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[katallison]

Have been rewatching the dS Pilot. Thought at one point I'd take copious commentary-type notes, but am too mentally scattered. They mostly sort into:

--How fucking *hot* is Fraser here?? I mean, really, is he ever hotter than when he's on top of Drake's van, stabbing his big-ass knife through the *roof*??? Gnaaaaarrrrrr.

--(Well, OK, he's just about as hot in MotB, which I was watching just previously, in the "Dominion of Canada" bit when he *shoves* the barrels aside and then *leaps* up on one and *grabs* the gun out of midair and *ping* *ping* *ping* shoots the diving masks, and -- OK, fanning self now. *Guhhh.*)

--Vecchio. How much does he love Fraser? (laurashapiro, you are correct on this, yes.) Coming up to the Armpit of the Frozen North, arm still in a sling? Bringing the heavy armaments and all? True love. *g*

--Vecchio. Sweetie, really, those *shirts.* Arrrgh. ::covering eyes:: Also, Vecchio looks so very very much better with the close-cropped season 2 hair.

--Also, the Vecchio family dinner scene still makes my skin. Crawl. I have roughly the same reaction to noisy contentious argumentative familial mayhem as Fraser.

--I still really, really want to do the vid of the Romance of Fraser and the North, using many clips from this episode. Except that so freakin' many of them have credits right in the middle. Ah, well.

--I just about died from the Fraser-woobie in various spots, especially the scene where he's reading his father's journals in the diner, and of course also when he's back up north, looking through the trunk. (And knowing that that trunk and everything in it--wee!Fraser's crayon pictures of his Dad!--are doomed to go up in flames, courtesy of Victoria . . . )

--They really paid attention, in this episode, to setting the Chicago scene, the grit and noise and chaos and squalor. Which, especially since they also have so many scenes of the spare bare pure lovely austere north, is very very effective. We lose that somewhat in later episodes/seasons, when Chicago grit is more the default.

--Traitorous though it feels, I really prefer whoever the dog is in the Pilot (not Lincoln, I think?) to Draco (the dog in seasons 3-4). It's the eyes, I think, those intensely pale and so *goofy*-looking eyes.

And, OK, shutting up. *g* But large with the due South love. I should be writing now.

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[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

--How fucking *hot* is Fraser here?? I mean, really, is he ever hotter than when he's on top of Drake's van, stabbing his big-ass knife through the *roof*??? Gnaaaaarrrrrr.

--(Well, OK, he's just about as hot in MotB, which I was watching just previously, in the "Dominion of Canada" bit when he *shoves* the barrels aside and then *leaps* up on one and *grabs* the gun out of midair and *ping* *ping* *ping* shoots the diving masks, and -- OK, fanning self now. *Guhhh.*)

I have a soft spot for Fraser pulling the gun on Gerrard, myself. With the cursing, and the sweater falling over his hand, and -- yes. Mmm.

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

Dude, do you mean when he has Gerard in the chair, and kicks him back?!?!? Because I melt into a puddle of lust whenever I think about that scene. Fraser on the edge=scorching.

[brynwulf]

Fraser's leather boots on Gerard's chest=scorching too!! Guh!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Actually, no -- although my god, he's hot there, as well. I was talking about the scene in the pilot once Fraser's back up in the north, when he has that confrontation with Gerrard.

[reginagiraffe]

Hey, I got the tape yesterday.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I watched it... yesterday. *g* Unfortunately I had to wait the whole 5 hours it took for us to do our Saturday errands but...

CKR! CKR having sex! CKR kissing another boy!

It's actually been coming into my head a lot of the course of today. Mostly the scene at the very end with Don and Sandra Oh. I love that they chose to end it like they did rather than like how they planned.

It took me a shamefully long time to realize that something was weird about the fact that, hey!, it's 10:00 at night at it's still broad daylight. *facepalm*

I'd like to watch it again before I send it back, if that's okay. Probably next weekend.

Thanks again!

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, how did they plan to end it?

[reginagiraffe]

They were planning on shooting each other in the head at the end. There's this looooonnng scene of them pointing guns at each other's heads and staring into each other's eyes while the song Guantamanera plays in the background. But in the end they slowly lean forward and wrap their gun arms around each other's head and kiss.

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

ohhhh. *g*

I thought you meant 'they' in the sense of the people who made the movie, for some reason...

[katallison.livejournal.com]

You know, I do believe I have another copy here somewhere -- so please hang onto it as long as you'd like!

I truly love the ending of that film -- every once in a while I'll hear "Guantanamera" on the radio and that scene flashes through my eyes.

And yes, any film with CKR sex-having, CKR nekkid, and CKR boykissing is bound to be good. *g*g

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

--How fucking *hot* is Fraser here?? I mean, really, is he ever hotter than when he's on top of Drake's van, stabbing his big-ass knife through the *roof*??? Gnaaaaarrrrrr.

