Wood talks current season’s second half

There’s a lot more great episodes to come in the back half of Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis‘s current seasons, according to director Martin Wood. Wood dropped some new hints about the episodes he directed in a new interview with Stargate-Project.

Beware of minor spoilers!

“The second half of the season [for Atlantis] starts out with ‘The Hive,’” Wood told the site. “Let me just say, there are four of us and 3,000 of them. Did I mention that the enzyme is wearing off?”

SG-1 actress Amanda Tapping (“Samantha Carter”) makes her long-awaited cross-over appearance in the Stargate Atlantis episode “Grace Under Pressure.”

“Rodney is in a Puddle Jumper that goes down in the ocean, and it starts to sink fast. You should see the VFX. I thought the ocean FX for ‘The Eye’ were cool; these are lightyears ahead.

Season Two of Atlantis will resume on SCI FI in January with “The Hive.”

“And, of course, if you are familiar with the episode ‘Grace’ from SG-1 you can probably guess that he gets a little friendly help from his own brain in the form of a hallucination … and of course, being McKay, there is only one person he would hallucinate. And of course, being McKay, that person may not be fully clothed when he hallucinates them.”

Over on SG-1, Wood directed the season finale, “Camelot” — which features an appearance from the Asgard Kvasir, introduced earlier in the season’s second half and voiced by fellow director Peter DeLuise. “It was great,” Wood said. “I had Kvasir (pronounced with a silent K) get really grumpy and at the end of every take he would swear at the crew. He called us all ‘stupid motherf*****s’ when he appeared on the deck of the Odyssey.”

But Wood remained tight-lipped about “Allies,” the finale of Atlantis‘s second season due to air in March in the U.S. “I can tell you this much about it,” he hinted: “Watch ‘Michael’ and ‘The Hive’ closely and you may have an idea what ‘Allies’ means.”

Look for the complete interview, in which Wood also talks about his director duties and some of his favorites from Stargate‘s past, at Stargate-Project!

(Thanks to Daniel, Kimera, Rachel Supinger, Ron, and Laure for the tip)