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Creation Grand Slam – March 28,
2004
At the Pasadena Convention Center
Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping,
and Tony Amendola
Transcript from Stargate Panel
Discussion
Legend:
AT: Amanda Tapping
MS: Michael Shanks
TA: Tony Amendola
Q: Questioner
XXX: indicates garbled, unintelligible, dialogue—usually due to audience laughing.
[ ]: When possible our best guess as to what that garbled dialogue was.
Stargate Panel – 12:00 noon
MS: Hello. (very melodic and drawn out) I said, "How is everybody?!"
(Shouts/cheers "We love you guys!")
AT: Thank you.
(They both sit in director style chairs up on the stage).
MS: I'm sorry. I apologize in advance for keeping these silly glasses on. I scratched
my cornea in November and I managed to do it again a couple of days ago. I'm a little
light sensitive these days. So, unfortunately I'm going to keep these on so I hope that
that's all right with everybody.
AT: He's a rock star!
(Cheers)
AT: This is a great thrill for us to be here. We've just started shooting season 8!
(Cheers)
MS: I know I'm [thrilled too]. (audience laughs)
AT: We started shooting 8 three weeks ago and we wouldn't be shooting Season 8 if it
weren't for all of you. So thank you very much.
(Cheers)
MS: There's also a new thing, a new Stargate theory. Some people discovered it just
won't go away apparently, so they created this whole thing that goes on after SG-1 goes
away, and that's also because of you, so thank you very much for that, too.
(Cheers)
AT: It's called Stargate: Atlantis and it's [already begun filming].
(Cheers, both AT&MS feign a jump back from the noise.)
AT: Whoa! Hello! But it actually doesn't take place underwater, contrary to popular belief.
MS: Dialogue would be a problem.
AT: And, wardrobe interesting. We're just going to open it up for questions, because I
don't know how much time we have up here. But we'll open the floor for any questions
you have. Bring them on.
MS:
We're starting already over here. (Gesturing to stage right.)
MS: Hi!
1. Q: Hello again. I saw you at Comic Con. I was just wondering if it's possible there
are a lot of people who don't get to many cons and only….
· MS: (he laughs) So don't watch it! (audience laughs). Thank you so much for
coming out anyway.
2. Q: I just wanted to say thank you for coming.
· MS: Thank you. Thank you very much. Our pleasure.
Q: I've been looking forward to seeing you and am planning to make it to the
Burbank convention. Tell the rest of the crew we are looking forward to seeing them.
I was wondering how are you guys enjoying the tours.
· AT: They're amazing. For us really
it's just a great way to meet people face
to face and to say thank you for
their support of the show. And, they're really fun.
I think that Michael and I have
talked about this…Chris, Michael, and I, about how
constantly overwhelmed we are by
how generous our fans are and how supportive.
And so, uh, thank you it's really
been great fun.
· MS: Thank you. Very, very much.
· AT: Thank you.
Q: We hope to see you again.
Thank you.
MS: Yes! (Points to new Q)
3. Q: In Resurrection there was a
behind the scenes photo of you two kissing.
What's the story behind that?
· AT: We like it!
· MS: Aww, did they cut that scene out
of the episode?
· AT: Damn!
· MS: (in a drawl) Amanda and I are
kissin' cousins. So every now and
ag'in we slip one in…like this…
(They look at each other, grin, then
lean over and kiss.)
(The audience cheers.)
· MS: And a bunch of flashbulbs go off!
· AT: (in a drawl) And then it shows
up on the internet!
· MS: I think our photographer didn't
know that that wasn't part of the
show and so he just decided to put
that one through anyway.
· AT: He thought that that's part of
the episode. That's so weird to
have Sam and Daniel kissing.
(audience member who didn't get the
shot gestures for one time.)
· MS: Oh, she wants one more.
· AT: Damn! I hate my job!
(they both sigh, then kiss again
for the cameras amidst cheers)
· MS: (heavy, put upon sigh) Now no more, we're married!
And not to each other!
· AT: Yes…sadly…! Just kidding!!
Just kidding!!
4. Q: Thanks for coming. You made
the comment just a few moments ago about
when SG-1 goes away. Does that
mean in Season 8 SG-1 the team itself gets broken up,
and I'd also wanted to ask Stargate Atlantis -
is that going to be a completely separate
show or are you guys going to be
doing stuff on that too and just anything that you
can tell us about what Season 8 is
going to be like.
· MS: So everything then…you want to
know everything.
Q: I want it all!
· AT: Okay, so first of all, we always
say that every season is going to be the last
and clearly we've been proven
wrong time and time again.
(cheers)
· AT: So, we're not going to say this
is going to be the last season because
we just continue to look like
idiots…but uh, Atlantis…
(turns to MS)
· AT: Oh you can talk about that…you're
on it!
