Studio 60 1.20 - K&R Part II
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caz963Another really good episode. I want to hug Tom even more than I did before, I want to do… well, what I usually want to do to Brad, and I didn’t want to strangle Matt and Harriet.
There was also a nice big dollop of Matt and Danny this week, which is always very welcome and which seems to push things up a notch. And which makes me sad all over again that we didn’t get to see more of it, because the pair of them are spot on.
You know, I started writing this recap and then realised I was transcribing the episode instead, because there were so many quotable lines and great interactions. And also, it’s late and my brain hasn’t re-solidified because Brad reduced it to mush so many times.
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Jordan has complications – she’s bleeding internally and her blood won’t clot. Back at the studio, Tom is still sitting with the army captain, the cast and crew are still there because the place is crawling with press. We get more flashbacks to six years ago and what happened with the show immediately post 9/11, and hot-lawyer-chick is still talking to the K&R people.
I was trying to pick out my favourite parts – which were mostly every time Danny was on screen (that was predictable, wasn’t it?) because seriously, how gorgeous was Brad? I was at risk of spontaneous combustion on a number of occasions – those light grey jeans and tight sweater in the flashback sequences nearly killed me.
And the mini-nutty about wanting to see his daughter – I’m not going there - you all know perfectly well what I’m talking about! :)
Also – I saw quite a bit of Josh tonight. Not that I’m complaining… just sayin’.
And, hah! Matt was writing Danny a proposal! That’s so utterly ridiculous, yet it fits completely with what we know about them. I called them a pair of frat-boys in a fic I wrote, and they absolutely are!
Love Danny correcting Harriet and her use of “step daughter.”
She’s my daughter – she started being that the moment she was born.
Did I say that Brad was gorgeous this ep? Intense, angsty, sweet, scared, - he nails it all. Also, brain-mushifyingly hot. Did I mention the jeans and the tight sweater? And the nice white shirt? *g*
Okay - climbing out of the shallow end for a minute...
I don’t know the name of the guy playing the army Captain, but his scenes with Tom were fabulous.
Just how famous are you?
Not that famous, there’s just nothing else going on tonight.
There are two wars.
Well now they’re covering one of them.
You got any relatives that could get captured in the ninth ward of New Orleans?
And then later in the same scene –
What is your job here?
Comfort.
You’re not very good at it.
I keep trying to tell them that.
I liked the way at the end, after the Captain asks – “can you believe they made me a captain”, Tom says quietly, “Yeah, I can believe anything now.” It brings the whole scene back 'down', somehow.
Time for a dig at the internet – not that I blame Sorkin for that in the slightest, considering. Andy and Dylan are in the writer’s room with Lucy, surfing for information and find a vitriolic site whose members are slagging off Tom, and suggesting this whole thing is a stunt to boost ratings.
We pick up the flashbacks where we left them last week – after Matt and Danny meet with Jack to ask to postpone the season premiere, which he won’t let them do. Matt’s struggling to find material he wants to use, but you can see the wheels turning in his head when someone tells him the White House is asking film makers to make more patriotic movies. Great performance, there.
At rehearsals, Harriet is rubbing Matt’s nose in it, sitting there flirting with and snogging Luke. They’re having a table read when the standards guy comes in and asks Matt and Danny to cut the sketch Matt wrote about the patriotic movies push from the WH. They refuse, but the guy won’t let it go. Danny eventually agrees to cut it if the advertisers don’t like it when they see the previews. Matt says he’s not afraid of words. Danny slams the door saying he’s afraid of other things.
Lawyer chick updates Matt on the K&R thing - then tells him that Danny shouldn’t see the baby, because if anything happens to Jordan he has no legal rights regarding her, despite the fact they’re engaged. (I can’t see her being killed off though.) And anyway, it’s too late, because Danny finally gets to see the baby - the nurses wouldn’t let him in because he didn’t have a hospital ID bracelet and wasn’t on Jordan’s list of contacts. But after the doctor (Jess – whose birthday it is – hm. *anvil*?) comes to tell him about the complications with Jordan, he tells the nurse to let him (Danny) see the baby. Which he does. At which point I’d be willing to bet that every Brad fangirl on the planet melted on the spot.
