ComicCon Stargate panel
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tenayaFirst off, I'd just like to say I'm in electronic heaven. I have SIX programs open as we speak! No blue screen of death! No glitches! I just had to share. :)
I did not go to Comic Con, but I have a good friend with the best toys and she went and while she was there, she made a tape of the SG panel. Friends are the bestest! This is a review of the tape and it contains three brief spoilers for S8. I don't know how to make them invisible, so I guess you better not look any further if you can't handle a few slight spoilers.
A man from MGM introduces the cast and crew of SG:SG-1, then Hank Cohen. Christopher Judge gets a big round of cheering, and he's brought out a beach ball that he throws into the audience. Rob Cooper brings out a camera and takes a picture towards the crowd--I'd say of the crowd but I can see the zoom is out, so I have no idea what would be in the frame. The MGM guy introduced Michael Shanks as "He may play a geek, but he's our favorite SciFi heart throb: Michael Shanks." Lots of cheering, perhaps slightly more than CJ. MS gives a wave and sits down. The MGM guy asks, "What's all that talk about ascension?" and MS laughs. MS's face is in the shadow of the brim of his hat, obscuring much of the detail of his expressions. He is chatting a lot to Chris, and busy drinking water and chewing on ice. He seems alert, maybe a little hyper aware with quick movements. They show some video that is cuts from the Lowdown. The MS stuff is Michael talking about Chris as a chia pet thing, then the bit about coming back nude and how the cold made bits of him shrink. They also played the bit from Conan, with the guy saying the show was way better without Dr. Daniel Jackson. This caused a lot of booing in the audience..."manly" voices booing I might add (obviously, their target audience of young comic loving men don't agree with Pierre.) And Michael laughed as soon as Pierre came on the screen,
Hank asks Cooper to talk about S8. He kind of drones on for a bit, and BW turns and says something to CJ. CJ stares at him a bit then pokes him in the ribs, like you do to someone you know is ticklish. Cooper really is a lifeless public speaker! Hank segues to BW, who just says, "what he said." Laughter. Hank asks CJ to tell what's been going on with him and he says, "I have hair!" and yanks off his cap and throws it into the audience. Then he rubs the side of his head against BW like a cat would do! He goes on about the hair, eventually turning to MS and asking if they were in Europe when they found out about S8. MS just smiles and shrugs, like 'I don't know, I can't remember.' CJ nudges him and says, "He's still sweating out the booze from last night." The crowd laughs and MS reaches for a microphone. When it's silent, he says, "Here we go again." Laughter. BW is seen to be laughing. MS makes motions like there is a big windup key behind CJ and he winds it up. CJ says very fast, "andthenIsaidandthenIsaidandthenIsaid." Then CJ rambles on and on in a very amusing way, mentioning the Turrets Syndrome (ADD is more like it!) One of the producers says this is like a day on the set. MS is smiling and shaking his head and says into the microphone, "talk amongst yourselves" to the audience. At that point, Hank says 'before we continue with our cast and crew, let's hear from Tony Optican and the network about SG and...beyond? MS takes the mic and places it in front of Tony. They talk about S9, and MS points to Tony and mouths to the audience 'talk to him.' "Do you guys want a Season 9?" Tony asks of the crowd. BIG audience response, the loudest yet. BW is nearly out of shot, but his head goes down on the table like he's exhausted. CJ mines giving him CPR, kinda closing in like he might do some mouth to mouth. MS mines getting the paddles ready to defibrilate. Tony comes right out and says SG is what is keeping the channel going. At this point, Hank says, "Okay, we've all kind of...Martin?" Martin is off screen, but whatever he says, Hank then says, "Martin's waiting for questions." There's muttering and Hank says, "oh, they're wanting the mics turned on." There is a scattering of people shouting out louder, "Michael!" MS takes the mic and says, "Oh you guys can turn me on." The voice is nicely deep. Very sexy I might add.
Hank throws the floor open to questions. CJ says to the audience 'just shout them out." A woman shouts out, "Can we take you home?" MS looks surprised at the suggestion, then advises the audience to have all their pets spayed or neuter. CJ laughs.
