IGN Michael Shanks interview

[MasterPower]

You never realize how low of a blow scifi's cancelation was until you read this:

Shanks: Again, piss poor timing on the part of SCI FI Channel for doing that just when we are celebrating with the fans this milestone episode, this buzz kill they had to announce to the crew as well; they didn't find out until the actual "200" episode party; everyone was dressed to the nines and the head of MGM comes on stage and goes, "So…we are done." Oh, there is a buzz kill. Pass the liquor. (laughs)

the rest of the story is here http://tv.ign.com/articles/751/751455p1.html

Oh the humanity!

[2ndgenerationalteran]

you have to truely have no heart to do something like that.

[shockwave04]

Yeah that was not cool

[the fifth man]

you have to truely have no heart to do something like that.

Well, the heads of Sci-Fi don't. So, that wasn't a problem for them.

[JessM]

Second movie does sound a lot like Moebius. Guess we're going to have to wait and see what it's actually going to involve in detail...

Interesting interview, and I hate the way they found out about the cancellation ... disgusting timing on SciFi's part.

Is it me or does he not seem to think very highly of "Carter"? He's worked with the actress almost 10 years now and has trouble remembering the character's name??

Guess it's possible that's a joke but doesn't sound like a very good one to me.

(I mean no offense to Michael though )

[Jackie]

Second movie does sound a lot like Moebius. Guess we're going to have to wait and see what it's actually going to involve in detail...

Interesting interview, and I hate the way they found out about the cancellation ... disgusting timing on SciFi's part.

Is it me or does he not seem to think very highly of "Carter"? He's worked with the actress almost 10 years now and has trouble remembering the character's name??

Guess it's possible that's a joke but doesn't sound like a very good one to me.

(I mean no offense to Michael though )

It sounded like he was joking to me. You know--when you work with someone 16 hours a day for 10 years you pretty much know them. It may have been an inside joke. But it didn't sound like he didn't like Sam to me. (He did name is boy Sam--i wonder if that's related to the joke)

[shockwave04]

Its probably just a joke, but you never know.

[DeltaFlyer]

Its probably just a joke, but you never know.

I think it was a joke, he made a similar joke on the inside the 200th ep special regarding the crew, from what I can tell he has that kind of sense of humor.

[JessM]

I guess it could have been a joke... and I guess there's also the fact that he was taking time off when they filmed that ep.

[angelfire east]

(He did name is boy Sam--i wonder if that's related to the joke)

He did Cool

[PG15]

Come on guys, OF COURSE it's a joke. I can't believe you guys are actually thinking otherwise.

And on that note, I just like to add that, even if it wasn't a joke, it's not out of the question for someone to just forget a name like *that*. It's happened to me hundreds of times.

[Goddess]

You never realize how low of a blow scifi's cancelation was until you read this:

Shanks: Again, piss poor timing on the part of SCI FI Channel for doing that just when we are celebrating with the fans this milestone episode, this buzz kill they had to announce to the crew as well; they didn't find out until the actual "200" episode party; everyone was dressed to the nines and the head of MGM comes on stage and goes, "So…we are done." Oh, there is a buzz kill. Pass the liquor. (laughs)

the rest of the story is here http://tv.ign.com/articles/751/751455p1.html

This makes me sad. They couldn't have waited like a week.

Time travel though . . . Not so horrible. Could be worse. And Ba'al cool so . . . yeah.

[Dromag67]

Come on guys, OF COURSE it's a joke. I can't believe you guys are actually thinking otherwise.

And on that note, I just like to add that, even if it wasn't a joke, it's not out of the question for someone to just forget a name like *that*. It's happened to me hundreds of times.

/sarcasm on

Oh Im sure there is deep seeded hatred between Michael Shanks and Amanda Tapping.

/sarcasm off




I'm not going to judge the 2nd movie until we get more details, doesn't sound like he knew a lot either. September was a while back, and a lot can change in 4 months.

Ba'al is a good thing though.

[Bragi]

Shanks: Again, piss poor timing on the part of SCI FI Channel for doing that just when we are celebrating with the fans this milestone episode, this buzz kill they had to announce to the crew as well; they didn't find out until the actual "200" episode party;

Sound familiar?

Wonder if someone's thrown a "We Don't Work For Sci-Fi Anymore" party.

[Col. Shadow Quinn]

Hey, SG1 movie 2 is a homage to Star Trek First Contact. (Borg go back in time to attempt to assimilate Earth)