teapotsahoy:karenhealey:renew-leverage:renew-leverage:@ thatsnarkydragon : oh, man, I have now giffe

teapotsahoy:karenhealey:renew-leverage:renew-leverage:@ thatsnarkydragon : oh, man, I have now giffed these scenes so many times, and I still want to cry about it. To add something new, here’s my painstakingly done transcription of the audio commentary for these scenes:John Rogers: Now, this was interesting. We had a long talk in the writers’ room what this scene was gonna be. Because it is “why hasn’t –” because, let’s face it. Aldis, you’re a good looking man. You’re a very good looking man.Aldis Hodge: Thank you.JR: And, Beth, good looking woman. Why has that relationship not progressed farther, you know? And we wanted to not just do the hackneyed “because she was abused as a child,” because, you know, and so we really wanted to work on “why?” And it’s because she doesn’t feel worthy of the friends she’s made and the family she has.AH: Gotcha.JR: And a lot of this year is her feeling good enough about herself and feeling like she’s a good enough person to be with.AH: You know, John, Sexual Chocolate gets a lot of mail about that, you know what I’m saying? It’s true, and I gotta figure out how to explain it.JR: I know. I know. Boss of Sexual Chocolate also gets a lot of mail about that.AH: Just saying.JR: But look at this woman, look at this woman!AH: That’s ridiculous.JR: I mean, she’s melting down here. And, by the way, when we’re shooting this? Crew is crying, people behind the set are crying, I mean, she’s just devastating here.Dean Devlin: She nails this.AH: Yeah.DD: It’s also this whole thing about she wants to do the right thing and trying to understand what the right thing is.JR: That’s what’s great about Parker and what we so lucked into establishing this character first year and that Beth has done a great job of. Most shows have someone who’s just trying to do the right thing, we actually have a character who’s not sure what that is yet. And so it allows us an extra step of that character building. I mean, you know, that’s why we have to go so slow. We don’t want to fastplay this. These are real people in our heads.AH: Now, what was the motivation between, I mean, as far as putting Parker and Eliot together in that particular situation?JR: Because, I’ll tell you exactly why, because this is the year Parker starts to figure out that she’s actually a “better person” – quote, unquote – than she thinks she is. And this is the scene, right here. Eliot, because of the events of last year, has come to peace with who he is. And this is the thing, Eliot isn’t trying to redeem himself. A lot of people think Eliot, “oh, he’s doing good things to redeem himself,” Eliot knows he’s going to hell. But he can do some good along the way. And he can help his friends. And that’s his role this year, is a man who is very secure in who he is and who he isn’t in the world. Beth’s previous scene is amazing. This is some great acting, Christian is killing it here. Because what he has to do is he has to reach across this gulf, and, by the way, it only happened because of the way Christian and Beth have played this over the years. Eliot and Parker have a very specific relationship, it’s not brother/sister, it’s not boyfriend/girlfriend, but it is “I know the pain you’re carrying, because I carry a version of it.” And Eliot, at a lot of times, is the only one who can reach across to her, across that gulf, and in that moment, there’s no crying, it’s not showy, Christian acts the shit out of that moment. That is one of the keystone moments of the entire season right there.Does anyone else have a favorite bit or highlight from The Long Way Down Job?#OKAY I’M GOING TO SPEW INTO THE TAGS AGAIN  #I HOPE YOU DON’T MIND  #BECAUSE WHEN I LISTENED TO THE COMMENTARY FOR THE FIRST TIME  #IT MADE MY ALREADY FAVORITE SCENE EVEN BETTER  #PARKER HAS SO MUCH GROWTH AND SHE JUST WANTS TO FEEL WORTHY OF THIS FAMILY SHE’S FOUND  #THAT ABSOLUTELY CRUSHES MY HEART THAT SHE DOESN’T FEEL THAT WAY ALREADY  #SHE KNOWS SHE’S NOT EVER GOING TO BE ‘NORMAL’  #SHE JUST WANTS TO MAKE SURE HER FRIENDS UNDERSTAND HER AND ACCEPT HER  #SHE JUST WANTS TO FEEL UNDERSTOOD BY THE PEOPLE SHE CARES ABOUT MOST  #AND I JUST CONNECT SO MUCH WITH THIS CHARACTER  #MORE THAN ANY OTHER AND I AM SO THANKFUL TO THIS SHOW  #IT’S A SILLY FUN SHOW BUT THE WAY I’VE COME TO LOVE AND CARE FOR THESE CHARACTERS  #AND CONNECT WITH THEM  #IT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME  #AND JOHN ROGERS IS THE COOLEST PERSON  #AND I LOVE LISTENING TO THE COMMENTARIES BECAUSE HE’S SO INSIGHTFUL  #AND HE GETS IT  #HE ENCOURAGES THE FANFICS AND THE SHIPS AND THE RAREPAIRS AND CELEBRATES THE WORK THE FANS MAKE  #AND HE GETS THE NEED FOR REPRESENTATION AND HE DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT  #LONG POST GUYS AND I’M SORRY  #BUT I JUST REALLY LOVE THIS SCENE  #IT WAS THE SCENE THAT GOT ME INTO THE SHOW  #AND IT’S STILL ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL SCENES IN ANYTHING  #AND IT MEANS A LOT TO ME  #SO I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT A LOT  #LEVERAGE  #LONG POST FOR TS (tags via wolf-of-fenric)ELIOT KNOWS HE"S GOING TO HELLHE CAN STILL HELP SOME PEOPLE ON HIS WAY DOWNAll of this is great commentary but I’m still reeling from the revelation that Aldis Hodge refers to himself in the third person as “Sexual Chocolate.” I’m not sure how to deal with this. -- source link

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