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GW: Well the benefit of sci-fi TV is them coming up with an explanation to bring you back very easily.
CC: Exactly. I think there should be a Chuck clone who just sits and the back and just smokes. He's the bad Chuck. Just swears and smokes, and doesn't do any work.
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" I kind of hope [my next project] won't be science fiction."
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GW: You were in "The Last Man," were you not?
CC: Yes.
GW: You and I talked about that very briefly, but it hadn't aired yet. With the corn meal?
CC: All the sand and the cornmeal, exactly.
GW: How do you think that episode turned out? Have you seen it?
CC: I did. I was lucky enough to catch that. It so interested me because when they had everything implode on them, like the building. You don't get to see it. You don't know what the effect will look like from the pan-back and all the visual effects.
When I saw the visual effects, boy, I thought it really added to it big time. The other actors are trying to work with that. That's how it ends. It's just a bunch of Styrofoam concrete. When you actually see how they did it, it was pretty cool. I thought it was a pretty good cliffhanger, myself.
It says something, if people work on the show honestly don't know what's going to happen that's pretty good writing. "I don't know if so and so is coming back," or "so and so got their head crushed." You just don't know.
GW: If you had your say, some in fun but mostly in honesty, what would you like to see this character do this year? If you had your say?
CC: If I had my say -- let's just fly it out here -- I would love it if he went bad and they put it in the story that this whole time I was there I was a spy, and I was a Replicator. I'm the one who's communicating with Weir's character, who's the Replicator. I the codes, I have the gate addresses. Then I get to wear a vest, and then I would get to hold a gun and do some bad stuff. Shoot some stuff down the hall. I would love to do something like that, where the character just goes "whoop!"
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GW: Well in terms of guns and things like that, if Atlantis is invaded, even the basic technicians become infantrymen. I know Gary Jones ("Sergeant Walter Harriman") in Season One of SG-1, he did that. He had to defend the base.
CC: We had it, I think, in "The Siege," where Martin Wood let me wear the tac vest. That was kind of fun. I usually wear the same jacket every time. That was kind of cool. I would like to do that. I though that would be, I think, a real fun thing for the fans. For one episode. "What? This whole time?" I'm going to say it -- a Cylon-ish. "You're kidding me! You're a Replicator?"
GW: Battlestar Galactica's good.
CC: It is good. You've got to give credit where credit is due.
GW: One of the things that has always surprised me, they haven't created an impenetrable vest that Wraith can't stick their hands through.
CC: You know actually what works? Tinfoil! [Laughter] They just don't know that yet!
GW: That'll big the big reveal at the end of Season Five.
CC: We'll sell these rolls of Stargate tin foil.
GW: "Why was Midway Station blown up? We can't get any tinfoil! It's life and death!"
CC: Exactly! Someone go to the Safeway!
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