Date sent: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:13:26 -0500 From: Kelly Shuford Subject: Travelers: Behind the Scenes Title: Travelers: Behind the Scenes Author: Kelly Shuford Eddress: kshuford@bellsouth.net Spoilers: Travelers, (obviously), 5th season Rating: G Classification: V, humor Disclaimer: I don't own CC, Shiban or Spotnitz. If I did this ep would have been *very* different. I'm using them without permission. Author's Note: I don't know who first came up with the nicknames Shibes and Spotsy, but I'm using them without permission. OK to archive at Gossamer. Anywhere else, please ask me first. Travelers: Behind the Scenes Spotsy: So what did you think of the daillies for Travelers? CC: That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I thought you were going to keep a tight rein on Shibes? This is horrible! Spotsy: Hey, I wanted you to look at the script before we started shooting! You said "This is a once in a century El Nino. I'll never see waves like this in LA again. You handle it, I'm going surfing." CC: And obviously you couldn't handle it! And whose show is this anyway? Spotsy: (mumbling) CC: What's that? Spotsy: Nothing! CC: Damn straight. Now let's figure out how to fix this mess. Spotsy: It's not that bad. I wasn't sure about introducing a new alien species, but Shibes wanted too, and the special effect is really cool. CC: Yeah, I liked it the first time I saw it - on Dark Skies! Spotsy: What's Dark Skies? Is that another new title for the movie? CC: Dark Skies! That NBC X-Files wannabe that tanked. Spotsy: Oh. I never watched that. CC: (sigh) We'll just have to reshoot it. Spostsy: We don't have time to reshoot. If we reshoot this episode we won't have time to film the mythology episodes we need to lead into the movie. (long pause) CC: How much of this episode has already been shot? Spotsy: They've done all the 50's scenes. They still have to film the scenes with David. (pause) CC: OK. You know how David is always forgetting to take off his wedding ring before filming? (Spotsy nods) Well, let him keep it on during all his scenes in this episode. Maybe that will distract the Philes from the quality of this episode. Spotsy: (grinning) Deceive, inveigle, obfuscate, huh? Maybe we could have David use his left hand near his face a lot to really emphasize it. And how about if we have Mulder smoking too? That'll drive them crazy wondering if it's genetic from CSM. CC: Sure. Fine. Whatever. END