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McKay's Back In
Atlantis
David Hewlett,
who plays Dr. Rodney McKay in SCI FI Channel's upcoming original series
Stargate Atlantis, told SCI FI Wire that his character is as brilliant
and arrogant as he was when he was introduced in Stargate SG-1's
fifth season.
"He's back, and he's just as obnoxious as before," Hewlett said
in an interview during a break in filming on the show's set outside
Vancouver, B.C. "He's the guy
at the front of the classroom with his hand up. He's always got an answer,
whether it's right or not, and so he's got himself on this gig
and a little reluctantly is wandering around the galaxy, actually having to
practice what he's been preaching for so long. And he’s no
longer got Carter to blame."
McKay was
introduced in the fifth-season episode "48 Hours," where he first famously
clashed with Maj. Carter (Amanda Tapping).
McKay subsequently appeared in
the sixth-season two-parter "Redemption." Now, McKay finds himself
part of the team that will journey through the Stargate to the lost city of
Atlantis, in the distant Pegasus galaxy. But he's still hardly a team
player, Hewlett said. "I think
that's one of the fun things about this ... show, [that] ... nobody really
gets along. I mean, it's the whole point. There's this group of people
that's ... thrown together, this international team, everyone from different
specialties, and so they all have their own reasons for going to the
planets, [and] they all have their own reasons for being there in the first
place. And so, inevitably, they end up clashing. And I think that's what the
fun is: ... watching the dynamics of these people as they try to find out
how to get along and how not to destroy the new galaxy that they've
discovered in the process."
Is McKay still carrying a not-so-secret torch for Maj. Carter? "How could
you not?" Hewlett said. "I mean, I think more likely, Carter's carrying a
torch for McKay." Spoken like McKay himself? "I keep getting ... accused of
getting more and more McKay-like every day.
Not a good thing, probably."
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