How would you re-cast Stargate SG-1?

[RedLocque]

So, if by any chance, Stargate got the same treatment BSG got and was re-imagined into an actually good show ( ), which actors would be your choice to portray SG-1?

Here are my (tentative) choices:

Jack: he is probably the one I have the most problems finding a good fit for; I am ambivalent when it comes to Jack O'Neill. I guess for me, it would have to be one of these two, Jim Caviezel or Gerard Butler.

Sam: Anna Torv, all the way.

Daniel: for him I am partial to Jamie Bamber.

Teal'c: I have to say I think Will Smith would be great as this engineered human General turned rebel. He buffed it up for Ali, he could do it for Stargate as well.

What do you think?

[Eternal_Freedom]

1. SG-1 was good. Shut up.

2. Good luck getting Gerard Butler and Will Smith to appear on a TV show's budget.

3. Jamie Bamber as Daniel is...plausible, I'll give you that.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Perhaps oddly, I don't think the main SG-1 team is the problem. Don S Davis as Hammond of Texas is the truly irreplaceable role.

Stephen Amell would make a good Daniel Jackson. Michael Welch might also be a good pick, who ironically played young O'Neill in Season 7.

Garret Dillahunt would make an excellent O'Neill. He's the right age for a colonel, has the right look, and his acting chops are top-notch.

Cobie Smulders would make a good Carter, I think.

Teal'c could go to a pretty wide variety of actors very easily; it's one of those roles that needs physical presence first, and can be interpreted by the actor in myriad different ways. It needn't try to match anything Christopher Judge did, since so much of Judge's portrayal was unique to that SG-1.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Yeah, you're right, replacing Davis would be impossible.

[Darth Nostril]

So, if by any chance, Stargate got the same treatment BSG got and was re-imagined into an actually good show ( ), which actors would be your choice to portray SG-1?
What do you think?

I think that your mother dropped you on your head as a small child.

Whatever tiny flaws SG1 had are the result of poor writing, the cast were excellent.

I would however drag the writing team for SGU out back of the barn and put them out of their misery with a double barreled shotgun. How the fuck you procure the services of someone of Robert Carlyle's calibre then completely waste his talents on teen emo bullshit is completely beyond me.

[Iroscato]

Redlocque, what, may I ask makes you say SG1 was not a good show already?

[RedLocque]

Ok, let me clarify. In my personal opinion, Stargate (and please lets keep in mind I did watch and have done so again all seasons of this show) was a poor tv-show, since I believe it could have been written and portrayed sooo much better. But again, in my personal opinion, it wasn't as good as it could have been.

Darth Nostril (and I'll refrain from making any comments whatsoever on your chosen monicker): If you disagree with me, say so. If you find my personal opinion on a subject offensive, it was not my intention. Disagreeing, however, no matter how strongly does NOT give you the right to be offensive nor to mention my family in any way. Please refrain from demonstrating your absolute lack of manners by spewing offensive comments which no one has requested.

Chimaera: Maybe it's a question of flavors. I was much more enthralled by Farscape and the new iteration of Battlestar Glactica than I ever was by Stargate. I actually love the concept. I think the premise of the show is sheer genius and from season 1 to the end of the show it was ten times better than the motion picture. But sadly, regardless of how amazing the idea was from a science fiction point of view, the actual show was total camp. Campy to Nth power. It even gave Star Trek TOS a run for its money where the alien/s of the week were concerned.
Stargate also had many great moments and ieas, which regretfully were never truly developed.

Once again, I never intended to offend anybody's sensibilities. I just wanted to know what other fans of the show would do differently (castwise) if given a chance.

Red

[Eternal_Freedom]

Protip: I really wouldn't try that "you're not being very nice to me" line here, it doesn't fly.

Now, you've stated that you think Stargate was not as good as it could have been and that it was camp. Now, being camp doesn't equate to being bad. Fine, you like Farscape more. But why, without referring to other series was Stargate SG-1/Atlantis bad?

There is little point talking about a re-make of a major sci-fi franchise when its only been off the air for less than a decade. BSG worked because it was a single season 30+ years before the remake.

[Batman]

Why is their little point in talking about a remake? Actually producing one, yes, waste of time and money, but I was under the impression that 'what if' scenarios are part and parcel of what these fora are about. And while I personally believe you have to be stark raving mad to think nBSG (which had me rooting for the Cylons by the end of the mini) is better than SG-1/SGA (arguably the most successful TV SciFi franchise of all time, SGU notwithstanding) if RedLocque wants to ask how you'd recast the crew (and I too can't think of a way to properly recast Hammond of Texas) especially as RDA, at least, hasn't aged well if SGU is anything to go by, what's the harm?

