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Jan. 27th, 2009 10:46 pmGateworld recently (well, before Christmas), did a 27 minute long interview with Connor Trinneer concerning Michael and Stargate: Atlantis. - among a few other things... like Enterprise. Yeah, okay thinking about it that was pretty much the entire content. (My homeboy DK was also 'somewhat mentioned.').
Anyway, there were some parts of the interview that really hit home. I'm quoting a few of them, but if you want to read, hear or see the whole thing (and I recommend the 'seeing part') then go to Gateworld to the Checkmate page.
On Michael
He was a man without a home. I think that that did play into everything that happened. He was grasping with straws, all of them. There was a time when he was working with [Atlantis]. It was for his own benefit. He was somebody who just didn't have a lot of grounding.
I know people who have been saying this as a motivation for Michael for a very long time. It was nice to hear it coming out of Connor's mouth too.
This really genius scientist who has the ability to take this information and translate it to him and how it can help him.
He was talking about the hybrids, and how he's taken the Atlantis retrovirus thing and used it to his own ends...
On Michael and the Writing of/for Michael
I think he got talked about more than you probably saw him. Sure, it would've been nice to go up there. I'm not sure how to put this but I would like to have seen them expand his situation more in a sense that, "Let's get over the fact that he's upset at you guys. Let's get over the fact that 'You've done this to me.'" I don't know how many times I said, "You guys have done this to me."... So it would've been nice to, if they were going to have that be a major part of the storyline, I think it was just a good story. I don't think it was so much a major story. It was just one that people responded to. Yeah, by the end of it I was like, "We need to do something here. Kill him or shake it up."... Or make him more effective. Make the rest of that universe more affected by what he's doing, as opposed to just being an occasional annoying thorn in the side.
Hmmm, sounds like someone wanted a little something more to play with.
Again, the leaps that were taken, it seems, with scenarios like that made me wonder. Are we paying attention to this timeline? Are we paying attention to the arc of this story?
I'm sure they were. Of course they were.(my comment - the writers?) It made it difficult to make that organic in that situation. Now I'm ... really? Am I really going to do that or am I just saying that? It was kind of an interesting acting exercise because I would have to make choices. "Now am I telling the truth?" Just for my own sense of it.
From that, I read that much of the development came form Connor, not from what was written, of course that's just my interpretation of things, but... and not that I didn't expect that anyway. Connor's too good an actor not to.
[If Michael didn't have clones/backup plan] There's no way that he would have gone to such a dangerous place risking everything when he could've just sent somebody who's him. It would make no sense to me whatsoever. It would literally, as far as I'm concerned, fracture a portion of this character.
Yay Connor... can't really say a lot more than that.
On Michael and Teyla
I have to say this much. I really felt that it had to be -- if he wasn't in love with Teyla -- it was never really written into it, but there had to be some sort of draw that he had to her.
Is this where we thumb our noses at those people who don't ship Michael and Teyla?
On Michael's Fate
There has to be. [Clones of Michael] There has to be several. I'm serious! You know what he probably did? He probably put them on ice where some sort of trigger, if something doesn't happen, if he doesn't have some sort of contact, radar, the light goes off or something, and one of them is going to wake up.
If they're true clones they're going to have the exact same sentiments and sensibilities that he has.
Either he went [to Atlantis] and made copies or he sent a copy. There were cracks in the armor of that guy in that episode that you hadn't seen before for Michael. He was definitely more unhinged than any other time you'd seen him before.
Truly, if he doesn't have a six-pack somewhere of Michaels in cold storage then shame on Michael. I just don't think that ...
Seriously, you should go and read the whole thing, or watch it. without my particular muddling and interpretation on it. It's a good interview...
...and when asked if he thought that Michael would be in one of the movies, he said that if he were it would have to be a movie /about/ Michael.
Bring it on, that's what I say.
Anyway, there were some parts of the interview that really hit home. I'm quoting a few of them, but if you want to read, hear or see the whole thing (and I recommend the 'seeing part') then go to Gateworld to the Checkmate page.
On Michael
He was a man without a home. I think that that did play into everything that happened. He was grasping with straws, all of them. There was a time when he was working with [Atlantis]. It was for his own benefit. He was somebody who just didn't have a lot of grounding.
I know people who have been saying this as a motivation for Michael for a very long time. It was nice to hear it coming out of Connor's mouth too.
This really genius scientist who has the ability to take this information and translate it to him and how it can help him.
He was talking about the hybrids, and how he's taken the Atlantis retrovirus thing and used it to his own ends...
On Michael and the Writing of/for Michael
I think he got talked about more than you probably saw him. Sure, it would've been nice to go up there. I'm not sure how to put this but I would like to have seen them expand his situation more in a sense that, "Let's get over the fact that he's upset at you guys. Let's get over the fact that 'You've done this to me.'" I don't know how many times I said, "You guys have done this to me."... So it would've been nice to, if they were going to have that be a major part of the storyline, I think it was just a good story. I don't think it was so much a major story. It was just one that people responded to. Yeah, by the end of it I was like, "We need to do something here. Kill him or shake it up."... Or make him more effective. Make the rest of that universe more affected by what he's doing, as opposed to just being an occasional annoying thorn in the side.
Hmmm, sounds like someone wanted a little something more to play with.
Again, the leaps that were taken, it seems, with scenarios like that made me wonder. Are we paying attention to this timeline? Are we paying attention to the arc of this story?
I'm sure they were. Of course they were.(my comment - the writers?) It made it difficult to make that organic in that situation. Now I'm ... really? Am I really going to do that or am I just saying that? It was kind of an interesting acting exercise because I would have to make choices. "Now am I telling the truth?" Just for my own sense of it.
From that, I read that much of the development came form Connor, not from what was written, of course that's just my interpretation of things, but... and not that I didn't expect that anyway. Connor's too good an actor not to.
[If Michael didn't have clones/backup plan] There's no way that he would have gone to such a dangerous place risking everything when he could've just sent somebody who's him. It would make no sense to me whatsoever. It would literally, as far as I'm concerned, fracture a portion of this character.
Yay Connor... can't really say a lot more than that.
On Michael and Teyla
I have to say this much. I really felt that it had to be -- if he wasn't in love with Teyla -- it was never really written into it, but there had to be some sort of draw that he had to her.
Is this where we thumb our noses at those people who don't ship Michael and Teyla?
On Michael's Fate
There has to be. [Clones of Michael] There has to be several. I'm serious! You know what he probably did? He probably put them on ice where some sort of trigger, if something doesn't happen, if he doesn't have some sort of contact, radar, the light goes off or something, and one of them is going to wake up.
If they're true clones they're going to have the exact same sentiments and sensibilities that he has.
Either he went [to Atlantis] and made copies or he sent a copy. There were cracks in the armor of that guy in that episode that you hadn't seen before for Michael. He was definitely more unhinged than any other time you'd seen him before.
Truly, if he doesn't have a six-pack somewhere of Michaels in cold storage then shame on Michael. I just don't think that ...
Seriously, you should go and read the whole thing, or watch it. without my particular muddling and interpretation on it. It's a good interview...
...and when asked if he thought that Michael would be in one of the movies, he said that if he were it would have to be a movie /about/ Michael.
Bring it on, that's what I say.
