Interview with Joe Flanigan

[thegrrrl2002]

There's a new interview posted at about.com with Joe Flanigan. It's pretty much spoiler-free, as far as I could tell. It's sort of a silly interview, (I found the interviewer to be kind of annoying) but I was very happy to see this when JF was asked about working with DH:

He’s a great counterpart to my character. We were having some fun working together. I said to the producers, and I was just joking around, “Why don’t we do some of the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby episodes in space?” And you’ll see that in this season, he and I getting ourselves into trouble and then trying to get out. He has the brain, and I have the gun.

::squee!!!::

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[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

Oh god, he gets the dumbest questions, doesn't he? And you can tell, even with the stupid going on, he's really very thoughtful about the character and the characters place in the show. Which of course he'd have to be, considering he's written an episode. He's smart, yet questions-dumb, dumb, dumb.

I was suprised by the acknowledgement that he wrote an ep, since I had heard that he wasn't doing it after all.

I was very glad to see that they were still playing up the Sheppard and McKay fun in the new season. I think TPTB themselves weren't really expecting it, from some of the comments I've seen. I actually suspect that McKay wasn't intended to go off-world regularly, and that might be while Zelenka's role has grown.

I was interested in seeing JF comment that McKay gets on Sheppard's nerves.

I think that's certainly a simplification of their relationship. *g* I also thought it was interesting that he mentioned the security vs. exploration issue--that really hadn't come up yet, and I can see it as a possible source of confict. So maybe that's what he's talking about.

I'm really looking forward to the new season. Very much so.