· MS: Ah, Atlantis, all we've shot so
far is one episode, the pilot –
Richard Dean Anderson and I appear
in the pilot, in the early parts of the pilot…there's
been some discussion of having a
crossover episode for their show where you see the
SG-1 team in Atlantis…as it is it
will be a separate entity as the team goes off and gets
cut off in there for a long period
of time so the idea is that the two shows are going to
operate in separate, two strips of
the universe so to speak, for the first year at least,
and then we'll see what happens
after that. Oh, the uh, the end of SG-1 doesn't mean
that SG-1's going to go away or get broken up,
whatever. We just always say that
because we think the show's going
to end but then we go, "Oh" I guess we're doing
another year or so.
·
AT: You guys keep supporting us and we
keep coming back.
(cheers)
· AT & MS: Thank you.
5. Q: Okay, um, my question is mainly
for Michael but I guess it's more for the Producers…
· MS: (pretends to look around the
stage for the Producers)
Q: So you get to ask them for me…
· MS: Okay.
Q: Why does it have to be either Daniel
OR Jonas? Why can't we have both?
(cheers)
· AT: Michael?? (she leans attentively
towards MS)
(laughter)
· MS: I get this? Producers? (Looking
around stage again) Since the Producers
couldn't be here today and to answer
that difficult complex question. I think it has
more to do with the characters covering
similar ground and also to do with simple
finances to do with running the
show. If they add one more regular character on
the show it would cost them a lot more
money so I think it's just more about that
than anything else.
Q: I hope he comes back for a guest appearance again.
· AT & MS: Right.
· AT: We'll tell the producers who
aren't here.
6. Q: I'm wondering if you're related
to the Michael Shanks who teaches Archeology
at Stanford University?
· MS: You know I've heard about this
guy. Yeah, but what you didn't know
is that we're the same person…
· AT: Have you ever seen the two of
them in the same room at the same
time? No…
· MS: Yeah, I've published forty novels,
things like...no. It's
very funny,
I get asked that question a lot more and
there's absolutely no relation.
I think that's very funny that I
play an archeologist and he IS one. Uh,
but there is no relation there.
7. Q: I wondered if you could regale us
with some behind the scenes
moments, maybe some with Chris
Judge involved?
· MS: Oh, regale. Regale!
· AT: With Christopher Judge who saves *us* the embarrassment.
(Laughter)
· AT: Where to start? Where to start? Hmmmm.
· MS: Something clean…something clean (singsong voice)
· AT: Right...
(MS and AT pretend to lean over and whisper secretly behind
their hands but the microphones picks it up)
AT: (in a stage whisper) Can we talk about his flatulence?
(Laughter)
· MS: (in a loud stage whisper) What else is there?
(Laughter)
· AT: Nothing! I can speak as the female on the show, that the boys
have a...Michael perhaps less than the others (she touches his shoulder
reassuringly).
· MS: Thank you. (with a gracious tilt of the head.)
· AT: Because he is so refined (he dips the microphone and looks
away in surprise. She squeezes his shoulder.)
· AT: Have contests in which they judge the sound, scope, aroma
and general visuals of their…… flatulence. Christopher inevitably wins.
And I've actually told this story before. Uh, of how he can clear a room.
(Laughter)
· AT: Christopher, God bless him. We've actually stopped putting beans
on the catering truck, and oat bran, no longer at the breakfast table.
But, ah, he literally clears the room. The crew has to walk off set. So a
couple of instances. One, where he had to wear a full spacesuit, a full
NASA spacesuit (MS nods) that took a good hour to get into. And then
you're hermetically sealed into this thing.
· MS: Payback time.
(Laughter)
· AT: Payback time. So all of sudden you hear this little rumble (laughter)
and look over, and he's trapped, literally. And the guy from NASA is trying
to get the helmet off...and Christopher is… you can see him...he turned
white…basically. (She looks over at MS and he nods in agreement.)
(audience laughs) And that was great comeuppance but the other instance
was when he was strapped to the bed in the infirmary. Literally shackled onto
the (indicates railing with an unusual sound) and couldn't move, and had a
moment as it were. He cleared literally the set. I think we all went outside
the studio which was rather large, bigger than this (indicating the large convention
hall room) and there was Christopher alone, strapped to the bed, weeping like a
baby. So there you go. That's what happens behind the scenes on Stargate SG-1.
(cheers and laughter)
8. Q: [man speaking] Good afternoon Ladies and Gentleman. My question to you,
Michael, are you strictly coming in as a one time, on SG-1, as a guest appearance?
Cause you're not coming back on full time are you?
· MS: What season are you on?
(Laughter)
Q: You're back already?
· MS: Are you watching on syndication?
Q: Yes, I guess so.
· MS: Ah! Well let me get you caught up. Jonas is gone…
Q: Is he? Get me up to speed.
· MS: Yeah, I come back as a series regular in Season 7 so...
