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Gate Geeks – We have DVDs!

Just in time for my birthday, the upcoming SG1 movie The Ark of Truth will be released direct-to-DVD on March 11th.

The week before, the US will finally get its own chance to buy Stargate’s version of The Star Wars Holiday Special when Stargate Infinity: The Legend Begins is released on March 6th. (Although really, it would take a lot to be as bad as The Holiday Special!)

In other Stargate news:
– Joe Mallozzi advises us to spread the wealth in our praises and criticisms of each week’s show. Plus, he announced that he will be breaking down this week’s mid-season finale and fielding questions in his blog.
– The Chucknician himself, Chuck Campbell, talks about the joys of being a day player for Stargate.
– And Stargate’s own Head Fan Pierre Bernard (from Conan O’Brien’s Recliner of Rage bit) throws out a press release for one last push on the People’s Choice Awards voting. (Which still has a few categories open.)

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Gate Geek – The Catch-Up Version

What have we missed while my internet access has been down? A few tidbits, here and there:

– All sorts of hardly-spoilery photos from the upcoming SG1 movie The Ark of Truth.
– Info of a definitely-more spoilery nature about this Friday’s mid-season finale of Stargate Atlantis. GateWorld finds more story details. The Official Site puts up new video that gives a bit more away than SciFi’s preview.
– We also have a new interview with Amanda Tapping on the joys of Rodney McKay.
– And there’s still one more day left to support Atlantis in the People’s Choice voting.

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Gate Geek – Chuck!

Stargate always seems to have one character who comes out of the background and becomes beloved. (Like the technician who eventually became known as Walter in the SGC.)

Atlantis’ gate technician has joined those ranks by finally getting a name, Chuck, which just so happens to be the actors’ own. He tells GateWorld all about it in this interview preview. Maybe he’ll get a last name in Season 5?

In other news, David Hewlett catches up on his My Favorite Line series in a muffled, post-baby version on YouTube.

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Gate Geek – Find the Truth

We have a new trailer! Supposedly taken from the SGA DVD released in Europe, the quality is dubious and the special effects appear to be from other episodes, but the scenes are definitely from the upcoming SG1 movie The Ark of Truth. (You can see the first trailer on the official site.)

Back in the Pegasus Galaxy, Slice of SciFi interviews writer Martin Gero about the direction the show has taken and how fans just need to get over it, already. (via)

Having trouble getting over it? Maybe winning a walk-on role and lunch with Joe Flanigan and Amanda Tapping will help? (Really must work on that lottery win.)

And only a week left to try and get David Hewlett the chance to fly to LA and meet Queen Latifah.

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Gate Geek – Father Figure

Shaking off the post-Thanksgiving cobwebs here to let you know that GateWorld has posted their full interview with Stargate co-creator Brad Wright.

He talks about the current state of things in the franchise, the joys of letting people grow from within the company and how amazingly difficult it is to get straight-to-DVD movies released. (Minor spoilage, if you haven’t seen Season 4, yet.)

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Gate Geek for Wednesday

Rare Appearance Alert! None other than Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O’Neill) will be a guest at next year’s GateCon. The actor has never been one to attend many conventions. And it has been less so since his retirement from the acting industry to spend time raising his daughter. I wonder how air fare to Vancouver is going to look by then….

GateWorld has an interview with David Hewlett (Rodney McKay) in which he talks about the joys of tormenting his sister (Kate Hewlett) in an upcoming episode. And how easy it is to tease Paul McGillion (Carson Beckett) about being blown up.

And Stargate Atlantis is a nominee for a People’s Choice Award in the first-ever Favorite Sci-Fi Show category.

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Gate Geek – Thelma and Louise Tonight

Tonight’s Stargate Atlantis episode is Missing an episode that producer Joe Mallozzi is calling “Stargate’s Thelma and Louise” as Teyla gets to kick some butt. (While already impressive, it’s made even more so knowing that Rachel Luttrell was already pregnant with her son at the time.)

He also tells the story of how Jewel Staite (formerly of Firefly fame and now playing Jennifer Keller) demonstrated her fearlessness by going out on a rope bridge very high up from the ground. (Yet another reason why I can never be an actor.)

Over on the official SciFi blog, it’s been announced that writer/producer Carl Binder is going out on strike with the US writers as he’s a member of the guild. I’m assuming this means we’ll be waiting for Carl’s wonderful stories towards the end of next season? (The rest of the writing staff belong to the Canadian guild and are still working.)