Not necessarily, Pam. SciFi is still in negotiations with RDA on S9 and there are no guarantees he'll be part of the new season. There's talk that even if he agrees to do S9, he'll only appear in the first 4 episodes.
There's some fan speculation that BB is being brought in as a replacement for the O'Neill character, rather than an addition to the established cast. If that's the case - if he's intended to play a character more or less the same as O'Neill then I'll be less than pleased, I think.
But if they do it right, it could be interesting.
Still would have preferred Adam Baldwin to reprise his role as Dixon if they're looking for fresh blood before they got to trying to shoehorn in a brand new character this late in the day. Especially when their track record of fitting in new characters to replace well-loved ones isn't exactly stellar.
And particularly since I've now heard that AB was very keen to get a regular character role in Atlantis, so obviously would be eager to get on SG1 if he was asked. And it can't be the thought of paying high cast salaries to an established name that's preventing them from signing up AB if they're willing to pay BB.
But kind of getting keen to see how things pan out in S9 now, after some initial trepidation at this news.
LabRat