Question: Will Don S. Davis be making any guest appearances? Cooper answers, Yes, they just filmed one. Don will be having guest appearance in both shows. Question: Daniel, will you be getting together with Sarah and Teal'c, nice hair. (that's how she phrased it.) Someone said it sounded like she was asking if he would be getting together with both Sarah and Teal'c. Michael said, don't do that, don't even joke about about (but he was smiling.) MS said that there was a textual back story with Sarah but as far as he knew they would not be exploring it this year. (he kept glancing towards BW and Cooper as he talked.) Then he said, as far as us getting together with Teal'c, that is a whole nuther issue. (much laughter.) Hank says, "go ahead Chris, say it." CJ shakes his head and says "you told me you wanted a PG show." Hank agreed and said he had asked Chris to keep it PG. Next question had to do with why they recast Weir instead of writing a new character (cause they liked Weir's character and it was easier to recast.)
Next Q to CJ; would you be writing any more eps? CJ was confused, thought the question was BW's. MS just kept shaking his head in mock saddness. Someone helped CJ answer, yes, it was called Sacrifices. MS took the mic and said, "He's just sweating out the booze." Laughter, and more CJ confusion. Cooper is the show historian, someone said, and CJ explained that they'd gone around about the title. Cooper said that it was originally called, My Big Fat Jaffa Wedding. MS covered his eyes and laughed. CJ said he wanted to call it, "Hey, that hot chick Jolene Blaylock is back."
Next question was the lady that started out each Q at Burbank with Komtraya. MS pointed to her in recognition. CJ asked if she was the one that wanted to them home with her. Yes, she was, she said. She then indicated an envelope on the the table in front of them and asked if they could give it to DSD, as he had been wanting a house painter and she would do it, as this was discussed at the last convention. CJ picked up the envelope (that actually had AT's name on it) and asked how she got that up there on the table! Then he said, "ComicCon, where security is Job One."
Next question: was from a fellow who asked why MS left the show for season 6. He said he knew it was old news but he was new to watching the show. MS immediately took the mic and said in a deep, serious voice, "because I hate Rob Cooper." It was quick and totally for laughs. Hank immediately piped in, "That's why we all leave occasionally." That really tickled MS and he kept laughing, and CJ was doubled up laughing. Someone said, "You haven't written the end of S8 yet, have you?" and that just made MS laugh harder. A woman's voice says she would wait until Chris can take a breath (he's still laying on the table with laughter) and you can see the penny drop for MS. He laughingly says, "That's not my actual answer! Nobody put that in print! I can't leave it at that!" He listens to someone. "What's on the internet? It's on the internet now, that I hate Rob Cooper? You guys are fast." CJ makes a comment about the World Wide Web, and while MS is waiting for the crowd to quiet, the woman starts again with her question for the panel. CJ laughs and gestures to MS as if to say, you better get in there! And MS interrupts her to say, "can I just finish answering that last question before I...before I...? I think Hank says, "Michael, please." "I just needed to take a break from the show, and I had a really good year off, and we agreed to work together again and it's as simple as that. We found such a good dynamic and no one expected the show to go on for that long. And we had the option for S7 and now S8 and..."(his voice dropping down low as he looks over at Tony) "who knows after that." CJ points out Tony. "He does!" Hank says, "Tony already knows, he doesn't want to rile anybody up, but Tony already knows." The crowd's buzz gets louder and more excited. MS puts his mic in front of Tony and leans close, while CJ goes and sits on the other side of Tony, mirroring MS. All attention is on Tony and he says, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Everyone laughs and applauds in admiration that Tony could come up with a great line in that situation. CJ goes back to his seat.
The next question would be if Alisen Down would be in more eps and if so, could they give her something besides technical jargon to say. They bobbed their heads agreeably, then BW said that they had to cut her song as it ran long. More laughter.
