Claudia = ChickwithGun
Ben = BlackTee
Moderator: Ah... Silence is golden
Moderator: I'll explain how to ask questions once we start
BlackTee: ahhhh
BlackTee: look ma... I can talk
Barbarella: I was hoping we could keep the gag on
Moderator: We'll start in a minute folks
Moderator: Ben can you type?
BlackTee: Don't suppose chickwithgun can do a little singing for us?
ChickwithGun: ben can you shoosh now?
Moderator: Hi everybody, thanks for joining us. I'm Ben Trumble for SCIFI. Tonight we're pleased to be chatting with actors Ben Browder and Claudia Black about SCIFI's original mini-series Farscape Peacekeeper War, coming later this year.
BlackTee: Yes Mam
Moderator: Brief word about the drill. This is a moderated chat -- please send your questions for our guests to ChatQ, as private messages. One question per person please.
ChickwithGun: hi everyone
Moderator Well. We zillion of Q's... so lets begin
BlackTee: Wow... de... ja... vu...
Moderator: Hi Ben and Claudia! How does it feel to be back working on Farscape again?
BlackTee: lets do it
ChickwithGun: It was very gruelling
ChickwithGun: but really fun to see everyone
BlackTee: It was outstanding to be back
Moderator: Guys do me a favor and type GA at the end of your answer so I can go on to the next thing
ChickwithGun: Ga
BlackTee: But very surreal
BlackTee: A massive family reunion
ChickwithGun: Surreal, but nice, as they say in "notting hill"
BlackTee: very nice
BlackTee: ga
Moderator: Thanks so much for being here. How do you feel about the steady growth of reality tv worldwide and the decline of scripted television, particularly in the sci-fi/fantasy genre? Do you think we've seen the end of this kind of format, or do you think people will get a clue one of these days and realize that they're watching garbage?
ChickwithGun: Ben , i think you are done answering that one...
ChickwithGun: tee hee
BlackTee: With reality TV they are not really watching reality
ChickwithGun: I think numbers are dropping off gradually ratings wise on reality shows but everything has cycles of popularity
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: anytime a camera is pointed it takes a pov... point of view
BlackTee: Quiz shows ruled the 1950's
BlackTee: Reality TV rules today
BlackTee: perhaps the next cycle of TV will be Westerns
ChickwithGun: I have to admit that I watch survivor and I love rupert ga
ChickwithGun: Claudia blushes ga
BlackTee: or Fan scripted TV???
BlackTee: ga
Moderator: Do either of you feel as if you have been typecast because of your work in Farscape, or do you feel it's only propelled your career's forward into new arena's that weren't open to you before?
ChickwithGun: I have no idea what Fascape will or won't do for my career, only time will tell GA
BlackTee: I haven't been cast enough outside of Farscape to know what my type is.
BlackTee: Let's come back to that question in 10 years.
BlackTee: ga
Moderator: Ben, Claudia thank you very much for taking the time to join us. How did the two of you react when you were contacted about reprising your roles for the upcoming mini-series?
ChickwithGun: yeah when they are doing " Farscape.. where are they now???"
ChickwithGun: GA
BlackTee: I refused to believe it
BlackTee: I'm still not sure I believe it
ChickwithGun: I didn't believe it either. I thought it would take too long and we would be in zimmerframes GA
BlackTee: Isn't Farscape that show that died off quietly?
BlackTee: I mean... Far... what?
ChickwithGun: fire-escape
BlackTee: It's a miracle.
BlackTee: And we owe a whole bunch of people.... big time
BlackTee: I think you know who you are.
BlackTee: ga
Moderator: Ben & Claudia: At what stage of the Mini are you working on?
BlackTee: Post production
ChickwithGun: The part where Claudia gets to work on her sun tan
BlackTee: Still haven't done the additional dialogue
BlackTee: Claude... you have a tan????
BlackTee: I wanna see.
ChickwithGun: They are in early post production at the moment
ChickwithGun: shut up
BlackTee: no you shuddup
ChickwithGun: I wanna watch you surf
ChickwithGun: you should do a surfing "how to" video ben
BlackTee: do they still have the naked surf contest at Bondi?
