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Stargate Atlantis: Season 4
Premiers: Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 10pm Eastern/Pacific, 9pm Central on the SCI FI channel in the United States.
NEW - Premiers: Monday, October 1st, 2007 on the Movie Central channel in Canada.
NEW - Premiers: Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 on SkyONE in the United Kingdom.
Season 4 Regular Cast:
Joe Flanigan as Lt. Col. John Sheppard
David Hewlett as Dr. Rodney McKay
Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex
Rachel Luttrell as Teyla Emmagan
Amanda Tapping as Col. Samantha Carter
Jewel Staite as Dr. Jennifer Keller (Technically Recurring)
Season 4 Regular Recurring Cast:
Torri Higginson as Dr. Elizabeth Weir (4 episodes)
Paul McGillion Dr. Carson Beckett (2 episodes)
David Nykl as Dr. Radek Zelenka (several episodes)
Kavan Smith as Maj. Evan Lorne (several episodes)
Mitch Pileggi as Col. Steven Caldwell
Chuck Campbell as Technician "Chuck" (several episodes)
Michael Beach as Col. Abraham Ellis
NEW - Season 4 Episode Airdates:
Stargate Atlantis, Season 4, will air without a mid-season hiatus for the first time in U.S. history. The season will air straight through September 28th, 2007 - March 7th, 2008 with only minor breaks for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
September 28 - Adrift, Part II (Season premiere)
October 05 - Lifeline, Part III
October 12 - Reunion
October 19 - Doppelganger
October 26 - Travelers
November 02 - Tabula Rasa
November 09 - Missing
November 16 - The Seer
November 23 - No new episode
November 30 - Miller's Crossing
December 07 - This Mortal Coil, Part I (Mid-season finale)
December 14 - No new episode
December 21 - No new episode
December 28 - No new episode
January 04 - Be All My Sins Remember'd, Part II (Mid-season premiere)
January 11 - Spoils of War, Part III
January 18 - Quarantine
January 25 - Outcast
February 01 - Midway
February 08 - Trio
February 15 - Harmony
February 22 - The Kindred, Part I
February 29 - The Kindred, Part II
NEW - March 07 - The Last Man
Season 4 Episode Guide:
NEW - 4x01: Adrift (Part II) / Airs Sept. 28, 2007
After flying away from Lantea trying to escape an Asuran weapons satellite, the star drive shuts down without warning, leaving 24 hours of power left. But the conflict is far from over when the Replicators hunt them down in deep space with Oberoth at the helm.
Adrift in deep space with the city's protective shield failing, Dr. McKay and the team must do all they can to keep Atlantis alive. A radical injury threatens Dr. Weir's life.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
"Martin kicks off season 4 with 'Adrift,' continuing the events of the visually stunning season-ender 'First Strike.'"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"Spectacular visual effects + heartfelt character moments + funny moments = best season premiere ever."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
NEW - 4x02: Lifeline (Part III) / Airs Oct. 5, 2007
Colonel Sheppard and his team embark on a risky mission to steal a Z.P.M. power module from the Replicators. Samantha Carter and the Apollo race against time to find the missing city of Atlantis.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
Carl Binder's upcoming episode "Lifeline" is "the big op eppy," according to executive producer Joseph Mallozzi.
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
NEW - 4x03: Reunion / Airs Oct. 12, 2007
When the team stumbles upon Ronon's old companions, they tell how they survived when Sateda fell. Sheppard is reluctant to bring them to Atlantis, causing Ronon to decide whether to stay or live with his former allies, who harbor dark secrets on how they really survived.
A group of Ronon's people enlist the team's help in raiding a Wraith weapons facility, where they find themselves in the middle of a growing conflict with an enemy they never expected.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
"I'm almost finished my rewrite of 'Reunion' and am, admittedly, a little worried. While the script offers plenty of action, it is primarily a character-driven story. It'll be interesting to see what kind of notes we receive from the network."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"We'll see a glimpse of [Ronon's] 'specialist' skills in an episode called 'Reunion.'"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi
Stargate SG-1 co-star Christopher Judge ("Teal'c") will make a cameo appearance in this episode, according to executive producer Joseph Mallozzi.
"Mark Dacascos has signed on to play the role of Tyre. Mark was terrific in Brotherhood of the Wolf (and his stint as the host of Iron Chef America -- hmmm, wonder if he can get me on as a guest judge), and is apparently a very, very sweet guy according to Bam Bam who worked with him on The Crow."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
NEW - 4x04: Doppelganger / Airs Oct. 19, 2007
After coming across a crystalline species similar to one Jack O'Neill encountered ten years ago, Sheppard is duplicated, and his clone returns to Atlantis in his stead, bent on destroying the entire expedition by invading their nightmares.
During an off-world mission Colonel Sheppard unknowingly becomes host to an alien entity, which infects others in Atlantis and afflicts them with terrifying nightmares.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
"I've always been fascinated by nightmares and dreams. So that's what this is about. It's about an alien entity that lives in crystal form. I've kind of paid a little homage to 'Cold Lazarus' and said, 'Well, OK -- there's something that we've established in the Stargate universe that we've never really dealt with before. And that is, again, lifeforms can exist in that state.'"
In the first season episode of Stargate SG-1, Jack O'Neill and SG-1 encountered a race of crystal-based beings who had been decimated by the Jaffa. When O'Neill touched one of the crystals he was knocked unconscious and duplicated by one of the beings -- who proceeded to return to Earth with SG-1 in an attempt to heal the colonel's 'pain.'"
"O'Neill went out, touched a crystal and all this stuff happened," Cooper said of the episode. "We've never done that again. And I thought, 'Well, wouldn't it be interesting if we found another crystalline life-form like that.' But in that case we were kind of lucky that it had reasonably good intentions. There was a sinister aspect to it in that we didn't know what was going on, but at the end of the day it was kind of just curious.
"So I took the flip side of that and said, 'What if it's a psychopath? What if it's truly evil?' And it enduces some pretty freaky nightmares."
The entity appears in the dreams of each member of Sheppard's team -- but as a familiar face. "What would our characters dream about? The fun part of the episode is, because it's Sheppard that initially engages and touches the crystal, and thus unleashes the entity on everyone, the physical form it takes in the nightmares is Sheppard. And so everyone is having these nightmares that are being pulled out of them by the entity, but Sheppard is appearing in those dreams as the sort of negative enciting force."
Cooper reached back not only to the first season of Stargate SG-1 in conceiving the story, but to his own childhood as well. "My dad took me to see Jaws when I was seven years old. I was seven. There's a line in the script: one of McKay's histories is that his dad read him 'Moby Dick' when he was seven years old. The line was: 'What was the man thinking?!'"
"I think I probably didn't sleep for two years," Cooper laughed. "Honestly, I probably needed therapy! This was not the sort of thing you did back then, but I probably should have gotten some sort of counseling. But instead I spent my nights thinking to myself, 'One day I shall control the power that left me so terrified!'"
The connections to the classic horror movie "Nightmare on Elm Street" were certainly not lost on the cast and crew. "The joke is in the show," Cooper said. "Sheppard at one point, when it's explained to him, says, 'So are we talking Freddy Krueger here?' And it's him. He also turns to Teyla at one point and says, 'Did I have a goatee?'"
(Executive producer Robert C. Cooper)
NEW - 4x05: Travelers / Airs Oct. 26, 2007
Sheppard is captured by a race of humans that have lived for generations in space to avoid any Wraith contact, and have heard of rumors about a powerful enemy against the Wraith, the Atlantis Expedition. Now they intend to use Sheppard to activate an Ancient Warship.
Colonel Sheppard is captured by the inhabitants of a generational ship and their beautiful leader, who wish to use his ability to use Ancient technology for their own ends.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
"Sometime soon, Monday I hear, Paul will have 'Travelers' ready, a gift for all those of the Shep-whumping persuasion."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard is captured by a race the team has never before encountered, who live out their lives on board a generational ship. Their leader is a to-the-point woman named Larrin. Whereas most races settle on a planet -- doing whatever they can do avoid the Wraith -- Larrin's people have taken to space, living their entire lives on this generational ship to avoid their enemies. This ship is their home. But it's not only to avoid the Wraith, Larrin tells Sheppard -- after so many years, now it is simply who they are.
Over the past few years, her people have heard rumors of a new power in the galaxy, humans who are using Ancient technology to battle the Wraith -- the Atlantis expedition. They set up spy satellites around many worlds, and eventually discovered and captured Sheppard. Larrin is quite interested in the fact that John has the gene required to operate Lantean technology.
