ithildin | Now That I Can Get Behind

I haven't been all too excited about the upcoming Stargate spinoff, since it seemed like it was going to be Baby Stargate or something, but this bit of casting news may change all that!

Robert Carlyle!!!

Squee!

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Ooooooooh, Robert Carlyle would be fabulous. :) *joins you in squee moment*

Cool, huh?

Definitely! My favorite thing with him has been and always will be 'The Full Monty' but it's great to see him getting some TV work.

Hamish MacBeth for me.

*nods* 'The Full Monty' is still a fave movie of mine. :)

YES!

And Jock!

WEE JOCK!

My mum used to call her dog that.

I've not seen the end of the series of SG:A yet.
I think I'll be giving the spin off a miss then as I'm shock horror not really a fan of his but I hope its good for you x

I've loved him since the Hamish McBeth days, so I'm happy. Doesn't mean the show itself will be any good, but it won't be the first time I've watched something that isn't all that [g]

I liked him in The Full Monty first, then that got cemented by Formula 51 (which I had to watch just to see Samuel L. Jackson in a kilt!). It was only after that that I saw the Hamish MacBeth series.

I love his accent.

He was also an awesome Bond villain!

I thought he was wasted in that film. I was so friggin' disappointed. :/

Interesting news, but I'm still too pissed off at how they cancelled SGA only to leave room for SGU to be excited about it.

Not so much excited about the show, but seeing a favourite actor on TV every week. Doesn't happen very often! It will have to hold me till Peter gets a regular gig again.

Eh. I was never a fan of SGA the way I was of SG-1, though I watch it. What worries me most is that, as Stargate Atlantis was to Star Trek: Deep Space 9, so Stargate Universe will be to Star Trek: Voyager.

And frankly, the more SG (whatever flavor) morphs into Trek, the less I like it. The whole lure of SG-1 for me was NO SPACESHIPS. Just contemporary US soldiers and scientists exploring the universe through a single maguffin. No starships, no energy weapons (just good old guns and grenades), no shields failing, no warpcores breaching, none of the Trek-influenced crap that every other SF show gives us nowadays.

Alas, the longer Stargate went on, the more it began to resemble Star Trek. Now the humans are flying around in starship with transporters, shields, space battles at knife fighting distance, the whole nine yards. If I wanted Trek, I'd watch Trek.

Plus...you kids get off my lawn! (shakes fist).

Plus...you kids get off my lawn! (shakes fist).

LOL!

The thing I complain about the most these days is that we're supposed to believe with the thousands and thousands of people all over the world involved in the Stargate program and spaceships the military mans and flies all over creation, that it's still a freakin' secret! Now *that* is unbelievable! Let the population of Earth know already, for pity's sake.

we're supposed to believe with the thousands and thousands of people all over the world involved in the Stargate program and spaceships the military mans and flies all over creation, that it's still a freakin' secret! Now *that* is unbelievable! Let the population of Earth know already, for pity's sake

LOL. I'd love to see that happening.

Me too. I understand that they want to maintain the pretense that this is all taking place in our world. It's the same reason that vampires, aliens, immortals, witches, bionic men and whatnot all remain secret. I can even understand their (the characters) wanting to keep the program secret as long as possible. But it gets tiresome after a while.

I'd have liked to see the secret come out. It would have been a great source of plots to have the program revealed and deal with the consequences. (Or not, if they wished; it IS run out of a high security military base 27 floors under the mountain. Nobody's getting in that they don't allow in.)

Well, I don't know Trek at all so I can't notice any kind of similarities. :P

SGA really grew on me.

Plus...you kids get off my lawn! (shakes fist).

OMG yes! What also bothers me is how they want to make SGU more of a drama. I watched SG-1 and SGA because they were action-adventure shows that didn't take themselves seriously.

...as Stargate Atlantis was to Star Trek: Deep Space 9...

The Star Trek comparison makes it clearer to me how my interest declined from SG-1 to SGA. I liked DS9 a lot, but I always compared it to B5 and preferred the non-Trek show. I was one of the people, I know I wasn't alone in it, that's first thought when Ronon was introduced was that he was a cheap knock off of Tyr Anasazi from Andromeda. SGA was derivative in more ways than I consciously recognized. I lost interest in SGA before it was canceled and it sounds like SGU won't be drawing me back to Stargate.

(Lacking a Star Trek, Babylon 5, Andromeda, or Stargate icon I'm using my Classic Who one.)

As I said to somebody else, I guess this quashes the Eleventh Doctor rumors, eh? Not that I thought they'd go for him. Since I know he'd do series television, I'm rather sad he's going for this show and not DW.

My favorite movie of his will always be Ravenous. Disturbing as all get-out, but damn, he was awesome in that.

I never know how serious 3/4s of those DW casting rumours are. I would have loved him in the role, but if not that, then at least he has a gig.

Didn't they cast someone as 11? Or was that another rumour?

They haven't cast him yet. They aren't supposed to make their announcement until sometime next year. The big money is on Paterson Joseph at this point.

Ok - now I'm excited. I was worried it was going to be Stargate 90210. LOL

I think I just fell deeply in love with your Teal'c icon.

(It always surprises me when you see Christopher Judge in interviews, he's so funny and personable and and sexy and Teal'c is built and formal and nigh unapproachable)

Snag it if you like.

As for the show i just hope it doesn't turn into ST:Voyager - I really hated that show.

As they fight to survive, Dr. Rush (Carlyle) works to unlock the mysteries of the ship and return the group home, but evidence of his ulterior motives soon arises.

Is it just me or does this sound a lot like "Lost in Space"?

Danger! Danger!

ROFL

Now I have the image of Teal'c dressed up as the Tin Man, flailing madly stuck in my head!

Nah. It's Star Trek Voyager: an assortment of heroic characters on a ship stuck far, far away trying to get back home....

So...

Ripping off Trek. Check.
Ripping off the _worst_ Trek ever. Check.
More starships, less stargates. Check.
"Mostly younger" cast--i.e., nobody over 35. Check.

I'll pass.

I wonder who the bad guys will be. Maybe they could have Goa'uld going back in time and we could see Tanith again. :)

I am considerably more interested now than I was 5 minutes ago! Hope it turns out ok.. never ending, recycled sequels are very very irritating. Like certain HL movies *cough*