GA is kinda the gold standard for industry midgets, isn't she?

I think it's that I haven't seen her off a Scully box much, so it was striking. Really the enormous actor head was the relevant part.

There was a guy dressed up at DragonCon as the Burger King guy. I was disturbed and did not take a picture.

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Right on!

I didn't realize the attempt at fooling was one of the defining elements.

Well, you know--it's like short is some dirty little secret. They go to such lengths (erm) to hide GA's and Cruise's. I doubt Seth really gets boxed unless it is to make the cinematographer's life easy.

I doubt Seth really gets boxed unless it is to make the cinematographer's life easy.

Isn't that why they boxed GA, though? In that it was easier (or faster) long term to have her stand on a box than to constantly be trying to get the right angle (or, worse, go to multiple angles).

Well, you know--it's like short is some dirty little secret.

Given how many actors seem to lie about their heights, I got to agree with you there.

It was so rare we got to see GA being short--it looked like they started a lie and kept it going.

I can't remember Seth being boxed. He just always looked little.

My favourite boxing is Wonderfalls. Lee Pace is looming over everyone. Except for when he's not. It's possible they just dug him a network of troughs.

I think the problem with GA is dual: (1) she's so tiny it might be hard for her to convey the authority of being a federal agent and (2) they developed, pretty early on, a habit of only miking one actor, and then having them stand close so a single mike could pick up both voices.

With (1), eh, I don't think the FBI really has minimum height requirements, and dude, if she can run in those heels I don't even want to know how badly she could beat me with them.

With (2), once that decision has been made, and you've established the physicality of the two actors always standing close together (and character decisions that hinge on that), then she might as well have just worn stacked porn heels for the rest of her contract in that role.

I just figured that the times Stark did not seem his usual, focussed self were due to times when he was absorbing more information from the computer.

That's what I thought at first, which was one of the reasons I was initially put off by the ep: Allison is cranky and Stark is zoned out, just beaming his thoughts at the computer (which he definitely was doing initially). Even if it's not true, I find it more interesting to think that what we saw later was Stark totally undone.

It was enough to make me wonder if the nanogeneids had taken over the computer, and if the computer had taken over Stark. At first I thought that what turned out to be Nano!Stark was Real!Stark as controlled by the big 'puter and the Nanoids.

Me too! Also, when the Nano!Stark with Allison gets blasted, I laughed so hard at Carter's "yeah, that wasn't Nathan", as if, before he fired, he wasn't actually sure. "Hey, how do we find out if it's really him or not?" "Shoot his ass!"

Also, why was anyone (I'm looking at you, Stark) blaming Fargo for the mess with the neural interface? Seriously, what kind of flaming idiot agrees to be the first human trial for a thing like that

I thought of this board and did a big old frelling handwave, because it was that kind of idiocy that set the ball rolling on the plot.

This was actually the second experiment that had yet to have living subject trials. Now, Taggart wouldn't have minded if Lojack ended up dead. But Fargo...maybe he's EVIL! And Stark? I got nothing.

Unless the point of it was that Stark's tasty, ruthless exterior truly hides a far bigger inner geek than we have yet guessed

Rolling with that one. I think he was kinda excited about it but giving Fargo a hard time to keep the front up. Maybe Stark is always fronting to keep the paeons cowering.

Also, the Burger King King terrifies me. Please stop talking about him! *pulls blanket over head*

The Burger King King is the uncanny valley personified.

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