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October 12, 2007

Vegas, Golf and Reunion

Well, this is going to be off the cuff, so don't hold it against me. Because I am in Las Vegas golfing with a bunch of guys from Stargate! Yep, Brad Wright and Rob Cooper (who had to miss this one) are avid golfers and have been organizing these trips for years, and I'm blessed to have been invited. So yes, I'm a spoiled script coordinator. And also really busy, between golf and dinners and the occasional blackjack table (I'm UP), there's not a lot of time to thoroughly organize the blog this week... In attendance on this trip with me are none other than Executive Producers Brad Wright, Paul Mullie and John Smith, actor Christopher Judge (Teal'c, of course), Andy Mikita (Director), James Robbins (Production Designer), Pete Woeste (Director, DOP), Lawren Bancroft-Wilson (Producer's Assistant extraordinaire), Ivon Bartok (Special Features Producer), and Mark Davidson (Set Dec). Well, Lets hope I got that all correct... but a little known fact is... I can edit this blog! Thank goodness, because I've been known to blab.

And blab is what I was going to do! Except that I ran by all the things I wanted to blab about with Joe Mallozzi (yep, I'm blaming Joe) and he put the gag order in effect. So suffice it to say that there are a bunch of cool behind the scenes things I wanted to share with you but Joe told me I couldn't. BOOOOOOO!

But Joe did tell me some cool stuff about tomorrow night's episode "Reunion" that I can share with you. He told me that the first half of the Atlantis season contains episodes that key on specific characters, and this one is really about Ronon, as he runs into some old Satedan comrades-in-arms. He's torn, because they're out there battling the Wraith their own way, and he feels like he should be loyal to them and perhaps leave Atlantis. Well when the first script came out, one of the notes was that the beginning of the script was too much character stuff as the action doesn't start up right away. But Joe stuck to his guns, and I think rightly so.

As Joe explained, you really get to see how the friendships and characters have developed when all the other characters are talking to Ronon about potentially leaving Atlantis. You also get to see Samantha Carter (now a full bird Colonel) take control of Atlantis. And a special guest appearance by Teal'c (Chris Judge, of course, who can hit the driver at least 400 yards in this Nevada air). So we'll see how much you the fans like it. I think it's a great episode, with a big OP (read: combat operation) and tons of fights and stunts. Maybe even the best fight sequences we've ever done (big ups to James Bamford, our fearless stunt coordinator and fight choreographer).

Okay, I'm out from Las Vegas. Enjoy !

ATL

Posted by Alex Levine at October 12, 2007 02:22 AM