Abyss Behind-the-Scenes Picspam!

[eponymous_rose]

Yeah, so I've been watching a lot of SG-1 lately, and that includes the awesome little featurettes on the DVD, and I couldn't resist the urge to make a behind-the-scenes picspam for the fanfic episode "Abyss". And the picspam's Daniel-centric, because Michael Shanks is funny and because, dangit, I'm being converted.

Anyway, I don't know the fandom, so I don't know if everyone and their dog has seen these featurettes, but whatever. Everyone loves a picspam, right? I have more planned, because there are tons of hilarious behind-the-scenes things on the season six DVDs and I... like... picspamming things? Yes.




Director Martin Wood shows off the nifty antigrav effect using, um. His finger and paper.


Director Martin Wood shows off a somewhat more dramatic aspect of the nifty antigrav effect by hanging on this board over a big precipice. That's dedication!


Michael Shanks talks a bit about the ascended Daniel Jackson, who is a lot like your garden-variety Daniel Jackson, only with extra white sweaters and extra non-intervention policies and extra subtext with Jack.


I know this is behind the scenes, but let's take a moment to recapture the awesome that is Jack throwing his shoe through Daniel.


Thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled behind-the-scenes.


Michael Shanks goes into a very intelligent and detailed analysis of Daniel (calling him a "pathos-ridden fool") and then we cut to this.


And this. ♥


*dramatic scene*
Daniel: I promise. *wanders off-screen* Or something like that.


Martin Wood tells Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks that their acting is terrible and he doesn't know what to do with them. Richard Dean Anderson calls him "Director Boy" and shoos him away.


He then steals his camera. "There's a reason some people are behind the camera."


Executive Producer Brad Wright talks about having to come up with a solid reason to bring Daniel back. "We didn't want him to just be Clarence the angel that comes by and says, 'Hi guys!'"


Jack: I'd have busted you out, blown this *CENSORED* to *CENSORED* all *CENSORED* *CENSORED*.


Daniel: You, in the place you're at right now, you don't have any other choices. *dramatic pause* Except that outfit. *less dramatic pause* Line?


Jack is all "But they're just going to kill me again, you have to end it all, etc. etc." and Daniel is all, "Lalala, I can't heeear you."


Martin Wood: Show me how Daniel disappears in this scene.
Michael Shanks: What is that over there?


!!!


Martin Wood: It's like some kind of weird TV magic!


Michael Shanks: When you're ascended, you should see the card tricks you can do. It's amazing.


Michael Shanks: I don't wanna play this anymore!


And because nothing tops that last one, I'll stop there.

Also, hey, I was somewhere in season six when I decided to start from the beginning with a properly Epic Rewatch, so I'm coming up to episodes I've never seen before! Awesome.

Comments

[mysticalchild_isis]

Oh god, I love Abyss so very, very, very much. It's like a cliche fanfic, brought to the big screen! Onoes, Jack is being torture to death... REPEATEDLY. But here comes glowy!Daniel to comfort him [with the healing cock]. Teh angst! Teh ho-yay!

And I kind of love the color scheme, too.

And Ba'al is my favorite Goa'uld.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

It's like a cliche fanfic, brought to the big screen!

Yesss, exactly! I remember watching it for the first time, going "This all seems strangely familiar". The notion of episode-based fic for Abyss kind of breaks my brain, though. It's like fanfic squared!

And yeah, the color scheme is really something! I noticed that this time around. It's like everything decided to color-coordinate with Daniel because he is so awesome.

Ba'al is pretty creepy in this episode, and I think it's maybe the only episode I've actually seen him in (when I say I'm coming up to episodes I haven't seen before, I mean, like, all of them from here on out, except for "200"). Looking forward to more, though!

[stunt-muppet.livejournal.com]

Wow, Daniel Jackson is a thousand times more attractive in a white sweater. It also helps me shake the associations between him and Curtis Craig, which is fortunate.

Martin Wood: It's like some kind of weird TV magic!

