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« on: May 16, 2014, 04:25:13 PM »
I like finding that out about the model ship, that it's in the present. So it went through Jamison to "now"... I love those "S" couches, too. What crazy talking positions it creates, adding a lot to those arguments... That couch is my favorite late-Victorian thing, I think. It wasn't all stodginess back then. There was a bit of wild innovation, too.
Not sure how to say this... but I love it when DS seems to "expand" or be fleshed out further, and one way they do that is dropping extra story into scripts, and by that I mean references to backstory we never get a chance to see, scenes that happened offscreen, and in this case it was the fact that Judith and Jamison had had a conversation before Jamison saw Quentin, where Judith prevailed on him to reject Q and send him out the door. We find this out in a streamlined and economic way, mostly implied, with just a couple of quick remarks. One great thing this does is to stretch out the story beyond just the 21 minutes. The episode in our imagination lasts longer than that, sometimes much longer, because these kinds of lines provide windows out to other events and scenes, past and present, that there wasn't time to include. I wouldn't be surprised if these kinds of episodes strike fans as being the longest.