MGM's Stargate Atlantis site starting to do Season 4 publicity

[wraithfodder]

If you go here - http://stargate.mgm.com/characters.php - you'll find updated bios for the Stargate Atlantis cast. Everybody has new photos, well, except for Weir and Carson, as they're toast so MGM/SciFi isn't gonna waste time taking new photos. 

Here's the first one of Sheppard.



The rest are under the cut.

Comments

[abracah.livejournal.com]

Nice job! Thanks for posting them. I love Teyla's. Rachel looks beautiful. Cool jacket on Mckay too!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I figured if I'm culling 'em for myself might as well share. Hopefully they'll release some nice decent sized images of 'em soon.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Nice airbrushing on Joe. Cos you know, airbrushing the lines off a 40 year old man doesn't look exactly like airbrushing the lines off a 40 year old man.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

There's obviously some touchup on the shots, but at least we don't get the Photoshop poisoning we got on SG1 in season 10. Awful.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Some is understating it on Joe...I hate that they do that. It looks so unnatural...

And god the SG-1 S10 shots were awful...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

The SG10 shots were.... well, I refused to even download any as JPGs they were so plastic... I mean, they were turned into mannequins with all that touchup!

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

*is placated by a skateboard shot I'd not seen before in the S3 gallery on that site*

I have the SG-1 pics only because I downloaded a zip of the contents of New Atlantis from someone on my f-list, and they'd included those too.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ah sigh, the good old days of New Atlantis :(

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Skiffy/NBC are total bastards...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I think idiots is a word you missed. They take all these shots, then don't use 'em. I mean, why???

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Cos they sell the pics to magazines...we might be stopping them making money...

Totally stupid. There can't be that many opportunities to make money from SciFi promo shots. The episode imagery makes me laugh most. You can get almost as good a quality image from a HDTV HR xvid rip...

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Ooops, forgot the *eyeroll* at the end of the first paragraph... ;o)

[elflinn.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the link! These are some hot pics of the cast especially JF! The finally updated the bios. It seems it took them forever to do this!

[agentcat47.livejournal.com]

i love joe's!! rachel's is so pretty too. it's too bad torri doesn't have a new one, but she looks great there, so it's okay.

[veracity]

Does anyone else think they made Amanda look like a man in drag?

*hears crickets*

Just me then. Okay. Rachel's looks the best, I think.

[jedi40.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link....I love the new Sheppard one for the coming season. And I like the McKay one and the Ronon ones as well.

[a-pilgrim-soul.livejournal.com]

Ugh! Airbrush city. Not quite as bad as what they did to the SG1 cast last year but why oh why do they feel the need to do airbrush the actors to such an extent? These are all attractive people and we've all seen pics of these guys taken up close at cons, and digital camera are pretty damn unforgiving, and they always look great, so why do they need to do this? *sigh* One of these days they are going to have some character promo shots of Sheppard that I actually like and where he doesn't look like a Ken doll. JF is attractive because he looks real, people in general are attractive because of the little flaws that make them individuals, airbrushing those little flaws out just makes them look bland.

Well there's my Saturday morning rant out the way!

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Could not agree more.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

LOL. I confess, I spent a long time looking at the Joe one and raging...

But now that you mention it...they did make Amanda look like that...

[tielan]

I actually came across these elsewhere (and have posted a couple of them on my own LJ), but I followed in a link from beaniesheppard's LJ 'cos I only really looked at the Teyla, Carter, and Keller pics. :)

Thanks for actually making me look at all of them. (Which sounds like a weird thing to thank someone for, but...)

[veracity]

You know, I barely looked at Joe since Sci Fi hired a really bad graphic artist retouch person. I bop along through the other and then BAM. My first thought, "I thought Amanda was in the cast. Where is she? Wait, that's Amanda? I don't think she's a drag queen." All in like a 3 second fast hyper speed thought. Poor Amanda.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I knew there was something off in her photo, but hadn't thought that, but now I'm going to think that....

