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Vancouver has been Canada's Hollywood for decades. Supernatural, Smallville, The 100, Continuation, They don't travelThe list of games and movies around the city are too many to mention, but they also include fiction Stargate SG-1. For ten years, the series was filmed in Vancouver, which is why every alien planet on the other side of the Stargate looks like Vancouver. Since it was filmed in Canada, most of the actors and actresses were also big fans of hockey, they even started their own team and will play some friendly games.
Stargate SG-1 Takes All Comers
Canadian Michael Shanks was the leader of the Stargate team. At one point, Shanks thought about becoming a champion. Instead he spent ten years playing Dr. Daniel Jackson during the day, and hitting Houses in Smallville Lex Luthor, Michael Rosenbaum, entered the boards at night. In various interviews and DVD features, Shanks and the crew said they won't just play Smallvillebut also A thousand years, The Twilight Zoneand even The Chris Isaac Show. In case you forgot that the man who sang “Bad Game” starred in a sitcom on Showtime for three seasons…and so did everyone else. Surprisingly, it was very good at the time.
Richard Dean Anderson was also part of Team Stargate. He's American, but he's from Minnesota, which means that like Shanks, he was required by law to be a hockey fan growing up. In the episode “Fire and Water” when Jack O'Neill takes the hockey stick to General Hammond's windshield, you can also see where the stick says “Anderson” facing up. Fans today would love to be in the stands to see Shanks, Anderson, and Dan Shea, who played Sgt. Sylvester Siler for all 10 seasons and parts Atlantis. Take other products.
Entertainment for the Actors
Even though it's been 33 years since a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup (ironically, the same year Gary Bettman became NHL Commissioner), Canada's national game. It's surprising if Canadian production doesn't have a hockey team.
In “The Other Guys” O'Neill brings up hockey to Teal'c, saying they went to a game last year, and Teal'c says he thinks the Vancouver Canucks will win the Stanley Cup. Instead of hockey, Christopher Judge will join Richard Dean Anderson on the golf course every now and then, which is why when Teal'c and O'Neill are stuck in the time loop in “Window of Opportunity” they are hitting golf balls at the Stargate. Those are their clubs and balls used dangerously close to the $100,000 prop.
Stargate SG-1 he's never bothered to cover up the obvious Canadian influences behind the brand, even joking about it in “Worhole X-Treme.” It was one of the most successful, and longest-running, sci-fi productions to come out of Vancouver that is still in use today. No word on whether it will be Toronto-based Killjoys again The atmosphere they had their own hockey teams, but it's still in Canada, so they were probably hitting the ice between runs to Tim Hortons listening to Bryan Adams and watching. Trailer Park Boys.
