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thefirsthogokage · 10 months
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m0ose-idiot · 1 year
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Alison, can we have a picture with Thomas, please? It doesn't have to be a big one! 👻❤️
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green-lanterns-c0ck · 2 years
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DC really looked at the Lanterns and said "Is anyone going to be ableist to them?" and then didn't wait for a reply, huh
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cantsayidont · 3 months
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June 1968. Aside from its striking Gil Kane cover (I love the cityscape), this issue of GREEN LANTERN is pretty close to being an Alan Scott solo adventure, set largely on Earth-2.
Which raises a point: With the renewed interest in Alan Scott coinciding with the JSA revival, Alan being outed, and the ghoulish Tim Sheridan miniseries, it's frustrating that DC hasn't taken that as a cue to collect some of Alan's past adventures beyond the smattering reprinted elsewhere (some of which are long out of print). A sampling of his Golden Age adventures, such as the early appearances of now-familiar villains like Vandal Savage, Solomon Grundy, and the Harlequin would be nice, but there are also some Silver Age and later adventures that would be worth reprinting, including his Silver Age team-ups with Hal Jordan (GREEN LANTERN #40, #45, #52, and #61), a brief solo strip in the late '70s (GREEN LANTERN #108–110), and the team-up with Hal and Oliver Queen in GREEN LANTERN #111–112 that was the first attempt to really address the connection between Alan and the Green Lantern Corps. If one wanted to present a complete bio, the INFINITY INC. Annual that explained his relationships with the Thorn (who's the mother of his kids) and Molly Maynne would be appropriate, and he had a charming solo strip in eight issues of GREEN LANTERN QUARTERLY in the early '90s that was torpedoed by "Emerald Twilight." Only bits and pieces of that stuff have been previously reprinted, and collecting it would provide a nice foundation for whatever dumb nonsense Geoff Johns and Tim Sheridan are now trying to scaffold onto it.
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https-envy · 5 months
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my total drama island live action cast!!!! ( tell me if u agree with any of this lol) ( also this is a joke lol )
chris mclean: cooper neidecker ( aka film cooper aka best youtuber ever ) ( ALSO HE IS A SWIFTIE!!!! )
chef: ksi ( I HAD TO!!!! sorry not sorry lol )
courtney: charli d'amelio ( idk what im thinking but its funny lol )
heather: rachel mcadams OR megan fox ( this is accurate idc )
gwen: lizzy caplan OR fairuza balk ( BOTH FIT SO WELL!! )
justin: zac efron ( accuracy 100% )
owen: nikocado avacado ( SORRY NOT SORRY!! )
lindsay: reese witherspoon ( elle woods core??? )
harold: ed sheeran ( bros singing shape of you to leshawna )
leshawna: nicki minaj ( she is the queen of rap <33 )
izzy: bella thorne ( idk it just fits )
duncan: chase hudson ( IDK IM SLEEP DEPRIVED!! )
cody: michael cera ( for the scott pilgrim and allan stans!!! aka me )
geoff: logan paul ( this one is far fetched, but idc )
dj: rob brown ( my friend suggested this one so idk tbh )
tyler: lionel messi ( YOU CANT BLAME ME!!! )
trent: slash OR taylor swift ( im flexible with this one )
bridgette: bethany hamilton ( its accurate though- )
noah: noah schnapp OR kholby wardell ( noel gruber and noah are besties in an alternate timeline real!???!? )
eva: serena williams ( i have legit no one else, but this could work! )
beth: emma watson ( this would be fun to see )
ezekiel: my brother ( he was homeschooled in kindergarten, so this counts )
sadie: katie ladner ( ironic isnt it? also, yes, i did do this because of heathers the musical )
katie: barrett wilbert weed ( now who made me so funny?? no one, im just like this! ) ( im also very delusional help me /hj )
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1morey · 1 year
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Every known Rainbow operator past and present (and NIGHTHAVEN operators)
GIS
Adriano “Maestro” Martello (2018-Present)
Antonio Maldini (1999-2012)
Aria “Alibi” de Luca (2018-Present)
GIGN
Alain DuBarry (1999-2012)
Emmanuelle “Twitch” Pichon (2015-Present)
Gilles “Montagne” Touré (2015-Present)
Gustav “Doc” Kateb (2015-Present)
Julian “Rook” Nizan (2015-Present)
Olivier “Lion” Flament (2018-Present)
1º Batalhão de Forças Especiais
Alejandro Noronha (1999-2012)
Spetzgruppa “A”
Aleksandr “Tachanka” Senaviev (2015-Present)
Genedy Filatov (1999-2012)
Lera “Finka” Melnikova (2018-2022 (defected to NIGHTHAVEN), rejoined in or before 2025)
Maxim “Kapkan” Basuda (2015-Present)
Shuhrat “Fuze” Kessikbayev (2015-Present)
Timur “Glaz” Glazkov (2015-Present)
AFEAU
Ana “Solis” Valentina Díaz (2022-Present) 
Special Air Service
Andrew Burke (1999-2012)
Eddie Price (1999-2012)
Geoff Bates (1999-2012)
James “Smoke” Porter (2015-2022) (Defected to NIGHTHAVEN)
Mark R. “Mute” Chandar (2015-Present)
Michael Walter (2008-2012)
Mike “Thatcher” Baker (2015-Present)
Paddy Connelly (1999-2012)
Peter Covington (1999-2012)
Scotty McTyler (1999-2012)
Seamus “Sledge” Cowden (2015-Present)
Steve Lincoln (1999-2012)
National Task Force
Annika Lofquist (1999-2012) (Under ONI)
NIGHTHAVEN
Anja Katarina “Osa” Janković (2021-2022)
Apha “Aruni” Tawanroong (2020-2022)
Charlie Tho Keng “Grim” Boon (2022-Present) (NIGHTHAVEN only)
Håvard “Ace” Haugland (2020-2022)
Jaimini Kalimohan “Kali” Shah (2019-2022)
Ngũgĩ Muchoki “Wamai” Furaha (2019-Present)
Belarusian Ground Forces
Arkadi Novikov (2001-2012)
Mossad
Ayana Yacoby (1999-2012)
David Peled (1999-2012)
Sharon Judd (2010-2012)
APCA
Azucena Rocío “Amaru” Quispe (2019-Present)
United States Army Rangers
“Bishop” (Unknown-2012)
United States Navy SEALs
Brian Armstrong (Unknown-2012)
Craig “Blackbeard” Jensen (2016-Present)
Meghan J. “Valkyrie” Castellano (2016-Present)
Miguel “Mike” Chin (1999-2012)
Garda Emergency Response Unit
Brianna “Thorn” Skehan (2021-Present)
FES
César Ruiz “Goyo” Hernández (2019-Present)
707th Special Mission Group
Choi Byoung-Ryang (2003-2012)
Choi Jae-Hoon (2003-2012)
Choi Youn-Suk (2003-2012)
Chul “Vigil” Kyung Hwa (2017-Present)
Grace “Dokkaebi” Nam (2017-Present)
Hong Min-Hyun (2003-2012)
Jung Park (2009-2012)
Jung Sang-Yub (2003-2012)
Kim Jae-Ho (2003-2012)
Kim Sung-Gun (2003-2012)
Kim Yu-Jin (2003-2012)
Lee Won-Ho (2003-2012)
Lee Youn-Jung (2003-2012)
Pak Suo-Won (2001-2012)
Seo Young-Lan (2003-2012)
United States Secret Service
Collinn “Warden” McKinley (2019-Present)
FBI Hostage Rescue Team
Daniel Bogart (1999-2012)
United States Marine Corps
Daniel "Bear" Malloy (1999-2012)
GSG 9
Dieter Weber (2001-2012)
Dominic “Bandit” Brunsmeier (2015-Present)
Elias “Blitz” Kötz (2015-Present)
Jorg Walther (1999-2012)
Marius “Jäger” Streicher (2015-Present)
Monika “IQ” Weiss (2015-2022) (Defected to NIGHTHAVEN)
CIA
Domingo “Ding” Chavez (1999-2012)
John Clark (1999-2000 (as operator))
Beredskapstroppen
Einar Petersen (2001-2012)
GEO
Elena María “Mira” Álvarez (2017-Present)
Ryad Ramírez “Jackal” Al-Hassar (2017-Present)
FBI SWAT
Eliza “Ash” Cohen (2015-Present)
Jack “Pulse” Estrada (2015-2022) (Defected to NIGHTHAVEN)
Jordan “Thermite” Trace (2015-Present)
Miles “Castle” Campbell (2015-Present)
JW GROM
Elżbieta "Ela" Bosak (2017-2022)  (Defected to NIGHTHAVEN)
Kazimiera Rakuzanka (1999-2012)
Zofia Bosak (2017-Present)
Delta Force
Erik “Maverick” Thorn (2018-Present)
George Tomlison (1999-2012)
Hank Patterson (1999-2012)
Homer Johnston (1999-2012)
Julio “Oso” Vega (1999-2012)
Logan Keller (2005-2012)
Mike Pierce (1999-2012)
Renee Raymond (1999-2012)
United States Army
Fred “Freddy” Franklin (1999-2012)
Mortimer “Sam” Houston (1999-2012)
Royal New Zealand Air Force
Gary Kenyon (2010-2012)
BATF International Response Team
Gerald Morris (1999-2012)
1st Special Operations Wing
Harrison (1999-2012)
Royal Air Force
Jack Nance (1999-2012)
GSIGR
Jalal “Kaid” El Fassi (2018-Present)
Sanaa “Nomad” El Maktoub (2018-Present)
Unit 777
Jamal Murad (2001-2012)
CSIS
Joanna Torres (2010-2012)
Jaeger Corps
Karina “Nøkk” Gaarddhøje (2019-Present)
EKO Cobra
Karl Haider (1999-2012) (under GEK Cobra)
MI5
Kevin Sweeney (1999-2012)
ELDYK
Kure Galanos (2001-2012)
Pyrotechno GmbH
Lars Breckenbauer (1999-2012)
Special Duties Unit
Liu “Lesion” Tze Long (2017-Present)
Siu “Ying” Mei Ling (2017-Present)
DGSE
Louis Loiselle (2001-2012)
Special Assault Team
Masaru “Echo” Enatsu (2016-Present)
Yumiko “Hibana” Imagawa (2016-Present)
STAR-NET Aviation
Mina “Thunderbird” Sky (2021-Present)
Metropolitan Police Service
Morowa “Clash” Evans (2018-Present)
COT
Nayara “Brava” Cardoso (2023-Present)
REU
Neinke Meijer (2020-Present)
Special Forces Group (Belgium)
Néon “Sens” Ngoma Mutombo (2022-Present)
Joint Task Force 2
Roger McAllen (1999-2012)
Sébastien “Buck” Côté (2016-Present)
Tina “Frost” Lin Tsang (2016-Present)
NSA
Sam Bennett (1999-2012)
Fourth Echelon
Samuel Leo “Sam” Fisher (2020-Present)
UEI
Santiago Arnavisca (1999-2012)
40 Commando
Shawn Rivers (2010) (KIA)
BOPE
Taina “Caveira” Pereira (2016-Present)
Vicente “Capitão” Souza (2016-Present)
Inkaba Task Force
Thandiwe “Melusi” Ndlovu (2020-Present)
FBI
Tim Noonan (1999-2012)
Paul Bellow (1999-2012)
SASR
Max “Mozzie” Goose (2019-Present)
Timothy Hanley (1999-2012)
Tori Tallyo “Gridlock” Fairous (2019-Present)
LAPD SWAT
Tracy Woo (1999-2012)
MI6
William “Billy” Tawney (1999-2012)
Unaffiliated
Kana “Azami” Fujiwara (2022-Present)
Saif “Oryx” Al Hadid (2020-Present)
Santiago Miguel “Flores” Lucero (2021-Present)
Unspecified
Brody Lukin (2010-2012)
“Deimos” (Unknown-On or Before 2012)
Emilio Narino (2001-2012)
Gabriel Nowak (2005-2010) (Defected/KIA)
Harry (1999-2012)
Kan Akahashi (2010) (KIA)
Monroe (2005) (KIA)
Directors
John Clark (1999-2010)
Domingo “Ding” Chavez (2010-2012)
Aurelia Arnot (2015-2019)
Harishva “Harry” Pandey (2019-2023) (KIA)
Unknown (2023-)
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destinygoldenstar · 2 years
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Total Drama Random Hunger Games
Hello and welcome to the annual (randomized) Total Drama Hunger Games! Where bonds will be tested, new relationships will be formed, and unexpected outcomes can occur.
Now before we introduce our cast, it’s time to sit back, relax, and place your bets for the outcome of the CHAOS you’re about to witness.
District 1
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We have Ezekiel, Katie, & Mike
District 2
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We have Eva, Justin, & Sky
District 3
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We have DJ, Anne Maria, & Sam
District 4
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We have Courtney, Scott & Leshawna
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I can’t figure out if Scott’s excited or scared to be on the same team as his lawyer ex
District 5
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We have Cameron, Izzy, & Shawn
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Poor Cameron. He’s completely out of his element with two crazy survival fanatics
District 6
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We have Lindsay, Beardo, & Sugar
District 7
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We have Alejandro, Scarlett, & Harold
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...Harold, my sweet, I am so sorry. You don’t deserve this treatment.
