Comm Rewatch - 1.07

[dorsetgirl]

00:00   Well, here I am getting ready for tonight’s rewatch, and I haven’t got a clue which episode this is. I missed last week’s as I was out, but I know that was Reg Cole, and Sam looking longingly at Gene, and Gene almost in tears as Sam is about to die. And next week, being 1.08 is of course Vic Tyler, and Sam pulling a gun on Gene. But this

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[ripley312]

You do such a good job with these recaps that I have nothing to add. So well done. Jon and Phil's acting is really superior here. It's a credit to John especially because in this ep, he just so morally smug and superior to the whole crew even though he is being professional, he just irrates me - yet somehow I don't end up hating him.
Also, I love the scene where Gene addresses the whole crew and asks "who the biggest dickhead is in here."

[dorsetgirl]

Thank you - I'm glad you enjoy these. I love doing them, too.

And you're right about John - Sam is such a prick sometimes, but it's so clear in this episode that he knows he's doing the right thing. To a certain extent, I think his smugness is offset by the incredible insubordination from Ray, and tbh, getting suspended by Gene in public balances out quite a lot. Whatever Gene's motives, that was a shitty way to do it. Although perhaps it was for show and had to be done that way.

[sytaxia]

Oooh - this is the first of your recaps that I've seen here, and I lvoe the format, and the way that you dissect everything and point out all the little hints, from the acting to the hotness to the character development...

OK, she’s the most junior member of the department, but she has totally bought into the whole coverup business, and she is getting personally angry with Sam when he is just professionally trying to do the right thing. that has always irked me about that scene, as well - and you've definitely hit the nail on the head, trying to suss out why :)

[dorsetgirl]

Thank you - I love doing these, although they do take a hell of a lot of time, which is why this isn't finished yet. Even at this level of detail there are a lot of things I just have to let go - expressions on faces, for example, are always worth looking at even on the Nameless Ones, and I probably don't even notice most of the lighting and cinematography stuff that people rave over.

Yeah, the whole Sam/Annie business is pretty much an object lesson in not dirtying your own doorstep at work. Especially when one works for the other. Obviously my moral objection on this point doesn't apply to Sam and Gene, because they were simply made for each other and it's clear it doesn't affect their working relationship *g*.

[severinne]

I'm actually ducking over here from the link you left in the discussion for 1.08, and glad I did, since I missed out on last week's rewatch (was still having an epic battle with my ficathon entry) and this is a wonderfully thorough take on the episode, and I'm a sucker for detail :)

Thought I'd chime in after that point you made about the bathroom scene and how you found it surprisingly intimate/weird as a woman. I did too, so much so that I once asked my male friends about it in the bar one night (most of my friends being men), they don't watch the show but I described the scene and asked if they found that unusual, etc. The consensus was that it's okay if a conversation had started outside the bathroom, but they were weirded out by the fact that it was only Gene that had to take a piss. More specifically, the question was 'Okay, so if the one guy is peeing, what was the other doing there?' and I was like 'um, he was in a stall, door open, sorta just there...' and all I got back was a Look and 'yeah, that's kinda gay.' So that