The next question was about pranks. Martin Wood said that in the episode Avatar, CJ is strapped down to a Gamekeeper chair and can't move. Martin brings out a real, really large syringe and waves it about explaining about how it will be used. He switches it then says, "Then I bring it down like this!" and mimes thrusting it really hard into Chris' sternum. He tells how Chris freaked out. CJ is laughing, then adds, "And then I had gas."
The next question was about what problems/hurdles had they production team encountered with the show, and there was a rambling answer about 174 eps of SG, and now they were doing 40 eps between the two shows this year and recycling sets like the cargo ship that was for one ep but has been used 75 times and is now redressed as Anubis' ship. And that they'd decided to go small for the Atlantis puddlejumper.
A lady started to ask about CJ and MS' appearances on Andromeda, but Hank cut her off with "Next question." The boys gestured that that was a joke, CJ said it was a joke and she could ask the question, then Hank said, "Next question." It was a little rude, I think.
The next lady asked if their had ever been accidents with the explosions, and MS quiped that Christopher Judge used to be white. Much laughter. Martin tells about a time when CJ had to set off a smoke grenade and throw if far and into a cave. The thing burned him, and he was cussing, but it went right into the cave, but they couldn't use it due to the cussing. They had him do it 6 times more, and he would throw it away before it lit up every time.
Next question was about the multiple two parters and the long story arcs and had they considered doing any movies. Hank mentioned the lost episode they had dug out for home video and they are exploring a feature for SG-1. The crowd cheers enthusiastically. MS shrugs like this is the first he's heard of the film. Cooper (?) says he's excited about the lost episode as it takes place in the story line/time frame of season two and has all the characters that were around at that time. Someone else pipes in that the reason they are doing it is so that Chris will cut his hair again. CJ adds he's looking forward to the eye shadow.
There was a bit of a faux ending, with them announcing that Michael and Christopher would be signing autographs at the SciFi booth. There was confusing so MS announced "Thank you and good night" while CJ threw candy out into the audience. Then it was decided that the panel could go on for a bit longer.
The next question was how did the DeLuise family get involved with the show. BW said they were outside the studio for the longest time, and it was raining. What happened was Peter had directed some episodes in a show Jonathan Glassner had done so he came on board for Serpent's Song. He was such a great guy that he became a part of their core of directors right away.
When the idea for Urgo came along, Dom seemed a natural for it. He was so funny and he had to cut 15 minutes of extra material out of it. The audience shouted out DVD!! BW continued with that Michael was a natural for Wormhole X-treme. Hank interrupts to ask the audience if they saw him in Wormhole X-treme. MS laughs. Hank says that BW wrote the one line he'd ever been given to say, and Hank said he'd never say that. BW countered he had said that two seasons before. "What this show needs is a sexy female alien." Hank says, "Was I wrong!" MS and CJ bust out laughing really hard at that admission.
Next question was for Michael, that Claudia Black had said nice things about him in the TV Guide. "What did she say?!" The lady said that from the rear, he resembled another--" "Of Browder? Yeah. She's fantastic. I can't even come up with a joke to circumvent it. Yeah, she's fantastic. She's the best guest star I've worked with in a long time, and we had so much fun. The episode is fantastic and she gets to kick my ass.(audience laughter) Yeah, so we had a hoot and we're already been talking about trying to have her back. (he glances over at the producers.) So, we'll see what we can do."
An English lady asked when they were going to come to England, and someone answered Nov. 28. MS and CJ looked surprised. The next question was about CJ's cap that he was wearing; if he went to a university in Oregon, why was he wearing a UCLA hat? Typical confusion reigned as CJ never got around to answering her.
The next question was that guy who asked of MS, that in Burbank he left in a Ford Taurus while Chris and Amanda left in a limo. CJ shouted out, "Security! Security!" while MS was still trying to hear what the guy was saying. The guy asked why Christoper and Amanda left in a limo and you left in a Taurus (I have to say that the guy did put a bit of snide on the last part of the question.) MS was laughing like he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "What the hell kind of question is that?!" Someone quipped, "Tell us about your hat." MS immediately said, "my hat is 5' 9" and loves skiing, fishing, hiking.... No, they were going back to the airport and I was going back to the hotel and someone was giving me a lift, but thanks for noticing!