I find him even more mouth-wateringly hot in the scene immediately before, when he runs over the car, tumbles off the end, rolls in the dirt, and comes back up slightly rumpled and dusty and so very predatory.

Yes, to every single thing you say.

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

Me, every time I see MOTB. Screaming: "THROW THE GUN! THROW THE GUN!" Bang. Bang. Bang. Those calm eyes. Ahhhhh. Rewind five seconds. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I thought the pilot dog wasn't Lincoln... is he?

[rowanfairchild.livejournal.com]

Ah, Frankie, the Pilot dog/wolf. I'm with you on that one. Definitely the wolfiest of the bunch. (you see where my brain is at? I'm much better with dogs than people. *g*)

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha.

I love that you knew his name. Seriously.

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

--Traitorous though it feels, I really prefer whoever the dog is in the Pilot (not Lincoln, I think?) to Draco (the dog in seasons 3-4). It's the eyes, I think, those intensely pale and so *goofy*-looking eyes.

I agree. The dog in the pilot is so much more convincingly half-wolf. Draco is adorable, truly, but that dog is much more feral.

In defense of Draco!

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Draco is adorable, truly,

Draco was adorable 'cos he was practically a wee little puppy! Just give him a few years, he'll terrify ya with his wolfiness! (Okay, maybe not.)

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

Just re-watched this a couple of days ago, along with MotB. And I have almost nothing to add -- just nodding my head.

I will redeem this useless comment by mentioning that moment in the pilot where Fraser sits in his office sadly sticking stamps on some kind of mailing project (invitations?) and Dief licks the stamps. Crash Test Dummies on the soundtrack. That one chokes me up every time.

Why do people watch anything BUT Due South tapes? It is a mystery. :)

[brynwulf]

I watched pilot and MotB a few weeks ago myself when my cable was out and all I had were those DVDs that weren't packed. What a coincidence!! *snerk* And yes, just nodding. I remember watching them (and Bird in the Hand just this weekend) practically echoing Kat's thoughts. *Just how beautiful is that man?* Whoever first called Fraser Sex on a Stick is my hero.

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

*happy sigh* I'm so with you. Especially the thing with the knife. And the trunk in the cabin. And the everything else. I really so very much enjoyed watching all the DS I have on tape, this past month and a bit - but I started with seas. 3/4, and then I went back and watched 1 and 2, and now I'm back to 3/4 again and it's quite disorienting; I'm starting to understand the schism, for the first time, though for me the break has a lot to do with how the color changes.

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

I finally found my S3/4 DVDs that someone made for me a few years back, and I watched BDtH just last night, and YAY! I'm so glad I did. My plan is to watch one per night instead of playing stupid games ... and maybe get some writing-mojo back.

I love that show. The only thing hotter than gun-totin', knife-throwin' Fraser is scruffy hasn't-shaved Fraser.

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

OMG YAY DUE SOUTH LOVE!

yay, specifically, Fraser love. It was so weird this weekend - almost all of our squee was for PG, not CKR this time around. I'm so in love with S1 Fraser it's not even funny - and it's bizarre, b/c Pilot Fraser is even hotter - and slightly differently characterized - than S1 Fraser. That whole scene with him, on the TRUCK, with the KNIFE and the LEATHER JACKET and the dark dangerous eyes and omg so hot. I have a tendency to rewind that scene SEVERAL times.

And yes, you know, I am *very much* about the Vecchio love, but wow. We watched a couple of early eps, and yeah. There was a great deal of, "oh, gah, Vecchio, QUIT THAT" with the bad, bad shirts. And the slicked back hair.

But I still harbor deep Vecchio love and don't care who knows it.

--I still really, really want to do the vid of the Romance of Fraser and the North

I still really, really want that, too. So much.

*twirls in glee at Kat Allison/Due South*

[axiom_of_stripe]

But I still harbor deep Vecchio love and don't care who knows it.

*sneaks up and gives you a kiss*

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Even loving Kowalski as much as I do, when I need to remind myself of how much I love Fraser, I watch the Pilot. And then to remind myself of how much I love Fraser and Vecchio, I rewatch the pilot and Victoria's Secret. And then I sit around, or rather, lie around in a puddle for a while.

Your love makes my love bloom again

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I've been going through early eps again doing my vid remasters, and it's all so fine. I want to cuddle my show.

I love Fraser in the pilot. I love how *serious* he is. I love how his grief informs every moment that he's onscreen. I agree that he's very sexily intense, too, but for my money he's still sexiest with his boot on Gerard's chest, in BitH. ::fanning myself::

Yeah, Ray's shirts really are pretty terrible. (: S2 Vecchio is much better. The hair makes a big difference, but I think he's also got a darker personality at that point. Victoria's Secret changes him, too.