He has vanished via the strange and eldrich enchantment of jump cuts. My God! :D

*does the will-not-leap-aboard-new-fandom teeth-gritting dance*

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Daniel is rocking that sweater!

He has vanished via the strange and eldrich enchantment of jump cuts.

Hee, not even! Via the stranger and... eldricher enchantment of wandering off-screen while the camera pans away briefly! *gasps*

*does the will-not-leap-aboard-new-fandom teeth-gritting dance*

Aw, c'mon, it's just ten seasons, two movies, and oh yes, five more seasons of spin-off. ;) Seriously, the nice thing is that the show's done, so it'll still be there whenever you have time to go back to it. You won't ever get any further behind!

I think I've gone on at length about why I like the show, but here's my mini-sales pitch: sometimes it's awesome, sometimes it's... not, but it always knows how to poke fun at itself. And it keeps that sense of humour through allll those seasons! Also, it's a sci-fi show about modern-day people boldly blundering where no one has blundered before, and that's fun. Plus Atlantis is basically The Geeks in Space Show, which is also fun. It's a weird blend of straight-up sci-fi and assorted ancient mythologies (so it'll be all blah blah blah tachyon field emitters blah blah blah Osiris blah blah blah flying pyramid spaceships etc. etc.). It has Star Trekky episodes about the perils of messing with alien cultures, and X-Filesy episodes about government conspiracies, and characters who get distracted from their epic world-saving because they just realized they forgot to tape The Simpsons. It has episodes that would put h/c fanfiction to shame, and episodes that would put the crackiest of crackfic writers out of a job. On the whole, it's very silly, but it's also genuinely entertaining, and even the minor characters'll grow on you.

Linkspam, because I'm evil that way:
Daniel and Jack are awkward love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JVUbWRY8y0
Jack explains a black hole about as well as I do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t096kPbwn4
Obligatory Trek Reference #3859: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n6spcwUfYk&NR=1
SG-1 tends to get really sick of monologuing villains. Sometimes it's best to just cut them off at the pass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy3T9x5jQ_U

...ahem. Anyway. That's my two cents, for all they're worth (0.01845USD, according to Google). I can't really speak for the fandom(s), since I'm still getting through most of canon for the first time, myself. ;)

[everlasting-day.livejournal.com]

Epic picspam for an epic episode! That last shot is just hilarious.

Abyss was stunningly, amazingly good. But then I'm a huge Daniel fan so I think it would've been weird if I didn't like it. In terms of really warming up to a character I've been appreciating O'Neill a lot more recently and I'm not sure why.

I'm also making my way through the entirety of SG-1, although it's for the first time (the last episode I watched was 7.09, Avenger 2.0), a process I started late August last year. I had a massive break towards the end of season four, but now I'm back in full force and bought the complete series boxset and everything because I adore it to pieces. I've already watched all of Atlantis, so it's a lot of fun seeing how certain concepts and characters got set up for that series, especially the pre-Atlantis appearances of McKay.

It's nice to have someone on the f-list who's going through it as well, be it the first or second time! And because I have to ask, what are your favourite episodes so far?

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Hah, you're warming up to O'Neill and I'm warming up to Daniel! Clearly the show's doing something right. ;)

I actually started watching the show for the very first time ever in... April of this year, I think, after having watched most of SGA (I got stuck in that feeling where I didn't want to have finished the show, so I kept putting off watching the last few episodes - and then I realized I had an excuse to go back to the very start). So with that very first watch, I got to somewhere in season six, and then I got the complete boxset at the end of June and decided I might as well start from scratch. So I've seen "200", but apart from that, all of seasons seven through ten are a mystery to me! This is awesome. So my re-watch is about to become a first-time watch as well!

