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I forgot to mention the one tidbit that Cooper did actually mention. A fan asked what did Cooper imagine the 9th Chevron was for. He smiled and said something like, funny you should mention that. That will be addressed in the proposed third series. He also gave the impression that the SG1 films would continue as long as they were popular. When asked if he was surprised by the outpouring from fans when the show was canceled, no, he would have been surprised if it hadn't happened. And here's the thing; the fan was basically asking if he was moved by the protest, if it meant anything to him. From his pov, he was expecting the reaction and it really meant nothing to him, which is the impression he gave. Enough of him.
Sunday!
I had found out from a friend about the special screening of A Dog's Breakfast on Sunday and to be able to make everything, we booked ourselves on the 6:30am tour of Norco, so we could see the film at 10am and be back at the con to see David DeLuise and Michael Shanks in the early afternoon. The plans worked beautifully and the sun was shining and oh my what a great day!
The Norco studios are to the northeast of the con hotel and they are situated in an industrial mall complex. The first building had the wood shop, metal shop, plastic shop and storage for props and costumes. I took lots of photos but missed one in the break room where they had the SG logo in wood and it said "Stargate Coffee." Damn! In the wood shop area they were building a small Stargate, maybe eight feet across? Jig sawed glyphs were being fixed to the ring. Across from it was a small wooden puddle jumper, maybe three or four feet tall. These were being build for some SciFi commercials. Yes, apparently SciFi will actually be promoting SGA this year (now that BG has tanked so badly.) N. John Smith was the tour guide and he described the commercials and they sounded fun. The puddle jumper gets blown up apparently.
The metal shop had lots of weapons. They favor aluminum as it is shiny and light weight. There was a couple of bear traps and they were afixing large teeth or claws to the round part. Now I'm wondering if those are nasty traps or instead the mouths of some beast they will run into? The plastic table had a mold of a skull being worked on. The props room was huge and had baskets and crates of villager type decorations, tables and chairs labeled for different sets (like Daedalus chairs) and a primitive cart with a skeleton laying in it. The costumes where behind a chain link gate and there wasn't a lot of room to move around. Some folks got down between the racks of costumes and wouldn't shift out of there. I could see boxes marked for different characters socks and shoes, gloves and hats, stuff like that. Too many bodies to see properly unfortunately. So, I left the area early and the last thing in that building was a small museum of sorts. The man there was introduced but I didn't catch his name. I had the idea it's a name that is on the credits. They had the Furling head, the Ra head (possibly from the opening credits,) Jack's anti-replicator weapon, the funny Farscape masks from 200, the Super Soldier head piece, the white jar that held the Osiris, and a piece of art that showed some rather grim soldiers rather like some dreary lost battalion from LoTR.
Outside we waited for the rest to make it through. NJS chatted happily about going up to the Arctic and how he and his wife had most of the gear anyway since they have a place on a lake up north that freezes over in winter. His wife only needed to buy minus 100 degree boots. (and can I say that's a scary sentence?) I was enjoying the brisk fresh air and after a bit NJS asked worriedly if I was cold (I didn't have a coat as all I ever do is carry the dang thing around.) I'm a native Southern Californian and after traveling with a bunch of Easterners all weekend through the cold and rain, I can say I'm much amused by the different approaches to being cold and wet. I suppose that at home, there aren't any life threatening repercussions and usually not having a coat or umbrella handy, the feeling is, if I get cold or wet I will be warm and dry eventually. Humans are water repellent after all, and self heating. My Eastern friends were phobic (yes, you!) about any water or lack of warmth. *g* I found it funny that a man going to the -50s the next day was worried about the +50s.
So, off we went to the building across the street. The first section was the paint shop. Cans of paints on shelves were labeled things like SGC. Through a door and we came face to face with two large murals being painted on two large half circles of plywood. One of them was an enlargement of the dreary primitive group of warriors from the painting across the street. Very cool.
