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Some of my favourite scenes are the ones that never made it to air:
CASEY: What's goin' on?
DAN: Jeremy's gonna face his fear.
CASEY: Yeah?
DAN: I think we should watch.
CASEY: You know, among the many unhappy by-products of Sam Donovan's arrival, is that it's taken attention from the serious problem I'm having with Dana.
DAN: The dating plan.
CASEY: The dating plan.
DAN: Casey, don't kill for this, but I gotta say something.
CASEY: What.
DAN: I'm not quite seeing the problem.
CASEY: You're not quite seeing the problem?
DAN: No.
CASEY: After 15 years of dancing around each other, Dana and I are poised to start a relationship, only she decides that due to what she perceives as a limited experience with women, she's requiring me to date other people for six months before I can date her.
DAN: Okay. Dude. First of all, it's not just what Dana would perceive as a limited experience with women, it's what pretty much any jury of reasonable people would perceive to be a limited--
CASEY: So I got married young. I married my college sweetheart. That doesn't make me Okey from Fanokey.
DAN: No it doesn't, but using the expression Okey from Fanokey sure does the trick.
CASEY: I'm in pain here. I'm in anguish.
DAN: A woman you have strong feelings for, you get to work with, side by side, for twelve hours a day, six days a week. She has told you, after a decade and a half, that she's interested in a romantic relationship with you, but that she wants you to date other women. She's requiring you to date other women. To be with them on dates with their perfume and their nice shoes while they try and be as interesting to you as possible.
Because you are a television star, these women, very likely, will not be from the bargain basement. And because these women won't know you very well, there might just be an opportunity for you to have sex. Now I grant you, somewhere, somehow, Dana has obviously lost several of her marbles, but I don't think that should stop you from gettin' busy.
CASEY: I want Dana. I don't want a series of meaningless relationships with women who want to sleep with me because I'm
on television.
DAN: (PAUSE) I don't follow you.
CASEY: Danny--
DAN: I'm just saying--
CASEY: We got bigger problems.
DAN: I know.
CASEY: Shouldn't we be talkin' about them?
DAN: Let's just write, okay?
CASEY: Yeah.
From the "Cliff Gardner" original script - the wine & spackle episode.
DAN: Jeremy's gonna face his fear.
CASEY: Yeah?
DAN: I think we should watch.
CASEY: You know, among the many unhappy by-products of Sam Donovan's arrival, is that it's taken attention from the serious problem I'm having with Dana.
DAN: The dating plan.
CASEY: The dating plan.
DAN: Casey, don't kill for this, but I gotta say something.
CASEY: What.
DAN: I'm not quite seeing the problem.
CASEY: You're not quite seeing the problem?
DAN: No.
CASEY: After 15 years of dancing around each other, Dana and I are poised to start a relationship, only she decides that due to what she perceives as a limited experience with women, she's requiring me to date other people for six months before I can date her.
DAN: Okay. Dude. First of all, it's not just what Dana would perceive as a limited experience with women, it's what pretty much any jury of reasonable people would perceive to be a limited--
CASEY: So I got married young. I married my college sweetheart. That doesn't make me Okey from Fanokey.
DAN: No it doesn't, but using the expression Okey from Fanokey sure does the trick.
CASEY: I'm in pain here. I'm in anguish.
DAN: A woman you have strong feelings for, you get to work with, side by side, for twelve hours a day, six days a week. She has told you, after a decade and a half, that she's interested in a romantic relationship with you, but that she wants you to date other women. She's requiring you to date other women. To be with them on dates with their perfume and their nice shoes while they try and be as interesting to you as possible.
Because you are a television star, these women, very likely, will not be from the bargain basement. And because these women won't know you very well, there might just be an opportunity for you to have sex. Now I grant you, somewhere, somehow, Dana has obviously lost several of her marbles, but I don't think that should stop you from gettin' busy.
CASEY: I want Dana. I don't want a series of meaningless relationships with women who want to sleep with me because I'm
on television.
DAN: (PAUSE) I don't follow you.