I’ve got your back. Guh.
At the theatre, things get ugly. A news report on TV from someone who worked at the show for five minutes years ago says that Tom and his brother are estranged, which naturally upsets him. Simon – about whom normally I could care less – says he’ll fix it. He knows a journalist who will get the word out that it’s untrue.
Will these people never learn? Talking to the press when you’re under pressure is never a good idea...
Simon talks to his contact who agrees to help – but the rest of the pack has got the sense, and pounce before he can get back into the building. But then someone asks if NBS leaked the fact that Tom’s brother had been captured in order to boost the show’s ratings – and Simon turns on him, despite the warning from his journalist friend to get inside.
Simon’s probably my least favourite character on the show – I said somewhere I thought he was Studio 60’s Mandy in that he doesn’t seem to fit, and I don’t really care about him all that much, but here for once he didn’t piss me off – in fact, I almost cheered!
Are you stupid? Are you simply a stupid man?... Do you guys like making this entertainment? he yells at the crowd of assembled meeja types.
Then inside, Matt sees him on the TV, still ranting –
That war – it never ended, you just lost interest in it, because like the rest of this country, you’ve got the attention span of a damn six year old. This whole country is nothing but a bunch of idiot teenagers …
And we’re not that far behind over here, I sometimes think. This again goes back to Wes’ rant in the pilot – about a war with theme music and a logo, how badly TV is being dumbed down etc. I guess you can’t wonder the show got canned when Sorkin clearly set out to bite the hand that feeds him – maybe the wonder is that it lasted this long at all. Although I guess he knew, when he was writing these final episodes that they were precisely that - final episodes, so he just went ahead and did whatever the hell he wanted. And it’s making me even more pissed off as each week passes that this is nearly “it”.
Another recycled (slightly changed) line at the end, spoken by the same actor who said it last time around –
Cal – Yeah, we got a whole new story.
(No snowballs this time, though.)
Favourite lines? Quite a few:
Matt – Fifteen minutes goes by without me hearing from you, I’m driving over there with a police escort.
Danny – Where are you getting a police escort from?
Matt – I will commit a crime and lead them in a high-speed chase if I have to.
Danny - She’s my daughter – she started being that the moment she was born.
Danny’s response to Harriet asking whether he and Jordan have set a date for the wedding –
And we chose a caterer while she was in pre-op- women and weddings!
Only two more to go (*sob*!). I’m guessing next week’s in the one Brad directed – some places were saying it’s the finale, but I can’t see anyone but Tommy directing that one.
There was also a nice big dollop of Matt and Danny this week, which is always very welcome and which seems to push things up a notch. And which makes me sad all over again that we didn’t get to see more of it, because the pair of them are spot on.
You know, I started writing this recap and then realised I was transcribing the episode instead, because there were so many quotable lines and great interactions. And also, it’s late and my brain hasn’t re-solidified because Brad reduced it to mush so many times.
(Let's just say that when
coloneljack returns from orbit and sees this one, there will undoubtedly be many, MANY icons!)Jordan has complications – she’s bleeding internally and her blood won’t clot. Back at the studio, Tom is still sitting with the army captain, the cast and crew are still there because the place is crawling with press. We get more flashbacks to six years ago and what happened with the show immediately post 9/11, and hot-lawyer-chick is still talking to the K&R people.
I was trying to pick out my favourite parts – which were mostly every time Danny was on screen (that was predictable, wasn’t it?) because seriously, how gorgeous was Brad? I was at risk of spontaneous combustion on a number of occasions – those light grey jeans and tight sweater in the flashback sequences nearly killed me.
And the mini-nutty about wanting to see his daughter – I’m not going there - you all know perfectly well what I’m talking about! :)
Also – I saw quite a bit of Josh tonight. Not that I’m complaining… just sayin’.