Then! Oh my, we got to the sets. There was lots of Ori stuff: corridors and rooms. I have to say I do love all the art nouveau look to the designs and I think they are really quite peaceful and beautiful. Next was all the Goa'uld stuff. Panels and panels of golden glyphs, and they even had the tel'tak 'bridge.' Let loose on our own, people took turns having their pictures snapped sitting at the controls. Then, we turned the corner and were faced with all the Wraith ship sets. Strangely, they were orange and rust colored, whereas I tend to think of their interiors as shades of blue. Those stretchy sheets are some sort of rubber. Very creepy all and all.
It was over 90 minutes we were poking around and it was very fun and exciting. For the Bridge Studio tour, I don't think I mentioned how exciting it all is, even though I've been there before. And there is nothing to compare to standing in front of the SGC's Stargate. The entire mythos of the show is wrapped up in that artifact for me. It is powerful and mysterious and alien and so exciting--even though it is a prop. I'm always so baffled that the show sidelined the gate in favor of spaceships.
Anyway, once we were back at the hotel, we found our friends and our ride and went into downtown Vancouver to see A Dog's Breakfast. It was very, very funny. It all takes place inside this little house in the countryside...it could have been a play. Can't give anything away about it but to say, each of the actors were delightful. As a director, DH is very good, and as an actor, the comedy was brilliant. After the film, DH, JL and JL...and Mars...stood in front of the curtain and answered questions about the film. We were up on the balcony and at one point I looked down and I think every other person below had a camera or cell phone held up to photograph or record the event. Fans! We are such a techie bunch!
Back at the hotel, we had some lunch then saw David DeLuise. Yes, as you can imagine, he's a bit like a live wire and very funny. He said his brother Peter had warned the cast and crew about David and told David to act mature but when he got to the set, Peter was the one mugging and goofing off. He said that Peter had told him the fan reaction was to call his character "Stalker Pete" and his reaction was that at least they had a reaction. Peter also explained that his character was there to...I can't remember the exact words but it was to come between Sam and Jack, and as a result, he decided to play Pete has completely likable. (And I think he did, so much so that it actually made Sam rather unpleasant for encouraging him then dumping him.) As for the Beneful Dog food commercial, he said he went to the audition with meat in his pockets. He also said there were two dogs, a male and female and the female was the one that did the tricks. He said he'd been on all three CSIs, one as a witness, once as the victim and once as the murderer.
Yet again, people asked if he'd take his shirt off. He was reluctant, saying he was three months pregnant, but eventually he did when Dan Shea hopped up on stage (and did some push ups to pump himself up.) Apparently, if it's a group thing, guys are more prone to disrobe. Good fact to remember. *g*
A friend got a photo with him and he was giving people the choice of if they wanted him sexy, funny, and two other emotions I can't recall right now. She chose funny and he did this thing like the painting, The Scream. Very funny. Also, of the photos I'd seen with Michael, oh momma, was it ever a good day for him. He looked fabulous in every photo! Hubba hubba!
Speaking of Michael, he was on next. He mentioned 24, that he was a Washington Lobbyist, that he hadn't had any scenes with Kiefer yet, that he had bruises (he gestured to his hip and made a fairly wide circle. A few fans called out, "show us!" He replied, there will be no nudity. He also said that he was in various stages of undress in 24. To the hoots and hollars, he replied, better wait until you see it. He also said the director of his first two eps of 24 and the supervising producer was Brad Turner, someone who he'd worked with before on SG1. Asked about his haircut, he said that was for 24, and as to whether it would change was a creative decision made by several people.