Commander Larrin's people are attempting to create an interface that will allow them to use the advanced Lantean technology, and require a sample of John's blood. But that is only the beginning: they have a Lantean battleship. The massive vessel has been dormant for thousands of years, and Larrin wants Colonel Sheppard to make it work.
Guest characters include Larrin, Silas (an officer on Larrin's ship), and Nevik (Larrin's chief science officer).
"Travelers" will air as the fourth episode of Season Four, according to Joseph Mallozzi.
"Jill is great as Larrin. Her group will put in at least one reappearance in the back of Season Four."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"We created a race -- we call them 'Travelers.' One of the nice things about SG-1, for instance, is that we'd be able to go off-world and encounter technologically advanced people as well as low-tech people. But the problem with Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy is we said that whenever a race would get technologically advanced the Wraith would come in and wipe them out. So there was never opportunity for a race to reach that level.
"So we decided, actually there is a way: We'll just put them in ships. And so there's an armada of ships that go from planet to planet. They come down and scavenge the leftovers of societies that have been culled by the Wraith. It's sort of a loose cannon -- kind of roguish and untrustworthy in some ways, but also potential allies in another way. [They are] just generally the type of characters that I like -- not black or white, but kind of gray.
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
NEW - 4x06: Tabula Rasa / Airs Nov. 2, 2007
A deadly disease courses through Atlantis, causing the majority of the expedition to lose their memories.
When a virus causes amnesia in everyone except Teyla and Ronon, the Atlantis team must work together to find a cure before their memories fade entirely.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
Attack of the Show's Zach Selwyn makes a cameo in this episode, having been invited by the studio to appear after creating a rap video for the G4 cable show about wanting to be on Stargate Atlantis.
"We watched the Day One Mix of 'Tabula Rasa' today. Another winner! The teaser felt like something out of the movie 'Saw.' A very unique-looking episode that Marty G. predicts 'the fans are gonna love.'"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
NEW - 4x07: Missing / Airs Nov. 9, 2007
During a visit to New Athos, Teyla and Dr. Keller discover Teyla's people, the Athosians, are missing, and find themselves on the run from a primitive tribe of warriors.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
In "Missing," Teyla and Atlantis's new doctor, Jennifer Keller (Jewel Staite) apparently head out in search of Teyla's people, who have disappeared from their new home after having been resettled to a new planet ("The Return, Part 1").
"Congratulations to Carl Binder for writing and producing truly great episode. We watched the Day 2 Mix of 'Missing' and all thought it was terrific. Funny, scary, shocking, gross, exciting, and ultimately touching. Great job by everyone involved, especially director Andy Mikita and actresses Rachel Luttrell and Jewel Staite."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
NEW - 4x08: The Seer / Airs Nov. 16, 2007
The team comes across Davos, a man who can see into the future. He brings news that Hive Ships are on the way, but McKay sees this as an opportunity, since he turned the Asurans on after the Wraith shut them down. Now, Carter must decide the information to be valid.
While searching for the Athosians, the team meets a man with extraordinary prophetic abilities, who gives them a dark prediction about Atlantis's future.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
No major construction for 'The Seer,' but we will marry some of the exterior scenes from this episode to the 'This Mortal Coil' shoot. James and Tom also pitch out how they'd like to pull off the 'horrific reveal' at script's end. I love it!"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
The city of Atlantis is visited by a man with extraordinary prophetic abilities, and who apparently has the ability to share these shocking visions with others. The gentle man is named Davos, and he is accompanied by a woman named Linara.
But Davos is quite ill. He believes that he is dying, but before he passes on he will share what he knows with those who now live in Atlantis, the city of the Ancestors. There are Wraith hive ships coming.
When Teyla goes to speak with Davos, he already knows that she came to his planet seeking to learn the fate of her people, the Athosians. It is not clear where they have gone or what has happened to them, but Davos can assure Teyla that they are alive -- though they are "shrouded in darkness."
And Davos knows more than this. He also knows that Teyla is pregnant.
She is stunned that he knows, and confesses that she has not told anyone on Atlantis yet.
Meanwhile, Rodney McKay is working on a major problem, which he describes to Colonel Carter and Richard Woolsey. The Wraith have found a way to shut down or in some way disable the Replicators, but McKay inadvertantly managed to turn them on again. With help from a certain Wraith they have met, he hopes that they can stop them once again.
The Wraith from "Common Ground" will return in "The Seer," and may become a recurring character.
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
Carter will come face-to-face with a Wraith in this episode.
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
4x09: Miller's Crossing / Airs Nov. 30, 2007
Jeannie Miller becomes kidnapped by Henry Wallace on Earth, after Wallace determines that only she and her brother can save his child's life using nanotechnology. McKay comes to the rescue, but inadvertently gets captured too, and the two must prevent his daughter's death.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
This episode will see the return of actress Kate Hewlett as McKay's sister, Jeannie Miller. Jeannie first appeared a year earlier, in Season Three's "McKay and Mrs. Miller." Jeannie is a brilliant scientist who is living on Earth as a full-time wife and mother.
"Even Ronon will don some atypical civvies in 'Miller's Crossing.'"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
After being reunited with his estranged sister Jeannie a year ago ("McKay and Mrs. Miller"), Rodney has been keeping up a correspondence with her back on Earth. Unfortunately, certain powerful people are aware of this -- and use it to lure Jeannie into a trap. Rodney goes looking for her, and the two find themselves captives.
Rodney wakes up in a laboratory on Earth with Jeannie, and the two meet the man behind all of this: Henry Wallace, the president of Devlin Medical Technologies. His company gets a lot of government contracts, and is one of their primary resources for integrating alien technologies acquired by the Stargate Program into Earth's medical technology. Wallace therefore has only the lowest level of access to information -- but after a few too many astounding break-throughs by the military, he has managed to find out all about the S.G.C., Atlantis ... and Rodney McKay.
Soon Wallace shows the two brilliance scientists why he's brought them here: his daughter Sharon, a young woman suffering from leukemia. McKay isn't sure what he wants the two of them to do -- neither are medical doctors. Wallace explains that Sharon has been given prototype nanites to try and heal her, but they are doing more harm than good. She is dying.
Rodney and Jeannie are experts on their coding ... but the problems haven't been worked out yet.
The rest of the Atlantis team, of course, won't take Rodney's disappearance lying down. Sheppard and Ronon visit Earth, where they work with Stargate Command and N.I.D. Agent Malcolm Barrett to try and find their missing people.
Guest characters include Henry Wallace, Jeannie Miller, Sharon, and various medical technicians. Stargate SG-1's Gary Jones ("Walter Harriman") and Peter Flemming ("Malcolm Barrett") will also appear, as will the S.G.C. itself.
"The director's cut of 'Miller's Crossing' came in a little long which will probably mean a scene or two not making the cut -- but hopefully finding their way onto a future Deleted Footage Special Feature. By the way, guest star Steven Culp is terrific in this one."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
4x10: This Mortal Coil (Part I) / Airs Dec. 7, 2007
This will be the first episode of a mid-season three-parter of Atlantis's fourth season. This episode will also feature the brief return of Dr. Elizabeth Weir. No further summary available yet.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
"This Mortal Coil" is the first installment of the mid-season two-parter, followed by "Be All My Sins Remember'd." Both titles are from Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1:
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
... Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
"This mortal coil" refers to the physical body, to be shed at death.
"I'm looking forward to seeing all of the first half episodes this season. I think we have an exceptionally strong line-up for Season Four so far. As for which episodes fans should be looking forward to most for each member of the team -- it's tough to say only because my opinion could be very different from fan opinion especially when you start factoring in the different fan factions. But, in my opinion, I'd say: 'Travelers' for Sheppard, 'Miller's Crossing' for McKay, 'Reunion' for Ronon, 'Missing' for Teyla, 'The Seer' for Carter, 'This Mortal Coil' for Weir, and 'Missing' again for Keller."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
4x11: Be All My Sins Remember'd (Part II) / Airs Jan. 4, 2008
The team uses a captured Wraith as an ally to fight a common enemy. With his help, they hope to recruit a fleet of Hive ships to complete their mission, unfortunately, not as many ships flock to the cause, and the expedition might cause a war that they won't be able to contain.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
The Atlantis team has allied themselves with a captured Wraith, a scientist who wants to help them against a common enemy. Under heavy guard, the Wraith helps McKay in his science lab.
The Daedalus and Apollo, two of Earth's battlecruisers, orbit the planet over Atlantis. On board the Daedalus, Colonel Carter is working at the Asgard Hermiod's former work station. As she reviews some recent modifications to the ship, Colonel Caldwell engages her in conversation. The two talk about her new command of the Atlantis base, which Sam tells him is going well ... though she didn't realize how much she would miss being out in the field on an SG team.