(Cheers!)
Q: Excellent, yes, good to hear. Welcome back!
· MS: For those of you who didn't know about that…it's spoiled.
· AT: Look it up on the Internet.
Q: I appreciate it. Thank you.
· AT: You bet.
9. Q: My husband and I are very big fans of Stargate. He really likes you, Amanda,
and I think you're a hottie, Michael (laughter) and I'd like to know about Richard Dean,
is he as funny in person as he is on the set? I've heard that…
· MS: No.
(Laughter)
· MS: He's a lot funnier actually. Speaking of flatulence…
(Laughter)
· MS: Rick is one of the few people on Earth that can actually fart on cue.
So whenever they yell cut, you usually hear something after cut. And another
great story from the flatulence point of view is, watch for a scene in our two
parter in the beginning of the eighth season where's the inauguration of
General O'Neill.
(Cheers, "Yes!")
· MS: Colonel O'Neill becomes General O'Neill. Now, as we're decorating this
officer or announcing that he's taking over the SGC, he comes out of this
door. Now the door sort of rumbles when it opens. So the cue is given, the
rumble happens, the door doesn't open! Then the door opens and everyone
is still looking in this direction and all you see is Rick coming out of the door
going (MS stands, walks around vigorously fanning the air around his backside.
He sits back down.) That is his opening scene as General O'Neill. So watch
to see if that makes the finished cut.
· AT: He then walks up the ramp and coughs into the event horizon and thus
begins his reign. Just watch the three of us try to keep a straight face as he walks past.
MS: Hi.
10. Q: Hi Michael. Hi Amanda. I normally call you by your characters names, I love
your show. I've been watching it. I have all the DVDs. Michael, what was it like being
ascended and Sam, are we going to see your cop boyfriend again or are you and
Jack finally gonna get together?
(assorted cheers, hisses, and boos)
· MS: What to do?
· AT: Tell her about your ascension first, shall we.
· MS: Well, my ascension involved heading out to Las Vegas.
(Laughter)
MS: Being on the golf tour down there and going to a place called Club Paradise.
(audience laughs) At least in my mind, in my off camera mind that is that's how
I envision what ascension would be. For the character I'm sure it was much more
soulful, philosophical and different, but for me, I always imagined it as spending
time in strip clubs and golfing.
· AT: You even improved your golf game.
· MS: I improved my golf game by 15 strokes, thank you very much! So I
think I enjoyed my ascension, I think Daniel did too. I think he learned a lot, but
he can't remember any of it! (audience laughs)
Q: Sam, what about your boyfriend?
· MS: Oh oh! Boyfriend issues! Oh oh! Aruga. Aruga (makes red alert type sounds)
· AT: Pete Callahan, as he is known on the internet as Stalker Pete. Which causes
David DeLuise no end of angst. First of all, let me address the people on the internet
who claim he's a stalker. Sam is not aware that he did the FBI check, she is
not aware that he…that he, you know, followed her to the last stakeout, but
she doesn't know all this stuff and maybe we'll address that later on but at
this point she just thinks he's just a really sweet, cute, sexy kind of guy. So,
he *will* appear in season 8.
(Cheers)
· AT: I mean he's lovely! The character of Pete, David DeLuise is really quite
a lovely man. As for Sam and Jack. Um. My idyllic ending for the whole series
from our character's perspective, would be that he finally asks her to go fishing
and she says yes.
(Cheers)
AT: Fishing. JUST fishing. You know what I'm talking about, I know you do.
· MS: What is she talking about? (asks innocently)
· AT: Fishing! (whispers to Michael)
· MS: Fish-ing.
11. Q: Hi, I'm looking forward to see you guys at Gatecon again it's going to
be so awesome. You both have now directed an episode, are you planning on
directing any episodes this season or maybe on Stargate: Atlantis?
· AT: I would like to…I'm actually supposed to do an episode this season
but I'm not sure it's going to happen because we're on such a tight shooting
schedule and consequently, we never get a day off of shooting something.
We're off on one episode while we're simultaneously shooting on another, and
it's really difficult. But I'm pushing for Atlantis, personally.
· MS: We're on a very abbreviated schedule this year so I don't think there's
a lot of room for us this year to explore our chops. If you write, you can
write in your spare time and whatnot but to direct. It's very difficult. I think.
· Q: So maybe next year on SG: Atlantis—
· (AT&MS nod) Here's hoping/There's a possibility.
12. Q: First of all, I like to extend greetings from Germany.
· MS: The whole country?! (he looks at AT) Wow!
(she gives him a playful shove in the shoulder)
Q: And second I'd like to congratulate you on your great work in Grace.
What an amazing role, and I'd like to know you approached your role in this.
· AT: Grace was an interesting episode, and actually we had
discussions about this...(looks at Michael who is staring back at
her shocked and she says, "yes". As she says this AT reaches
over and squeezes MS's chin. He closes his mouth and gives a big grin.)
