[SciFiWire] Tapping Eager To Join Atlantis

[Cassie Hughes]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/news_thumbnails/tapping_sg1_tn.jpgStargate SG-1 star Amanda Tapping, who joins SCI FI Channel's spinoff series Stargate Atlantis next season, told SCI FI Wire she's still enthusiastic about playing Col. Samantha Carter even after 10 seasons.

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[prydain]

GEEZ. I'd get tired of playing the same thing for a decade. Maybe she just can't get work?

I really think the Stargate franchise needs to die after those DVD films and a few more seasons of Atlantis. I honestly am surprised it has lasted all these years. The movie is good, the show is okay...pretty entertaining but definitely NOT must-see TV, Atlantis is...I don't really have an opinion on it. But I think it's time it goes away for a while.

[Bored of the Dead]

GEEZ. I'd get tired of playing the same thing for a decade. Maybe she just can't get work?

I really think the Stargate franchise needs to die after those DVD films and a few more seasons of Atlantis. I honestly am surprised it has lasted all these years. The movie is good, the show is okay...pretty entertaining but definitely NOT must-see TV, Atlantis is...I don't really have an opinion on it. But I think it's time it goes away for a while.

You could not be more wrong, you could try but you would fail!!!

LOL

First of all on your same character for a decade thing.

I have an uncle, he works in a factory. He has done for 30 years and earns about $60k with 4 weeks holiday a year.

I'm sorry that existence would bore me BUT its the life many a person lives.

Tapping is playing a character on a TV show, earning far more than $60k with 3 months off(time to pursue other things) in a job she obviously enjoys with people she obviously gets on with.
I'm not seeing a downside.

Secondly, i'm against the idea of Stargate to die.
I really would have prefered, however, Atlantis to have gone, Season 7 Stargate SG-1 to be the last and have a spin off with Mitchell, Vala, Carter and maybe Rodney McKay with a superstrong Warrior as well(a Female one!!).

I mean the none O'Neil seasons feel like a spin off, so why not go the whole hog.

I love Daniel Jackson, but could do without him for a bit.

[prydain]

Actually after I typed that up, I thought about it a while and realized that maybe, if I was an actor, if I found a role that I truly loved and got used to being that person I might would like to play it for 10+ years.

I still think the franchise needs to take a rest though.