John Sheppard, Teyla, and Ronon Dex are joined by their new Wraith friend on a mission to make contact with the Wraith fleet. But when they arrive on a hive ship the Wraith stun them, in orer to speak with the Wraith privately. Later, on board their Puddle Jumper in space, Sheppard wakes up to find himself with the Wraith. Ronon and Teyla are there, too, but still unconscious. After returning his missing sidearm, the Wraith tells Sheppard that seven hive ships have been convinced to join their fight. It is not as many as they were hoping for, but a good start.
A war is brewing.
Just who is their common enemy? The information available doesn't make it clear, but it may be that rather than allying with the Replicators against the Wraith ("Progeny"), Atlantis is allying with the Wraith against the Replicators. Stay tuned for updates as new information becomes available -- and, as always, remember that this info is subject to change during the production process.
Guest characters in the episode include the Wraith, Colonel Steven Caldwell (Mitch Pileggi), and Dr. Radek Zelenka (David Nykl). The Wraith may be the same character played by Christopher Heyerdahl in the third season episode "Common Ground," who has been confirmed as returning in Season Four.
"Both Michael [Beach] and Mitch [Pileggi] and their respective ships [the Apollo and the Daedalus] will be putting in an appearance."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"Spent most of the day in editing today ('Reunion' is coming along swimmingly), taking a break for lunch and the 'Be All My Sins Remember'd' read-through. I read the part of Caldwell and really killed. Alan McCullough read the part of the lovely Larrin and we were all blown away by the palpable chemistry between him and Joe Flanigan. If we'd known he'd do such a spectacular job, we'd have cast HIM for 'Travelers.'"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"We watched Marty G.'s producer cut of 'Be All My Sins Remember'd' today. Another great episode. Can't say enough about the convening of the war council scene."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
NEW - 4x12: Spoils of War (Part III) / Airs Jan. 11, 2008
This will be the third episode of a mid-season three-parter of Atlantis's fourth season. No summary available yet.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
"We watched the director's cut of 'Spoils of War' (I'm so glad I ate my breakfast before sitting down to watch that Wraith birthing scene)."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"I highly recommend all fans to be on the watch for 'Spoils of War' this season! Not only because yours truly is in it but the episode explains a lot about the Wraith."
(Actress Andee Frizzell)
4x13: Quarantine / Airs Jan. 18, 2008
An imposed lockdown of the Ancient city of Atlantis threatens to challenge various relationships that are spread out through the entire expedition.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
When the city of Atlantis is put under quarantine lockdown, Rodney finds himself stuck in the botany lab with girlfriend Katie Brown (Brenda James).
Actor David Hewlett writes: "Back from the big island of Hawaii and hard at work roaring towards the end of season four of Stargate Atlantis! It's so hard to believe that we've only got eight more episodes to shoot before we're done for another year. I'm a bit confused (no news there really) as we've got a few days of 'Miller's Crossing' to tidy up while we shoot 'Quarantine' and before we get caught up we'll be well into part one of 'The Kindred.' Spent the first week back locked in a room full of plants with the lovely and talented Brenda James reprising her role as Katie Brown. Not a bad way to get back into the lost city!"
(Actor David Hewlett)
4x14: Outcast / Airs Jan. 25, 2008
This episode will center around Lt. Col. Sheppard's return to Earth for unknown reasons. No further summary available yet.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
"Outcast" is based on a story idea pitched by actor Joe Flanigan, and will delve into John Sheppard's backstory when the character returns home to Earth.
"Martin [Gero] was writing the Sheppard on Earth story but, having finished 'Trio' (formerly 'Three's Company'), he will start on 'Harmony' while Alan McCullough assumes writing duties on the JF [Joe Flanigan]-inspired eppy."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"Delving into Sheppard's backstory was one of the things on our To-Do list at the beginning of the season, and Joe's idea gives us the perfect scenario in which to do it."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"Still looking for a title for the Sheppard on Earth story we finished breaking yesterday. To those of you who are using the bio on the Sci Fi website as a guide, stand advised -- the reference to his father being a Cold War Colonel is not canon. I'm not even sure where it came from. So, expect some insight into Shep's past relationships late in season four."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"We're spinning Sheppard's backstory, specifically the fact that in 'Letters From Pegasus' he didn't really seem to have anyone out there. And the question is 'Why?' And we've got something really cool planned. ... Joe came up with a great springboard for a story. We're going back to Earth."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"We are working on a late-season episode in which [Sheppard] is reunited with his ex-wife." The fact that John is divorced was first mentioned in the Season Three episode "Sunday."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
NEW - 4x15: Trio / Airs Feb. 1, 2008
This episode will see Dr. Mckay, Col. Carter, and Dr. Keller trapped in a confined space. No further summary available yet.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
"To all of you Sam fans dying for a hint of what's going on with Carter's love life, you'll have to wait until 'Trio' for a not-so-subtle tip-off."
"... We will not be dealing with Sam's love life on Atlantis. However, a passing mention of her personal life during a candid moment is another matter."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"The next two Stargate Atlantis episodes "Harmony" & "Trio" are really McKay heavy so I doubt I'm going to have much time to do more than just learn lines and sleep, but even with hiatus, DVD releases and babies fast approaching I'm still very eager to get back behind the camera!"
(Actor David Hewlett)
4x16: Midway / Airs Feb. 8, 2008
This episode will center around the Midway Space Station of the McKay-Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge. No further summary available yet.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
"Midway" will feature the new Midway Space Station introduced in the third season episode "The Return, Part 1." The station -- at that time incomplete and open to space -- is located in the vast, empty space between the Milky Way Galaxy (home of Earth) and the Pegasus Galaxy (home of Atlantis). It is the midway point on a traveler's journey along the intergalactic gate bridge, where the transition is made from the Pegasus gate network to the Milky Way system.
"After taking time off to do a little fishing, Carl is heavy into 'Midway.' It'll be great to finally see the big men spar. It'll also be nice to have Kavanagh back. Unfortunately, he won't find his return quite as enjoyable."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"In Season Three we set up the Midway station. And we're going to follow that through, through a good part of Season Four. But in sci-fi nothing lasts forever and the best laid plans often go awry. So if you get your heart set on the Midway station, you may be disappointed."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
4x17: Harmony / Airs Feb. 15, 2008
Colonel Sheppard and Dr. McKay must protect a child princess on a pilgrimage before she can become queen, and learn that she has dangerous enemies threatening her life.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
Colonel Sheppard and Dr. McKay visit one of their favorite planets, where they toast a long-time trading partnership. Their hosts are two beautiful and charming princesses, Flora and Mardola. As palace guards stand nearby, they thank John and Rodney for their life-saving medicine, their warnings about a Wraith culling, and their kindness. The two men are obviously smitten.
But as they prepare to leave, the women bring themselves to ask for a favor. They have a younger sister named Harmony, who they introduce to Sheppard and McKay. With their mother the Queen having recently died, Harmony is the heir to the throne -- but before she can be crowned, she must pass a dangerous test and trek a day's walk into the forest, to the Temple of Laros. While others are generally not permitted to assist in the rite of passage, the concerned older sisters wish Sheppard and McKay to protect Harmony from danger without the others knowing.
They are happy enough to oblige, and head into the woods with the strong-willed girl. It isn't long before danger finds them -- but it's not lions, tigers, or bears. There is a Genii contingent on the planet, and the deadly soldiers seem to be trying to prevent Harmony from ascending to the throne. Though they manage to take out some of the men, they must stay on the run ... and keep young Harmony alive.
The Genii's motives are not solely their own, however. They are working with one of Harmony's sisters.
Guest characters include Harmony, Flora, Mardola, the Genii Field Captain, Genii soldiers, and various palace guards and villagers.
4x18: The Kindred (Part I) / Airs Feb. 22, 2008
This episode will mark the brief return of Dr. Carson Beckett. No further summary available yet.
Spoilers and Tidbits:
The early working title for this two-part episode was "Rise of the Googlions," invented by Atlantis writer Carl Binder and meaning nothing in particular.
"The Kindred" is expected to be the two-part episode that will feature the much-rejoiced return of former series regular Paul McGillion as Dr. Carson Beckett. The character died in an explosion while saving a man's life in Season Three's controversial episode "Sunday."
"Well, spent most of the early afternoon writing the outline for 'Rise of the Googlions, Part 1.' A number of pieces fall into place as many of the things we've been building toward come to fruition (and not in a sweet apple sort of way either). Surprises in store; revelations galore."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
Could "The Kindred" be the story in which the Wraith Michael will return? "Hey, that's not a bad idea!"