· AT: Grace, for those of you that haven't seen, Sam gets trapped
on the Prometheus, she has a head injury and starts to hallucinate.
So, through these hallucinations, Daniel comes to visit, Teal'c, Jack O'Neill,
her father and this… tiny girl, Grace. And the people that she sees, are sort of
her interpretation, or her subconscious view of her friends.
· AT: So Daniel is...(looks at Michael and touches his shoulder) I mean you
played it WAY....
· MS: Annoying? (audience laughs)
· AT: No. He's hyper and excited. (smiles and flickers her fingers up and
down as she says this) And Teal'c, actually Christopher and I decided
that he would call her Samantha as opposed to Major Carter because in
her subconscious she really wants Teal'c to call her Samantha. The whole
thing with Jack is interesting, I think it's Sam's way of letting go of the idea
of her and Jack, and in doing so she allows, she lets Jack let her go, which
makes it easier, if that makes sense. And the little girl is either Sam's inner
child that never really flourished because she was so serious and studious,
or it's the child she may potentially have, if she allows herself a fuller life
outside of the SGC. So it's several things she could be. I chose for it to be.
But now…she's got a life. Finally! She had sex for the first time in seven years!
(Cheers)
· MS: It's all about Sam having sex, isn't it?
(Laughter)
AT: Hello! (She reaches behind her and rubs MS's shoulder)
13. Q: This question is really for Amanda but Michael you can jump in if you
want. In the director's commentary for Full Circle, Martin Wood said, there
was a little scene between you and Michael cut for time reasons, that you
insisted upon, where Sam and Daniel reconnect. Could you tell us some of
the dialogue and how you felt when it turned out he hadn't come to you?
· AT: It was a scene because while Daniel was ascended, he visited
Teal'c, he visited O'Neill but he never visited Sam. And Sam is like,
"Why didn't you ever visit me?" and I think the dialogue went
"well, you didn't need me as much as the others."
(She looks at MS to confirm this and he nods.)
"Yeah, but, you know, I missed you." "But all the same."
So it was an interesting little, sort of brother/sister, sibling rivalry dynamic
that's sort of fun for us to play. And they ended up cutting it
from the dialogue, we did shoot it, but they ended up cutting it from it.
But I just thought it was important that there was something addressed
as to why Sam and Daniel hadn't connected during his whole
ascension. That she felt left out.
Q: Did you ever think that any of those cut scenes or bloopers might be put into the DVDs?
· AT: We would love it if they would.
· MS: I do know that the SciFi channel has gotten to airing,
the seventh season, putting them on their website. You can
download them. No, you can't download them? You can watch
them though, right? You can watch them, not download them.
I don't know if they'll ever end up on the DVDs because they're
not committed to the finished prints. So, we'll have to wait and
see. But write a few letters and see what happens. I don't know.
But see if they can put them in.
MS: Hi!
14. Q: Have you ever read any fan fiction on the internet?
(Laughter drowns out the rest of the question.)
· MS: Read any fan fiction. Um, I've been handed some fan fiction
that I've read, and then there's a whole other segment of
fan fiction I won't go anywhere near.
(Leering cheers)
· MS: It usually involves...
· AT: You and Jack!
(Laughter)
· MS: And occasionally it does involve Teal'c!
(Laughter)
· MS: On a Friday Night.
(Laughter)
· MS: So a little bit…
· AT: And Jell-O…
· MS: …but not much.
· AT: I've actually read a Sam and Janet fanfic. And ah...
· MS: (MS's head shoots up and whips around to stare at her.)
You got any of that laying around?
· AT: …and we were given these pictures in Germany that were
computer generated pictures of Sam and Janet in various stages
of…(mutter from Michael)… amore.
· AT: And I showed them to Teryl and the two of us were just
laughing our heads off 'til we get, "Hee hee hee Ha ha ha...oh"
(sudden thoughtful expression) "Uh, hello! How you doing?"
(MS puts one big "thumbs up" in the air while grinning.)
· AT: And that's uh, yes…
· MS: Oh, yes, gentlemen. Available on ebay.
MS: Hey ya!
15. Q: This question's for Michael. A bunch of...(she interrupts herself)...
How are you doing, Amanda, you okay, you all right, you feel good?
· AT: I'm super. Thank you for asking.
(with laughter)
[Note-After some investigation we're fairly certain both the
question and AT's response here is inadvertently referencing
something that was a small joke at the convention's special breakfast
earlier in the day. Basically, at that meeting a comment was
made to AT and MS at this same Questioner's table: Since Daniel
was the one who had been beside Janet when she died why was
it that everyone in the episode "Heroes" focused so much on Sam
and how she felt? Why didn't anyone ask Daniel how he was doing?
