(Please follow the link for the complete blog update, to view the NEW photos from Stargate Atlantis season five production in their original format and to view the new video.)
August 29, 2008: We're #1, Ducking the Mix, Honk! Honk!, and a Video Tour of Stage 5, Part 1.
Scene from the big Ronon vs. house cat battle sequence in episode #20.
We're #1! Well, we were anyway. The #1 pirated show on BitTorrent last week, beating out the likes of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, Psych, and Mad Men, and up from #6 the previous week. No actual hard numbers provided in the report, but one can't help but wonder whether all those illegal downloads have been hurting the show's ratings. The 30% bump Atlantis receives from the Live+7 numbers suggests that our viewers are tech-savvy (not all that surprising considering they are SF fans) and make use of alternate viewing resources such as Tivo, DVR, iTunes and BitTorrent. Exactly how this affected the show's ratings is debatable and, at this point, of little consequence, but I just thought I'd mention it.
Meanwhile, we've still got a show to produce. Identity is shooting, Enemy at the Gate is prepping, and various cuts and mixes abound...
Marty G., taking a page from Homer Simpson's playbook, settles in to watch a mix.
...Hey, Stephen Dobyns, author of The Church of Dead Girls, contacted me yesterday. Apparently, he was away from his email all week, just got back, and is eager to answer your questions. So if you have questions for Stephen, let's see `em. Antisocialbutteflie - I've got yours.
Today's video: Carl Binder leads us on a tour through Stage 5. Part I.
[NOTE: Stage 5 is the Stargate SG-1 sets. Carl Binder advises during the tour that scenes from two recent Stargate Atlantis episodes, Vegas and Inquisition, were filmed on Stage 5.]
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