Yeah, make it a day dream episode where Walter is at his station and you see him kind of zone out and we see him portrayed as the hero, leading an SG mission with a 50-cal in hand (completely over the top action hero). This would be similar to "The Other Guys" episode in hilarity. lol
My favorite scene with Walter has to be when he's explaining to the documentary crew what he does. "We could automate it but they feel better with somebody behind the iris yeah it's pretty great"
The guy who played Siler was actually the show's stunt co-ordinator and Richard Dean Anderson's stunt double (among others) so he had plenty of work behind the scenes.
Some nerds will probably have compiled all the gate addresses and made a time table and say "SG3 has been on this frozen planet where they sent Anubis, I'm sure that's a mistake that I will ask about at the next ComicCon.
I would have loved a short run mini series spinoff featuring the real heroes of the SGC and their daily ordeals Featuring but not limited too: Sgt Siler Sgt Harriman With supporting characters like: Dr. Lee
Walter always interested me. He clearly was a trained, skilled tech, more than we got to see. He was just doing his job, but he's more responsible than the dialogue and action might make you think at first. I was glad when he got chances to do more. He's like the Radar O'Reilly of Stargate. :) -- I would love to see him in some bigger role if we get a 4th Stargate series, now that Amazon has bought MGM and Stargate. Maybe Waler is now a civilian consultant. Maybe he has some other role. But I'd like him to be there, maybe a recurring guest star. Something.
The episode Heroes with the Walters interview about his job was some of the most cathartic comedy in all of Star Gate. We always wondered and he answered with a perfect straight man. Plus that women in the background that gave him the look, priceless lol
The radar O'reilly of Stargate!! You were perfect. You always knew what the general needed before he did. I just watched "Dead raising: watchtower" on Amazon Prime where you're the Fema director.
I know I’m late to comment on this clip…”Walter” might have done basically the same things but at times his expressions were priceless and made the scene! One of my favorite characters for sure!
I have a little story about when I first met Gary Jones. I work at a hotel in downtown Seattle. The Mayflower Park hotel and we get our share of Canadian celebs here. Gary Jones, Amanda Tapping a couple years before that, John de Lancie (who played Q on STNG), Jim Byrnes who played in The Highlander tv series (He's a regular). This particular day I was off but stopped by the hotel for something and I was talking to one of the valet guys just inside the doorway and happened to glance to my left and noticed this man standing just outside of the Concierge office but his back was to me and he was looking towards our upper level of the lobby. I don't know why but the body, the height, and hair looked familiar. I kept looking waiting for him to turn around, thinking....is that?.....then he turned around and I just yelled out, "OMG! Stargate SG-1!" (Cause I was in shock and couldn't immediately remember his name) He looked at me and smiled and said, "That's right!" His girlfriend was in the Concierge office talking to the Concierge so he came over and we chatted for a while talking about episodes and mentioned how sad I was when Doc Frazier was killed. I told him that Amanda Tapping stayed with us just a couple years ago but I was off that day. It was a nice little chat. I got to at least take a pic with him: postimg.cc/BX07SyWS
Hearing these interviews with Jones, Shea, McBeath all these years later, I get a better appreciation for what a bang-on job they did putting on American accents.
There should have been a USS Walter Merriman as a logistics/support ship or an orbital defence platform for Earth. Something that would either control the traffic and shoot threats in the space immediately around Earth, or something that worked in a support role for the USS George Hammond.
Nice to have a guest put an interupting host in their place. He's like shush david i'm not done wait your turn all by just saying his first name like he's wanting to back hand him quietly.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Gary, I'm sure there are a MASSIVE number of fans out there that, at the time, tracked and logged all of that technical stuff, and somewhere out there in the far reaches of the internet, your ASS was roasted over and over again in chat rooms because you got the planet numbers all wrong. I'm still smiling over that admission. Way too funny.
The only thing that used to bother me was when they would call him "sergeant". The character he played was a Chief Master Sergeant and the proper way to address him would be "Chief".
I wish they'd done an episode of Stargate like Next Generation's Lower Decks, where it's from the perspective of all the side characters we see often but dont spend time with. So we see the major contributions Sylar and Walter and such are making while SG-1 just sort of passes through the background of the episode.
One of my favourite scenes is in There but for the Grace of God where it's the last stand of the SGA in the alternate universe and Walter and Colonel Hammond are shooting at the approaching Jaffa
Sci Fi fans tend to be high IQ science nerds, which means they are often math nerds who are used to memorizing strings of numbers at a glance. So,,, continuity !
An easy solution that would work in the show: Give Walter a clipboard to consult notes, and he can have a sticky note or script page with the planet names. They're always in a hurry, fighting against the odds in these things. Or a modern solution, he'd have a computer tablet, but he still might have paper notes or sticky notes! It would be realistic and would fit the show situation. (I'm doing a rewatch. I don't recall what's going on in that episodes and scene, but I'd think that's an easy fix for a problem like that. And in real life, he'd have trouble keeping track of multiple random text strings, even if he's been dealing with them for hours.
lol..."Dial The Gate" guy was cool and I really don't know why but I am thinking consistency of being in a lot of those scenes so you were comfortable knowing he was there in the control room.
We all liked when he got some more scenes in the show. SG1 was great but the episodic format can give a tiresome feel to the 4 main cast. Adding just a few more lines/scenes for Walter/Syler really made the show come together from a viewers perspective.
Gary Jones can you do a video where you lie and say you don't miss stargate at all. them cut to saying chevron 1 encoded chevron 2 etc when dialing a rotary phone?
6:05 haha this man is so hippie and his caracter has same behaviour like he has haha. This is when we realise this real people made the series more great than star wars.
Great to hear from the actors but it would be nice if you'd stop showing off your knowledge and interrupting them! I get it, you know alot about Stargate, but I'm not watching the video to hear you am I?