The last question was shouted out over them trying to end the Q&A and it wasn't so clear. "Chris Judge! How much are you charging now for those butt rubs?" The MC quickly tried to wrap it up, ignoring the odd question, and finally MS announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, that was Her'uru." And while the guests got up, they started to announce SG: Atlantis.
I did not go to Comic Con, but I have a good friend with the best toys and she went and while she was there, she made a tape of the SG panel. Friends are the bestest! This is a review of the tape and it contains three brief spoilers for S8. I don't know how to make them invisible, so I guess you better not look any further if you can't handle a few slight spoilers.
A man from MGM introduces the cast and crew of SG:SG-1, then Hank Cohen. Christopher Judge gets a big round of cheering, and he's brought out a beach ball that he throws into the audience. Rob Cooper brings out a camera and takes a picture towards the crowd--I'd say of the crowd but I can see the zoom is out, so I have no idea what would be in the frame. The MGM guy introduced Michael Shanks as "He may play a geek, but he's our favorite SciFi heart throb: Michael Shanks." Lots of cheering, perhaps slightly more than CJ. MS gives a wave and sits down. The MGM guy asks, "What's all that talk about ascension?" and MS laughs. MS's face is in the shadow of the brim of his hat, obscuring much of the detail of his expressions. He is chatting a lot to Chris, and busy drinking water and chewing on ice. He seems alert, maybe a little hyper aware with quick movements. They show some video that is cuts from the Lowdown. The MS stuff is Michael talking about Chris as a chia pet thing, then the bit about coming back nude and how the cold made bits of him shrink. They also played the bit from Conan, with the guy saying the show was way better without Dr. Daniel Jackson. This caused a lot of booing in the audience..."manly" voices booing I might add (obviously, their target audience of young comic loving men don't agree with Pierre.) And Michael laughed as soon as Pierre came on the screen,
Hank asks Cooper to talk about S8. He kind of drones on for a bit, and BW turns and says something to CJ. CJ stares at him a bit then pokes him in the ribs, like you do to someone you know is ticklish. Cooper really is a lifeless public speaker! Hank segues to BW, who just says, "what he said." Laughter. Hank asks CJ to tell what's been going on with him and he says, "I have hair!" and yanks off his cap and throws it into the audience. Then he rubs the side of his head against BW like a cat would do! He goes on about the hair, eventually turning to MS and asking if they were in Europe when they found out about S8. MS just smiles and shrugs, like 'I don't know, I can't remember.' CJ nudges him and says, "He's still sweating out the booze from last night." The crowd laughs and MS reaches for a microphone. When it's silent, he says, "Here we go again." Laughter. BW is seen to be laughing. MS makes motions like there is a big windup key behind CJ and he winds it up. CJ says very fast, "andthenIsaidandthenIsaidandthenIsaid." Then CJ rambles on and on in a very amusing way, mentioning the Turrets Syndrome (ADD is more like it!) One of the producers says this is like a day on the set. MS is smiling and shaking his head and says into the microphone, "talk amongst yourselves" to the audience. At that point, Hank says 'before we continue with our cast and crew, let's hear from Tony Optican and the network about SG and...beyond? MS takes the mic and places it in front of Tony. They talk about S9, and MS points to Tony and mouths to the audience 'talk to him.' "Do you guys want a Season 9?" Tony asks of the crowd. BIG audience response, the loudest yet. BW is nearly out of shot, but his head goes down on the table like he's exhausted. CJ mines giving him CPR, kinda closing in like he might do some mouth to mouth. MS mines getting the paddles ready to defibrilate.
Hank throws the floor open to questions. CJ says to the audience 'just shout them out." A woman shouts out, "Can we take you home?" MS looks surprised at the suggestion, then advises the audience to have all their pets spayed or neuter. CJ laughs.