ChickwithGun: Yes, you did it remember and they called you the bondi yeti
BlackTee: Okay... you win
ChickwithGun: It 's ok ben, it's only us in a room with four hundred other people, i feel i can say this stuff
BlackTee: we're in post... ga
ChickwithGun: Booyacasha
Moderator: What did you enjoy/dislike about playing Aeryn as a new mother?
BlackTee: Aeryn's a mamma?
ChickwithGun: Always needing to pee
ChickwithGun: Yeah. It's time for Palimony
BlackTee: Cept... who's the daddy?
ChickwithGun: I didn't like it much because Aeryn hated it.... it's in her way of contributing to the ship
BlackTee: They feed babies to moya for fuel
BlackTee: Farscape tech at it's best
ChickwithGun: Deep down she hated it, it wasn't really in the script but that's what andrew prowse and thought
ChickwithGun: and I thought. oops. GA
BlackTee: ga
Moderator: Did the two of you find it difficult to step back into characters you said good bye to almost two years ago? If so, what aspect did you find the most challenging?
BlackTee: They difficulty was in accepting that time had passed...
ChickwithGun: Stepping back into a costume that might not have fit
ChickwithGun: and we were older...
ChickwithGun: and slower
ChickwithGun: and un-used to early starts
BlackTee: It seemed like the year away never really happened.
ChickwithGun: and going out to Homebush
BlackTee: Everything was the same... But DIFFERENT
ChickwithGun: It was quite surreal going back and seeing the sets in different sheds... i got very discombobulated
ChickwithGun: same same, but different as they say in thai restaurants
BlackTee: Yeah... and the sets had moved around
ChickwithGun: I could never find the lunch room
ChickwithGun: and y'all know how important lunch is to me
BlackTee: But the maure factory next door was the same
BlackTee: Manure
BlackTee: even
BlackTee: ga
ChickwithGun: I found that Aeryn did not do the things she normally does because she was slowed down by the pregancy
ChickwithGun: oh, my the smell was BAD
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: Now that you know how it ends, are you happy with the closure the mini-series is supposed to be bringing to the farscape story?
ChickwithGun: but farscape is the show that never ends
BlackTee: I think there is a "To be Continued"
BlackTee: at the end
ChickwithGun: and it goes on and on my friends
BlackTee: like that beer song
ChickwithGun: do a beer... a mexican beeer
ChickwithGun: ray....
ChickwithGun: a guy that buys me beer
BlackTee: I knew we'd get her to sing
ChickwithGun: me a guy, i buy beer for..
ChickwithGun: LOL
BlackTee: ga
ChickwithGun: fa..... a long way to the baaaaarr
ChickwithGun: soooooooo
ChickwithGun: i'll have another beeeeeer
ChickwithGun: la...lalalalalalallalalalllala
ChickwithGun: tea
ChickwithGun: no thanks, i'll have a beer
BlackTee: GA
ChickwithGun: and that brings us back to ....
ChickwithGun: dododododododododo
ChickwithGun: GA
BlackTee: PLEASE
Moderator: How long did it take you to film the mini-series?
ChickwithGun: Go surf naked or somethin'
BlackTee: with you?
ChickwithGun: three months, was it?
ChickwithGun: that
BlackTee: Tan lines and all
BlackTee: 3
ChickwithGun: is quite pervy
BlackTee: months
ChickwithGun: calm down yeti
BlackTee: fur is a natural sunscreen ya know
ChickwithGun: three months of me and Ben picking on each other
BlackTee: three months of her being cruel and unusual
ChickwithGun: what-e-ver
BlackTee: it was TORTURE
ChickwithGun: I am normal
ChickwithGun: very normal
BlackTee: GA
ChickwithGun: yeah, torture.. .ben couldn't remember his lines...EVER
ChickwithGun: just kidding
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: Claudia, you said something at Burbank about what you gave up to work on the "unnamed" project. Is that anything you can share with us yet? No is an acceptable answer if you can't.
ChickwithGun: No
ChickwithGun: ga
ChickwithGun: a lot of people made a lot of personal sacrifices
Moderator: Speaking of pervy-- am I right that the actor who played Aeryn's made-up lover Lechna is the same guy who played her Scarren torturer Jenek? Very Farscape, that.
ChickwithGun: so mine is one among many
ChickwithGun: did any one know that? is it in the credits?
