Stargate Atlantis Rewatch: Season 2, Disc 5 Special Features
Special Features
Profile on Paul McGillion
It was weird listening to the interviewees say how awesome Paul McGillion is, and what an important character he is…knowing that they’re going to kill his character Dr. Beckett off in the next season. Oh, but it’s Stargate, so nobody really stays dead, and they bring him back in season 4. Nevertheless, this is a really funny profile, especially the time devoted to the kiss between McGillion and David Hewlett in Duet.
Audio Commentary for Coup D’etat
Martin Wood, Martin Gero and David Hewlett. Apparently this episode was a pain to write because the desired actors weren’t available. Then Colm Meaney became available, and it was a go. This episode also had the longest tease in Stargate history at more than 7 minutes. Remember that scene with the photos of the team members that have the Ancient gene? Apparently the producers really had to fight to get those pictures in there. I loved the pictures. Martin Gero had a cameo in the infirmary scene. Who knew?
Audio Commentary for Michael
Martin Wood and Peter DeLuise. They love Connor Trinneer (who doesn’t?) Trivia: Connor Trinneer is not from Texas, he just did the accent really well here and on Enterprise. He’s actually from Washington state. There’s a lot of geeky director talk in this commentary. Fortunately, Peter DeLuise got his father Dom’s sense of humor. It’s cute how they try not to give away the secret of the episode while doing the commentary. They tell us the actors didn’t like lying to the Michael character, and each of them came to director Martin Wood with concerns about how the lying and pretending, except for Jason Momoa, who totally got that Ronon just doesn’t like Michael. Period. So he doesn’t care about lying to him.
Audio Commentary for Inferno
Peter DeLuise and Gary Jones (who’s on Stargate SG1). Oh good, Peter answers the question of why Gary does commentary on Atlantis episodes…sort of. I would rather have had one of the actors, maybe. OMG, the guy who played the leader of the volcano people played a bunch of different dads on 21 Jump Street! Who knew? And the volcano lady was in Baywatch Hawaii with Jason Momoa and was in SG1 and Andromeda.
Audio Commentary for Allies
Andy Mikita, Martin Gero, David Hewlett and Mars the dog. If you want to see more of David Hewlett and Mars the dog, rent the movie A Dog’s Breakfast. It’s awesome, you’ll love it. They agree that the effects in this episode are amazing. Is it just me, or does Stargate pull out all the stops for the mid-season and end of season cliff hangers? Wow, the guy who supposed to be Wraithified Michael is NOT being played by Connor Trinneer, because Connor’s wife was scheduled to have a baby, and he didn’t want to miss it (awwwww). So they got another actor to put on the makeup, and Connor came in to do the voice later.
Production Design & Photo Gallery
Pictures. Woo.
