Joseph Mallozzi's Blog! (SPOILERS For All SG Shows and Dark Matter)

[Skydiver]

lolol

Oh the HORROR

little hobbit sized aliens with thick horned rimmed glasses that make thier eyes look googly

[prion]

Googlion: (noun) A word created by Joe Mallozzi just to drive fans nuts trying to figure out what it means.

[Pitry]

It could be a kind of lion that devours google users....

(yeah, that wasn't very funny. Erm.)

[Listy]

The exciting mid season 2 parter - where McKay spends too much time on Google, downloads spoilers for the second part of the season and starts a fanwar on Atlantis.

A Googlion in this context is probably a hoarder/acquirer of knowledge. Exactly how they go about this should be interesting. Eat their brains? Hook 'em up to a machine ("The Great Library") that sucks knowledge out? Do it telepathically? Or just keep 'em captive and ask them endless questions? Though that would be extremely inefficient.

Hmm. A race of sociopathic/genocidal librarians. There's something appealing in that.

I may give my local library a miss for a while - damn I am working there for the next 12 weeks, anyone got a spare stunner (just incase!!)

Googlion: (noun) A word created by Joe Mallozzi just to drive fans nuts trying to figure out what it means.

He must have had a quiet spell and needed something to amuse him for a few hours, see how many fans he can send into a catatonic state trying to figure it out You gotta love JM

[*Erika*]

JM must like to see us going crazy trying to figure out his spoilers!

[prion]

JM must like to see us going crazy trying to figure out his spoilers!

It's his hobby, I'm sure....

[PG15]

http://josephmallozzi.blogspot.com/2...ne-9-2007.html

June 9

Photos: Food + Restaurant.

Write-Up: Food review, and, as I knew he would, Joe dropped the following hints for "Rise of the Googlions Part 1":

Well, spent most of the early afternoon writing the outline for Rise of the Googlions Part I. A number of pieces fall into place as many of the things we’ve been building toward come to fruition (and not in a sweet apple sort of way either). Surprises in store; revelations galore.

Questions:

Anonymous #1 writes: “ 1: Since the Rainbow was on the enzyme, what happens if he was injected with the retrovirus? 2: About Ronon's rank of Specialist, is it a commissioned rank or not, and is there a Earth equivalent? 3: When was the last time Jason went to NZ?”

Answers: 1. Rainbow was on the enzyme? 2. It’s commissioned. Not sure about the Earth equivalent. 3. No idea.

PG 15 writes: “In your opinion, how different would Seasons 2 and 3 of Atlantis be if SG1 ended at the end of Season 8 (and Stargate Command never started)?”

Answer: I’ve never really thought about it. We would have had more time to concentrate on less scripts. On the other hand, we would have had less opportunities to take advantage of the simultaneous productions. It’s very hard to speculate.

Anonymous #2 writes: “YOU ARE SOOO BAD!! To insinuate that Martin is not making a significant contribution to society.”

Answer: Come on. He’s a television producer. They’re worse than spam distributors.

Anonymous #3 writes: “A Sheyla hug? Reason for me not to watch.”

Answer: And if you’re anti-slash - beware! There’s an episode in which Zelenka and Sheppard share a smile!

Lizzyshoe writes: “Rise of the Googlions? You're kidding right?”

Answer: When have you ever known me to kid? What’s wrong with Rise of the Googlions? Is it the “Rise of” you object to?

Diana writes: “First, Do you know if any of the actors are doing commentaries for season 3? Second, while I plan to watch the airings of SGA regardless, how does that help the ratings?”

Answers: Don’t know and getting the word out about the show will hopefully bringing in new viewers who will hopefully like the show enough to bring even more viewers into the fold. And if a couple of them are Nielsen families, all the better.

Jenny Robin writes: “I remember one season when there was a contest for submitting story ideas to the show. I was convinced I had the best idea EVER, so I mailed it off to the given address. Alas, no episode was ever made involving Punky and her friends finding treasure in the hollow of a tree trunk.”

Answer: So that’s where Paul got the idea for the season finale!

Nicolas a ecrit: “1°) Est-ce que vous pensez que la série va battre le record de SG1 qui est de 10 saisons? 2°) Est ce que Elisabeth Weir va faire son grand retour dans la saison 5?”

Reponses: 1) Non, je ne croix pas que SGA va battre le record. 2) Nous n’avons pas meme commencé a penser a la cinquieme saison.

Silver writes: “I enjoyed Family ties […]. I was wondering how much fun the set designers had furnishing Vala's father's apartment.”

Answer: A little too much fun. I had to swing by set and have them tone down the look of the apartment. The filmed version was relatively tasteful in comparison.

Anonymous #4 writes: “Is Rodney's character going to change in anyway now that Carter has joined the team?”

Answer: You mean “Will Rodney turn into a sniveling, love-struck puppy dog around Carter?”. The answer is no.

