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nightdog_barksSunny and warm, but it feels like the humidity has dropped considerably. We got some unexpected rain yesterday afternoon -- a downpour that lasted for about five minutes and some rumbly thunder.
Watched the other bonus feature on the Season 8 DVD -- the "Everybody Dies: Postmortem," and actually liked it much better than the "behind the scenes" business for "The C-Word," maybe because it brought back the immediacy of that last episode, and there was more commentary about what was going on with the characters in the episode. RSL spoke, and said something I've not seen posted anywhere. He was talking about Wilson's diagnosis and subsequent emotional turmoil, and he said, "I'm just -- (and he paused for a really long time) -- standing, on a windswept plain, and all I want is my teddy bear and a glass of (warm?) milk. And I don't want to have to jump through hoops." I actually thought he was going to say he was waiting for Godot, but instead he came out with that windswept plain line and I was just very surprised.
ETA that icanlivewithoutkyle on Tumblr has posted an animated GIF of RSL's warm milk scene. :D
I do wish there had been more. It's the last DVD of the last season, and only three special features? One of which has already been on broadcast TV? I mean, we know there were at least unused still scenes -- whether they were actually filmed or not is another question. Why couldn't there have been a small feature on those, with commentary from someone (anyone, really) about the decision process to not use them? And I'm still cranky about there not being a blooper or a gag reel. BECAUSE IT IS ALL ABOUT ME AND WHAT I WANT TO SEE, AND IT'S NOT KATIE JACOBS. Who has an extended scene on the "behind the scenes" feature and I'm sorry, I just wanted her to go away. Which is bad of me, I know, because thinking about it now it kind of stands out that she's really the only female exec with exec superpowers involved with the show, but IDK, she just ... grates on me.
Huh. And now I'm wondering if in eight seasons they ever had a woman director.
And ... IMDB says yes. Three of them, including Katie Jacobs, (the other two are Lesli Linka Glatter and Martha Mitchell) for ten episodes. Ten out of 176 episodes. Interesting. I have no idea if this is a typical figure for a Hollywood series or an aberration, so I'm just going to leave it there.
Anyway. Started reading Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry last night, and so far it is quite good. Must do some more housely things today. :D
Watched the other bonus feature on the Season 8 DVD -- the "Everybody Dies: Postmortem," and actually liked it much better than the "behind the scenes" business for "The C-Word," maybe because it brought back the immediacy of that last episode, and there was more commentary about what was going on with the characters in the episode. RSL spoke, and said something I've not seen posted anywhere. He was talking about Wilson's diagnosis and subsequent emotional turmoil, and he said, "I'm just -- (and he paused for a really long time) -- standing, on a windswept plain, and all I want is my teddy bear and a glass of (warm?) milk. And I don't want to have to jump through hoops." I actually thought he was going to say he was waiting for Godot, but instead he came out with that windswept plain line and I was just very surprised.
ETA that icanlivewithoutkyle on Tumblr has posted an animated GIF of RSL's warm milk scene. :D
I do wish there had been more. It's the last DVD of the last season, and only three special features? One of which has already been on broadcast TV? I mean, we know there were at least unused still scenes -- whether they were actually filmed or not is another question. Why couldn't there have been a small feature on those, with commentary from someone (anyone, really) about the decision process to not use them? And I'm still cranky about there not being a blooper or a gag reel. BECAUSE IT IS ALL ABOUT ME AND WHAT I WANT TO SEE, AND IT'S NOT KATIE JACOBS. Who has an extended scene on the "behind the scenes" feature and I'm sorry, I just wanted her to go away. Which is bad of me, I know, because thinking about it now it kind of stands out that she's really the only female exec with exec superpowers involved with the show, but IDK, she just ... grates on me.
Huh. And now I'm wondering if in eight seasons they ever had a woman director.
And ... IMDB says yes. Three of them, including Katie Jacobs, (the other two are Lesli Linka Glatter and Martha Mitchell) for ten episodes. Ten out of 176 episodes. Interesting. I have no idea if this is a typical figure for a Hollywood series or an aberration, so I'm just going to leave it there.
Anyway. Started reading Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry last night, and so far it is quite good. Must do some more housely things today. :D
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Date: 2012-08-29 08:56 pm (UTC)That's interesting about the postmortem. Was there anything new about House's decision to fake his death?
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Date: 2012-08-29 09:22 pm (UTC)Nothing really beyond what we've already heard -- that it showed how deep their friendship really went. I think HL said something about House giving up "all his worldly possessions" in order to do this, which sounded rather Biblical and funereal and wedding-like all at the same time. *g*
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Date: 2012-08-30 02:55 pm (UTC)I'm glad that women do have executive superpowers in the media, but Katie Jacobs grated on me from the beginning. (Take off that damned hat and get a decent haircut, for the 1970s are long over.) What really, really turned me off was the behind the scenes ego-stroking for "Broken," in which she said "I cut his (Hugh Laurie's) hair." Not "his hair was cut" or "so and so in the hair department cut his hair," but she said "I." I hope to God she did not actually pick up clippers and cut his hair, because ick. Just ick. That alone oversteps the boss/employee relationship in a big way.
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Date: 2012-08-30 05:13 pm (UTC)Did you see this feature? Because she was wearing a hat and persisting in asking Hugh Laurie a question when he was visibly trying to do something else, and I just wanted to scream "LEAVE HIM ALONE HE'S BUSY!" She was being a noodge, and in a really not good way.
ON THE OTHER HAND. I also watched the S6 episode commentary for "Wilson" last night, with David Foster and RSL, and RSL was talking about the scene where he and HL first walk into the beautiful new condo, and he was saying that was all Katie Jacobs -- that she worked really closely with the set designers to make things look real. Of course he also said that the condo was way over the top for what a doctor -- even a department head -- would be able to afford ("an oncologist with three alimonies!" Foster chipped in, heh).
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Date: 2012-08-30 05:21 pm (UTC)Ha, simultaneous posting...
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Date: 2012-08-30 05:20 pm (UTC)a) Why is the way she looks the very first thing to criticise, and who gets to decide what "decent" is? She has her own style. Which, okay, you personally might not like. She also made a lot of professional style decisions for the show from the very beginning, but unlike her personal looks, those don't seem to be a problem or worth mentioning whenever her name comes up. (Unless your name is Hugh Laurie and you mention in an awards speech that her taste is in every frame of every show.)
and b) The context for that comment on the Broken commentary is that it was Katie's idea and work to do a concept reel right after they shot the last scene of S5 (where he still had long hair), to produce an idea of the tone and the look of the S6 premiere for the writers. So cutting his hair was a creative decision on her part, and it was mentioned as such, like many others she made as the director of that episode.
She did cut Jesse Spencer's hair, but I still don't quite get what's "ick" about that.