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As I mentioned on the first page, the convention
reports do contain spoilers for Season 9 of Stargate SG-1. So, if
you don't want to know, don't read them and stick to looking at the photos!
Here's one of Leah's cartoons that Michael
Shanks' autographed and wrote a little note on for Leah (I mentioned this on
page 2). Michael's comment says "Leah, Again another laugh you've
given". The other signature on it is from Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck). Now
we just have to meet up with Dirk Benedict to get him to sign the other
Starbuck!
Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel
Jackson)
Michael was adorable. He looked really,
really thin, too. I always think he is lean, anyway. But he seemed thinner than
usual to me. I don't know if it's because I haven't seen him in person in
awhile or what.
He looked great. People were divided on the
beard. Some liked it and some didn't. Leah did shout out that she liked it.
One man got up during the course of
Michael's panel and said, "By the way, I like the beard." I couldn't
see the man behind me, but Michael responded: "Thank you. I like your
beard, too."
DJ asked Michael
how long Daniel would have the beard in S9. He asked her, "Don't you like
it?" She said, "Not on Daniel." He got snarky with her and said,
"I've got news for you. I only play him on TV, honey!" Then he
laughed, of course, and said "Sorry, Dana, at least four episodes."
Michael then claimed that "someone" wrote him a letter that said "I
heard you have a beard in Season 9 -- well, as long as it isn't that dead
gerbil on your chin from Sumuru ..." And then he told DJ,
"I'm not saying you wrote it, but maybe you encouraged that ..." ROFLMAO! Sounds like "someone" might have
been reading threads and forums that they shouldn't ...
Michael spent a lot of time doing Peter
DeLuise imitations (that were absolutely hilarious) and
especially talking about how they would provide stunt doubles for Amanda, Chris
and Richard Dean Anderson but not for him. He was acting out all the times
Daniel was getting horribly shot over and over again and would have to fall
backwards, etc., and they hadn't provided a stunt double for him. He said that
the first time it happened when he complained, Peter DeLuise finally said
"We thought you'd be insulted if we gave you a stunt double." When
Michael went "What?!" Peter DeLuise claimed, "Well, Chris Judge
said you wanted to do your own stunts!"
Later, Michael was telling the story again
of another episode ("Moebius") and how Jack, Sam and Teal'c all had
stunt doubles and again he didn't, even though he gets shot up ... And he acted
out Peter DeLuise again: "Christopher Judge said you're a hockey player
and you want to do your own stunts!"
It was really, really funny and hard to
describe in mere words. He does a great Peter DeLuise with a wonderful voice.
Oh! And someone asked him about the
Furlings. He made a lot of funny comments about the Furlings, claiming he
thought they were really the Teletubbies. But he claimed that the real reason
the Furlings never appear is that every time the writers get into a room and
the subject of the Furlings come up, writer Joseph Mallozzi just loses
it and falls over the table laughing at the mere thought. He did a cute
imitation of Joe Mallozzi.
When asked about romance on the show, he
said that he thought the lovey-dovey mush mush stuff (his words!) didn't belong
on the show and should live on in the fan fiction and imaginations of their
wonderful fans. ;-)
Michael talked a lot about Chris Judge and
their friendship and also Chris' proclivity for constantly playing pranks on
both him and other members of the cast. It's obvious there is a lot of
affection between them. He joked some about Chris Judge's tendency to have a
gas problem (mentioned by many of the other actors!) and said that at a recent
event they hadn't had a chance to eat and were wandering around the airport
before their flight home left. It was a long, overnight flight, apparently and
Chris managed to find a bag of cashews. He was eating them in huge gulps, stuffing
them into his mouth like a chipmunk (and Michael acted this out -- see the
photos below) and saying "Dude! I feel sorry for the guy sitting next to
me on the plane!" "Dude!" said Michael, "That's me!"
He also acted out an upcoming scene from
Season 9 where Mitchell and Teal'c (and maybe Vala?) are trapped inside of some
kind of chamber and Daniel is desperately trying to get them out before a
ceiling or something comes down on top of them. Michael acted out being bent
over (as Daniel) working on the door. He said the problem was that the door
raised and suddenly there was this big black thing in front of him. He wasn't
quite sure what it was at first. He called it the "Black Hole of
Calcutta." Chris Judge had dropped his pants and was mooning him! Michael
wriggled his own butt around to demonstrate for us and even did a little
"sizzle" thing on his behind with his finger, the naughty boy.
Unfortunately, I was so close to the stage and had the big lens on, hence poor
Michael's head being missing from the photo below! I could hardly
ask him to hold the pose while I stopped and changed lenses! Honestly! I wasn't
meaning to focus just on his *ahem*, yeah, there.