And, hah! Matt was writing Danny a proposal! That’s so utterly ridiculous, yet it fits completely with what we know about them. I called them a pair of frat-boys in a fic I wrote, and they absolutely are!
Love Danny correcting Harriet and her use of “step daughter.”
She’s my daughter – she started being that the moment she was born.
Did I say that Brad was gorgeous this ep? Intense, angsty, sweet, scared, - he nails it all. Also, brain-mushifyingly hot. Did I mention the jeans and the tight sweater? And the nice white shirt? *g*
Okay - climbing out of the shallow end for a minute...
I don’t know the name of the guy playing the army Captain, but his scenes with Tom were fabulous.
Just how famous are you?
Not that famous, there’s just nothing else going on tonight.
There are two wars.
Well now they’re covering one of them.
You got any relatives that could get captured in the ninth ward of New Orleans?
And then later in the same scene –
What is your job here?
Comfort.
You’re not very good at it.
I keep trying to tell them that.
I liked the way at the end, after the Captain asks – “can you believe they made me a captain”, Tom says quietly, “Yeah, I can believe anything now.” It brings the whole scene back 'down', somehow.
Time for a dig at the internet – not that I blame Sorkin for that in the slightest, considering. Andy and Dylan are in the writer’s room with Lucy, surfing for information and find a vitriolic site whose members are slagging off Tom, and suggesting this whole thing is a stunt to boost ratings.
We pick up the flashbacks where we left them last week – after Matt and Danny meet with Jack to ask to postpone the season premiere, which he won’t let them do. Matt’s struggling to find material he wants to use, but you can see the wheels turning in his head when someone tells him the White House is asking film makers to make more patriotic movies. Great performance, there.
At rehearsals, Harriet is rubbing Matt’s nose in it, sitting there flirting with and snogging Luke. They’re having a table read when the standards guy comes in and asks Matt and Danny to cut the sketch Matt wrote about the patriotic movies push from the WH. They refuse, but the guy won’t let it go. Danny eventually agrees to cut it if the advertisers don’t like it when they see the previews. Matt says he’s not afraid of words. Danny slams the door saying he’s afraid of other things.
Lawyer chick updates Matt on the K&R thing - then tells him that Danny shouldn’t see the baby, because if anything happens to Jordan he has no legal rights regarding her, despite the fact they’re engaged. (I can’t see her being killed off though.) And anyway, it’s too late, because Danny finally gets to see the baby - the nurses wouldn’t let him in because he didn’t have a hospital ID bracelet and wasn’t on Jordan’s list of contacts. But after the doctor (Jess – whose birthday it is – hm. *anvil*?) comes to tell him about the complications with Jordan, he tells the nurse to let him (Danny) see the baby. Which he does. At which point I’d be willing to bet that every Brad fangirl on the planet melted on the spot.
I’ve got your back. Guh.
At the theatre, things get ugly. A news report on TV from someone who worked at the show for five minutes years ago says that Tom and his brother are estranged, which naturally upsets him. Simon – about whom normally I could care less – says he’ll fix it. He knows a journalist who will get the word out that it’s untrue.
Will these people never learn? Talking to the press when you’re under pressure is never a good idea...
Simon talks to his contact who agrees to help – but the rest of the pack has got the sense, and pounce before he can get back into the building. But then someone asks if NBS leaked the fact that Tom’s brother had been captured in order to boost the show’s ratings – and Simon turns on him, despite the warning from his journalist friend to get inside.
Simon’s probably my least favourite character on the show – I said somewhere I thought he was Studio 60’s Mandy in that he doesn’t seem to fit, and I don’t really care about him all that much, but here for once he didn’t piss me off – in fact, I almost cheered!
Are you stupid? Are you simply a stupid man?... Do you guys like making this entertainment? he yells at the crowd of assembled meeja types.