District 8
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We have Ella, Tyler, & Jo
District 9
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We have Dave, Zoey, & Leonard
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Zoey, I apologize dearly. You deserve better characters as teammates
District 10
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We have Amy, Max, & Gwen
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...ONCE AGAIN, Gwen, I am SO sorry that this was randomized against you. You deserve better teammates
District 11
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We have Lightning, Blaineley, & Rodney
District 12
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We have Beth, Geoff, & Dawn
Everyone ready? Let’s begin!
The Bloodbath:
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“As the tributes stand on their podiums, the horn sounds.”
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Cameron, Ella, Shawn, Ezekiel, Justin, Courtney, Leshawna, Amy, Rodney, Scott, Leonard, & Jo all run away from the cornucopia
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“Zoey shoots an arrow at Anne Maria, but misses and kills Sam instead.”
Yep. That is our first death of the game. An accident.
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Anne Maria must be laughing hard at Zoey for this.
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Sam, rest in peace.
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“Sky, Scarlett, and Dave start fighting, but Scarlett runs away as Sky kills Dave”
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It was a long time coming if you ask me.
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I don’t even feel bad for Dave. He deserves it.
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“Harold finds a bow, some arrows, and a quiver.”
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“DJ grabs a shield leaning on the cornucopia.”
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“Geoff grabs a shovel”
“Sugar, Gwen, Alejandro, and Izzy share everything they gathered before running”
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“Tyler breaks Max’s nose for a basket of bread”
“Lindsay scares Mike away from the cornucopia”
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I have no idea how she managed to do that tbh
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“Dawn accidentally steps on a landmine”
One question,
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HOW DID YOU MANAGE THAT?!
From my knowledge, the only way you could’ve done that is if you stepped off too early,
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And I can only see Dawn doing that if it was on purpose. She was sick of the game.
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“Lightning stays at the cornucopia for resources”
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“Eva runs into the cornucopia and hides”
Lightning you better watch out
“Katie, Beth, Blaineley, and Beardo share everything they gathered before running”
Day 1
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“Katie sprains her ankle while running away from Ezekiel”
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“Izzy kills Shawn with a hatchet”
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Izzy, what are you doing? You’re on the same team!
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What did Shawn do to you to deserve this betrayal?
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If this doesn’t prove that this girl is out for blood, I don’t know what does
“Eva sprains her ankle while running away from Blaineley”
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You’re telling me Eva can’t overpower this lady?
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Why are you running from Blaineley? What can she do to you?
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“Sugar travels to higher ground”
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“Zoey, Courtney, Alejandro, and Lightning raid Lindsay’s camp while she is hunting”
“Cameron scares Jo off”
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This also confuses me.
What can Cameron even do to scare you Jo?
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“Ella catches DJ off guard and kills him”
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Ella must have been corrupted by a demon if she willingly killed someone
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Let alone someone as sweet as DJ
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“Mike collects fruit from a tree”
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“Leonard sets an explosive off, killing Beardo, Scott, Sky, and Leshawna”
Good lord, Leonard did not mess around with this.
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I guess he really does have magic
“Harold runs away from Rodney”
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“Geoff, Gwen, and Justin successfully ambush and kill Tyler, Anne Maria, and Amy”
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“Beth is pricked by thorns while picking berries”
“Max an Scarlett hunt for other tributes”
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Night 1
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“Izzy bashes Zoey’s head against a rock several times”
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“Gwen defeats Beth in a fight, but spares her life”
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“Rodney looks at the night sky”
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“Alejandro throws a knife into Katie’s head”
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“Leonard cries himself to sleep”
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“Lindsay and Geoff fight Courtney and Scarlett. Courtney and Scarlett survive.”
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Two villainous maniacs forming one deadly alliance
“Lightning and Justin tell stories about themselves to each other”
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“Cameron attempts to start a fire, but is unsuccessful”
“Ella & Ezekiel hold hands”
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“Sugar lets Harold into her shelter”
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“Blaineley receives fresh food from an unknown sponsor”
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Assuming Chef had something to do with this
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“Mike, Eva, and Max sleep in shifts”
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“Jo bleeds out due to untreated injuries”
Day 2
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“Sugar collects fruit from a tree”
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“Leonard receives a hatchet from an unknown sponsor”
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“Mike searches for firewood”
“Justin explores the arena”
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“Max receives a hatchet from an unknown sponsor”
“Cameron begs for Ezekiel to kill him. He refuses, keeping Cameron alive”
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Cameron has been taking Ls this entire time. First he scares Jo, then he can’t start a fire.
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“Blaineley receives clean water from Chef”
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“Harold tends to Lightning’s wounds”
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“Courtney diverts Scarlett’s attention and runs away”
What is going on with Courtney and Scarlett? First they work together to take out two people, now Courtney’s betraying her.
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Or Courtney realized who’s side she should be on
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“Alejandro fishes”
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“Eva camouflages herself in the bushes”
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“Gwen fishes”
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“Izzy chases Beth”
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Izzy is out to kill everyone, Beth you better run for your life
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“Ella bashes Rodney’s head against a rock several times”
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Night 2
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“Justin questions his sanity”
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Given his status in life, I’d say that’s fair
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“Ella receives medical supplies from an unknown sponsor”
“Mike questions his sanity”
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After All Stars and that garbage, I’d say that’s fair
“Courtney screams for help”
“Sugar quietly hums”
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“Gwen and Max huddle for warmth”
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How did Max manage to convince Gwen that he’s a good dude?
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“Alejandro sets Scarlett on fire with a Molotov”
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“Izzy tries to treat her infection”
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“Lightning starts a fire”
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“Ezekiel tries to sing himself to sleep”
“Cameron and Harold talk about the tributes still alive”
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“Beth receives a hatchet from an unknown sponsor”
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Beth is out here preparing for Izzy
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“Blaineley receives clean water from Chef”
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“Leonard lets Eva into his shelter”
Day 3
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“Gwen forces Cameron to kill Leonard or Blaineley. He refuses to kill, so Gwen kills him instead.”
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Betrayal betrayal betrayal
“Eva explores the arena”
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“Izzy, Mike, and Sugar hunt for other tributes.”
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“Lightning overhears Courtney and Ella talking in the distance”
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“Max sees smoke rising in the distance, but decides not to investigate”
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“Beth and Harold hunt for other tributes”
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Let’s be real, Beth forced him
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“Ezekiel taints Justin’s food, killing him”
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“Alejandro receives medical supplies from an unknown sponsor”
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Night 3
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“Mike tries to treat his infection”
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“Harold climbs a tree to rest”
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“Leonard looks at the night sky”
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“Ella receives an explosive from an unknown sponsor”
“Izzy and Courtney sleep in shifts”
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“Max begs for Ezekiel to kill him. He reluctantly obliges, killing Max.”
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Ezekiel has a weird sense of who he kills, doesn’t he? He spares Cameron, but not Max...
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“Lightning’s trap kills Blaineley”
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“Sugar and Alejandro sleep in shifts”
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“Eva cries herself to sleep”
“Gwen and Beth sleep in shifts”
Day 4
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“Leonard forces Ella to kill Izzy or Eva. She decides to kill Eva.”
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“Beth steals from Gwen while she isn’t looking”
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Well that took a turn, didn’t it? Beth, you sly dog
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“Harold sees smoke rising in the distance, but decides not to investigate”
“Courtney tries to sleep through the entire day”
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That’s a mood right there
“Mike attacks Sugar, but she manages to escape”
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“Alejandro attempts to climb a tree, but falls to his death”
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Are you kidding me?
Alejandro, you’re better than that
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“Ezekiel hunts for other tributes”
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“Lightning accidentally steps on a landmine”
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Let’s be honest. This is in character for Lightning
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Night 4
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“Ezekiel goes to sleep”
“Sugar tries to treat her infection”
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“Izzy tries to sing herself to sleep”
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“Ella kills Beth with a hatchet”
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With this, Ella now has 4 kills under her belt. The tables have certainly turned
“Mike and Harold tell stories about themselves to each other”
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“Courtney receives clean water from an unknown sponsor”
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“Gwen throws a knife into Leonard’s head”
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It’s about time
The Feast
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“The cornucopia is replenished with food, supplies, weapons, and memoirs of the tributes families”
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Courtney, Ezekiel, & Gwen all decide not to go to the Feast
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“Sugar stabs Izzy with a tree branch”
“Harold, Mike, and Ella confront each other, but grab what they want slowly to avoid conflict”
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Harold and Mike are just trying to keep as far from Ella as possible. 
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They know about her body count and don’t want to end up in said body count
Day 5
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“Gwen catches Ella off guard and kills her”
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With that, Gwen has put a stop to the assassin in the game
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“Ezekiel collects fruit from a tree”
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“Sugar diverts Courtney’s attention and runs away”
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“Mike practices his archery”
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“Harold receives a hatchet from an unknown sponsor”
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Night 5
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“Harold receives fresh food from an unknown sponsor”
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“Mike dies from hypothermia”
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“Sugar sees a fire, but stays hidden”
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“Gwen receives clean water from an unknown sponsor”
“Ezekiel and Courtney hold hands”
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Ezekiel and Courtney are on a mission to make out with everybody they can come across
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Harold watch your back, you’re next
Day 6
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“Harold, Sugar, Courtney, Gwen, and Ezekiel hunt for other tributes”
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Let’s just ignore the fact that these are the ONLY PEOPLE LEFT
Arena Event
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“A volcano erupts at the center of the arena”
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Sugar, Ezekiel, & Harold survive
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“Gwen dips her weapon in the lava and kills Courtney with it”
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Oh... so THAT’S the end of the plotline...
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Gwen out here doing some serious plays
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Night 6
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“Ezekiel, Sugar, and Harold get into a fight. Harold triumphantly kills them both.”
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“Gwen receives medical supplies from an unknown sponsor”
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And with that, we have our final two
The Loner: Gwen
And The Dweeb: Harold
Let’s see how this ends...
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“Gwen dies from thirst”
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Well that was Anti-Climatic...
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The Winner is Harold!
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halcarols · 3 months
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honestly hate on hal jordan all you want but accept that you'll never be as funny as green lantern (2021) writer geoff "cardboard" thorne
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littleperilstories · 1 year
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The Prince of Thieves: The Light in the Storm
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Mood Boards | Chapter Titles | Also on A03!
Warnings: Aftermath of physical fight, blood, blood loss, stab wound, stitches, caught in a snowstorm, mention of attempted sexual assault
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Word count: 3350 || Approx reading time: 13 mins
The Light in the Storm
Teaser: Colette slid to a stop on the slick, snowy ground, drawing a sharp gasp. “Look.” Jamie followed her pointed finger just in time to see a figure, moving slowly and wreathed in shadow, stumble and slump to the ground.
Jamie
2 years ago
Will wasn’t back yet, and that was cause for concern. Not that it was so unusual for him to lose track of time and come home later than expected—no, Jamie was accustomed to that. The problem was that a snowstorm was raging outside, and his little brother was somewhere out there, in the thick of it.
Colette was pretending to pore over a map under the guise of choosing the next drop location, but her gaze kept skipping over to her cracked pocketwatch. It was tarnished and old but still perfectly functional, which was unfortunate, because the hour it displayed meant that Will should have been back more than an hour ago.
Geoffrey was on the floor, and when Jamie looked over at his hulking form, he saw with surprise that Geoff was already wearing his boots. When had that happened?
Solemnly, Geoff raised his brows. Well? Are we going to look for him, or what?
“Yes,” Jamie said, getting to his feet even though Geoff hadn’t said a word. “I’m going out there.”
Bracing himself for an admonishment from Colette, who would certainly have an opinion on the prospect of going out into the snow—and she’d be right, too, not that it would stop him—he paused, fingers pressed into the table.
“All right.” She folded the city map and tucked it into an old, leather-bound book, which she promptly returned to its place on the mostly-bare shelf by the wall. “Let’s go, then.”
Jamie blinked. “You’re not gonna fight me on this?”
Irritation tugged her lips into a frown. “The only person I’m going to fight is Fox, for making me go out there in that mess.”
Her tone was light, but her eyes shone with concern. Will was foolish sometimes, but even he wasn’t stupid enough to get into trouble on a night like this. Was he?
By the door, Geoff handed Jamie a green scarf, already wearing a brown one over his faded black coat, littered with neatly sewn patches. Jamie smiled tightly in thanks and allowed  their fingers to clasp beneath the green wool for a moment. The gentle touch calmed, at least somewhat, the frantic pounding of his heart.
“I’m sure we’ll find him.” As always, Geoff chose his words carefully.
“Mmm hmm.” And he better fucking be alive when we do.
The weather was just as horrible as Jamie expected—wind whipping snow into their faces, cutting right through the well-worn wool of their coats and tangling Colette’s skirts around her legs within seconds.
“Shoulda changed into trousers,” Geoff said, watching her fumble with the material blowing uncooperatively in the snow.
“Too late for that now,” she snapped, freeing her legs and marching forward with grim determination on her face. “I’ll be fine.”
Geoff pointed down the main road. “You go with her that way,” he said. “I’ll take the backstreets.”
Although Geoff was more than capable of taking care of himself in the seedier corners of the city, Jamie hesitated. “You sure?”
