Season 2.5 Promo from Syfy finally out.
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I think that Milky Way Stargate is the one located on Langara, Jonas Quinn's homeworld. There is supposed to be an arc set there.
I love how it says every destiny has a ending.
They'd better not bring Corin Nemec back or I'll be made to keep watching this show, argh.
^Ha ha...
Now? Seriously? NOW THEY BRING JONAS BACK? Sheesh, somebody's desperate. Or something. I have my doubts they actually will bring him back. It would be silly. And I thought his planet blew up?
Now? Seriously? NOW THEY BRING JONAS BACK? Sheesh, somebody's desperate. Or something. I have my doubts they actually will bring him back. It would be silly. And I thought his planet blew up?
Yeah, it would have had more publicity. GateWorld hasn't listed him and that's big so unless it's a surprise (hugely doubtful; I mean, why bother) he won't be back.
Anyway, his planet never blew up. It had been conquered by the Ori (mentioned in passing during the ninth season) but that's presumably been ended, all things considered.
Oh, right. I remember now. No, I don't think Jonas will be in SGU...but apparently McKay and Woolsey will. I'm interested to see McKay and Rush beat each other over the head with their smug superiority and snarkiness.
Yeah, that news broke a while back. I was still watching then and I was relatively excited to see them again but I've since given up on the show. I might tune in to see them, though...
I thought about giving up, but it's only 10 episodes. I might as well watch for Eli's pop culture references and Rush's angry Scotsman rhetoric. Hopefully there are more sarcastic Volker moments too. I have to see how they wrap things up, too, even though it'll be a cliffhanger. Ah, they'll probably end up filming one thirty-second Kino video to be the real finale.
They aren't brining him back, but Joe did say that Jonas would get a mention in the episode.
Probably, "Remember that guy Jonas Quinn?" "No." "Nevermind, then."
Well according to producer Joseph Mallozzi in a blog entry from some time ago, he said something like 'I always imagine Jonas is fighting the good fight in a fun resistance-based story'. Dig it up if you'd like, but I sort of took that as close enough to canon since it came from one of the main guys on the production staff.
You know, I've read accounts refuting that on multiple occasions. I don't think anyone has ever had the courage to straight-up ask RDA about it, but Corin has denied there was any sort of fiasco and Amanda Tapping has as well. Corin has always sounded nothing but positively gracious for his time on SG-1 -- a real stand-up guy considering he got stood-up in season seven.
It ultimately boiled down to this -- Daniel Jackson (and Michael Shanks by comparison) was a much more recognized and universally-accepted character and when Shanks wanted back in with the seventh season the writers were committed to making it work no matter what. Since Jonas was getting a mixed reception from the fans and at least in concept he was undeniably a replacement for Jackson, he got reduced to recurring status and then disappeared by season eight.
Back before season ten TPTB were very insistent that a five-person team would just not work dramatically, so it kind of irks me (and a lot of others) that they eventually tried for it but Jonas got the boot such as he did.
I'm just thankful this all happened a couple of years before SGA's Ford debacle. By that point in the franchise TPTB had gotten so full of themselves and their 'we can do anything we want to these characters in the most ridiculous ways and still get rich off of this' mentality that SGA really suffered a bit of a revolving-door problem.
The writers felt like Ford wasn't working out after season one (a point contested by a lot of fans on GateWorld, but to be fair, that happens with everything) so they gave him an arc that played out fairly interestingly but then dropped his character without a feeling of proper resolution.
And then Weir... ugh, don't get me started. Jonas Quinn was treated like a god compared to what they did with franchise characters later on.
Pffft not that crap again. Torri was treated fine. She was told on her last day that her character was going to be killed off, but she could return for a few episodes in season 4 if she wanted. She agreed, the end. If anyone was out of order it was her, she waited to film her episodes than came out in an interview and called what the writers did "shitty" like she had some right to the part. Unbelievably unprofessional on her part. I don't believe the rumours that there was any real bad blood between her and the producers though, she was in the UK promoting SGU before it aired after all.
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