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I started going to the conventions
later than the others

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just because I didn't feel like doing them.

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I had a preconceived notion
about what they might involve

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and I had a few fans
that were a little overzealous,

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and didn't really want
to throw myself in that arena.

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Then the others were coming back,
raving about how great it was

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and how positive
and unobtrusive the fans were.

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So it got me thinking,
"OK, maybe I'll go with other actors,

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or I'll go to obscure ones
and see what they're like."

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And I went to them
and the experience was neat.

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It was great, it was intimate, they were
very respectful and enthusiastic.

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You get experiences where
you see the kids and how much happiness

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they get out of meeting you
and talking about the show.

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I have three questions.

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OK, I'll make it two.

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One is: Why does Daniel
constantly get beaten up on the show?

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Apparently because people love him.

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The second is: Did you have to get
beaten up or was it just special effects?

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You get those positive vibes back and you
feel like you're giving something back.

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Even though it's just a television show,
just a job to us,

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it means other things to other people.

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It's nice to be able to give a bit back

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and to travel to different places
all over the world and experience that,

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and when you work in film
we don't get an audience,

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and now we're seeing the impact we have.

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It was a great reverberation
of the work that we'd done

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and a great thing for us to do to give back
a little bit just by being there, I guess.

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So they became quite enjoyable, actually.

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I was...

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With the cocktail parties,
lunches and breakfasts

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that they put on at the conventions,
those to me are the toughest aspect,

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because the great thing
about being on stage

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and being in the autograph lines and the
photo lines, there's a distance, a barrier.

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But when you're having breakfast,

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you're at these tables with ten or twelve
people, and you try to interact with them,

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but you can only give a portion of your
time, so there's a kind of feeding frenzy.

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That can be a little bit overwhelming.

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And you want to spend time
with each person,

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and in groups there's louder ones,
more energetic ones, more outgoing ones

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that seem to dominate conversations,
so those can be a little bit frightening.

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There's not a lot of one-on-one time.

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That's a difficult aspect
when you're zipping there and back.

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Now and again someone will corner
you and be able to get a bit of time,

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but it feels imposed on, although
you do want one-on-one time with people

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because they came there
for a personal experience of it.

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They can watch something on tape,

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but they want a direct interaction
and there's little room for that.

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When they get you at one of these parties,
they feel that it's one-on-one time,

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but there's a thousand people that want
that, so it can be a little bit overwhelming,

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and nobody gets their one-on-one time.
It makes you go, "I got to go."

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Join us in a warm welcome
for Michael Shanks!

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Oh, my God.

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Does that room
eventually end back there?

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Wow.

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- Hi.
- Hi.

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Going up on stage
is always a unique experience.

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Sometimes experiences can be similar.

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If you're with Christopher Judge,
ever, it's always interesting.

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He manages to find ways
to not talk about the show.

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But going on stage is always fun. That's
the best part about doing these things.

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You interact directly with the audience,
there's always an energy in the room.

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Give actors a microphone and give them
a stage and a captive audience

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and, you know, stand back because
you'll have to get a hook to pull them off.

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I'm touchy today.

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No, I'm not a daddy yet,
otherwise I wouldn't be here.

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I love you.

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I love you,

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but I think my wife would kick my ass.

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So, Michael,
when you left the Burbank con,

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Christopher and Amanda left in a limo,

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and you left in a Ford Taurus.

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What was up with that?

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The feedback is great. The audience is
informed, so you have to be on the ball,

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and that's the funnest part
of a convention.

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It's not doing the photos
and stuff like that and the autographs,

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cos you just see
this blur of people that swings by.

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But getting up
in front of that audience and interacting

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and pulling people in
and joking with them

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and having them see you
in a different light is a lot of fun.

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They get to see it, they enjoy it, and you
experience some really tough questions.

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Over the last eight years,

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what scene do you think
best shows the friendship

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between Jack and Daniel?

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- Or episode.
- Or episode?

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- Could I get back to you on that?
- No.

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Do you have any ideas, as a writer,
that you would like to see happen?

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I don't have an idea, but we do an episode
this year called "Prometheus Unbound",

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which guest stars Claudia Black in it,

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from Farscape.