BlackTee: yes... it's true
ChickwithGun: well spotted
BlackTee: ga
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: I had a question for Ben and Claudia will the Cast make an apperance in San Deigo like last year?? and thanks for Showing up Last year =)
ChickwithGun: If i am asked and in town. I would love to.
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: No plans at the moment past getting the Miniseries finished
BlackTee: hopefully that will be mostly done in June... Junish?
BlackTee: Ask Brian on thursday.
BlackTee: GA
Moderator: David Kemper and Rockne O'Bannon often referred to how, from the beginning, they had specific ideas for how the show would end. Does the mini take us that far (to their original goal), or is this an intermediate ending?
ChickwithGun: kinda close.
BlackTee: Ending... WHAT STINKING ENDING
ChickwithGun: david talks like a jazz muso jams.... so some things he says, he's thinking out loud
BlackTee: We don't need no stinkin ending
ChickwithGun: but this is close to how i remember him saying he wanted to do it
BlackTee: This is the song that never ends
ChickwithGun: do a beer....
BlackTee: see?
ChickwithGun: franchise is the word of the new media millenium... things will never end the way they used to
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: Hi. What sort of emotions do your characters go through during the mini-series? Will there be tears?
BlackTee: Yes
BlackTee: many tears
ChickwithGun: never... soldiers never cry
BlackTee: mostly from the fans
ChickwithGun: ben crys like a big fat girl
ChickwithGun: but a cute hairy one
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: I take that as a compliment
BlackTee: there were and will be tears
ChickwithGun: what was that mollusc ep called?
Moderator: Are there special effects on par with the destruction of the Dreadnaught in the mini?
ChickwithGun: you got more wolf whistles than me
BlackTee: Haven't seen the CGI
BlackTee: Expect there to be more
ChickwithGun: you mean, do we blow as much s%^& up?
BlackTee: and bigger
BlackTee: We blowed up the entire galaxy
ChickwithGun: it was pretty high production values they were aiming for
BlackTee: Nothing left behind
BlackTee: no expense spared
ChickwithGun: but no fireworks on wrap this year. :( that's my favourite.
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: Truly... it was big on the explosive front
BlackTee: the sfx guys actually ran out
BlackTee: of hits
BlackTee: and had to import more from America
ChickwithGun: No they just had to go and do mardi gras
BlackTee: Australia ran OUT of PYRO HITS!
BlackTee: True.
BlackTee: ga
Moderator: We're chatting with actors Ben Browder and Claudia Black about SCIFI's original mini-series Farscape Peacekeeper War, coming later this year.
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: Do you think Baby Sun looks more like Claudia or Ben?
BlackTee: Rygel
ChickwithGun: ah.. .that's a sensitive subject
BlackTee: Who kinda looks like Yoda
ChickwithGun: the equivalent of mail man in space looks like what?
BlackTee: Who kinda looks like Frank Oz
ChickwithGun: or milk man
BlackTee: Damn Henson Company
ChickwithGun: who looks like the next actor they'll bring in for farscape with the next gen
BlackTee: But if we had a baby... it would be CUTE!!!
BlackTee: But Hairy
ChickwithGun: yeah... but..
ChickwithGun: took the words right out of my mouth
BlackTee: LOL
BlackTee: GA
ChickwithGun: but i know a great beautician
BlackTee: Ouch
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: What season posed the most difficult challenges for your characters?
BlackTee: ALL of THEM
ChickwithGun: i loved season three the most because aeryn had so many great story twists.
BlackTee: I LOVED season three cause... well
ChickwithGun: I felt i was being challenged in all the right ways
BlackTee: you know
ChickwithGun: cause of all the kissin'
ChickwithGun: ?
BlackTee: yeah
ChickwithGun: ahhhhh
BlackTee: blowin up things and kissin
ChickwithGun: season three
ChickwithGun: yeah and that day on the dune buggies
BlackTee: that's why I like going to work
ChickwithGun: that was soooooo cooool
BlackTee: and the kissin
ChickwithGun: yeah, blowin stuff up
BlackTee: that's what we call Drahma
ChickwithGun: gen x is such a sex/death culture isn't it?
BlackTee: guns and rose
BlackTee: s
BlackTee: hmmmmm
ChickwithGun: jeez is that your taste in music?