MS and AT consulted and AT claimed that it must have all happened
off screen because they certainly would have asked Daniel if he
was okay, there was some teasing between MS and AT and some
horse play at this point where the line, "How are you doing, you
okay, you all right, you feel good?" was clearly heard being used
between them, although it was MS saying it to AT since she was
pretending to be dejected that they'd forgotten about Daniel.]
Q: Michael, a bunch of us got together in our hotel room last night
and we watched Sumuru.
· MS: I'm so sorry.
(Laughter)
Q: No, it was fun. It was…um…fun. (audience and AT laughs) It was a
very…fun movie to watch.
(Laughter)
· MS: Yes, but…what's your question? (playing up mock irritation)
Q: We wanted to know if there was any key thing you look for in a
character when you are considering playing him? This has nothing to
do with Sumuru.
(Laughter)
· MS: Good. (laughter) Um...I just, whatever character, the only
way I can answer that is that, to look for in whatever character
is he has three dimensions no matter what. And if it doesn't, to
try to add that to it, to even if I'm playing villains or whatnot. The
most fun characters justify their actions and you learn to like
them, I think that's the best part about them is, is to find something
about the character you enjoy and that allows us to have fun
playing it. So that allows us to flesh it out and make it real. So...
Q: You're very good when you're bad. (Sultry)
· MS: Thank you. (sultry back)
· AT: Yeah.
· MS: I'm very good when I'm bad--watch Sumuru.
Coming soon to DVD.
MS: (Turns to new questioner) Hello?
16. Q: Hello. Thank you very much, it's enjoyable watching you and
he whole cast on the show. My question has nothing to do with
anything but to do a little self-promotion for myself. My question is
not about the show, but are you interested in massages?
(Nervous laughter)
· MS: mimes watching something going over his head.
· AT: Hello!
· MS: Mimes driving along, until a sudden 'stop.'
Q: No, seriously. I am a massage therapist. I'm the only therapist so
far that is definitely being offered to the cast…the guests. So I just
want to say thank you and take this chance to say hello and [offer
you both the chance for a massage] XXX.
· MS: So, you'll be rubbing us later, is that what you're saying?
Q: If you're interested in it and anyone else interested in massages.
· AT: Thank you.
· MS: Thank you.
· AT: We have a massage therapist. We made it! (Thrusts fist
up in the air for victory.)
MS: (looks to next questioner, and asks, with his voice breaking) Hel-lo.
And what do *you* have to offer?
(Laughter)
17. Q: Michael, I know you've been asked this many times and even
though I have not seen it personally, I just want to let you know that
I'm not going to ask you to do the "Puff and Ruffle". Okay?
· MS: Okay.
Q: What I would like to ask is Amanda, since she's been maligned
during your version of the Puff and Ruffle, if she would like to give
us her rendition of the guys on set doing the "Puff and Ruffle".
· AT: Gladly.
(Laughter)
(AT & MS both talking at once behind their hands in mock stage whispers)
[What is said clearly at the end of all this whispering is…MS: "Why
are we putting our hands over the mikes?" and
AT: "So they won't know what we're talking about!"]
· AT: Okay. So Puff and Ruffle for those of you who don't know and
have been living under a rock. The Puff and Ruffle is something that
Teryl, myself and Tracy Westerholm, my stand-in, came up with
which was… Every time a woman walked onto our set, ah, the boys,
being Michael, Christopher and Rick, would have varying stages of flirts.
And we called it the Puff and Ruffle because they would puff out their
chests and ruffle their tail feathers, Michael probably being the most
subtle, actually, of all of them. Christopher being the least. And Rick
tried to be subtle but he was so obvious, really, wasn't he? (She looks
over at MS, who ducks his head a little and shakes it.) So, Michael would
do the look which would be with him flashing those charming baby blues he
has and just smiling. And all he had to do was stand there and he won.
(Laughter) Um, Christopher went, "Hey! How you doing?"
(AT: "Thank you. Thank you. Oh. I forgot where I was." She pretends
to falter into heavy breathing because MS has rubbed her back in thanks
for the compliment she's given him. Recovered, she continues…)
· AT: Christopher is a very big man, very charming and very out there. And
he'd be "Hey, how ya doing. Yeah, yeah yeah." And he'd walk up doing the
"Yo yo yo." And he's so fantastically charming and in your face and wow,
you'd be overwhelmed. And Rick would do this, I'm suddenly really interested
in you. "Hi. And where'd you grow up? Really?! I've got a cousin from Boise,
yeah." And we would sit there and rate…Teryl, myself and Tracy…we would
sit there and rate the Puff and Ruffle. As soon as the woman would walk
onto the set we would say, "Oh, this is gonna be a good one, this will be
a good one." And we got little cards.
(Laughter)
· AT: So that was the Puff and Ruffle. Our boys. There it is.
