"Can I kick him?"
Does it seem like every second post I'm making these days is concerning True Blood? Is anybody complaining?
I was in thinking of procrastinating for a little bit by doing the fannish5 list (five effective uses of songs in movies or tv shows; which I might still do), when I spotted this awesome NY Post interview with Kristin Bauer, who plays Pam:
PW: I love Pam and Eric's relationship on the show. Have you guys talked about their history together?
Kristin: It's funny, Alexander [Skarsgård] and I would joke that the first 100 years between them were really passionate ... but it's faded to a friendship over time. Truthfully, we really didn't know, but I just recorded the special features for the season two Blu-ray DVD and it's like 34 pages of Pam talking about everyone in town.
PW: Kind like the Lafayette videos on the season one DVD?
Kristin: Exactly. It turned out to be incredibly insightful because I got all my questions answered. She was turned by Eric 100 years ago but released, so she's no longer bound to him but she's so in love and couldn't be more loyal. Whatever he says, she will do.
PW: What else did you learn about Pam from recording the videos?
Kristin: Before being turned she was living with her wealthy and very provincial parents. She says, "Small men were lining up for me to be auctioned off to, and then this big viking showed up and split my world apart ... and Eric likes to joke that my legs did too."
I LOVE HER!!!!!!
If you haven't seen the Lafayette videos that were part of the S1 DVD extras, you can watch some of them here. I'm kicking myself already, because I don't think we even get the Blu-ray DVDs in Australia.
ETA: Oh, and this is why (out of many reasons) I love Josh Friedman:
In the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 2 finale "Born to Run," Cameron invites John Connor to get up on top of her and cut her open in order to check and see if her nuclear power source is leaking. This is what she says (although she never actually says it) but we can wonder whether this is what her plan actually is. Certainly she knows whether it's sound or not, so perhaps she's doing it for John's benefit. On the other hand, she's not exactly clinical about the way she makes him straddle her. Here's the conversation I had with one of my executives:
EXECUTIVE: I don't get that scene.
ME: How so?
EXECUTIVE: I just don't get it. Why does she do that? Why does he do it? Was he going to kiss her? Does she want him to? What does she really want from him here?
ME: Well, we've got a lot of different possibilities. I'm sure she has her reasons. We don't really know Cameron's mind, do we?
EXECUTIVE: Shouldn't we know it?
ME: We, who? The royal we, you and me? Or the audience?
EXECUTIVE: Well. Any of the above.
ME: Like I said. You could read that scene many different ways.
EXECUTIVE: Do you have a favorite?
ME: They're all God's children.
Which is why they usually hated me.
Now whether you want to believe it or not, this was not me just being lazy. This is the way that I like my drama, both written and watched-organic, ambiguous, a little messy and inclusive of multiple interpretations.
I was in thinking of procrastinating for a little bit by doing the fannish5 list (five effective uses of songs in movies or tv shows; which I might still do), when I spotted this awesome NY Post interview with Kristin Bauer, who plays Pam:
PW: I love Pam and Eric's relationship on the show. Have you guys talked about their history together?
Kristin: It's funny, Alexander [Skarsgård] and I would joke that the first 100 years between them were really passionate ... but it's faded to a friendship over time. Truthfully, we really didn't know, but I just recorded the special features for the season two Blu-ray DVD and it's like 34 pages of Pam talking about everyone in town.
PW: Kind like the Lafayette videos on the season one DVD?
Kristin: Exactly. It turned out to be incredibly insightful because I got all my questions answered. She was turned by Eric 100 years ago but released, so she's no longer bound to him but she's so in love and couldn't be more loyal. Whatever he says, she will do.
PW: What else did you learn about Pam from recording the videos?
Kristin: Before being turned she was living with her wealthy and very provincial parents. She says, "Small men were lining up for me to be auctioned off to, and then this big viking showed up and split my world apart ... and Eric likes to joke that my legs did too."
I LOVE HER!!!!!!
If you haven't seen the Lafayette videos that were part of the S1 DVD extras, you can watch some of them here. I'm kicking myself already, because I don't think we even get the Blu-ray DVDs in Australia.
ETA: Oh, and this is why (out of many reasons) I love Josh Friedman:
In the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 2 finale "Born to Run," Cameron invites John Connor to get up on top of her and cut her open in order to check and see if her nuclear power source is leaking. This is what she says (although she never actually says it) but we can wonder whether this is what her plan actually is. Certainly she knows whether it's sound or not, so perhaps she's doing it for John's benefit. On the other hand, she's not exactly clinical about the way she makes him straddle her. Here's the conversation I had with one of my executives:
EXECUTIVE: I don't get that scene.
ME: How so?
EXECUTIVE: I just don't get it. Why does she do that? Why does he do it? Was he going to kiss her? Does she want him to? What does she really want from him here?
ME: Well, we've got a lot of different possibilities. I'm sure she has her reasons. We don't really know Cameron's mind, do we?
EXECUTIVE: Shouldn't we know it?
ME: We, who? The royal we, you and me? Or the audience?
EXECUTIVE: Well. Any of the above.
ME: Like I said. You could read that scene many different ways.
EXECUTIVE: Do you have a favorite?
ME: They're all God's children.
Which is why they usually hated me.
Now whether you want to believe it or not, this was not me just being lazy. This is the way that I like my drama, both written and watched-organic, ambiguous, a little messy and inclusive of multiple interpretations.