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Opening Credits To Be 10 Seconds Long

At the Burbank Creation Stargate Convention taking place this weekend, long-time Stargate music composer Joel Goldsmith revealed that the opening credits for the SciFi airings of Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis will be only 10 seconds long. A standard one minute version similar to previous seasons will be prepared for syndication and presumbably airings in other countries, but ScFi Channel requested a 10-second opening for its airings.

The opening credits for Stargate: SG-1 will show the gate opening, then very rapid cuts from the show, including character shots. The only names shown as titles will be Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright, the executive producers.

Mr. Goldsmith and his assistant Rick did not know yet what the order of the actor credits would be in the one minute versions. They also did not know whether the shorter credits were being done to make room for a longer episode or more commercials.

Edited to add: Joe Mallozzi confirmed this news on Gateworld Forum, saying in part “Ultimately, the SciFi Channel felt that a 10 second opening was the way to go, following the lead of shows like Lost. Other than the abbreviated opening sequence, the timing of the episode will remain unchanged.”

Read his entire response here: Joe Mallozzi post on Gateworld Forum.

If the show follows the Lost model, then the names of the actors will be shown over the beginning of the episode itself, as is currently done for guest stars, directors, and writers.

SG-1, SGA Make Cover of US TV Guide

Thanks to Elyse at the sg1_spoilme Yahoo! group for the heads up on this article and images!

The July 10 2005 issue of TV Guide Magazine, the highest-selling magazine in the US, will feature the SciFi Friday night line-up, Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica. Three different collector covers will be sold:

  • Stargate: SG-1 featuring Ben Browder and Amanda Tapping
  • Stargate: Atlantis featuring Rachell Lutrell and Joe Flanigan
  • Cast members from Battlestar Galatica

(Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks were featured on the cover of TV Guide on July 26, 2003.)

Here is the cover story as reported at TV Guide.

Going out of this world is business as usual for Sci Fi Channel, which has picked the perfect night of the week — Friday — to showcase its hottest properties: the spectacular lineup of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica, all returning with original episodes on July 15. Read on for excerpts of the magazine’s previews of the Stargate franchise.

Shaking Up Stargate

Yes, Stargate SG-1 fans, there is life after Richard Dean Anderson. From the look of things at the sprawling complex in Vancouver where Sci Fi Channel’s Friday-night anchor is filming its ninth season, an infusion of new characters — and a villainous race so powerful it has its own planet-size stargate portal — has created a palpable sense of renewal.

Sure, the heart of the international hit remains the same: A team of U.S. commandos and their buddy from another planet pass through a stargate to distant galaxies to defend Earth from its enemies. But Stargate has been primped. “To us, it’s a new show,” says executive producer Robert C. Cooper. He and producing partner Brad Wright see the departure of their leading man as an opportunity to reimagine the series that’s now tied with The X-Files as TV’s longest-running science-fiction series.

Anderson’s Jack O’Neill is stepping aside to make room for new regulars Beau Bridges, whose Gen. Hank Landry will head Stargate Command, and Farscape hunk Ben Browder, whose Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell will lead the SG-1 team. Equally tantalizing: Farscape’s Claudia Black has signed on for six episodes as an intergalactic thief, and Lou Gossett Jr. appears as a manipulative alien political leader.

Atlantis Rises Higher

Here at the massive soundstages where the two Stargate series are filmed, a former steel-bridge factory 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver, the cast and crew of Atlantis (Stargate SG-1’s sea-sprayed spin-off) are spouting about the storm-tossed second season ahead.

The core conflicts surrounding the expedition crew — explorers transported through the stargate and stranded in the Pegasus galaxy while trying to locate the ancient city of Atlantis — were established last year. Now executive producer Brad Wright promises moments of “real jeopardy and real consequences” for the besieged team as they try to hold off the Wraith, the vampirelike race that dines on humans. In last season’s multipart cliff-hanger, those nasty suckers were threatening to seize the Atlantis portal and invade our blue planet, making Earth their new feeding ground.

