Well, assuming this is not a hoax - and the only thing that makes that credible to me is the fact Gateworld has it as a headline, I am (to be diplomatic) underwhelmed.
One thing that really alarms me about the civie characters mentioned is that it implies the Stargate programme goes public. Atlantis's civilians add up, because they were head hunted by Dr Weir as the best and brightest in their fields. - Rodney Mckay is excepted to a degree, because he was already part of the Stargate programme from his previous experience with the SGC and the US Air Force. It was a no brainer to include him from his knowledge, experience and cleared security level.
By contast Bratty senators daughter and slacker mathematics genius sound like the kind of people the SGC and Atlantis would do everything to avoid!
The Colonel sounds like a contraction of O'Neill when he was cold and unapporachable, with apsects of Cromwell form "A Matter of Time" and both Dillon Everett and Marshall Sumner from Atlantis.
The medical character is a younger Keller with the military aspects of a not quite qualified Janet Frasier. (As she is the medical doctor if she is not killed outright "Becketted" or left behind on a planet, it will be a miracle!)
The remaining two are classic military cliches. The angry one and the "green inexperienced" one, who is an unwise repeat of Ford. Assuming he is not intended to be bumped off to shock the audience. Regardless how good the actors that are cast as these characters are, they are going to have very a tough time as far as credibility is concerned.
I thought Atlantis started out with a solid set of characters, and I understood the loss of Ford as a regular, because he was underused. Part of me is actually grateful this A4 page of cliches is going to be cut off from Earth. - If it is as bad as I suspect it to be, then at least it won't pollute SG1 or what I enjoyed about Atlantis! (I stopped watching after the middle of season 3).
As an aside, Worf was not part of Star Trek The Next Generation's casting call. Gene Roddenberry did not want to see any of the established TOS era aliens in the new series, fearing TNG would not grow with its own identity. Producer Robert Justman convinced him otherwise, with Roddenberry accepting the idea of a Klingon officer in the background on the ship. Michael Dorn's audition cemented the idea of Worf as a main character, and the more he was given to play with, the more the character flourished and opened new story opportunities. Its irronic on two levels, TNG would never have been as good without the reappearance of the established species, something carried over into DS9, and Worf himself is one of Treks most complicated and rich characters!
I mention all of this because casting and characters are not static things. - We may yet have an offworld friend on the team like Teal'c or Teyla. It may well be they plan to add-and-drop characters as they go along, as Babylon 5 and more recently BAttlestar Galactica has successfully done.
I repeat, - assuming this is not leaked disinformation, or a plain and simple hoax.
If it does turn out to be awful, I am thinkful I have 10 years of SG1 and 2.5 years of Atlantis I can enjoy, plus the onging DVD film franchise!
One thing that really alarms me about the civie characters mentioned is that it implies the Stargate programme goes public. Atlantis's civilians add up, because they were head hunted by Dr Weir as the best and brightest in their fields. - Rodney Mckay is excepted to a degree, because he was already part of the Stargate programme from his previous experience with the SGC and the US Air Force. It was a no brainer to include him from his knowledge, experience and cleared security level.
By contast Bratty senators daughter and slacker mathematics genius sound like the kind of people the SGC and Atlantis would do everything to avoid!
The Colonel sounds like a contraction of O'Neill when he was cold and unapporachable, with apsects of Cromwell form "A Matter of Time" and both Dillon Everett and Marshall Sumner from Atlantis.
The medical character is a younger Keller with the military aspects of a not quite qualified Janet Frasier. (As she is the medical doctor if she is not killed outright "Becketted" or left behind on a planet, it will be a miracle!)
The remaining two are classic military cliches. The angry one and the "green inexperienced" one, who is an unwise repeat of Ford. Assuming he is not intended to be bumped off to shock the audience. Regardless how good the actors that are cast as these characters are, they are going to have very a tough time as far as credibility is concerned.
I thought Atlantis started out with a solid set of characters, and I understood the loss of Ford as a regular, because he was underused. Part of me is actually grateful this A4 page of cliches is going to be cut off from Earth. - If it is as bad as I suspect it to be, then at least it won't pollute SG1 or what I enjoyed about Atlantis! (I stopped watching after the middle of season 3).
As an aside, Worf was not part of Star Trek The Next Generation's casting call. Gene Roddenberry did not want to see any of the established TOS era aliens in the new series, fearing TNG would not grow with its own identity. Producer Robert Justman convinced him otherwise, with Roddenberry accepting the idea of a Klingon officer in the background on the ship. Michael Dorn's audition cemented the idea of Worf as a main character, and the more he was given to play with, the more the character flourished and opened new story opportunities. Its irronic on two levels, TNG would never have been as good without the reappearance of the established species, something carried over into DS9, and Worf himself is one of Treks most complicated and rich characters!
I mention all of this because casting and characters are not static things. - We may yet have an offworld friend on the team like Teal'c or Teyla. It may well be they plan to add-and-drop characters as they go along, as Babylon 5 and more recently BAttlestar Galactica has successfully done.
I repeat, - assuming this is not leaked disinformation, or a plain and simple hoax.
If it does turn out to be awful, I am thinkful I have 10 years of SG1 and 2.5 years of Atlantis I can enjoy, plus the onging DVD film franchise!
Converting a human body into energy and sending it millions of light years through a wormhole. Bloody insanity! 
Come on, how often do you get the chance to go to an alien planet? 
I was a'ready on an alien planet!
No one interested here...move along.
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