“Wolf.”
Despite the ice shards digging into his eyes—despite the thorn in his side known as Will Wardrew—Jamie smiled, and while Colette had her back turned, he grabbed Geoff’s hand and pulled him close. “Thank you.”
Kisses in the driving snow were not nearly as pleasant as kisses in warmer, cozier scenes, but Jamie found he couldn’t regret it too sorely as Geoff’s warm lips pressed against his.
“Stay safe,” he said when they pulled apart, and with a nod, Geoff disappeared into the storm.
Colette didn’t ask questions about where Geoff had disappeared to, or about why Jamie stuck to her side when it would have been easier to find Will by splitting up and covering more ground. Anyone could have been looming in the darkness up ahead. With the snowflakes falling so thickly, neither of them would have been the wiser.
“What do you think happened?” Colette asked when a lull in the howling wind made it easier for them to talk. “You think he’s hurt, or lost, or just an idiot?”
“I don’t know.” Jamie chewed on his lip. It was hard to tell when it came to Will. “Could be any one.”
“All he had to do was pick up the goods,” she muttered.
Jamie sighed. His brother had been taking on more responsibility lately, had been more or less begging for it. The thought of Will going on solo jobs made Jamie exceedingly nervous, but they’d agreed that there were some things he could do to take some pressure off Colette and Geoff.
Lifting loot from drop points: hard to fuck up as long as he was careful.
Now, Jamie wanted to scream at the naïve past version of himself who’d capitulated to his brother’s pleading. Will wasn’t known for being careful, ever.
Now, his brother was somewhere out on these godforsaken snow-covered streets, and nobody knew where he was, and it was bloody cold, and what if he’d mouthed off to a constable or someone important or slipped on some ice and hit his head or—
“Wolf.”
Colette was gazing knowingly at him from beneath her heavy winter hood “Calm down.”
He forced himself to slow his frantic breaths. “What if he’s hurt? Bad?”
“Then we’ll fix him up, and I’ll be kind enough to wait until he’s feeling better before I knock him out again for being a fool.”
Jamie forced out a laugh and pushed his hands deeper into his coat pockets. It was just as likely as not that Colette meant her threat seriously. He told himself Will probably deserved whatever she was planning to dish out to him. He’d just been caught up in some childish tomfoolery, right? That’s why he hadn’t yet returned. Annoying, but nothing to fret about.
The urge to call out Will’s name was fierce, but Jamie didn’t dare. It was unlikely that the constables were out in this weather…but what if they were? The evening was already unlucky enough; no need to tempt fate.
One street, then another. As they neared the town square, Jamie peered into the face of every passerby, few though they were, in case one of them was his idiot brother. None of them were.
Colette slid to a stop on the slick, snowy ground, drawing a sharp gasp. “Look.” Jamie followed her pointed finger just in time to see a figure, moving slowly and wreathed in shadow, stumble and slump to the ground.
Fuck.
Colette was already moving, her hem dragging in the snow as she skidded to the person’s side. Numb with cold and with dread, Jamie followed.
“You idiot.”
He’d never been so relieved to hear those words from Colette’s lips.
“What the hell did you do?” Colette knelt next to the crumpled form that could only be Will, her hands on his face, then reaching into her pockets, then grasping his hands tightly.
“You’re—How—You—” She glared at him. “Did you get into a fight?”
Jamie, too, knelt in the snow, bitter cold seeping into his knees as he looked into the bruised and bloodied face of his brother. “What the fuck happened to you?” Why, why? Why was Will like this?
He pretended not to notice the warning look Colette was shooting at him. He bit back a reminder that she’d used the same tone only moments before.
“You should see the other guy,” Will muttered.
“That doesn’t answer the question.” Tightness spread through Jamie’s chest, and for a moment, he couldn’t remember how to breathe. Will, the only family he had left, bleeding in the snow for—for how long?
“Can you get up?” Gently, Colette tried to pull Will upwards, and though he nodded, the movement only resulted in a strangled cry of pain. “What? Where does it hurt?”
When Will said nothing, Colette tugged open the front of his coat to reveal that his shirt was soaked with blood. “W—Fox!”
Oh, god. The world spun. “What is that?”
“I don’t think it’s deep,” Will said, but his eyelids fluttered slightly, and his voice was weak. “I was doing all right for a while. And I got the drop.”
It was all Jamie could do not to bury his face in his hands. “Who stabbed you? How—how? What did you do?”
“Wolf.” Colette was glaring at him now.
“Don’t you realize you could have died out here?”
“Jamie!”
She didn’t shout, didn’t raise her voice at all. But her eyes sparked, and the sound of his real name made Jamie clamp his mouth closed.
“It might not be deep,” she said, turning back to Will, “but it’s bleeding a lot, and we still need to get you back. So keep your wits about you and hold this against the cut to staunch the blood. All right?”
“Staunch?”
“Stop the bleeding.” Colette pressed her scarf into his hands, positioning them so he was holding it over the wound  in his side. “We’ll go back home, and we’ll take a look and get you all fixed up, all right?”
It was hard to believe she was the same girl who’d been vowing to knock him out only half an hour before.
“All right.” With a grimace, Will let her take his arm again. Numbly, Jamie leaned down to take the other one, and he and Colette pulled Will to his feet, his arms draped over each of their shoulders.
Colette’s voice was calm but stern. “I swear to god, Fox, if you pass out—”
“Not gonna pass out. Promise.”
A fine promise, but the words were slightly slurred. Jamie hoped it was from pain and not because his brother was dying, gutted on the street like a common criminal. Even if that was what he was—what they all were—it wasn’t how he deserved to die.
It was slow going: ice pelting their skin with renewed fervour, wind making their eyes water. When Geoff—a man so tall it should have been impossible for him to sneak up on anyone—appeared like a phantom out of the billowing snow, Jamie jumped.
“Looks like you’ve had an interesting night, Fox.” Geoff nudged Colette out of the way and took her place.
“You got no idea.”
Jamie gritted his teeth, even though walking with his brother’s dragging weight was easier now. “You better be ready to tell us what happened once you’re patched up.”
“I didn’t start shit with anyone, if that’s what you’re worried about.”
Jamie set his jaw. “I didn’t say you did.”
“Didn’t have to.”
Colette narrowed her eyes. “Both of you. Stop being morons.” Her gaze slid to Jamie. “I’m going to try and run ahead of you. Get some water boiling. That all right?”
“Be careful.” Jamie glanced down at the treacherous, icy street. “Don’t slip.”
“I won’t.” She disappeared, leaving Jamie to keep half-carrying his brother, who grew heavier and more limp with every step.
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Jamie had seen his brother deal with a lot of stupid injuries. Will had always been the kind of child who got into trouble, and especially when he was very young, did not know how to get himself out of it. How often had Jamie been the one to wipe blood from a scrape on his knee, press a handkerchief to a bloody nose, or lay a damp cloth over a burn? How many times had he shaken his head and held back stern admonishments? Winced and blinked back tears when no one was looking because his little brother was in pain?
None of those memories hurt Jamie as much as the sound Will made when Colette and Geoff tended to the gash in his side.
Jamie sat in the other room, shooed out by Colette, who told him in no uncertain terms that he wasn’t welcome unless his emotions were in order, which they were not. She closed the door in his face.
He’d gotten the drop, Will had said. Jamie paced around the room, not sure if he wanted to cry into a pillow or scream into the storm raging outside. Will had said it like the money was the important thing and not his own goddamn fucking life.
When the door finally opened again, Jamie tore through the door. Will was stretched across the table, his breathing shallow. Though his skin was pale and his eyes closed, Jamie could tell his brother was awake; this tense muscles gave that away. The blood had been washed away from his face, revealing a cut on his upper lip and swelling around his nose and eyes.
“He’s fine,” Colette promised, standing next to him, her voice soft. “Geoff cleaned it and stitched it up. It was deeper than he thought. Probably hurt like a bitch. But really, he’ll be all right.”
Jamie let his eyes wander to the fresh bandage wrapped around Will’s abdomen. “Thank you. Both of you.”
Will opened his eyes at the sound of Jamie’s approach. “Hey.”
“Hey.” Jamie swallowed. “Glad you’re gonna live.”
With a snort of laughter that quickly became a groan of pain, Will said, “Me too.”
Dragging over the wooden chair the other two had shoved out of the way, Jamie took a seat. “You should have come straight back. Not gone for the drop.”
“How…” Will struggled to sit up. Jamie laid a hand on his chest, pushing him back down as gingerly as he could. “How d’you know I didn’t get the drop before I got stabbed?”
“Did you?”
A sheepish, pained smile crossed Will’s face. He never could tell a lie. “No.”
Jamie bit down on his tongue, trying to keep calm. “You wanna tell us now or tomorrow?”
“Tell you what?”
Geoff was silently cleaning up the bloody bandages and cloths that had been soiled while he and Colette stitched up Will’s wound. His dark eyes flicked between Will and Jamie, then migrated to Colette. The bastard was almost smiling.
“Will.” Not nearly as amused as Geoff, Jamie kept his voice low. “Stop being a prick. We were goddamn worried when you didn’t come back.”
Scowling now, Will said, “I didn’t just walk into that asshole’s knife on purpose, you know.”
“Well, then, wanna tell us why you have a hole in your gut? Why did Geoff have to get his hands all bloody to stitch you up? Why were we wandering around in a fucking snowstorm to come and find you?”
Jamie’s hands were shaking. They’d found him in the nick of time, exactly at the moment he collapsed into the snow. What if they hadn’t been there? What if they’d waited a little longer to go searching for him? What if they had walked down another street by chance, or turned back too soon?
Before he could cry, before Will could even respond, Jamie stood up and walked out again.
If not for the weather, he would have walked right out of the house. The storm, however, refused to relent, and so he stood by the window, digging his nails into his arms as a distraction from the tears he desperately needed to shed, until Geoff appeared beside him.
“Breathe, Wolf. Breathe.”
God, he wished Geoff would call him by his name. He was the only one who never slipped up. Jamie had not heard his name from Geoff’s lips since IA was born, and out of everyone in the entire world, that’s who he wanted to hear it from the most.
“I’m breathing.”
Geoff pried his fingernails from his arm, laying a warm hand over the marks left behind. “With me. In. Out.”
A few minutes passed before either of them spoke again. “What if he had died out there?” Jamie whispered.
“He didn’t.”
“But he could have.”
“But he didn’t.”
You don’t understand, Jamie wanted to shout. Will was his younger brother, his responsibility, the last tie he had to their parents and the life they’d had before. If Will was gone…
“Better be a good story.” Colette’s voice drifted from the kitchen. “Sure caused a ruckus around here.”
Will’s weak laugh followed. “I swear it is.”
“Pray, do tell.”
“Huh?”
Colette half-sighed, half-chuckled. “Why don’t you tell me what happened?”
The gentle request was met with silence, broken only by Colette’s footsteps and Will’s pained breathing.
“Fox? You going to tell me, or what?”
A new pause dragged between them, but this time, Will was the one to break it. “There was a girl.”
Jamie rolled his eyes, and Geoff’s shoulders jumped upwards in silent laughter.
“Oh, come on.” Colette’s voice, too, dripped with undisguised amusement. “You can’t be serious.”
“I am.” The solemnity of Will’s voice surprised Jamie. “It’s not… I’m not… She was in trouble. I heard her scream.”
The air of amusement faded. Will was an annoying bastard, but he wasn’t one to make up tall tales.
Colette’s tone grew heavy. “What kind of trouble?” The graveness of her voice, the thinly veiled anger, made Jamie flinch. She knew what kind of trouble.
“Some fucker who saw a girl alone in an alley and decided to…” Will grunted and coughed. “What was I supposed to do? He was on top of her when I got there, and—and she kicked him off, but he grabbed her again, and…”
Jamie let his arm fall away from Geoff’s tender grasp and made his way back toward the kitchen.
“So that’s who you got into a fight with,” said Colette quietly, glancing up when Jamie paused in the doorway. “What happened to the girl?”
“She was all right, I think. Or—you know. He didn't—” Will sighed heavily. “He didn’t do anything. She…”
His words faded, and his gaze turned distant. Jamie’s heart skipped a beat. “Will? You still with us?”
“Hmm?” Will blinked. “Yeah. Just…nothing.” He shook his head. “She was bleeding on her head a little, but she was all right. I told her to go and she did.”
Colette laid a hand on Will’s arm. “That was pretty brave, you know.” After a pause, she added, “And stupid.”
“I’m quite a hero, aren’t I?”
“Ugh.” Colette rolled her eyes. “I think you need some proper rest. You going to sleep right here on the table?”
“I’d rather not, but if that’s what Doc thinks is best...”
Geoff shook his head. “It’s not.”
Jamie stepped forward, Geoff following close behind him. “You ready, then?”
“Not at all.” But Will flashed him a smile. “But…not much choice, right?”
“No.”
And despite everything, Will laughed, even when he was on his feet and swaying.
Once he was lying on his cot, wincing as he tried to find a comfortable position, Jamie sat on the floor next to the bed, guilt heavy in his stomach. “I’m sorry. For before. I was just worried.”
“I know.”
Not bothering with subtlety at all, Colette tugged Geoff from the room.
“I’m sorry too.” Will’s eyes were drifting closed. “For worrying you. For causing trouble. Again. Like always.”