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"Oh, dear. This is what happens when you hang on to a gag title a little too long. Sooner or later, it makes it onto the schedule, the Art Department starts using it in their design updates, and producer John N. Smith can be heard uttering the words: 'We should check out that location. We might be up there for Googlions.' For all of you who have been racking your brains trying to come up with the hidden meaning behind the 'Rise of the Googlions' title, allow me to reveal it for you. ... 'Rise of the Googlions' was nothing more than an inane title Carl came up with off the top of his head. To all those who wasted any amount of time searching the Internet for clues about the googlions, blame Mr. Binder who unwittingly sent you all out on a wild goose chase."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"Paul [Mullie], meanwhile, phoned me up to discuss some of the changes he wants to make to 'Kindred I.' The fact that Wraith ships don't possess shields certainly complicates matters, but I've always loved Paul's idea of giving them limited regenerative capabilities. And, if it survives the polish, we get to find out where Lorne grew up."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
Joseph Mallozzi teased fans with a single line of dialogue from "The Kindred, Part 1": "Same as you. Scavenging the ruins of a dead world."
4x19: The Kindred (Part II) / Airs Feb. 29, 2008
This episode will mark the brief return of Dr. Carson Beckett. No further summary available yet.
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"Congratulations to Alan McCullough who handed in his first draft of 'Kindred II.' There won't be a dry eye in the house when this one airs."
(Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
NEW - 4x20: The Last Man / Airs Mar. 7, 2008
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NEW - We have received a preliminary broadcast schedule for the fourth season of Stargate Atlantis on SCI FI Channel! The new season premieres in a little over one month, and will air straight through with only brief breaks for the holidays (one week for Thanksgiving, three weeks for Christmas and New Year's Day).
The mid-season finale will air on December 7, as previously announced. New episodes will resume on SCI FI on January 4, marching straight through to the season finale on March 7.
This list includes some slight changes to the previous estimates of the airing order, and of course is subject to change by the network. Season Four is still in production in Vancouver, British Columbia, with the still untitled season finale going before cameras in late September.
The fourth season of Stargate Atlantis premieres Friday, September 28 at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific on SCI FI Channel in the U.S.! Canada's Movie Central will premiere the new episodes on Monday, October 1, while Sky One's U.K. premiere is set for Tuesday, October 9.
The writers have stated that season 4 will take the series in a new direction. The future appears bleak with the incapacitation of Weir and multiple injuries among the senior members of the expedition. With the city damaged, running out of power and drifting in space, cut off from Earth, the Atlantis expedition has to rely on their own resourcefulness to save Atlantis, and by extension themselves, from death and destruction. A new alien race will be introduced as well. This new race is called the "Travelers". They are a race that has been able to flourish and become technologically advanced due to their nomadic lifestyle. Since they are always moving it has made it impossible for the Wraith to "cull" them. Colonel Samantha Carter joins as a regular and acts as the expedition leader but how she arrives at the city is still unknown. We reported on April 10, 2007 that Carson Beckett will return from the dead for at least three episodes of Season 4. Since then, that number has been reduced to two episodes, the third having been shelved for future consideration. It is also a possibility that Acastus Kolya will also rise from the grave and make an appearance in one of the later episodes of Season 4. According to Joseph Mallozzi, the season will have "light" moments (such as the pregnancy of Rachel Luttrell's character, Teyla Emmagan), but the show's fourth season will be darker than its predecessors overall.
Atlantis enters its fourth season, carrying the torch of the Stargate franchise alone. Joining the crew this season, Amanda Tapping reprises her SG-1 role as Samantha Carter, who soon takes over as the commander of the project from Elizabeth Weir (Torri Higginson).
Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi explains Carter's takeover: "She's so multifaceted. She's got the science background, so she can take some of the heat off of McKay and his gobbledygook. She's got the military background, so if she needs to head off-world, she can head off-world with the team. She's also got teh leadership backgroun to basically settle in quite nicely as the new commander of the Atlantis expedition."
There are many new faces aboard Atlantis this season, whilst existing characters will be given stronger story arcs. Teyla Emmagan (Rachel Luttrell) finds herself pregnant, as the actress' real-life pregnancy is written into the script.
Atlantis will also see a new race this season in the form of the Travellers, Mallozzi comments: "They are nomads, travelling on ships and establishing a civilisation. They are very rustic and have a very cool look." (Sci-Fi Now)
This season of Atlantis is set to be one of transition, as the Stargate crew get set to rise to the challenge of filling the void of SG-1.
The SCI FI Channel confirmed its plans for this fall's broadcast schedule today, including new details on the fourth season of Stargate Atlantis.
Season Four premieres on Friday, September 28 in a new timeslot: 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, 9 p.m. Central. Atlantis's mid-season finale ("This Mortal Coil") will air on December 7, and will feature the return of former series regular Torri Higginson as Dr. Elizabeth Weir.
In the episode, "the Atlantis team must ally itself with a known enemy to join forces against an even greater foe," the site said. Based on currently known spoilers, it is believed that the Atlantis team allies with the Wraith against the human-form Replicators. Sheppard's Wraith ally from last year's "Common Ground" will return in Season Four.
It is believed that the network will air the full season straight through with only a break for Thanksgiving and the December holiday season, though SCI FI has yet to confirm this. If true, new episodes will pick up with "Be All My Sins Remember'd" in early January.
Stargate Atlantis will move to 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific when it returns for its fourth season on Friday, September 28, according to SCI FI Channel's Schedulebot.
This marks a return to Atlantis's original timeslot, in which it aired during the first part of its first season in 2004. Atlantis was bumped up to 9 p.m. when the darker and more adult-themed Battlestar Galactica premiered in 2005.
Just how the later (and, generally speaking, better-performing) timeslot will affect the show's all-important ratings is anyone's guess. Season Four will mark Atlantis's first time airing new episodes during the more competitive fall season; and its first time airing without Stargate SG-1 as its lead-in.
SCI FI Channel's Friday night line-up -- at least for the first part of the fall, as its summer series are still winding down -- looks like this:
7 p.m. - Bionic Woman (off-network rerun)
8 p.m. - Doctor Who (Season Three)
9 p.m. - Flash Gordon
10 p.m. - Stargate Atlantis
The same episode of Atlantis will reair at 12 midnight. As always, scheduling decisions are subject to change between now and the show's September 28 premiere.
As Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) takes over command of the Stargate Atlantis expedition, she will have to do more than just worry about the constant expressions of lust from Rodney McKay (David Hewlett).
The fourth season of Atlantis will feature a new alien race with technology far beyond that of the expedition, as well as a storyline centered around the real-life pregnancy of Rachel Luttrell ("Teyla Emmagan").
"We had a story in development where [Teyla] would be out in the woods with Jewel [Staite], and it was a fairly violent episode," said Paul Mullie, executive producer of Atlantis, during Tuesday's SCI FI Channel digital media tour in Vancouver, B.C. "We were writing the story when [Luttrell] came in and told us she was pregnant. We were too far down the road to change it, so we decided that, 'Oh well, she doesn't know she's pregnant in this story.' It was the story which in the end she finds out."
Producers decided to write Luttrell's pregnancy into the show, although they would not give details on exactly how the pregnancy would be incorporated. Luttrell, who was showing physical signs of her pregnancy at the press event, said jokingly that her pregnancy was a way to make sure that the producers further developed her character in the fourth season.
"This was to ensure more of a character arc," Luttrell said. Mullie, however, added that they had wanted to incorporate a strong story arc for Teyla in the fourth season, and her pregnancy made it that much easier to find a way to do it.
Outside of making babies, the Atlantis expedition is going to make contact with its first race that is actually far more technologically advanced than just about every other culture they have faced. Because cultures in the galaxy tend to not advance very far society-wise because of cullings by the Wraith, cultures that are more advanced than those manning Atlantis have been few and far between.
However, the Travelers, as they are called, are expected to make an appearance early in the fourth season ("Travelers").
"One of the things that Atlantis kind of lacked that [Stargate SG-1] had were technologically advanced races," said executive producer Joseph Mallozzi. "We created this race called the Travelers. They are nomads, traveling on ships and establishing a civilization. They are very rustic, and have a very cool look."
The Travellers are expected to show up again sometime after the fourth episode during the upcoming season, Mallozzi said.
Martin Gero, recently promoted to co-executive producer of Stargate Atlantis, took time out of his schedule to pass us a few insights into the goings-on at Bridge Studios this year. With Atlantis shoveling 20 of 22 new Stargate stories in 2007, the ball has passed to the court of the three-year old series to up the ante with the absence of a new SG-1 season.
