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tenayaMemento Mori by J. Mallozzi and Paul Mullie
The first shot is of someone exiting Sol’s Dinner—it’s director PDL. They couldn’t find a “Sol” in casting so they cast looked Italian so they changed the name to Sal. But the signage was done with Sol, they included a line that said Sal owned Sol’s diner. ((can anyone explain to me what these names are short for? Salvadore? Solomon? What?))
Vala’s fight was much longer originally, but they just took the quick cuts so the timing would be closer for how long it took for Sal to grab a knife and join the fray.
JM first had Vala in a shoe store beating up a customer but the rest of the writers eventually changed it.
The restaurant where Daniel takes Vala for dinner is actually the lobby of the hotel, Palisades. Okay, that’s just for the exterior shots, they don’t remember where the interior was filmed. JM compliments these two for this fine scene. JM made up the drinks as he fancies they would be good, but admits he is not a drinker. He mentions that Mullie keeps a bottle of Scotch in his desk. PM corrects him and says it’s on his desk—he has nothing to hide. JM says he prefers chocolate.
JM says CB picked out that blue top. That they approved the waitress uniform, but not the hooker makeup. PM disgustedly says it’s not “hooker makeup” but Flo’s makeup.
A henchmen of Athena’s, Brendon Bazer (sp) is in SGA and also plays basketball with Alex Levine, script coordinator.
They had three different locations of warehouses which were supposed to look different but they feel they didn’t get that look. They are proud that Athena pronounces Goa’uld right, and mention all the different ways Orisi (sp?) was mangled.
Scene with Daniel and Landry is to show Daniel is worried, hasn’t sleep. It supports the end where Daniel is the one that appeals to her and gets through to her. They found old footage of Jaffa for Quetash’s memories.
JM likes seeing the team in their civies, their leather jackets. Proudly states they must have the tallest cast in television as everyone is at least six foot tall, except CB. They say most actors are tiny for some reason. He relates a story of a well known action actor who was in town and a restaurateur wanted to have his photo taken with him, but the actor wouldn’t unless the 6’ guy hunkered down. They weren’t going to ID the actor but then said he wasn’t making films anymore as he had went into politics.
In the briefing, Daniel is the eternal optimist, as he is in a later episode with Mitchell.
PDL in the tan jacket leaves the diner again. They shot 30 seconds of Vala longingly watching people eat and that was cut and won’t be seen.
Interrogation scenes--so many through the years, so they did something different with Teal’c whispering something threatening to the guy. Vala actually doesn’t eat much in her meal scenes but licks her fingers a lot.
JM is squeamish that Sal is in an undershirt flipping burgers; says he wouldn’t eat there. The reference to a sick dog is a reference to Rob’s dog Oscar, who has since recovered.
Sol’s is an actual dinner ((actually, it’s in North Vancouver.))
They got away from the mythological aspect of the System Lords and more in to Arthurian romance but JM occasionally misses the Egyptian and Roman angle. They say the prop guys are great about making up pages of stuff whenever they need another ‘ancient tome.’ JM wonder’s why Daniel sticks to the older books and PM says that’s just the type of guy he is. Daniel is still ever hopeful and let’s Mitchell know that he won’t give up. They say no one ever dies in SF; there’s always a alternate reality story or a clone story where the character will come back.
The tall bluish building is Pacific Palisades Extended Suites and it is were JM lived when he first came to Vancouver. Also, they were scouting the lobby for an office location in Colateral Damage when Beau walked out of the elevator because that is where he was staying, too.
The diner talk (two dead cows on a turbin stuff) PM asks if JM wrote it and he most emphatically said NO. They figure maybe CB added it in. They mention that Rob had written a lot of that in Threads.
When Vala is being questioned by the cop and he asks her name and she says “To dad”, that is their nod to Usual Suspects. Mark Davidson’s daughter drew the childish art—he’s a set decorator.
The police flyer that seeks to ID Vala comes back twice more and later it has a different photo of Vala in it. So, when they found that out, Beau had to come back in and reshoot receiving the photo because they couldn’t find anyone that had hands like Beau’s.
The police station scene was shot at Riverview Hospital. It’s a big campus and has some buildings that aren’t in use and is used a lot by film companies. Some if it is very creepy and run down. Also, Sateda was shot there. When they want a government car, they always seem to end up with a dark colored Crown Victoria.
