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Uh, I didn't want to post any more on this, honest, but then I came across this followup article, and the last sentence made me laugh and laugh.

Mallozzi and co executive producer Paul Mullie will write the movie, Sci Fi and MGM said. Mallozzi also said he expected the entire Atlantis cast to be in the movie, plus “a certain gaunt and pallid flowing-locked guest star,” apparently referring to former cast member Amanda Tapping.

(The rest is just sciffi president Howe rambling on about fans being content with getting their "next fix of the Stargate franchise". Ah well.)

Ahem, sosorry... I'll get back to posting fanart ASAP.
(minor casting spoiler for the sga movie... does that count as casting spoiler? Do I need a cut for that?)

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LOL WUT?

IAWTC!!!!!1!!!

Amanda? Gaunt? Riiiight. I think he was referring to the Wraith, folks.

Amanda Tapping, gaunt and pallid. Won't she be pleased to hear that. *snorts*

I get so livid when I read these articles. "Rising production cost and the steep decline of the dollar are the reason to discontinue SGA". WTF does that mean? That Stargate Universe in miraculously going to reverse the dollar's decline?

I think I was most upset by Howe saying that we'd have to mourn and then get over it. Jerk.

Also, what does he mean by "storytelling that is more for the late 2000s than it is for the 1990s"? What an insult to SGA and to the writers of the show, who have given us some amazing and, thankyouverymuch, contemporary and relatable characters and storylines! I, personally, don't think I'm going to "relate" better to a younger cast. Ick.

Re: pallid, 'gaunt' and flowing hair
That's definitely not Tapping.
Maybe Claudia Black, who is sometimes a bit too lean for my taste.

I watched 'The Shrine' on DVR -- *very* good.

It's a crying shame that the SGA writers couldn't have been producing more stories of that caliber.

It's also a shame that the writers almost certainly won't let Rodney mellow a little (some, not to much!) as the result of his experience -- IRL I don't see how such a thing couldn't, particularly that there are the tapes to see of himself. SGA would go right back to status quo ante.

Maybe McKay just needs a Paxil or Lexapro prescription ;)

Regarding SG-1, I think you will enjoy it, at least the first 3-4 seasons before it started getting more stale. Back then they did know how to do the occasional more character-driven ep and the Wr-- I mean Go'auld ;) storyline wasn't so tired. Somewhere around S5 IMO the characters got more 2D again with the writers less willing to rock the boat with them.

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