However, Martin immediately admits that one show is a much smaller load for the team than two. "It is first and foremost a lot less work," he told us, "which is great. I've been used to writing seven to eight episodes a year, and this year I have to write four. I'm maybe going to do five. So my writing work has been cut in half."
In the heat of a season, when a single writer is tasked with over half a dozen scripts, Martin said around three are "crazy-to-rush" jobs. He feels that with a lightened load of stories he'll have more time to be meticulous about each. "So hopefully the writing is all a lot better this year. We have no excuse this year if any of the scripts are bad, because we've had an ample amount of time to write them. We started shooting episode one with episode ten starting to be written. We've never been that far ahead.
"So that is a real luxury and, so far, has really allowed us to put a lot of work into drafts. It's unfortunate because it usually means we're doing a lot more work on the drafts that we have, but I think they're making better episodes. I think these first ten are all pretty good. There's no misses in this first ten. Yet. We'll see. I might screw that up."
Since the launch of Atlantis the Stargate production team has preached the benefits of running two shows under one roof. The real question now is whether the impact will be the same with SG-1 doing four hours of television instead of 20. The direct-to-DVD movies Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum are now in production.
"I know that there was a concern that the production value of the show would go down. In fact," Gero admitted, "it's gone up, and we're able to spend the money we would only be able to spend once or twice a year on episodes fairly consistently. Once every three episodes we have a pretty giant episode. So 'Adrift' and 'Lifeline' are massive, massive episodes."
Gero has promised us that an ongoing story arc is in the works for a cast member who has lacked attention in recent seasons. An examination of the stories revealed so far show the producers are hoping Season Four will bring about equilibrium.
"The end of Season Three was essentially a soft reset," Gero tells us. "That doesn't last as long as some of us would have liked it to, for a number of reasons. But it is with Carter and Weir and stuff like that.
"There's a lot of changes this year. The introduction of Jewel [Staite]," in addition to Michael Beach. "So even though Atlantis isn't going to be stuck in space for the whole season, it is somewhat of a soft reset. So it's important for us to have gotten those episodes right, and I think we have."
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NEW - A Dog's Breakfast
Also, be sure to check out David Hewlett's (Dr. Rodney McKay) new comedy, A Dog's Breakfast, coming to DVD September 18th, 2007 in the U.S. (along with Atlantis' third season DVD box set), and shortly thereafter internationally, and is available NOW for download via iTunes and Amazon.com Unbox Video Downloads.
David wrote, directed, produced (along with his fiance' Jane Loughman, and Stargate SG-1/Atlantis producer John Lenic), and starred in A Dog's Breakfast, which stars such Stargate regulars as: David Hewlett (Dr. Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis), Kate Hewlett (David's real-life sister, who plays Dr. McKay's sister Jeannie Miller on Stargate Atlantis), Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson Beckett, Stargate Atlantis), Rachell Luttrell (Teyla Emmagan, Stargate Atlantis), Christopher Judge (Teal'c, Stargate SG-1), and David's real-life dog Mars.
When Marylin brings home her new sci-fi-soap star fiancé Ryan, her big brother Patrick first tries to drive a wedge between the happy couple. After several unsuccessful attempts, Patrick tries to murder Ryan.
If you've never been good at anything in your life, why would murder be any different? A Dog's Breakfast is a head smacking, bone breaking, fiancé bashing romp, about a family that just loves themselves to pieces. Patrick has always had a somewhat combative relationship with his little sister Marilyn. But when she brings home her new TV star fiancé Ryan, it's all out war. When Patrick fails to drive a wedge between the happy couple, he reaches for sharper instruments. Every family has a few skeletons in the closet; A Dog's Breakfast is the nightmarishly funny mess Patrick makes when he tries to add another to his.
A Dog's Breakfast is a Canadian black comedy independent film produced in 2006. It was the first film to be written and directed by David Hewlett, who is best known for his role in the TV series Stargate Atlantis. Hewlett created the film as a private off-season project and stars alongside his real-life sister Kate Hewlett and Atlantis actor Paul McGillion. The film was produced by John Lenic and Hewlett's then-girlfriend (now-fiancée) Jane Loughman.
Due to its strong affiliation with the Stargate franchise, the film generated considerable buzz within the Stargate fandom. It had several screenings in selected major towns in the USA and the UK in late 2006 and 2007. MGM picked up worldwide television and home video rights to the film in early December 2006. The film is scheduled to be released on DVD on September 18, 2007 in The United States and Canada.
After having the original idea of making a movie, David Hewlett and Jane Loughman approached Stargate producer John Lenic, who arranged deals with motion picture companies. Paramount Production Services in Vancouver were confident enough in them to supported them with free grip and electric equipment. Panavision Canada provided HD cameras for two weeks for a day's rate.
The majority of A Dog's Breakfast was filmed on a fourteen day schedule and with extremely limited funds in January 2006 when Stargate Atlantis (the TV show David Hewlett stars in) was on hiatus between seasons, although some scenes had already been filmed on Saturdays during the Atlantis season. David Hewlett had originally planned to shoot at his own house in Washington, but legal problems due to its US location forced the otherwise Canadian production to rent a house in Canada. Vancouver proved as a convenient alternative. Many of the local actors and crew were eager to participate in the project, since the Vancouver winter weather yearly causes the local acting business to be comparibly slow.
In addition to several Stargate producers and crew members, this film also stars and co-stars several actors of Stargate fame, all being on hiatus from the Stargate franchise. A Dog's Breakfast used Stargate sets and equipment as well (see the Stargate crossovers section). Hewlett mentioned he wrote the script especially around those availabilities. This made it possible to produce the film with a budget of $120,000 total to film and produce, mostly privately raised.


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Five days of hiking.
Rigel looked over the rag-tag group as they rested in the shade of a small clump of oak. The day was working up to be a hot one. That was bad news because it had rained about dawn just enough to get everything damp, and the evaporating water was making it muggy. Except for Austin and Anaph, all the guys were already shirtless. Rita said they'd lose more water that way, but Rigel had let it go; there'd been a tiny trickle of a spring in the previous night's grove, enough that each had gotten two good swallows before the water was gone. When they left, it was refilling about as fast as a kitchen sink with a faucet that dripped every few seconds.
Melanie came to sit by him. "He's weird", he announced. Rigel didn't have to ask; she meant Anaph, and he couldn't dispute the point.
"How are the shoes working out?" he inquired. The day before, Melanie had stumbled on a rodent's hole; she hadn't been hurt, but the cheap, flashy shoes she'd worn didn't have the same luck; the right one had been torn, upper from sole, and the upper cracked. Anaph had given her his own shoes, and was going barefoot.
"Good now. That moss in the toes idea worked – they don't slip now." That had been Oran's suggestion, a trick from survival training, he'd said.
"Kool. Um, I need to ask a question."
"Sure." She grinned at him. "Big man." Rigel groaned; Antonio's nickname for him was catching on.
"You and Dmitri and Casey. How serious a thing is that?"
Melanie reached over and stroked the top of his thigh, upward from the knee, and stopped with her finger poking him about three centimeters from his crotch. "We like to fuck. You made that silly rule, or you could join us."
"So it's just sex?" he pressed.
"It's not like just finding a ho and fucking. A ho's just a warm slot or stick, not people. We're friends. We're there for each other. We fuck when we're scared, we fuck when we're lonely, we fuck when we're horny." She turned and looked him in the eye. "People are talking, huh?"
Rigel stifled a laugh. "Well, you were kinda loud last night."
"I know. Austin told us to keep it quiet, you know? But they were both in me, together, going opposite ways, and it never felt like that before." She shrugged. "We ain't nothing but mammals, and my mammal got out."
That was an understated way to describe a sound that had been part shriek, part "Ah!" of surprise, and part panting, and had gone on at least ten seconds, Rigel thought. He struggled for the right words.
"Um, would you say you guys are a triple? Like a couple, but three?"
She gave it a moment's thought. "Kinda a open triple. We're not, like married or anything." Rigel's suddenly pained expression spoke volumes. "Oh! You think we should be married, to have sex!"
"Melanie, it can't be just like trading back rubs. Sex is serious stuff. Everyone needs to know who's with who. It makes a difference if everyone thinks you're just easy for sex, or if they think you're, well, with each other."
"With", Melanie interrupted. "But not married."
"Okay. But I want you guys to do something that will help. It's a bonding ceremony, to say to everyone you three belong to each other–"
"We're not property–"
"I didn't say that. It just means you've got a bond that's just yours, with responsibilities and boundaries, not... not just sluts."