(Applause, laughter)
(Laughter)
· AT: And then there's Don! Don can't do the Puff and Ruffle. He has zero
subtlety, that man. God love him. He flubbers. In the briefing room,
remember Vanessa Angel? Hello! She walked in and Don went, "gblblgf!"
· AT:(in a Texas twang) Hi, I'm Don S. Davis and Jay-sus, gurl!"
· MS: (makes noises to indicate a man struck dumb)
· AT: "My God you're a beautiful woman!" and Rick would be, "Really?
From Boise? That's nice." And Michael with Christopher saying "Hey,
how you doing?" (then in a Texas twang) Don's still "Oh my god, oh m god,
have you seen this woman? She's beautiful!"
· MS: (in a Texas twang) "I apologize if I can not look you in the eyes."
· AT: "I may have trouble raising my eyes from the level of your…I'm sorry."
So, that's Puff and Ruffle, it's very distinctive, unsubtlety.
Q: Thank you.
(Cheers and applause)
18. Q: Okay, first of all, I have various greetings from all over
the world for you.
· AT: Hi world!
· MS: Hi, World!
Q: [the gist was] After Stargate, what would you guys like to be
doing next and what are you already planning to do next?
· MS: What we're going to be up to, or what we'd like to be
up to or both?
Q: Both.
MS: I've always wanted to be a lumberjack! Swinging through
the trees of British Columbia! Not really. Um. I would be making
the Maggie Rose. Don S. Davis and I both have a production
company to produce it, hopefully, by next year, so that's what
I'd like to do. It's about raising a ship in Eastern British Columbian Maritimes.
Eastern British Columbia, did I just say?
· AT: He meant Eastern Canada.
· MS: Eastern British Columbia is on the border. There's not
a lot of shipping there.
· AT: Mountains. Quite mountainous.
· MS: Yes.
· AT: No wonder she sunk.
· MS: Yes! But we're going to get her back!
· AT: And I'm hoping to get back on stage with a production
of Twelfth Night which I'm looking forward to.
19. Q: Hi, I have a question for Michael about your classic Jack and
Daniel bantering. Will we be seeing more of that in Season 8 or are we SOL?
· AT & MS: What does SOL mean? (in unison. They high five each other.)
· MS: (coughs into the mic, muffling the first word) Shhht out of luck.
· MS: Um, the two parter that we have coming back so far
which is what we're kinda focusing on right now, has a ton
of it in there. So they've already kicked the ball off.
· AT: It's very funny.
· MS: And, another aspect is what with him now being
General O'Neill, has a lot of those scenes where you'd normally
go up and ask for permission for something from the General, it has now
a lot of back and forth in that as well for them. So, there will be lot
more of that this year, I think. A lot more.
· AT: It'll be quite fun.
20. Q: [gist is] I'm doing an essay on women characters in media,
including Sam. What would you say about Sam as a strong female character?
· AT: Wow. Cool. I think Sam is, she has actually come a long
way. I think the, uh, and I'm not going to get up on a soapbox
and give a didactic message about a gender war here, but I don't
know that male writers always know how to write strong women
without making them bitchy. (cheers) Thankfully on our show, once
we got past the pilot, and I was able to sit down with Brad Wright
and Jonathan Glassner at the time, and now we've got Rob Cooper
and Damien, our writers are really amenable to us going up and talking
to them. I found that the one comment I had to Jonathan very early
on was, write me as if you were writing for Daniel Jackson, but, you
know, write it as if you're writing it for a guy and I will bring inherent
femininity to the character even if solely by virtue of my gender.
Um…I think, the reason that she works, and they sort of went too
far and made her Super Sam for a while, and they've softened her
now and given her fallibilities and vulnerabilities which make her very
well rounded. But I think the battle comes from my perspective
from the actress fighting to say you know what? A strong woman
isn't necessarily a bitch. When she asserts herself and is smart
enough and in tune enough and aware enough of what's going on
around her, she should be just like one of her male counterparts.
You know, I think more than a feminist I'm an equalist, if you will. And so...
(applause)
· AT: (ah shucks body language) So what I think makes her strong
is she, she, they've allow her all her vulnerabilities and all her faults
and her fallibilities and without making her too bitchy. So, if that
works? Thank you.
Announcer: We have a surprise visitor who wanted to pop out and say
"Hi." Tony are you out there?
(Cheers)
(MS shakes Tony Amendola's hand and gives him a quick hug.
AT hugs TA too. The convention personnel bring up another
director's chair. They all sit smiling.)
TA: Thanks for having me here with these guys. If you all don't
mind I'm just going to sit here and I'm just gonna be a fly on the wall.
So carry on.
AT: It's Tony! Yippee!
(Applause)
AT: Look at 'em, they're going crazy!
TA: Don't you think it's right that it should be boy, girl, boy, girl?
Don't you think he should switch with you. (they were sitting A,
then MS, then TA)
AT: You pig! (She laughs and gets up to swap with MS, placing
Amanda between the two guys.) I'm Stargate Barbie.