CASEY: Danny--
DAN: I'm just saying--
CASEY: We got bigger problems.
DAN: I know.
CASEY: Shouldn't we be talkin' about them?
DAN: Let's just write, okay?
CASEY: Yeah.
From the "Cliff Gardner" original script - the wine & spackle episode.
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I hardly ever watch the first few episodes of second season. Bits of them depress me. Which means I miss the good bits ... like Dan apologising so very nicely to Dana after he snapped at her.
Although 'spackle' is another American thing (I've learnt that it's Polyfilla. A very useful thing to have if you live in rented accommodation and you've been illegally hanging pictures on the walls).
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obsesseda fan. *g*SHOES!! Shoes again. That boy needs help.
I know. That's three times they're mentioned on-air, and one time that it was cut out of the script. Our boy has an appreciation.
I hardly ever watch the first few episodes of second season. Bits of them depress me. Which means I miss the good bits ... like Dan apologising so very nicely to Dana after he snapped at her.
I hardly ever watch them because I don't own the DVDs. Having said that, we need to arrange another SN night, so we can watch through S2. *nods* (I've probably seen all the episodes twice, and a some of them a few times more, but any excuse to watch the boys again. *g*)
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There's a lovely missing scene in the Tennessee Western episode too, just after Isaac tells Dan not to think of him 'as the champion of all things black'. ("I don't - I think of you as the champion of all things good.")
Eh well.
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Oh, that would be *wonderful*! I love that line.
Hey, if you're up to S2, do me a favour and check which college sweatshirt Casey wears in the Casey/Dana montage at the start? I know it's not Midwestern, because I always think it is, but it *isn't*.
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DAN: Okay. Dude. First of all, it's not just what Dana would perceive as a limited experience with women, it's what pretty much any jury of reasonable people would perceive to be a limited--
CASEY: So I got married young. I married my college sweetheart. That doesn't make me Okey from Fanokey.
DAN: No it doesn't, but using the expression Okey from Fanokey sure does the trick.
Ha! Love it, love them.
I'm in the same boat as Hilary - early season 2 makes me sad. I haven't watched them in a long time for the same reason that I never watch the Draft Day episodes - I want Dan and Casey to be happy! Together! Always! Gah, I'm a nerd. Anyway. Thank you lots!
p.s. I just read your third part of "Homophobic" and I thought it was absolutely terrific!! Not too wordy at all! Honest. I get accused of being so all the time, and I don't think your piece was at all. It's cute and funny and sweet and sad and lovely! If I could ask, where are the first parts posted? I'd love to read them!
p.p.s. Sorry for the ridiculously long comment! You see, I do hear you about being wordy. *grins apologetically*
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I know! It's just too cute! "Okey from Fanokey" has got to be my new favourite phrase.
I'm in the same boat as Hilary - early season 2 makes me sad. I haven't watched them in a long time for the same reason that I never watch the Draft Day episodes - I want Dan and Casey to be happy! Together! Always! Gah, I'm a nerd. Anyway. Thank you lots!
See, I can watch them because I know that after the hurt, comes the comfort. They bitch each other out, but then they hug, and that makes my world a happier place. Plus, S2 ended on such a happy note that I'm sure they ended up living happily ever after.
They are my OTP of hope!
p.s. I just read your third part of "Homophobic" and I thought it was absolutely terrific!! Not too wordy at all! Honest. I get accused of being so all the time, and I don't think your piece was at all. It's cute and funny and sweet and sad and lovely! If I could ask, where are the first parts posted? I'd love to read them!
Oh, thank you! *beams*
Ummm... Let's see... Here's part one (http://www.livejournal.com/users/out_there/423203.html) and part two (http://www.livejournal.com/users/out_there/423569.html). As you can probably tell from Part three, it's being written *slowly*.
p.p.s. Sorry for the ridiculously long comment! You see, I do hear you about being wordy. *grins apologetically*
Hee!
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I know! It's just too cute! "Okey from Fanokey" has got to be my new favourite phrase.
