While this news from “Stargate: Universe” producer Joseph Mallozzi about an impending “Universe”/”Atlantis” cross-over will make some fans of the show happy (and infuriate others, no doubt), I fall somewhere in the middle. Here’s the deal: I’ve seen all those cross-overs by the “Stargate: SG1″ cast in “Universe”, and each and every time, even though I kind of like seeing Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, and Richard Dean Anderson still hanging out in the “Stargate” universe, it always feels … incongruous.
I have my reasons, I assure you. It’s because “Universe” has such a different rhythm and tone than the rest of the “Stargate” universe, but in particular “SG1″, that it always feels like the producers are trying to, for some reason, blend, say, the old “Battlestar Galactica” with the new version. It just feels wrong. But maybe that’s just me.
According to producer Mallozzi, you can expect a couple of “Atlantis” crewmembers to pop up in “Universe” sometime in the future, though he wouldn’t reveal who just yet:
With word from producer John G. Lenic that the deals have been closed on those Atlantis alums, we can now move forward on the script, secure in the knowledge that both extra-special guest stars will actually be on hand to say the dialogue written specifically for them. Great news for fans of the old series. There was a reluctance to move ahead with an SGA crossover, particularly on my part, because the feeling was it would step on the timing of the SGA movie, Stargate: Extinction, the events of which directly proceed the Atlantis series finale, Enemy at the Gate. But given the delay on the movie front and the ideal premise pitched out by Remi Aubuchon and Brad Wright, it was decided to go ahead with the crossover.
Now if they can only get off their ass and make that “Atlantis” movie to please the old fans of “Atlantis” already. Although, at this point, it certainly sounds like the movie may never get made, given the “delay” since “Atlantis’s” cancellation almost two years ago…
