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My season one White Collar DVDs came today! Which means ... commentaries yay!
I watched the commentary for Hard Sell and just a few favorite bits from Vital Signs (I'll probably go back and watch more later, but I had trouble with parts of that episode so it's hard to rewatch the whole thing, even though I loved the parts I loved ...).
The commentaries are all Jeff Eastin with various combinations of the actors, and they tend to home in on, and talk about, the scenes that were most pivotal for the characters ... which usually translates to favorites of mine, as well. ♥ I'm all too accustomed to the frustration of watching commentaries in which they'll get to the scenes that I really want to hear them talk about, and they'll be going on and on about the catering truck or whatever instead ...
But one thing that is really neat about WC is how invested in the characters the writers and the actors are, in the characters and in the show in general. They like talking about the little character moments -- the first time Peter openly refers to Neal as his friend, all the trust issues in "Hard Sell". And, just as I've noticed in their interviews, they spend so much time praising each other and the people they work with. I don't think I've encountered a cast who spend so much time saying nice things about each other, nice things about the makeup people and the directors and just ... everyone. It's so sweet. ♥
In Hard Sell, the shot of Matt flipping up the shotgun and shooting the first clay pigeon is apparently real -- he's from Texas and really good with guns. (The second clay pigeon, the long shot over the water, is CGI.)
Another thing that came up when they were talking about that scene is that Matt, Tim and Jeff Eastin all grew up around guns (in parts of the country where guns are common, I mean) and are pretty good with guns themselves, which might explain something I've noticed about White Collar: that the show is really consistently good about the way that it portrays characters handling guns -- the way they hold them is very believable. (I think I was even talking about this when I was watching it with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
xparrot and gnine -- that the FBI characters on the show always keep their finger off the trigger when they're carrying the guns around.)
In the commentary for "Vital Signs", they talked about some of the ad libs in the scene with drugged!Neal -- apparently the actors ad libbed quite a bit there. Neal's drunken "Hey buddy!" and "You're strong!" were ad libs; so was that bit later on when Peter pets him on the head.
Apparently there was also an entire scene they wrote with Peter stealing the tape that they weren't able to film for time reasons (but personally I think that it's more effective to just have him reveal that he's stolen it).
They don't have commentaries on very many episodes, but the ones they have are good, and they got most of the actors for them. Tomorrow I'll get around to the pilot & finale commentaries -- I'm especially looking forward to the pilot, because they have the entire cast for that one. :D
I watched the commentary for Hard Sell and just a few favorite bits from Vital Signs (I'll probably go back and watch more later, but I had trouble with parts of that episode so it's hard to rewatch the whole thing, even though I loved the parts I loved ...).
The commentaries are all Jeff Eastin with various combinations of the actors, and they tend to home in on, and talk about, the scenes that were most pivotal for the characters ... which usually translates to favorites of mine, as well. ♥ I'm all too accustomed to the frustration of watching commentaries in which they'll get to the scenes that I really want to hear them talk about, and they'll be going on and on about the catering truck or whatever instead ...
But one thing that is really neat about WC is how invested in the characters the writers and the actors are, in the characters and in the show in general. They like talking about the little character moments -- the first time Peter openly refers to Neal as his friend, all the trust issues in "Hard Sell". And, just as I've noticed in their interviews, they spend so much time praising each other and the people they work with. I don't think I've encountered a cast who spend so much time saying nice things about each other, nice things about the makeup people and the directors and just ... everyone. It's so sweet. ♥
In Hard Sell, the shot of Matt flipping up the shotgun and shooting the first clay pigeon is apparently real -- he's from Texas and really good with guns. (The second clay pigeon, the long shot over the water, is CGI.)
Another thing that came up when they were talking about that scene is that Matt, Tim and Jeff Eastin all grew up around guns (in parts of the country where guns are common, I mean) and are pretty good with guns themselves, which might explain something I've noticed about White Collar: that the show is really consistently good about the way that it portrays characters handling guns -- the way they hold them is very believable. (I think I was even talking about this when I was watching it with
xparrot and gnine -- that the FBI characters on the show always keep their finger off the trigger when they're carrying the guns around.)In the commentary for "Vital Signs", they talked about some of the ad libs in the scene with drugged!Neal -- apparently the actors ad libbed quite a bit there. Neal's drunken "Hey buddy!" and "You're strong!" were ad libs; so was that bit later on when Peter pets him on the head.
Apparently there was also an entire scene they wrote with Peter stealing the tape that they weren't able to film for time reasons (but personally I think that it's more effective to just have him reveal that he's stolen it).
They don't have commentaries on very many episodes, but the ones they have are good, and they got most of the actors for them. Tomorrow I'll get around to the pilot & finale commentaries -- I'm especially looking forward to the pilot, because they have the entire cast for that one. :D