{"id":1443,"date":"2008-08-19T06:29:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:15:27","slug":"flanigan-sheppards-a-regular-guy-in-extraordinary-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/flanigan-sheppards-a-regular-guy-in-extraordinary-circumstances\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheppard&#039;s a &quot;Regular Guy in Extraordinary Circumstances&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sheppard in Action\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/still1217615209.jpg\" alt=\"Sheppard in Action\" width=\"100%\" align=\"none\" \/><br \/>\n<em>John Sheppard, a &#8220;regular guy in extraordinary circumstances&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemaspy.ca\/article.php?id=1236&amp;p=1\">Cinema Spy<\/a> has an exclusive four-page interview with Joe Flanigan (conducted in May) in which the actor discusses some of the focus of <a href=\"\/wiki\/Stargate_Atlantis:_Season_Five\">Season Five<\/a> and why he believes the show is as successful as it is. &#8220;The show is successful because of the chemistry of characters and because I don\u2019t think the show takes itself too seriously. I think that\u2019s really important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flanigan decided early on not to make Lt. Col. John Sheppard a polished fighter, but to give him a &#8220;Harrison Ford&#8221; type of approach to action. &#8220;I think the character is more regular guy in extraordinary circumstances who just feels like he\u2019s flying by the seat of his pants and he\u2019ll be lucky if he pulls this thing off. As opposed to that [martial artist] guy. It\u2019s fun to have those characters on the show, but I just thought my character is not going to be like that. Chances are in his off time he won\u2019t be sparring, he\u2019ll be drinking beer. &#8230; Or playing golf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemaspy.ca\/article.php?id=1236&amp;p=1\">Cinama Spy: Exclusive Interview: Joe Flanigan<\/a> to learn more about Flanigan, his view of the show, his love of action shows, and his hatred of reality shows that feature people who scare him. (Flanigan does his best not to spill a lot of spoilers, but there are still some little plot points about the upcoming episodes &#8220;The Shrine&#8221; and &#8220;The Queen&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p><em>[Image from MGM Official Stargate website.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Sheppard, a &#8220;regular guy in extraordinary circumstances&#8221; Cinema Spy has an exclusive four-page interview with Joe Flanigan (conducted in May) in which the actor discusses some of the focus of Season Five and why he believes the show is as successful as it is. &#8220;The show is successful because of the chemistry of characters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/flanigan-sheppards-a-regular-guy-in-extraordinary-circumstances\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sheppard&#039;s a &quot;Regular Guy in Extraordinary Circumstances&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantis","category-press","tag-joe-flanigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7435,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/7435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}