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Michael talked about the Arthurian mythology
coming in as more of a focus in Season 9 (Leah asked a question about what he
thought of it). He seemed incredibly enthused about the idea and said he just
loved it. He said the writers were coming up with new twists and things about
the history and mythology that he had never heard of before himself, so he was
really enjoying it. He said everything he had imagined them doing was very
different than what they have come up with in reality. He said that because the
show is kind of taking a "right turn" in Season 9, though, that
"someone" has to do exposition and bring the audience up to speed. He
indicated that, that would be Daniel. He commented that Rob Cooper just
recently came up to him and said: "I just wrote the longest monologue
Daniel Jackson has ever had to say!" Michael responded: "You have no
idea what kind of bold statement that is!" and he proceeded to talk about
all of the times he has had huge chunks of exposition to memorize.
The longest monologue he ever did that
wasn't interrupted was in the episode "Sacrifices." He said it took
four takes as Jack and Daniel walked and Daniel basically told Jack everything
that Ishta and her women had been up to. The more he screwed up, the harder it
got for him to remember his lines. He said he was "literally sweating
bullets. It was the first time in the history of the show that I thought I was
going to have to ask the director to compromise the shot because I can't do my
job." Once he finally got it right (on the 4th take), the director (Andy
Mikita) wanted to do it again for safety reasons. Michael begged
him to use the one take he'd gotten and claimed "Can you live with that
one? I don't think I can do that again." He said Mikita looked at him like
they needed to order therapy for him or something. He said that he "looked
like the cat from Shrek 2." And he proceeded to act out
himself doing Puss in Boots from Shrek 2. (You can see the entire
sequence of photos below -- Michael Shanks doing Puss in Boots!) He said that
Mikita "let me walk away." I should say so, after that! You can also
see Michael acting out banging his head against the wall due to what he called
his "spiral of shame" as he kept screwing up the lines. That photo is
in the bottom line of pictures right about this set of commentary.
Someone asked if there would ever be a
musical episode of Stargate. Michael said "I was just
talking to Ben Browder about that the other day!" After much laughter, he
admitted, " I don't know if we're going to go down that road ... no one
would be more interested or curious to see that than I!" Then he launched
into "And now! The Stargate dancers!" He said it wasn't
a "strong possibility but it has been talked about."
There was so much "acting out"
that it's hard to describe much of what happened on stage but the photos should
tell some of the story!
Michael said again, as he did in Pasadena,
that Claudia Black was appearing in six episodes and at one
point, he made a comment about those six episodes being in Season 9. This would
seem to indicate that she is indeed appearing in SIX episodes, not five as
previously reported. He also commented that the producers really liked her,
that he loved working with her and that she was indeed lovely (a questioner had
asked if she was as beautiful in person). He did say he didn't think Daniel and
Vala would be an "item" in a romantic sense and that he hoped that
continued -- he enjoys the chemistry between them but prefers to leave the
romantic entanglements out of the show. He did say, I believe, a time or two
that he isn't writing the episodes, of course, so who knows what the writers
have up their sleeves?
Someone did ask the ubiquitous question
about Sam and Jack and are they together or when will they get together. Yadda
yadda yadda. I don't recall the question exactly. I think they may have asked
if Sam and Jack were off together during SG-1's "retirement." Thank
goodness this time Michael said "I am completely the wrong person for you
to be asking that question." Although he did indicate that to the best of
his knowledge, Sam and Jack were not together.
Someone did ask how Browder's character was
going "to be introduced to the audience." I think Michael then asked
the girl her name. She told him and he mimed waved towards someone next to him
"So and so, this is Ben Browder's character." He is such a smartass
sometimes!
Michael also dropped a huge bombshell of a
spoiler that was previously unknown prior to this convention and that was that
Richard Dean Anderson was going to be back and that he was going to be in the
1st episode and the 3rd episode. At another point, he said that he was going to
be seeing RDA "on Tuesday." At another point, he made it clear they
were filming for the 3rd episode. (Gary Jones also commented that he had just
finished filming parts in the opening two episodes -- he said they began
filming episodes on February 28th and he was in them.) At another point,
Michael made a comment about how they were going to be filming a Jack and Daniel
scene (and I'm not sure I remember correctly, but he might have even said
"this week"). Then Carmen Argenziano later commented that RDA didn't
want to be in the show anymore and wanted to spend more time with his daughter.
He said they had filmed a scene with RDA but the filming had even been done in
LA. (I believe it was later learned that Carmen had filmed a scene with RDA in
LA but it was for the videogame, not for the series.)
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