New MGM video on Stargate Atlantis

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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