H+ Hangout (3) Casey McKinnon Hosts Cast

Now that you've watched the entire first season, join us for another Google Hangout with the actors of H+: The Digital Series, hosted by +Casey McKinnon!  Attendees include Hannah Herzsprung (Manta), Alexis Denisof (Conall), David Rogers (Kenneth), Caitriona Balfe (Breanna) and Samuel Vauramo (Topi).

David Rogers considers a benefits-risks weighting, before he agrees to having something like a computer chip implanted.  He wouldn't do it, for example, just to have Google Maps pop up in augmented reality.  In fact, he doesn't even like the idea of hotel staff coming in to clean his room.  So it's hard for him to imagine having anything come into the privacy of his body.

Alexis Denisof echoes what other actors mentioned in H+ Hangout (2), that is, they did their scenes, then left, and hardly met any other actors.  Samuel Vauramo, for example, recalled meeting Denisof in the elevator, and asking, Are you here for H+?  Then, when they reached their floor, they went off in different directions.  Some met each other on a social basis and at Comic-Con.

Another thing I love about H+ was the travels to different cities and the conversations in the native tongue.  Just as I figured, for example, Hannah Herzsprung (in Berlin) spoke in Finnish in a recording that Vauramo listened to.  She's German, and needed to learn Finnish and Vauramo's help.  While she demures on her delivery, apparently she did quite well.  Denisof also had to study an Irish accent for his character, and needed Caitriona Balfe's help.  Rogers jokes that he thought he had a good British accent, until he traveled to Great Britain.

It was a lot of fun for Casey McKinnon to do an H+ trivial game, and it was interesting to see which of the actors knew the answers.  Even with questions having to do with their characters didn't mean that the actors remembered, or maybe knew, the answers.  There are so many details, fragments, and story lines in H+ that, I imagine, you'd have to be a geek to remember it all.

There are threads of romance throughout H+, that I was keen to hear more about.  Yet, up to now, the creators, cast and moderators haven't touched on.  McKinnon shifted to the topic, and Denisof and Balfe were mainly the ones speaking to it, that is, in the Breena-Conall-Leena triangle.  They agree that emotional infidelity was more hurtful than physical infidelity: the latter being measurable and therefore finite, while the latter immeasurable and more limitless.  There were also Breena-Kenneth and Topi-Manta, plus previous indiscretions on Breena's part.

Season 1 has ended at this point, so McKinnon inquires about what the actors what to see happen.  Balfe would like coverage on the past between Breena and Conall, when things were good between them, so as to put context and shed light on how the marriage went so terribly wrong.  Vauramo would like to see how society rebuilds itself, after a third of his population just dropped dead.  There are some loose threads, meant as mini-cliffhangers for us as audience, and it would be intriguing to see what happens next, for example, with Leena and with Kenneth.

Thank you for reading, and let me know what you think!

Ron Villejo, PhD