BlackTee: but hey... it worked for shakespeare
ChickwithGun: i thought you were too old for that?
BlackTee: funny... old wench
ChickwithGun: i don't remember axel rose in merchant of venice
ChickwithGun: did you really train as an actor?
BlackTee: he played lorenzo
BlackTee: wasn't very good
ChickwithGun: he didn't need a wig neither
BlackTee: NEXT...GA
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: So, any plans to continue the story in further miniseries? Any other "Farscape" projects sitting on the far horizon? (Pun intentional.)
BlackTee: Brian mentioned something with the F word
ChickwithGun: ask the puppet master, brian ga
BlackTee: ASK
BlackTee: and then tell us
BlackTee: we're looking for things to blow up
ChickwithGun: yeah, i am sure you guys out there will be making it happen
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: they made me kiss HER!!!
BlackTee: GA
Moderator: Hi Ben and Claudia, you guys are kinda like UFO's... various sightings of you regularly occurs on the net, but with no apparent evidence. Do you lurk at various websites or even post under pseudonyms?
BlackTee: I have 5000 pseudonyms... I used them all at save Farscape
BlackTee: I also am currently using 300 nicks
BlackTee: in chat
ChickwithGun: I have a rule in my household which came from my mum.... people before machines.... so less time watching telly and surfing online, more time face to face with people
BlackTee: ANYTHING to work with Claudia Black
ChickwithGun: GA
BlackTee: More time surfing naked
BlackTee: you mean
BlackTee: GA
ChickwithGun: and waxing apts
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: ouch
Moderator: Who would win 12 rounds of bare-knuckle boxing? Braca or Crais? btw, Ben, you're hot : )
BlackTee: hmmmm
ChickwithGun: just thought youd slip that in, hey rx-queen.
ChickwithGun: ?
BlackTee: Crais is Dead
BlackTee: Hard to whup a dead man
ChickwithGun: Braca doesn't fight with his knuckles
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: He doesn't fight bare
BlackTee: Or does he?
ChickwithGun: btw, ben, you're hot
ChickwithGun: just slipped it in
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: Wench
ChickwithGun: tee hee
ChickwithGun: bint
BlackTee: Crais wins
ChickwithGun: me, i mean
BlackTee: ga
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: What's the most embarassing thing the other has done on set?
ChickwithGun: well we all know mine
ChickwithGun: ben feel free to remind them if you dare
ChickwithGun: i told EVERYBODY at the con
ChickwithGun: ben is never wrong
BlackTee: You told them about the fart?
ChickwithGun: ya
ChickwithGun: the loud one, just after i danced around
ChickwithGun: ay
BlackTee: never happened... it's a lie
ChickwithGun: ya
ChickwithGun: that one
ChickwithGun: oops
BlackTee: you never fart
ChickwithGun: ya,,,, it never happened
BlackTee: you told me so
ChickwithGun: ga
ChickwithGun: we are done here
ChickwithGun: i am being nice and saying nothing abouty you
BlackTee: Many things I do on set are embarrassing
ChickwithGun: like what?
ChickwithGun: act?
BlackTee: But I'm blessed with selective memory
ChickwithGun: tee hee
ChickwithGun: i love you
BlackTee: back atchya
BlackTee: GA
Moderator: So assuming you guys get re intergrated early on in the mini, Who ends up carrying the baby???
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: Crais
BlackTee: Crais gets the Baby
BlackTee: wait...
BlackTee: Moya's baby
BlackTee: right?
ChickwithGun: there is no baby
ChickwithGun: that was a jedi mind trick
BlackTee: Sorry...
BlackTee: there is no baby
BlackTee: move along
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: GA
Moderator: I just wanted to thank you for the great care and respect you showed in your performance in "The Choice". It was magnificent and helped me learn how to say good-bye to a baby I lost a couple of cycles ago and move on, but never forget, as well. Thank you and God Bless You!! WAS THAT THE MOST DIFFICULT EPISODE YOU HAD TO DO?
ChickwithGun: It was fulfilling. was it the hardest for you to watch? you are very brave.
BlackTee: Claudia was fairly magnificent in the Choice
BlackTee: ga
BlackTee: ...