Jamie cringed. “No, I—Listen. I don’t… You’re not trouble, all right? You’re my brother.”
Sleepiness blurred the edges of every word as Will spoke. “Don’t lie to a man who was just at death’s door, James Elliott Wardrew.”
“Oh, shut up.” Jamie wasn’t sure which was more ridiculous—Will mumbling his full name like a chiding mother or the overly dramatic claim that he’d been on the verge of death. “I’d run through any fucking snowstorm to find you. I’d do anything. All right?”
“Promise?”
“Promise.” Jamie kept his eyes on Will’s face, on the ruddy brown hair that was still flecked with blood in places, so stark against the yellowed pillowcase. “Good night, Fox.”
“Night, Wolf.”
Jamie remained on the floor by Will’s cot until his brother’s breathing turned even and calm in sleep. Until Colette slipped away to bed, until Geoff gave up on waiting for him and did the same. Until the sun broke through the morning and shone over an ivory-coloured city unstained by the bitterness and bloodshed of the night before, now buried by fresh, glistening snow.
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Leverage Season 3, Episode 15, The Big Bang Job, Audio Commentary Transcript
Marc: Hello I'm Marc Roskin, director of this episode.
John: I am John Rogers, executive producer.
Geoff: I'm Geoff Thorne, I'm a co-writer of this episode.
Aldis: This is cookies, the good looking half of milk and cookies.
[All Laugh]
Christian: That's Aldis Hodge, I'm Christian Kane, and I play Eliot Spencer.
Aldis: That'd be milk.
Chris: [Laughs]
Christian: There you go.
Chris: And I'm Chris Downey, executive producer, co-writer of this episode: The Big Bang Job, part one of our explosive two part season finale. 
Geoff: Yay!
John: Yeah, I think this one is gonna go a little slower since we have the boys in here today, we're gonna keep—
[All Laugh]
John: Gonna keep hopping back and forth, that's why I broke out—usually Guinness, I broke out the Irish for this one. 
[Clinking Noise]
Marc: Ice in the glass, ice in the glass right there.
John: Okay, this is the big setup, we had to—we knew that at this point we were coming back after a break, so we had to do a big reset scene, and actually, this is pretty cut up. We had, at one point, a long sort of recap version of this scene to show you all the victims, the villains, and how they hooked up and how they connected, to remind you exactly, you know, how the season had built to this moment. This was a, this was a ton of—how'd we come up with this abduction/rescue?
Chris: Yeah, Geoff, I think this was, when we broke this-?
Geoff: I just think we needed a way in, we needed a victim, we—this show is very—this episode was very sort of James Bond-y movie-esque, and we didn't want to get too far away from what Leverage actually is, so we needed someone to bring the crew in, so we came up with Yasmin, and her—
Chris: Played by Ginger Williams.
Aldis: Yes.
Geoff: She did a lovely job, a lovely gal. And and this scene right now, is her being, sort of victimized, [laughs] but-
Aldis: Let me ask you something-
Marc: In the labs of Portland State University.
John: Yeah, this was great. Portland State was amazing.
Aldis: We actually, they got mad because we actually blew up a building. No, let me ask you something Geoff, I know that John and Chris write from personal experience of criminal history—
[All Laugh]
Aldis:—how many people have you abducted?
[All Laugh]
Geoff: No abductions, a little bit of grifting in my past.
John: Here, a little something for the red states: how many white women have you abducted in the past year and [drowned out by laughter].
Geoff: Uhhh, well they all came willingly, so is it an abduction? I dunno! If the victim comes along and they want to be there...
Aldis: So, so, how did that explosion happen?
Marc: Interactive light, and then we built some models and shot some models and put them in.
Christian: Man, don't give stuff like that away.
John: No, we, we actually... and unlike doing CG, we have found that models, which is the old school, actually looks best on explosions.
Christian: Yeah.
John: So we blow real stuff up.
Geoff: Practical.
John: And it's still pretty big, by the way, we have to build it in our parking lot.
Aldis: Basically part of their job is to build stuff just to destroy it.
Marc: And Christian, Christian actually wasn't in that scene, he was out doing bigger scenes.
Christian: Yeah, I was out doing-
Chris: That wasn’t you in the-?
John: Yeah, that was actually the reverse on you-
Christian: Yeah, that was- yeah.
Chris: You're kidding, really?
Christian: No, that wasn’t me.
Geoff: That's insane.
Marc: The reverse on Christain-
Christian: I was doing a bigger stunt that day.
Geoff: That later thing, ok.
Christian: I'll tell you where I was later on.
Marc: That was actually the last shot of the entire season.
Christian: Yeah, that's right.
John: Get out.
Christian: Me taking my mask off, that was it.
Marc: That was it.
Geoff: It was actually a lot more I-Spy-ish and we actually pared it down to make her more victim-ish.
John: Yeah.
Geoff: She was initially more…what would you say? She was more in the government. She had a gun in her desk, and she was, like, gonna pop off some shots.
Aldis: Ah.
Geoff: We were like, “Nah, she needs to be more victim-y.”
John: Well that's always the challenge when you do an off-speed episode, you have to make sure all the touch stones: the victim you care about, some sort of mystery to be solved. And this is a much more mystery oriented episode than usual.
Geoff: Yeah.
John: You know, we don't have our goal right up front, which is fun.
Chris: And also we’re trying to- ultimately we’re trying to prevent something which is typically not something we do.
John: Not ordinarily something we would do, exactly. Oh and here we are with Timothy Carhart, is that right?
Marc: That's correct.
John: Yeah playing the general, good job.
Geoff: Excellent job.
John: Looks exactly like a dude who was building rockets in the late 50’s to defeat the Soviets, thank you. And thank you to all the men out there who helped us defeat the Soviets.
Aldis: Has a fresh haircut right there.
Chris: Yeah, your eye goes right to that hair.
[Laughter]
John: That is some X-Men hair.
Aldis: It's just like boom!
Christian: He looks like that guy in Beverly Hills Cop II.
[Laughter]
John: He does.
Marc: That is the technical green color, as Dave Connel calls that.
John: Technical green?
Marc: Technical green.
John: [British Accent] “We need some technical green in here, mate.” Yeah. There you go. Yeah, look sciency!
[Laughter]
John: Which is an actual artistic term for that color.
Geoff: Sciency green.
Aldis: [Accent] “Sciencey!”
John: Yeah, this is a tricky as hell episode. We gotta meet the victim and then we have to set up the plot of the arriving bad guy. We have two bad guys, which is always difficult as hell.
Geoff: Right.
John: Always really tough to do. And it is an enormous amount of pipe. And there’s us towing a real plane.
Marc: Towing a real plane.
John: Lovely private airport.
Aldis: They allow us to do these things.
Christian: That's actually Timothy Hutton's plane.
[Laughter]
Marc: It came with another car.
John: That's right, that’s the plane he flies around to solve crime and woo authoresses in.
Chris: He has an interesting power like Elvis.
Geoff: It turns into an anime style mech suit to fight space battles in.
Marc: There’s Michael Rogers as a rival.
John: That's not Michael Rogers, Michael Rogers is the guy in the suit; that's a Portland actress. This is a lovely shot, looking up like this. Portland State has this great central staircase which we had scouted a bunch of times, and it always stuck in our heads and we finally shot the hell out of it when we did this.
Chris: Now how do you introduce the- there's a challenge here because we’ve never seen-
John: Always on his back.
Chris: We've never seen the big bad guy, and we've alluded to him the whole season, so how do you approach this?
Marc: Yeah, the idea was just to stay on his back the whole time, hear his voice, call him by name but never reveal his face until the proper moment.
John: Yeah, this is- in Inside Job I did that with Chamberlain, it's a very classic 1940’s way of- you know.
Marc: Well especially since this whole season has been building to this.
Geoff: Yeah.
John: We were very lucky to get Goran Visnjic who was amazing who doesn't normally do this kind of role and really enjoyed it.
Geoff: He did a great job.
Christian: Unbelievable.
Aldis: Yeah.
John: Yeah, this was a lot of fun setting up exactly the- oh by the way unfortunately cut was the fact that the battery is a xenon difluoride battery. The tech of this battery actually works.
Chris: The sound you hear right now is everyone listening falling asleep.
[Laughter]
John: No! No, no! They are fascinated by new battery tech! They’re on wikipedia now!
Aldis: You won't believe how many people are actually really truly fascinated by it, cause I get the questions all the time.
John: Yeah, exactly.
Geoff: Hey, the craziest thing about the show is we make up stuff that is less interesting than the stuff we grab from the news.
John: Yeah, almost everything you think ‘holy shit is that true?’ Yeah, that’s the true part. Particularly the horrible bits.
Geoff: Yeah, the most horrible is usually the truest thing.
Christian: You guys are a bunch of dorks, man. If I can't punch it, I don't care.
[Laughter]
Christian: If I can't punch it, it doesn't mean anything.
John: We give you shit to punch!
Christian: I know!
John: Is that how you read the scripts? “Blah, blah, blah, blah, Eliot hits a guy! Ahhh! Here we are.”
Chris: Punch!
Geoff: Spinning backfist!
Chris: It's true, he does enter here late after a lot of exposition is given.
John: He does, he does. As a matter of fact, he was scheduled to enter earlier-
Chris: What were you doing back there while all that- that exposition was happening? 
John: He was flirting with some extra back there.
[Laughter]
Geoff: Punching people!
Marc This is a great moment where Eliot is holding back something, and Hardison is the only one who is tapping into it.
Christian: Actually I think Sophie’s the only one that’s tapping into it.
Aldis: Well, wait for Hardison.
John: Yeah, she senses something, but Hardison gets it but he doesn't get it. I think Sophie's kinda figured it out by this point.
Aldis: Like I said man, see, right there, boom.
Christian: There you go.
Aldis: “Are you ok?” You see all the passion in the eyes? See the worry?
Geoff: Bromance, it's a bromance.
Aldis: Told you man, milk and cookies.
[Laughter]
Christian: I'm working off of it right here.
Aldis: Just saying. That just means we spend too much time together.
Christian: It does.
Aldis: Hardison needs to spend some special time with Parker.
John: We’ll see what we can do.
Aldis: Yeah.
John: This was a long act 1. And this was kinda fun actually, was hacking out exactly- and something we discovered going into the third act: audience likes to see process, they like to see you guys figure the stuff out, they like to see how you plan, not just the actual execution.
Aldis: How many pages was that?
Marc: And we love shooting five-handers.
John: And the directors love shooting five-handers. You got through that coverage in what, 48, 72 hours for one scene?
Marc: No, yeah.
Geoff: They sent us memos, can we have more than five-handers?
[Laughter]
John: But now you’re split up, split up into two and two, essentially, here.
Geoff: Can I just say how awesome a job Portland does, doubling every place else in the world?
John: Yeah, really fantastic.
Aldis: We got- yeah, who is that, Geoffrey Blake, right?
Marc: Geoffrey Blake playing Bixby. This was a fun beat, Tim played this really-
Chris: Lionel Whitney, by the way, his alias here, was a nod to Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.
[Laughter]
Marc: No way!
John: Nice, very nice.
Chris: Yes, that was the name of Jeff Goldblum's character from one of our beloved shows.
Geoff: Sweet.
John: What is the scientist Bixby's first name?
Geoff: Is it William?
John: It’s William, yeah. We-
Christian: Bill Bixby?
[Laughter]
John: Bill Bixby, we have a theory in another series that guy gets exposed to radiation.
Geoff: And all Hulk breaks loose.
John: And he becomes a non trademarked- he becomes the Incredible Bulk.
Chris: Or become a crime solving magician!
Geoff: Hey, I'm trying to get that show back.
John: Yeah, the crime solving magician who turns into a giant green monster when you cross him.
Christian: This was the second to the last shot right here.
Marc: Yeah it was.
Chris: Oh was it?
John: Yeah it was, Friday night.
Geoff: You’re kidding, really?
Christian: Before we wrapped the season. Was me and Hardison and then I jumped outside, that's right.
John: In the basement of the theater.
Aldis: Remember the soup you were supposed to taste?
Geoff: You guys don’t look tired or beat at all.
Christian: Yeah, I was supposed to say, “Taste the soup.”
Geoff: Eat it all.
Aldis: The soup was something.
Christian: [Weird Voice] “Just taste the soup”
Chris: Now there was a fight here, there was a fight here that got cut.
John: Yeah.
Aldis: Nice.
Chris: It involved the billfold; it was-
John: Yeah, it was a lot of fun, but then we looked at the rest of the script and realized, there’s enough action.
[Laughter]
Geoff: Yeah, there’s plenty of-
Chris: There's never enough action, come on!
Geoff: Ass-kickery is the proper term.
John: It actually- it was one of those things we did because we were actually scheduling stunt men and running into trouble with the big, giant act 4 sequence, which you’ve seen.
Christian: Yeah, right, right, right.
John: If you're watching this, you've seen it. And it turns out him just saying his name and that guy being scared shitless-
Chris: Yeah, it worked.
John: Works better. That's one of those times the dialogue works.
Chris: It worked well.
John: Also, nice freakout there, Aldis.
Aldis: Thanks.
John: Very good panic, freak out. And a good reset.