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Sounds like you guys already knew that.

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It was so much fun to work with her
and we had a great...

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It's such a fun episode, that we talked
about getting her character to come back.

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So I want to write an episode
that features her character.

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Maybe a one or two-parter, for sure.

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"Since you fly from Canada
to the US so frequently,

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do the customs officials
recognise you by now?"

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Didn't we already do this?

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"Or are you hassled
as much as everyone else?"

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Good question.

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On my way down
for the screen test for Stargate

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I got strip-searched.

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No, I'm not gonna re-enact it.

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I thought it was the funniest thing.
What a great way to start the show.

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Yeah, the little puppy on the leash,

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that the man carries, came up and went...

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And, of course, I went...

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Friendly doggy.

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Thought I had a kibble in my pocket,
or something.

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But apparently that was
the universal sign for "He's got drugs".

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So they took me into... They searched
my bags and couldn't find anything,

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and I'm saying, "I don't know
where you're getting this from."

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He said, "We know you have them.
Just tell us now. The dog doesn't lie."

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So I guess in order to justify
them searching you further,

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they have to have someone place you
under arrest, under suspicion of.

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And then they...

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No, I didn't get the rubber glove, though.

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But I did get scoped out.

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So we swapped phone numbers and
they let me on the plane and I flew out.

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If you could give Daniel superpowers
now for a showdown with Anubis,

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what would you give him and why?

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Well, the first thing I'd do
is I'd give Daniel two sets of powers.

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The first one is X-ray vision.

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Not to fight Anubis, though.

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And the second one is...

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I would give him
some sort of special starch beam.

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Cos you know that stupid robe
that Anubis wears all the time?

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That's all it takes.
You stiff that puppy up, he ain't moving.

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What surprised me most about the fans
is their enthusiasm is refreshing,

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and obviously they have
a lot of enthusiasm for the show.

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Their knowledge, when I go, "That
episode where the guy did that thing",

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and 60 people pipe in the name, and I
haven't even mentioned too many details,

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but they know the show that intricately.

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I go, "I work on this show and these
people know more about it than I do."

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That's surprising. It makes you be
on your toes. You can't go in there like:

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"I like working on the show
and I don't remember that episode."

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You have to have your A game
cos they want to know...

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If they know this much before you show
up, they want to know all the details.

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So you better have
the rough patches pretty down

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before you start talking
about the infinitesimal details.

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They know them, the essence,
so they'll get you.

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Wow. The outfits that people show up in.
I don't know where they get them.

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Some stuff, recently, MGM are selling it,
but these people make their own stuff.

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They watch the show enough
to take a villain who's in prosthetics

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and make the whole costume.

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We spent a lot of money
making that stuff and these people,

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out of their own time and pocket,
make prosthetic masks and hands,

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and sometimes
their costuming rivals ours.

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There's a lot of care and effort,
but, man, it can be overwhelming.

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It's fun when they're in costume. What's
not fun is when they come in character.

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Push the red button and we're all toast.

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When you go,
"Oh, what a great costume" and they go:

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"I'm not in costume. Don't you remember
me?" That can be truly frightening.

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That can sometimes throw you. Hopefully
they're just kidding, but some aren't.

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We operate in a vacuum here. We work
for the same couple hundred people.

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We forget that we have an audience.

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Doing that gives you
an honest feedback mechanism

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when you get fans that aren't
afraid to call you on your BS.

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They say, "I hated that episode."
"Why?" And they tell you.

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You get really good, honest feedback
from the people that matter most -

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your core group of fans
that care about the show

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and are really involved
in the details of it as much as you are.

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So we get a great feedback mechanism.

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It really feels encouraging
and puts a face to your audience.

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It lets you know to bring
your A game when you're doing the show,

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because if you go to another of
these things, you'll face those people,

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and if you say, "I think you're gonna like
this episode", you better really think that,

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because they'll tear you to pieces
when you get there.

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It's a great payoff for doing the show.

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Coming from live theatre, the interaction
with the audience is immediate.

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And this is kind of a latent feedback
from the audience,

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which is the same kind of feeling, it just
happens later, so there's that same payoff.

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