New MGM video on Stargate Atlantis

[wraithfodder]

http://stargate.mgm.com/video.php?id=194 contains the video

Goodbye Atlantis - 4:25 15.9MB - Executive Producer Joseph Mallozzi says goodbye to Atlantis. Watch it in real time - only on SCI FI.

Okay, read some comments about it on GW, then watched it and well, yeah, the folks were right... well, it's got David Hewlett's last day, Jason Momoa's last day, RAchel Luttrell, Jewel Staite, and hello? I sorta recall some guy named Joe Flanigan throughout the entire series?? So I guess Joe M isn't going to miss him? It just seems, well, tacky, not to include the leading actor of the show in the goodbye. I seriously doubt they'd have done that to RDA (well, considering he was a producer, no they wouldn't).

So if you're watching for Joe Flanigan, once the scene atop the gate is over, that's basically it for Joe except far shots, but gad, so weird he's not even mentioned!

Comments

Joe M's omission

[(Anonymous)]

This is a sore spot for me. Though, I don't know why I care what JM thinks of Joe Flanigan. (Well, I don't follow his comments anymore.) But, after reading his blog the last 2 seasons of the show, I'm not surprised he excluded Joe once again. This was a frequent occurrence in his blog and I got the distinct impression that he had an issue with the Flan. He would mention and praise the other cast members but leave out JF. Who knows what the reason is. JM suggested at one point in his blog that Joe had asked him not to take candid photos of him on set (and to fans, that he'd start posting photos of JF again when he was given the green light to do so). So, I wonder if that hurt JM's feelings/ego and was cause enough for a rift...though, it seemed to start before that mention. JM strikes me as someone who requires a lot of attention and praise from everyone...his blog is just full of self-promotion. I think he resents the fact that actors are loved by fans, but the writers are forgotten or merely acknowledged. That's the business. JF seems like a serious actor who needs time to reflect on the script before filming. He might not have fed JM's ego enough when he was on the set of the filming of one of his scripts. Or maybe JF questioned one or more of his scripts. Again, I don't know.

I got a bit irritated with JM when he made a few references in his blog about [unnamed actors] that fans loved but who misbehaved on set or were just horrible to the crew. (ref. green M&Ms, the diva, the champagne incident.) He never named the actors, nor should he have, but I don't recall him ever indicating that he wasn't referring to former or current SGA cast members. He could have at least done that. In his next breath he said he had to say nice things about actors he didn't like because it would get back to them. So we can't really trust anything he says about actors? Hmm. I almost left a comment on his blog asking him to stop ranting about the unnamed actors because every time I watched the show I wondered if "that actor" was the one he was talking about. To gain peace of mind, I stopped visiting his blog (except to grab a rare photo of JF) and decided to disregard all of his past and future comments.

I may be very wrong in my assessment of him. He may actually like Joe Flanigan and his omission(s) completely incidental, but that's my take on the lack of inclusion of Joe Flanigan in JM's farewell or his blog entries.

Jason, David and Rachel love Joe Flanigan and that's all I need to know.
-Diane

[lamaudite.livejournal.com]

Wow... I read most of the comments before I actually went and watched the video. Didn't quite believe it until I saw it for myself. JoeM, I've dismissed a long time ago and quit reading His blog, but I have to agree here: he managed the hard task to outdo himself and sink to an even lower level. Well done, a-hole.

No way, SGU

[(Anonymous)]

I won't be watching SGU specifically because of the way the PTB handled SGA's end. They just threw it in a scrap heap. I will support an SGA movie IF Joe Flanigan and the main cast are involved, but a movie doesn't sound likely. I will support Joe Flanigan, Jason, David and Rachel wherever they go next. I will always be a Joe Flanigan fan, Joe Mallozzi - bite that! I just hope Sy Fy or SciFi or MGM don't get any of them into contracts to make crappy B movies for them. I hope they find success on their own away from the Stargate creators. And hopefully we won't have to hear more from the drama queen, Joe Mallozzi, anymore! - Diane

oy vey

[kjhamnik.livejournal.com]

Considering that Brad Wright "thinks" he's RDA's best friend I guess they better watch it, cos RDA and Joe are friends, even neighbors, fgs. I can imagine, given RDA's sudden desire to be brutal that tptb haven't given much thought to the situation. (On his brutalness watch TMZ, RDA challenging a guy about his dog training, telling paparazzi off about getting the number of kids he has wrong, there's so much more LOLOLOL) If I were Brad Wright I'd be telling Mallozzi to pull his head out or get a job.

On the other side of it, Flanigan can do whatever he wants to do and TPTB at MGM can bite it, cus he's got a contract neener neener neener!!! ROTFL.

wondering

[kjhamnik.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to wonder if the situation is what led to the cancellation. Note Amanda Tapping's reaction to the cancellation. ?????????

Re: wondering

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

What did AT say?

Re: wondering

[kjhamnik.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOX688CLgsQ

Her comments are on this video. If she's "surprised" by the cancellation after spending 6 of 10 years being told that SG-1 was going to be cancelled, then it was obviousely out of left field.

On the other hand, I still believe and I'll restate it here, five years is very very rare on any kind of tv show at all. There are a few examples like Dr. Who, which has a different lead every year. SG-1 which is and remains the longest running SciFi show, I suppose on American television, because, duh, Dr. Who! Etc... Most shows only last part of one season, a few last more than one season and other shows that have made it past the five year mark are mainstream shows, and at the moment I can only think of two off the top of my head and they would be Law and Order and ER. Which are both worthy shows. (No I didn't forget MASH, it just doesn't count because it was made in a different time.)

I'm reminded now of the cancellation of 90210 which was the result, it would seem, of infighting between the cast and production etc...

I'm also reminded of the times when Flanigan has said, "they weren't interested in my ideas..." Things of that nature. He was writer long before he was in this industry and he's good. He seemed "miffed" as it were at the changes they made to his pitches and he stated at Bedford, I think, at the point of Vegas they no longer wanted to here his imput!

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

I finally saw the video today, having not read any comments or anything, and I was scratching my head going "Wasn't there a hot guy with spiky hair on this show?"

To have that paean to Jewel Staite that took up all that time in the video and no mention at all of Flanigan, the star of the show... well, that kind of sums up how the show went so immensely wrong in seasons 4/5 eh? *sigh*

*goes back to planning out alternate versions that are all better than the real thing*

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Mallozzi is such an asshat. He really seems to think the show is all about him.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Too much Mallozzi in the picture. Couldn't he have spoken without being in the picture.