(Laughter)
MS: It's an A-man(d)-wich!
(Hoots and hollers)
AT: Aren’t you guys lucky?! Watch my Puff n Ruffle… (she said with
head leaned against TA)
21. Q: [male speaker] I have a couple of questions.
Number one, is Daniel going to have some romance in the program coming up?
· MS: (rubs back of neck) Um, there may be a little
bit in an episode called "Icon". Which has a little. So, watch for that.
Q: And why do you get so many Star Trek guest stars?
· MS: 'Cause they're cool!
(cheers from audience)
· AT: Actually, Michael's right, since the first days it just
we've lucked out with some really incredibly talented actors guest
staring on our show and they're all from Star Trek. Yeah, we've
been really lucky.
Q: Are you going to guest maybe on a Star Trek?
· MS: Well they haven't asked!
· AT: Yeah!
22. Q: Hi Amanda and hi, uh...Michael. My favorite character is Sam.
What was it like to eat all those steaks in that episode…?
· AT: Oh, um, in...
(Upgrades is shouted from the audience.)
· AT: Upgrades!
· MS: That's right.
· AT: They're good. They're really good. (indicating the audience)
· AT: How'd you eat all those steaks, Michael? (asks sweetly)
· MS: They were just imaginary. (in a little boy confessing tone)
· AT: We imagined them.
· MS: They never came.
· AT: We nibbled at the steaks. Being actors on television we
have to be careful what we eat. We drank the beer, however.
(Laughter)
23. Q: Amanda can you tell us how it was like [checking out]
Richard Dean Anderson's butt.
· AT: Always [nice]. Kissing him too, by the way.
Q: Thank you.
· MS: Thank you.
· AT: Thank you for watching.
24. Q: This is for you Michael. I'd heard you'd done a stage
production of Hamlet. Did you know I did not get to see it?
· MS: Did I know you didn't get to see it?
Q: No.
· MS: I did NOT know that!
Q: What my question is, is do you have any plans to do
that again or any stage in the future?
· MS: Oh yeah, there's definitely...I don't have any
commitment plans, however there's no set aside date, but once this
season's done I hope I can dive into something but I just haven't
decided what yet so, just [I'll be working some of that out later].
25. Q [gist only]: [He saw MS in Hamlet in one of his performances.]
· MS: (Quotes a brief line from Hamlet, in dramatic voice
"You're from XX I take it!")
· AT: I have to admit it, I had the privilege of seeing Michael in Hamlet
and he was phenomenal. And I'm not just saying that because
he's my friend but he was really wonderful.
· MS: Would you tell me if I sucked?
(Amanda looks torn) (pause) (MS nods his head, uh-huh.)
· TA: I would!
(Amanda slaps him playfully on the arm)
TA: [Tony discusses here that he did see Michael in Hamlet
and that he thought he was very good as well.]
26. Q: [the gist was] Will there be a Season 9 or a theatrical movie?
· AT: We'll see him again. We're just pawns in this wicked little
executive producer chess game. But I don't know what it would take?
· MS: It's hard to say. The support of the show's been fantastic.
As has been the promotional support. But the logistics might be a
little outside of the realm of what it takes because of Richard Dean Anderson
being involved, which is strictly financial as far as season nine. As far
as the feature film it's still very much a possibility, but there still is a
possibility of season nine so don't rule that out.
· AT: Yeah, our season seven got the highest ratings we've ever
gotten in the history of the show and that's unheard of.
(Cheers)
Q: Do you want to do it, season nine?
· AT: Do you want us to?
· MS: Yeah, we'll talk about it, of course we will, of course we will!
And Tony, too, damnit!
(Cheers)
27. Q: [woman with slight accent asks] Amanda, I hear you're
into kayaking?
· AT: I am into kayaking. Yes.
Q: Have you ever done it…in the warm Florida Keys?
· AT: No I haven't. Done it. In the warm Florida Keys.
(her wording comes out accidentally suggestive since she's
unconsciously mimicking the woman's accent)
· MS: (Does a double take to AT and the speaker) Kayaking?
That's what you're talking about?
(Laughter)
(MS shrugs, hands out in a "what can you do" gesture) Just checking?
Q: Yes
· AT:I do. I actually go kayaking in the sea water estuary.
But I've never taken my kayak…down south. So that's what I should
be doing? So that's what you'll see my kayak…going down…into the Florida keys
…at the end of this season. Thank you. (she's desperately hanging on)
(MS and TA are exchanging looks over her head)
· MS: Tony and I are just up here with our dirty minds going to town
while she's going, "Yes, I'd love to go boating down there, that'd be great.
" I thought it was a two parter! (he laughs) She asked "Do you kayak?"
