THAT Evening with Chris Judge

[marguerite_krux]

My third convention experience would have to rank at the bottom of the list so far. I was expecting it to be awesome- and you know, it kinda was, just because it’s not everyday you meet Chris Judge- but there is just one recommendation I hope the organizers will implement to make the next con a million times better.

RESTRICT THE AMOUNT OF FRAKKING ALCOHOL YOU GIVE THE GUESTS.

Because seriously. Chris Judge was smashed. He was so drunk it wasn’t funny. Well, no, it started off funny and then it was just taxing. Every word he spoke was punctuated by a gulp of Scotch. Ask him a question? More Scotch before, during and after his answer. I had a serious question to ask him about the show but I shelved it because the atmosphere of the evening was decidedly…seedy.

It was bodily functions here, sexual innuendo, strike that, sexual explicitness there, and the lowest point was when this woman ran up to the stage and pulled up his shirt to stroke his interestingly tattooed stomach. Oookay. I wonder if she’ll watch the dvd of it later and cringe at her actions. I swear, everyone else in the audience was cringing for her.

Then he spent ten minutes discussing the fart wars onset between him and RDA…it was so bad, so established that the crew kept a chart of who stunk more. He even implemented changes to his diet to maximize the rank effect. And if everything he said was the gospel truth, it devolved so far that they had to evacuate during one scene because the air was unfit to sustain human life. The studio apparently issued memos the next day saying that ‘bodily functions that cause costly production delays will no longer be tolerated’. O.o I have to ask, does alcohol obtain the truth from people, or cause them to exaggerate? Because this is ridiculous, and would make me lose a bit of respect for those two, which would be rather sad.

With such conversation topics setting the mood for the night, it didn’t feel right to ask him what he thought of the development of the Jaffa in the last two seasons of the show, their bizarrely ungrateful and even hostile attitudes towards Earth, and in particular, the way they alienated Teal’c, even though he did the most to help free them from slavery to false gods. A bit of gratitude wouldn’t go amiss, you know? But given his rambling, incoherent answers that often bore no relevance to the question posed, my chances of getting a straight answer to that were as high as…being beamed up to the Daedalus for a highly classified trip over to Atlantis. For my incredibly strong ATA gene, naturally, see, I can too come up with a plausible excuse. It’s a scenario I often ponder Mary-Sue-ing into fic before my better angels interfere.

The night wasn’t a nightmare, it was quite entertaining at times. He swore a lot, which I expected due to the special features on various dvds, and it was STILL amusing because you have to love the contrast between stoic Teal’c and ‘f*ck this, motherf*cking that’ Chris. And his anti-establishment attitude was pretty funny because he just finished saying how restricted actors are at these events; in the old days you could be honest with the fans, now you have to be guarded- unless you’re ‘seven scotches, seven doubles down’- what with everything being recorded nowadays, you make one comment and it ends posted on the internet, uploaded on youtube and then you get called into the office to explain yourself…but f*ck them, they don’t matter, I owe you guys here more than them at the studios, it’s the FANS with all the POWER that make things HAPPEN and they ROCK. [Everyone applauds]

My favorite moment would have to be his explanation of the Jaffa ‘kel no reem’ [sp?] tradition. I think it’s an old story, but anyway. Basically, in the Tok’ra two-parter, the main woman- Gershaw?- had a five page monologue but turned up on set knowing NONE of her lines. So he was just standing in the background, bored to death, and eventually ended up dozing against the wall. I so need to dig up this ep to see if it’s true! He was called into the ‘how come?’ room to account for his actions, and TPTB didn’t buy his ‘I’m not human, why would I care?’ line, so he was frantically trying to think up some excuse for slacking off like this…and it came to him, ‘I was meditating. I need to commune with my symbiote…and they BOUGHT IT!’ Heh. So the whole ‘Jaffa need to meditate to keep in sync with their symbiote’ thing was made up to get him out of trouble… *snickers* I love it. B^)

The most disappointing aspect of the evening was probably the autograph session- I went up to get two autographs and he asked if I wanted it personalized…which…HELL YEAH. Gave him my name, and suggested- in reference to a moment earlier in his Q&A session in which he rang up this woman’s daughter and boomed down the phone-‘this is God’…but when I looked at the two autographs afterwards, he’d just scrawled his name and a peace/heart sign! facepalm Two autographs…at least my NAME would’ve been nice…Katherine spelt hers out for him, and then asked if he could put ‘Love you always’, which he did, remarking, ‘You know we’re going to have to have sex later, right?’ OMFG, she was just so hyper after that. I would’ve thought her parents might express some concern over this propositioning of their daughter but apparently they were just jealous that she went and met him, and found his line incredibly funny… O.o Okay, I’m jealous as hell, let it go…

The photo session was pretty fun, he was really charming, shook hands which- I can’t remember the last time I shook hands with anyone! Katherine and I were giggling like little girls when we returned to our seats, it was ridiculous how gleeful we were!