Aldis: Nice pat on my back, boom.
[Laughter]
John: Little something for you, there you go.
Aldis: Feel like my life is complete.
John: You look good in a suit, too.
Christian: Yeah, I guess they've already seen this. We can talk about other scenes, ‘cause at this point they've seen it.
Aldis: They’ve seen it, they’ve seen it, yeah.
John: Yeah, yeah they watch it all the way through and then they go back and watch the- yeah. Yeah, you can, absolutely. Also at the- we’ll skip over this, cause this is the standard spook a guy and take his wallet, we've done this a million times. 
Aldis: Yup.
John: Christain, the day you told me you were actually playing a certain beat, like a certain idea in your head when you- the whole sequence with Moreau when he gets thrown in the pool. What was the- it was trying to do the math of how far you could push it?
Christian: That was exactly it. I was- I'm counting the guys and I'm also counting exactly how long Hardison could make it where I could revive him; not only hold his breath, but where I can revive him.
[Laughter]
Chris: Like in the abyss.
Geoff: He can actually die, but I can get him back.
Christian: Yeah, exactly.
Chris: Part of the plan was to die.
John: So in your head you are Ed Harris and you're…?
Geoff: Mary Elizabeth.
[All talking over each other]
Marc: It would just be with compressions though.
Aldis: I actually counted it out, I could hold my breath for that long.
Marc: No mouth to mouth, just compressions?
Christian: Yeah absolutely, no mouth to mouth, just compressions. Listen, it's not my fault if he doesn't hack it - he got himself into that.
Aldis: I mean mouth to mouth- there’s enough ladies there to get him.
John: Yeah, but we actually timed the dialogue out so in theory you could have held your breath this long.
Aldis: Yeah, I got lungs of steel people. Asthma I got it yeah, but screw that.
Christian: Well hopefully when it gets to that part you can actually see that, because I am counting in my head while I'm having the conversation with Moreau to see how long that Hardison can be under.
Aldis: Look at his eyebrow twitch and you see, every time it twitches, that's a second.
John: It's a twitch of compassion.
[Laughter]
Geoff: Oh my god.
Aldis: It's not constipation, which most of you probably thought it was.
John: We’ll go back to this scene for a second, because it was tons of fun just coming up with the little con and heist-y stuff to do in that scene. The little three way game it's like tinkers [unintelligible]. It's a great little scene.
Chris: Yeah.
Marc So this pool has been out of commission for years.
Geoff: Really?
John: Yeah, tell us about this.
Marc: Totally, for years.
John: This was empty when we came.
Aldis: It felt like it, too.
Marc: This was the bottom of the Governor and we rebuilt it for the show.
John: Filled it.
Aldis: It was like the bottom of the arctic; it was supposed to be hot; it was cold!
Chris: So was it disease ridden or-?
John: No no, you were cold cause you got thrown in the water.
Marc: You were the only one who was cold.
John: Actually puked in the mens room because it was so hot in there.
Aldis: No, the pool itself was cold!
John: Oh yeah, yeah, but you were the only one going in.
Christian: Nobody’s mentioning the girls in the hot tub.
Aldis: By the way, ~sexual chocolate~!
John: Very good.
Aldis: I'm just saying every time, boom.
John: I don't think you have to mention it every time we see him.
Aldis: No, but the ladies were awesome.
John: We actually had to dub that giant section because when the girls all stood up- cause they were actually in the hot tub-
Aldis: It was splashing!
John: It sounded like a waterfall.
Christian: There it is, that's the reveal right there.
Marc: See that's why we held off the reveal till the right moment to see our baddie.
Geoff: Our nice James Bond villain.
John: That’s a nice reveal, it is.
Christian: He did such a great job in this role.
Chris: He's the devil coming out of basically hell.
Geoff: That's right.
Aldis: Now in the original version we had three naked women coming out after him, but I mean it's a family show, people.
John: It is a family show, we want your kids to be able to watch this.
Aldis: Exactly.
John: And that's a nice play, trying to figure out exactly what the hell is going on and catching up a little late.
Aldis: A little late?
John: Ah, the USB.
Aldis: The USB saves lives.
Marc: Everything.
John: It does. Well the thumb drive, the thumb drive is our friend on the show, thumb drive and cellphones.
Geoff: Best invention in the world. That and the cell phone.
John: This was also- I'm trying to remember where we came up with the last calls to figure out what exactly- who the next person should be. We just spent a lot of time in the writers room basically fucking around with cell phones trying to figure out what they can do. 
Geoff: Yeah.
John: GPS enabling and everything like that.
Geoff: Yeah, I saw something recently that's gonna be fun, hopefully, if we can work it in the next year that a cell phone can do.
John: Oh what is it?
Geoff: Holograms.
John: Ahh nice, holograms.
Geoff: They project a three dimensional light construct.
Aldis: Nice.
John: Cool. Tell visual effects now.
[Laughter]
John: Tim actually insisted on meeting Tim Carhart because they were shooting separately so he could imitate the voice properly.
Marc: Yes.
John: He actually rehearsed the voice.
Christian: That’s great.
Marc: He did, he made him a CD.
John: Nice. Also Derek Frederickson, the fifth Beatle, gave us all sorts of great graphics.
Chris: They all look fantastic.
Marc: Great graphics.
Geoff: God, those guys are great.
John: That exchange was actually one of my favorite bits in the script. “I'm not handcuffed to anything.” That just annoyed-
[Laughter]
John: Eliot's plan is working fine! Don't see what the-
Geoff: We’re on schedule man, chill.
John: I never realized how many characters I have in this show drink.
[Laughter]
John: Just looking at these now, I just put a glass in everybody's hand and-
Geoff: And they're kinda evil, dude.
Chris: This moment’s great too, here.
Aldis: All except for me; I can't get this glass.
John: Nope. And that was an improv too, that was-
Aldis: No love for me.
Christian: Makes him mad.
Chris: And shooting him a look like you-
Christian: It was in the script: Eliot does not look at Hardison when he goes in the pool. You know how hard that was to do, even though I knew I wasn't supposed to do it, but just not watch him go in the water right here.
John: Well also because it's your friend Aldis getting pushed in a pool.
Christian: It's my friend Aldis, exactly. And he's handcuffed to a chair! I mean he's really-
John: That is actually Aldis handcuffed to a chair going into a goddamn pool.
Aldis: I was handcuffed, I got kicked into the pool.
Chris: It was not a model of him.
Aldis: No, that was-
Chris: I know we talked a lot about models.
Aldis: No, this is not CG, people.
John: This is a dude handcuffed to a chair.
Geoff: That was really a money issue, though, I mean we could’ve built-
Marc: I saw Christain drawing up schematics of a bigger trailer if we knocked down the wall-
Christian: I can't wait till we get to the train.
John: Don't get me wrong, Christain liked the scene, it's just that-
Christian: No, I loved the scene.
John: Just, you know. No, this was an enormous- you got your underwater shot Chris.
Chris: I did.
John: Chris Downey has been waiting three years to do a shot underwater.
Geoff: Seaplane!
Aldis: And there it is, hold up, wait for it.
Chris: Oh yeah, here we go.
Aldis: And oh no, there I go.
John: Oh and that is Aldis Hodge going into the pool.
Aldis: That’s me.
Geoff: Oh no Mr. Hodge, I expected you to die.
Chris: Now what was that like, was that scary at all?
Aldis: To get kicked back wasn't scary at all, but to do- we had to do the takes over for the underwater shot of- alright standing up in the pool and then I had to sink down to the bottom and sit there for a minute, wait for the water to settle, and then they yell action and then I'm under there doing all that madness right there, yelling and all that screaming in the pool, that was terrifying.
Chris: That’s scary.
Aldis: Because you're sitting at the bottom of a pool like, “Alright, I'm waiting here.” And you know the chair is weighted down, so.
Chris: Did they call lunch?
Aldis: Like, ok guys.
Marc: Norbert wasn't scared at all.
Aldis: Actually you'll see my tie, I had to keep moving that thing out of the way right before we shot so I'm sitting there for a good 10, 15 seconds before they start rolling the camera.
Geoff: It looks great.
Christian: You did hold your breath for a really long time, man, I was impressed.
Aldis: It was fun man, it was fun.
Geoff: It was great, and ultimately all that matters is it looks great.
Aldis: It is.
Geoff: You guys breathing, surviving, you know.
John: No, they're great.
Chris: And it's a great-
John: Seven cameras, I think, in that room?
Marc: Seven cameras.
Christian: See, and there's the count and I'm counting right there.
Chris: You’re counting, I can see it.
Marc: Underwater cameras, you name it.
Aldis: At the same time, I also had a great stunt guy, Austin Priest, I've worked with him for years. He gave me-
John: He doubled you for part of this, right?
Aldis: Yeah, he doubled for some of it; he gave me a break every now and then. I did a couple takes and then he ran down and did a few himself. Cause after a while I was like, “Oh, lord.”
John: Well, I mean, the trick is you gotta work the rest of the day.
Aldis: Yeah, right.
John: Can't have you just exhausted. I love this exit, love this exit.
Geoff: God.
Christian: It’s great.
John: This is very-
Geoff: He fixes his jacket!
[Laughter]
Christian: Fix the jacket, he's back!
Geoff: Like alright I'm smooth, I'm tripping, but I'm smooth, baby.
John: Just the kobayashi-
Aldis: Wait for it!
All: Yeah!
Christian: It’s a wet rag.
Geoff: With a wet-!
Chris: Classic handkerchief.
Geoff: Well done, my friend.
John: It was great. And then the accent. Where’d you come up with that man, just fucking around with the suit?
Aldis: The- what, the-
John: The napkin- the-
Aldis: Oh at first I asked- I was talking like, “Christain, dude you gotta have some napkins. Cause I'm gonna ask you for a napkin.” And we were like, where does he pull a napkin out of?
Christian: My jeans are too tight, dude.
[Laughter]
Aldis: Yeah, the great Nadine Haders was like, “hey, handkerchief.” I was like, throw one of those in the pocket and we’ll go from there.
John: That's actually the test onset is when Christain puts on jeans, you have to try to put shit in the front pockets.
[Laughter]
John: And if nothing fits then they are tight enough.
Aldis: Have you seen my jeans? One time I spent ten-
Christian: Yeah, that's right, you have tighter jeans than I do.
Aldis: I literally spent ten minutes jumping into a pair of jeans. I was like, c'mon, this ain't happening.
John: And just so you know, if you buy- the job of checking those pockets is actually part of the lottery on the DVD, so if you didn't get the slip in the DVD set to get that job, then you should go out and buy like four more.
Christian: Nice, that's exactly it, man.
Geoff: Oh wow.
Marc: We’re talking about, the guys-
Christian: And I'm really hoping a female gets that ticket.
Marc: Elisabetta on screen in a bikini.
Aldis: Well I was about to say just for that moment right there, hot dayum to all the bikinis in the room!
Geoff: Well done, Mr. Clooney.
Christian: George Clooney is a lucky man. [Transcriber note: George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis were dating at this point in time.]
Aldis: Yes.
John: Well because she's a lovely person too, it's not just the bikini.
Christian: Yeah she's great.
Aldis: She has nice, straight teeth.
Marc: This is a fantastic scene.
John: This was a bear.
Marc: Everybody was up on their game here, and big reveals and brilliant acting.
Christian: This is the first time I think you've ever seen anything emotional come from Eliot in front of the crew; he's done some stuff before, but never anything like this. And to do it in front of the crew, man this was a tough day for me.
Chris: Now how did you approach that- to get that vulnerability?
Aldis: He cried a lot, he cried.
Christian: If you'll notice, I really worked off of Tim right here to be honest with you. Tim gave everything back to me every single time, so I really worked off of Tim right here. And he helped me out with this a lot. And he didn’t do anything, just gave me his eyes, man, and it was really- I let- I felt like I let Nate down in that and I really used that in this scene.
John: Well it's a little like the second season finale, the one where he snaps in the conference room, cause I know he was anchoring off you in that, when you were trying to calm him down.
Christian: Yeah, right.
John: And he had the total meltdown.
Christian: Yeah.
John: That's what's great about television is the actors work together, they learn how to work with each other, and you get stuff you won’t get in a movie.
Geoff: From a fan perspective, before I came on this year, I was just a person watching this show and every season, the end of the season, there's always a moment like this where you guys gather, the characters gather, and something big is released.
Christian: Yeah, yeah.
Geoff: And this is, even though this is darker than the other ones, it's just like a big, nice compliment to the other two seasons.
Marc: This is my favorite beat, here.
Aldis: Yeah.
John: This is a great moment.
Chris: Yeah, this.
Marc: Just a great piece of dialogue.
Aldis: Kinda begs the question: who is next in line for a mental breakdown?
John: Yeah, yeah.
Marc: Me.
[Laughter]
Geoff: I have to say, that line of dialogue was written by Mr. Chris Downey and not by me.
Aldis: Ahhh.
Chris: No, no, I don't believe so, I think Dean, maybe-
Marc: I think Dean wrote that.
Geoff: Oh really? Okay.
Chris: Dean actually pitched this beat.
John: Dean pitched that line.
Chris: Dean pitched this beat.
Christian: Yeah, Dean told me about it coming in.
Geoff: Well done, Mr. Devlin.
