I was thinking about Mr whiskers and had the joking thought of him cloning himself so he could date himself, and the clone ended up finding him annoying and breaks up with him( sel)
but then I realized that with how cheap he his he’d most just have a paid actor to pretend to be him and they end up finding him insufferable
it’s funny because i think they’d actually get along as clones LMAO like they’re the same people and both think they’re amazing and perfect so they’d see the other in that way as well
he’d also never let an actor try to be him cause he knows they’d get him wrong (and offend him), no, it has to be a clone that he makes out with!!!!
i tend to forget about it in the bustle of the Everything Else going on with the horns/hexes arc but the filming the ad for the school website bit is such an underrated gem
amber doing full on sunset boulevard norma desmond LARP. fabian vaguely scared when she pats him on the shoulder mid-take
fabian not being able to remember his “lines” about amber not being able to remember her lines so he reads it off his hand and no one comments
joy was born to be a director. her girltech ass headset. give her a movie deal NOW
palpable sense that somebody involved in the conception of this scene is using it to cope with longstanding and unresolved beef with an overbearing producer they've had to deal with in the past
every time mr sweet echoes a call before joy finishes saying it. the completely uncalled for simon cowell impression. joy fighting so hard to keep her mouth closed for the sake of the take. oh my god
like i cannot stress this enough it gets Three bullet points: if he wanted to 1st AD so bad he could at least throw out a QUIET ON SET but he can’t even do that right because He’s The Only One Talking
there are THREE (3) microphones present for ONE (1) source of sound: a shotgun mic on the camera, the boom (not hooked up to a mixer.), and this random ass standard stage mic just hanging around by one of the desks?? if all of those are hooked up directly to the camera...lord have mercy on whoever has to mix that mess
SHOPPING CART DOLLY (this is by far the most realistic detail. when i was in film school and no one wanted to drag one of the real dollies out of storage we'd push the cameraperson around in an old wheelchair)
when you take the previous two points in conjunction: the shopping cart is going to RUIN their audio. i don't think even wd-40 could save them. forget eddie's bodycount -- whoever got stuck on post-production for this mess is going to clear his record no problem
no additional lights. not even a lamp. you get whatever meager natural light comes through the windows (worst angle possible for it, too) and an overhead fixture that will no doubt look like hell in post especially because of the camera they're using (insult to injury to the post guy). SPEAKING OF THE CAMERA:
not only am i obsessed with it being a (completely appropriate for the time) digital video camera that probably records to magnetic tape but they actually bothered to hook it up to a monitor for real and show the live output as a nice tiny detail but...oh man.......that monitor.................sure provides...............information.......................
uh uh uh devastating moment i just spent like 30 minutes pacing around brainstorming anatomical details for the uty cast as they are non-human. and about how their bodies would work. and how they would uniquely perform everyday tasks and individual accommodations but mostly i was thinking about their biologies and then i remembered these mfs are made of MAGIC they dont even HAVE physicality so it doesnt MATTER.
i punch. starlo and he falls apart like chalk candy. dammit.
Gotta love how, when Vikings has the Seer explain Ragnarok, they intentionally have the dude dressed as Fenrir the wolf nuzzling Athelstan's neck as the Seer says, "At last, Fenrir will swallow the Sun!" Add that to Ragnar being constantly connected to Odin in multiple different ways, and I'm just sitting here rubbing my hands together and stomping my feet and spinning my chair around in circles.