[really really bad quality pic- scanner's not working right now so I took a picture *of* the picture, lol]

I also adored his line about how they were all one big happy family on the Stargate set- it was hysterical that Amanda and Teryl were like sisters, and in true irritating sister fashion, whenever there were female guest stars on the show, they would keep them away from the guys! Chris was all indignant, ‘They wouldn’t sleep with us, but they wouldn’t let anyone else sleep with us either!’ Lol. I can’t stop laughing at the image in my head of the Stargate women acting territorial around their ‘brothers’ and never letting them near the weekly guest actresses. *snickers*

The WORST thing about the evening was that the event ended up running spectacularly overtime…and it was a school-night. We were supposed to catch the 11pm train, but missed that and had to stick around for the midnight train…which meant that mother had to pick me up at 1am…she was so angry, she hasn’t spoken a single non-pissy word to me since. The main thing I gather is bugging her was that I didn’t ring. Not that I needed a ride that late on a school night, which would be understandable, but I didn’t ring her earlier. Wtf? I rang her at 11:20, when we finally located the platform for the next train, but for some reason, she thought I should’ve called around 10:30, even though we were in line for the autographs/photo collection and still hoping to make the train. I don’t get her anger, what difference does it make when I rang? It’s not like she was waiting at the train station for me already…and it’s really unpleasant at home right now, I’ll say ‘morning’ to her and she freezes me with a look of contempt. *sighs* THANKS, CHRIS JUDGE.

Scotty, who runs these events, is still being irritatingly close-mouthed about the huge actor they’re negotiating with for the next con- all bets are still on RDA, but I’m hoping it’s not next month like they hinted because GODS, I won’t be allowed for sure and it will kill me if I can’t see him. Disgusting on-set competitions or not, dude, I can’t miss RDA! The only concrete info I have is that the next Armageddon expo will be at the end of the year with David Hewlett and Andee, the wraith queen! *dances*

My old wish list of actors I most want to meet had Torri at the top…and of course, she’s still up there, I’m not that fickle with my heart. But she’s tied with Mary McDonnell now! Scotty’s a BSG fan, so my fingers are crossed that maybe he’ll make it happen. *flails* I would just DIE of fangirly glee if I ever had the chance to meet the two of them!

Okay, that covers the important things, I guess…

...the journey there was fun, it was mainly the way it ended that soured the event for me. The autograph thing, and mother being made at me, I mean. Everything in the day was so so fun, Katherine came over after her mid-semester exam and we hung out for a while. 



I love it when people cook for me, lol, I never do any cooking at all though I stirred the sauce!. She was the one that operated the stove, basically being the good little housewife, heh. Caleb’s going to live well whenever they end up marrying.

We still didn’t finish the BSG miniseries and it’s seriously aggravating me now. Made it to the part where Adama and Roslin shake hands on their agreement, and boy, did I cringe at the whole ‘are you intending to take over the government, impose martial law’ line because, ugh, foreshadowing, much? HATEFUL writers. *hurls knives* Anyway, this was the most important scene for me but we barely registered it because we were getting ready to leave, I was running around getting dressed and freaking out because my dress, at just above knee-length, was TOO FRAKKING SHORT. sniffles That’ll teach me not to dress rehearse. I had to wear leggings in the end. Gods damn it.

On the other hand, in order to make the best of a sucky situation, I’ve been wearing skirts and dresses and it’s hilarious the number of comments I receive along the line of, ‘You look lovely today’- I feel all, oookay, what do I look like normally? Um…hmm. XP That has to be the worst back-handed compliment, because while it makes you feel good about how you appear at the moment, you wonder what’s wrong with you the other 99.9 % of the time…

Comments

[justhere1971.livejournal.com]

Awww even with his drunkenness he sounds fun. I am glad you had fun regardless. It's good to go with a like minded friend. Your mom will come around, moms always do.

:D

p.s. LOVE the pic of Tori.

