Kindler: Ori are worse than the Goa’uld

Stargate SG-1‘s powerful new enemy, the Ori, surpasses even the Goa’uld in their evil, writer/producer Damian Kindler told SFX Magazine.

“The best way to describe them is as bad Ancients,” Kindler said in an interview now on newsstands. “They’re much worse than Anubis. They’re not half Ancients but a load of bad Ancients who get wind of a galaxy full of non-believers and send emissaries called Priors to start a crusade to convert our galaxy to their ways.

“They make the Goa’uld’s capers look like amateur hour. These baddies are limited in what they can do but their emissaries are very, very powerful. They come to convert our galaxy and it’s kind of our fault.”

When Season Nine begins, SG-1 has been disbanded and some time has passed. “When Mitchell arrives there is no SG-1,” Kindler revealed. “Everyone is scattered to the four winds and Mitchell has to bring the band back together again. Carter will return once the threat of the bad guys becomes obvious and it becomes evident that she is needed to continue the fight.”

Actress Amanda Tapping, who plays Colonel Carter, was absent on maternity leave during the first several episodes of the season, and will make her return in “Beach Head.” Tapping told SFX that she has returned to work with baby Olivia in tow. “We have an on-set nanny and Olivia will be with me at work,” she said. “That way I get to stay part of the Stargate family and Olivia enjoys the benefit of an immediately extended family.”

The July 2005 issue of SFX Magazine is now on newsstands, and sports a four-page feature about Stargate SG-1‘s ninth season with quotes from producers Damian Kindler and Paul Mullie, actors Amanda Tapping and Ben Browder, costume designer Christine Mooney, and production designer Bridget McGuire.

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