More NX babble
Nov. 7th, 2006 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieHere's the icon I mentioned I would be making. Heh. Yay for deleted scenes.
I got the first two episodes of the second season set from Netflix today. Love the deleted scenes for "Goodbye to All That." Well, one scene--it's an extended version of the "closure" conversation outside the Brick, where Maggie pretends to be Elaine. There's a rather long part of the conversation where he calls her (Maggie's) short hair sexy, and she says he's pretty attractive himself. Then, in his complaining about Elaine, Joel mentions that "comfortable" relationships where both partners agree on everything, are very alike, etc., aren't nearly as much fun as ones with "spark," "friction," and "heat." Maggie is obviously in agreement. WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE. Then they have that interchange about her breaking a sweat when it's twenty below that's in the original.
There isn't a whiff of their usual sarcasm/hostility toward each other during all this, which I think is probably why it was cut down--the first episode of season two might be a bit early for that particular glasnost. But I'm certainly glad it was filmed, because it's ADORABLE.
Oh, and at the end, where it cuts off after Joel says he'll buy her a drink and Maggie responds with the caveat that it be inside, they originally had him replying "I'll race you!" and them slipping and sliding up the snowy sidewalk to the Brick's entrance. Maggie reacts to the challenge with this kind of outraged-but-gleeful scream, and then when the race ends in what appears to be a tie, claims, "I won!" It's eerily reminiscent--er, prescient, actually, I suppose--of their race from kitchen to bedroom in "Upriver," actually. Pretty cool.
Speaking of snowy streets, I get a kick out of the vast difference in precipitation (or possibly filming schedules) between the second and third seasons. By the third season, the people in charge apparently just said, "Ah, screw it; everyone already knows we film in Washington state, not Alaska. It's cold out here, and I'm tired of moving in styrofoam snowbanks. Let's just have characters talk about how cold it is and be all bundled up, and not bother with the actual snow."
I have three third-season episodes left. Probably gonna finish them tonight. I have no self-control whatsoever. But being a TV show glutton is pretty fun nonetheless.
I got the first two episodes of the second season set from Netflix today. Love the deleted scenes for "Goodbye to All That." Well, one scene--it's an extended version of the "closure" conversation outside the Brick, where Maggie pretends to be Elaine. There's a rather long part of the conversation where he calls her (Maggie's) short hair sexy, and she says he's pretty attractive himself. Then, in his complaining about Elaine, Joel mentions that "comfortable" relationships where both partners agree on everything, are very alike, etc., aren't nearly as much fun as ones with "spark," "friction," and "heat." Maggie is obviously in agreement. WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE. Then they have that interchange about her breaking a sweat when it's twenty below that's in the original.
There isn't a whiff of their usual sarcasm/hostility toward each other during all this, which I think is probably why it was cut down--the first episode of season two might be a bit early for that particular glasnost. But I'm certainly glad it was filmed, because it's ADORABLE.
Oh, and at the end, where it cuts off after Joel says he'll buy her a drink and Maggie responds with the caveat that it be inside, they originally had him replying "I'll race you!" and them slipping and sliding up the snowy sidewalk to the Brick's entrance. Maggie reacts to the challenge with this kind of outraged-but-gleeful scream, and then when the race ends in what appears to be a tie, claims, "I won!" It's eerily reminiscent--er, prescient, actually, I suppose--of their race from kitchen to bedroom in "Upriver," actually. Pretty cool.
Speaking of snowy streets, I get a kick out of the vast difference in precipitation (or possibly filming schedules) between the second and third seasons. By the third season, the people in charge apparently just said, "Ah, screw it; everyone already knows we film in Washington state, not Alaska. It's cold out here, and I'm tired of moving in styrofoam snowbanks. Let's just have characters talk about how cold it is and be all bundled up, and not bother with the actual snow."
I have three third-season episodes left. Probably gonna finish them tonight. I have no self-control whatsoever. But being a TV show glutton is pretty fun nonetheless.
