Comments | sara_merry99: Episode Notes: due South "Chicago Holiday, part 1"

sara_merry99

Episode Notes: due South "Chicago Holiday, part 1"

Jan 14, 2007 15:41

This is the first set of notes I've done for episodes I haven't seen before. My husband and I skipped this episode when we were watching about a year ago. He has an extreme embarrassment squick and this seemed like it was just going to set that off, so we skipped past it ( Read more... )

due south, screencaps, episode notes

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sassyinkpen January 15 2007, 16:08:49 UTC

--Ray: "Looks like a very painful experience." Fraser: "Well, dancing with the Americans often is, Ray. Speaking politically, of course, not personally." (Ah, and in the slashy happy place I'm picturing Fraser and Ray dancing together.)

I wanted desperately to write that into "Truth No. 2" (it was one of the first images I had for it), but I was just too afraid of being far too sappy so I skipped it in the end. Now I kind of wish I'd done it, because I still LOVE the image of them dancing together in Ray's living room.

Ok, as promised: I am totally with you on the Leather Mountie Suit and the idea that Fraser Should Be In It. Also, I will repeat for the general public that I adore the fact that Ray dressed his undercover guy like a MOUNTIE!! (Because, yeah, that would have been any cop's first choice, right? HA!)

--Fraser's reaction to it is funny, but messes up my fantasy of Fraser wearing it just a tad. But I'm still loving the idea!Yeah but the expression on his face in your pic there reads "shocked, but tittilated" to me ( ... )

sara_merry99 January 15 2007, 16:34:20 UTC

Can you explain the McGuffin reference to me? I don't get that one.

I can handle the McGuffin thing pretty quickly so I'll do it first. A McGuffin (or MacGuffin) is a plot device, a Thing of Desire that people are pursuing. What precisely the thing is or does is not of importance to the plot, what's important is that people want it. The falcon in The Maltese Falcon is a very classic example of a McGuffin. The Wikipedia entry on MacGuffins even mentions this dS episode among their examples.

They got their name from some old story no one remembers anymore in which the Thing of Desire was a man named MacGuffin.

I wanted desperately to write that into "Truth No. 2" (it was one of the first images I had for it), but I was just too afraid of being far too sappy so I skipped it in the end. Now I kind of wish I'd done it, because I still LOVE the image of them dancing together in Ray's living room.OMG You totally should have put it in there!! Who cares if it's sappy? It would have been so sweet! Now you just need to write another story ( ... )

k1p2psso January 15 2007, 19:57:55 UTC

Just compare Chicago Holiday to Crash (last year's Best Picture Oscar). Only one features whining, but they're both MacGuffins. I see CH as a training exercise for Crash.

sara_merry99 January 15 2007, 20:41:32 UTC

I haven't seen Crash though I was pleased to recognize Paul Haggis' name on it.

(I was rooting for Brokeback Mountain last spring.)

The MacGuffin plot device is common in a *lot* of things, but it is kind of amusing to think that he revisited the idea for Crash after giving it a first test drive here.

goddamnbatman January 16 2007, 07:21:23 UTC

Hello! I'm not dropping in to say anything intelligent, but just to squee over the fact that leather!Mountie is Dan from Wilby Wonderful and Neil from Men with Brooms, both starring Paul Gross XD

sara_merry99 January 16 2007, 14:27:23 UTC

Thanks for popping in and letting me know!! I've never seen either of those movies!

goddamnbatman January 16 2007, 20:50:18 UTC

Oh wow, I'm almost jealous that you still get to see them for the first time XD If you love Paul, you will love love love Men with Brooms, and even if Wilby Wonderful didn't star Paul, it'd be one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Put them on your list! and if you can't rent/order them there's a Place

sara_merry99 January 17 2007, 02:43:42 UTC

I'm not much of a "follow the actor" type, but I'll definitely admit to being tempted by those movies!! Thanks!

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keerawa January 16 2007, 21:11:45 UTC

Any combination of Fraser + leather bar = good

Depending on the genre, it's either hysterically funny, or mmmmmmm hot.

This being network TV, it was funny. "Would anyone here happen to have a pair of handcuffs?" *snickers* And poor Ray, so freaking out about finding Fraser there with a teenage girl.

sara_merry99 January 17 2007, 02:42:44 UTC

Any combination of Fraser + leather bar = good

Oh, yeah!! In this case it was funny. (Though I *really* need a story about Fraser in the leather mountie uniform. :) *Need* that.)

And poor Ray, so freaking out about finding Fraser there with a teenage girl.

::hugs Ray:: and he was *so* upset!!

diabolicalfiend November 23 2007, 15:53:47 UTC

Ray was more upset with Fraser embarrassing him than being there with a teenage girl. Huey and Louie will NEVER let him live this down. Never. Ever. Ever. EVER.

sara_merry99 November 25 2007, 13:45:02 UTC

I don't know--Ray looked way more horrified than someone who's just going to be putting up with shit from obnoxious coworkers. He looked really shocked and disappointed in Fraser.

But that's just a reading body language thing and you are right that Huey and Louie will be giving him crap about this for *years* to come.