What's better than RDA coming back to SG-1?

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What's better than Richard Dean Anderson coming back to SG-1 for two episodes? Him appearing on three episodes of Stargate Atlantis.

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My two favorite stars and characters on one program.

Woohoo!!

The annoucement was on SciFi Wire and is pasted in below. Or you can click here and see the original release on SciFi's site. There are a few minor spoilers in the information.

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McKay AND O'Neill. How fun is that?


SG-1's Anderson Like Old Times

Brad Wright—executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis—told SCI FI Wire that it's been like old times having Richard Dean Anderson back on set for several guest appearances on both shows, reprising his role as Gen. Jack O'Neill. Anderson's first appearance will be in "200," SG-1's 200th episode, which will air Aug. 18 as part of the series' upcoming 10th season. "It's been a lot of fun to see him again," Wright said in an interview. "He's doing two episodes of SG-1 and three episodes of Atlantis."

Anderson left the Stargate fold after season eight of SG-1 in order to spend more time with his young daughter. But both he and the show's producers left the door open for return engagements.

Wright said that SG-1 could not toast its 200th episode without its original leading man. "He was so much the face of SG-1 for so many years," Wright said. "We did go on without him and made some fine television, but for the 200th episode there was just no way we could even consider doing it without bringing him back. And, of course, when we called him to ask him to do that, he said, 'Just one?' So it was nice to know that he wanted to come back. And it's actually kind of a testament to the environment we have here. People miss it when they're gone. It's just a fun place to work, and it's a fun show to work on. That's why everybody still works their butt off and why we're still on the air, I guess, because it shows on the screen."

SG-1's 200th episode is a send-up that picks up the story of the show's 100th episode, "Wormhole X-Treme!" and brings back guest star Willie Garson as abductee-turned-Hollywood producer Martin Lloyd. The episode "is based on a great idea [executive producer] Robert [C. Cooper] had, and we've all written bits and put them all together, and Robert went through it, and then I went through it," Wright said. "It's essentially a 'Wormhole X-Treme!' revisited, in a sense, because Marty comes back, but this time he needs our help to work on the Wormhole X-Treme! feature [film]. Because even though the series was canceled after three episodes, it did well on DVD. A little nod to Serenity, I suppose. And the Air Force loves it, because they love the notion of a television series out there that is ostensibly ... [the] real events in SG-1, in Stargate Command. So, plausible deniability. ... So it's a series of, I guess you could call them, vignettes or flashes. ... 'Wormhole X-treme!' was pushing it. This is pushing it twice as far. But, you know, it's the 200th episode."

Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, which comes back for a third season, will both return with new episodes beginning on July 14.

New SGA suthor - - not me

WOOHOO. Toni posted her fics!!! Now, stop everything and go and read them.

The Scenic Route
Carson Beckett and Rodney McKay find themselves stranded in an alien jungle, forced to hike back to the Gate.
Complete
Rated: T
Category: Humor/Angst

It Always Hurts
Carson Beckett comes to grips with losing patients.
Complete
Rated: K
Category: General/Angst

Randomness

My David Hewlett obsession has exploded. I've been watching Traders (Canadian tv show) for the past few days. Grant it so fun! Like Rodney, but softer...much, much softer. A lot of fun. I'm looking forward to finishing up the whole series. Only five seasons and I'm in season three already.

Finished part one of my new fic and finally started on part two while the first part is with the betas. I'm paranoid, but trying not to worry (hence the Traders obsession).

On a fun side-note, have you ever felt like things get lost in translation? Take a gander over here. This is what happens when you translate English to Japanese and then back to English again. Kinda like a telephone game gone bad...real bad.

Enjoy! But try not to bust a gut laughing.

Rediscovering Stargate

It's kind of funny, but I think I've fallen out of love with Stargate.

Perhaps an explanation might be in order.

I've been a fan of Stargate SG-1 for years, since nearly the beginning. I love the whole premise behind the movie and the series (and Richard Dean Anderson of course...that goes without saying). I used to watch it religiously every week, even spending horrible amounts of money to make sure I got Showtime so I could watch every Friday night. I was a happy camper when it finally wandered over to SciFi. It would save me some cash and I could still watch the crew every day.

And then they made SGA, which I absolutely love.

But, ever since Jack O'Neill as a character moved up (to General and then to Washington) there's just something missing and my attention span has continued to wane until I discovered that I was no longer a fan of Stargate SG-1 (at least the new version of it that started with season nine) and that I had stopped watching the program. Instead, my obsession had moved to a rather cranky scientist with an ego the size of outter Mongolia who just happened to live in a nice little city in the Pegasus Galaxy.

So, tonight, since I finally have the television to myself I decided to watch Stargate Monday and I realized something. Sitting here watching "Solitudes" I realized that this was the show and the team that I fell in love with all those years ago. It makes me want to pick up the DVD sets I own and start everything right from the beginning.

The early years of Stargate really rocked!

I think I may have re-discovered the show and the characters I loved to follow through the gate week after week, the ones I loved to write stories about.

It might be time to dig out those DVDs after all.