to get lost. You almost need a hard core fan sitting next to you giving pop-up bios and updates.
That said, rent the first season or so. I haven't watched it in a couple years, due largely to factors outside the show itself, and when I had the chance to watch it again, I declined because I kept getting lost. "Wait, this character was DEAD for a season? Why's he back???"
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Dear MacGuyver,
Enclosed is a toothpick, some dental floss and twist-tie. Please save Stargate SG-1.
It's not that we don't believe she is a fan. We here at /. have a hard time believing that you have a girlfriend.
You're bitching because some obscure website which is overly fascinated with obscure technologies also happens to throw in the occasional obscure pop culture reference to an obscure science fiction show?
Maybe you'd be happier over at news.com.com.
I'm not sure if the show was ever on the verge of dying, but I certainly was after watching ten minutes of it. Browder and Black must feel at least a little bit humiliated. I guess maybe sci-fi misses some of the viewers they lost with Farscape. This really is a big fuck you to all the Farscape fans. And please, no inane comments about how sci-fi was doing its fiduciary duty by canceling Farscape.
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Granted, SG1 is played out, and I think it is truly time for a graceful transition either into a new mission and new cast, or into oblivion. But the mythology is still rich with variation. I'm actually impressed with what I've seen on Stargate Atlantis. As far as small screen sci fi, its the best we have going right now.
Browder has a wonderful range as an actor and he can even act in front of blue screens, Muppet's and people wearing makeup and foam rubber by the kilogram, but you gotta wonder what he's going to do on SG-1.
I mean on Farscape, he regularly pulls off Cocky, Funny, "burnt," and once, a very powerful death scene... pretty much everything his character is asked to be/do with one exception: he is nothing like convincing as someone who has anything to do with science.
The thought of Browder on SG-1 asks a buttload of questions about what made the producers want him. I mean, SG-1's humor (as delivered by R.D.A. in the current cast) tends to be far more downplayed and suble than what Browder has played on Farscape.
Could be interesting. Could be an accident waiting to happen.
Can't wait
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Seems like a step down after Farscape, but work is work.
that is all.
I liked Farscape, I like SG1 and I've seen "Prometheus Unbound" SG1 episode with Claudia Black today.
;)
Give me more Black in SG1, it was the first really good episode in this season. But on the other hand, the best of SG1 are all the tongue-in-cheak, very out-of-character episodes -- "Window of Opportunity", "Wormhole X-Treme" or the one with O'Neil speaking Ancient, for the first time
Robert
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None of Browder's jokes will be funny. Those Earth reference jokes he uses on Aliens just won't cut it in the Stargate universe...
"Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows. What makes you think you can guarantee my safety?"
It seems like most everyone on here thinks that it's the producer's fault that Richard Dean Anderson isn't on the show anymore. Get a grip, some people get tired of the same job day in and day out and want a change. After all, he's not only an actor on the show, but he's also the executive producer. I imagine that makes for a long work week.
SG1 and Farscape are both excellent shows. I bear no ill will toward Sci-Fi for canning Farscape, I imagine that the show was massively expensive to produce so although the decision was a tough one to make, it had to be done for the network to survive.
Richard is a fine actor. Ben is an awesome actor. It's kinda like comparing William Shatner to Patrick Stewart. Give Ben time, you may grow to love him.
Episode twelve of both SG-1 and Atlantis are due to air on Sky One on the 4th Jan, which seems to be a week before US viewers will even see episode eleven
FYI Atlantis showed in Canada first, eps 12-15 are already out and about.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Commander John Crichton was not in the USAF. He was a scientist working on an IASA project. Think Pete Siebold with TierOne/SpaceShipOne.
The redheads dead, died in a nuke attack on the Eidelon temple on Arnesk. The blue chick 'died' years ago, but being a 9th Level Pa'ua has its merits. Look for Zhaan to rise just as soon as Revlon develops blue paint that doesn't cause kidney and liver damage. The gray chick? Don't even think about tapping that ass, because when D'Argo comes back (#1 of Sci Fi - if you don't see a body chopped into little peices, they're not dead), he'll cleave your ass in two.
Don't you mean oot and aboot?
It'll be nice seeing a couple of familiar faces again, with fresh characters and settings. I don't seen any problem with that.
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Personally, I thought Farscape was a great series that got way too dark and jumbled in the last season or two. It was a show that lost its way. Maybe it was too ambitious? SG-1 is less ambitious, and though it may have stumbled a few times, it never really lost its way.
I'm a big fan of SG-1, all the more since there aren't many real SF shows left on TV. However. .
Am I the only one who thinks SG-1 is getting kind of old? And cheap? I mean. . . In the beginning they had great, elaborate costumes and sets, and lots more bit parts and extras (including great ethnic actors to represent some of the planets they visited) and great military equipment props. As season after season rolls by, the production gets pared down more and more -- it gets more austere and repetitious. Fewer characters, fewer cool props, more austere sets, more of the same stuff getting recycled. And I swear, someday they are going to step out of that stargate onto yet another alien planet covered with the same damned pine trees, and I'm going to lose it.
YEARGH!
Perhaps the reason scifi is doing this is to keep Browder around while they come up with a script for another movie/season of FarScape? We all know it's about the benjamins and perhaps the free publicity and decent reviews the recent mini-series garnered were enough to kick start another run....I mean they did decide to proceed with the new Battlestar Galactica (which I personally didn't find very good) so how much of a stretch is it to believe Farscape is FAR behind ;)
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"I thought Claudia Black's character was too much like Aeryn, but perhaps that's just because she's a really poor actor? ;)"
If she were a really poor actor they would have made her a character on Stargate Atlantis.