wherein I whine about TW 2-02
Jan. 27th, 2008 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI have probably-most of the 2-02 transcript done. All the names are in the right places and the location breaks put in. Now I just need to fill in with labels, add description as necessary to explain the scenes, and double check the dialogue to see where the subtitles got it wrong. Note: not if. I've already gone through getting rid of accidental leet speak, and there were some whole sentences by Ianto that had got lost, and a few bits that devolved into random punctuation. I don't know where the subtitle site got this set but it was a bit buggered. Still, makes a better start than typing the whole thing by hand.
This ep is especially 'fun' to transcribe because there's so much action without words, or action where only one of the people is talking and it's the opposite one than is actually doing things. All the different sequences which were one person going "no, please, no", or when the soldiers are telling him stop, there's just a big long set of things shouted on one side and a lot of stabby action on the other. And it makes me wonder about this script, really. I mean it has some snappy banter, some team interaction, things for everyone to do - even Ianto has looking things up in books as well as bringing the funny - but then there's all these sections that utterly rely on an actor or actors going 'no!' convincingly. It's... not my style, I guess. I mean, I know actors bring much to it, but it feels sort of unfair to not give them something specific to work with.
Also, there's only so many times it's actually interesting to watch all that 'no no arrgh stab spurt die' section. And I've exceeded it already. The stuff with Beth is solid character work, but she's not Team. So where do we get the team reacting? We get Jack and Gwen, yeah, but the more I watch the more utterly glaring the lack of Ianto or Tosh gets. Someone's girlfriend is secretly an alien - for goodness sake, let them say something about it! Maybe to each other? Bring a coffee, hug a friend? Give them something other than banter to deal with... because I love the funny, I really do, but that too will get old sometime real soon. All the real continuity reaction is just not there. There's a tight guest star emotion arc, some good Jack and Gwen, some action that was great the first time I watched and still does what it sets out to do... but I'd trade many minutes of the stabby stuff for one conversation.
The other thing though, to be fair, is I get a different experience of the episode while doing the transcript than would ever be intended for the episode. I make the image really tiny, I watch and rewatch and rerewatch to figure out who says what, and the bits with no words in have no immediate call on my attention. That's not how most people watch. And when I watched on my lovely big screen TV I did indeed like it. So, I guess what I'm saying is: As poetry, the episode is a good slice em up. Or to put it another way, the visuals and the acting make a hell of a lot of the story. And that's as it should be, or they could stick to writing stuff down like this.
In other news - I'm wearing my new bra again, and again it varies between most comfortable and torture device. This is why I gave up on underwires. Blah.
... I don't *think* this has significant impact on my reaction to the episode...
... you know it's stuff like that that artists are just never going to be able to control...
This ep is especially 'fun' to transcribe because there's so much action without words, or action where only one of the people is talking and it's the opposite one than is actually doing things. All the different sequences which were one person going "no, please, no", or when the soldiers are telling him stop, there's just a big long set of things shouted on one side and a lot of stabby action on the other. And it makes me wonder about this script, really. I mean it has some snappy banter, some team interaction, things for everyone to do - even Ianto has looking things up in books as well as bringing the funny - but then there's all these sections that utterly rely on an actor or actors going 'no!' convincingly. It's... not my style, I guess. I mean, I know actors bring much to it, but it feels sort of unfair to not give them something specific to work with.
Also, there's only so many times it's actually interesting to watch all that 'no no arrgh stab spurt die' section. And I've exceeded it already. The stuff with Beth is solid character work, but she's not Team. So where do we get the team reacting? We get Jack and Gwen, yeah, but the more I watch the more utterly glaring the lack of Ianto or Tosh gets. Someone's girlfriend is secretly an alien - for goodness sake, let them say something about it! Maybe to each other? Bring a coffee, hug a friend? Give them something other than banter to deal with... because I love the funny, I really do, but that too will get old sometime real soon. All the real continuity reaction is just not there. There's a tight guest star emotion arc, some good Jack and Gwen, some action that was great the first time I watched and still does what it sets out to do... but I'd trade many minutes of the stabby stuff for one conversation.
The other thing though, to be fair, is I get a different experience of the episode while doing the transcript than would ever be intended for the episode. I make the image really tiny, I watch and rewatch and rerewatch to figure out who says what, and the bits with no words in have no immediate call on my attention. That's not how most people watch. And when I watched on my lovely big screen TV I did indeed like it. So, I guess what I'm saying is: As poetry, the episode is a good slice em up. Or to put it another way, the visuals and the acting make a hell of a lot of the story. And that's as it should be, or they could stick to writing stuff down like this.
In other news - I'm wearing my new bra again, and again it varies between most comfortable and torture device. This is why I gave up on underwires. Blah.
... I don't *think* this has significant impact on my reaction to the episode...
... you know it's stuff like that that artists are just never going to be able to control...