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a good thing Chris is a happy drunk, not a mean one! It was funny, he called this dude up to the stage for a hug for NO REASON AT ALL. Very affectionate indeed. I did have a good time, even if it wasn't what I expected- but I'm so hanging out for him to come back next year and do it over again but BETTER. Maybe he'll have sobered up by then? XP

Heh, mothers all know each other. There must be a secret code to this gig or something. It was so sweet, I was delivering my papers yesterday and it started raining just as I was finishing- she rang me up to check if I was all right because I've had a cold this week, and then told me to go to her cupboard and dig around in the back...she had a packet of these coffee lollies I'm addicted to, so that was just lovely! I felt like bursting into song, this old song from my youth, 'Jubilation! She loves me again!' *sighs*

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

They should NOT let the actors booze at conventions. I've heard of conversations Judge and Shanks have had with fans at the con in NJ that contain information from the set about how people feel about each other which should not be repeated. It's unprofessional.

Funny thing is, it seems to be the SG1 people who behave badly. Then again Jason was pretty bad the first time I saw him, and I've heard Paul McGillion can be appalling in the bar at conventions.

They need to remember that a lot of the people in the audience are kids or teenagers, and behave accordingly.

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

I don't know why the alcohol thing is so- institutionalized. It's a given now: actor goes to con, must have alcohol. Bad bad custom to introduce. As long as it's just trash talking and a bit of rowdiness or lack of concentration, nothing's going to happen, even if it isn't the most professional attitude to take- I mean, it is WORK for them, after all. I don't know many professions where you're encouraged to get drunk while promoting your product! But I do wonder if it's going to backfire spectacularly some day. This seems to be a guys-only trend, I think? Or it's only the guys that I've heard behaving like this. What was Jason like when you met him? And PAUL?! Behaving badly? Wow, I would so not expect that from him at all.

Yeah, there were a few kids in the audience, and Chris acknowledged them and all- but proceeded to behave just as he pleased, so...I guess it didn't really matter to him. I would be a bit worried if I were the parents, or maybe they're such fans that they couldn't care less how their idol behaved, 'it's all good because it's a Stargate actor, they can do no wrong'...?

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

By appalling, I mean he's completely pissed. I've heard of him, Shanks, Judge and Momoa all being pissed at conventions. And they just keep feeding them the alcohol.

Generally speaking the girls get up there with a coffee, the guys (except Flanigan) seem to go for alcohol. I think Flanigan had coffee the time I saw him.

They actually apologised for Momoa's behaviour at the creation con in NJ when I saw him there, and said that he'd been spoken to, and told not to swear and drink so much at their events. I bet it hasn't stuck, though. He as f-this, f-that, etc, calling Shannan Doherty a slut and saying he'd never been with her, despite the rumours. Having seen now that he basically got Lisa Bonet pregnant while he was still with Simmone, I don't tend to believe that.

Oh btw, rumour has it he and Lisa have split up and he's staying with Flanigan while he finds a place to stay. What a surprise. Not!

[sapphs.livejournal.com]

Nice con report! I've heard that about Chris Judge and a couple of the other guys. didn't know the drinking was that bad though. And the farting thing is just disgusting *makes face*

DUDE! DUDE!! Mary FRAKKING McDonnell!! If your friend Scotty gets Mary? I am SO FLYING DOWN TO MELBOURNE if she doesn't come to Sydney *flails*

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, the drinking falls under the 'incidentals- keeping actors happy' category of expenditure, apparently. Whatever it takes to make them comfortable. *rolls eyes*

Oh, of course the whole farting thing would be entirely by men. It's so typical! No, I'm not sexist, but I've never come across women who act like this!

EEEEIIIKK! Mary hysteria is contagious! *flails* I'm in the first blush of new obsession where just seeing her NAME makes me want to dance. Does it ever go away? It's distracting!

Oh, and I'm friendly with Scotty, in that we have conversations and it's all nice and amicable, but I wouldn't say we're friends...which is a shame because he is the dude with the power, damn it. It's more the store guys, Beaver and Jason, that I'm friends with- they may not have his authority, but they're really cool because they let me and Katherine have free autographs and photos and discounts on merchandise, so it's awesome! They're starting up their own functions this year, which is a good sign, but it's Doctor Who, so meh. After Rose left, so did my attention span. *pouts*

[leadsisters.livejournal.com]

Hey! May I add you? Found your journal by mistake but I noticed we have similair interests! =D

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Sure, that's fine with me. :D