Ha! So true, I totally agree. I may try and throw it into conversations, but that could end badly...I'm no Casey. And there's no Dan around. *sighs with repressed Danny-love*
See, I can watch them because I know that after the hurt, comes the comfort. They bitch each other out, but then they hug, and that makes my world a happier place. Plus, S2 ended on such a happy note that I'm sure they ended up living happily ever after.
Hmmm, that's a great point. You're totally right, I know, but somehow I can't bear to watch them embarrass and/or hurt themselves. But you are very right. I see them living happily ever after too. Their hug is/was the best thing on TV! No fake man-hugs for our boys, no sirree (is that how you spell that?!?).
Thank you so much for the "Homophobic" links! That totally made my evening. What a terrific piece of storytelling! And you have their voices down so very well. There were a bunch of lines that made me laugh out loud - it's okay, my housemates already know I'm crazy! *grins vaguely insanely*
Interesting that Dan picked Wiley Coyote - very apt, in my humble opinion. Did you mean anything by their choices, or was that just for fun? Because Casey's Marvin impression certainly was fun!
I love it and I can't wait to read more! Thank you so much.
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Ha! So true, I totally agree. I may try and throw it into conversations, but that could end badly...I'm no Casey. And there's no Dan around. *sighs with repressed Danny-love*
You need other SN fans. They *get* the fact that you don't need to understand every word to have a fun conversation.
No fake man-hugs for our boys, no sirree (is that how you spell that?!?).
I don't know, but I think that's how you spell it. And, you're totally right. No half-hearted hugs. That's a hug of true love!
Thank you so much for the "Homophobic" links! That totally made my evening. What a terrific piece of storytelling! And you have their voices down so very well. There were a bunch of lines that made me laugh out loud - it's okay, my housemates already know I'm crazy! *grins vaguely insanely*
*blushes* Thank you! Aw, that and two glasses of wine, I'm totally bouncing!
Interesting that Dan picked Wiley Coyote - very apt, in my humble opinion. Did you mean anything by their choices, or was that just for fun? Because Casey's Marvin impression certainly was fun!
Well, any reference within an SN fic is 50% chance, 30% whimsy, and 20% reasoned. I mean, if I think about stuff later, I can give you logical reasons why I'd suggest x or y for Dan or Casey, but when I write, there generally isn't a plan. *shrugs* I'm kinda... instinctual as a writer.
But, since you asked...
Hmmm... Wile E. Coyote seems more Dan-like. There's a higher level of cunning, there's a tendency to ignore the rules of the world (ie. physics) to try to acheive his goals. And his opponent is barely ever seen, but Wile E. is just following mother nature, doing the natural thing for a coyote, with a few technological advantages.
Marvin, on the other hand, has far more invested in the rules of physics. His catch-cry is based on the fact that the rules *don't* work. There should have been a kaboom, but there *isn't*. Marvin is smarter than his opponents (in a technical sense, and is smugly aware of it). Also, Marvin is not as isolated as Wile E (certainly we see both of them alone, but Marvin is only alone because he's travelled. Wile E is naturally a loner. There is a strong difference.)
OMG. Okay, I'm tipsy and need to stop rambling now. This is proof that I can and will talk about anything when I'm drinking.
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You need other SN fans. They *get* the fact that you don't need to understand every word to have a fun conversation.
Ah, very true! The world would be a better place if more people would accept "Okey from Fanokey" as legitimate verbiage. Understanding everything is totally overrated!
No half-hearted hugs. That's a hug of true love!
Hee. You're so right! *grins in D/C shipper joy*
Marvin is smarter than his opponents (in a technical sense, and is smugly aware of it).
Ha, so very Casey! "I graduated magna cum laude, Danny, there are many things I know that other people do not. It's my cross to bear." (Sorry, I think I just mangled the quotation - "Napoleon's Battle Plan," anyway, and you're still so right. *g*)
OMG. Okay, I'm tipsy and need to stop rambling now. This is proof that I can and will talk about anything when I'm drinking.
Hee again! I very much enjoyed your explanation. Thanks much!