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Well, former Stargate: Atlantis Executive Producer Martin Gero finally made his triumphant return to The Bridge Studios. Yesterday. Unfortunately, I wasn’t around so I missed the parade and pizza lunch in his honor. I was, however, back in the office today and on hand to welcome him in proper fashion: with a thrilling tour of the standing sets. And so, after getting the update on his adventures in New York (in addition to working on the new HBO series Bored To Death, he also apparently won a spot on the Mets’ pitching rotation), we all (Marty G., Carl, Paul, Lawren, and I) headed downstairs to check out Stage 5 where the thrilling off-Destiny sequences for Space were being shot.

After that, we popped into Stage 6 to say hello to the Atlantis set, then strolled across the lot to Stage 2 for a walk-thru the hydroponics lab and shuttle (Martin took it for a spin).

We capped off our tour with a visit to the Destiny on Stage 4 – corridors, kino room, apple core, observation deck, control interface room, quarters, and, of course, the gate room.

Mission accomplished, we swung by the catering, and caught a ride back to the Production Offices on the Special Effects golf cart courtesy of Special Effects Supervisor Wray Douglas (next time, I‘m borrowing his jet pack).

Alas, we didn’t get around to discussing any stories today but Martin did manage to knock off three of the comedy routines on our request list including perennial crowd-pleaser “Lip-Smacking Landry”. Sadly, no Topango as of yet but I have my fingers crossed for tomorrow. When I left him (Martin not Topango), he was in his office (actually, not really HIS office anymore. Since he left, we’ve been renting it out as a timeshare to vacationing Swedes), sprawled out on his couch, catching up on his script-reading (Space, Divided, and Lucid). Tonight, we’re be heading out for dinner with Carl. Ah, just like old times.

Hey, check out the latest addition to my ever-growing library – a book that has found its way to the top of my to-read pile on the basis of its title alone: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Brilliant!

Finally, to all you Ashleigh fans (both of you) who asked how her Q&A is coming along – it’s done!  She sent it to me about an hour ago, but I was unable to open the attached file.  I asked her to re-send it which she did but, again, I was still unable to open  it.  I emailed her back: “For some reason I’m unable to open docx documents.  Is this some sort of cheap Lithuanian software program?  Could you re-send as a more suitably Western Word document or PDF file?”.  Moments later, I received her response: “Sheesh you are high maintenance.  Copy and pasted for your enjoyment.”  Well, ”enjoyment” is a bit of a stretch, but I’ll let you all decide when I post it as tomorrow’s entry.

Tagged: Jane Austen, Martin Gero, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith, Stargate, Stargate Universe