Christian: This was tough for me, this whole thing was tough for me.
Chris: And I got a question: were you working your head off of what that thing was? I mean, you don't have to say, but were you-
John: As a matter of fact don't say, ‘cause we’ve got something in mind.
Chris: Yeah, don’t say but what's in your process?
Christian: No, I won’t say but yeah, I did, I had something yeah. It was-
John: Yeah, cause you look pretty goddamn heartbroken there. 
Chris: Yeah.
Christian: Yeah.
John: Nice. And by the way, for those people listening that pay attention to the stuff we talk about on the other commentaries when we talk about writing, Hardison taking the iPad there is important. We use Hardison as the thermostat, the emotional thermostat for the audience. A lot of times the audience knows stuff is ok when Hardison acknowledges that it’s ok. And him accepting that beat allows you- is a subconscious cue that we’re ok to move past what Eliot’s done.
Christian: Right, right, right, I noticed that myself.
John: And the scene plays on. Even past the revelation which is nice, I mean this scene stays heavy all the way through, no break because this reminds- remember when we did the pilot in Chicago, the first time you go up to Nate - I'm talking to Christain - when Christain goes up to Tim and is like, “Hey, about your son, I'm sorry.”
Marc: At the pool table.
Christian: The pool table, yeah.
John: The pool table. You're like how do I play this? I was like you're two gunslingers who always respected each other and might not want to know who's better, but you're equals, you’re peers, and that's the vibe here.
Christian: It's a standoff.
John: They're playing a separate scene than sort of everybody else here.
Christian: And that helped me the most. Standing in front of Tim helped me the most on that. Cause, you know, I worked off of him and it was just- like I said, it was just four hours to film that and it was tough ‘cause I had to stay there the whole time. I went home and went to bed. I mean, I was tired.
Aldis: Not to mention, the distractions from the passers by on the street [high pitched voice] “Oh my god are you guys shooting a scene? Can we get a picture?”
Christian: Yeah, exactly.
[Laughter]
Aldis: “No, we’re filming!”
Chris: That always helps when you have those emotional scenes.
John: This by the way- that park ain’t empty. That’s all of us hiding behind trees.
[Laughter]
Geoff: That’s hysterical.
Christian: That’s true.
Marc Gary Camp with a steadicam.
Aldis: Remember they said action, and people scattered like roaches.
Marc: Give all the credit to the cameraman.
Christian: You have to.
Marc: But on this particular beat, all the actors have to hit their marks exactly or you're not gonna see them and you're not gonna timeout when they speak.
John: This actually is something we do in the writers room is we figure out one per, and then it makes the blocking easier. But there have been times we've kinda gamed this out in there.
Christian: I don't think people realize how difficult a shot the roundy-round is like this, when everyone’s got dialogue you gotta end up on every shot.
Aldis: Gary Camp kills this.
John: You see how Gary sped up that turn a little bit just to catch you 'cause he knew that dialogue?
Geoff: He's a maestro.
John: Probably the guy who knows the script- after you guys, he knows the script the best.
Aldis: Gary Camp, yeah.
Christian: Gary knows the script the best. I mean, he's unbelievable. We couldn't do it without him.
Geoff: I love the duality of these guys, too. The one that Eliot could have grown up to be versus what he ended up being.
John: And the fact that- that came late to the idea that “you got the job?” That they knew each other. We originally envisioned it as a different guy, a new guy who didn't know the reputation. But that- but having him know him and be jealous.
Christian: Yeah, anytime there's a past.
Geoff: It’s awesome.
John: Yeah, well also that guy is vaguely resentful he'll never live up to the Eliot Spencer legend.
Christian: Right, yeah, I mean he plays it very well, as an actor he chose that and he played it very well.
John: But then the ability to say, “I heard you'd gone soft.” He just- he sees a hink, this guy isn't the badass he thought he was, makes him feel better.
Christian: Yeah, exactly.
John: This was us, second unit, this was a fun day.
Chris: Yeah that’s right.
John: One camera, two actors banging the hell out of that.
Chris: That's right.
John: In the fine tradition of Marc Roskin, that’s the-
Marc There you go.
John: Keep talking, move fast.
Aldis: I actually drove past this set on my way to lunch.
Marc: The streets of downtown Portland.
Geoff: By the way, I'm from DC, this looks like DC, okay? It tripped me out.
John: I know, I know.
Marc: Paul Bernard's daughter.
John: Paul Bernard's daughter. And actually, unfortunately, we had a communication breakdown, we couldn’t talk- we were standing across the street shooting across the street, we couldn't talk to the actors because we had a problem with the radio, so I'm literally standing on a chair across the street going, “You love your daughter! Tell her you love her! Now hug her! Now go die!”
[Laughter]
Christian: Some of the locals that were on the stoop didn't know what to think about that.
John: And this was actually for those of you who were making your amateur films, those were Sony ex-1s bolted to the front of those cars. Perfectly good footage.
Marc: They come in handy.
Geoff: Oh, yeah.
John: And then the distraction, so he puts it into park so he doesnt go rolling away when his neck gets snapped, which was why we wrote this scene.
Christian: And he was great with this, too, he really trusted me.
John: Yeah, cause if the guy looks tense, it doesn't look good.
Christian: Yeah, and he really trusted me. I mean that's a tough thing to do, that's somebody's neck, man, and you gotta be really careful with that. It was a big safety issue, but he was great. He really sold it.
Geoff: Oh, you didn't actually kill him?
[Laughter]
John: No, the fact that he was found dead of a fall the next day is total coincidence.
Christian: No absolutely, absolutely.
John: That was his last scene and he went home.
Christian: Exactly, and it was weird how he fell in his trunk.
Geoff: [Laughing] He fell in his trunk!
John: People do that, they put tire irons and shit in his trunk and then ‘Oh! I've stumbled.’
Geoff: Lid comes down.
Chris: He was digging a shallow grave, it was weird. I wonder why he was doing that.
John: This was great, this was actually the morgue set from the hospital scene- the hospital the previous year, right?
Chris: In Order 23?
John: Oh no no, this was from a film that was shooting up there. This is a plug. That room is not a morgue; that room is a big empty classroom.
Geoff: You're kidding?
Marc: Big empty science room.
John: That we dropped those drawers halfway to cut it in half, and then Becca Molino and our fantastic production design propped it up and it looked gorgeous.
Christian: They do it every time, they do it, I'm surprised by how they do it.
Marc: I worship Becca, Becca is a genius.
Christian: It's an unbelievable crew that we’ve got.
John: I love the resentment, by the way, that Aldis is playing here. And it kinda ties into the resentment here that nobody quite understands how hard Hardison works.
[Laughter]
Geoff: Yeah, get a body.
John: Yeah, exactly. That’s just shit he does now.
Aldis: Get a body!
Geoff: It's not magic folks, it's not a magic trick.
John: There's the red wig. Which we almost had her do the entire second episode of this in.
Marc: Yes.
John: This was one of the ones where Gina said, “I wanna do it in a wig” and we’re like, “No” and she showed up in a wig and we said, “Damn, that’s hot.” And then we were worried that it would confuse the viewer coming in for the second set, so we just kept it for here. I love him reining her in like that, lovely. And then a little bit of pipe before we go to the fourth act. That's also crucial part of the script is reminding the audience, “Okay things have been moving very quickly, just to remind you this is what we’re gonna do in this act.”
Marc: Yes.
Aldis: Hot damn!
Christian: Yeah, that was a good day.
[Laughter]
Chris: What is he doing, playing online poker? 
John: What is Moreau doing online?
Chris: What is he- he’s got a strange business model.
John: He's doing his Facebook status update, “Going to kill dudes; gotta go now.”
Marc: Also we had to put CG water in that hot tub cause it wasn't-
Geoff: What?
John: Oh! It didn’t work, that's right.
Marc: It didn’t work, as I said, we remodeled this and it was leaking.
John: This had been closed- that was like a hundred year old basement or something, yeah.
Aldis: Yeah.
Geoff: That's insane.
John: Yeah, the hot tub leaked, that was badly designed, that was poorly thought out. Yup, a lot of fun with this, banged out in the- that’s the parking lot of the studio.
Marc: Parking lot of the stage.
Christian: Is it really?
John: This is also a reminder that Sophie ran the crew when Nate was in jail. One of those little things that when you look at the show this year, they are much more peers.
Marc: And if at all possible, you can avoid shooting in an elevator, I would recommend it.
John: Oh sweet Jesus.
Aldis: That elevator was a beast.
Chris: Was this the one where the elevator sucked the camera down?
John: Yes, no, the light.
Christian: I remember a really bad day in an elevator.
Aldis: This, by the way-
John: No, not the one where you were attacked by a box.
Christian: Yeah, exactly.
Aldis: This guy right here, his name is Kevin Champion, he’s been my stand in, a trooper since the pilot and he finally got his just desserts.
Chris: He did a great job.
John: And by the way, he did great - fantastic job.
Aldis: Now who did we have on set to slate for him?
Marc Charles Barkley!
Aldis: Sir Charles Barkley.
Chris: Oh that's right!
Christian: That’s right.
John: Charles Barkley was in town
Geoff: Where was I when all this was going on?
Christian: Charles Barkley was on set-
Chris: I missed Charles Barkley, I was in a warehouse with you!
Marc: His first time acting with us and all of it-
John: Barkley showed up.
Chris: I was at the shoot out. Man, Barkley
Aldis: Barkley was a great man.
John: He was in town doing a fundraiser, swung by the set.
Chris: By the way, Charles Barkley, big friend of TNT.
Marc: This was a fun little beat.
Aldis: Yeah, I met him, I met him and I told him to come on down, he had a good time.
John: Really charming guy.
Chris: We better have Barkley on season four.
Geoff: I don't get to see the special things.
John: You don't get to see Barkley, I'm sorry. Just the elevator thing, what had happened is, was we stopped the elevator, we had lights in there to light it, and then all of a sudden the elevator just restarted, the doors closed and it started flying downstairs, pulling the wires after it into the-
Christian: Oh my god.
Aldis: Yeah, the elevator had issues.
Chris: Oh, this is a great reveal.
John: Nice little flash of the lift. And we've never seen Parker do the front lift.
Geoff: Yeah.
John: He actually- Kevin did a great job.
Christian: Kevin did a great job.
Aldis: Yeah.
John: Very pleased. And by the way, there are ID’s that do this, that do the live tracking in the buildings.
Chris: Oh yeah.
John: Yeah, absolutely.
Marc: Technical green!
Christian: Technical green.
Aldis: [British Accent] “Technical green, mate.”
John: This was also a lab that was already there that we shot from the other room.
Marc: Already there.
Geoff: Wow.
John: Yeah we just built- yeah, all the equipment was there and we just built where the bomb had been, that was it. That was all we laid in there.
Geoff: You make this stuff up in the room, you hope for the best.
John: It’s- and you have talented people busting their ass to make it real.
Marc: The people at Portland State- that's a green screen back there.
Geoff: No way!
Chris: That’s right, that is terrific.
John: Yeah, that's not the airport.
Geoff: Get out of town!
Marc: That was a warehouse at a stage.
Christian: Yup.
John: Yeah, that's like a couple blocks from our stages, right? Yeah.
Christian: It’s weird- everything you see in there, though, it's the real deal.
Marc: Yeah, we got a lot of use out of this stage.
Christian: Yeah, I can't believe they let us use it with as many- we went 2500 rounds of a gunfight?
[Laughter]
John: 2500 rounds.
Christian: Inside a place with flammable material- I'm just saying!
John: On the list of stupid ideas.
Aldis: Now wasn't this also the day we found out that we got picked up?
Marc: That stores chemicals and paper rolls.
Christian: Exactly.
Chris: That's right.
John: Nothing can go wrong there.
Chris: And failed microbrew brands. I walked around there. It was like microbrews you never heard of.
Geoff: The opinions shared by the writers and actors are not necessarily shared by TNT or Electric Entertainment Company.
John: Or the insurance companies therein.
Aldis: The thing I love about this is usually when people do car scenes like this when they’re shooting out the back it’s a green screen, but this wasn't, we ran the traffic.
Chris: You can tell.
John: No. And all 200 pounds of me is folded up in the back of that thing.
Geoff: No!
John: I'm in the rear seat.
Aldis: John was literally in the trunk of that car.
Geoff: Oh my god!
John: Yelling through the backseat.
Aldis: Shouting out directions. We did it guerilla-style, people.
John: We stopped traffic, had a cop chase us through the streets.
Aldis: Now you see how wild she's driving. It was a bumpy ride for us and we were seated comfortably with seatbelts.
John: Yeah, I don't think we're gonna let Gina drive again, that's not good.
Aldis: John was back there, we gave him a pint of Guinness, he was alright.
Christian: She doesn't know what side of the street to drive on.
[Laughter]
John: That's what made it more exciting. This is a great- now the shadowy figures and we’re setting it up.
Marc: Shadowy figures.
John: This act is insane, this act really is crazy. It was tricky structuring it, each storyline had to have three acts in itself, so you had to be able to switch between development, execution, and aftermath in each plotline. No, this was a ton of fun. And shooting a real train.
Marc: A real train, just a neighborhood in Portland. And I don't know if you know this, but Portland is a huge biking community and we shut off-
Aldis: Yeah.
