by cyn » Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:36 am
Bliss, wasn't it. Although I forced my daughter (she's 21, and I've never been able to force her to do anything--for those of you thinking "child abuse") to wear the Squid Theory T-shirt, no one came up to us last night shouting "Fellow Stumper!" Do we have a Stumper Secret Handshake? We do have one, don't we? That sounds horribly wrong, stumper secret handshake. Mr Jelly would not be amused.
If I had an eidetic memory I could give the entire Q&A, but I don't. A few highlights: hour-long Halloween special; six further half-hour eps in Spring 2011; new characters; I think Maureen's going to be one of them (Reece spoke of her in the future tense); Reece is the pacer, Steve is the one lying down when they write--no one types (maybe they have voice recognition on their computer); it took them about two weeks' writing, two weeks' re-writing, for each episode of Series 1; necessity was the mother of invention for the Rope-homage episode (but we knew that from the DVD); Maureen & David were Steve & Reece's favourite characters; the Superman dance was deliberate reference to Nietzsche (whose philosophical idea of man & superman underpinned the warped motive for the murder in Rope--and in real life, of course, for those of us who know that Rope is based on the Leopold & Loeb murder case).
Everyone post what they remember, before the dementia takes it away forever.
I went up to Reece afterwards, to get an autograph. I asked him if there were any squids in Series 2, and, before he was able to call security (I think I frightened him horribly), I was able to explain what I meant. Sadly ... no squids, radioactive or otherwise. Although he did say that it was a better idea than what he and Steve had written. What a charming liar he is. I got the impression he hadn't read anything on RRS, but maybe he knew about it?
He did thank us for the RRS board. So, thanks Tealeaf! You're the one he should have been talking to!
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