Melanie considered that for a while. "I get it – kinda like a formal announcement that we're, like, going together."
"Something like that." Rigel felt relief that she'd gotten the idea, at least sort of. "I'd like to have a ceremony soon."
"I'll talk–'
Melanie was interrupted by a gun shot. It was just one, which meant Austin was getting better: this would make three cats they'd killed. Primitive they might be, but the spears made a big difference; the shooter could be guarded by a wall of sharp points while he aimed. He feared the day when those spears might be all the protection one of his people had against one of those beasts.
When cheers came from the grove, he jumped up with everyone else and they all went to see what had happened.
"Deer!" Chen called out when he saw Rigel coming. "Or something like one. The cat just killed it, and we killed the cat. Now it's ours!"
Antonio was already at work skinning the cat. They'd found that if they rubbed the back of the hide with the lemony herb and urine, and let them dry in the sun, the smell wasn't so bad, the bugs left – and the fur as a "mattress cover" made sleeping a lot easier. Lumina had the first; she was getting weaker, tiring faster than anyone. She slept better now, and wasn't such a drag on their speed. Rigel worried about her for another reason: more and more she seemed unaware of where she really was. Devon was spending a lot of time with her just to get her to do the simple things required by their simple life; without him, she might just have sat down, not eating, not moving even to pee, and just died.
Oran was whistling as he skinned the deer. Rigel understood the sudden good cheer: they'd had nothing to eat last night, and only a few "Anaph nuts" each this morning. It wasn't a big buck – it wasn't a big cat – but to Rigel's untrained eye, it looked like enough to keep their stomachs from complaining for three or four days.
"We have to cook all that before we carry it", he thought out loud.
"Nope." Chen grinned at him; he'd just returned from disposing of the guts by the expedient of dumping them by a rotten log and rolling it on them. "We cut branches, strip them, make poles. We cut the meat into strips, and hang them over the poles. Then we march in the sunshine and make sun-dried jerky." The grin vanished. "I don't know what to do with the organs, though. They won't last, in this heat."
"Ooh, gross!" Crystal exclaimed. "You mean like the heart and kidney? Throw them away!"
"Bad idea." Ocean's comment surprised Crystal. "Crystal, meat can be a nutritious food and you don't need much else, but you have to eat everything. If we could make sausage, we'd throw in–"
Ryan caught her from behind and clamped his hand over her mouth. "We'd put in all the kinds of meat", he finished for her.
Barf averted, Rigel thought. All we'd need is for Crystal to hear that the intestines are part of sausage..... Later, he nearly barfed himself when he asked about making sausage, and Ocean explained that the lungs and brains should go in, too.
It was an hour before they set off again, but their spirits were all high. Full nutrition or not, it was going to be good to have meat.
Five days, Rigel thought. Five days, and we should have come over a hundred kilometers.
"Brooding about our speed again?" Ryan asked him as they watched Oran supervise the stacking of dead wood for a fire. Once again, it wasn't the grove Rigel had meant them to reach. "We're going as fast as we're going, buddy." He marked off on his fingers: "Sixteen klicks, twelve klicks, ten, fourteen, and today eighteen." Those were all estimates, of course; they had no way of measuring distance but counting their own paces. "Everyone got sore the first day, suffered from it the next two, recovered, and now we're starting to get good at it. So we've only managed seventy instead of a hundred? We're moving." He caught a chunk of wood Dmitri tossed at him and stacked it. "More important, we're learning to work together. We're getting in shape. It's progress."
"We're destroying muscle mass", Rigel countered.
"Meat for a while will help. Maybe Antonio can kill another deer on his own."
"Maybe." Rigel brooded. "And maybe I'm just feeling like no matter how far we go, it all looks the same ahead. Where's this water?"
"Ocean said at least four more days, probably five."
"Probably five", came Ocean's voice. She dumped an armload of small branches near Oran, who had decided things were organized enough for him to concentrate on a fire pit and then a fire. "I know it's there. We're getting closer."
Rigel looked to be sure no one but "council" was close before answering. "We may not have five days", he told them. "Unless we find more water, we barely have water for three days."
"Someone could go ahead, with empty bottles", Ryan suggested.
Rigel shook his head. "And what are the odds of the right group having the gun when a cat attacks? No; we stay together, until Chen can find the right tree to make bows."
Oran spoke up. "With a long spear, you could stop a cat."
"How long is 'long'?" asked Rigel.
"The person's height plus a meter. Then you put on a crossbar half a meter from the tip."
Ryan was curious. "What's that for?"
Oran looked at him seriously. "So when you wait for the cat to jump on you, and you stick the point in its throat, it can't reach you when it starts climbing the spear to tear your throat out."
"Uh-huh. Ever done it?"
"Hardly", Oran conceded. "But it doesn't sound too hard – just point the spear tip at the cat's throat and stay grounded."
"Okay, what's 'grounded' mean?" Ryan wanted to know.
"You stick the butt of the spear in the ground, and kneel and hold it, and stay far away from the tip. The cat does the work by landing on it."
Rigel intervened. "Well, so far we don't even have any spears as tall as any of us. We can talk about this again if we ever get some long enough to work. The point right now is no one goes off ahead – whatever we're going to do, we do together."
That night Anaph held a bonding ceremony for Melanie, Dmitri, and Casey. Rigel's mind was elsewhere, trying to come up with a solution for the water problem. To have come this far, to have had the luck they had, to be working together as well as they were, and then die from lack of water... His mind snagged on the word "die" and wouldn't let go: hadn't they died already? There was something important there, he was certain, but nothing came.
He remembered nothing of the ceremony; dinner, though, was a different matter. Each person got three strips of meat wrapped around something in the center – but before they started eating, Rita had a little lecture.
"Eat all of it", she said. "It's got what we need to hike another day. We've had cramps, and dizziness, and headaches, from poor nutrition. Each one of these has something different in it, with nutrition to fight those things. So chow down!"
Ocean sat next to Rigel and explained the three items. One had deer heart, one had liver, and one had kidney, inside. They'd crushed "Anaph nuts" and one almost-ripe strawberry per serving to help flavor it before roasting it over the fire. Rigel thought the effort was great, but wasn't so sure of the results; in his view, the only way to eat kidney was drunk enough that everything really did taste like chicken.
Everything got eaten anyway. Mostly, they were so hungry they were ready to try grass – and some had been trying different plants along the way.
Maybe with the meat, they could go harder tomorrow. That was in Rigel's mind as he snuggled up against Devon and aimed for sleep. But the thought that went with him to dreamland was this: five days' hiking, three days' water.

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In the previous six annual meetings where Dimon has been both chairman and CEO, shareholders have been asked about separating the roles four times. Last year marked the highest level of votes in favor of the idea. In 2007 and 2008, only about 15 percent of shareholders voted for similar measures.
Investors welcomed the news that the measure had been defeated. JPMorgan's stock was up 2 percent, or $1.09, at $53.38 in midday trading. The stock is at its highest level in 12 years.
The shareholder meeting, held at company offices on the outskirts of Tampa, Fla., had fewer theatrics than last year's meeting, which was held just days after the trading loss was disclosed. Last year, two or three dozen protesters showed up. On Tuesday, one woman with a cardboard sign was spotted, but only briefly.
The bank is facing regulatory investigations and lawsuits, not only over the trading loss but other practices including foreclosures and alleged rigging of power prices. Michael Garland from the New York City Comptroller's Office, which supports splitting the roles, said he appreciated that JPMorgan led its peers by certain financial measures. But, he added, "it also leads its peers in regulatory investigations."
Lisa Lindsley from the union group AFSCME, which filed the proposal asking to split the jobs, said the bank needed "a new tone at the top." She said the proposal was never intended as a referendum against Dimon or a "personality contest," but as a measure for the best risk management.
Tamara Lush and Chris O'Meara of the AP contributed to this report.


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Friday, February 03, 2006
The Devil Speaks: Solitaire vs. Minesweeper
I'm going to take this whole, "everyone else is just jealous of Ohio State's passionate fans" concept out to its logical extreme to see how it holds up.
No one here knows this about me, but I'm a real big fan of Solitaire. It comes with Windows, so it's on most computers and I just love it. I mean, I really OMG love it. Solitaire just rules. I'm a true and real fan of it. I have a whole closet filled with Solitaire gear, t-shirts, jackets, hats, etc. All I ever wear is clothing with Solitaire stuff on it. I have a whole series of t-shirts that feature every single card back available in Solitaire. They really rock.
