Threat level Foxtrot Alpha Six. All security teams to the gateroom.
Give me your weapon.
[SG-1 DIRECTORS SERIES "AVATAR"]
Here we are in "Avatar", and we're in game 14.
What happens is we repeat and repeat.
It's kind of a Groundhog Day, kind of "Window of Opportunity" thing.
Teal'c is stuck in a game of his own making.
It's using the "Gamekeeper" chairs, and we've modified them. Badly.
So he puts himself into the game but can't get out.
The reason he can't get out is because of his ego.
Well, his self-image.
- What just happened? - It looks like the chair induced pain.
He knows in a real situation your tactics would be different
if you thought you couldn't feel any pain.
Man, that was a heck of a shock.
He wanted it to be realistic.
Teal'c can't give up. He can't give up until all the Goa'uld are dead.
Now, within the confines of the game, it keeps changing to adapt to them.
They will attempt to destroy the base via the command.
- What? - If you disable the command,
they will be forced to use other means. Only then can we hope to defeat them.
Teal'c, how could you know?
Threat level Foxtrot Alpha Six. All security teams to the gateroom.
OK, this is video reference for scene ten. This is the runup to the armoury.
Teal'c is running in, we see the armoury. We see his hand swipe the door open.
He runs in.
I'm gonna grab a vest from here, from a rack.
This is how all the guns are set up.
And cut. This should not be here.
A card swipe should not fall sideways like this.
Nathaniel Massey.
So, in this show, we make him run all the time.
Everything that happens in the game is his camera.
Normally, we shoot one, two, maybe three cameras, and it's guys sitting on dollies.
Not when Nathaniel does it. He does it on a Steadicam. A Steadicam weighs what?
- 100 pounds. - An extra 100 pounds.
He runs up and down stairs carrying an extra 100 pounds, trying to hold the shot.
There's a scene where he starts in the hallway down there,
runs up through here, down into there.
That's two sets of stairs he has to run up and down and ends in the hallway.
And the whole time he's following Teal'c's face like this.
He's not that good yet, but soon he will be cos they keep working him.
- Another 17 years, maybe. - That's right.
Scene 19 that we're doing right now is...
We've just finished killing a Super Soldier.
We realise the base auto destruct goes off.
...sequence has been activated.
30 seconds to detonation.
We're kind of busy right now. We're just trying to light a Super Soldier.
- And he's all black. - He's black. He's very black.
...around a thing called "blood". It's "Thick Blood". Show me the top.
A star!
Amanda Tapping. Behind the scenes with Amanda Tapping on "Avatar".
Hi, Michael Greenburg. Have you looked at Martin lately? He looks a little crazed.
- This one will be great. - Have you figured what "TBA" means?
"TBA" means "The Brilliant Amanda".
Right. So on all the directors' schedules...
Where there's two TBAs, like this year -
in Season Eight there's two left on the directors' schedule -
it should be "The Brilliant Amanda's" episode, or "To Book Amanda".
Who are these chaps?
No cameras, please. I gotta get to work.
He's got a lawsuit. And that's Chris Judge.
You know I don't do interviews on Friday. No interviews on Friday.
As you come running up, you turn around and you run in there.
And we come by, and as she's typing we go into here.
We see a change, we come back here.
We're clear.
The door is coming up.
And she steps forward and says...
Teal'c.
And the camera doesn't move and she hits her face off it.
Let's go to number one. First team rehearsal. Thank you.
The last line is, "I'm fine".
- Yes, I know. - Have you been saying it?
- Yes. - Michael, have you heard him say it?
Yeah. Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that.
- Can you say it so that we can hear it? - It's internal.
As long as you look toward camera, someone off camera will go, "I'm fine".
- OK, good. - That's how I do some of my best work.
I'm fine.
This is a six-foot-seven Super Soldier dropping from full height.
- We'll feel it down here. - It's a long way down.
- So you didn't like that? - A little soft. A little late, as we say.
I'm expecting this should register on the Richter scale when he hits.
And
action!
Zap!
It should be more like... Like that.
Change.
Base auto destruct has been aborted.
We're clear.
And cut.
Print that, please.
OK, scene 24 here, guys.
- So it doesn't change. You land here. - I'm trying to keep everything straight.
- And come back, and she says... - I don't understand it.
Somebody must have reactivated the auto destruct from a remote location.
I'm locked out of the system. I can't shut it down.
I'll change my shirt and put on the bandage.
Take that off and put the wound back on, and put this shirt back on.
It's faster than I realised. I'm sorry, Chris.
No, no. I was just letting you know.
That's a blatant cheat. I'm not for this whole blatant-cheating thing.
I'm an honourable actor.
I had my shirt cut off in that scene, so I don't think it should be folded in this one.
I think it should be realistic and true to what we've already shot.
Thank you.
Tries to shut off the auto destruct,
the game adapts to that and it doesn't shut off, and we all blow up.
I'm locked out of the system. I can't shut it down.
How did you know?
- But Sherry doesn't blow up, does she? - Sherry blows up with us all.
- Everybody blows up. - That's not what we discussed.
I'm sorry.
- I'm outta here. - See? Gone, blown up.
If we put the cannons right here, right underneath here,
and they go almost up in the air.
So that we do it so it's here?
No, just this way. But if it's this way, pointing this way,
and if it sort of blooms up about 15 feet up above here...
See at her head height? That's where I want the big...
- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.
How about two? One here and one there.
- You want two of 'em? - Make it big.
Propane cannons. Fillin' the gateroom with a big blast.
- Absolutely. - Action!
- Sam? - I don't understand it.
Somebody must have reactivated the auto destruct from a remote location.
I'm locked out of the system. I can't shut it down.
How did you know?
And cut.
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