[Iroscato]

Yeah...I just googled Dean Anderson 2014 and almost burst into tears...

[Metahive]

Replace Don S. Davis? How about R. Lee Ermy?

[Eternal_Freedom]

Batman, you're right, I should have been clearer. Yes, speculation is fine.

And damn, RDA really hasn't aged well.

And R Lee Ermy as a USAF General? Good luck getting Gunny to agree to that!

[Metahive]

Well, he did play the Commander-in-Chief once.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Yeah, once. I can't see him committing to a long-term role as a USAF officer. Unless of course you change the role so it's a Marine Corps officer. Plus, I can't see him playing an officer long term (yes I know he was a USAF Colonle in the Simpsons once).

[Purple]

I'd pick the same cast but I would dub their voices over using the voices from Spongebob Squarepants. Just imagine it for a moment.

[Eternal_Freedom]

I hate you

[Batman]

Purple I'm approximately 17 seconds away from reactivating The List.

[Lord Revan]

Yeah, once. I can't see him committing to a long-term role as a USAF officer. Unless of course you change the role so it's a Marine Corps officer. Plus, I can't see him playing an officer long term (yes I know he was a USAF Colonle in the Simpsons once).

tbh I couldn't see R. Lee Ermy as a flag officer, field commander sure, but I just can't see him being able to play someone capable of handling the administrive or political side of being a general, regardless of the branch of service.

[Metahive]

Yeah, once. I can't see him committing to a long-term role as a USAF officer. Unless of course you change the role so it's a Marine Corps officer. Plus, I can't see him playing an officer long term (yes I know he was a USAF Colonle in the Simpsons once).

This is something I wondered about. Since SG commandos often form a vanguard to penetrate into potentially hostile territory, wouldn't Marines (or hell, special forces) be more suitable for the job anyway?

[Eternal_Freedom]

Yeah, which is why, in the early series at least, SG-3 were all Marines.

You're right though. I always wondered why they didn't whistle up the Seals or Delta Force or whomever. Or, hell, in later seasons when they had the whole international cooperation stuff going on, borrow some SAS guys or similar.

Then again, it's made quite clear in numerous episodes that Jack is not a typical USAF Colonel, since most of his career was in special forces (he says as much in the very first episode, some joke about how if he ever wrote a book about his career, he'd have to shoot anyone that actually read it).

[Lord Revan]

Yeah, once. I can't see him committing to a long-term role as a USAF officer. Unless of course you change the role so it's a Marine Corps officer. Plus, I can't see him playing an officer long term (yes I know he was a USAF Colonle in the Simpsons once).

This is something I wondered about. Since SG commandos often form a vanguard to penetrate into potentially hostile territory, wouldn't Marines (or hell, special forces) be more suitable for the job anyway?

well technically they sourced from USAF special forces, that said it was in a USAF installation as they govern the USA nuclear weapons arsenal and the gate was located in an old nuke base (maybe even in one of the silos).

in-universe it would be juristication conflict and possible ego issue for the USAF as well.

[Batman]

Um-the SGC uses Marines all the time when they need more firepower and warm bodies and since the Marine Corps is a lot bigger than the special forces community, I suspect a Marine platoon or three being incommunicado for a week or seven would draw a lot less attention than one of the special forces units. The SGC is a secret operation even within the US military.

First one to see the painfully obvious flaw with this gets a positively indigestible cookie because I baked it myself.

[Borgholio]

I think most of the cast was fine aside from RDA as O'neill. Compare to the original Stargate movie with Kurt Russell as a semi-suicidal hard-ass who is just starting to feel human again after his son's death, RDA's O'neill was a goof-off who never really took anything seriously. It kinda got under my skin how childish he was at some times. Night and day when you compare the two portrayals.

[Metahive]

Blasphemer, your entrails shall be sacrificed at the shrine of St. Mac Guyver by midnight!

That being said I'm glad they didn't go with Mr.Joyless for the series. Snarky O'Neil was simply more fun to watch for me.

[Batman]

You gotta be fucking kidding me. RDA was perfect as O'Neill. The only reason that at best mediocre Stargate movie deserves to exist is because it resulted in the SG franchise.

And It's O'Neill. Two ls. He kinda insists on it.