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EXTRACTS FROM A DRAFT OF THE PILOT SCRIPT: (7) After Jane and Hoyt's confrontation

Dec 29, 2010 20:17

This extract from the August 20, 2009 draft of the pilot script (here are Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) covers the final scenes. They play out pretty differently in lots of interesting respects, and there are several things that Jane/Maura shippers should find pleasing, including physical contact!

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cybertardis December 30 2010, 01:36:46 UTC

Wow, that was really gay! I'm sitting here laughing over it.

As cool as this is, I think I preferred the pilot which didn't have the Maura-Jane-Dean triangle, even though this version is probably way more subtexty. I am probably allowing my dislike of Dean and his amazing lack of chemistry with Jane to cloud my opinion. :P

reversatility December 30 2010, 02:07:15 UTC

Yeah, Dean was pleasingly absent from the final scene in the aired pilot (like he was from the bed scene), and I can see that making the episode we got preferable. The J/D/M triangle, such that it is, seemed written with so much subtexty goodness here that I can stomach Dean's presence. Sort of a precedent/preview for later episodes where Boyfriends of the Week only serve to bring Jane and Maura closer, you know :-)?

darkemberdagger December 30 2010, 01:51:38 UTC

I also think it's interesting that they chose to accent wheels screeching, embrace, and also watches. Maura's frantic to get to Jane and when they see each other they EMBRACE, which is a hell of a lot more intimate then just saying they hugged. And then it says that dean is watches them embrace from afar. It reminds me of all those storylines where the guy pines for the girl the whole time only to find out in the end that she likes someone else. And I love that they ditch him AGAIN to do stuff together.
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reversatility December 30 2010, 02:13:03 UTC

It made perfect sense, and I loved your observation :-). Yes, exactly - Dean may want Jane and/or Maura, but in the end, Jane and Maura end up together, and Dean can only watch from afar, literally.

And all the script directions about what to focus on in that scene when Maura finds Jane speak to how important Jane is to Maura. I agree that "EMBRACE" suggests a really tight hug, like the one we actually saw at the end of 1.07, and not just one that lasts only for a moment either; Maura was worried that Hoyt could've killed Jane, after all!

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reversatility December 30 2010, 16:43:22 UTC

Maybe the writers thought that Jane and Maura Thelma and Louising it was a bit too soon? At least the aired episode still ended sans Dean!

Very nice icon of DS Murray, btw :-).

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reversatility December 30 2010, 16:46:28 UTC

Yep, as long as they don't pull a Xena (killing off one of the main characters at the end of the series) or have one of them getting married (to someone else) as the series finale, I think I can live with most scenarios, even without a Jane/Maura kiss!

sunsetwriter December 31 2010, 03:42:05 UTC

I really think the scenes that aired were 'de-gayed' from this script! Don't get me wrong, we got the bed scene instead, and there's no denying the chemistry between Jane and Maura, but a lot of the 'gayness' of the show is left up to viewer interpretation. This script, however, is written (to me) as if they were actually planning on them having a 'womance' (to use the TV guide term ( ... )

reversatility December 31 2010, 14:15:53 UTC

This script, however, is written (to me) as if they were actually planning on them having a 'womance' (to use the TV guide term!)

Yes, it does seem like the scenes that are more suggestive of "womantic" attachment were removed or altered, doesn't it? I mean, Maura isn't even present when they find Jane after Hoyt; we only see Dean interact with her in any meaningful way in that scene, so that's a big change. They did then add the scene at Jane's apartment, and the tortoise gift was sweet, but it didn't really have the emotional oomph of "Maura screeching in and embracing Jane," as you put it, and yeah, there was no overt leaving behind of Dean.

Couple that (is that a pun?) with the-girl-who-broke-little-Jane's-heart scene and I think we would have some pretty strong evidence that one or the both of them might not be straight.Yeah, had that scene been left in, we would've been able to point to Jane having once been in love with a girl and draw some parallels to the present! As for Maura, as I've commented above, this script ( ... )