Someone asked if he was nude under the flag in Threads. He said he couldn't remember so, yeah, insert your imagination. Another one asked what his most embarrassing moment on the show was and he said probably that flag scene, mainly due to the jokes about "raising the flag." He mentioned doing love scenes and saying to the girl, "sorry if I do, and sorry if I don't," but that when you're in a scene by yourself, there is no excuse. He also said that the crew is usually pretty careful when there's a nude scene and he pretended to talk into a radio, "actor coming nude on set, let's be careful of his embarrassment potential." He said after 8 years of working with these guys it was no quarter given, "come on! Take it off. Is that all you got? Sheesh!" Later on, a fan said speaking for all the fangirls here, we wanted to pledge our allegiance to the flag. He looked like 'you cheeky devil,' then said his first reaction was to ask how would we do that, then he just waved that away with a don't go there look.
When asked what was it like to have Claudia Black sit on his lap, he said she was heavier than she looked, and was strong and solid, and also fairly bony. Asked if there was any jealousy from Ben during the time that Vala was attached to Daniel, he said there was some perplexity from Ben because he was used to having this intimate on screen relationship with Claudia and enjoying the chemistry between them and it sort of made him out of sorts to see the chemistry she had with Michael, which MS totally understood. During the filming of The Pegasus Project during the briefing scene, Claudia decided to spend the entire time starring dreamily at Sheppard (and MS imitated her and that was pretty funny.) At one point BB and MS were standing together watching that and BB said, "She is such a hussy!" They said to each other, "she'll just jump on any leading man that's around her!"
Chris Judge was flying down the next day to discuss a pilot he'd wrote. They were hoping to shoot the Men of SciFi before summer, but it was dependant on CJ's schedule and he was writing a lot at the moment.
With reference to CSI Miami, he said he was down there for 5 days, had a scene each day and felt it was a bit of a waste of time since he had very little screen time on the finished project. He's parents said, "well, that was a waste of an hour."
He mentioned he had patterned Thor after Hal in 2001, but admitted he was getting closer to Stewie from Family Guy.
He avoided answering if he was disappointed to miss going to the Arctic. He said he'd missed the briefing three weeks ago, and without mentioning names, said one of the actors that was being offered the life experience said, no thanks! People guessed CJ, but from what NJS had said the day before, CJ had already opted out. Plus MS imitated how CJ would have left that meeting and it was pretty much all blue language.
From a couple of questions he said Daniel going crazy or going evil was old hat and wouldn't it be nice if the guy could just be happy for a change? As for how many times Daniel had died, he didn't know exactly but it was in the range of too much. That he didn't know, but he bet that Cooper had big red Xs carved into the wall for each time (he mimed a pretty gleeful guy carving big crosses.)
He mentioned during a plane ride down south in the first season, Brad Wright leaned over and gave him a script to read. "Here, here! Read this teaser." He reads, the team steps through the gate and say, "Daniel's dead, sir." He looks concerned and imitates Brad Wright, "now give it back!"
For the Han Solo line, he said it was him that changed it to Hans Olo.
The scene where Jack pushes Daniel's glasses up on his face, he said was a RDA ad lib. That sometimes in a scene the talking just ends and there's no finish, prompted RDA to do something like that. It usually works and therefore it's kept in.
As for him having a favorite karaoke song, he said if he's drunk enough, he and CJ like to do Guns and Roses, with his favorite being Sweet Child of Mine (and no he won't sing it now.) An audience member thought that Daniel's might be Walk Like an Egyptian. He looked dismissive, thought about it and came up with Killing Me Softly.
Asked about the rumor that he'd be in the third series, he said no, he'd not been approached and where did we come up with stuff like that! He said he was happy doing to the movies and indeed, he looked very happy and relaxed and like all was well in his world. He was even wearing a new leather coat and he looked really fabulous.
Next was more Dan Shea. He is funny and has an odd twist to his stories and sense of humor. He likes to poke fun at RDA and anyone else. Someone asked about that scene in The Light where he throws Daniel over his shoulder. I kind of remember him saying something about putting his hand on Daniel's pert butt but my friend said he didn't say that (but they said they didn't remember MS saying no to nudity.) He said MS's bony hip kept hitting his collar bone and they had to wriggle about until they fit better.