There was much discussion about the motorcycle chase. They didn’t actually close the whole highway, they had a rolling shut down where the area right around their cameras as they moved along, was shut down. Since they didn’t have total control of the road, for insurance purposes the rider had to wear a helmet. Ben rides a bike and wanted to do it without a helmet but the stunt people are all about safety and it was just easier to do it with a helmet.
After the ep was finished, MS came by JM’s office and said thought Memento Mori was a pretty good episode but there was that one part in the middle where it became Spencer for Hire. PM said, “I like that show, what’s his problem?”
The hotel room Vala takes Mitchell is actually the hotel across the street from Bridge. They have used that hotel for many of their hotel locations, including Avenger 2.0. PDL has a potty humor and this scene starts off with the sound of flushing toilet (deleted.) In Ripple Effect, the room where the team is being held has a toilet and he started off each scene with a closeup on the toilet and pan off of it. That didn’t make the deleted scenes either.
They had to bring in the headboard to get one that was ‘handcuff’ friendly. PM feels this scene is a great scene and they did a great job on it.
JM thinks the best part of being an actor is that when you film a scene where you are eating something, you get to choose it and they have to go get it for you (so the waffle would have been CB’s idea.) He says in S9, there was a scene with Ben and Claudia eating and they wanted ice cream and specific burgers. They then talked about how many takes it takes to film a scene and how the actor will have to eat a lot of whatever it is. And there are continuity issues about how much is the cookie missing and such. The most infamous eating sequence was the Jonas banana eating scene in Descent. They were short on time, so Peter said he would make that scene longer, and it ended up being twice as long as they needed.
The warehouse for the shoot out scene had to have all those racks brought in to have a nice multi-level action. JM wanted Mitchell to hop on a forklift and knock over the two guys, but in the end, they did that thing where Mitchell zats the metal and the charge travels along the beam to zap the guy.
JM said that by the time Vala accepts Daniel’s appeal, she’s finally home, she is truly part of the team. JM compliments the chemistry between Daniel and Vala and asks PM if they will end up together. PM says he has no opinion, and when pressed says that would be giving it away.
JM likes that the team hangs out together. And he loves Beau’s reaction to Daniel’s protest that he and Vala had not been on a date.
The first shot is of someone exiting Sol’s Dinner—it’s director PDL. They couldn’t find a “Sol” in casting so they cast looked Italian so they changed the name to Sal. But the signage was done with Sol, they included a line that said Sal owned Sol’s diner. ((can anyone explain to me what these names are short for? Salvadore? Solomon? What?))
Vala’s fight was much longer originally, but they just took the quick cuts so the timing would be closer for how long it took for Sal to grab a knife and join the fray.
JM first had Vala in a shoe store beating up a customer but the rest of the writers eventually changed it.
The restaurant where Daniel takes Vala for dinner is actually the lobby of the hotel, Palisades. Okay, that’s just for the exterior shots, they don’t remember where the interior was filmed. JM compliments these two for this fine scene. JM made up the drinks as he fancies they would be good, but admits he is not a drinker. He mentions that Mullie keeps a bottle of Scotch in his desk. PM corrects him and says it’s on his desk—he has nothing to hide. JM says he prefers chocolate.
JM says CB picked out that blue top. That they approved the waitress uniform, but not the hooker makeup. PM disgustedly says it’s not “hooker makeup” but Flo’s makeup.
A henchmen of Athena’s, Brendon Bazer (sp) is in SGA and also plays basketball with Alex Levine, script coordinator.
They had three different locations of warehouses which were supposed to look different but they feel they didn’t get that look. They are proud that Athena pronounces Goa’uld right, and mention all the different ways Orisi (sp?) was mangled.
Scene with Daniel and Landry is to show Daniel is worried, hasn’t sleep. It supports the end where Daniel is the one that appeals to her and gets through to her. They found old footage of Jaffa for Quetash’s memories.
JM likes seeing the team in their civies, their leather jackets. Proudly states they must have the tallest cast in television as everyone is at least six foot tall, except CB. They say most actors are tiny for some reason. He relates a story of a well known action actor who was in town and a restaurateur wanted to have his photo taken with him, but the actor wouldn’t unless the 6’ guy hunkered down. They weren’t going to ID the actor but then said he wasn’t making films anymore as he had went into politics.
In the briefing, Daniel is the eternal optimist, as he is in a later episode with Mitchell.