Then inside, Matt sees him on the TV, still ranting –
That war – it never ended, you just lost interest in it, because like the rest of this country, you’ve got the attention span of a damn six year old. This whole country is nothing but a bunch of idiot teenagers …
And we’re not that far behind over here, I sometimes think. This again goes back to Wes’ rant in the pilot – about a war with theme music and a logo, how badly TV is being dumbed down etc. I guess you can’t wonder the show got canned when Sorkin clearly set out to bite the hand that feeds him – maybe the wonder is that it lasted this long at all. Although I guess he knew, when he was writing these final episodes that they were precisely that - final episodes, so he just went ahead and did whatever the hell he wanted. And it’s making me even more pissed off as each week passes that this is nearly “it”.
Another recycled (slightly changed) line at the end, spoken by the same actor who said it last time around –
Cal – Yeah, we got a whole new story.
(No snowballs this time, though.)
Favourite lines? Quite a few:
Matt – Fifteen minutes goes by without me hearing from you, I’m driving over there with a police escort.
Danny – Where are you getting a police escort from?
Matt – I will commit a crime and lead them in a high-speed chase if I have to.
Danny - She’s my daughter – she started being that the moment she was born.
Danny’s response to Harriet asking whether he and Jordan have set a date for the wedding –
And we chose a caterer while she was in pre-op- women and weddings!
Only two more to go (*sob*!). I’m guessing next week’s in the one Brad directed – some places were saying it’s the finale, but I can’t see anyone but Tommy directing that one.
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Date: 2007-06-16 02:23 am (UTC)Cal – Yeah, we got a whole new story.
Ah-ha! That's why I got that niggling feeling in the back of my brain. Thanks for clearing it up. ;) Heh.
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Date: 2007-06-16 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-06-16 03:05 am (UTC)I've been re-mushified by your synopsis - he was that good in this ep! I must have one for my very own.
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Date: 2007-06-16 05:10 pm (UTC)And did I mention the way his hips looked in those jeans..?
Time for another cold shower :)
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Date: 2007-06-16 03:18 am (UTC)My fav line of the night:
"Kid! I will beat you up!"
That's my man! Someone hand him a 2x4!
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Date: 2007-06-16 05:13 pm (UTC)There were so many great lines in this one. I really did start typing this up and realised I was quoting far too much and that it would be far too long.
So I opted for the shortened version with added fangirling instead!
And I saw what you said about the pitch of his voice - yes that was definitely part of it, but a lot of the facial expressions brought Josh to mind as well, which as I've said before is unusual, because somehow, Brad has managed to keep the two very separate.
*goes back to drooling*
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Date: 2007-06-16 06:22 pm (UTC)Wow. I missed that line the first time around.
Sorkin is so good. Because yeah--to a degree, who the heck cares what's going on in Afghanistan, when we IGNORE what's going on *inside our own damn borders*???
Yes, we care, but it raises the point. I mean--today's news...'a car bomb went off in Baghdad today, seven civilians killed...' Yes, and that happens EVERY DAY. Why bother even putting on the makeup to sit in the chair--just use yesterday's tape, you know? WHY are we so involved in another country's infighting that we report daily on it, in relative detail, when the SAME DANG THING is happening in places like New Orleans, only it's not Sunni and Shiite, it's the Crips and the Bloods. Or whatever. Apparently we only give a damn when there's an outside chance we can pat ourselves on the back for bringing 'democracy' to a place that doesn't want it, and isn't ready for it.
Whoa. Sorry for the diatribe.
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Date: 2007-06-16 06:49 pm (UTC)And on the subject of NO, you've been over to
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Date: 2007-06-16 07:39 pm (UTC)Yup. I donated, too. :-) I hope it goes all the way--this is awesome.
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Date: 2007-06-16 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-21 04:27 pm (UTC)I loved him in this episode, too. *sigh*
(I can’t see her being killed off though.) And anyway, it’s too late, because Danny finally gets to see the baby
I don't think she'll die, either. Just my two cents, but even if Danny hadn't seen his daughter, that baby became his the moment he became Jordan's boyfriend. Emotionally, He's been connected to her for several weeks now. Seeing her in person probably had the biggest impact, but harm has already been done, IMHO. I hate Mary the laywer passionately! :)
Simon’s probably my least favourite character on the show – I said somewhere I thought he was Studio 60’s Mandy in that he doesn’t seem to fit, and I don’t really care about him all that much, but here for once he didn’t piss me off – in fact, I almost cheered!