After that, they had on the little people that portray the Furlings. They had prepared a little speech about how they got the job, what it was like inside the costumes (the head pieces were built about a football helmet and they had a line of sight down the nose of the Furling face,) and how welcomed they were on the set. It sounded like they had a good time with the experience. They had a few photos but apparently a lot of them didn't make it to the con, including some of their scene with Daniel.
During the break I went to the museum they had set up and looked at the props. I'll post those photos later when I get them organized, along with the panel photos. I noticed Daniel's bookcase had a set of Dominos stashed inside of it; I wonder if he was a domino player??
Then there were the SGA actresses, Rachel Luttrell and Torri Higginson. TH seemed sad about her character being cut back on SGA. She mentioned that one of her dogs is getting parts. RL said that there might be a nice strong episode of Teyla in the new season, and she demonstated a fight scene choreography that she was currently learning. I think she's pitted against six characters in a knife fight? RL mentioned she had taken a course in bartending, and completely forgotten what she had learned. She got a job at some swank Beverly Hills Hotel and her first night was New Year's Eve. She had thought everyone would be happy but instead they were just impatient to get their drinks and rude about it, too, so she just started throwing stuff together and nobody noticed or complained. She said she got the call for SGA soon after that, luckily.
After their panel, they signed autographs. They ended up having a line for each of them which was very odd, but someone said that TH always takes a long time so maybe they did this to keep RL from being delayed and that way Torri could take as long as she wanted. I heard she was down there until after 10pm.
So, the con sort of ended at that point. A group of us went to the ABC Country Restaurant right across the street from Bridge. You know, when all is said and done, they have excellent food with good variety for decent prices. We keep trying other places but keep coming back there.
Monday I spent tagging along with my roommates as they did their chores. It was another beautiful day with no rain and Vancouver is really a very lovely city and area. The flight back home was pretty much uneventful save that Rachel was on my flight, and I got to sit next to a handsome Aussie heading home after spending three months being a ski instructor. And he was heading home to do the same job down there. A perfect ending to a wonderful trip.
I forgot to mention the one tidbit that Cooper did actually mention. A fan asked what did Cooper imagine the 9th Chevron was for. He smiled and said something like, funny you should mention that. That will be addressed in the proposed third series. He also gave the impression that the SG1 films would continue as long as they were popular. When asked if he was surprised by the outpouring from fans when the show was canceled, no, he would have been surprised if it hadn't happened. And here's the thing; the fan was basically asking if he was moved by the protest, if it meant anything to him. From his pov, he was expecting the reaction and it really meant nothing to him, which is the impression he gave. Enough of him.
Sunday!
I had found out from a friend about the special screening of A Dog's Breakfast on Sunday and to be able to make everything, we booked ourselves on the 6:30am tour of Norco, so we could see the film at 10am and be back at the con to see David DeLuise and Michael Shanks in the early afternoon. The plans worked beautifully and the sun was shining and oh my what a great day!
The Norco studios are to the northeast of the con hotel and they are situated in an industrial mall complex. The first building had the wood shop, metal shop, plastic shop and storage for props and costumes. I took lots of photos but missed one in the break room where they had the SG logo in wood and it said "Stargate Coffee." Damn! In the wood shop area they were building a small Stargate, maybe eight feet across? Jig sawed glyphs were being fixed to the ring. Across from it was a small wooden puddle jumper, maybe three or four feet tall. These were being build for some SciFi commercials. Yes, apparently SciFi will actually be promoting SGA this year (now that BG has tanked so badly.) N. John Smith was the tour guide and he described the commercials and they sounded fun. The puddle jumper gets blown up apparently.