Question: Will Don S. Davis be making any guest appearances? Cooper answers, Yes, they just filmed one. Don will be having guest appearance in both shows. Question: Daniel, will you be getting together with Sarah and Teal'c, nice hair. (that's how she phrased it.) Someone said it sounded like she was asking if he would be getting together with both Sarah and Teal'c. Michael said, don't do that, don't even joke about about (but he was smiling.) MS said that there was a textual back story with Sarah but as far as he knew they would not be exploring it this year. (he kept glancing towards BW and Cooper as he talked.) Then he said, as far as us getting together with Teal'c, that is a whole nuther issue. (much laughter.) Hank says, "go ahead Chris, say it." CJ shakes his head and says "you told me you wanted a PG show." Hank agreed and said he had asked Chris to keep it PG. Next question had to do with why they recast Weir instead of writing a new character (cause they liked Weir's character and it was easier to recast.)
Next Q to CJ; would you be writing any more eps? CJ was confused, thought the question was BW's. MS just kept shaking his head in mock saddness. Someone helped CJ answer, yes, it was called Sacrifices. MS took the mic and said, "He's just sweating out the booze." Laughter, and more CJ confusion. Cooper is the show historian, someone said, and CJ explained that they'd gone around about the title. Cooper said that it was originally called, My Big Fat Jaffa Wedding. MS covered his eyes and laughed. CJ said he wanted to call it, "Hey, that hot chick Jolene Blaylock is back."
Next question was the lady that started out each Q at Burbank with Komtraya. MS pointed to her in recognition. CJ asked if she was the one that wanted to them home with her. Yes, she was, she said. She then indicated an envelope on the the table in front of them and asked if they could give it to DSD, as he had been wanting a house painter and she would do it, as this was discussed at the last convention. CJ picked up the envelope (that actually had AT's name on it) and asked how she got that up there on the table! Then he said, "ComicCon, where security is Job One."
Next question: was from a fellow who asked why MS left the show for season 6. He said he knew it was old news but he was new to watching the show. MS immediately took the mic and said in a deep, serious voice, "because I hate Rob Cooper." It was quick and totally for laughs. Hank immediately piped in, "That's why we all leave occasionally." That really tickled MS and he kept laughing, and CJ was doubled up laughing. Someone said, "You haven't written the end of S8 yet, have you?" and that just made MS laugh harder. A woman's voice says she would wait until Chris can take a breath (he's still laying on the table with laughter) and you can see the penny drop for MS. He laughingly says, "That's not my actual answer! Nobody put that in print! I can't leave it at that!" He listens to someone. "What's on the internet? It's on the internet now, that I hate Rob Cooper? You guys are fast." CJ makes a comment about the World Wide Web, and while MS is waiting for the crowd to quiet, the woman starts again with her question for the panel. CJ laughs and gestures to MS as if to say, you better get in there! And MS interrupts her to say, "can I just finish answering that last question before I...before I...? I think Hank says, "Michael, please." "I just needed to take a break from the show, and I had a really good year off, and we agreed to work together again and it's as simple as that. We found such a good dynamic and no one expected the show to go on for that long. And we had the option for S7 and now S8 and..."(his voice dropping down low as he looks over at Tony) "who knows after that." CJ points out Tony. "He does!" Hank says, "Tony already knows, he doesn't want to rile anybody up, but Tony already knows." The crowd's buzz gets louder and more excited. MS puts his mic in front of Tony and leans close, while CJ goes and sits on the other side of Tony, mirroring MS. All attention is on Tony and he says, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Everyone laughs and applauds in admiration that Tony could come up with a great line in that situation. CJ goes back to his seat.
The next question would be if Alisen Down would be in more eps and if so, could they give her something besides technical jargon to say. They bobbed their heads agreeably, then BW said that they had to cut her song as it ran long. More laughter.
The next question was about pranks. Martin Wood said that in the episode Avatar, CJ is strapped down to a Gamekeeper chair and can't move. Martin brings out a real, really large syringe and waves it about explaining about how it will be used. He switches it then says, "Then I bring it down like this!" and mimes thrusting it really hard into Chris' sternum. He tells how Chris freaked out. CJ is laughing, then adds, "And then I had gas."