Favourite episodes? Ooh, that's tricky. I'm a huge fan of the cracky ones ("1969", "Window of Opportunity"), because the sense of humour's what I love best about the show. Normally with any TV show, I'm weird and prefer the standalone episodes over the sprawling epic season finales, but with SG-1 it's possibly the other way around, because I adore the big two-parters a ridiculous amount. I just watched "Redemption" and really enjoyed it - of course, McKay seemed a lot more McKay-like in it than he was in "48 Hours", so I enjoyed that quite a lot. ;) I'm gonna say that O'Neill is my favourite character, so anything featuring him is pretty high on my list, and I'd completely forgotten how much I adore Jonas Quinn. (I mean, he's a weather geek! How can you go wrong?)

Okay, I'm in rambling-mode, here. Onwards! Um. Despite the obvious and somewhat OTT h/cness of "Solitudes", I adore the twist of having them still be on Earth (especially coming from Atlantis, so you feel like you should've known about the Antarctic gate). "The First Ones" is a really neat Daniel-centric episode, and I cheerfully confess that I'm a sucker for the sci-fi trope of trying to communicate at the most basic level and discovering common ground. And I just watched "The Other Guys", which had lots of hilarious moments, but I may just have been sucked in by the Star Trek jokes.

Okay, so this is probably an indicator that I miss having people to discuss my shiny new fandoms with. ;) Glad you're seeing these episodes for the first time as well! Which are your favourite episodes?

[everlasting-day.livejournal.com]

It must be! I think it was season five where I think I really started to "get" Jack, if that makes any sense. I'm not sure why, it just happened. I'm looking forward to rewatching some of the older episodes and seeing him in a different light as it were.

I watched SG-1 for the exact same reasons. I didn't want Atlantis to end and I wanted more Stargate, so it was sort of the logical thing to do. I only half-remembered the original movie from my childhood, but I knew enough to not be baffled Children of the Gods. I actually bought and watched the movie last week and was sort of mind-blown by some of the similarities and differences and the big budget. James Spader!Daniel totally carries it, though and probably made it better than it was.

Those are some excellent episodes there! Window of Opportunity is just the absolute funniest episode by a mile and a big favourite of mine. I also love Redemption and Solitudes (I didn't see the twist coming either!). I loved Jonas too and I kind of wished he'd stuck around - I don't see why SG-1 couldn't have had five members!

It's an awfully long series and I've got an awfully large amount of favourites, so I'll try and narrow it down to the ones I really loved. There But for the Grace of God, which is a bit like SG-1's version of Inferno from Doctor Who; The Fifth Race for the meeting with the Asgard and the stunning musical score; Holiday because I'm a sucker for well-done body-swap episodes and I love Christopher Judge's O'Neill acting; Forever in a Day because it's heart-wrenching and has another brilliant twist; Jolinar's Memories/The Devil You Know for the big epic action-y hell world stuff and the fantastic cliffhanger; 2010 because it's clever and incredibly dark; Threshold because it made me cry and I doubt there'll ever be another Teal'c episode as good; Summit/Last Stand for the huge System Lord party; Menace for the Daniel angst and the Replicators; Meridian because it's gorgeous beyond words; Abyss and Paradise Lost, which is a successful attempt at doing something different and manages to be amazingly tense. Phew!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Abyss really is one of their best, I think - though in all the angst the line that comes to mind is Jack's "Your name is Ball?", lolz...

My daughter bought all the SG-1 seasons on dvd and completely hooked the entire family a while ago, great stuff.

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

Excellent picspam! I love Abyss. It was one of the first episodes of SG1 I ever watched.

[archersangel (from livejournal.com)]

great picspam! especally part that last pic is from. michael shanks is made to bend over & he says: "i already got the part!" or something.
*sigh* i'm rewatching this on hulu.com & they don't have any extras or comentary. although i've cought one or two on youtube.
did you see the behind-the-scenes for (i forget the episode) where jack is in his bathroom & gets a call from daniel?
and summit (or maybe it was last stand?) with MS in that slave-boy outfit?

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

I so adore this Directors Series as BEST EVER (But Lost City rivals it. "I defy you to sell that line!"