And because I'm a true fan, I really get into playing Solitaire. When I lose a game, I get so angry, I have to smash my monitor. Sure it gets expensive, but I really love winning at Solitaire so when I lose I just have to smash something. But it's simply because I'm so passionate about Solitaire.
Now, whenever I win a game, oh yeah, it's time to celebrate. I jump up and down, yell, run outside screaming my head off. I make sure everyone within earshot knows that I WON and that Solitaire is the best thing ever. There's nothing quite like celebrating a tough win in Solitaire. Then it's off to the liquor store to load up on a lot of cheap booze so I can really celebrate right. That's what being a real Solitaire fan is all about -- getting shitfaced and setting stuff on fire because, like I said, Solitaire is such a great game, I have to celebrate properly. Couches, cars, trash, you name it, it's going up in flames. An offering to the great Solitaire God in the sky.
Also, those other games that come with Windows are lame. They suck and just can't compare to Solitaire. So, in addition to all my Solitaire apparel, I have a t-shirt that reads "Fuck Minesweeper." Minesweeper sucks so bad it's not even funny. Minesweeper players are jealous of us Solitaire players and they're complete losers. I actually call the game "Mine Weeper" because Minesweeper players are crybabies. Get it?
Anyway, I love wearing my "Fuck Minesweeper" t-shirt around. I wear it to the mall, the movies, and the unemployment office. Sure, I get some funny looks from people, especially parents with their children, but hey, I'm a real Solitaire fan and I love my game and I want everyone else to know that all other games suck. There's really nothing quite like hearing a seven year old say, "Mommy, that man's shirt says 'Fuck Minesweeper' on it." LOL! Another young mind converted, priceless.
Whenever I see someone actually playing Minesweeper, I get right in their face because that's what real fans do. I scream, "Fuck Minesweeper!" at them. I wish I had some other things to say but I'm so passionate about Solitaire I just can't think of anything else. It's like I'm operating on pure animal instinct. I do other stuff, too. If I'm across the room, I throw stuff at them -- soda cans, coffee mugs, staplers, the phone; you name it, it's heading downrange. Then, I run over and I block their view of the monitor with my hands. Sometimes I even turn it off. I'll start hitting the keys of their keyboard and trying to click their mouse. Man, you should see how pissed off they get. What a bunch of losers. Minesweeper players really are crybabies.
Anyway, it's all about loving my game, Solitaire. It's just the best there is. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm proud. Everyone else is a loser, even if you play Solitaire, too, because MY Solitaire goes to eleven. Admit it, you're all jealous of me, right?
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Baggy Pants Devil, what you've just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this blog is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
- February 02, 2006 9:43 AM
- surrounded in columbus said...
don't worry - the critcs didn't understand Joyce's "Ulysses" when it came out.
this is a master work. i'm thinking Nobel for literature.
- February 02, 2006 9:50 AM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
LOL! Go back to watching WWE, you're in over your head here.
Thanks Surrounded, nice to know someone "got it."
- February 02, 2006 10:32 AM
- IC said...
Though I'm sure you are not losing any sleep over anon's critique of your brilliant post, you may be interested to know that he lifted it from the cinematic comedy gem "Billy Madison."
I suppose we should be pleasantly surprised that he didn't drop in a "Fuck Michigan" and eternally grateful that he didn't reference "Meatchicken."
- February 02, 2006 12:42 PM
"I suppose we should be pleasantly surprised that he didn't drop in a "Fuck Michigan" and eternally grateful that he didn't reference "Meatchicken."
Most of us dont need to stoop to your level on writing full articles or attempts at witty analogies to describe the behavior or arrogance of the OSU fans and his or her belief in why they dont feel really really bad about saying the things that you feel is really inappropriate...
PS...the quote above is a JOKE...dont try and decipher it as some sort of indication of anything other than that...I understand that you guys are bitter about everything, but live a little...just a little
- February 02, 2006 1:08 PM
- IC said...
your response appears to reflect a misguided sense of the attitudes and feelings of those who regularly post on this blog as well as other Michigan fans around the country who respect the quality of tOSU teams and the passion of tOSU fans when not manifesting itself in sociopathic and or criminal behavior though i suspect we do need to live a little and not get hung up on things such as nameless posters who missed the tOSU grammar class where run-on sentences were introduced and explained
- February 02, 2006 1:19 PM
- Yost said...
lol, IG
- February 02, 2006 1:20 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Damn! I guess I have to have an Adam Sandler FilmFest this Saturday. It's free with no more college football.
- February 02, 2006 1:52 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
talk about needing to lighten up and live a little? tosu fan reading & commenting on m blog? seriously, who needs to get of their mothers basement and find a life?
which raises another question - why is it you get so many tosu "anon" comments anyway? i rarely bother to even read the o-zone, let alone feel compelled to write on it. is that just me?
i mean, buckeyes sitting around talking/typing about getting their fiesta bowl tickets for next year doesn't interest me much. likewise, as deluded as they are, i don't see the point of logging in and trying to explain to them how silly that is. these tosu anons can't believe anyone is change their mind, can they?
part of it has to be their own insecurity. while i could care less how delusioned they are about next season, etc., it seems to really bother a lot of them that somewhere, somebody isn't singing out of the same hymnal, doesn't it? it's like they are compelled to sign up here and tell you you're wrong.
the other reason i think you see so many visitors is this site is really very good. i think it's a compliment to the editors that you get so much "foreign" traffic.
your site is a lot more interesting than any of tosu sites i've seen. it covers a wider range of topics or the same basic topics from different angles or perspectives.
let's face it- reading the o-zone is like talking to a tosu fan/dispatch letter writer/1460 call in talk show caller- one long self gratifying pat on the back, covering topics as diverse as why their recruiting class is really better than everyone else's (what does tom lemming really know anyway) to how clever they are for evading sanctions for the latest ncaa investigation. yeech.
you certainly have a far wider range of imaginative discussions (and pictures of slutty cheerleaders, too). if i were a tosu fan, i'd probably read this site more often, too.
- February 02, 2006 2:17 PM
"though i suspect we do need to live a little and not get hung up on things such as nameless posters who missed the tOSU grammar class where run-on sentences were introduced and explained"
I would say that pointing out obvious grammatical imperfections is not living a little, but last time I checked this was a blog...not Dr. Gold's English Class..
- February 02, 2006 2:29 PM
"part of it has to be their own insecurity. while i could care less how delusioned they are about next season, etc., it seems to really bother a lot of them that somewhere, somebody isn't singing out of the same hymnal, doesn't it? it's like they are compelled to sign up here and tell you you're wrong. "
I dont know about insecurity, but most of us sure dont spend as much time as the UM faithful on bashing our rival fans for any type of social shortcoming or complex they may possess.
- February 02, 2006 2:31 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
everyone needs a hobby. that's mine (at least before the weather gets nice enough for golf). is reading the m blog yours?
- February 02, 2006 2:42 PM
well...I dont know if I would consider it a hobby, but it is entertaining for the most part. However, there are probably reasonable limits to the amount of "good-natured ribbing" and "all in good fun" articles, which seem to be published with the same ease as a Southern Ohio Buckeye dropping a F*** Michigan on a Saturday afternoon. While it is documented on this blog that there is a rampant inferiority complex with a majority of the buckeye nation, there is no shortage of a superiority complex within the UM faithful. Unfortunately, this superiority complex is not warranted nor valid, and this type of behavior conveyed by the "typical" UM fan or alum is just as pathetic as any behavioral issues plaguing the crude and undesirable buckeye fans spoken about time and time again on this site.
- February 02, 2006 2:55 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
okay, so you think michigan fans feel superior (which you think is unjustified), look down on tosu fans (which you think is mistaken), and you think we spend too much time doing both?
and after reading the various comments/posts, you felt compelled to correct us/me of this notion?
and this proves you aren't insecure how???
- February 02, 2006 3:32 PM
"and this proves you aren't insecure how???"
I did realize that I was trying to change anybody's opinions on either topic. However, I was stating my opinion, which is very simply stating that for as many actual or perceived faults that buckeye fans possess....there are just as many on the Maize and Blue side of the fence. It doesnt really matter. You guys are on your own little island. I just thought that some outside perspective and a little bit of kidding around would lighten up a ridiculous commentary, but "Grammar Cop" and others have shipped off on their normal course of insults and other assorted "put-downs."