Farscape Fan writes: “Is it possible that Vala's father didn't know that his daughter was taken a host to Goau'ld? Where was he when that happened? And how long exactly Vala was the host to Qetesh?”

Answers: It’s possible. He was away for a lot of the time she was growing up and it’s more than likely they’ve lost touch for a while. As for how long Vala had been a host to Qetesh - clearly not that long in comparison to other goa’uld hosts.

Anonymous #5 writes: “Rodney's allergy to citrus - real and deathly, or part of his hypochondria and he only THINKS it's a deathly allergy? Or maybe somewhere in the middle - he is allergic but it's not as serious as he thinks it is.”

Answer: Let me put it this way. Rodney’s citrus allergy was based on someone Brad and Robert knew who insisted he had a terrible citrus allergy. Whenever they would go out, he would make it a point to inform the waitress that “a single drop could kill me!”. They later learned that, unbeknownst to him, he had been unwittingly consuming plenty of citrus all along. Make of that what you will.

Ruffles writes: “Do you write a bio when you create a character or do you decide on general characteristics and flesh out the rest as opportunity permits?”

Answer: We don’t write anything down. We have a general idea of who or what we want the character to be and then find and develop them in the writing.

Anonymous #6 writes: “From where the Queens and the Keeper find these wonderful clothes?!”

Answer: They cull Winners.

Rebekah writes: “I love SGA. But I am so worried that it's going to become a sci-fi soap opera of who's sleeping with whom.”

Answer: Based on what?

My Name Is Scott writes: “What's the most miserable sacrifice you've ever had to make in regards to a plot element or effect you or a fellow writer has written that had to be given up?”

Answer: A producer’s life is filled with sacrifices. Take a look at Irresponsible for a great example. Often, the budget dictates what one can and cannot do. One sacrifice that comes to mind was the opening scene in Lockdown. I had written a sequence that would take place entirely on the international space station. Because it proved too pricey, we had to infer most of the action by having most of it take place via video-link in the SGC. Not quite as satisfying.

Anonymous #7 writes: “If the worst should come to the worst and Atlantis doesn't get a fifth season and there's no chance of continuing the series in a movie format would you let the fans know what you guys had planned for how you wanted the series to be resolved?”

Answer: If worse comes to worse, I’m sure MGM will find a way to have the Atlantis team continue its adventures in one way or another.

[*Erika*]

Anonymous #3 writes: “A Sheyla hug? Reason for me not to watch.”

Answer: And if you’re anti-slash - beware! There’s an episode in which Zelenka and Sheppard share a smile!

[Blower'sGate]

Nicolas a ecrit: “1°) Est-ce que vous pensez que la série va battre le record de SG1 qui est de 10 saisons? 2°) Est ce que Elisabeth Weir va faire son grand retour dans la saison 5?”

Nicolas writes : 10°) "Do you think the show will beat SG1's 10 seasons record? 29) Will Elizabeth Weir make a huge come back in season 5?"

Reponses: 1) Non, je ne croix pas que SGA va battre le record. 2) Nous n’avons pas meme commencé a penser a la cinquieme saison.

Answers : 1) No, I don't think SGA will beat SG1's record. 2) We haven't started thinking about season 5 yet.

*runs*

[Major Tyler]

Reponses: 1) Non, je ne croix pas que SGA va battre le record. 2) Nous n’avons pas meme commencé a penser a la cinquieme saison.

Wow! I actually understood that! Those Walloons got to me!

[ShadowMaat]

Answer: If worse comes to worse, I’m sure MGM will find a way to have the Atlantis team continue its adventures in one way or another.

Yeah, on Stargate: Universe!

That's assuming, of course, that the show even gets made.

[Blower'sGate]

Wow! I actually understood that! Those Walloons got to me!

LMAO! See, wallon'ian' isn't that difficult to understand!

[Willow'sCat]

Can I get a volunteer to hold Joe down while I hit him?

*wow so many volunteers*

[Elite Anubis Guard]

Yep the pic is of Cassie, and the others are Daniel and Sam and Jack fishing *tries to reign in her squee*

No Teal'c though? Hmmm...strange.

Looks like Jack in a suit...somewhat looks like his wedding suit from 200. XD

[scifithinker]

A Googlion in this context is probably a hoarder/acquirer of knowledge. Exactly how they go about this should be interesting. Eat their brains? Hook 'em up to a machine ("The Great Library") that sucks knowledge out? Do it telepathically? Or just keep 'em captive and ask them endless questions? Though that would be extremely inefficient.

Hmm. A race of sociopathic/genocidal librarians. There's something appealing in that.

Speaking as a person who works in a library, I love it!

Some might complain it's too much realism and not enough escapism for the hsow, tho.

...


*has librarians trauma*

I refuse to claim responsibility for the initial trauma, but I'll be happy to compound it if my fellow gateworlders would like....