Oh really? It's a long time since I watched Mad Men. I can't remember the details very well. I imagined Stan as someone skinnier and a lot cuter, lol. It's funny how you picture characters, isn't it? Like me, you don't go into physical descriptions very deeply. (I don't think you need to unless its important, and I think shopping list style descriptions are boring).
I'm just playing devil's advocate really too. You can see why and how Charlie is jealous of Annette. She presumes, because she doesn't know any better, that Annette has this lovely sweet relationship with George which is going swimmingly and she's got this lovely little life with a nice cosy job - not least working with her father, and we know there is tension in Charlie's family background. Of course Charlie is envious. She would love to have Annette's life. We know too, that Annette has problems of her own, but Charlie doesn't realise this, and her envy - and probably a sense of why is it so unfair? She has everything and I have nothing - manifests itself in her attitude towards Annette. So anyway, it does come through fine, don't worry. If she keeps going like that though, she will drive Annette - and Wanda, and Howard - away.
I empathise too, with the lack of knowing what to actually give a character to do, lol. In real life, what would they do? Watch telly? Read a book? Not very dramatic. It's tricky in the downtime bits. I think the Ringo/Cynthia scene came over well, and though, no, she probably wouldn't totally pour her heart out to Ringo she might in so much as she's a bit alone with John being an arse, and he's just there at the right moment. She does, to an extent, by telling him what happened to her when she couldn't get back in. And Ringo being a down to earth, Northern English guy, clams up and feels awkward because she's crying. Ha ha, very accurate.
I'm just playing devil's advocate really too. You can see why and how Charlie is jealous of Annette. She presumes, because she doesn't know any better, that Annette has this lovely sweet relationship with George which is going swimmingly and she's got this lovely little life with a nice cosy job - not least working with her father, and we know there is tension in Charlie's family background. Of course Charlie is envious. She would love to have Annette's life. We know too, that Annette has problems of her own, but Charlie doesn't realise this, and her envy - and probably a sense of why is it so unfair? She has everything and I have nothing - manifests itself in her attitude towards Annette. So anyway, it does come through fine, don't worry. If she keeps going like that though, she will drive Annette - and Wanda, and Howard - away.
I empathise too, with the lack of knowing what to actually give a character to do, lol. In real life, what would they do? Watch telly? Read a book? Not very dramatic. It's tricky in the downtime bits. I think the Ringo/Cynthia scene came over well, and though, no, she probably wouldn't totally pour her heart out to Ringo she might in so much as she's a bit alone with John being an arse, and he's just there at the right moment. She does, to an extent, by telling him what happened to her when she couldn't get back in. And Ringo being a down to earth, Northern English guy, clams up and feels awkward because she's crying. Ha ha, very accurate.
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