The next question was about what problems/hurdles had they production team encountered with the show, and there was a rambling answer about 174 eps of SG, and now they were doing 40 eps between the two shows this year and recycling sets like the cargo ship that was for one ep but has been used 75 times and is now redressed as Anubis' ship. And that they'd decided to go small for the Atlantis puddlejumper.
A lady started to ask about CJ and MS' appearances on Andromeda, but Hank cut her off with "Next question." The boys gestured that that was a joke, CJ said it was a joke and she could ask the question, then Hank said, "Next question." It was a little rude, I think.
The next lady asked if their had ever been accidents with the explosions, and MS quiped that Christopher Judge used to be white. Much laughter. Martin tells about a time when CJ had to set off a smoke grenade and throw if far and into a cave. The thing burned him, and he was cussing, but it went right into the cave, but they couldn't use it due to the cussing. They had him do it 6 times more, and he would throw it away before it lit up every time.
Next question was about the multiple two parters and the long story arcs and had they considered doing any movies. Hank mentioned the lost episode they had dug out for home video and they are exploring a feature for SG-1. The crowd cheers enthusiastically. MS shrugs like this is the first he's heard of the film. Cooper (?) says he's excited about the lost episode as it takes place in the story line/time frame of season two and has all the characters that were around at that time. Someone else pipes in that the reason they are doing it is so that Chris will cut his hair again. CJ adds he's looking forward to the eye shadow.
There was a bit of a faux ending, with them announcing that Michael and Christopher would be signing autographs at the SciFi booth. There was confusing so MS announced "Thank you and good night" while CJ threw candy out into the audience. Then it was decided that the panel could go on for a bit longer.
The next question was how did the DeLuise family get involved with the show. BW said they were outside the studio for the longest time, and it was raining. What happened was Peter had directed some episodes in a show Jonathan Glassner had done so he came on board for Serpent's Song. He was such a great guy that he became a part of their core of directors right away.
When the idea for Urgo came along, Dom seemed a natural for it. He was so funny and he had to cut 15 minutes of extra material out of it. The audience shouted out DVD!! BW continued with that Michael was a natural for Wormhole X-treme. Hank interrupts to ask the audience if they saw him in Wormhole X-treme. MS laughs. Hank says that BW wrote the one line he'd ever been given to say, and Hank said he'd never say that. BW countered he had said that two seasons before. "What this show needs is a sexy female alien." Hank says, "Was I wrong!" MS and CJ bust out laughing really hard at that admission.
Next question was for Michael, that Claudia Black had said nice things about him in the TV Guide. "What did she say?!" The lady said that from the rear, he resembled another--" "Of Browder? Yeah. She's fantastic. I can't even come up with a joke to circumvent it. Yeah, she's fantastic. She's the best guest star I've worked with in a long time, and we had so much fun. The episode is fantastic and she gets to kick my ass.(audience laughter) Yeah, so we had a hoot and we're already been talking about trying to have her back. (he glances over at the producers.) So, we'll see what we can do."
An English lady asked when they were going to come to England, and someone answered Nov. 28. MS and CJ looked surprised. The next question was about CJ's cap that he was wearing; if he went to a university in Oregon, why was he wearing a UCLA hat? Typical confusion reigned as CJ never got around to answering her.
The next question was that guy who asked of MS, that in Burbank he left in a Ford Taurus while Chris and Amanda left in a limo. CJ shouted out, "Security! Security!" while MS was still trying to hear what the guy was saying. The guy asked why Christoper and Amanda left in a limo and you left in a Taurus (I have to say that the guy did put a bit of snide on the last part of the question.) MS was laughing like he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "What the hell kind of question is that?!" Someone quipped, "Tell us about your hat." MS immediately said, "my hat is 5' 9" and loves skiing, fishing, hiking.... No, they were going back to the airport and I was going back to the hotel and someone was giving me a lift, but thanks for noticing!
The last question was shouted out over them trying to end the Q&A and it wasn't so clear. "Chris Judge! How much are you charging now for those butt rubs?" The MC quickly tried to wrap it up, ignoring the odd question, and finally MS announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, that was Her'uru." And while the guests got up, they started to announce SG: Atlantis.
