In the Cards

[Sakonna]

Anyone ever see the movie "Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day"? It's great, and quite similar to this episode. It's a frothy, fun, romantic caper about a governess (Frances McDormand) who gets pulled into the madcap world of a glamorous singer (Amy Adams) and her many love interests -- in London in 1939, with these ominous portents of impending war all around them.

If you love this episode, you'd also love this movie. It has the same extremely deft control of tone, you keep thinking it has to go off the rails at some point, but it never does. The silliness and the gathering darkness are held in perfect balance. It's an impressive achievement, and probably my favorite fairly-obscure movie to recommend to people.

 

[Paul Weaver]

I love that they paid Chase Masterson for 10 seconds of screentime and no lines

She was heavily in the next episode - would they have filmed the scenes at the same time (or consequtive days)?

 

[Prax]

If she isn't credited, maybe they just edited in a shot from the following episode. I'm not sure what the rules are, but I believe they're allowed to do that with extras.

 

[DS9forever]

Well, the shot was her looking for the bear, so I don't think so.

 

[Prax]

Oh yeah, and the shot of her sleeping. I would not want to live in an place where Ferengi can crawl through the ventilation system right into your quarters.

 

[TheSeeker]

But at the same time I've seen any number of threads started on a topic that get shouted down because "We've already discussed this."

I have seen this as well and it is not at all conducive to a pleasant posting environment. If longtime members have seen threads on the same topic on multiple occasions and have nothing better to contribute to the discussion other than to complain about seeing the topic again then they should refrain from posting. We want this forum to be fun for everyone, not just the old-timers.

Having said that...

I'll be looking forward to moderator comment in the future whenever the slap-happy old timers unload on anyone for daring to express an opinion.

Referring to longtime posters as "slap-happy old timers" is not going to win you many friends here. Respect is a two-way street after all. If you truly think someone is "unloading" on you then please use the Report function and a Moderator will take a look at the post, but most minor issues like this can easily be defused with a friendly post pointing out that you are new to the forum and haven't had the opportunity to discuss the topic yet.

 

[Sakonna]

I love that they paid Chase Masterson for 10 seconds of screentime and no lines.

She was heavily in the next episode - would they have filmed the scenes at the same time (or consequtive days)?

Oh, I know this one! This stuff is all really protected by the unions. You would have to pay her for both episodes, even if you shoot them on the same day. And when you try to shoot material from different episodes on the same day, you have to deal with trying to get the different directors in there, which is a pain. I'm sure they filmed her bits with the rest of the episode, I just love that it was worth it to them to hire her for this.

 

[kkt]

Oh yeah, and the shot of her sleeping. I would not want to live in an place where Ferengi can crawl through the ventilation system right into your quarters.

Or into the C/O's office?

 

[Kinggodzillak]

I love that, after all the debate about her wedding dress at the start of Call to Arms, she eventually decided to just get married in her pyjamas from this episode.