Chris: That's where I take my bike ride, spring break bike path.
Marc: Everybody takes their bike ride. They rerouted it, no one complained, everybody was gracious, it was nice.
John: That's where the camera truck drove, the camera truck drove on the bike path next to the train.
Aldis: People ride their bikes on the freeways there - it’s insane.
Geoff: Safely!
Chris: That’s true, in driving rain storms in ponchos.
John: That’s a nice moment there, that acting moment- this is the first time in a while we’ve heard Eliot go, “yeah, we’re fucked.”
Christian: Yeah, yeah.
John: It’s a nice beat. That's my actors on a bridge.
Aldis: Yeah.
Marc: And one of the busiest bridges in Portland.
John: Yeah, exactly. And that's the thing, I was not- I was at the other set while they were shooting this, so I was- a lot of times I was watching the dailies I was like, “Oh wow, those stunt doubles are great- wait that’s-”
[Laughter]
Christian: See that right there, I really wanna concentrate on that - you’ve never seen Eliot kill anyone. 
Geoff: Yeah, that’s true.
Christian: I just broke that guy's neck, he's dead. 
John: Yeah, that guy’s gone.
Christian: That's the first time you saw and, you know it's-
John: It escalates the stakes; you realize whatever’s gonna happen next is not gonna be the normal thing.
Christian: Yeah, exactly.
Marc: CG DC in the background there.
Aldis: Yup, DC.
John: Real train under my actors.
Aldis: I begged you guys for days to let me jump down.
[Laughter]
Geoff: You must be high, are you crazy?
Marc: What was it like writing Eliot’s first shootout?
Geoff: We talked about it in the room, we bounced it around a lot, we wanted it to be a little bit over the top frankly and kinda John Woo-ish because every one of the characters is so perfectly- they're like the perfect example of whatever their thing is. And throughout the show, Eliot generally fights opponents that are numerous, but they're really not on his level. So to really show him doing what he does- it's kinda like that first episode where he has the teacup and the room full of guys. We didn’t see that, we saw the outside of that. This is what happened inside, basically.
Chris: By the way, can I just say something about that acting moment there? I loved that moment of picking up the gun.
John: Well the look to Tim.
Chris: You played three different emotions in a row, just on your face, of kind of the resignation and then you became a different person.
Christian: Yeah, well that's the point is once he picks up this gun- how's he gonna be in season 4? Cause now it's a whole box he never wanted to open again. I'll tell you, this is my favorite thing I've ever filmed in my entire life. This is my favorite thing I've ever filmed in my entire life.
[Laughter]
John: Two days. Two straight days for that gunfight.
Christian: You guys usually only give me 3-4 hours to fight and I got two days on this one.
John: Great shot here.
Geoff: Boom!
Marc: And boom!
Aldis: I swear I wanted to jump down, but at least-
John: That's our stunties jumping, but that's you on top.
Aldis: We were allowed to run on top.
Chris: Look at you go!
Christian: Them on a train, man.
Geoff: Which really you should not have been allowed to do.
Chris: There you go.
Aldis: Probably shouldn't have been, but it was gonna happen.
Geoff: Oh my god.
Chris: That's you!
Christian: On a moving train, on a moving train.
Aldis: Moving train.
John: This is- by the way, they got so excited, they came over the next day and I said, “What’d you do yesterday?” And Beth said, “I ran on top of a moving train without any safety equipment-! Oh, shit,” I was like, “That’s right! From now on, say it out loud just once!”
[Laughter]
John: “And if you say oh shit at the end of the sentence, don’t do it!”
Geoff: That's right.
John: No, but honestly guys, we can’t thank you enough for doing that for the show. Not a lot of actors would come out of their trailer to watch that happen, nevermind actually do it.
Aldis: Beth was hardcore about it, too.
Marc: This scene was shot over a period of two days.
Chris: Yeah.
John: Yeah, this is crazy.
Christian: By the way, everybody needs to know, that’s me. That’s only me, no stunt double, that's it, always me.
John: No stunties. I always joke - your stunt double has the easiest job in Hollywood.
Geoff: No joke.
John: “What are you gonna do today?” “Oh I’ll just have a latte, watch him bust his ass, have a good day.”
Christian: Nice punch right there, by the way, nice form.
[Laughter]
Christian: I'm serious! I'm being honest!
Chris: Now how did you- how much experience did you have doing gunfights on screen? I mean, obviously this is-
Christian: I mean, not that much, but I mean honestly I'm from Oklahoma, so-
[Laughter]
John: This, by the way: not a train. A fake train car we built on the set that we had interns- pardon me not interns, PA’s actually shaking and rocking and then strobing light, poorman’s process,  through it.
Geoff: Poorman’s process.
Marc: Eric Bates built that bomb, he’s very proud of it.
Chris: There's a couple [unintelligible] on it.
Marc: This is my favorite-
Geoff: Love that! Love that!
Marc: Ohhh!
John: No look, no look it's fine.
Chris: Now here, oh!
Christian: That was so much fun right there man, that was so much fun.
John: What I love is the countermove by the guy in the back, actually.
Geoff: I would date this sequence if I was single.
[Laughter]
Marc: That's a shoutout on The Closer.
John: No that- oh The Closer, no they've never done a shootout like this.
Chris: Now how much of that is like you're 12 years old and you're in the backyard?
Christian: Oh all of it, all of it. This was my favorite thing I've ever done. This is the scene I came to Hollywood for and I'm not lying; I'm being dead serious.
Geoff: Hey!
Marc: Kevin Jackson worked so hard with you on this. It was great.
Geoff: Kevin is great.
Christian: Yeah.
Aldis: Yeah, Kevin Jackson, our stunt coordinator.
John: And we showed up, we showed up, we’d been shooting that other stuff and we showed up in that warehouse on, like, hour 16 and you had been doing the slide on the concrete floor like, “Again! Go again!” Like Jesus, boy!
Christian: Yup, yup.
Marc: Christain looked like an offensive lineman, you know.
[Laughter]
Marc: In an overtime game.
John: Soaked in sweat.
Christian: 2500 rounds man; 2500 rounds for the day.
Aldis: Jeez.
Christian: That's a lot for television, I'm telling you.
Aldis: Yeah.
Marc: And if a gun didn't fire, we added it.
Christian: Yeah.
Marc: There's a lot of-
Geoff: Oh really, you CG’ed in muzzle flashes?
Christian: Now this is- this was my idea, I brought this to Dean and John. This was my idea. I wanted to slide through the oil or the water or whatever you had, whatever it was.
John: Oh the sights, the double cock.
Christian: Double cock, I came up with that. I'd never seen it before, you never do it with your own guns because it ruins it, and I can't believe how cool it looks.
[Laughter]
John: Who cares if it's wrong, it looks cool!
Chris: Now how about that shot?
Marc: And Joe LoDuca’s music during this.
Chris: The push up here.
John: Slow push, yeah, that's a great shot, there you go.
Geoff: You are about to die.
John: Now I would also mention this was a wire assist at the end, but you did it without the wire the first time.
Christian: That's all me right there, that’s all me. I went- right there was as far as I went without wiring.
John: And you got a good- remember we were testing it that first day. And you're like, “I can do this!” And just banged it out and you got about 15, 20 feet even without the stuff on the floor.
Chris: By the way folks, even those of you in good shape, try and get- try and just get on your knees.
Geoff: Yeah, no joke.
Chris: On your knees and lean back like that. I did it on set.
John: It was not fun.
Christian: There's my Desperado shot; I had to have a little fun. John gave me that one.
Aldis: Dun-dun dun-dun.
John: And this is the CG explosion, little pop, and then a real explosion.
Geoff: Oh nice, oh man! I love that.
Marc That’s a model-
John: That’s what I mean, a model blow, a real blow.
Geoff: But bear in mind, also this is the end of the season, these guys have been jumping, getting punched, blown up, hiding for-
Christian: Oh I didn't walk for two days, man.
[Laughter]
Chris: That looked painful.
John: And this is where we pay off the taser.
Aldis: Paid off the taser!
John: We introduced the taser in episode one, do a runner throughout the whole season and this is what you've been waiting for, the moment to pay off why she's been carrying it. We totally planned that - that wasn't accidental at all.
Geoff: [Forceful Laugh]
Christian: No, absolutely not.
John: We didn't cook that up in a drunken stupor in the writers room one night.
Geoff: I meant to do that, I meant to do that.
Marc We’re actually driving cars on the bike path, removing fence.
John: And we did a blow.
Marc And blowing up trains.
Aldis: We did a blow.
John: Yeah, we actually did a blow in there. We video assisted it, but that was a real explosion.
Chris: Wait, that was a real blow on the train?
Christian: Yeah.
John: Yeah. We didn't take the door off, the door was added.
Christian: See if you can't tell that's a little hard getting up there on the knees. I'm not as young as Aldis, but-
Geoff: You're excused man, you did your job.
John: And this is the classic, this is really-
Geoff: Awesome!
John: I'm gonna say Johnny Toe instead of John Woo because that’s really more of a Johnny Toe shot. And the flame bar.
Chris: That's an iconic shot right there.
John: Yeah it is.
Chris: We’ll be seeing that shot in a lot of fan videos.
Geoff: That move, I love that.
Aldis: It’s clean.
John: Very clean, and he was worried he was too slow on the night, too.
Christian: I did, I was like, “Man, was it fast enough? Cause I'm tired.”
Geoff: Plenty fast enough, man.
John: But you had done-
Christian: This was important right here, I wanted to show that, you know, the guns are done, I still don't like ‘em.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
John: But you practiced quickdraw on the other thing you did, what was it?
Christian: Oh man from Anywhere from Into The West to Crossfire Trail,  we were always out there. I got that actually from Emilio Esteves, who is a friend of mine, who directed me on Close To Home and he was telling me about how they used to go out there and they- when they were all doing Young Guns they used to practice quick draw against each other to see who was the fastest.
John: Well Geoff Blake, who played Bixby, was on Young Guns.
Geoff: He's really good.
Christian: That's right, oh my gosh, that's right.
Aldis: I got a question, as far as season 4 for Hardison and Parker, cause you know, she just did the pretzels thing, the people are expecting something.
Geoff: What are you trying to say?
John: A lot of shirtless you.
Aldis: I gotta do push ups? Jeez.
John: We’re gonna advance the relationship.
Chris: But we'll do it at our own pace.
Christian: You know I haven't seen this scene yet, man, I can't wait to see it.
John: You haven't seen this?
Christian: No.
John: Had you not seen the full edit of this?
Christian: No.
Geoff: It’s tasteful, it’s tasteful.
Christian: I've been on a radio tour, man.
[Laughter]
John: Oh that's true. Kinda the whole music career giant international thing. 
Christian: It’s- you know.
John: This was a ton of fun, and again, just a little bit of fun. It's tricky when you're showing the moves this fast, how to reset for each act just to make sure the audience knows at all times where you are, what's going on.
Christian: Again, Goran was always on his game, man. You couldn't have picked a better Moreau, he was great.
Aldis: Oh he was spot on, man.
John: Well it helps, he was physically intimidating too.
Christian: He’s like 6’6”! I didn’t realize how tall he was.
Aldis: Yeah, yeah.
John: He's like a paratrooper. And this was Dean’s idea to finally do, like, the threeway-
Marc: Do the triangle.
John: Do the triangle, yeah.
Christian: Just to let people know, when the gun goes off, one of the loads came out and hit Tim in the eye. We went down for about 20 minutes ‘cause it hit him right square in the eye.
Geoff: Wow!
Christian: And nothing against- it was just a weird shot, it wasn’t even pointed at him, it just- every once in a while- guns are unpredictable and it went off to the side.
John: That's why you have safety guys on set.
Geoff: And you don't do this at home, kids.
John: No, well I doubt they'd have the jet.
Christian: Right.
[Laughter]
Geoff: Some kids have a jet, you know.
Chris: Well they might have a bus up on cinder blocks in the backyard.
Christian: When I come running out here, you don't know how many times I hit my head on the bottom of this wing.
John: I know! I was counting, actually.
Christian: I hit my head four times on the bottom of this wing trying to get under it.
John: Every time you stood up, you didn't quite time it right.
Christian: I stood up early and damn near knocked myself out. It freaking hurt.
Geoff: So Marc, some of these shots are pretty complex-
Aldis: And there we go, Bonanno!
Geoff: What's the stuff that drives you most logistically, you’re like, how am I gonna do this, and you know-
Marc: A lot of it is where are we gonna shoot it, what we can get away with, and how much time we have. And this was tricky cause we had so many locations. We’re barely in HQ and in the finale, in 16, we are, but this ist a lot of locations. You’re in a train, you're in a fight.
John: You're losing light. The great thing about an outdoor set like this is you got that beautiful sky, the bad thing is the sun goes up, sun goes down.
Marc: Sun goes up, sun goes down.
Geoff: Right, no control.
Christian: We were working against the clock this day man, we were losing the sun.
Marc: But you know, you would think at the end of the season you would lose energy with the crew and with the actors.
John: Not at all.
Marc: And I think this is some of our best acting in these last two episodes.
Geoff: I agree, I agree.
Marc: And they're big emotional scenes, they're heavy page count, and we shot the hell out of it.
John: Yeah, this is three pages of Tim talking.