And, "Have you done it in the Florida Keys?" (audience laughs)
"Have you taken your 'kayak' down south?" (he's holding in laughter
so hard that his voice goes high and she smacks his arm).
Such a simple question.
28. Q: XXX And, also I have a question for each of you to answer.
When Stargate's over and god forbid it never ends, what special prop
or gadget would you like to take with you as a memento of your experience
of playing Daniel, Samantha and Bra'tac? What would you like to keep, if you could?
· AT: Good question. (thinks about it) If it really worked, and of
course it works, I'd take the Stargate, what else?! (laughter)
It'd be hard to get into the trunk of car, though, wouldn't it?
Q: [How about the one from Sam's basement?]
· AT: That one would fit. Yes. We MacGyver'd that one didn't we?
(Laughter)
· TA: They make interesting use of bathtubs, I think, in
Stargate...no. Um, the glider. The glider I shared with O'Neill.
That's is if I had room for it.
· MS: I've already stolen two pair of Daniel's glasses and I think
that's pretty much all I want.
(awwws)
· AT: Christopher has about 100 of the watches. You'll notice in
Season One he was wearing a watch and then for a few years,
he didn't? And now he's wearing them again?
· MS: They wouldn't give them to him anymore. He kept taking
them home.
· AT: I'd take the healing device. The Tok'ra healing device.
· MS: It's not real, Amanda. It's nooot real. (sing songs) Not real.
Don't you think that looks like a big peach Danish?
· AT: Let's talk about the Gou'ald Zat'nickatel, shall we?
· MS: What does that look like? (all innocent)
· AT: What a Zat'nickatel should. (innocently)
· MS: Oh, okay, fine.
· TA: I have to go with the helmet. I've met people and they're
wondering, where my helmet is. It's a remembrance. Sometimes a
dunce cap, sometimes I could polish it. I'd have to go with that.
29. Q: Is Daniel ever going to see Shifu again, and are you ever going to
Comic Con in San Diego?
· MS: I've been to Comic Con twice, once as a guest and once
actually to sign autographs. As of now, I don't have any plans to go this year,
um, but.... (Disappointed sounds from the crowd)
· MS: Well, I'm here now, ain't I, damnit!
(cheers)
· MS: You can't be everywhere at once you know and work.
(said in funny old timer voice). I don't know where'd that damn
voice come from? Well, will Daniel ever see Shifu again? Um, you
know, that was one of the things I wanted to write, the story
of Daniel's ascension, because I think he spent a lot of time with
Shifu in "ascended land". We haven't got any plans right now for
an episode to feature Shifu but, hopefully…we're in the very early
stages…but hopefully, who knows?
30. Q: [This was a fan who was very nervous and having some trouble
getting her question out. Seemed to have bad stage fright. She also
was someone who'd obviously seen AT at many prior appearances.]
· AT: Hi Tiffany, what's up?
Q: I’m trying to control my beers…
· MS: I’m trying to control my caffeine (shakes hand in front of him).
Q: All I had was a beer! I want to thank all three of you for being
here. For me it's a great pleasure. And Amanda, when Jack asks, GO FISHING!! XXX
· AT: Thank you.
Q: Your direc...your director...(frustrated sounds because
she can't say the words she's so nervous)…was…
· AT: (Amanda helps her get out each word) Directorial
début...was...awesome. Thank you.
Q: Thank you. I really enjoyed it. You guys are awesome. XXX
Glad you guys are here; hope to see you again soon.
· AT & MS: Thank you.
31. Q: Okay, one thing I want to tell you guys, I hope you think
LA represented well because all the Sunday Passes are sold out.
· MS: Awesome.
Q: Yeah, I was going to get one, but I couldn't because they
were all sold out. So I was mad, but then suddenly I was glad
because we were represented well.
· MS: Awesome.
· AT: Thanks.
Q: And so all the good questions were all ready taken up and
I couldn't think of any except for a website, Amanda Tapping
your website where you're apart of a comic troupe in Canada for Random Acts.
· AT: I did. Yeah. Before Stargate started I co-founded a
comedy troupe with two other women being sort of feminist
based, political satire comedy, called Random Acts, based on
the adage "practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts
of beauty." And so that was our name, Random Acts and we
performed at Comedy Festivals mostly in Ontario, around the
Toronto area and we're also producing a documentary. So...
Q: Are you still active in it?
· AT: Not so much [these days]. One of the members went to
Paris and I moved to Vancouver but we're actually, and, I've been
saying this over and over for three years, we're getting together,
getting it together. Yeah. We will. Thank you.
Announcer: I hate to be the bearer of bad news...
AT: Then don't!
MS: (leads the booing)
Announcer: We purposefully ran late but what's gonna happen is we're
going to start backing up like LAX so we gotta cut this.
So what do you say folks? Was it great?
(Cheers)
Announcer: Let's here it for Stargate everybody! SG-1!
(Cheers, hoots and hollers!)
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