dvd commentary - come to the gobi, they said

[tsuki_no_bara]

commentary for come to the gobi, they said, for saunteringdown. my one and only flight of the phoenix fanfic, starring john davis (as played by jared padalecki) and rodney alex (as played by tony curran). the title of the fic comes from this line of rodney's, which is one of my favorite lines in the movie for no other reason than i love the way tony delivers

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[tsuki_no_bara]

man, i was so confused i couldn't even remember which level was which. >.< only that scotland does it differently. seriously, other countries' high school/college qualifying exams confuse the hell out of me. britain especially, just because i know enough brits to have a vague idea that their system is stranger than ours.

i've now seen most of red road, which is set in glasgow, and some of it takes place in a tower block, so i know i wasn't completely off, but yeah, i couldn't begin to picture them otherwise. and i think we worked backwards trying to figure out how a nice scottish boy would end up drilling for oil in the gobi - why do people pick that as a career, y'know? - so it's good to know it made sense to someone else. :D

(wren determined that the alexes are roman catholic and not protestant, but i never directly addressed it because i didn't know how specifically it would've affected rodney's life, just that it would have in some way. i don't know enough recentish glaswegian history to write about it.)

rodney's swallow looks old school, like old sailors' tats. i think they're traditionally used to symbolize travel across a distance, not to warn people away from starting shit with you, but no one said rodney was versed in classic tattoo symbolism.... :D

[tsuki_no_bara]

"ours" meaning "mine".... *cough* well, the us system anyway. which i only get because i went through it.

>>He probably wouldn't think of mentioning it anyway, unless it came up, it's just a part of life...<<

exactly. :D and he's not particularly religious/observant. his mom's the one who goes to church.

i know the swallow was originally a sailor's tattoo, but i have no idea what it means now, other than "i like old school tats." rodney was a brawler in his youth, but wren gets credit for his tat's significance. i just figured out what it was.

this is turning into a pretty educational commentary. nifty. :D