The metal shop had lots of weapons. They favor aluminum as it is shiny and light weight. There was a couple of bear traps and they were afixing large teeth or claws to the round part. Now I'm wondering if those are nasty traps or instead the mouths of some beast they will run into? The plastic table had a mold of a skull being worked on. The props room was huge and had baskets and crates of villager type decorations, tables and chairs labeled for different sets (like Daedalus chairs) and a primitive cart with a skeleton laying in it. The costumes where behind a chain link gate and there wasn't a lot of room to move around. Some folks got down between the racks of costumes and wouldn't shift out of there. I could see boxes marked for different characters socks and shoes, gloves and hats, stuff like that. Too many bodies to see properly unfortunately. So, I left the area early and the last thing in that building was a small museum of sorts. The man there was introduced but I didn't catch his name. I had the idea it's a name that is on the credits. They had the Furling head, the Ra head (possibly from the opening credits,) Jack's anti-replicator weapon, the funny Farscape masks from 200, the Super Soldier head piece, the white jar that held the Osiris, and a piece of art that showed some rather grim soldiers rather like some dreary lost battalion from LoTR.
Outside we waited for the rest to make it through. NJS chatted happily about going up to the Arctic and how he and his wife had most of the gear anyway since they have a place on a lake up north that freezes over in winter. His wife only needed to buy minus 100 degree boots. (and can I say that's a scary sentence?) I was enjoying the brisk fresh air and after a bit NJS asked worriedly if I was cold (I didn't have a coat as all I ever do is carry the dang thing around.) I'm a native Southern Californian and after traveling with a bunch of Easterners all weekend through the cold and rain, I can say I'm much amused by the different approaches to being cold and wet. I suppose that at home, there aren't any life threatening repercussions and usually not having a coat or umbrella handy, the feeling is, if I get cold or wet I will be warm and dry eventually. Humans are water repellent after all, and self heating. My Eastern friends were phobic (yes, you!) about any water or lack of warmth. *g* I found it funny that a man going to the -50s the next day was worried about the +50s.
So, off we went to the building across the street. The first section was the paint shop. Cans of paints on shelves were labeled things like SGC. Through a door and we came face to face with two large murals being painted on two large half circles of plywood. One of them was an enlargement of the dreary primitive group of warriors from the painting across the street. Very cool.
Then! Oh my, we got to the sets. There was lots of Ori stuff: corridors and rooms. I have to say I do love all the art nouveau look to the designs and I think they are really quite peaceful and beautiful. Next was all the Goa'uld stuff. Panels and panels of golden glyphs, and they even had the tel'tak 'bridge.' Let loose on our own, people took turns having their pictures snapped sitting at the controls. Then, we turned the corner and were faced with all the Wraith ship sets. Strangely, they were orange and rust colored, whereas I tend to think of their interiors as shades of blue. Those stretchy sheets are some sort of rubber. Very creepy all and all.
It was over 90 minutes we were poking around and it was very fun and exciting. For the Bridge Studio tour, I don't think I mentioned how exciting it all is, even though I've been there before. And there is nothing to compare to standing in front of the SGC's Stargate. The entire mythos of the show is wrapped up in that artifact for me. It is powerful and mysterious and alien and so exciting--even though it is a prop. I'm always so baffled that the show sidelined the gate in favor of spaceships.
Anyway, once we were back at the hotel, we found our friends and our ride and went into downtown Vancouver to see A Dog's Breakfast. It was very, very funny. It all takes place inside this little house in the countryside...it could have been a play. Can't give anything away about it but to say, each of the actors were delightful. As a director, DH is very good, and as an actor, the comedy was brilliant. After the film, DH, JL and JL...and Mars...stood in front of the curtain and answered questions about the film. We were up on the balcony and at one point I looked down and I think every other person below had a camera or cell phone held up to photograph or record the event. Fans! We are such a techie bunch!
Back at the hotel, we had some lunch then saw David DeLuise. Yes, as you can imagine, he's a bit like a live wire and very funny. He said his brother Peter had warned the cast and crew about David and told David to act mature but when he got to the set, Peter was the one mugging and goofing off. He said that Peter had told him the fan reaction was to call his character "Stalker Pete" and his reaction was that at least they had a reaction. Peter also explained that his character was there to...I can't remember the exact words but it was to come between Sam and Jack, and as a result, he decided to play Pete has completely likable. (And I think he did, so much so that it actually made Sam rather unpleasant for encouraging him then dumping him.) As for the Beneful Dog food commercial, he said he went to the audition with meat in his pockets. He also said there were two dogs, a male and female and the female was the one that did the tricks. He said he'd been on all three CSIs, one as a witness, once as the victim and once as the murderer.