PDL in the tan jacket leaves the diner again. They shot 30 seconds of Vala longingly watching people eat and that was cut and won’t be seen.
Interrogation scenes--so many through the years, so they did something different with Teal’c whispering something threatening to the guy. Vala actually doesn’t eat much in her meal scenes but licks her fingers a lot.
JM is squeamish that Sal is in an undershirt flipping burgers; says he wouldn’t eat there. The reference to a sick dog is a reference to Rob’s dog Oscar, who has since recovered.
Sol’s is an actual dinner ((actually, it’s in North Vancouver.))
They got away from the mythological aspect of the System Lords and more in to Arthurian romance but JM occasionally misses the Egyptian and Roman angle. They say the prop guys are great about making up pages of stuff whenever they need another ‘ancient tome.’ JM wonder’s why Daniel sticks to the older books and PM says that’s just the type of guy he is. Daniel is still ever hopeful and let’s Mitchell know that he won’t give up. They say no one ever dies in SF; there’s always a alternate reality story or a clone story where the character will come back.
The tall bluish building is Pacific Palisades Extended Suites and it is were JM lived when he first came to Vancouver. Also, they were scouting the lobby for an office location in Colateral Damage when Beau walked out of the elevator because that is where he was staying, too.
The diner talk (two dead cows on a turbin stuff) PM asks if JM wrote it and he most emphatically said NO. They figure maybe CB added it in. They mention that Rob had written a lot of that in Threads.
When Vala is being questioned by the cop and he asks her name and she says “To dad”, that is their nod to Usual Suspects. Mark Davidson’s daughter drew the childish art—he’s a set decorator.
The police flyer that seeks to ID Vala comes back twice more and later it has a different photo of Vala in it. So, when they found that out, Beau had to come back in and reshoot receiving the photo because they couldn’t find anyone that had hands like Beau’s.
The police station scene was shot at Riverview Hospital. It’s a big campus and has some buildings that aren’t in use and is used a lot by film companies. Some if it is very creepy and run down. Also, Sateda was shot there. When they want a government car, they always seem to end up with a dark colored Crown Victoria.
There was much discussion about the motorcycle chase. They didn’t actually close the whole highway, they had a rolling shut down where the area right around their cameras as they moved along, was shut down. Since they didn’t have total control of the road, for insurance purposes the rider had to wear a helmet. Ben rides a bike and wanted to do it without a helmet but the stunt people are all about safety and it was just easier to do it with a helmet.
After the ep was finished, MS came by JM’s office and said thought Memento Mori was a pretty good episode but there was that one part in the middle where it became Spencer for Hire. PM said, “I like that show, what’s his problem?”
The hotel room Vala takes Mitchell is actually the hotel across the street from Bridge. They have used that hotel for many of their hotel locations, including Avenger 2.0. PDL has a potty humor and this scene starts off with the sound of flushing toilet (deleted.) In Ripple Effect, the room where the team is being held has a toilet and he started off each scene with a closeup on the toilet and pan off of it. That didn’t make the deleted scenes either.
They had to bring in the headboard to get one that was ‘handcuff’ friendly. PM feels this scene is a great scene and they did a great job on it.
JM thinks the best part of being an actor is that when you film a scene where you are eating something, you get to choose it and they have to go get it for you (so the waffle would have been CB’s idea.) He says in S9, there was a scene with Ben and Claudia eating and they wanted ice cream and specific burgers. They then talked about how many takes it takes to film a scene and how the actor will have to eat a lot of whatever it is. And there are continuity issues about how much is the cookie missing and such. The most infamous eating sequence was the Jonas banana eating scene in Descent. They were short on time, so Peter said he would make that scene longer, and it ended up being twice as long as they needed.
The warehouse for the shoot out scene had to have all those racks brought in to have a nice multi-level action. JM wanted Mitchell to hop on a forklift and knock over the two guys, but in the end, they did that thing where Mitchell zats the metal and the charge travels along the beam to zap the guy.
JM said that by the time Vala accepts Daniel’s appeal, she’s finally home, she is truly part of the team. JM compliments the chemistry between Daniel and Vala and asks PM if they will end up together. PM says he has no opinion, and when pressed says that would be giving it away.
JM likes that the team hangs out together. And he loves Beau’s reaction to Daniel’s protest that he and Vala had not been on a date.