ChickwithGun: a lot of people say the same about the choice. it was my version of grief up there. i drew on personal experience so i am glad it translated and had resonance for others. thank you for what you said.and i am so sorry for what you went through. may you be blessed with a joyous life
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: Ben, does Fran reprise her role as Akhna? Say hello to her for us! She's part of the Farscape family, too!
BlackTee: Francesca is of course in the Mini
BlackTee: I'll say hi
BlackTee: No farscape would be complete with her getting a chance to bust my chops
Moderator no other reason :)
ChickwithGun: sorry that last answer tracks as though i agree that i am fairly magnificent. it was a response to previous question
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: Has there been any involvement in the mini by some of our Farscape favorites-- Monjo, Manning, Prowse, Woods. Tilse, etc.?
BlackTee: You do agree
BlackTee: Jedi mind trick
ChickwithGun: i do agree with what?
ChickwithGun: that i am magnificent?
BlackTee: You are Magnificent
BlackTee: yes?
ChickwithGun: like the soccer song, there can be only one... directore
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: Prowsie was around quite a bit
BlackTee: shooting second unit
BlackTee: He also produced on this one.
BlackTee: I really CAN'T imagine Farscape without Andrew Prowse
BlackTee: The others we missed
BlackTee: But until they invent the multi-director mini
BlackTee: we'll just have to settle for season FIVE.
BlackTee: GA
Moderator: Just to let people know, we're into the last five minutes. We've been lucky holding the server togather under a load of about 800 ppl. Thanks to Barbarella for that. We can't push our luck too far... So... Three more questions then we open the floors
Moderator: Ben have you been writing (screenplays, etc) lately?
BlackTee: Am working with a group of folks on a screenplay at the moment
BlackTee: News....
BlackTee: Claudia has been locked out of chat
BlackTee: while we wait for Claudia..
BlackTee: oh... she's back
BlackTee: well done Barb
Moderator: Claudia can you type?
BlackTee: So... where were we...?
BlackTee: Screenplay?
BlackTee: Yes.
ChickwithGun: i am here...
ChickwithGun: anyone out there
ChickwithGun: yay.
ChickwithGun: i got lost for a minute
BlackTee: hellooooo
Moderator: Are they saving the sets this time?
ChickwithGun: i saved a piece of set
BlackTee: Dunno
BlackTee: Oh... Claudia has the sets
ChickwithGun: yeah... all of them
ChickwithGun: i got my prowler too
BlackTee: we'll be doing a Farscape play over at her house
ChickwithGun: i drive around in it
ChickwithGun: funny
BlackTee: anyone wants to watch.... it's a musical
ChickwithGun: you can play aeryn this time
ChickwithGun: this is the show that nver ends
BlackTee: about beer.
ChickwithGun: toot toot i'm in my prowler
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: ga
Moderator: "Did the other Farscape directors, like Tilse and Woods, consult with Henson on the direction of the mini?
BlackTee: Not that I know of
ChickwithGun: woodsie is now being fancy pants and doing a film with kate blanchett
ChickwithGun: cate
BlackTee: But Brian may have secretly been channeling some of them
ChickwithGun: ga
BlackTee: Yeah... WOodsie is Bigtime
BlackTee: Reckon he'll give us Job, C?
ChickwithGun: so is tilse... very very busy
BlackTee: Or he can play Zaahn in our Musical?
ChickwithGun: hey back
ChickwithGun: yeah
BlackTee: GA
ChickwithGun: ga
Moderator: Claudia and Ben -- thanks for joining us. Any comments before let you go?
BlackTee: Uh...
ChickwithGun: um..............
ChickwithGun: read
BlackTee: That's it?
ChickwithGun: "dude where'smy country by michael moore
BlackTee: Yes of course we have comments.
BlackTee: First... I have to thank a whole bucket of folks for providing me with work!
BlackTee: Claudia left again?
BlackTee: And I can thank those folks for Claudia as well.
BlackTee: It is a priviledge for us to be working for you all.
BlackTee: Thank you
BlackTee: Thank you
BlackTee: Thank You!
BlackTee: Ah... hell... I'm just gonna get sentimental... these chats become like therapy.
BlackTee: Just open up the server and unleash the hounds of chat!
BlackTee: Thanks Ya'll
Moderator: Ben. Thanks again for joining us. I certainly hope we'll talk again soon