Yet again, people asked if he'd take his shirt off. He was reluctant, saying he was three months pregnant, but eventually he did when Dan Shea hopped up on stage (and did some push ups to pump himself up.) Apparently, if it's a group thing, guys are more prone to disrobe. Good fact to remember. *g*
A friend got a photo with him and he was giving people the choice of if they wanted him sexy, funny, and two other emotions I can't recall right now. She chose funny and he did this thing like the painting, The Scream. Very funny. Also, of the photos I'd seen with Michael, oh momma, was it ever a good day for him. He looked fabulous in every photo! Hubba hubba!
Speaking of Michael, he was on next. He mentioned 24, that he was a Washington Lobbyist, that he hadn't had any scenes with Kiefer yet, that he had bruises (he gestured to his hip and made a fairly wide circle. A few fans called out, "show us!" He replied, there will be no nudity. He also said that he was in various stages of undress in 24. To the hoots and hollars, he replied, better wait until you see it. He also said the director of his first two eps of 24 and the supervising producer was Brad Turner, someone who he'd worked with before on SG1. Asked about his haircut, he said that was for 24, and as to whether it would change was a creative decision made by several people.
Someone asked if he was nude under the flag in Threads. He said he couldn't remember so, yeah, insert your imagination. Another one asked what his most embarrassing moment on the show was and he said probably that flag scene, mainly due to the jokes about "raising the flag." He mentioned doing love scenes and saying to the girl, "sorry if I do, and sorry if I don't," but that when you're in a scene by yourself, there is no excuse. He also said that the crew is usually pretty careful when there's a nude scene and he pretended to talk into a radio, "actor coming nude on set, let's be careful of his embarrassment potential." He said after 8 years of working with these guys it was no quarter given, "come on! Take it off. Is that all you got? Sheesh!" Later on, a fan said speaking for all the fangirls here, we wanted to pledge our allegiance to the flag. He looked like 'you cheeky devil,' then said his first reaction was to ask how would we do that, then he just waved that away with a don't go there look.
When asked what was it like to have Claudia Black sit on his lap, he said she was heavier than she looked, and was strong and solid, and also fairly bony. Asked if there was any jealousy from Ben during the time that Vala was attached to Daniel, he said there was some perplexity from Ben because he was used to having this intimate on screen relationship with Claudia and enjoying the chemistry between them and it sort of made him out of sorts to see the chemistry she had with Michael, which MS totally understood. During the filming of The Pegasus Project during the briefing scene, Claudia decided to spend the entire time starring dreamily at Sheppard (and MS imitated her and that was pretty funny.) At one point BB and MS were standing together watching that and BB said, "She is such a hussy!" They said to each other, "she'll just jump on any leading man that's around her!"
Chris Judge was flying down the next day to discuss a pilot he'd wrote. They were hoping to shoot the Men of SciFi before summer, but it was dependant on CJ's schedule and he was writing a lot at the moment.
With reference to CSI Miami, he said he was down there for 5 days, had a scene each day and felt it was a bit of a waste of time since he had very little screen time on the finished project. He's parents said, "well, that was a waste of an hour."
He mentioned he had patterned Thor after Hal in 2001, but admitted he was getting closer to Stewie from Family Guy.
He avoided answering if he was disappointed to miss going to the Arctic. He said he'd missed the briefing three weeks ago, and without mentioning names, said one of the actors that was being offered the life experience said, no thanks! People guessed CJ, but from what NJS had said the day before, CJ had already opted out. Plus MS imitated how CJ would have left that meeting and it was pretty much all blue language.
