Posted on 04/20/2006 5:17:48 PM PDT by Panerai
They had cake! Jack O'Neill would be impressed.
For the official celebration of the filming of episode 200 (appropriately titled "200"), executives from the Stargate franchise's new owner Sony Pictures Television flew up to the set to join guest star and former leading man Richard Dean Anderson ("Jack O'Neill") and the entire cast and crew for the big event on Wednesday.
The occasion was such a big event that even customs officials at the airport knew what was going on. At customs, Jeanie Bradley, a vice president with Sony Pictures Television, explained she was on business for Stargate SG-1. Nonplussed, the immigration official replied, "Oh, you here to cut the cake?"
"Believe me, all of Vancouver knows," Bradley told the audience assembled in the gate room at The Bridge Studios when recounting the incident.
Addressing the media, Bradley kept repeating what a "big deal" it was for the show, now filming its tenth season, to reach this milestone. Among its many records, Stargate SG-1 is now the longest-running science fiction series ever produced in North America, the longest-running drama on cable, and the longest-running series made in British Columbia.
Stargate SG-1's 202nd episode will reportedly move it past another Vancouver-based cult favorite, The X-Files.
And it is a very big deal in terms of dollars and viewers. Over 10 million people in more than 100 countries now tune in to watch Stargate SG-1. And the production has been a boon to the Vancouver economy. Over the past nine years, the production of Stargate alone has generated over $500 million in U.S. dollars for the British Columbia economy.
Speaking to the show's impact, executive producer Robert C. Cooper joked, "We don't know because we've never left this building."
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But don't the guy on the far right and Ben Browder (formerly of Farscape) look like the same person?
Caludia Black was a semi-regular this last season, she will be a full member of the cast next season that's already filming.
I don't watch TV so I will have to wait for it on DVD I guess. She's 20 times hotter than that skinny blond transvestite-looking chick on Galactica.
So where's Richard Dean Anderson? McGiver? Whatever?
He's still a producer on the show, and will return on the 200th episode, but he is no longer a regular on the show. I think he wanted to spend more time with his family.
As Vala (Claudia Black) said in an early season 9 episode: "Your planet has an interesting, but limited, gene pool."
I have a question - everytime I read about RDA's desire to leave Stargate SG-1, it says he wants to spend more time with his daughter. His wife isn't mentioned. Is he divorced? (Not that it matters to me, of course, being a happily married woman; just curious.)
Glasses dude: MM-mmm.
It's lasted longer, and developed some interesting plot devices, but Kurt Russell and James Spader were the best O'Neill and Jackson in either medium.
Have I missed something? No more Jack O'Neil?
Major General Jack O'Neill is currently Director of Homeworld Security.
He is the the overall commander of all off world related units. His primary units are Area 51, the Atlantis Expedition, and Stargate Command. So both Major General Landry and Dr. Weir report to him.
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