Question of the week #29

[treonb]

With Season 2 almost upon us (yay!), our question this week: What's your wish-list for storylines you'd like to see? 

You can expect spoilers for the entire first season in the comments.

(There's no expiration date on these questions, so if you're reading this post months later and feel like jumping in, please do.)

Comments

[sistermagpie]

What was in the deleted scene???!!

[katiac]

Oh, have you not watched them yet??

It was during episode 8 from before Elizabeth and Philip have their cutesy moment in the kitchen. Philip and Stan have finished playing racquetball and go over to Stan's for a snack. Stan is drinking orange juice and they're both eating cold pizza. Stan asks how things are. Philip gives a general answer about work (as a travel agent.) Stan starts poking around into asking if things are better now between Philip and Elizabeth and Philip answers that they hit a rough patch for awhile, but things are better now. Stan makes some hazy comments about marriage and it being like some circus thing. Matthew comes in (which is great! we never see him and Stan!) and is noting his dad drank all the orange juice (if I'm remembering right) and Stan makes some joke about men and needing replenishment, and Matthew leaves. Stan invites Philip over for dinner and Philip leaves.

In retrospect, I kind of understand why it was cut. The tone was a little weird in places and it slowed down the pace a bit. But it was still nice to see as a deleted scene! And it leads me to notice how little we see of Matthew and Stan, which I guess is kind of their point as an absentee father, but I like it when they actually dig into that with angst in person. I also always miss seeing Elizabeth/Henry.

[sistermagpie]

Thank you! I haven't seen anything on DVD yet. Usually I like to wait until I can get everything together and it's not on Netflix so I can't just rent it and watch/listen to everything so I may have to just start getting it season by season.

[katiac]

Most of the deleted scenes weren't that different... like one of them was Philip listening to the sex tape with Elizabeth and the guy from the pilot, but it was just shot a bit differently rather than having substantially different material.

One deleted scene I liked was from the pilot and had Elizabeth and Paige after Paige asks her to go to the drugstore. They have a medium length conversation sitting in the car in the garage where Elizabeth asks Paige what she thinks of Matthew and Paige says she's 13 and he's 15 and even 13 year old boys won't look at her. Elizabeth tells her she has to believe in herself. She goes into a little thing about how people walk around like they live in a fairytale and you have to be prepared for anything, and how she'd raised them to be strong and confident, etc, and Paige finally says, "But I'm not any of those things." And Elizabeth waits a moment and says, "Not yet." Then turns and starts the car.

Like, I also saw why they cut that one, since it didn't really fit the tone of the rest of the pilot and felt a little "off" at moments, but it was also nice to watch just on its own.

I was hoping they would've included the scenes with Gabriel. Spoilers a few weeks before episode 12 indicated we were going to see him in flashbacks, but then we never did. Might've been interesting.

[katiac]

Most of what they had on "The Colonel" commentary was repeats of stuff they've said elsewhere before, but I found it interesting that they said the moment Philip decides to go in Elizabeth's place to meet the Colonel is when they're talking in the dining room the night before. I was always curious about that... like if he'd gone home and thought about it, or decided when they stared at each other in the travel agency that morning. The "no I won't fight you" makes sense in that regard, but I just wasn't ever sure if that was REALLY what he meant by that.

And during the "Clark" crawls from beneath the blankets grimacing scene they remarked about how everyone is always asking how his wigs stay on. So at least they're aware it's like the top asked question everywhere!