Marc: And it's not just tapping us on the back, most shows don't do coverage like we do, and spend the time to light it like we do, and have flashbacks and cutaways and special effects and greenscreens and CG, I mean.
John: We’re crazy.
Marc: We’re nuts!
John: Why the hell are we doing this?
Geoff: Rockwood.
John: By the way, I'd like to say: quick note because we just blew by it, Elisabetta, who had not acted a lot when she joined us in the first part of the season, the beat where she says, “You opened the envelope?” And she sounds actually kind of hurt? It's a really nice communicative beat.
Christian: Yeah it is.
John: She's really found her voice as an actor.
Aldis: Yeah, I liked that beat.
Geoff: She did a good job.
Chris: She was really great.
John: She really did a nice job. “Who are you?” And that is the best choice by Goran.
Christian: That is the best, I love that.
Marc: I just kept saying build, build, build, and it- just all the way to the end of 16.
Christian: You've never seen him not be in control, except that moment right there.
John: You never see him he's- he’s not out of control there, he's just impatient.
Christian: No, yeah.
John: That veneer is going.
Chris: Oh here we go.
Christian: Boom!
Geoff: You wiped out there?
Christian: Didn't do it that time.
John: He slammed his head. Look at his process right there, he's like how is this gonna go.
Marc: And I just love the little-
John: And the fuck you smile. That’s a great look from Goran. 
[Moment of Silence]
John: Sorry, we all got lost in the show there for a second.
[Laughter]
Christian: Yeah, sorry.
Chris: Sorry, yeah now we’re like-
John: No, she did great, she did a great shot, we got a lot of footage of this. And it was really convincing. And then a little something for the ladies cause you gotta stop the blood flow somehow.
Aldis: Ah, there he goes, boom.
John: There's a whole box of rags right stage left, I mean.
[Laughter]
Chris: There's a whole first aid kit.
Marc: Could you imagine if you were doing pushups?
Geoff: What is wrong with people?
John: I mean, by god.
Marc: And a real plane taxiing away.
Geoff: Jesus.
John: What the hell were we thinking?
Christian: Did you see that? You saw on my shoulder right there, that’s where Tim stopped me a couple times. It was that really ripped up and bruised cause he had to stop me running full speed.
John: This was nice, by the way. I actually prefer this coverage, it's tempting to go into closeups there when he asked him not to tell the others. This is a very British shot to do this in a medium, because it allows the shot to kinda sit for a second, rather than forcing it.
Marc: Yeah, so we just thought we'd do it on a crane.
[Laughter]
John: Well that too. But I'm saying I liked the shot. ‘Cause it allowed you to set up the other shot. Also I love this bit, the little hurt look that Nate has when he finds out she wouldn't have done that for him.
Marc: Yeah.
Chris: And a very matter of fact, no; it was reminiscent of the flashback when he was getting strangled, his fantasy sequence. She's very bored and matter of fact about things like that
John: It's really- the character really did exactly we wanted her to be, which was a 1960’s spy character who was transplanted into the show. And this is something we almost never do. We've only done it twice - tie together the episodes, even in the season finales they tend to just end and you have no idea what we're gonna do next.
Christian: Right, this was fun to do. This was so great waiting on the second script.
Aldis: Yeah.
John: Yeah the walk- oh that’s right, cause somebody didn't quite finish the second script by the time you were prepping this.
Christian: Oh, that's right.
[Laughter]
John: Somebody was writing the script in Portland, say.
Geoff: I don't know who that would be.
John: And then the crane up, pull away, and you're out. Now this is cinematic as hell. And that’s 3x15!
All: [Cheer!]
Geoff: Nice!
Christian: Awesome.
John: Thanks for tuning in, and stay tuned 3x16!
Chris: Stay tuned.
John: You know you wanna watch them back to back, coming right up.
Geoff: Oh hell yeah.
Aldis: C’mon, people!
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if the kb5+others (gwen heather etc) were actual people who would they look like do you think ??? trying to think of all these hcs/reunion ideas but im like damn these are Canadian cartoons i need visual aid
personally i see duncan looking like Jeff wittek but that might be bc they’re both hot Italian criminals w drug problems
You anons are really showing off with these amazing asks tonight! 🤩
These are who I picture (and I really want to know what everyone else thinks bc there’s no wrong answers)
Courtney - ME (jk nobody knows me like that, yet.) Rachel Zegler
Duncan - Stephen James 🔥
Bridgette - Blake Lively
Geoff - Ryan Reynolds
DJ - Michael B Jordan
Heather - Megan Fox, if she was Asian (she just gives off queen bee energy)
Alejandro - Prince Royce
Gwen - Kristen Stewart
Trent - Adam Levine
Tyler - Ashton Kutcher
Lindsay - Amanda Seyfried (also Sydney Sweeney)
Izzy - Bella Thorne
Noah - Kunal Nayyar
Harold - Jim Parsons
Cody - Topher Grace
Scott - KJ Apa
Dawn - Evanna Lynch
Anne-Maria - Nicole Polizzi (Snooki)
Joe - Jane Lynch
Zoey - Nickelodeon Ariana Grande
Chris - Patrick Dempsey
Chef - Terry Crews
That’s all I have so far 😂
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More call outs on bullshit the AMPTP is saying they have all the risk and the people who work on their productions don't.
This has been in my drafts for apparently like a month and a half and I have no idea why I didn't just post this before. Anywho, sorry, my bad.
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[Image ID: a tweet thread from Geoff Thorne's (@wintermanbooks) from July 23rd, 2023, that reads:
When I agreed to come on as showrunner for Black Panther's Quest, I was presented with an NDA that precluded me or my reps from telling anyone what I was doing or who for, for the duration. this took a 2-year bite out of my career & ghosted me in the eyes of potential employers.
When I was done with that job, my live-action career was AGGRESSIVELY stalled because, as more than one potential employer told me, "I thought you'd left the business." That 1 job (nominated for 2 IMAGE awards, BTW) nearly ended my career. Talk to me about risk again. #WGAStrong
CODA.
Even though I was the showrunner & head writer on that show, because it was an animation gig, guess what I get in residuals for that near career-killer?
That's right, zero dollars. No, risk?
Go and entirely fuck yourselves, you money-shuffling posers.
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[Image ID: A tweet thread by Matt Altman (@mattaltman2) from July 23rd, 2023 (that I had a real hard time getting to because Twitter is bullshit or him deleting it? Or he went private? Probably the glitching) that reads in its entirety:
I optioned a script and did 23 rewrites and a bunch of polishes for free so we could get a director attached and then they’d activate the one paid rewrite. I barely (with the help of friends) paid rent for months. But we don’t take risks. Oh yeah— that happened more than once
I “sold” my first script, got an announcement in Deadline, had meetings about the rewrite, and waited over a year and a half for the lawyers… only for the company to declare bankruptcy and never get paid. But no risk. I’ve done untold hours of free development… but no risk.
Optioned a feature script with rewrite. They brought me in for another rewrite, but were shocked when my reps billed for the optional step. They expected free pass. Fired me, hired a big writer to rewrite my original spec for 7 figures. My step would’ve cost 25k. But no risk
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2023 Reading Roundup
Everything what I read in 2023
I read a whole bunch.
Heartily Recommend Visceral Bleh Reread *Audiobook*
Fiction
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (where is the fucking humidity in your swamp, Delia??)
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Lot by Bryan Washington
Mr. Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell (but everyone is called Thomas)
Verity by Colleen Hoover (awful but wacky and hilariously awful)
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Animorphs #24 The Suspicion by KA Applegate (a trip)
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Trio by Johanna Hedman
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Silence by Shusaku Endo
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Babel by RF Kuang (was so disappointed by this one)
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
Island by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen
The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
Must I Go by Yiyun Li
The 1,000 Year Old Boy by Ross Welford
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow
The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
Yellowface by RF Kuang
The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Game Misconduct by Ari Baran
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (sorry Naomi :/ )
The Foot of the Cherry Tree by Ali Parker
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
Wild by Kristen Hannah
*The Fraud by Zadie Smith*
The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (weirdly, one of the best depictions of a marriage I’ve read)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abdulhawa
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
Animorphs: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles by KA Applegate
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Animorphs #13 The Change by KA Applegate
Animorphs #14 The Unknown by KA Applegate
Animorphs #20 The Discovery by KA Applegate (snuck in two more under the wire… #20 is when shit REALLY kicks off. From there it gets darker and darker).
Poetry
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
Women of the Harlen Renaissance (Anthology) by Various
The Analog Sea Review no. 4 by Various
The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Non-Fiction
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick
Atlas of Abandoned Places by Oliver Smith
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth Century London by Vic Gatrell
The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance by Geoff White (fully available as a podcast)
The Entangling Net: Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Stories by Leslie Leyland Fields (very niche but fascinating. Transcribed interviews)
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.
Freedom by Margaret Atwood (just excerpts from novels repackaged)
*Born a Crime by Trevor Noah* (Noah’s narration is superb)
The Slavic Myths by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak (was expecting stories, but it was mostly academic essays)
Manga, Comics, Graphic Novels
Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco
The Way of the House-Husband, vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono
SAGA vol. 1-6 by Fiona Staples and Brian K Vaughan
Top of the Top:
Born a Crime was probably my favourite non ficition, and most of that probably is due to Trevor Noah's narration skills. It was very entertaining and heartfelt.
Less uplifting but just as gripping in a different way was Empire of Pain. Excellent book that went deep into the why and what and hows of Purdue Pharma. Anger inducing.
Lazarus Heist is great and available as a podcast. The book is more or less the podcast word for word.
Fictionwise: I read Trust at the start of the year and it was a bit soon to declare as favourite of the year, but it's stil made the final cut. Just very imaginative and intriguing. Just my kind of MetaFiction. Clever without being cleverclever.
Demon Copperhead I read right off the back of Empire of Pain so maybe that coloured my experience. I've not read any Dickens so loads of references no doubt flew past me, but the language was acrobatic and zingy. I loved it.
Wrapped up the year on a high with North Woods. That was so unexpected and entertaining. Again with the playful language, memorable characters and a unique approach to tying all the various stories together. One that sticks in the mind and makes the writer in me wonder how I can replicate his style (with my own personal twist of course.)
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green-lanterns-c0ck · 2 years
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Isn’t Simon supposed to be like the only Lantern with impossible healing powers or something?
Yes! Unfortunately, the current plotline also involves the Central Battery going BOOM once more, so Jo and Hal are the only Lanterns who still have their rings and Miracle Worker Best Boy Simon has to use a badass mech-suit.
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ellisons-dread · 6 months
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Okay, I want to see a well-done in-depth video essay that explores the use of religious themes in Jigokuraku/Hell's Paradise. I just don't know if I want to see it done by Geoff Thew, Ian Danskin, or Abigail Thorn.
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Note: this list includes only concerts. Roger's bands (Reaction, Smile) of course recorded studio stuff but that's not listed here. Also I'd like to say it's quite difficult to find accurate info about these old days so if you want to correct me, please do it.
The Bubblingover Boys (1957)
Line-up
Roger Taylor (ukulele, guitar)
(other members are unknown)
Tour itinerary
1957Bosvigo School, Truro, UK
Beat Unlimited (later 'The Cousin Jacks' and 'The Falcons') (1963 - early 1965)
Line-up
Roger Taylor (drums/guitar)
Mike Dudley (guitar)
David Dowding (bass)
One of favourite tracks of Cousin Jacks/Beat Unlimited was Wipe Out by The Ventures. Another known track they played live was Flingel Bunt - it was played by Cousin Jacks/Beat Unlimited at a do organised by the Liberal Association in the City Hall (17.12.1964).
Tour itinerary
summer 1963Truro, UK
Johnny Quale and the Reaction (early 1965 - autumn 1965)
Line-up
John Grose (aka Johnny Quale) (vocals)
Roger 'Splodge' Taylor (drums)
Graham Hawkins (guitar)
Mike Dudley (keyboards/guitar)
Jim Craven (bass)
John 'Acker' Snell (saxophone)
Tour itinerary
15.03.1965City Hall, Truro, UK15.04.1965City Hall, Truro, UK19.04.1965City Hall, Truro, UKsummer 1965Blue Lagoon, Newquay, UKsummer 1965Village Hall, St. Just, UKsummer 1965The Garden, Penzance, UKsummer 1965Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, UK17.07.1965Werrington Park, Launceston, UK
Known setlists
15.3.1965 City Hall, Truro Shadows, Rolling Stones and pre-Soul covers, especially James Brown and Otis Redding
The Reaction (autumn 1965 - autumn 1968)
Line-up
Roger 'Splodge' Taylor (drums/lead vocals)
Mike Dudley (guitar, later keyboards)
Richard Penrose (bass from spring 1966)
John 'Acker' Snell (saxophone until 1967)
Mike Grose (guitar)
Jim Craven (bass until spring 1966 and again from summer 1968)
Roger 'Sandy' Brokenshire (lead vocals from November 1965 to spring 1966)
Geoff Daniel (guitar from spring 1966 to 1967)
Rick Thorning (bass from autumn 1968)
The Reaction were actually originally called The Reactions (until March 1966) and sometimes even billed as The Creation. Original line-up was of course identical to Johnny Quale and the Reaction but after a couple of months many changes came... - x
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