- February 02, 2006 3:38 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
well, your 10:08 post didn't come off too much like just "stating" an opinion. the later ones didn't either.
as to your point that michigan fans have their own set of problems, there's little question about that. if tosu's deadly sin is "envy", ours is undoubtedly "pride". our much publicized arrogance and smugness are apparent, win or lose any specific sporting event.
there is a significant difference between the two- our bad habits don't incline us to throwing beer cans, shoving other fans down the stairs, or having grandmother's teach our kids to say "fuck state". in fact, the biggest victims of our faults are in fact ourselves. not the case w/ tosu.
and no one has tried to stop you from posting your thoughts on the site (something that would have happened if i tried the same thing on the o-zone). one of the interesting things about this site is the abundance of other views. however, it would be naive for you to think people are going to agree w/, or even react kindly to your posts.
- February 02, 2006 3:59 PM
"and no one has tried to stop you from posting your thoughts on the site (something that would have happened if i tried the same thing on the o-zone). one of the interesting things about this site is the abundance of other views. however, it would be naive for you to think people are going to agree w/, or even react kindly to your posts. "
Definitely would not think that around here...
If you want that type of discussion, Bucknuts or Buckeye Planet is a better option("better" is a relative term in this case). O-zone is more of a community than it is a place to start healthy discussions. A community that has stricter rules on things that you can and cannot talk about...its their board...they can do whatever they want with it...
peace out...
- February 02, 2006 4:00 PM
- IC said...
I'm confused: am I Dr. Gold or "Grammar Cop" ?
Maybe I'm both. A compassionate and dedicated professor by day before returning home, checking papers, and going out onto the streets to arrest the grammatically ignorant scum who coarsen our culture.
"Dr. Gold: Grammar Cop" Tuesdays on FOX!
- February 02, 2006 4:00 PM
"grammatically ignorant scum who coarsen our culture."
"Ignorant scum"...nice...classy...
You need to police yourself...and not worry about others
- February 02, 2006 4:02 PM
- IC said...
Excellent points, SiC.
Anon, while I am among those who disagree with your arguements, I do appreciate you coming by and sharing your thoughts.
- February 02, 2006 4:06 PM
- IC said...
I just read your latest post. While it can be difficult to perceive the tone of a comment, I was not suggesting that you are "grammatically ignorant scum." In fact, I don't think there is such a thing.
My comment was a spoof on bad TV, not any reflection of you or anyone else.
- February 02, 2006 4:09 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
you'll need a gimmick. like a car that talks or a side kick w/ a funny accent. and some sort of a cool uni. oooh- and a hot chick for a love interest. maybe stacy's available?
o-zone is a "community" w/ its own rules? it's not a place to start an open discussion?
so, we're less 'open" because we don't have rules that prevent people like you from making posts like this?
we're somehow not as hospitable because you don't like the responses you are getting to posts the like of which you couldn't get posted on the other site at all?
i give up. maybe i'll go play minesweeper for a while....
- February 02, 2006 4:17 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
As someone who fantasizes about being a copy editor - I have no life - I DO believe that grammatically ignorant scum exist. And they poison our society. But that rant is for a different blog.
What I do find interesting is that Anon seems to be objecting to the word "scum." Go to any Tosu message board. You'll see multiple references to scUM. That's one of their clever nicknames for Meatchicken...I mean Michigan.
To Anon's credit, he hasn't used that in his discussion here, and I also want to credit him for keeping the discussion civil, even if I disagree.
- February 02, 2006 4:20 PM
- IC said...
You're absolutely right, SiC. I need a sidekick. Someone from a vaguely southern or eastern European country. Let's call him Hrabek (with one of those double dots over the 'e') He's my grammar deputy, which is funny because his newly-arrived-immigrant grammar is so poor.
My love interest needs to be sassy. And she needs a man's name like Max, Claud, Alex, or Frankie, because apparently strong-willed yet still-vulnerable American females no longer have names like Jennifer, Rebecca, or Michelle. She digs me but I'm too dedicated to my students and wrapped up in clearing the streets of GIS (grammatically ignorant scum) to notice.
- February 02, 2006 4:28 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
As someone whose job it is to actually grade written reports and make corrections, I can tell you that "Grammar Cop" will also need an extremely high-tech red pen.
It'll need to be big with an ergonomic grip, perhaps made of titanium, and have a pressurized ink chamber like the astronaut pens (space, bitches, space). A laser rangefinder/target designator as well as built in GPS could come in handy too.
Your car--the bitchin' GrammarMobile--should have a head up display for Oliver Strunk's Elementary Rules of Usage.
And, speaking of umlauts, maybe if Michigan put the fearsome looking "heavy metal umlaut" over the letter "i" it would toughen up the defense in the fourth quarter?
- February 02, 2006 5:19 PM
I loved it. Well done! And damn it ... I want mine to go to 11.
- February 02, 2006 7:25 PM
Sorry BPD, when I got to '...I award you no points..' I was jumping up and down in the computer lab calling Billy Madison.
Except I read the first post about 11 hours after IG did.
- February 02, 2006 8:14 PM
I don't know about other Buckeyes, but the O-Zone is kind of in its own little world. I've tried to post over there before, and unless you're in the in-club-the guys that have been there for years, you pretty much get ignored. Unless you're a UM fan, apparently you just get banned.
As for their site content-I've been reading the O-Zone for years and years and years (just haven't been posting there much). They started out as and will always be a news-oriented site. The staff that runs the place runs it like a local newspaper dedicated to covering OSU athletics. Thus, outside the forum there are much fewer jokes, off-topic commentaries and absolutley no cheeleader prOn. There's really no comparison between them, a news-oriented site, and this place, a conversation-oriented blog.
Anyway, my five dollars on the topic.
- February 02, 2006 8:24 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
always appreciate your opinion even when i don't agree w/ it. i'll take you at your word that the two sites aren't good comparisons.
let me make a simpler one: it's a friday night in november. i'm wearing my michigan sweatshirt. i walk into a bar and loudly state to my drinking companions something rude and obnoxious like: "tOSU is a dirty, rotten program and tre$$el cheats".
how should i expect others over hearing me to react? if i'm in frazier's pub on packard in A2, most people either agree w/ me or just ignore me. if i'm standing in the middle of the buckeye hall of fame cafe or the varsity club, i doubt that i'd get the same reaction AND would be naive to expect it.
i think the same logic follows for blogs. you get on to a texas/ND/whatever oriented blog and start saying negative things about that school, you're going to get a negative reaction. the more provocative the statement, the more aggressive the push back.
if i want to say something negative about tosu, i'm probably better off saying it here than on any tosu site, unless what i want to do is just start a pissing match w/ the entire buckeye nation.
same goes for fans from other schools logging in here. no one is saying they're not welcome to post, just that they shouldn't expect people to necessarily like what they say. if you want to talk about what a bunch of arrogant asses michigan fans are, don't say it here UNLESS you want people to disagree w/ you.
- February 03, 2006 10:59 AM
Well of course. I was in no way contending with the straight forward logic of your post.
I was contending with a post above that painted the O-Zone in a rather stodgy and boring light as compared to the wacky fun that the humor and cheerleader battles brings around here.
There's a reason I spend most of my posts over here a.) not trashing UM and b.) not hyping OSU. Every now and then when its warranted in the discussion, I throw in a little of (b), but I pretty much never throw down any (a). Its simply not the place for it. When I want to talk trash on UM, I usually go find my best friend (he's one of those border-casualty UM fans-born and raised in Toledo and was never close enough to the capital of the football universe to get sucked in proper-like).
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But a few years ago, Gheesling, her son Al and her daughter Melba started a new family tradition: volunteering at the Hendersonville Rescue Mission, helping to serve several hundred plates of home-cooked food to the homeless and hungry on Thanksgiving.
"It's good for us," Gheesling said as she helped Food Service Coordinator Todd Ruzicka prepare dessert pies in the mission's kitchen Thursday. "We're doing something worthwhile."
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When I bought this, I thought the color in the bottle looked a bit too similar to MAC's Coconut Ice, which I was wearing on my nails at the time. I almost didn't buy it. I am SO glad I did, because these two colors are so very different. ...and honestly, the MAC formula in that shade sucks and just doesn't compare to Essie's Tart Deco.
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Good Morning Daniel / Goodnight Daniel
series: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
air date: 12/17/12 10:00 AM
Good Morning Daniel - It's a typical morning in the Tiger household, and Daniel has to get up for school but his playing and imagining distract him from his routine. Daniel learns that his morning routine helps him be ready in time for Trolley to take him to school. Goodnight Daniel - Tonight, Daniel is pretending to be Super Daniel! But after dinner, he has to follow his nighttime routine even though he would rather play. Young viewers follow Daniel as he gets ready for bed and eventually he learns that even super heroes get sleepy.
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