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Post by Lola m on Jul 31, 2008 21:28:33 GMT -5
Awwww. Sam is all happy and bouncy about interrogating this guy. He's like a kid again. "Fact is, torture is for sadists and thugs. It's like getting groceries with a flamethrower. It doesn't work and it makes a mess." Heh! **snortle** Fi and Nate had too much fun hitting Michael.
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Post by Lola m on Jul 31, 2008 21:33:21 GMT -5
Take your hands off my father! He has dementia! Can't you see his mind is gone? OMG, I love Fi! I love the look Sam gave her!
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Post by Lola m on Jul 31, 2008 21:47:01 GMT -5
Heeeeee!
Nate's first word was Michael! It was juice. I was there, ma. ;D
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Post by Sharky on Aug 1, 2008 6:49:29 GMT -5
I gotta admit, I found myself feeing sorrow for Ivan. I had to keep reminding myself he was a vicious kidnapper and killer. That moment of realization that there was no "Sergei"...
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Post by Sue on Aug 1, 2008 22:04:50 GMT -5
Take your hands off my father! He has dementia! Can't you see his mind is gone? OMG, I love Fi! I love the look Sam gave her! I laughed out loud. But I also noticed that it looks like they've cut and styled Bruce Campbell's hair and done away with quite a bit of the gray. He's not looking quite as old and puffy as last season.
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Post by Squeemonster on Aug 2, 2008 13:13:15 GMT -5
Damn! Fi is one crazy chick. Totally. ;D
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Post by Squeemonster on Aug 2, 2008 13:14:53 GMT -5
Take your hands off my father! He has dementia! Can't you see his mind is gone? OMG, I love Fi! I love the look Sam gave her! That scene was hilarious. Show, I love you so. ;D
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Post by Lola m on Aug 3, 2008 17:39:51 GMT -5
I gotta admit, I found myself feeing sorrow for Ivan. I had to keep reminding myself he was a vicious kidnapper and killer. That moment of realization that there was no "Sergei"... Yep. Michael is very fond of letting a person's past bad deeds come home to them, isn't he? The look on his face, when he understood just how much he was worked and conned? Priceless!
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Post by Lola m on Aug 3, 2008 17:40:47 GMT -5
Take your hands off my father! He has dementia! Can't you see his mind is gone? OMG, I love Fi! I love the look Sam gave her! I laughed out loud. But I also noticed that it looks like they've cut and styled Bruce Campbell's hair and done away with quite a bit of the gray. He's not looking quite as old and puffy as last season. It nicely suggests that getting involved with Michael and his wacky schenanagins have revitalized him a bit.
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Post by Lola m on Aug 3, 2008 17:41:39 GMT -5
Take your hands off my father! He has dementia! Can't you see his mind is gone? OMG, I love Fi! I love the look Sam gave her! That scene was hilarious. Show, I love you so. ;D ;D And I love your avatar!
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Post by Lola m on Aug 7, 2008 21:11:02 GMT -5
Persistent client. Did Michael not want to take him on because he's too busy with his own issues? Or because taking on a client who knows about him is too risky?
Or, more likely, both, I suppose.
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Post by Lola m on Aug 7, 2008 22:06:23 GMT -5
I liked his safecracker persona - the flat accent, the contained behavior, the way he closed his eyes and zoned when thinking about a safe.
And Sams reaction to the proposal? Too funny! Although of course it turned out sadly.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Aug 8, 2008 5:21:48 GMT -5
Man, I missed all these spy tips. I wonder if they all actually work or if they do that thing on MacGyver where they change things slightly so no one can duplicate them. Actually, I read an article last night that Sara had given me a link to that said they do usually change or leave out one important detail so's no one can duplicate it. Here is an interview that addresses this question. The show speaks with great confidence and authority and I was wondering how much of Michael’s narration is factual and how much is just made to sound factual so that people aren’t taking notes on how to build bombs.
MN: We never really give super-specific recipes, like when—well, let me take that in pieces. We’re pretty rigorous with the voiceover stuff in the sense that everything generally works. We don’t say that something is possible, that it’s not possible. That said. oh, a great example would be freezing a lock and smashing it. It’s actually possible to do that. You need a kind of specific lock, right, it’s just I guess I’d say we allow Michael to have extraordinary skill and a certain amount of luck with regard to things working and not working, but we really enjoy the, and I know all of the writers on the show enjoy or the other ones claim to, I certainly do, enjoy the research into what could you actually do. So that when Michael replaces the trigger bar spring with a bobby pin, that’s actually possible. Our armorer did it. It took him – and he’s pretty good with guns – it took him about three minutes. Michael did it in about 45 seconds. So I guess I’d say we allow for the possibility that Michael maybe practiced doing that off-screen so that he could get his time down.
And then with regard to the building of bombs, we either take a page out of the Fight Club book, which is fudge an ingredient, but usually we’re talking through things quickly enough that we’re not really listing all the ingredients in any case. Like, it is possible to make thermite at home, it has something to do with aluminum foil, here are a couple of the steps. If you want to go figure it out on your own, we’re not going to show you exactly how to do it, but we’re going to point to the fact that one can. So we would never claim that it is possible to make thermite at home when it is not possible to make thermite at home; we also would not take you through all of the steps so that you could run into your kitchen and make it.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Aug 8, 2008 8:14:52 GMT -5
I loved the scene where Sam picked a fight in order to attract the attention of the cops and the cops kept ignoring the disturbance. Hee. Also kind of a sad commentary for our times.
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Post by Sara on Aug 8, 2008 10:04:06 GMT -5
I loved the scene where Sam picked a fight in order to attract the attention of the cops and the cops kept ignoring the disturbance. Hee. Also kind of a sad commentary for our times. I can do that one better. In the commentary they talk about filming the scene in the finale where the car gets blown up by the rocket launcher. After they shot it the creator noticed that none of the cars on the freeway even paused when this dramatic event took place and thought "Damn, we should have had the stunt drivers stop and react." Then he realized they hadn't been using stunt drivers—which meant every single commuter on that highway simply drove on by a car getting blown up without batting an eye.
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