Same here. I don't know if it's DL Hughley or the character, but he doesn't fit. It wasn't surprising that Simon would tick off the press, but I could really sympathize with him.
Only two more to go (*sob*!). I’m guessing next week’s in the one Brad directed – some places were saying it’s the finale, but I can’t see anyone but Tommy directing that one.
Yeah, I know. I'm really sad, the show grabbed me emotionally and won't let go. The last few eps have been exceptionally good.
I hope that Matt will crash soon. It wouldn't be right if we didn't get to see that, I think. I kind of hope that Matt and Harriet will make it in the end. Strangely, I enjoyed the ships on S60, but I wasn't much of a shipper compared to some people. The pairing that I love most is Matt and Danny in a non-slashy way.
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Date: 2007-06-23 12:59 am (UTC)I've said elsewhere that, although I've enjoyed seeing Brad as a romantic lead (but I had problems with the sheer speed at which that relationship - I was going to say "developed", but it didn't really, did it?) - I do think that the refocus on D/J and M/H detracted from the Matt & Danny friendship which was the thing that intrigued us all about the show in the first place. Matt and Brad have such wonderful chemistry, as demonstrated this week, that I'm really sad we didn't get to see more of it.
And it would appear that Brad did direct the finale, because Tim Busfield directed 1.21.
He must be good if they've let him do that. :)
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Date: 2007-06-23 09:00 am (UTC)I'm still hoping that Sorkin will deal with that. There's still a lot to wrap up, that's true, but if Matt drops off the papers for Danny at the hospital then there's time for them to wrap up the storyline about Jordon (Do you think she'll die? I don't think so, but part of me thinks she might die thanks to Sorkin's way of reminding us via Mary the Lawyer).
Anyway, I think Sorkin usually is good at planning storylines, so I'm still hoping for some resolution. Maybe Harriet and Matt make up and then deal with his problem.
I was going to say "developed", but it didn't really, did it?) - I do think that the refocus on D/J and M/H detracted from the Matt & Danny friendship which was the thing that intrigued us all about the show in the first place.
That's my biggest regret, too. With buddy cop shows (or shows about brothers) being so popular nowadays, it's a shame he didn't focus on Matt/Danny.
Jordan/Danny didn't have a lot of time to develop and sadly wasn't convincing to me most of the time. Brad and Amanda made it work because they are fun to watch, but it didn't get, I agree. It was all too fast and stalkerish.
Matt and Brad have such wonderful chemistry, as demonstrated this week, that I'm really sad we didn't get to see more of it.
Yeah. I'm surprised that Brad directed the finale. Wow!
If you don't mind, I'd like to friend you. It'll be easier to keep up with your posts. ;)
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Date: 2007-06-23 12:06 pm (UTC)The Danny/Jordan thing really was fast, and I'm sure wasn't the way Sorkin originally intended it to go. I do think they were going to get together at some point, but probably in S2.. *sniff*. But if it helps, I wrote a couple (http://caz963.livejournal.com/74198.html) of fics (http://caz963.livejournal.com/79527.html) to try to get it worked out in my head!
(Jordan is in the promo for next week apparently.)
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Date: 2007-06-23 04:07 pm (UTC)No offence taken. I rarely post about my work and family, but it does happen from time to time, so I totally understand. Feel free to get to know me. ;)
The Danny/Jordan thing really was fast, and I'm sure wasn't the way Sorkin originally intended it to go. I do think they were going to get together at some point, but probably in S2.. *sniff*.
Yeah, I think so, too. Even so, it was kind of sweet how they fell in love, I just wish it hadn't been so stalkerish. They're very cute, though. I really hope Jordon won't die, but it's good that Matt will drop by with a bunch of papers to ensure Danny will be the girl's father.
But if it helps, I wrote a couple of fics to try to get it worked out in my head!
Cool! I'll take a look later tonight. :)