From a couple of questions he said Daniel going crazy or going evil was old hat and wouldn't it be nice if the guy could just be happy for a change? As for how many times Daniel had died, he didn't know exactly but it was in the range of too much. That he didn't know, but he bet that Cooper had big red Xs carved into the wall for each time (he mimed a pretty gleeful guy carving big crosses.)
He mentioned during a plane ride down south in the first season, Brad Wright leaned over and gave him a script to read. "Here, here! Read this teaser." He reads, the team steps through the gate and say, "Daniel's dead, sir." He looks concerned and imitates Brad Wright, "now give it back!"
For the Han Solo line, he said it was him that changed it to Hans Olo.
The scene where Jack pushes Daniel's glasses up on his face, he said was a RDA ad lib. That sometimes in a scene the talking just ends and there's no finish, prompted RDA to do something like that. It usually works and therefore it's kept in.
As for him having a favorite karaoke song, he said if he's drunk enough, he and CJ like to do Guns and Roses, with his favorite being Sweet Child of Mine (and no he won't sing it now.) An audience member thought that Daniel's might be Walk Like an Egyptian. He looked dismissive, thought about it and came up with Killing Me Softly.
Asked about the rumor that he'd be in the third series, he said no, he'd not been approached and where did we come up with stuff like that! He said he was happy doing to the movies and indeed, he looked very happy and relaxed and like all was well in his world. He was even wearing a new leather coat and he looked really fabulous.
Next was more Dan Shea. He is funny and has an odd twist to his stories and sense of humor. He likes to poke fun at RDA and anyone else. Someone asked about that scene in The Light where he throws Daniel over his shoulder. I kind of remember him saying something about putting his hand on Daniel's pert butt but my friend said he didn't say that (but they said they didn't remember MS saying no to nudity.) He said MS's bony hip kept hitting his collar bone and they had to wriggle about until they fit better.
After that, they had on the little people that portray the Furlings. They had prepared a little speech about how they got the job, what it was like inside the costumes (the head pieces were built about a football helmet and they had a line of sight down the nose of the Furling face,) and how welcomed they were on the set. It sounded like they had a good time with the experience. They had a few photos but apparently a lot of them didn't make it to the con, including some of their scene with Daniel.
During the break I went to the museum they had set up and looked at the props. I'll post those photos later when I get them organized, along with the panel photos. I noticed Daniel's bookcase had a set of Dominos stashed inside of it; I wonder if he was a domino player??
Then there were the SGA actresses, Rachel Luttrell and Torri Higginson. TH seemed sad about her character being cut back on SGA. She mentioned that one of her dogs is getting parts. RL said that there might be a nice strong episode of Teyla in the new season, and she demonstated a fight scene choreography that she was currently learning. I think she's pitted against six characters in a knife fight? RL mentioned she had taken a course in bartending, and completely forgotten what she had learned. She got a job at some swank Beverly Hills Hotel and her first night was New Year's Eve. She had thought everyone would be happy but instead they were just impatient to get their drinks and rude about it, too, so she just started throwing stuff together and nobody noticed or complained. She said she got the call for SGA soon after that, luckily.
After their panel, they signed autographs. They ended up having a line for each of them which was very odd, but someone said that TH always takes a long time so maybe they did this to keep RL from being delayed and that way Torri could take as long as she wanted. I heard she was down there until after 10pm.
So, the con sort of ended at that point. A group of us went to the ABC Country Restaurant right across the street from Bridge. You know, when all is said and done, they have excellent food with good variety for decent prices. We keep trying other places but keep coming back there.
Monday I spent tagging along with my roommates as they did their chores. It was another beautiful day with no rain and Vancouver is really a very lovely city and area. The flight back home was pretty much uneventful save that Rachel was on my flight, and I got to sit next to a handsome Aussie heading home after spending three months being a ski instructor. And he was heading home to do the same job down there. A perfect ending to a wonderful trip.
