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

[frellmeedead.livejournal.com]

Wow...no love there I guess, and what a shameless plug for SGU. *casts voodoo curse on SGU*

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

If it had been worded differently, I'd accept it better, but it came across as 'we're sorry we pissed off the fan base so much, but please watch us.' sorry, horse out of barn, too late to shut door. ;)

[frellmeedead.livejournal.com]

I have followed many genre shows throughout my geek life but have yet to come across such ego I've seen and continue to see from TPTB of the Stargate franchise. I tried to brush it off with that "well they are the creative types and it's natural they behave this way" but that could only do so much. The DVD specials and commentaries are evidence how TPTB think it's ALL about them and the fans will eat up whatever garbage they dish out.

I don't know about anyone else but I watched SGA for the actors and how they managed to salvage the show week after week with superb acting. Without Flanigan, Hewlett, Luttrell, and Momoa, the team dynamics would cease to exist and most of us would've thrown in the towel when Keller was backwardly forced upon us. >.>

Sorry about the rambling. I'll go back to the voodoo curse now!

[kjhamnik.livejournal.com]

here here, I raise my glass to the best comment, but then they'll always try to shut the barn door before anyone older 21 gets in, that's MGM's new motto. "21 and Under are our favs, yeah!"