SYFY GENRE AWARDS NOMINATIONS FOR SG-1

SyFy Genre Awards Nominees Announced
Author: Michael Hinman
Date: 04-18-2004

The fifth SyFy Genre Awards have been announced, and the now-cancelled “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” series is this year’s top show with nine nominations. It’s spinoff “Angel,” which will go off the air in May, received eight nominations — tying it with “Stargate SG-1” and “Farscape.”

The nominees were chosen based on votes from a nominating committee put together by SyFy Portal.

Beginning April 25, fans will be able to vote for their favorites in each of the 13 categories. Visitors can vote once per day per e-mail address, and all they need to do is visit SyFy Portal’s main page. SyFy Portal has been doing the awards since 1999:

Here are the nominees:

BEST ACTOR/Television
Richard Dean Anderson, “Stargate SG-1”

BEST ACTRESS/Television
Amanda Tapping, “Stargate SG-1”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR/Television
Michael Shanks, “Stargate SG-1”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS/Television
Teryl Rothery, “Stargate SG-1”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR
Michael Welch, “Joan of Arcadia” and “Stargate SG-1”

BEST EPISODE/Television
“Heroes, Part II” Stargate SG-1

BEST THEME SONG/Television
Stargate SG-1

BEST SERIES/Television
Stargate SG-1

Visit SyFy Portal’s homepage and click on the VOTE box to place your vote

ICON

Writer and Co-Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi disclosed to fans on the Japanese Bboard to which he sometimes posts that “New Order”, the two-parter season 8 opener, will deal with the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu. In a follow-up post, he went on to provide the following tease about Icon: “If you like the Daniel character, then you’re going to one to check out an early season episode titled “Icon” in particular.”

At this weekend’s Creation Convention in Pasadena, actor Michael Shanks revealed that there will be romance for Daniel Jackson in Icon.

Daniel Jackson is trapped off-world, seemingly having become separated from SG-1. His situation is precarious – the arrival of the team through the Stargate has triggered religious conflict led by someone named Soren who believes the Goa’uld are benevolent gods.

When fighting began, Daniel chose to stay and try to help the people whom his arrival had so badly affected. The situation is growing worse, with another nation led by Minister Treydan ready to attack if Soren is victorious.

Daniel finds refuge in the farmhouse a woman called Leda, where he tries to contact the SGC via archaic radio. Despite the fighting that has broken out, Leda is convinced it was better for Daniel’s people to have opened the Stargate than the Goa’uld, but Daniel is not so sure.

It seems likely that Leda is the source of Daniel’s ‘romance’, alluded to by actor Michael Shanks at the recent Creation Con.

Guest characters include Leda, Soren and Minister Treydan.

AFFINITY

A source has revealed that Affinity focuses on our favourite Jaffa. Teal’c moves out of the SGC and tries to build a life as a ‘regular’ human being.

AVATAR

A source has revealed that Avatar focuses on our favourite Jaffa. Teal’c finds himself in a dangerous predicament from which only Daniel can save him.

GATEWORLD reports the following:

A virtual reality training scenario goes terribly wrong in the upcoming episode “Avatar,” director Martin Wood told GateWorld. The episode is currently filming on the standing S.G.C. sets in Vancouver, B.C., and will air early in Season Eight — possibly as the fourth episode of the season, following “Lockdown.”

“It’s a VR game,” Wood explains. “They’re using the chairs from ‘The Gamekeeper.’ And now we’re back in those chairs and we’ve modified them, and they are allowing us to program our own VR game to check out how certain scenarios can be played out. In this case, Teal’c gets trapped in a scenario of his own making because he never gives up and the game is playing until he gives up — and it’s not going to happen. It’s a very cool episode.”

What is the combat scenario? Details are still sketchy, but beware of the possible infiltration of the S.G.C. by Anubis’ left-over super-soldiers. When Teal’c becomes trapped in the simulation, Daniel Jackson must go into the game to try and save him.

“‘Avatar’ repeats and repeats and repeats and repeats, and looks a little bit like ‘Groundhog Day’ or ‘Window of Opportunity,'” Wood said. “But it has a twist to it in that it completely resets brand new every time. So it’s not like we just start again; Teal’c goes through and resets his game every time he gets killed. But there are subtle differences because the game is adapting to him.”

http://www.gateworld.net/news/episodeupdate.html