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February 22, 2008

Haunted by Morjana... and the Googlions

So, first of all, a big apology to those of you who read my blog last week and were treated to the most gratuitous of spoilers. Really terrible on my part, and I owe you all a big apology. I mean, for someone to go around whining about all the spoilers on the internet and then let loose with a whopper like ... "and then the midway station gets destroyed"... It's the height of hypocrisy, I know. So again, apologies. For some reason, when I was speaking with Carl about it, nether of us clued into the fact that it was a huge spoiler I was letting out. Carl, however, had a good reason - he thought the show had already been aired, as it was accidentally made available on itunes early. I have no such excuse, except an apparent lack of brain cells. So in the immortal words of Arnie Fufkin (Spinal Taps' manager), go ahead and kick my ass. I want you to.

If it's any consolation, I woke up last Friday at 4:00 a.m. in a cold sweat and realized that I'd blown it. But by the time I was able to edit this blog to remove the reference, that diligent Morjana had copied snippets of my blog onto Gateworld, including the offending paragraph. Curse you Morjana! No, no, I take that back. I appreciate your support and the fact that you alert the other gateworld subscribers to my postings. Besides, it's really Carl's fault anyway.

Meanwhile, the producers got to see Continuum with its score this week at the sound mix studio, and by all accounts this movie rocks. I'm looking forward to checking it out next week when a small amount of sound mix DVD's are released internally in the office. Should be another great addition to the Stargate SG-1 story line. Let's all hope for more movies in the future. And, of course, production started this week, beginning with Search and Rescue, the first episode of season 5. Much of our shooting this week was on the Norco stage, but now they're shooting on our Daedalus set. Trust me, this is going to be a very cool season 5 premier (read: expensive with lots of VFX).

Okay, so... tonight's episode: The Kindred Pt. 1, working titled "Rise of the Googlions". Hilarious. That was just a silly working title Carl Binder came up with, but everybody liked saying it so much that, yup, you guessed it - it actually ended up on some of the production paperwork, specifically art department sketches. And then it was used frequently in conversation as well. "What's up with Googlions?" "When are we shooting Googlions?". So, as a result, we've become a little more careful with our working titles.

And, of course, I now have to be extra careful with my spoilers. But what I can tell you about The Kindred Pt. 1 is that Connor Trinnear's Michael plays a central role in this two parter. So all you half-wraith fans, get your popcorn ready. And also this is sort of a "Teyla" story as well. Okay, I better shut up now before I get in more trouble. Look for Joe Mallozzi to discuss this episode at length in his blog tomorrow at www.josephmallozzi.wordpress.com.

Enjoy!

Posted by Alex Levine at February 22, 2008 05:47 PM