Warehouse 13 commentaries
Things I learned in the Warehouse 13 season 1 commentaries
* Joanne Kelly has an old teddy bear that was a gift at the baby shower for her (so, around the time of her birth) and she takes it everywhere with her, even though people think it's all gross and weird. In the commentary on "Implosion" Jack Kelly suggests that she bring it to the set so they can make it one of Myka's belongings. !!! I think the sweet old squashed bear she was dancing with in 2x02 was Joanne Kelly's real bear.
* According to Jack Kenny, teasingly, the actresses on the show don't mind looking rough for a scene, but Eddie McClintock always has to have every hair in the right place.
* They like opening the episode at the end of a mission, because "we can do anything, say anything, and we don't have to make good on it." "All those artifacts and missions we wanted to do that were too expensive..." That explains King Arthur's sword in the castle in Cardiff.
* CCH Pounders, who plays Mrs. Fredericks, on Mrs. Fredericks: "Whenever I look at her, I can't speak. I get that deer-in-the-headlights feeling..."
* You know how when the actors talk into the Farnsworths, they're all hogging the camera and looking all weird and stretchy because of the angle? (They have to hold the camera themselves to shoot those bits.) Joanne Kelly was originally trying to hold the camera away because she knew how weird and distorted and unattractive it would look. But then she realized it would be *funnier* if they got close and looked weird. Respect to her for making the comedy choice. :)
* Warehouse mythology: remember how at one point during the season, Mrs. Frederick says, "I swear on the ashes of the previous twelve Warehouses..." Apparently the idea is that this institution, the Warehouse as a safeguard/repository for the potentially dangerous mysteries of the world, has been in the world for millennia, and it is the responsibility of whatever civilization or nation is currently the world power. So there have been previous Warehouses in... I can't remember the ones they mentioned, but somebody went through and counted back 13. China, Babylon, Greece, Rome, Ottoman Empire, like that, and up through the British Empire (implying that Warehouse 12 was the London one) and now the United States.
* Themes they're working with for season 2: "loss and intensified commitment and home."
* Listening to the commentaries helped me get a better sense for the physical layout of the spaces they were working in, particularly the "umbilicus" and office in the Warehouse, and what exactly had exploded in the season finale. (I had previously been under the impression it was the entire warehouse, so I spent the hiatus vaguely afraid they'd be starting over with a whole new space.)
* "McPherson" (season 1 finale) -- I hadn't given much thought to it before, but there is a lot of bondage imagery in this episode. There's Artie in the ball gag (okay, it was a bomb, but come on) with a chain leash around his neck, and then there's McPherson with his wrists in stocks in the bronzer. CCH Pounders, as ever, says it like it is: CCH Pounders: Oh, dear, that's disgusting. That looks like some porn show--
Jack Kenny: No, no, it's diabolical, is what is is.
CCH Pounders: It is a *diabolical* porn show. (making up a line for McPherson as he holds the 'leash' onscreen) "Me and my dog."
Hee!
These are by rightclick5ave.
* Joanne Kelly has an old teddy bear that was a gift at the baby shower for her (so, around the time of her birth) and she takes it everywhere with her, even though people think it's all gross and weird. In the commentary on "Implosion" Jack Kelly suggests that she bring it to the set so they can make it one of Myka's belongings. !!! I think the sweet old squashed bear she was dancing with in 2x02 was Joanne Kelly's real bear.
* According to Jack Kenny, teasingly, the actresses on the show don't mind looking rough for a scene, but Eddie McClintock always has to have every hair in the right place.
* They like opening the episode at the end of a mission, because "we can do anything, say anything, and we don't have to make good on it." "All those artifacts and missions we wanted to do that were too expensive..." That explains King Arthur's sword in the castle in Cardiff.
* CCH Pounders, who plays Mrs. Fredericks, on Mrs. Fredericks: "Whenever I look at her, I can't speak. I get that deer-in-the-headlights feeling..."
* You know how when the actors talk into the Farnsworths, they're all hogging the camera and looking all weird and stretchy because of the angle? (They have to hold the camera themselves to shoot those bits.) Joanne Kelly was originally trying to hold the camera away because she knew how weird and distorted and unattractive it would look. But then she realized it would be *funnier* if they got close and looked weird. Respect to her for making the comedy choice. :)
* Warehouse mythology: remember how at one point during the season, Mrs. Frederick says, "I swear on the ashes of the previous twelve Warehouses..." Apparently the idea is that this institution, the Warehouse as a safeguard/repository for the potentially dangerous mysteries of the world, has been in the world for millennia, and it is the responsibility of whatever civilization or nation is currently the world power. So there have been previous Warehouses in... I can't remember the ones they mentioned, but somebody went through and counted back 13. China, Babylon, Greece, Rome, Ottoman Empire, like that, and up through the British Empire (implying that Warehouse 12 was the London one) and now the United States.
* Themes they're working with for season 2: "loss and intensified commitment and home."
* Listening to the commentaries helped me get a better sense for the physical layout of the spaces they were working in, particularly the "umbilicus" and office in the Warehouse, and what exactly had exploded in the season finale. (I had previously been under the impression it was the entire warehouse, so I spent the hiatus vaguely afraid they'd be starting over with a whole new space.)
* "McPherson" (season 1 finale) -- I hadn't given much thought to it before, but there is a lot of bondage imagery in this episode. There's Artie in the ball gag (okay, it was a bomb, but come on) with a chain leash around his neck, and then there's McPherson with his wrists in stocks in the bronzer. CCH Pounders, as ever, says it like it is: CCH Pounders: Oh, dear, that's disgusting. That looks like some porn show--
Jack Kenny: No, no, it's diabolical, is what is is.
CCH Pounders: It is a *diabolical* porn show. (making up a line for McPherson as he holds the 'leash' onscreen) "Me and my dog."
Hee!
These are by rightclick5ave.