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[veracity]

*grins* Well, at least I'm spreading the image around the world for the rest of you.

[alaxes.livejournal.com]

Wow! Rachel and Jewel are looking beautyful. Thanks for sharing!

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting these. Whoever is in charge of SGA's graphics/promo department should be fired. At least these poses aren't completely awful like last season's, but half of fandom could do a better job with Photoshop.

Teyla looks pretty, though, and Rodney looks good in a leather jacket so all is not lost.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Gotta find a link to write MGM to tell them to STOP photoshopping the cast. We LIKE them with all their flaws.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

:) Hadn't realized anybody else had done it (ah, could have saved myself some time). Being a completist, I put 'em all up, just in case MGM changes their mind.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Half of fandom probably could do a better job, but wouldn't actually do it...

[cybersyd.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting all of these. They are... well... they're not the best promotional shots I've ever seen, but at least everyone gets one (except for the recently departed).

Although is it just me, or does Hewlett's expression look like he's thinking, 'yes, and these pants are leather too. Mm-hmm.'

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Yes, you evil woman... :oP

[pisces227.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for posting these.

*runs off to drool at Shep's pic*

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

That is also true. The SGA crew look fine (understatement!) just the way they are.

[veracity]

*laugh* Well, let's face it. This? Is not news. Evil shoulda been my middle name.

Hey at least I didn't leave you with the image of like Moaning Myrtle making out with Cho. Oh, wait. I just did.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

That is true...in the nicest possible way of course.

LOL. Anything HP just makes me laugh. And I just can't stop seeing AMANda Tapping now...

[veracity]

Oh, I'm quite fond of the fact I'm evil. It's so much fun to torture other people. *grins*

Darn, I forgot to mention the fact Snape was watching and getting excited.

Yes, yes. I do scare myself. How did you know?

Poor Amanda. So many people will never look at her the same. *polishes nails on shirt* My work here is done.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ha!

[ann-tara.livejournal.com]

Followed the link here from the newsletter, and I LOL! when I read this comment because, OMG, that's the first thing I thought too. What an awful picture - first of all, it looks like they're trying to airbrush over a beard, and secondly, she looks about 60 years old. *woof*

[bramble-rose.livejournal.com]

Airbrushing Sheppard? Oh, the eyes! I went straight for the lips and that little quirky smirk. Missed the other completely :-) It's hard to get a bad shot of Amanda Tapping, wonder how they managed it. And Jewel looks great, as always. The cameras love her.
Rodney, Ronon and Teyla, awesome as always :-) Thank you for posting these!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

For some reason, they can't stop futzing about with Photoshopping. Ridiculous considering their subjects. Yeah, that shot of Amanda is, well, not the greatest...

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

See something familiar here?

http://community.livejournal.com/kharismaticicon/4393.html#cutid2

Modifying other people's icons is bad fandom etiquette.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Also, please direct any reply to my journal in the first available post rather than here.

Sorry WF...but this is sliding way too often in this fandom at the moment...

[veracity]

Oh, good! I'm not alone. It was just so *bad.* I mean, come on people. Hire an undergrad if you can't afford a graduate. But get someone better. *shakes head* I didn't pick up on the beard, but I thought the area around her mouth looked like a botox accident. Apparently, she's a 60 year old, botoxed, debearded draq queen.

[celcool.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna die laughing. Thanks!

[mf_luder_xf]

Wow, McKay and Carter look sharp in those jackets. Thanks for posting!!

[veracity]

No, no dying! *revives* You can't mock the bad if you're dead.

[tringasolitaria.livejournal.com]

LOL! Ok, no that wasn't my first thought. My first thought was...Wow! She lookes really old in that picture. But now that you mention it......

[veracity]

*grins* Apparently I'm the lone strange chick that thinks like that. That might actually be a good thing.