Stargate Birthdays (22nd Jan)

Two Stargate alumni celebrate their birthdays today (22nd).

From SG1 we have Michael Kopsa who played two roles in the show the first as a news anchor in the episode “There But For The Grace Of God” and then General Kerrigan in “Proving Ground” and “Prodigy”.

We then have Jennifer Spence who played Dr Lisa Park in 36 of the 40 episodes of Stargate Universe.

Tags: Birthdays, Jennifer, Michael, SG1, SGU

GateWorld Interview » Measure of a Man

GateWorld » Measure of a Man.

Chad talks with Jamil Walker Smith about his time on SGU, his character and what could have been and explores his film project “Make A Movie Like Spike.”

I really enjoyed the character of Greer on SGU, dark and troubled but as we came to see there was something to cheer for beneath all the troubles, his season 2 development was excellent and would I believe have gone on to become one of the focal points of the show.

Tags: Greer, Jamil Walker Smith, SGU

Stargate Universe – Complete Season 1-2 [DVD]

Stargate Universe – Complete Season 1-2 [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk:

Not an overly attractive price at £56.99 but MGM are doing a Paramount/CBS number on SGU fans in terms of pricing and of course what is totally unforgivable is the lack of a Blu-ray boxset or even a season 2 Blu boxset. In this day and age and with this production the lack of a HD offering barring broadcast and itunes is simply not on and well surely giving the customer what they want is preferable to making pirated options more attractive?

Tags: Boxset, DVD, SGU

Syfy Cancels ‘Stargate Universe’

Syfy Cancels ‘Stargate Universe’

Some sad but not unexpected news for fans of the more adult and harder edged science fiction drama. In the end the move to Tuesday and corresponding drop in “live” viewing figures regardless of good DVR and streamed viewing makes you wonder if Syfy were looking to dump perhaps their most expensive scripted show. Given the demise of Caprica they have certainly freed up a huge amount of cash and no offence to the creators of Haven or Eureka but they are far cheaper shows to produce.

Tags: SGU

SGU Season 1 Blu-ray (UK)

The UK blu-ray boxset now has a July 5th release date.

This is good news but the bad news is that even Amazon have it priced at an eye watering £50.99 which is taking the proverbial. I waited a while and picked up most of my Blu-ray full season boxsets for under £20, even buying sooner £35-£40 is within the realm but over £50 is ridiculous.

Tags: Blu-ray, SGU

SGU Space (SyFy broadcast)

So I’ve just finished watching the first new episode of SGU for some time and I came away pretty satisfied. We see the crew dealing with the loss of Rush with the obvious differing opinions from within the camps and that’s made worse by a “malfunction” in the communication stones prior to an IOA report being sent. Things start to ramp up as the mysterious ship which left the Destiny earlier in the season is seen again bringing it’s own issues to the general mix of back stabbing and double dealing.

Key points

• Rush & Young
• Theme of being alone
• Growing discontent and Conspiracy
• Aliens

Tags: Chloe, Communication Stones, Rush, SGU, Young