In this week’s premiere, “Siege, Part 3,” the cavalry arrives in the form of the imposing battle cruiser Daedalus, dispatched from Earth — and just in time. But eager reinforcements may not be enough to hold back the Wraith as their presence becomes more insidious, poisonous and confounding.

“We get into some pretty hairy danger, and we may lose some people close to us,” warns coproducer Martin Gero. Among the brow-raising Wraith developments: The Atlantis explorers will venture into an active hive; encounter an advanced alien culture that’s in cahoots with the Wraith; uncover mistrustful factions among the Wraith who may incite civil war; and begin work on a gene therapy that could devolve the evil race. “There’s part of the Wraith that is human,” Gero hints.

The show’s producers are practically rubbing their hands with glee over the new season….
— Matt Roush, Ileane Rudolph and Michael Davis

Read more about Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica in the July 10 issue of TV Guide, on newsstands Thursday.

Copyright © 2005 TV Guide Magazine Group, Inc. No infringement intended.

S9 Spoilers Update

We’ve reformatted our Season 9 information to provide an index with links to pages for each episode with a confirmed airing order. Each article presents everything we know about the episode. We believe this will make your S9 browsing experience easier and more enjoyable! Thanks to DeeKayP for her hard work making this happen.

Visit the Season 9 spoilers page: Season Nine

S9 Spoilers: "Collateral Damage"

S9 Spoilers: “Collateral Damage”

Initial spoilers are available for an episode likely to air in the second half of the season.

9.1x “Collateral Damage”

Written by: Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie
Directed by: Will Waring

Summary:
On an alien planet, Col. Mitchell is accused of a brutal murder, and his own memories confirm that he did indeed commit the crime. SG-1 and the SGC must protect Mitchell while they prove his innocence, and find the real killer.

Detailed Spoilers:
SG-1 meets an advanced civilization on a planet that was once occupied by the Goa’uld but that has been under the protection of the Asgard for many generations. Scientists on the planet, led by Dr. Reya Varrick, have converted a memory recall device left behind by the Goa’uld into an instant teaching device: memories and knowledge from one person can be instantly ‘spliced’ into another person for use as if they were their own experiences.

Reya learns that the Emissary of their planet has moved forward testing of the device and is bringing in the military to participate in the project. She is incensed by the idea that the project will not remain under civilian control in spite of the Emissary’s assurances to the contrary. Angry, she leaves the meeting. Col. Mitchell sympathizes with her and offers to help her, and she asks him to escort her home. She serves him a drink and kisses him. He is interested but knows it is not appropriate and stops things from going any further.

The next morning, Mitchell is found unconscious on the floor of her home with blood on his hands, and Reya is found murdered. Mitchell has memories of having killed her by bludgeoning her with a statue. Mitchell is charged with her murder based on those memories.

Colleagues of Reya, Drs. Amuro and Marell, believe Mitchell is innocent and sets out to prove that his memories of killing Reya were spliced into him from someone else who wanted to silence her protests against military involvement. However the splice was done very expertly and evidence of it is difficult to find. Amuro and Marell, with Carter looking on, instrument Mitchell and have him relive the memory over and over looking for signs of the splice, which they eventually find. Along the way he also remembers key moments from his own past.

The Emissary wants nothing but for Mitchell to return to Earth, in the interest of continued diplomatic relations, but Mitchell does not want to live with the memory, and Daniel insists they have a responsibility to find the real murderer.

Guest Characters: Dr. Lam, Dr. Reya Varrick, Emissary Varta, Dr. Marell, Dr. Amuro

Note: we have purposely not spoiled the ending of the episode nor revealed the identity of the murderer 🙂

Note that all spoilers are subject to change before the finished episode is produced.

Discuss this episode at the Solutions Forum!

S9 Spoilers: RDA to appear in two episodes

As reported by SDJ, Michael Shanks said at this weekend’s Vulkon in Orlando, Florida that Richard Dean Anderson will return to play Gen. Jack O’Neill for the first and third episodes of Season 9. It was also reported that at least some of his scenes are being filmed in Los Angeles instead of Vancouver. Visit SDJ for the full report; more details here as we learn them.